I Love This Boy!

Can I just say how much I love this boy!! He is growing up so fast and is maturing so much. He loves to talk and says the funniest things. I have no idea where he picks up his phrases he says. Right now he loves to say "yes-sir-ee" and "oops-a-daisy" He loves to ask questions and sometimes they are way out in left field but his favorite is "why?" I finally just tell him because and if he keeps asking why, I keep telling him because. I know, I am horrible, but sometimes I just don't have time for his games. Speaking of games, he loves to pretend he lost his truck. His favorite truck he has always called Jacob's truck because his cousin Jacob let him have it one night after playing at his house. Well this truck never leaves his side and he has to take it with him everywhere and to bed. Lately, he comes to me telling me he can't find Jacob's truck. So I search the house and find it for him. He laughs and says Thanks. Well, this started to get old but I wasn't sure if he was doing it on purpose. Well, last week he couldn't find his truck when it was time for his nap and I spent 5 min. trying to find it with no luck. I finally told him he will have to go to bed without it and to pick another truck. He said no and continued to look for it. After another minute I was more stearn and said he had to find another truck for bedtime. He then jumps up from the ground and runs into my closet under my shirts that are hanging up and pulls out his truck. Little stinker. I had a nice talk with him about telling the truth and not losing his truck on purpose. Since then I don't think we have lost his truck.
He is enrolled in a new class with the city and it meets every Thursday from 9 to 10:30. He loves his classes. Everyday he asks if he can go to his class. Kylee loves spending personal time with mom too! He has learned to go to Sunbeams without crying or taking him blanket or truck. He also is starting to sing which is so cute to hear. He loves playing outside, which is so nice because it gives me some peace and quiet in the house. He loves riding his trike outside on the cement and on Saturday, Ryan fixed up this old bike with training wheels that a friend gave us a while ago. Drew will go outside now and ride that bike around the backyard for an hour straight. He loves his freedom! Oh, and he now has 6 stickers on his sticker chart for not peeing in his pull up at night. He has gone 3 nights in a row now. He gets ice cream with daddy tonight and is working toward a powered Thomas train once his sticker chart is filled up. Like I said, he is growing up way too fast!

Well, We had the Ultrasound and....

We will be having a boy or girl!! That means, we won't know what we are having till the baby is born! I am excited. Ryan on the other hand was hoping the doctor would slip up. He was watching very intently...but thank goodness the doctor didn't even go down in that area. He measured the head and femur bone and checked out all the major organs and abdomen and that was it. All looks great and the baby is measuring just a few days early. The doctor doesn't even know what I am having, so it will be a great surprise come August. So I am just about 21 weeks along and doing great. I am over my nauseousness and feel like I am always hungry. For the first 18 weeks I didn't want desserts or sweets but hamburgers and french fries. Now, I want the desserts and hamburgers and french fries here and there. I am so huge too, well people say I don't look big but man do I feel big. I told the nurse the other day that I feel fat and pregnant! I just hope I can loose all my baby weight once this baby is born. So I am over half way there and keeping my fingers crossed he or she decides to come a week early! I don't know how I will manage the hot July summer here in AZ. I died while pregnant with Kylee and she wasn't due till October. Drew is excited. I asked him if he wants a brother or sister and he said sister. I wasn't sure if he understood because he then tells me he wants one just like him. So I asked him if he wants a boy or girl and he said a boy. He hasn't changed his mind once. It is cute, he says he wants one just like Rydan, his neighbor friend, meaning a boy! Hopefully he won't be jealous with this one like he is and was with Kylee!

Disneyland, Finally!!!

Ok, I know I am a slacker. I have just been so busy lately. So a few weeks ago we took the kids to Disneyland. It was just a short trip there and back. Left Sunday, went to Disneyland on Monday, and came back Tuesday. And sorry for the lack of pictures. It is so hard to remember to take one till it is too late. And I thought Ryan took some, but just looked and he didn't. Oh well!


I was really worried about my kids and their attitudes and the sleeping arrangements, but it really was a good trip. Kylee struggled in the car on the way there but on the way back I think she was just so tired, she was Ok to just watch DVDs with Drew. We loved our hotel we stayed at. It literally was a 5 min. walk outside the hotel to the ticket counter at Disneyland. I really wanted to get a suite so our kids could go to bed earlier than us but it was too pricey so we stuck with the basic hotel room which worked out fine. Ryan and I just found ourselves going to bed earlier than normal and eating Cold Stone in the dark on the floor with the light of our cell phone guiding our spoons! Oh the memories we made.

If you click on the picture, you can see Drew and Ryan in the second seat from the front.

So Drew just loved going to "Mickey's house" as we called it but Kylee didn't have patience for it. I am glad I brought lots of snacks for her. I am also glad I brought just the single stroller because she didn't want anything to do with that stroller which worked out because Drew wanted to sit in it. I thought it would be the other way around. We got to ride all the rides we thought the kids would like, and the longest wait we had was 25 min. for Peter Pan. We usually only had to wait 5 to 10 min. It was the perfect day for the crowds and the weather. It was partly cloudy and 65 degrees and I would think anything higher than 70 would break the sweat! So Drew's favorite rides were Autopia, the Buzz Lightyear ride, and Gadget's Go Coaster. At the very beginning, Ryan went on Splash Mountain while we watched and Drew got so upset he couldn't go on it. He threw a tantrum when we left so we headed to the little kids roller coaster and Drew had such a blast. At the end of the day, we had 30 min. before the park was closing and Drew wanted to ride the roller coaster again. I felt bad I couldn't take him, so Ryan sacrificed his time away from Big Thunder Mountain to take Drew. It ended our Disneyland trip perfectly. Started with his favorite and ended with his favorite. He rode his 3 favorite rides each at least 4 or 5 times. It was nice having a hotel room across the street because Kylee was being uncooperative and would not take a nap in the stroller so we walked to the room and took a nap while Drew and Ryan rode more rides. We met up for dinner at McDonald's and had the energy to stay till the park closed, which was 9 PM AZ time. We then took the kids swimming in the heated pool to calm them down before bed. It was a fun day. The next day before heading home, we drove to Newport Beach and had fun building a sand castle and playing on the beach. It was so windy and a little cold, but now my kids can say they have been to the beach. Can't wait to go again, but who knows when that will be!

And the Guilty One is....

Drew! I know you all were dying to know who unrolled a whole roll of toilet paper. That little stinker. I knew it was Drew because it was unrolled in on continuous strand and was in a nice little pile. Kylee would have shredded it and carried bits and pieces of it through out the house. Also, the roll was completely bare of any toilet paper. Kylee would not be able to do that....again there would be bits of toilet paper on it still and on the ground. Anyways, my floor is finally toilet paper free and hopefully will stay that way for a while. Drew knows better and Kylee really doesn't have an itch to play with the roll. Well, we are anxiously waiting to head to California. Lately the kids have been in the sandbox no stop which is driving me crazy. I hate sand tracking through my whole house and then they are a mess. We finally made a rule of no sand till Daddy is home. That way it is the end of the day and baths can be taken shortly after. My kids will be in heaven when they see the beach. I can't wait!!

Who's the Guilty One??

Of course, Ryan was the one watching the kids while I was visiting my sister in the hospital when this happened. I came home to this:


I immediately start laughing because I thought we were over this stage, but apparently not. I asked Drew if he made the mess and he said no, it was Mia. I asked him 3 times later that night and the next day and his response was always the same. Kylee of course just stared at the mess if I asked if it was her...so who do you think made this mess? Drew, Kylee, or Mia! I knew right away from examining the mess.