Sick baby:(

On days I work and Austin goes to my parents house I get me all ready first and then go to get Austin right when I'm ready to walk out the door. This morning it didn't go so great. When I went to get him i discovered he was a sick boy. Broke my heart! We spent the day snuggling on the couch and watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. No idea how many episodes we watched today! During his nap I did get my closet cleaned out! He felt better during the afternoon and then get whiny before bedtime. Hopefully, he will wake up feeling all better in the morning.

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Potty time!

I've noticed every night before I put Austin in the tub that he starts peeing when I take off his diaper. On one show of The Doctors a viewer asked how people in Europe get their babies potty trained at 1. I can't even imagine this! The answer was to pay attention and watch when you know they're going to go and then put the baby over the toilet. Since I know Austin is going to go before he gets in the tub I decided to buy a potty chair and give it a shot. Now I am NOT potty training yet, but just seeing what will happen. I plan to attempt it this summer when I'm off. Tonight was my first night to try it after the potty chair came in. And.....it worked! I was completely shocked! He really peed in his potty. I think it was just a stroke of luck, but it's a start at least:).

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Happy 2013!

We have thoroughly enjoyed Christmas time! Shopping, wrapping, baking,time off, time with family, I love it all! We have fit in as much as we possibly could during the holidays.

 

Andrew and I took Austin to see Santa and he did great. Wasn't scared at all! Didn't want sit still long, but as least we got the pic!

We got a new froyo place in Hobbs! Andrew, Austin, and I had to go try it out on their opening day. Delicious!

 

Andrew's brother and family got here from Mississippi and we spent a week with them. Good times! Here we are at a hockey game.

 

Austin went to chuck e. cheese for the first time! Once we showed him the basketball game that's the only place he wanted to be.

 

Austin wasn't overly excited about opening gifts in Christmas morning. He pretty much just stood and watched us. He did enjoy the candy though!

He did get some pretty cool gifts!

Austin and Pete playing.

We wore this baby out driving back and forth to Odessa. He was soooo tired! He doesn't nap if he's not at home.

 

Austin favorite gift! Ramps fascinate him!

Elizabeth and I have been friends since 5th grade. She came over for New Years Eve. We had a game marathon!

 

He didn't quite make it until midnight so we did this the next day:).

I was sitting on him and holding his hands and this is what happened as soon as I let him up!

He's had this thing that when he likes to try to get inside little things. My parents have a toy that us a pool for some Little People and he tries to get in it and here he is trying to get in this truck. Lol

He is very fascinated with my iPad and is getting pretty good on it! 2012 was very good to us. We look forward to seeing what 2013 will bring!

 

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The most wonderful time of the year...

I LOVE Christmastime! I love all of the decorating, shopping, and baking! We've been busy around here getting the house ready for Christmas. Andrew worked very hard on the outdoor lights, I stilll need to take a picture of it! I've been really into Pinterest lately and have found some neat projects to take on. Here is a wreath I made that I was so excited about!

Now I'm thinking about going back and redoing my tree using the deco mesh I did on the wreath and I have a few other projects in mind as well! But here's our tree for now...

While Andrew was outside doing the lights I decided to bring in this slide from outside. It was my 22 year old cousins when she was 2! It cleaned up well and Austin loves it. He has played on it a ton. He likes to take his toys down it with him. Earlier he was sending Teddy Grahams down it and then eating them. LOL

Austin has been done with his pacifier for about 3 months (except at Mimi's house GRRR!), but the other night i went into his bedroom to check on him before I went to bed and I was shocked to see a pacifier in his mouth! I still don't know where he got it from!

Kason is a Hobbs Eagle Little Dribbler! He loves it and we are sooo proud of him!

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My two boys cuddling on the couch. Andrew was watching the UT game and Austin was watching Cars. How sweet is that?

Tonight Austin pigged out! This kid must have had a hollow leg or something. We went to Cattle Baron and he had croutons, chicken fried steak, baked potato, and pudding. He grunted at us if we didn't feed him fast enough. He's still picky sometimes, but we've come a LONG way!

 

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Two in one day!

Part of the reason I haven't been blogging is because I got frustrated trying to get my photos into the blog. My app just did an update and made things soooo much easier I have just discovered it! So excited about this! So hang with me while I figure this out!

A little late, it now cute is this Mickey Mouse? He was so fun for Halloween. Let me tell ya, he pulled in the candy!

About a month ago we got to go to The Fiddlestix Farm in midland. Austin was really good and had a great time!

 

I absolutely love this photo of Austin. I only wish I would have turned the camera for it to be landscape. How cute is this little guy leading us through the corn maze?

The truth is this is all he really wanted to do while we were there. He would run through the maze and then stop and play in the dirt awhile and then take off again. Good times!

 

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Back!

Well I haven't blogged in awhile. But I'm back with updates! Austin is going through a phase where he loves to carry stuff around with him all of the time. When I tell him it's time to go take a bath, he grabs toys. Last night he tried to carry a hanger, 2 toys, a book, and his drink. The book didn't make it, he gave it a good shot.

He has been the pickiest eater ever! We've had a huge breakthrough recently and he has started eating real food. He's primarily had baby food up until a week ago. He's had chicken nuggets and fish sticks finally!

Today begins our Thanksgiving Break. It's year I'm more thankful than ever, thankful for time to spend with my family. Andrew will be off for a week starting tomorrow and we have lots of plans. Thursday we will have Thanksgiving with my family. That evening (after the longhorn game) we are driving over to Odessa and I'm going to I Black Friday shopping at midnight! I'm excited. I've never gone before. Then Friday we will be having our Thanksgiving with Andrew's family. Saturday or Sunday I'm thinking a trip to the races would be fun. So yes, I'm thankful for my family and time together.

Updates!

Austin is finally a walker! I was starting to wonder, but he figured it out. He began walking at 15 months. He still can crawl faster than he walks, so he still likes to crawl a lot too!

Austin has been seeing a pediatric ophthalmologist for awhile. He has alternating lazy eyes. Last week he had surgery on his eyes. The surgery wasn't much fun, but it's over! He did great and he is great now! His eyes are still a little red, but have been improving every day!

This is my favorite age with him. He is sooo fun! He has a great sense of humor and looooves to laugh. He has the greatest laugh!

Yesterday we celebrated the 4th of July and kamdens birthday. It was a lot of fun. Austin didn't even mind the loud fireworks! Jeff would go put and light the fireworks and jog back. Austin thought it was hilarious when Jeff would jog!

Right now Austin's favorite thing is his train table. Kamden loves Thomas the train when he was little. Kristi saved his train table and trains and Austin is getting lots of use out of them now.

Austin is pretty talkative. He will just randomly bust out with a new word when I'm not expecting it. He can say mama, dada, Mimi, papa, thank you, yes, no, hey, hi, bye bye, ball, bite, bath, Kason, and that's all I can think of right now. I've been really working in please and he could care less!

Food seems to be an issue right now he only wants to eat baby food, graham crackers, or goldfish. Sometimes he will eat pudding or cake when I feed it to him off my fork. He doesn't really want to try anything new and definitely doesn't want any meat! We will keep working on it though. He does love suckers and chocolate milk though!

Austin likes his cartoons. He likes to sleep in. I can't figure out here he gets that from;). He gets up somewhere between 9 and 10. We eat breakfast and then sit on the couch and watch cartoons and drink chocolate milk. He loves his chuggington, Mickey mouse clubhouse, Dora, and Diego.

It's been a great summer so far with my baby boy. Now we are looking forward to our vacation!

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