Whoa, here I am writing a second post in less than 3 days time. It's a bloggy miracle.
My child has decided that he's going to show me that he is no longer 2, as in the terrible two's. (Technically, yes, he is still 2, but exactly 4 weeks from today that will not be the case.) In the past 24 hours he has made all terrible two's look appealing because apparently we are in for the terrifying three's. From the time he woke up yesterday till 5 minutes ago he has done the following:
1. Removed everything hanging on the walls in his bedroom, including the nails. Not once, not twice, but four times. I promise that after each offense he was punished, and the punishment increased exponentially, but apparently this is too much fun to be deterred by a little spanking.
2. Stuffed an entire roll of toilet paper down the toilet and then flushed. On two separate occasions. Needless to say if you come to our house, the toilet paper is now out of sight. And we have two plungers in the bathroom as a precaution.
3. Dumped an entire shaker of salt onto his plate of dinner last night. This has happened two different times over the past week.
4. Pooped in his pants and made a huge mess of it. (We've been really successful with potty training, apparently he wants to punish me now.)
I'm scared to consider what the upcoming year holds for us. I guess I just hope that my house is still standing and my sanity is intact. Though the latter is already questionable.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Update
Apparently I'm unable to write a steady blog this summer. It's not as if I'm overwhelmingly busy or anything, I guess I just don't have much inspiration right now. I figured since it's been 20 days since I last posted I would give you all a random update which is obviously all I'm able to do lately if you read through my last few posts.
Today is Keith's birthday so we've had a fun weekend. Yesterday his parents came over and watched Garrett so that we could go out and celebrate. You know "celebrating" might mean more to some than others. But to a married couple with a (soon-to-be) 3 year old, it simply means to spend time away from your child(ren). You can't get much more celebratory than the lack of whining at dinner coupled with nobody screaming "I lost my shoe!" in the car. And celebrate we did.
Let's see... First we went to the movies (the number 1 place where we simply cannot go with our child unless we're seeing something with talking animals or living inanimate objects). We saw "The Dark Knight" which was really good. It lives up to its name and is definitely a "dark" movie as far as superhero movies go, but it's not depressingly so. After the movie we really lived it up and made a stop at Toys R Us. Garrett's birthday party is next weekend and we had yet to buy him anything and we needed to get some presents so he didn't try to emancipate himself from us. Dinner was next on the agenda so of course we hit up our favorite restaurant, I'm sure you can all repeat after me by now, Texas Roadhouse. It was yummy, as always. We then rounded out this kick-butt night by heading to the place where all couples go on their dates-Walmart. Yes, we're lame, please don't feel the need to point that out to me. I can assure you that we did not buy any groceries, so you can all breathe a sigh of relief. However we did buy baby wipes, along with vitamins, a magazine, a t-shirt for Garrett, and picked up a prescription. We were living large, let me tell you.
Today for the actual event we met up with some friends for lunch at the Spaghetti Warehouse. They have a 3 and a half year old son so we commisserate with each other while our boys yell and drop food and attempt to empty the salt shakers. After lunch the birthday boys (the husband of our couple friend had a birthday 3 days ago) got to spend some kid-free time by checking out some gun shops (their choice, not ours, the women would have went to Target if given the choice). We contemplated what to do but decided that the best choice was to take our 2 maniacs to her house so they could destroy the other kid's room while she and I visited in relative peace. The boys actually played well together and I enjoyed the company of my friend. I believe Keith has had a good birthday (minus my cake fiasco this morning. Let's just say that the recipe that I used does not allow for a cake to be baked in 2 small, round pans and now, 12 hours later, my house still smells like slightly burnt cake, yum.)
So we move from celebrating Keith's birthday to celebrating Garrett's next weekend. We're partying a month early because my family will all be in town. I'm so excited to have them here for Garrett's birthday. It's the first party for him that they've been able to make it so I'm really happy that this is working out. This will actually be Garrett's first time to be around both sets of grandparents at the same time so it should be interesting. I've got the cake ordered, the party supplies waiting in the closet, and the gifts hidden. (Well, hidden better than they were earlier today. Garrett found them, drug them out and asked "Are these Garrett's?" I told him yes, but they were for his birthday so he had to wait to get them. Keith told him later that they were actually for his friend. I'm sure he's really confused, hopefully he'll forget he ever saw them until they're unwrapped on Friday. They've since been rehidden and I now have to rethink my usual hiding spot for gifts.)
The gifts were a debate this year. The past 2 birthdays I've just gone out and bought toys or clothes that Garrett needed. Obviously I know that no toys are actually "needed" but what boy should live his life without a mini basketball goal? I would classify that as a need. :) This year Keith wanted some input into the gifts and I know that his input will become more and more the older Garrett gets, which is completely fine with me. At first we planned to buy him one of those nice, wooden swingsets that will last for years and won't tip over when more than one child is swinging. Unfortunately when you buy one brand new you're basically buying a used car as far as the prices are concerned, so a brand new one is temporarily out of the question (we've since found a couple different options but none that would be here by Friday so we'll see...). We then went on to look at used ones for sale and some people think their swingsets are made from 24k gold apparently. I'm not paying $600 for a rotten piece of wood that probably wouldn't survive being moved 2 feet much less 50 miles. So we gave up that dream. We then thought about buying him one of those electric cars. But after looking at Toys R Us' inventory, that's not happening either. How do some of these families own those kinds of toys and not only do they own them, but they leave them to sit outside in the weather. You can't buy one for less than $300 and that just seems like an awful lot of money for a toy that my child will outgrow in a couple of years. But Daddy is still considering one for Christmas so we may end up with one despite my objections. I threw around the idea of buying him an easel because he really likes to color, but I couldn't find one so we settled on buying him a train set and a Spiderman action figure. I think he will really like those.
All right that's pretty much it, I guess. I should have a better way to wrap this thing up but I'm tired. Garrett hasn't been sleeping well the past couple of nights because we both have colds and his always result in a bad cough. Saturday morning he was up at 5 am hacking up a lung which lead to him staying up for the rest of the day. Which meant that I was up for the rest of the day. I do NOT miss the newborn stage, that's for sure.
Today is Keith's birthday so we've had a fun weekend. Yesterday his parents came over and watched Garrett so that we could go out and celebrate. You know "celebrating" might mean more to some than others. But to a married couple with a (soon-to-be) 3 year old, it simply means to spend time away from your child(ren). You can't get much more celebratory than the lack of whining at dinner coupled with nobody screaming "I lost my shoe!" in the car. And celebrate we did.
Let's see... First we went to the movies (the number 1 place where we simply cannot go with our child unless we're seeing something with talking animals or living inanimate objects). We saw "The Dark Knight" which was really good. It lives up to its name and is definitely a "dark" movie as far as superhero movies go, but it's not depressingly so. After the movie we really lived it up and made a stop at Toys R Us. Garrett's birthday party is next weekend and we had yet to buy him anything and we needed to get some presents so he didn't try to emancipate himself from us. Dinner was next on the agenda so of course we hit up our favorite restaurant, I'm sure you can all repeat after me by now, Texas Roadhouse. It was yummy, as always. We then rounded out this kick-butt night by heading to the place where all couples go on their dates-Walmart. Yes, we're lame, please don't feel the need to point that out to me. I can assure you that we did not buy any groceries, so you can all breathe a sigh of relief. However we did buy baby wipes, along with vitamins, a magazine, a t-shirt for Garrett, and picked up a prescription. We were living large, let me tell you.
Today for the actual event we met up with some friends for lunch at the Spaghetti Warehouse. They have a 3 and a half year old son so we commisserate with each other while our boys yell and drop food and attempt to empty the salt shakers. After lunch the birthday boys (the husband of our couple friend had a birthday 3 days ago) got to spend some kid-free time by checking out some gun shops (their choice, not ours, the women would have went to Target if given the choice). We contemplated what to do but decided that the best choice was to take our 2 maniacs to her house so they could destroy the other kid's room while she and I visited in relative peace. The boys actually played well together and I enjoyed the company of my friend. I believe Keith has had a good birthday (minus my cake fiasco this morning. Let's just say that the recipe that I used does not allow for a cake to be baked in 2 small, round pans and now, 12 hours later, my house still smells like slightly burnt cake, yum.)
So we move from celebrating Keith's birthday to celebrating Garrett's next weekend. We're partying a month early because my family will all be in town. I'm so excited to have them here for Garrett's birthday. It's the first party for him that they've been able to make it so I'm really happy that this is working out. This will actually be Garrett's first time to be around both sets of grandparents at the same time so it should be interesting. I've got the cake ordered, the party supplies waiting in the closet, and the gifts hidden. (Well, hidden better than they were earlier today. Garrett found them, drug them out and asked "Are these Garrett's?" I told him yes, but they were for his birthday so he had to wait to get them. Keith told him later that they were actually for his friend. I'm sure he's really confused, hopefully he'll forget he ever saw them until they're unwrapped on Friday. They've since been rehidden and I now have to rethink my usual hiding spot for gifts.)
The gifts were a debate this year. The past 2 birthdays I've just gone out and bought toys or clothes that Garrett needed. Obviously I know that no toys are actually "needed" but what boy should live his life without a mini basketball goal? I would classify that as a need. :) This year Keith wanted some input into the gifts and I know that his input will become more and more the older Garrett gets, which is completely fine with me. At first we planned to buy him one of those nice, wooden swingsets that will last for years and won't tip over when more than one child is swinging. Unfortunately when you buy one brand new you're basically buying a used car as far as the prices are concerned, so a brand new one is temporarily out of the question (we've since found a couple different options but none that would be here by Friday so we'll see...). We then went on to look at used ones for sale and some people think their swingsets are made from 24k gold apparently. I'm not paying $600 for a rotten piece of wood that probably wouldn't survive being moved 2 feet much less 50 miles. So we gave up that dream. We then thought about buying him one of those electric cars. But after looking at Toys R Us' inventory, that's not happening either. How do some of these families own those kinds of toys and not only do they own them, but they leave them to sit outside in the weather. You can't buy one for less than $300 and that just seems like an awful lot of money for a toy that my child will outgrow in a couple of years. But Daddy is still considering one for Christmas so we may end up with one despite my objections. I threw around the idea of buying him an easel because he really likes to color, but I couldn't find one so we settled on buying him a train set and a Spiderman action figure. I think he will really like those.
All right that's pretty much it, I guess. I should have a better way to wrap this thing up but I'm tired. Garrett hasn't been sleeping well the past couple of nights because we both have colds and his always result in a bad cough. Saturday morning he was up at 5 am hacking up a lung which lead to him staying up for the rest of the day. Which meant that I was up for the rest of the day. I do NOT miss the newborn stage, that's for sure.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Aimlessness
So it's been awhile since I've blogged and I figured I would do a random update of things going on here.
*Potty training is going pretty well. The accidents have been minimal, not even one a day. Though I'm still hesitant to go out of the house without a pull-up on (Garrett, not me), the rest of the time he's in underwear. The best part of it is that Garrett actually wants to go to the bathroom "all by myself!". Which means that he gets himself on and off the toilet and the only thing I have to do for him is wipe when necessary. That's so nice for me because sometimes he's going to the bathroom every 30 minutes. I can't always get right there to help him so it's nice to know that he isn't going to have an accident if I can't get into the bathroom with him.
*Our summer is going nicely. Garrett hasn't driven me insane yet, so that's a plus. We've gone to 2 movies so far. "Shrek the Third" (which was free at a local theater) and "Wall-E". I'm not a big Shrek fan, but Wall-E was cute.
*Garrett turns 3 next month, which is really hard to believe. We're doing his party a few weeks early because my parents will be in town for my cousin's wedding. It's going to be a "Toy Story" theme (the party, not the wedding.) Garrett is actually the ring bearer for the wedding so that should be interesting. He'll either shock me by totally cooperating and being the model child or he'll walk down the aisle with a few minor complications and then go wild once he gets down front at which point I will be waiting in the wings to grab him before my cousin breaks down in tears. I'm betting that the latter will probably be the scenerio that I'm dealing with. It should be fun!
*At the end of this month Keith will celebrate his birthday. He will be 32, which is just crazy. When we met he was only 22. I can't believe it's been that long! Maybe I'll do a "Toy Story" theme for his party too. I'm sure he would love that!
*Last night we watched the movie "Jumper". It's a pretty new release on DVD (we actually rented the Blue-ray version, but I don't want to rub it in). I liked the premise of the movie, but I felt like they could have taken the story line in a much different direction and it would have been a better movie and the ending was very abrupt. I really want to see the movie "Hancock". If anybody here has seen it, is it worth it to arrange a sitter so we can catch it in the theater or should we wait until it comes out on DVD?
*I just have to end this with praise being heaped upon the inventor of the iPod. Yes, I've had an iPod for a couple of years now, but I have found myself using it more and more. Initially I only had about 100 songs on it, but now I have over 1,000. Plus I have a few cartoons downloaded on it for Garrett when we're out in public and I don't want to hear another scream. So, my hat is off to you Apple people. You really know how to keep a mom sane and happy.
*Potty training is going pretty well. The accidents have been minimal, not even one a day. Though I'm still hesitant to go out of the house without a pull-up on (Garrett, not me), the rest of the time he's in underwear. The best part of it is that Garrett actually wants to go to the bathroom "all by myself!". Which means that he gets himself on and off the toilet and the only thing I have to do for him is wipe when necessary. That's so nice for me because sometimes he's going to the bathroom every 30 minutes. I can't always get right there to help him so it's nice to know that he isn't going to have an accident if I can't get into the bathroom with him.
*Our summer is going nicely. Garrett hasn't driven me insane yet, so that's a plus. We've gone to 2 movies so far. "Shrek the Third" (which was free at a local theater) and "Wall-E". I'm not a big Shrek fan, but Wall-E was cute.
*Garrett turns 3 next month, which is really hard to believe. We're doing his party a few weeks early because my parents will be in town for my cousin's wedding. It's going to be a "Toy Story" theme (the party, not the wedding.) Garrett is actually the ring bearer for the wedding so that should be interesting. He'll either shock me by totally cooperating and being the model child or he'll walk down the aisle with a few minor complications and then go wild once he gets down front at which point I will be waiting in the wings to grab him before my cousin breaks down in tears. I'm betting that the latter will probably be the scenerio that I'm dealing with. It should be fun!
*At the end of this month Keith will celebrate his birthday. He will be 32, which is just crazy. When we met he was only 22. I can't believe it's been that long! Maybe I'll do a "Toy Story" theme for his party too. I'm sure he would love that!
*Last night we watched the movie "Jumper". It's a pretty new release on DVD (we actually rented the Blue-ray version, but I don't want to rub it in). I liked the premise of the movie, but I felt like they could have taken the story line in a much different direction and it would have been a better movie and the ending was very abrupt. I really want to see the movie "Hancock". If anybody here has seen it, is it worth it to arrange a sitter so we can catch it in the theater or should we wait until it comes out on DVD?
*I just have to end this with praise being heaped upon the inventor of the iPod. Yes, I've had an iPod for a couple of years now, but I have found myself using it more and more. Initially I only had about 100 songs on it, but now I have over 1,000. Plus I have a few cartoons downloaded on it for Garrett when we're out in public and I don't want to hear another scream. So, my hat is off to you Apple people. You really know how to keep a mom sane and happy.
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