Special Bath Tub Edition!!!

This is my son in the tub. This is my wonderfully smart and adorable son in the tub. Welcome back to his world.

"The splash is big!!! I will get out for a little while....I want this one and this one in.....back in de tub...de tub, tubby, tub, tub.....(splash)....hey, I will get more....I want more and more....(splashing sounds)....landing landing on the drain....whoa! 1, 2, 3.....1,2,3 ....that's enough....what's "law enforcement"?...1,2,3...none you business....I got water!...wow...hi little pig in the drain...I'm not in the drain, just in the cup....let me try something...let me try this again...everybody has to sit here in the cup that brings them to meeee!....everybody here? no, somebody is missing...this and we can't fit, we can't eat, we can't eat....hey!...what is your name again? Cuppy. What is your name? Buppy!...1,2,3...here is your pack, I got your pack....1,2,3....I can sink, I thought you could float, no I sink. Where are the king? We are all the kings, 1 King, 2 Kings, 3 Kings!....ha!!!.....Up and up....(splashes)...I need more more ahhhhore.....I say a body fall and a peach fall, when they fall....wheeee! we are not cold anymore, we are out! we are! hey king, no! No king you are in trouble. No I am not, I am just in the water....wow....down down down, up up up.....mommy power! what is that thing doing on your head? that is my friend! no! that is all of our friend.....whoa....I taked a long time.....we're going on a trippy trip trip....(now singing this) charlie power!!! I can draw anything, but I need some help from you....we are stuck on a truck....and I can't draw....I need some help....oh my oh my....I thinks.....my fear my ear is all gone, but somebody drawed it for me (Van Gough??) I needed it because it was mine....I will take care of this, where are you? Oh there you are boy....where is that?......I am happy and full of bath!....so much to do, my feet are both in here....up up, down down...and low low, yes yes, yes yes....."

bubbles: serious stuff

Many weeks have passed and sadly, the Baby Monitor was left quiet...monsters, hotels, several cave ins by mom, lead to a lull in this action....but it looks like we are back on track, at least for tonight ....enjoy it while we can....so here is the star of the show, talking while I eaves drop through the baby monitor




Baby Monitor Update:
" ahhhh!!!! (rustling noises)......where is baby? my baby?(he has a baby doll that he loves lately)....brrrrrrr, (raspberry noise) you like that? you can stand up!....blow on your tummy!...baby, baby....monster!!!!.....you want go in my shirt baby? are you big or little? you're too big baby....black birds? that is silly willy!....a black bird pecked off my nose? that is silly willy!....more more more!....elephant?? yeah! yeah!....it stopped raining in the song!....red red row duck!...dub dub dub (rub a dub dub is on his CD player, most references to songs and rhymes are because of this).....I can park in the grass....now I am inside.....(all kinds of noises, anything could be going on).....now what is this?.....miles away....miles....yay!! a paper!....jack and jill went up the hill....I like Jack....they are mean!....boys and girls....kiss girls!....spoon, lots of spoons...not spoon, moon....I will go check, be right back....(door opens, I go put him back to bed!)....mommy!!!....I don't need this one...I am going in there....owwee....(thumping, weird noises, pretty sure he just left to go to my bed)...I miss you mom!!!! (heard at the steps, ok, this is over)

The End

sleep over

Having his 7 year old cousin, Sloan over for the week, tonight is the first sleep over night!

Baby Monitor Update:

sloan" do you want to sleep on the top bunk or the bottom?
anthony, "play"
s, "no tonight when we sleep"
a, "nothing!"
s, "anthony! "
a, "ok, bottom!"
a, "push it baby!"

both sing the alphabet, someone is playing the mini piano

both, "boom diada boom diada!" (x12)
s, "hello! hi!"
a, "boom diada! I can talk to this?"
play phone rings
s, "I am talking to my friend sharon"
a, "oh hi!"
a, "the company store!"
a, "what are you talkin?"
s, "sharon"
a, "i have to talk to her"
s, "hi sherri! yes, sure, I can't figure him out"
a, sings ABC's , "that is how you do!"
s, "but of course"
a, "bye bye"

I blowed a tire!

transition from falling asleep with mom on vacation is harder than expected, not much happening in the baby monitor, so I went another direction today! enjoy


Monday Morning Playing with Trains in the Living Room Update:

"It is that way, I will turn right....I sleep good...good....whew, so hot!...we can go that way! ooooh yeah!...chooo chooo, the train is coming through...choo choo (guess what? he is playing with trains!)....choo choo go through, oh no, I blowed a tire!...everybody want go in it?? yeah!! I, I, I, I!!!....wheee oh!...I pick up this to that...please have a check up with him? uh huh! after I get him....I want gummy worms!....row row row your boat, gently down a stream, merry merry life is but a dream....I sing it....(now looking out the window)...there goes a Pontiac....max and ruby...I like that show..."

I'm on fire !

first Christmas, 2008

"I am going to stay up all night and wait for Santa to come!!" ... it's July 10th, It is going to be a long night...

Baby Monitor Update:

"husssshhhhh...oh baby, shhhhhh....I am not magic, I not....baby cryin'...I can't find him...there is the baby, there is the pet...I see a baby...wow....new no new now, I want a new mommy, I have a daddy....I'm on fire, I'm on fire (not going to check, I am 99% sure he is NOT on fire, but he gets extra credit for a new stall tactic).....(yawn)...baby baby ooooh, baby baby woooo! (return of Justin Bieber!).....I need help....this is a old old bed, don't need it....I am daddy mama, mama mia!....mama mia....where is mama mia? where is her friend?.....talk....mama talk....I don't have some bunny rabbits, we just have pigs (we do?)...piggy is a pig....baby!....baby I am your daddy, you want your mommy? your mommy is at work, I am a daddy (he found a baby doll right before bed)...baby awe....awesome.....pillow pet, it's a pet, it's a pillow pet!, it's a pillow it's a pet, it not a pet, it's a racecar, zooooom! zooom it!!!....I don't live in a zoo anymore, how come? it's for animals...."

Return from Vegas!

*No actual monitor update tonight, but I wanted my followers to know we are alive and well! just transitioning back from vacation so bed time was a little rough, and not publish-able!

Quote of the day, " I am seriously not big"

the great escape

Tonight, he found his halloween costume in the drawer and had to wear it to bed on top of 5 pajama pants and 4 pajama shirts. While brushing his teeth, and admiring his antenna in the mirror, "My friends are bees"

Baby Monitor Update:
"Rock a bye baby.... I got a brother, my brother is Parker John maybe, PJ...this is made out of pipes (clunk, clunk on his bed)....pipes....red pipe...spider....this tickles!....(noise of door opening) keep my door closed... (tried to sneak out of his room!)......(he did it! he ran out of his room and up the stairs as fast as his legs could take him! He was directed back to bed by mean old mommy, back to the update)....top, bottom, middle...do another one, another one another one! do another one!....I like Veggy tales, I know it, I know it....broccoli, jelly....sesame street, that is sesame street....is my door right there? yes, my door is right there, my door sounds like vooom...no, no, no (trying to talk himself out of leaving the room!)....(thump)....not that one, not that one...it doesn't hurt, let's make you a seat belt...which one?...where is my baby? (again, a reference to a baby, I would love to be a grandma before I am 40!).....lets turn um on, they are on up in the hot tub, that one is off (hot tub?)....I'm a baby!....blue blue blue...blue....(yawn)...that feels good...color is that? yellow, no, clear....a forest, maybe a roof!....just a little little little...I am a bumble bee they go buzzzzz buuuuuzzzz, I can't go buzz.....(you just did)....yellow, green....OK"

I don't like blue

exactly 3 years ago, we have both changed a lot!

Baby Monitor Update:
"the end....I need help going to sleep....it's not night, it's morning, sun is not going down! (lets track him going through the stages of grief and loss, currently, denial)....I dont! I need to be 2 again, I three, not little!!! (a bit of anger, stage 2).... daddy, daddy? (bargaining).......I need another blankie, I need it (he now has FOUR blue blankies, FOUR)......I need lots of books!...I don't need this...me, I need to fall off of this bed (stage 4, depression).....I am sad, no I am tired (stage 5, acceptance)....what color is my bed? I don't like blue....God, the Bible (he is listening to Veggie Tales Lullabies)....who's up in heaven?...

I not a bear

It was birthday party day! Thanks Miss Tish for a beautiful photo! Here are my son's reflections on his special day, as he is falling asleep...

Baby Monitor Update:
"....?........

(whoa, the monitor was disconnected, I do believe he has escaped his room, smart child, cut off the spy monitor before making your break...I should go check....yes, just as I suspected, he was making his way into my bed! stinker!)

"Anywhere...mommy?....(thumping noise)....I need a get up here, wheeeee (remember he has a slide on his bed!)...oh blue blankie, yummy!...(yawn)...all tangled up!...silly silly silly!....that make me laugh!...ooo, what's that song? I don't know....oh baby baby....sleep....hahah....I like Caillou...happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you....happy birthday dear anthony, happy birthday to you!....yay!!! (clapping)....mmmm, mommy make yummy stuff, too...I'm getting married, I AM!....(news to me, I didn't even know he was dating anyone)...I not a bear, I a boy, I a kid, a kid....(I have to remind myself that, too as I am falling asleep).....I can't find mommy anywhere....That's a veggie tales song!...."



we recently had some really rough nights so Nana suggested we use some music to help him sleep and it has really helped the transition! Thanks Nana, and Veggie Tale's Lullabies!

I want water!

two years ago, fist birthday party in Maine!

BABY MONITOR UPDATE:
"I gonna have another birthday!.....happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear anthony, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me!!!....that was not my monkey that was Kaden's monkey and fish....(Kaden is a friend at school, first friend to make the blog!).....mommy is drivin' his black car....I want go bowling now!!! I want to go to the bowling alley....no, it's not a bowling alley...I want gummy worms, not in the cabinet! ahhhhh!!!!....shhhhhh, shhhhhh.....mommy I want water!....(classic ploy at delaying bed time!)...cold cold cold, I am getting warm warm warm...wrap up!.....mommy, it not nap time, I want a knee bump and a goose bump...my mom too big for this one, her bump her head for this one (what is he planning?)....this one will .....jumping jacks, I have jumping jacks on my birthday....rug rag, that is my name, rug rag....(a loud car goes by) oh that my friend's car, yep....(he has friends that drive?).....monkey, bear, somebody's turn....(yawn)...I like black and green and orange and red and blue that makes orange!!..."

Oh Blizzard

We had quite the day, our friends Lynn and Ray stopped by on their way from Colorado to Oregon and their dog, Blizzard, ran away while staying in our yard. Anthony was quite taken by her, he told us at dinner she was probably at the park playing with her dog friends, going down the slide and riding a bike. So if anyone sees a dog on a bike, please tell her to ride it on back to our house. At this time we have reason to believe she was caught by animal control and is spending the night in doggy jail.


Baby Monitor Update:
"I want to hide...where my mama's room?...Blossom (grandma's dog) went to heaven, Blizzard ran down the alley and run down the street, and in the park and in the pasture....ahhhh...Caillou!.....crow crow crow....(yawn)...(cough)....I have a owie, what happen to my bandaid?....it takes for a few days, my owie's taken for a few days, today is a eye drop day (yep, it was)...Blossom, you here Blossom? (channeling dogs from the other side now) ....I can't hear Blossom.....I want my hand soap!....there is something on my bandaid.....for kicks, mix in a paint (huh?)....KK spells KK.....Oh Blizzard.....I scary!....12, 14, 18, 19, 20!!!...it's fall...Blossom, I have her....(he might have a Ouija board in there)...(yawn)...(he sings a little ditty here that I can't figure out how to spell, but trust me, its the cutest thing you ever have heard!)....I go to school...I go to school...."

PBS kids dot org

Anthony and grandma Jackie, who made the Thomas quilt in the story below...
late summer '10

Conversation earlier today, as we were changing the sheets on his bed...
"Mommy, what is that?"
"It is a bed spread"
"What is a bed spread?"
"This, this is a bed spread."
"what is this?"
"A quilt."
"What is a quilt?"
And the mommy went insane and ate 6 peanut butter cookies in one sitting, the end...


Over heard at bed time on the baby monitor....

"Mommy, I need a towel, no, right here.....red car, on my knee...PBS kids dot org....PBS kids dot Org, PBS kids dot you, no it says PBS kids dot org....not you....oh? it doesn't have music?....radiator, that in dad's car, went to work!...went to work....my turn...a clue a clue!! what? a clue, oh a clue, oh it's blue's paw print on it...a clue!...blue's clues....another blue's clues day...oh I love him, I am Anthony, I am sleeping (no you are not)....just sit...good....ready set go....this is a bribbrey, that is a brrrooobry....I like brawbree best....(too much dr. seuss again)....celebrate celebrate, celebrate!...that one? that one? nope, that one! NO!....that one is a mouse...shhhhhh....I have a mouse....I have blue blankies....it's my book....caillou, caillou, that's me!...."

tommy zommy!

one year and 2 days ago, playin in the sand, which is what we were doing a few hours ago, too!

Here is what my little almost 3 year old had to say as he was falling asleep tonight...enjoy

BABY MONITOR UPDATE: 9:15PM

"Celebrate celebrate!....oh thank you, you welcome....owie, coming through, all these books...(he was grounded from books for a few nights, he tore chicken licken, even though I hated that book, we had to have a consequence)....I am here! hold still....this is a wheel....my name is Sid, I like to turn the wheels...oooh, I am gonna be dressed up, Jason, Jeffery (x5)....bouncing....ahhh!!! an eye ball!!! AHHHH!....what's a pontiac? daddy drive it...I can wear this one (he may be in his clothes drawer)....(huffing and puffing noises).....hmmmm....mommy, daddy, anthony, daddy, mommy...gooo to sleep mommy, mommy....vrooom, vrooom....ahhhh! an eyeball....tia and mia, that rhymes!....goodnight, goodnight (singing it)...good morning, good night....mommy!!!!!.....my name is tigger, I like to sleep...my name is tootah, I like to sit up and look at things....my name is tata, I am not tata, I do not like him at all....I am tommy, tommy zommy!....mommy, what happen to my radio (he never had one as far as I know)....mommy shhhhhh.....pa, pa! I am a brother, I mad!.....that's a planetarium...mommy, what happen to my video? My video is gone, I didn't hear it....I like blue blankie....I got my flashlight!....this is my flashlight...."

transmitter, that from my brain

"look mom, I made sticky shoes!" the faces have been cropped to protect the innocent

BABY MONITOR UPDATE: "I am big enough to brush my teeth, get a snack, a bear, a frog....(he is reading a baby muppets book)....are you my mother? a dog, I want my mother, baby bird, that this way, you know!....you tape it! you tape it! (found a rip in the book)....you tape it!!!........ooooh that's one of my favorites!....brown, toy, teddy bear, rocking horse!....a boy in a bathtub (he is looking at one of his scrapbooks)...me watching tv, I am a boy! ...I'm not a baby boy, I am still a big boy!....that's one, that not one....(loud thumps)...wow!!! We got another book...the brain...(here we go, the body book)...transmitter, that from my brain....this a big one...that a brain, brain cells...that's a face bone, what he have here guys? that a brain? no....brain stem, cerebellum, cerebrum, what's next?...uh oh!...happening? scary!....don't know...I like this guy..."

mommy, a bear comin'!

Exactly 2 years ago...getting into the fridge before he could walk...why didn't anyone warn me they could be so much trouble before they could even walk!?

"I like eyeballs...you can fly!....you can take off....really....high and low!....highway and go...whoa....
(coughing, poor guy)...hold on, wocket in my pocket, I never seen it....hey! It's monsters! MOMMY!! (he is convinced there are monsters in his room)....kind of, I don't like paper! I don't like...bah bah I'm thirsty...mooo haha!!!...mommy, get me....suns up?...(nice try)....get me mommy....mommy (x 100).....I am sick....(coughing)...no, its from smoke...smoke, it's smoke (OK I have to go check...there is no smoke in his bedroom)....mommy get me!...mommy, rock a bye....you get here, oh look, my sock!....this is made out of wood, parks...that's a mommy, that's a mommy, to bed, her OWN bed!....(freud would like this one)....mommy?.....boy? where are you?....I can't find mommy....oh boy...mommy, a bear comin'! (nice try)....we are ready...baby in a wash, not wash!....don't eat you dad!...you don't eat tape, nuh uh, we eat food, mooooo.....away we go...."

I love my bald head (and giveaway)

who can catch the yo gabba gabba reference? I have a special giveaway* for EVERY person who gets it right and leaves a comment....

Baby Monitor Update,
"that's so funny about my bald head, my cool trick is my bald head, I am sleepin on my cool trick...my address is 7 S. 3rd street....hmm...what is south 3rd street?...it is the south...south!....east, go!.....why....oh Tanya!...7 South 3rd street....OK little boy...(coughing, my poor still sick boy)...so I am coughing....I need the trash mommy!....(coughing)....my blanket and somethin else...here we go...(bean bag noise, yes he now has a bean bag on his bed, along with a trashcan, 4 pillow pets, one pillow, 2 blue blankies, 5 or 6 books and mickey mouse slippers, just the necessities).....look at me!....oh my bald head...(see yesterday's blog for bald head photo)...I love my bald head....(coughing)....that was crazy!....hmmm....


*special giveaway value will not exceed $1 including shipping, I am not Oprah

trashcan?

Lots of coughing tonight, I won't note every time that happens....

baby monitor update:
"oh, my name is off....where is the trashcan? I am gonna be throwing up (he won't he is just paranoid he will and now sleeps with the puke-trash can).....(sneeze) wow....( silence)....."


poor boy is so tired, recovering from a cough, double ear infection and pink eye!

wing a wosie

wish we could have gone outside today, the wonderful winter storm in spring trapped us inside, this was in Denver, TWO months ago, he said he was "schwoooping on the hill"

Baby Monitor Update:
"cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem....what's in your face? hmmmm...(pages turning)...down down down...careful careful....red red red...they are tunnels, they ARE tunnels!...in a tummy, tum tum tummy, oh tummy....no time, I don't like the body book (then why do we read it 5 times a day!)...the body book is so scared....one, two, stars, water, water....all done!....hmmmmm....wing a wosie, pocket for a posie, racket racket we all fall down!....lets go...whiney whiney....I have a back yard, I do I do, a back yard! a back yard!!!.....cool tricks, cool tricks cool tricks! my cool tricks are sleepin'...I am leavin'...night cool tricks, not scary....wow.....little tiny tiny toys...baby baby..."

cerebellum, hey grump!

Some kids like dinosaurs, this kid likes the human body....remember he won't even be 3 until June, he is a genius!

"(sneezes).....(yelling) BLESS YOU COME FROM? HEY! MOM! COME BACK!......blue blankie...(noise of his play stethoscope)....dooo dooo doo dooo....the heart...blood cells, they are like donuts....shaped like circles donuts are circles... mac is a mac, mac mac....sing jumping....weeebo weebo.....( I like the technical stuff followed by the jibberish, reminds you he IS 2).....(fake cough)....hmmmmmm.....cerebellum, hey grump!...big Z, looks like a big Z.....what's in my food? Cerebellum....go....is that a baby? no....(yawn)...."