Sunday, September 29, 2013

Touch a Truck

This weekend we went to Touch a Truck in the parking lot of our mall. Christopher loved it! They had all sorts of trucks (fire, garbage, SWAT, etc), a helicopter, buses, jet skis, cranes.... super fun! Here are some of the pics from the day!  

Inside of the UPS truck!

Driving the UPS truck!

The little bulldozer

and the little bublldozer again!

Austin and Christopher inside the scooper (is there a fancy name for that?)

Riding on the front of the fire truck!

Daddy and Christopher with the helicopter. The line for getting in this one was way tooooo long for our two little ones!

Getting ready to get inside the crane.

Smiling at daddy for bringing him to Touch a Truck!

Of course he would smash his face against the window.

Checking it all out.

Such a big boy.

Driving the mini police car

Hanging out with Austin.

Riding the jet skis with mommy!

Future bus buddies!

We were totally "those parent" for this pic. Patricia and I were sounding like fools trying to get them to look at the camera and give each other a high five. The boys completely mocked us.

After a long day, the boys were ready for "night night". 

Here's a couple randoms...
Christopher and daddy went for a run Friday after work... and this is how Christopher came back.

Daycare pic! Watching the Wiggles... :)



Everyone have a great week! I only have to work 2 days this week!!! I will gladly take those furlough days! :) I need a break!

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Get Well Soon

What a week it has been. Christopher had been on antibiotics for an ear infection and we gave him day 10 of his meds on Monday. However, Monday when I picked him up from daycare, Ms. Jeanne seemed concerned because he was pressing on his ear after naptime. Once she said that it confirmed what I had told Matt the day before. I had thought he was messing with his ears alot... and he didn't want to nap on Sunday. Poor Matt had to be the bad guy and take Christopher to the doctor Tuesday morning and sure enough the amox had done nothing for his ears. He got 2 shots and a stronger antibiotic. He still went to daycare and as you can see from the pictures below- he seemed none to bothered by any of it!

I think this is Christopher accusing Ms. Jeanne of making us take him to the doctor! :)
Or maybe him just saying "mine" and pointing the camera...

On a mission right?!?!

There may be a slight bit of anger on Christopher's face in this picture. I am guessing he doesn't want his buddy to go down before him.

Mr. Mark shows the kids how to swing on their bellies! I wonder if that is what he was going to do.

And here ya go! At the doctors. But you must admit that he looks super happy at daycare so he obviously got over it quickly.

Matt was trying to get a picture of both of them frowning. I think Christopher looks super innocent here... and really blonde.

I think he knew what was happening and where he was.

This past weekend Matt went to Music Midtown Friday and Saturday so Christopher and I spent a lot of time together playing. We did head down to Uncle Anthony's though to see Joe and Lea while there were here.
This is before we went. He looks so old.

Playing with the monkey Joe gave him. It says I Love Rochester and makes the freakiest sound in the world.

Joe!

Thanks for the monkey.... I think.

Playing the guitar! Christopher got to use the pick to play. I tried to stop it because I have heard of strings snapping but they all thought I was ridiculous.

When we got home, Austin came over to play for a little bit. The boys were so good together! Patricia said Austin says mine all the time and so does Christopher so I thought it would be a little more hostile than it actually was! 

Drink break!

Christopher loved sitting in the wagon.... and Austin loved pushing him!

Tunnel time!

And then Austin also came over Sunday morning to play a little more...like they don't get enough of each other at daycare. We are trying to make best friends here.
A little graham cracker and milk break.

Come on in my tent... but don't you dare take my Dino!


We got out every bucket of toys... and apparently it's fun to turn them over and dump them out. And right when I thought they were cleaning up...they would dump the buckets again!

This is how we began the morning... it was very loud. :) Thank goodness for coffee!

And here are some randoms...
Ashley and her sweet girls came over after school on Monday. It was so good to catch up... and to watch AnnaLee. I love her. She is the cutest thing and her personality just blows me away!

Can I please come in?!?! The girls said no and called him a monster! :)

This is Christopher discovering I put banana in his Cheerios. FRUIT!!! (more like FWUIT)

Swinging at daycare with mommy!

Coolest guy ever? Well... Coolest tourist ever. Even has his hand in his pocket.

I came home from an event at work and peeked through the bathroom door to see this! Sweetest face ever!

And some videos...
Sleepy baby This is the video I blogged about last week (when he fell asleep at dinner). I had problems uploading it then, but here it is now!
Getting pushed around Austin pushing Christopher in the wagon. You can hear Christopher say something like "hot potey" - that is his version of Hot Potato which is the newest song at daycare. I cannot tell you how many times a day he says that and grabs a phone for us to YouTube The Wiggles.

And that's been the last week! Granddaddy comes in town next Thursday for a few days and we are going on the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway again! I hope Christopher likes it as much as he did the first time. 

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

It's Been Awhile...

Oh my gosh- Has it been forever? Definitely over a week! I blame Matt because he has yet to buy me a new laptop so I rely on my school laptop to write these blogs.... which I forgot over the weekend! And I guess I have to blame myself a little because I haven't taken that many pictures over the past week! I went through the ones I have and hopefully you enjoy them! I will have to start with the best one... and yet again, it is from Ms. Jeanne's Facebook page....


Adorable right?!?!

This week we also found out that we are going to see....
Mickey!!!! We are going at the beginning of November! I cannot wait to take Christopher to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom. His face will be priceless I am sure!

Here we are at dinner tonight... enjoying our meal while waiting for Matt to get home....

and literally 1 minute later. This. Long day apparently. I keep telling him he should take his second nap again but Mr. Stubborn would never want to miss anything fun at daycare!

Enjoying mommy's dinner instead of his own.

Reading time.

We went to IKEA this weekend and Christopher came home with a tent for his tunnel, a carpet with roads for his cars and this toy that has a hammer. Yes a hammer. and yes it gets used where it shouldn't. This is Christopher and I inside the tent having some fun.

Dinner with the girls!


Telling Rocco what's up. It took him a little while to warm up to Rocco this time. There was a lot of whining and hugging mommy when he was around, but then other times, he would sit next to him and pet him. It did reinforce the fact that we don't need a dog. :)

And some videos...
dancing! This is from Sept 11th- hence the outfit choice.
austy This is when I first discovered that Christopher could say Austin's name- he said Austy this time, but he is saying it much clearer now!
Christopher has discovered that everything in the world is his... and that the cat and dog are probably going to take them. Rocco laid in front of Christopher's chair and he came running in the room shouting MINE! MINE!  Today he had on some bracelets (yes, I know) and Stroonz walked by and he held his wrists really close and yelled MINE! MINE!  Apparently he might be afraid of his reflection too because he was holding onto his cup really tight, looking at himself in the mirror in the car and saying MINE! MINE! 

And that's it. I will share more this weekend! :)