My bubbies

Noah has been calling Carson "bubby" a lot and I just absolutely adore it.  It makes me smile everytime!

Of course he got it from me, I may have called both of my boys that way too many times.

Noah also just uses in the cutest way and at the sweetest times.

Yesterday Carson was whiny a lot of the day and at one point, Noah goes "Bubby, what's wrong, why you keep crying?  You want  fishies, bunnies, water, strawberry milk, chuck truck? "
I love that he was trying to help me figure out what was wrong.  Granted he probably just wanted some peace in his playroom but it came out super sweet.

In the car the other day when it was snowing, Carson was crying and Noah said, "Bubby, it's okay.  We be home soon, mom has to pay attention to the road"

The other sweet bubby's I hear are when Carson wakes up from nap or in the morning, Noah will say good morning bubby, or hi bubby, you awake?  Or when he gets hurt, he will ask Bubby, are you okay?

I don't know what it is about that word because it would still be sweet if he said Carson in place of all those but when you use Bubby my heart melts.  I'm so blessed by them with they are buddies.  One lucky momma to call these two boys mine!


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Name Calling

We have quite the name caller in our house right now.  I have no idea where kids get the idea to do this?  I'm sure he has picked it up from some older kids at daycare, church and other places he is around kids.  But in all seriousness we as adults don't walk around calling each other potty names so where do they get the ideas.  Noah  has been calling us poopy, stinky, stinky butt, baby,  cookie, coka( no idea what this is supposed to mean), toot, hippo, boba (another random), all sorts of food names and random toys as he plays with them.  I probably laughed at first and created a name calling monster.  Now he just thinks he is so darn funny and is always laughing at himself even if I give him that look. Thought about using soap as a punishment but seriously who has bar soap anymore?  There isn't any in this house.  I don't now how to stop this bad habit,  sometimes it seems like 20% of my day getting on his case for it.  I'll add it to my list of toddler isms I'm constantly working on!  Another one is getting the word stupid out of his vocab.  This is the kind of stuff they should of taught in college instead of so much other useless stuff I learned! This momma needs some help in the correction department!

I think this is why God made toddlers so cute and funny to make up for their frustrating orneriness!

Moving On!

What a year we have had so far in the sick department.  We were all healthy for the most part until right before the New Year, Carson got bronchialitis, then I got it, next Noah.   All healthy for a week or two then Carson got it again.  Everyone healthy again then Noah got chicken pox, then 2 days later Carson got the chicken pox and bronchialitis AGAIN!  Poor guy just couldn't get rid of it.  This last time they sent us to get a chest xray to make sure they weren't missing something boy was that fun taking a chicken pox kid in to get an xray while he was already cranky!  Everything turned up clear but they decided to put him on Prednisone liquid version for kids to try something a little stronger for him since he kept getting it back.  I will never unless it is absolutely necessary let him take that again.  For 4 days he pretty much screamed at me non-stop.    He would hang on my feet and scream like he wanted me, then I picked him up and he would try and push off me while screaming.  He hit, he clawed, he bit.  Needless to say it was the roughest 4 days of motherhood so far!  I'm surprised he still has a voice left.  It took me a few days to realize it was from the medicine, then I remembered how I felt on Prednisone and it made a lot more sense.  I felt so bad for Carson though because he got the chicken pox worse then Noah and had his other stuff going on on top of it.  Poor guy couldn't breathe, he wheezed so bad!  The important part it we have moved on, the medicine has wore off and I got my sweet little, fun loving boy back thank goodness!  Missed him so much!  It was only 4 days on the medicine but seemed like so much longer!  

Here are our chicken pox boys in jammies which they sported for pretty much an entire week.  Noah would put clean jammies on after his bath and keep them on until the next bath.  I wanted them to be as comfy as possible.  

Carson didn't want his picture taken and was trying to hide.  

This is how Carson really felt all last week.  (Sorry Carson had to include this one, will be sure to tell you how you acted this week when you are older!  )

Taking an oatmeal bath.  Carson absolutely hated baths while he had chicken pox.  Last night was the first time we got him to sit down without being forced to sit.  Got some good pictures of Noah's full body chicken pox but was just too busy during Carson's stint and this is the best we had.  His poor head was just covered!  

And Awww.. This is what we have been up to the last couple days.   Back to reality and sweetness.  Noah was reading books to Carson yesterday.  They have just been playing and interacting a lot together.  

This morning they were holding hands running around circles 

And back to making messes and getting into trouble together.  

I'm glad we have the chicken pox done and over with for good (hopefully).  They are all scabbed up and healing and hoping they won't end up with too many scars!  Honestly they weren't that bad to deal with, yes it was some extra work, oatmeal baths, anti-itch cream, lavender lotion, some extra whines, and I didn't get anything done for a week  but I did get in lots of extra cuddling and if it wouldn't have been for that darn prednisone we wouldn't of had those 4 awful days on top of chicken pox!

However, I'm glad to feel like we are back to our normal life.  I feel caught up somewhat.  They have been so happy and have blessed me so much the last few days with their playing, smiling, laughing, kisses, and funny talking.  

Chicken Pox

My poor baby has chicken pox.  I noticed Noah's first ones on Tuesday and each day they have been getting a lot worse.  These pictures don't do his poor face justice.  He has a lot on his head, all over his scalp, face, in and around his ears.  And this morning I noticed Carson getting his first ones.  Carson probably maybe only has 10 now but he's a few days behind Noah.  Crossing my fingers that Noah's are done spreading and will start getting better and that Carson doesn't get them too bad.

 Noah has been such a good sport about them.  I figured when he saw them he would freak out because anything other than normal doesn't generally fare well with him, but he just smiled and gave me a hug.  I love this boy so much!  He has blessed me so much in how he is handling these.  Last night it took him a few hours to fall asleep and today nap didn't work out he just couldn't get comfortable but he has still been in a good mood.  Of course he has cried and whined some but not nearly as much as I expected.  He hasn't wanted me to put any anti-itch medicine on him because I did a few yesterday and he told me it made them hot and he didn't like it, well today after he was struggling with some I  talked him into putting some medicine on them and then he started laughing and then wanted medicine all over.  He was jumping up and down telling me how it wasn't hot, it was cold and that I made him so happy!  He just kept saying " look mommy, I'm smiling, you make me so happy."  I could learn a lot by how he has handled these!  We have been doing lots of cuddling, TV watching, and trying to keep him entertained when he needs a distraction!

The Things Noah Says

This morning Noah and Carson were sitting at the island having breakfast and I was just listening to Noah talk because that is just what he does now and I turned to Matthew and said "I want to freeze Noah where he his, can you help me do that".  He told me he couldn't and then he sat by the boys after getting himself a poptart.  Noah then decided he wanted a warm pop tart like daddy ( he has never had them warm before).  Matthew got him one, then gave it to him and in that short time he already decided he didn't want a warm pop tart and started whining and pushed it away.  Ahh the normal every day with a 3 year old.  They can whine a lot, throw fits, talk back, and change their mind ALL the time but they say some of the funniest stuff. I need to start writing down a lot more things since  I don't remember anything, but I did remember a few.

Last night in the bath, Carson had already gotten out like 5 minutes before and Noah was still playing.  I was trying to talk him into getting out and he said "mom, I have work at my job, there's still jobs to do." For some reason he thinks he thinks playing with his toys in the bath are his jobs.  This isn't the first time we have heard something about his jobs before.

A few nights ago when I was putting him to bed,  he told me when he gets bigger he is going to drive my car and daddy and mommy are going to sit in the little boy seats in back.  Yeah I don't think so!!

Then Noah has a slight obsession with Thomas the Tank Engine.  I think it's weird because I don't understand how any kid could love Thomas, the show is so weird and BORING!  But anyways the sayings they use have made  their way into Noah's daily language.  Scary!  We have got to change something here.  Anyways he says buckers all the time when he is talking about his engines because on the show they always say buffers, which I'm guessing they are talking about a part on the engine.  They also say Bust by buffers which we have heard quite a few times from our little guy.  Now the lastest he has added  is instead of like darnit or shoot on the show they say fizzling fireboxes and you guessed it someone is always saying fireboxes.
Then Monday was the kicker, we were driving around town and Noah saw 3 train cars sitting on the tracks and said "mom, look there's 3 buckers."  Shortly after he follows with " oh no mom, the buckers are stuck on the branch line".


My favorite other things he says are in his sweet times when he just decides to tell me, Mom, I love you.  There just isn't anything better.   He usually rubs my face or my arm or something when he says, it kills me every time.  He also can be just as sweet with Carson and he calls him buddy alot and will just rub part of him when something is wrong.  Such a blessing to see them love each other and get along so well at times.

So blessed to have my little talker enlighten every day with his complex thoughts (for a 3 year old anyway) and silly ideas!

Noah at 3 Years

Noah at 3 years old you

-Are completely potty trained!  Finally!  So proud of you!

-Are so stinking cute, silly and funny and at the same time the biggest back talker at 3, how does that happen?
We have some work to do in that department for sure but I know you are 3 now and for some reason 3 year olds start to think they have that right already.

-You outsmart me all the time, talk and act just like me at times, my outbursts come back to bite me because I hear you say my responses all the time.  The other day you told me "mom you know better".  You also talk British a lot.  You are always saying " I not" with a pouty lip and your arms folded.

- Are so smart and I couldn't be more proud of you.  I always remember back to when we thought you had speech issues because you weren't talking.  Now if you are awake you are talking.  We can have real conversations with you.  You understand everything, never forget anything we do/say and surprise me daily with the things that come out of your mouth.

-You can count to 10, and know most of the numbers to 20 you just sometimes skip some.  You can sing your ABC's and can recognize them all.  You can now sing lots of parts of songs like Twinkle Twinkle, Jesus Loves you, Row Row, This little light of mine, Old MacDonald, Head and Shoulders, and your Thomas the Train theme song.

-You can get yourself completely dressed but don't always want to.  Some days Noah wants to do it and others you want us too.  We never know what kind of day it is!

-Finally eat everything yourself.  This was a long process and we still worked on it a lot this last year
-Are a fruit lover and finally eating more foods each month.  We have been making you try a lot more lately.
Someday  I will be making the same dinner for all of us!

-Are such a little helper!

-Can be such a lover.  You love kisses and hugs from us, you tell me you love me (my heart melts every time),  and sometimes want me to rock you after you see me rocking Carson at night.  You are getting old for that but I don't care, you let me I 'm doing it!  You also have your moments with Carson.  The other day you were so loving to him.  At one point I even shed a few tears.

-Love Thomas the train anything.  You also still like Lightning McQueen and the Crew.  It amazes me how much you get into it.  I never thought I would be one to get into character stuff but seeing how happy it makes you I can't help it.

-You love puzzles, doing art stuff, making messes and all things boy.  You enjoy doing learning stuff too, which  I love!  You used to pick something and play with it alot each day but now most days you move around from toy to toy playing with all sorts of different stuff

-Can be so quirky.  I could go on and on with examples.  But we have learned once we do anything for the first time, that's how you want it done each time.  And you and Carson both ended up super scheduled.  Maybe I'm to blame for that!

Noah one day you have me wanting to walk out the door or lock myself in my room, then the next I just can't help but want to give you a big hug and kiss you all day.  You make my temper go crazy and my heart so happy!  I love you so much!  You are a true toddler, and we have ups and down but I wouldn't trade you for anything.  I love this age you are at.  We have so much fun with you, love your imagination and personality!

Love you Noee!

Noah's 3rd birthday Party

My baby is 3!

Noah turned 3 on Jan 11th and we had his party on Saturday with lots of wonderful family and none other than a Thomas the Train theme.  Noah asked me for a James Birthday, but apparently most people don't care about James so we had a Thomas, James and Percy party since  I could find lots of stuff with all the engines on it.    Of course the cheap balloons are always the favorite. And in my normal fashion didn't think about taking pictures before hand so none of the decorations.  My camera was dead, our Ipad worked for a little bit then died so we have some pictures from the beginning but nothing after that.  I really need to work on getting better about that.  

Birthday boy while we sang Happy Birthday

Don't want to get our hands dirty!

Sometimes he really gets into card opening, others not so much! 

He got to eat cake, candy, open presents, and play with his cousins.  I don't think he could of asked for a better day!  

Christmas Wrap Up, Better Late than Never

December was a month with it all. Great memories, family time, lots of food, stress, messes, fun, fun fun, toys everywhere, sickness, many trips out to look at lights and so much more.

I love the holidays so much but I was ready for January.  I needed things to slow down and ready to get this house purged and organized.  We have so much stuff and now you really notice it since we just gained a whole new army of toys.  Haven't came up with a solution for that problem yet but we will.  That's  my goal for the next few months.

This year it really started to get fun with the boys.  Both of them loved the lights and we went out many nights to look at them and took extra detours on our way to things to see some extra ones.  Noah understands so much and blessed my socks off when he pointed out baby Jesus at all the houses around town.  The way he says it too is just downright adorable!  

We started some new traditions with the boys and can't wait to keep them going as they get older and into them more!  

And I tried to just have fun!  

Here are some pictures from our month.  I'm awful at taking pictures and remembering too. I wish I could hire a full time photographer to capture all the moments  I never do.  

Carson being silly with my sunglasses at one of our doctor visits.  Looks healthy and happy, yeah he had bronchialitis.     

 Noah eating and Carson chilling.  

We usually make gingerbread houses or trees, we switched it up this year and made trains out of rice krispies treats.  I spent hours trying to shape it into the perfect train shape or I may have bought a kit from Wal-Mart because this year my theme was having fun and making things easy.  

Noah had fun, that was the important part!

 We saw Santa.  He surprised us at Papa Bob's and Nana Jill's.  The look on his face!  Priceless.  

 We had fun looking for Choo-choo the elf each day and seeing what trouble he caused.  

 One night while looking at lights Noah told me wanted to tell Santa he wanted 2 candy cane lights.  The next  night Santa surprised all of us with not just 2 but 6 candy cane lights.  Noah loved them!  

 We are so blessed to have so many family members and got to spend time with most of them at all the different Christmas get togethers.  And of course most kids favorite part, opened lots of presents.  

 Then after Christmas Noah got to go sledding for the first time in his own back yard.  Not a big hill by any means for perfect for his first experience.  He loved it and enjoyed after as well by the fire with hot chocolate. And ever since each time he goes sledding he has to come in, sit by the fire and drink hot chocolate.  My son is a creature of habit!  

What a great month!  

Wonderful Memory

Last night Matthew suggested we take our boys out to see some Christmas lights, we have already been and I didn't feel like getting the boys ready to leave anywhere but I agreed and said the boys would go without shoes and coats and I wasn't getting dressed either.  We hopped in the car and headed to town, made a few stops and then went to the park to drive through the light display.  I'm so glad that I said yes and that we went because I will probably never forget the fun our boys had and the laughs we all shared.  We got each one out of their seats, Carson sat on Matthew's lap and Noah sat on mine.  Carson immediately grabbed the steering wheel and started moving it from side to side just laughing at himself and Noah joined telling us that Carson was "crazy".  They whoa'd at all the lights, Noah talked about the things he saw and my favorite is when he says baby Jesus, just so stinking cute to hear from a young boy and Carson got so excited about steering he started shaking his head front to back, hit his head on the steering wheel hitting the horn.  Then we all really lost it and he tried to do it a few more times.  It sounds so silly as I write, but I wish I had it on tape.  Such a sweet short memory, and so much fun I had with our little boys.  I'm so blessed to have my little family this Christmas season and get to make memories like these!  Love so many things about this time of year!

Elf on the shelf

This year we decided to hop on the bandwagon and do an Elf on the Shelf.  I'm sure Noah will understand a lot more in a year or two but decided to do it anyway.  Saturday we got out the book after his nap and read him the story.  He listened to the story really well and we got to the end and asked him what he wanted to name him again since he didn't answer during the book and he said choo-choo.  The only reason why he picked choo-choo was because on the last page, there was a choo-choo!  I tried asking him about every other name I could think of but we still came back to it. Someday he will probably ask me why we let him but it makes sense because he does love his trains now anyway.  He kept telling us also that he wanted a train like the one in the picture the same colors and everything.  After we finished reading the book we set him up on a shelf in our living room for the night.  I don't believe he liked the idea of the elf watching him, in fact he even told us he didn't like it.  After he was up there he didn't really seem to even think about it or care.

Then yesterday we put him flying in our fans in the living room and he laughed when he saw him up there and imitated to me what he was doing.  I didn't really say anything about him all day.

This morning was the picture above, Choo-Choo is hanging out in one of the stockings and took an ornament off our wreath and Noah was really laughing at him this morning.  I used the Elf different today each time he has done something good I have been telling him to go tell the Elf what he did and he gets all excited to do so.  He told me this morning "Elf going to tell santa, I a good boy, mommy"  Positive reinforcement really works well for him!  He loves thinking he made someone happy!

We will keep doing it this year and see how the rest of the month goes.  Thanks to Pinterest we have plenty of idea of things to do with our elf, Choo-Choo.

Outsmarted

For those of you that think Noah is a quiet, look from the sidelines type of kid, you are correct if he's around a bunch of people.  At home quite the opposite, not to mention ornery.

Today he wanted to throw a bunch of his trains downstairs, well he got a few done and I let him know as  I saw him run to get another one that if he threw anymore he was going to his room for a time out.  He took the last train, held it through the railing, and just looked at me.   I reminded him again what the consequences would be and after standing there with it dangling between the spindles, shaking for a little bit he takes it out, gives it to Carson and then, yep you guessed it said "Carson do this"  as he motioned to throw it down the stairs.  I just stood there in shock.  One of those moments I just don't know how to respond or what to say. All  I could think was it he can outsmart me at almost 3, I'm doomed when he's older!  He is just too smart for his own good sometimes!

Crappy Morning!

Disclaimer:  For  those of you who don't want to read about the disaster with poop on Monday stop here, I'm about to tell the whole story.  I blog to make books for my kids and this is definitely something I want to be able to show Noah when he's older and maybe someday laugh about! 

Anyways Monday was probably my worst mommy day yet.  I was upstairs doing what I don't remember while the boys were playing downstairs and Noah yelled up "uh oh, mommy big mess".  I started to go down the stairs and saw a bunch of what looked like poop and moved a little faster to where Carson was crawling up the stairs and noticed he was covered in poop, his hands, clothes, feet, yeah a mess.  I was so confused!  I got downstairs and then saw the real mess.  Noah had went in his undies and didn't have pants on, so my guess is somehow it all fell out and as picky as he is don't think he must of known and I really know he didn't run over it on purpose but he did with his little mega blocks dump truck/wagon.  

Then still without knowing I'm guessing he ran the wagon around the big circle in our basement like he usually does until he got back around to the beginning where he could see the tracks and the mess that I'm guessing Carson made worse by touching and walking around in it.  

It was an overwhelming moment of where do I even start and I don't know even know if I can clean this up. I got the boys cleaned up first, cried, yelled and took a breather outside while I sprayed the wagon off and then was ready to conquer the mess.  I had a carpet cleaner brought over and began cleaning the carpets.  It actually came up really well and it didn't take as long as I thought it would.  We made it, but hopefully this will be the last incident like this I will ever have to deal with (knock on wood).

Family Night

Can I just say Saturday was wonderful.  We didn't have anything we HAD to do or anywhere to be all day!  

We thought about going to the pumpkin patch in Arthur but since we didn't know how Carson would do we decided to just get some pumpkins in town.  When we went to get pumpkins Noah was way more excited than I expected and he picked one out for Carson and him and then I picked out a bigger one for Matthew and I.  Once we got in the car they both wanted to hold their baby pumpkins.  

Just love their happy faces!

Excuse my boys in their scibbies, didn't want to ruin any clothes!  Also not sure how it happened but yes Noah is missing a sock, haha.  

Noah was very into painting his pumpkin. Carson on the other hand wasn't so much. He dipped his hand in paint and messed around with his pumpkin  for a little bit and was done. 

My little cutie, snacking while we finished pumpkins

After Noah was done with his,  I let him put his hand in paint to put prints on our big pumpkin.  He acutally liked it for bit then asked to wash his hands.  Some things never change!

The front side of the finished pumpkins with help on the faces by Matthew

The back side, kids did on their own.  Pretty ugly, but we still love them!

We had such a great day/evening, wish every day could be that relaxing!

Proud Momma

 Don't let these faces fool you.  This boy is ornery, ornery, ornery and doesn't listen to his mom one bit.  However, for others he is usually the opposite and such a  good boy.

I was so proud of Noah yesterday when I got a text while he was at daycare letting me know my boys were doing great and that Noah was the kid of the day.  

Jen (his in home daycare mom) sent him home with a new book for being such a good boy.  After some fighting I finally got him to stop playing "shapes" ( don't judge, trust me we have been doing plenty of shape time) and hold his book for a pic.  Whenever he says cheese he always scrunches his face.  His eyes disappear just like his mommas!  

No matter how ornery this boy is, still love him sooooo much! Someday we will figure out how he ticks and get him to listen to me once in a while.  (crossing my fingers, anyway)

Walmart Fun

Every Monday we usually go grocery shopping in the morning after Carson naps.  Some weeks I put it off until Matthew is home but usually I tough it out, go and hope for the best.  This week we didn't make it Monday and I tried to go Tuesday night after I picked the kiddos up. Matthew was out of the town for the day and I knew he wouldn't be home until too late for me to go so I figured I would just get it over with. 

The actually shopping went pretty well, we didn't need a ton so I zipped through most of the store then we got to the checkout.  Boy I really dislike checkouts and I try not to get all excited and relieved that I made it through another Walmart experience with two boys while I'm standing there because I have learned too many times that those few sometimes many minutes there can be the breaking point where everything falls apart.  And..... this week it did!  The normal Noah kept trying to climb out to get the candy, I'm fighting to keep him in, Carson's trying to get out as well and Noah yells at him telling him to stay in.  Then Carson sees some Teddy Grahams in a cup thing and he is reaching out and crying for them.   I give in, we have 2 people in front of us with full carts so it was going to be awhile.   I grabbed the Teddy Graham cup and give Carson some, he shoves all of them in his mouth.  He starts screaming while his mouth is full and mush is getting everywhere.  I pick him up, try to clean him off and he is done, throwing his arms and legs and screaming.   Everyone is looking (that's how it felt anyway)  and the people in front of me started talking about when their kids were little and how things like that don't bother them, it's always the worst for the mom.  

Then a lady in the next lane brings over a pack of smarties and asks if they can have them.  I must of looked/seemed/ to be pretty desperate.  I felt like junk for a minute thinking no one thought I could handle my kids but had to bring myself back to reality and realize she probably has smarties for moments like these with her kids and that no one was judging me.  Kids throw fits, kids get upset, they get tired of being in Walmart, I'm sure the employees see it all the time ( at least I tell myself that so I can sleep better).

I also am torn on what to do in this situation, I know with Carson's he's too young to rationalize with I can't really do a whole lot but with Noah I used to bring a sucker or something for him every time and as soon as we got inside he would reach for my purse because there was something in there for him.  I worked hard on breaking that before Carson was born but now I'm starting all over because I need something for Carson to make it through.  I hate letting them eat stuff to get  them to behave, I want the reward to come after not the reinforcement that if you act like this, you can pretty much have anything you see in this store so mom doesn't  get embarassed. I want my boys to someday behave in the store because that is what they are supposed to do not to get a treat or be bribed the entire time.   Parents out there who have been here and dealt with this any good ideas for us?  

Missing keys and Undies

This morning I was in the shower around 9 (extremely late for me, I decided to have fun with the kiddos outside first this morning) and as soon as  I got out the doorbell rang, Noah ran.  I was in my towel, I had a slight moment of panic.  I quickly grabbed some clothes, put them on and ran after him.  Noah had already unlocked the door and opened it for the Fed Ex man, awesome!  But not only did he open the door, he told him mommy putting on her undies!  Yea... things were a bit weird as I stood there to sign for my package.  The 10 seconds seemed like 5 minutes of awkward conversation making!

Then tonight I got the boys in the car to run an errand, got in my purse to grab my keys and they weren't anywhere in my purse.  I ran inside looked around and didn't see them.  Went back out to the car to really go through my purse and told the boys I couldn't find my keys and Noah quickly says, "keys downstairs in the  white bucket".  Little turkey had stolen my keys from my purse and put them downstairs in a bucket, in the toy box.  Definitely would have been a while until I found them there without his help.   On the bright side at least he could remember he did that and was able to tell me.

At this rate, I will be lucky to have hair in a few years!  These boys are keeping me on my toes!

Breakthrough

After what has seemed like forever (4 months) Noah has finally done it!  #2 on the potty!  Wahoo!  Now we aren't consistent yet but in the last week he has 3 times, so at least we are making progress!  I will take anything at this point.  I was so shocked the first time he did.  You better believe I made the biggest deal possible.  I cheered so loud, I scared Carson to death and he started screaming and ran behind me.  I gave Noah some candy that I had been bribing him with this whole time and yesterday he asked for a balloon since I had also been using that one over the last month.  I am so excited that we have finally got somewhere and are another step closer to moving on from this potty training business!  It's the pits!  I was worried we would be potty training Carson by the time Noah was done, we may have a little bit of a break after all, haha!

Toddlers

Toddlers are so much fun and yet can be so challenging.  We just love Noah's current vocabulary.  Everyday he talks more and more even when we didn't think it was possible!  Some days by nap time I'm just ready for some quiet because he has literally talked all morning which I never thought we would say!  There is always new things he is saying that takes me by surprise.  Every day he says something funny and just has the cutest voice.   I love the way he talks because his voice goes up and down and he really emphasizes certain things and like a lot of kids he talks in 3rd person sometimes.  

The other day we were leaving our house to go to town and this is Noah's dialogue

"Bye Bye Noah's house, see you later

Mom when Noah home, 

Noah play with tractors, Noah play balls, Carson play with yellow car,

Noah hit Carson......"

Wait, what ???  So apparently his abuse to his brother is sometimes premeditated!  

I couldn't believe the words came out of his mouth!  

That same day Noah also told me  when I made him mad to "shh be quiet mom, in trouble"  (that's the terrible two part coming out for me)

On the other hand when I get hurt or I tell him to be nice to mommy and act sad, he completely changes tunes and gets so sweet to me.  He will get right in my face, rub my cheeks and tell me it's okay, be happy, sorry mommy and give me the sweetest kiss!  

With toddlers you just have ups and downs I've realized.  One minute I am completely frustrated with how to deal with him and the next minute he's being super sweet or making me laugh by something funny he said.  I definitely need to be writing more of the things he says down because he is just too funny sometimes!  

And right now he still give me tons of kisses and hugs and will let me love on him so I will take it and the best part is when he just randomly decides to say "Noah like mommy"  

This is the truth!

So we started potty training on May 18th,  today is September 24th, over 4 months later and would you believe that my precious son Noah has still NEVER went #2 on the potty.  Yeah it's driving me crazy!  I don't know what we have to do.  I would consider him pretty much trained in the other department we have accidents every once in a while or with #2, but for the most part does pretty well!  He wears undies every day all day, (unless he's at daycare since he doesn't do #2 he has to wear pull ups and at church because I don't want them to deal with the mess just in case)  so yes every day we have #2 undies I have to clean.  It's getting really really old.  I just don't know what it's going to take to break him of this and get him to go.  Any suggestions experienced mommas?  We need help, I'm so ready to move on from potty training by far our most frustrating obstacle thus far!

Bible stories

Sometimes just a few words out of the mouth of my toddler can just make me so proud of him.  Last night Noah asked us to read him bible stories.   Matthew had the ipad and Carson was already in his room where the book of bible stories was so he pulled up some stories from the bible up on it and there was pictures to go along with it.  Noah loved them.  It was such a sweet moment to see Matthew and Noah reading and talking about events from the bible.  Wish I had a picture to remember show, hopefully I can get one next time!