My Talker in December

So there was a moment this month, a day a moment, I don't know. But he just suddenly started talking. Like an actual kid, not like a toddler <3 Sooooooooooo happy!

11) Got him home from school and he started acting sick. Coughing, fever, lethargic. Poor kid. There was a lot of cuddling to be done that night :(

12) Croup cough started in the middle of the night. Took him to the doctor to help his breathing. Poor kid. He was nervous about letting her look into his ears, and overly sensitive about most everything. :( After his nap he was extra miserable too, with his fever returning. We toggled between train videos and Curious George throughout the day.

13) Up a chunk of the night miserable. Poor kid :( We visit Meemaw and Papa for awhile though, and Peanut refuses to nap. But he's pretty well behaved until dinner time when he devolved into a mess. Mr Veggie has to work late and poor Peanut has to deal with me for bathtime too. But he survived the experience.

14) Starting to feel a bit better. He doesn't want to do anything much all day but stay at home and quietly play though. We convinced him later that night to go for a short walk to look at christmas lights though. We also invent the game "Hide and go Moo" which is exactly what it sounds like. He moo'd at everything on our walk too.

15) We decide he needs one more day to rest and don't go to the gym. I do go out and pick up Polar Express though so we watch that. He loves it. Bedtime routine is he gets up, counts to 3 (or 5 or 3 again) turns off the light and lays down and we sing Twinkle Twinkle together. I think he was trying to get more verses out of us, he refused to sing, then he sang, then he demanded we all sing together (instead of us all just doing that from the start) and this was the multiple night of him deliberately trying to mess up song time so he cried a bit after we told him it was just time for bed.

16) He goes to school, he's got a new box of Chex and loves eating it dry (less milk mess!) We had an unorthodox dinner, I made waffles, and he started having one when he spied a candy cane. So I let him have one after the candy cane, then when Mr Veggie came home, they sat down and ate more. Dessert in the middle! Then some Elf special was on TV, the elf's name was Buddy, which confused poor Peanut a tad bit. But at least our "punishment" of not singing a third time seemed to work  and finally we were all back to singing twinkle twinkle together.

17) Today! It's so sweet, he wakes up and chimes in a merry "Good morning!" right away. He didn't want to go to school today - when I got his coat he cried "No, it's nighttime. Go up and sleep!" and tried to take off for his bedroom. Poor kid is probably have a wonderful time right now playing, I'm soooooo mean for making him go!

He's a big fan of our new door too.

We got a lot of good dancing in tonight, and much play with the flying/swimming/I don't know Rainbow fish. Also we got a new ornament for the tree. Then when he jumped into the bathtub he declared "I clean!" Way to save water buddy ;)

December Continues

I wanted to post more this Dec, like I did last Dec (has it really been a year?) but, well, plague. So let's try to recap.

Let's see....

5) Peanut goes to Meemaws on Friday. They went on a nice long trail walk, due to the mild weather we're finally having. Kid PASSED OUT at nap time I hear, good for him!!

6) Peanut intentionally skipped nap time so we could go to an event downtown. There was a holiday special at a museum, and Papa's train club was open for it, so he and papa played trains while we Mr Veggie, Meemaw and I walked through the museum. He did really well I hear, all the guys had nice things to say.

7) my day to chill out and do things with Mom, or whatever, both Peanut and I hang out over at Meemaw's. I finally started ordering Christmas presents. 

8) Plague. The two boys both had a stomach bug awhile back, and it finally caught me. While I was fighting off a cold. And my back decided to act up again. I was a hot mess, but Peanut did such a good job taking care of me. He fetched me things I asked for, stuff that I didn't but he thought I needed, and at one point he looked me straight in the eye and clearly said "Mama, are you feeling better?" So much love for that little boy.

9) Peanuts been doing that thing where he wakes up, goes out into the hallway and... Waits for us. We'll hear him open and shut the doors, like he's trying to get us to wake up w/o doing it with his voice. Not sure if that's just an oddity, or if maybe he feels bad about waking us up?

10) The freaked out look on Peanut's face is so worth all the effort I go through to derail the train in his simulator. He's getting pretty good with the controls, panning the camera, the horn, switching views. He warned me to slow down, but Mommy couldn't resist the downhill grade. Derailed his train, made it fall through the tunnel, down through the air till it crashed. I swear he almost peed himself. I'm so mean! I'll teach him how to speed up and slow down next time we play.

He spoke about the incident for the rest of the night <3

December Begins

 1) Today Peanut slept till 740, we went to the doctors for a booster shot, he clearly cried out 'owie,' then we played at the gym. We picked out a star for the top of the tree, and came home for lunch.

No nap while he watched the blue mountains

We asked him what he wanted from Santa.

Kitty bells (jingle bells)

No noggin'

Orange train

Red and green candy

2) Another no nap day. Many no nap days in a row. Not much time to do anything after bringing him home but to feed, bathe and put him to bed. Mr Veggie beat us home, it was a happy surprise.

3) Party at 2AM, finally put him on the couch with a train video and we all slept. He finally napped, though apparently reluctantly. Must be a phase he was going through. Mr Veggie beat us home, but it was expected this time. Poor guy was sick overnight too. Made chili though, at his request. Peanut wouldn't have anything with the chili, however kept requesting more 'spicy cheese.' One spicy thing at a time?

4) Took a good nap, found him playing at school with 2 other boys with the train. One boy would fly Thomas off the end of the track, Peanut would giggle and add on another piece of track for him. Brought him home, had a yummy dinner of PBJ and raspberries, played with hotwheels (so sorry! everytime they crashed) and watched Peter Pan.

The Sickness Returns

The sickness has returned to the household of Peanut. He's upstairs right now watching Curious George, poor kid. He'll have bursts of energy, but then like we tried to feed him, and he crawled under the table and refused to eat. Finally convinced him that the party in his tummy needed some friends so he ate a bit of pasta.

But Curious George is keeping him still which is keeping his cough at bay. Hopefully a good night sleep will do him well.

---Sunday ---

Well, he's got a little more energy, but still sick. He stumbled into our room at 2AM burning up too. Fever's not as bad now, but we're still in for a quiet day today. He's going to go overboard on the Curious George though, I'll have to insist we watch something else.

Plus it's snowing out. Supposed to get another 5 inches tomorrow as well. But with him sick, it's not like we'll be heading out to the gym or anything. Mr Veggie will be home and he can run any errands we need. I'm thinking I'm going to make some cookies. Peanut still doesn't want to eat (he's been working on a piece of toast since early this morning and no dice) so maybe a nice protein rich cookie will help him out.

We got some bad news, our house is super drafty so we gathered the money to replace the windows and doors, however... the front door we were going to get is astronomically more expensive then estimated. The skylight side panel whatever next to it is an abnormal size so it would have to be special ordered. So we're going to scrap that. I don't know if we'll do the back door now or not, we'll talk to the contractor tomorrow I guess. The windows are almost completely done though, he's feathering out the drywall (or whatever, like I know what I'm talking about) and then we can finally get some curtains up. I've got old printer paper that's connected to each other hanging as stand in curtains for privacy/light control on a few of them, like the bedrooms. I'll be glad when that ugliness is gone though :)

Well, I guess as long as it's another TV/Movie day, I have no excuse not to clean. Also had no excuse not to finish this entry. TTFN!

Official Halloween Post!

We did a successful test run of trick or treating the night before. He got a card from his great grandma which included a treat. And he did the process smoothly, he seemed ready for a frigid Halloween!

He got all dressed up in his Train Engineer costume. I donned a quickly constructed ninja outfit, and Mr Veggie dressed as a disgruntled Brewer's fan. He was dressed fully down to snowpants to stay warm.

But, while he liked the candy, he wasn't a huge fan of all the strangers. He was very nervous about saying Trick or Treat or getting close enough to get the candy. Then when his face got cold... he was done. He sat down on the sidewalk and cried to go to 'Buddy's House.' So we headed back, thinking once he warmed up we'd go a bit more. But... he was much happier at home handing out candy and didn't want to head back out. He stood at the window, sucking a lollipop, and would run to the door and help hand it out when kids walked up the driveway.

Though he's still saying "No light, no candy there" at houses, which is adorable.

Almost Halloween

Yes yes, it is almost time for Engineer Peanut to set out upon the land and conquer it for candy. But before then, we need to paint one of his toenails, let him draw impressive drawings of himself, and pick out some happy/weird/spooky carvings for us to carve. He thought the inside of the pumpkins were icky :)

Also, he asked if he could lay down on the ceiling, and has been playing "underpowered train" almost nonstop.

Just a quick update!

October:

• His vocabulary increases, stringing together sentences
• Still loving Winnie the Pooh. Curious George becomes big.
• Eating a greater variety of food
• Making new friends at school
• Leaves are fun to play in
• Some illness but sleeping well

That's a pretty good synopsis of October I think.


So yeah, I haven't been good about updating. Part of it was I wanted to do a good update. And then failed to do so, so I left it sit. I need to become ok with just any kind of update. I did though update a million videos to my youtube account though, so enjoy those.

We've been getting new windows on the house, hopefully this winter we can stay toasty warm without space heaters and covering up the windows. Peanut enjoys checking out what the contractor is doing, checking out all the 'new wiiindows!' etc. Today we took another step into more imaginative play with trains. One of his naptime videos has a segment where one of the power units die and we watch it work slowly up the hill till it comes to a spot it can stop. Peanut's been replaying this scene for most of the day, super cute. "Underpowered train can't go" "here comes helper train" "train more power" "there goes helper train" and "train go fast now."

Super cute. If you ask me.

Just a random picture from earlier