dada is home!

today was a pretty good day. I met with a friend from Samaritan's Purse this morning so it was great to hang out with her for a while. Then Myles an I came home for a while, then this afternoon, dada finally came home! We all hung out for a while. In these pics, Myles was sitting in his tunnel watching tv...with the tunnel unopened of course. He looked at me and said 'cheese' for one of them, then continued to watch Elmo.

The background today is an Elephant because I love the impression Myles does of an elephant. He also makes a funny noise for an elephant...you just have to see and hear it!

a good week so far

This past Sunday after church we went to Luke's parents house to hang out. Grandma and Papaw had LOTS of toys for Myles to play with and he LOVED it. It's hard to tell but in the picture here, he's sitting in a little wagon that his blocks came in. A couple more months, and he won't fit in the wagon. On Wednesday, Luke left for New Jersey to do some work. When he landed there it was snowing, and it was 80 degrees here. He got to go to New York for a little while today. Myles has been a good boy since dada left, but as always, can't wait for him to come home. This morning I took this picture of Myles in this cute outfit his Grandma T and Grandaddy got him for Valentines day.Underneath the jacket is an orange shirt with a "b ball" (basketball) on it. Perfect outfit for these spring days (cool mornings, warm afternoons).

some outdoor adventures

Today was such a beautiful day that we just had to be outside some. We drove to Trader Joe's around lunch time today (www.traderjoes.com). We got some meat and other things to cook some hamburgers tonight. Luke recently got a GPS for work and we were testing out the different voices that talk on the GPS. Every time the person talking would say the "turn left in 3.2 miles", Myles would say "myna" which is how he says his name. I guess he was wondering why this lady keeps saying his name, haha.

Later on I got together some toys for us to play with on a blanket outside. I took a whole bag full of toys out and he would play with them one at a time for a total of 5 seconds each. He obviously didn't want to sit still on a blanket while outside. He pushed a car around for a while, then we went on an 'adventure walk' so gather some items. At first I felt silly for being excited about picking up grass a stick and a rock, but Myles finally got into it and was trying to pick up every single thing...including some old gray dog poop...we didn't keep that one though :)

Tonight the burgers on the charcoal grill were awesome! Overall, it was a great day together.

New blog look

I found a way to make different backgrounds etc. on my blog so I'm really excited and you'll probably see a lot of different looks to the blog! These three pictures are of me and Myles this afternoon. When we got home we went for a walk, then we went to this new restaurant close to our house. Myles was such a big boy and sat in a booster seat. Dada has been in Los Angeles since Monday, but he comes home tomorrow!

accidental pee pee in the potty

yeah - it's weird how it happened. Last night Myles kept saying poo poo and then he'd say 'potty' right after that. He's done this before and it even made me try potty training on Saturday a few weeks ago...not a good experience. So anyway, he kept saying it and went and pointed to where he had his potty sitting up high out of his reach. So put the potty down and took his diaper off to find he had already poo pooed. At that point if I didn't sit him on the potty he would have been upset. Luke went to get a new diaper for him and while we were waiting Myles peed in the potty. I got so excited and so did Myles. He immediately pointed to his special potty stickers...somehow remembering that I explained to him a few weeks ago that if he peed in his potty he would get to put a sticker on his Elmo poster. So that was that and he probably won't be truely ready for potty training for a while.

pictures:

Myles loves playing with his blocks. He always builds an airplane and loves to show us his airplane and how it flies

Myles always wants to look at this digital picture frame we have. He was sitting in his tunnel looking at the pictures.

Our little helper is a great cleaner! He loves to use this swiffer...and he even gets under the stove!

pajama morning

Saturdays are always fun....not because we sleep late - we don't know what that is anymore in this house...but they are fun because we get to hang out in our pj's for half of the morning. Mommy usually makes pancakes or something fun and we get to play together all day!

Myles has been talking SO much lately - saying pretty much every single thing we say. He's also very smart and associates certain people with things and knows that big bird says "la la la". he has a boy in his daycare class, Gus and last week he started talking about him more. He also pretends to talk to him on the phone.

I have one more thing to write down in the books....Friday February 25, I took the front rail off Myles' crib and I put the "toddler bed" bar on the front. It's just a small thing that goes on half of the front....then we told Myles that he was going to sleep in his big boy bed and we prayed with him and said "ok it's time to go to bed" and he said "night night" and got up in his bed and laid down. I was so nervous but he didn't get out or fall out once...nor has he since then. It's almost as if he's always been sleeping in that toddler bed. I'll hopefully get a picture soon.

jump Myles jump!

Mommy was gone a few days and the day I came home I took a bunch of pictures. It was warm when I came home on Saturday and Myles had some hot sweatpants on so I took them off and was about to put some others on and he put his shoes on...that's the reason for the pictures with the t-shirt, diaper and shoes! Later on that night he started jumping over these blocks and I loved taking pictures of him. Also, his hair is getting long so when I got it wet I spiked it up and it was funny.