We have fun in our house at every one's expense. In my defense, I didn't let her push him around even though she really wanted to take him for a lap around the house. She really enjoys helping me push him in his "real" stroller, and was super excited to just let him sit in her babies stroller. She is really getting into playing with her baby dolls and Bryson fits the mold for her baby dolls right now. She is a great helper and always willing to hold and watch him for me.
Elllery is a budding artist. A coloring book can keep her occupied and captured for a long period of time. She used to bring me a picture she colored and tell me it was done "for you". I would then go hang it on the refrigerator to show her how proud I was. This proud display of her work on our fridge was done by Ellery. I could hear her tearing the pages out of the coloring book. At first she would color a lot on the page and then tear it out and move to the next page. It then became very frequent because she would take one color and scribble on the page, tear it out, come and hang it on the fridge, and then back to her coloring book to repeat the process. I think she would have kept going and used all 26 alphabet letters on our fridge, but I hid the magnets from her and redirected her to a new toy. I can only handle so much clutter.
The little man is 4 months. Oh my. He is getting a great personality and really interactive. A quote from Rob the other day on his great personality and I remind you I quote. "I think that's the reason I like him the best at this age." Could we be playing favorites or savoring the youngest?????
The favorites remain top hits in our house. No one can give comfort and love like Blankie and Double. I personally think they are starting to harbor disease and germs, but I can't convince anyone else of that right now. Blankie is supposed to be a light green and double used to be yellow, but all are taking on a gray hugh. I have to admit, I am secretly jealous of these items at times, they have a comfort power I am unable to give.
We went to the Children's Hospital Gala tonight. I was a bit more involved with the Gala this year, I co-chaired the silent auction. I have mixed feelings and advice to give for someone asked to help with such a task. Depending upon the day I would tell you to either do it or not do it. Do it because it is very rewarding and we will raise a lot of money for the hospital, but don't do it because it takes A LOT of time. Thank goodness we had a wonderful committee to work with. The exciting news is that we think we hit our goal and went over and beyond what was expected. It just might go down as the highest amount raised to date, and that is a really good feeling.
We used to get random pictures of things on our camera, but the photographer of the random objects has now turned the camera onto himself.
We were talking on the phone with Nana and she was teasing the kids and telling them to smile really big. She was telling them she could see them and to smile bigger. I grabbed the camera to snap the photo so Nana can see just how hard they were smiling for her. We are lucky she didn't tell them to smile harder, they had their smiles pulled pretty tight!
We headed to our yearly game at Memorial Stadium. I am so sad that they are leaving the Big 12 because we won't be able to watch our team as easily. We know our team doesn't excel in football, but we are faithful fans. We did have good company at the game and fun was had by all. I was impressed that Jill handled the cold so gracefully being from Alabama. It wasn't as cold as we thought it was going to be. It felt like someone turned up the ac a little too high, cold but bearable. My team lost, but we wore our blue with pride and we were easily to find when separated from the group. On our walk in an old man asked me if I was going to college at KU. I immediately gave him a "Bless You" for thinking I looked like a college student and told him I was old enough to have 3 small children at home and was done with college. Old men have always loved me and I think he was hitting on me or he was just a foolish Nebraska fan.
On a crazy note: When we came to the game last year we saw people wearing the white hat modeled above by my brother Todd. We looked and looked for them, but were unable to find the vendor and settled for a different white fleecy hat. I have peeked for them over the past year, but not very hard. We spotted a man wearing one off in the distance. I joked with my brother and told him we could scout him out and offer to buy it off his head. He laughed and joked with me about it, but when I went to the bathroom I went and scouted the man out and bought it literally off his head for $20. He wanted $25, but I got it for $20. I had to remind him that it was "used".
bedtime and the kids were excited. They asked if they could go out on the deck and play in it. I told them they could go outside and play, but they had to put shoes on. They both obliged, but came back wearing flip flops. I didn't specify what shoes, so I turned them lose outside. I also suggested coats and pants, but only shoes were required.
My brother and his wife are in town visiting. I asked my brother to put the baby down, one might mistake Bryson as his. I was surprised how much oogling and googling my brother did over him. Very sweet.
I am still on the quest for the perfect pout picture and I am getting closer. Little man is starting to really get a cute personality, he can really stick his lip out far when he isn't getting what he thinks he needs. Sometimes he screams like we are pinching him, enough to where I feel compelled to share that I am not pinching him. Everyone in the house is in love with him, just look at that face.
Mason had the idea to wear his fang teeth today to the dentist to "tease" him. I am not sure where he learned teasing, but he is really into teasing people right now. He currently wants to tease a police officer about traffic lights and tell him that you go on red and stop on green. He keeps asking me what I think the police officer will say to that tease.
He also got his first round of x-rays. He did really good, but clearly wasn't over the moon about the process. He did perk up when she showed him his teeth x-rays. We also had a teeny tiny cavity. Dr. Bryan didn't want to call it a cavity because it wasn't caused by him not brushing well or correctly. He kept repeating it is just the anatomy of the tooth. Made me feel better about getting a cavity report.
Ellery was a champ and quite frankly I am a bit unsettled by it. She was more interested in admiring her new princess toothbrush that she opened up and let the hygienist do her business. I literally have to hold her arms down and fight her every night to brush her front teeth. It usually leads to tears and a time out for both her and me over the ordeal. Maybe she will turn over a new leaf after this visit, it doesn't hurt to be hopeful!
I am not ready for this. Ellery is really starting to show some independence and strong preferences in her dressing and accessories. Mason still lets me pick his clothes out for him and it doesn't even phase him or cross his mind that he could have the option to pick. Ellery still lets me pick her clothes, but she does like choices. So I now lay out two outfits for in the morning and let her pick. The ensemble she is wearing with the necklace is a Nana pick and she picked a fantastic outfit. Ellery is in love with the built in necklace. We had it going on today until she skidded my record when she insisted upon wearing white tennis shoes with the outfit. I tried to sway her into her cute black mary janes, but she wasn't budging. I decided it wasn't a battle worth picking so we toured around today in an adorable outfit with hideous white shoes.
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