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)...."

right in the tummy

Tonight, a cameo by none other than Tigger!

Baby Monitor Update, "Bear! B for Bear!....kitty, bounce, they don't go on jump o jeans (trampolines, no kitties do not go on trampolines)....rawr!!...oh that is a good page....piglet....Kanga...I think ....I need this one....bouncy, bouncy....Want to play? No!...I gonna put these up...roo, right in the tummy ...what is it? it a bouncy thing....that not a good idea, that make a mad rabbit....I can't fall asleep....get upside, upside down....number 3, you like him?....(yawn)...I grow up, I like a sandbox...that an eyeball, razzle dazzle! people go to school....bone marrow!!!!"

snowflake in my retina

January, 2009, just a few hours after his cataract surgery, as happy as can be....

On the way to the car, in a famous Spring mini-blizzard a little voice rings out,
"Mommy!!! A snowflake got in my retina"

BABY MONITOR UPDATE (The actual alone time talk of my kid)
"these are your ribs, muscles muscles....tendons...Caillou! Caillou! you are welcome Caillou!....you are welcome...God bless you!...muscles! oh boy....I will get you outta there, bottom bottom what you do bottom, what you do want? what do you want? mommy daddy, mommy, daddy, sing un....carrots! carrots!...I get big every day!...it pop, you know that?....yo gabba gabba yo yo yo yo yo gabba gabba....yo yo...hi I am Anthony, my teacher is Miss Katie, Miss Katie (x 20)....Miss Katie? What Miss Katie?....(now singing) Miss Katie! she's takin' a shower, shower shower all day long...daddy's at work...hey, stop....what's goin on? Magic (our dog) is in the shower, mouse stop!...zoom! air goes in trachea into lungs...and a cornea....they don't talk, they don't....no eye drops!!....yellow yellow, orange orange....Anthony, a big boy...quesadilla diarrhea, poop blue?....treach-adilla....blood cells....billy's daddy, billy is a daddy...retinas! retina! orange orange...red and green and they green....they pink and (yawn)...(whispering something, it sounds sinister)....hmmmm show and tell.....mommy....."


sleep


Again, obsessed with the body book. Some kids like dinosaurs, he likes body parts.

the body book

after many many questions of "what's in my body?" and "what's in my bones" etc etc we found a body book for him, this photo is not it, I cannot find a photo of it, so this will have to do, it is pop up and its very above what should be his comprehension level, but I do have a genius child so....


Baby Monitor Update, "Blue Blood, Arteries, hmmmm, this is?....we don't fix it (a pop up page ripped)...bones!!! bones bones bones!....bones!....and that is your stomach, that is your head, that is your brain, too....(pages turning)....wow! wow wow!...yucky,blue blankie, yucky...pbs kids dot org (been saying this all night, he could do their promo for it!)....show and tell...subaru! (yawn)....eye drum? NO! Ear drum, a mouth doctor, a finger doctor, a fuzz doctor a hockey doctor! Caillou!.....it's nap time...not wake up time....lay down!....blue blankie...my book? yes, wait!....big cat....chew chew chew....I get an egg!...I am a him, no I not a him...they got yellow, yell yell, white white white, yellow!....green....Magic's walkin' around (no, it's mommy walking around making sure the drunks out on the sidewalk keep on movin').....I'm sorry, I'm sorry...(yawn)...."

happy easter!

Easter 2010, mom's camera was lost for egg dying this year, good one mom...

"Happy Easter! Happy Day....knick knacky paddy wack, give a dog a bone, this old man came rolling hooooome....this old man came, inside one?....played my knee, those much of books...blue berries! give me that no....this flowers....how about orange? a cup, green up, a shape....came rolling home, red! red!...b-b-blue!.....see colors, see red, blue, blue, oh blue....hi monkey bar dress...all done...nine, no no no.....(sneeze)...toyota! toyota! toyota! (results of the brainwashing by his grandfather this weekend)....subaru, pontiac, subaru, pontiac...toyota....toyota....oh yes!...it does, she don't...I happiest, do...do it right now...right now....we going to Vegas! (yes we are in 2 months!)...it's beautiful night....dog eat flowers..."


To demonstrate his strength and intimidate the cousins in the egg hunt, he took a boiled egg he found and squeezed it until it broke! With his bare hand! So much of an egg hunt is psychological warfare and once you figure that out, you get all the eggs...

where's my stick?

I hear I have some new readers who have no idea what is going on here. Welcome! This is my son, Anthony, who is 34 months old (almost 3). After we brush teeth, read 3 books, sing 2 songs and say prayers and give kisses and hugs, I close his door and this is what I hear on the baby monitor. We have found it very entertaining, so I thought I should share...



Baby Monitor Update:
"Paddy wack! That my belly, my button....toys....shoop!...dumpyt humpty...(fake crying) rock, rock a rocka....cat in a cat...cat in a ummm? hhhhhhhat....cat in a hat is a cat maybe?...(thumping noise) bye book....dog dog wog, I anthony, it's anthony, I not a baby, it's a boy! it's a boy!...this is my butt, and it is pip, too....where's my stick? I want my stick!...upstairs!...a tomp a whompa (your guess is as good as mine, he asked to wear wompty tompty pajamas today, thanks again Dr. Seuss)...lemonaid, what is in lemonaid? It is yellow.....my hair is orange...poooop.....quesadilla, quesadilla, taco bell! quesadilla, dilla! I am owie....diarrhea, quesadilla, diarrhea, quesadilla, diarrhea, quesadilla (he can rhyme!)....pottery...in the backyard, making pottery (from the episode of Caillou we watched today)...diarrhea, quesadilla, diarrhea, quesadilla....bommy wommy...I have to be a big boy and not sleep anymore....it's a little bit wet....I need medicine, I want mommy (So here is where I go down and give him some pepto, blog over)"

He has had diarrhea, but no quesadillas lately....

焼きそば

焼きそば
this dish is featured in tonight's update...

Baby Monitor Update:
"broccoli, Celery! nuts!...better, that's better...anthony, boy...pretty cookies, yeah...I wanna get books, daddy have eye drops for home..... at mommy's book club....I love her...oh my santa....I can't see! I can't see with my eyes closed, keep eyes open, no eyes closed, I get in trunk, where is my goat please?...hmmmm...mommy, anthony, anthony, hop on pop peanut butter, top bottom, top not bottom, sun's down (he is not taking a breath, it's a constant stream) the sun down mommy, go home mr. golden sun (singing), flap flap flap...my duckling book,my belly, what's my belly? white belly, library, library, oh shrimp...wyoming, what wyoming?....why weeee?....ice cream (x12)...daddy at work...that's mommy....sorry....ahhhh! weeeeee! ahhhhh! A- ahhhhh! yummy, yakisoba, yakisoba, yakisoba!!!! yakisoba is yummy, me eat yakisoba, it's yummy-soba, its good, I like it, I like to eat yakisoba....rocky baby, humpty dumpty sit on a wall, the cradle will fall, little wee, want cookie? baby waby, wobby tobbly....don't play with my food, eat my food and don't taste that, it's chicken...."



what is yakisoba? When daddy was in Japan he enjoyed Yakisoba and has been searching for it for years. My friend Tish told me the H Mart in Denver sold some so for spring break we found some. We all love it at our house....

Yakisoba (焼きそば^?), literally "fried noodles", is a dish often sold at festivals in Japan, but originates in China. The dish was derived by the Chinese from the traditional chow mein, but has been more heavily integrated into Japanese cuisine like ramen. Even though soba (noodles made from buckwheat) is part of the word, yakisoba noodles are not made from buckwheat, but are similar to ramen noodles and made from wheat flour.

a green witch

Lately he has taken to sleeping with the lights on. He tells us he is "scary lights off".... But in this outfit: dunderware, snow boots, a helmet and armed with 2 tennis balls in a sock, I do not know how a monster would not be afraid of him!


Baby Monitor Update:
"Mean witch, it's a mean witch (referring to mommy's wizard of Oz watch that she forgot he is wearing!)....2 witch, green witch stop it!...it's a yummy flowers, eeeewww yuck! (Don't want to know)...dont go down here, dont go down here, go up up up!...wha wha ah wah!! (yawn)...I am sleepy....not a green witch, I not a green witch....12, 9, 12, 3 (watch).....I not sad, I happy! My body, in my body bones....in my body are bones, in my body bones....that's a witch, that is a green witch...that's a big camera, don't open it, what's down there?...that is a wocket....not my tummy....let's go to Denver....."....asleep

Elphaba Lives

Ahoy! Return of the Baby Monitor Update!

On one of our trips, kid was known as "Captain Kid" as he sailed the two of us off on a scary pirate ship which after our joy ride we hid in a secret location somewhere in a harbor in Colorado.

Baby Monitor Update, "It turned off....a owl!....gee gooo gack! (too much Dr. Seuss Lately)....cup on pup, its not a cup its a bowl, not a bowl its a cup, no its a bowl....not a cup.....I say cap a wap!....(silence)...I like these blankies....oh that is yummy...Shoe Shee go? On my back! It's Shoe Shee!! ( Shoe Shee is a stuffed elephant he got while he was in the hospital from Jen and Kara)....oh makin' better!....rain!....ooooh up table!!! match it!....oh no monkey, want a go? ouch....I want to eat it?....Want my oatmeal, want my oatmeal...gooo geee gack!.....(fake snoring)....spiderman! oooooh.....8! yay! you did it!!....silver, that is silver...grandma and grandpa, come to my blue house.....go grandma's house not Wyoming....Wyoming....H.....ahhhhhh!......(more rhyme-y jibberish, thanks again Doc Seuss)....what? a car? I want yellow car for a boy....you are a girl, I a boy....get out of here, get in here....Dumpty Humpty on a wall, what a boy name?....daddy?....play up here....hop hop hop mommy....shhhhhh....Z, Y.......rain rain rain all day, rain go away rain go away (x50)........"


After random vacations, trips to the hospital, illness and other random excuses, the baby monitor has returned! sorry about the break, I know there are at least 2 faithful readers out there, not counting myself....And this could be titled, "How Dr. Seuss Ruined my Son's Speech"...you decide....

what is he reading? Hop On Pop

(almost) RETURN OF THE UPDATE!

I will be at the beach next week, no baby monitor updates then! sorry

Baby Monitor Update:
"I love blue blanket....I want my blue blankie, it's back here, ohhh, lets get books, Chicken Licken!....oh I want him now...oh have a good day?...oh no...lets go library, library (x40)....whoa!...(silence)...oh mommy....I will wash it, wash it at home..."


he is asleep, seriously, why didn't he do this when I wanted him to sleep? Now that I want him to stay awake and chat he is done? seriously? well, guess I can go read now :)

first day of preschool baby monitor update

Kid had his first day of preschool today, let's see what he thought of it...



Baby Monitor Update, " hug....birthday birthday....whewwww, I love a dog....(silence)....(more silence)....(this blog is slowly fading out, somebody suggested Mt. Dew, I am considering it)....(more silence)...."


the end

several moments of silence

surfing, 2008

kid requested bed time at 7:30! we managed to hold off until 8:30...This has never happened before...

Baby Monitor Update:
"...(yawn)...where's my cheese?...( several moments of silence)...big dog...oh blue blankie.......(several more moments of silence)..."

I guess he was tired, this is amazing, I am hoping it does not start a trend of falling asleep fast, if so, we may have to find something new to blog about....

Guest Blogger: Grandma!

(No images available at this time, Grandma doesn't know how to get photos on here)


Adventure at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Grandma - substitute baby monitor. March 11

9:30 - 9:50 "I want to home. I want go home."
"I want Mommy. Louder...I WANT MOMMY!!"
"Iwant sleep. I want sleep."
"I want go home. I want go home."
"Sun comin' up. I want go home."
"I want it. I don't want it."
"I want go home."
"I want...I want...I want go home."
"I want Daddy, I want Mommy."
(Grandma feels like a really BAD Grandma about now...)
(A little bit of crying.) "OK, done cryin'"
"Go home. I want go home."
(Silence) 5 minutes. 10 minutes. 15 minutes. 20 minutes. Whew, Asleep at last!!!
He was joined in bed with Blue Blanket, Clementine pillow pet, Alex pillow pet and the Wocket.

Back up at 7:15 a.m. "Sun comin' up!!"

I'm funny!

reading daddy's book, in nana's bed with mommy's sun glasses on

Baby Monitor Update:
"I WANT BLUE BLANKIE!!! OH NO!!! (blood curdling scream, mommy runs down stairs, turns the light on and says, "look blue blankie is here, under your pillow pets." "oh" giggles, mommy leaves and says goodnight)....oh good day, anthony cryin mommy (real tears, too)......what's that? a mommy, what's that? a anthony, what's that? a daddy! what's that? a nana!....I'm anthony...have good day, goodnight daddy at work (he is actually at hockey)...I'm a little teapot (x4) ....I'm funny!...(fake snoring)....(several moments of silence, he may have fake snored himself to sleep)!...oh geeze, poor kitty....keep this one for mommy, mom loves books, oh cover up...keep books out...haha!...like popcorn...grrrroooooowwwwlllll....bite! (reading the book, Tails are not for Pulling)...tails not for pulling (yes, I just said that)....tails are not for pulling, not for kicking feet (confusing it with a book in the same series, Feet are Not for Kicking)....kicking!....hands off!, roooowww! bite!....hands off!!....red fish, silver fish (reading one fish two fish red fish blue fish by Dr Seuss)...a woman, not a woman a tail....(what?)....oh want my blue blankie, I want nana (nana left for Georgia yesterday)...nana nana...bless you kitty...goodnight...I want go home (he is home)...go home...."

Exclusive Interview with Blue Blankie
"Yes, I was hiding under the pillow pets. It started out as a joke, but I took it to far. I admit that, OK. What more do you want from me....Yes, I have regrets in life, don't all blankies? Now let it rest."
Our sources tell us they observed first hand blue blankie taking in excessive amounts of purple kool-aide and m&m's earlier in the day which, as we all know, can often lead to hiding under pillow pets and other various stuffed items.

pudding, I want it

daddy playin hockey

at the ice rink, all patched up

The above photos are completely unrelated to this blog and it's comments other than kid and daddy are in them and they are cute...



Baby Monitor Update:
"don't walk around....my bandage? my bandage go? (He stole the bandage off my finger because he said he needed it more)....oh pretty! (his star projector)...oh honey, wocket....oh hooo, oh hooo, sad (fake crying)....oh such good day...I love jesus...I sorry....I want my red car bed (talking about his inflatable mattress/ sleeping bag that is upstairs because he apparently needs 3 beds in his room)....mommy a boy? no, mommy a gwiwl (girl)... I want, I really want watch end of that movie, I want to sleep! ...oh Clementine, oh pillow...stay in bed my pillows, too, I steppin on um...(grunting)...sorry I step on pillows, oh kiss this one, and this one...I a big boy, a dog, I
Pluto.....love, love.....baby, love pudding, pudding I want it...covers...a big boy, I'm a boy....( we have daily gender discussions, he is convinced we are all boys)...."

THE (new weekly) TOILET UPDATE:
Kid showed us his new trick of changing his own diaper. I think if he can do that he should be able to use the potty, right? come on...

oooh oooh ahh ahhh

this is quite possibly the most annoying book ever, notice the button on the right hand corner, yeah, it "chatters", it "chatters" all night long...

Baby Monitor Update:
"OOOOOH OOOOH OOOH AHHH AHHH (x 4,765, the most annoying book ever, see photo above and its in bed with him!!!!!)......want take monkey book upstairs, go sleep nana!...I need my ballooooon! (no, balloon is a choking hazard, I am a mean mom)...oh I sad, bunny, oh bunny, don't look....I want go upstairs! (his bedroom is in the basement, see how mean I continue to be)...those books...OOOOOH OOOOH OOOH AHHH AHHH (the book AGAIN!)...ooh oooh ah (his imitation x5)....monkey oooh oooh ahh ahhh (book noise again and again).....(and again, please for the love of Dr. Seuss, stop that book!!!)....go mommy's office, play Annie, please...sun's comin up sun's comin up!....Cat in a hat...play mashed twainos...sun's comin up and up and up!...go upstairs...have good day...want the monkey book!"



Message to all well meaning gift givers, never give the above book, never. He insists on keeping it in bed, he will roll over onto it at least 4 times during the night, but tonight I have devised a plan, go in and take the book away before I go to bed, after he falls asleep...why did it take me a year to figure this one out?

March 2009, trying on daddy's shoes, wearing his eye patch like a good boy, at age 11 months he figured out he can remove the patch, and the glasses and now asserts his independence and the glasses and patch are quite a fight...

Big Jesus

kid, "OH NO OH NO!!! Mommy help!"
he runs into mommy's arms, "what is the matter?"
kid, "See big scary monster!"
mom, "what did the monster look like?"
kid, "like Big Jesus."
I guess no more church for us!

Baptism Day, August 2008, John and Jessica Willford, God Parents, mommy and daddy about 100+ pounds ago, and looming in the background, eerily over mommy's head: BIG JESUS

Baby Monitor Update:
"where my Tee-go?...(pages in book turning no other sound for 5 mintues)....money! money! dollars! 8, 8, 8, (reading the price tag on the back of one of his books)....buddy buddy pop pop...I need it, where my red book?...I want go upstairs...Duck feet, I get duck feet...I can't, I can't....I can't do it (I don't want to know)...what's that? yellow! orange, red...I want a home(I assure you, he has a home)....red room back, go under table...sad, happ-eeeee!, joyful, brave! brave!...brave boy...Tony (still obsessed with the What do you do with a grumpy Kangaroo book).....two chicka chicka boom booms (yes, we have 2 of those books, both are in bed with him!)...look at all those books...(yawn)...say goodbye....red car zip jammies..."


Somehow there are now 2 Blue blankies in bed. Which goes to show I have no idea what goes on here when I am at work. Complete and udder chaos is my guess.

jump kangaroom

This is our day at the beach in Wyoming...

Sunday Nap-time Edition

Baby Monitor Update:
"Look at this one!....jump kangaroom...Wheeeeee!....oh sad, angryyyyy, sleepy, scared!...let's dance...bad! let's slide!!! (there is a slide in the story, I don't think he is using his bed slide!)....bike...that way, go slow...mommy's a kangabroom, Anthony is Tony (the kid in the book), Kangabroom, Tony, that's Tony, Kangabroom, Happy, mad, silly.......that like Tony, good!...careful...Q, R, Anthony....Goin' shoppin tiger...mommy, daddy, kangaroom, wheel...kangroom, anthony's tony...anthony's tony....tony...daddy's big....red car zoooom away! read my books (panting noises)......David getting in trouble, jump rope....hi and bye, hi and bye....get in trouble...."

still awake, hope he takes a nap today, its the only way I stay sane on the weekends....

what is he reading?
What do you do with a grumpy Kangaroo?

and David Gets in Trouble, by David Shannon

everybody gymnastics

at the dinner table,
kid, "Mommy, 4 dollars please." and holds out his hand.
mom, "you want 4 dollars?"
kid, "no, want 5 dollars."
mom, "what do you want 5 dollars for?"
kid, "buy a tent."

the tent he had before he tore it apart, he looks really happy in it I can see why he wants another one

Baby Monitor Update:
"Kangaroom down the slide!...a bike!..play jump rope....grumpy kangaroom, still grumpy....love him...that jump o jean...want a turn a page...nope....baloooooon....want a play a park, slide!...what doin' everybody?...llama llama red ajama, A, pip!...yellow...P....big one...red...love it...what?....up!...M...(yawn)...(several minutes of quiet)...2...everybody gymnastics (it was his first day of gymnastics, he loved it!)...(yawn)....(more quiet)....oh blue blankie...."


Recently been overwhelmed with all the questions about the blog pouring in. Well if you folks didn't know it I have 2 jobs and a 2 year old son. I have no time for your questions. But I know how people like to be heard so here is a list of FAQs that I might get to sometime...but most likely won't

FAQs
What kind of toothpaste do you use?
What is the most important part of your bedtime routine?
What brand of hot cocoa do you use?
What do you feed this kid?
Has he been exposed to lead paint?
Please tell us the history and development of the Pillow Pet Product? (how would I know, come on people)
How long will you keep this blog going? Actually, this one I will answer, hopefully he continues to talk himself to sleep well into his adulthood, wouldn't that be fun!?

dunder the bed

while playing with legos after supper....
kid, " Anthony not scared anymore, sleepin' top my new bed! No more sleep dunder the bed"


Baby Monitor Update from the Top Bunk:
"Oh get my pillow down here, Pillow Pet ....(crying, so mommy went down stairs, helped him move all the friends, blankies and pillows to "dunder" the bed, onto his old mattress underneath the loft bed)...oh no, where my wocket?...two pillows, where did my green pillow go? oh my green pillow gone (yeah, it's now in a winnie the pooh pillow case!)...sleep, oh no!...big, I am big...I love you...gone? mommy gone?...Clementine, I love you...(the problem with sleeping "dunder" the bed is that when the space heater comes on I can hardly hear kid, I believe he is using this time to plan the uprising with the friends and blankie)....(heater off)...get in bed, too!...My books get my bed...oh pillow pet..."




Anthony and Nana, August 2008. Nana was looking at new hairstyles and I told her I like this one! Currently she is in her room watching QVC, and act quickly because there is only 25 minutes left.

Good Morning Laramie!

Yesterday, this bed was installed in kid's room. He did not play on it while going to sleep, which surprised all of us. He did wake up cold in the night, and instead of falling back asleep got very excited at seeing the new bed. He could not fall back asleep for a while...then woke up again because he had a dream about falling into a mud puddle. After a rough night, he is sleeping in, here are his thoughts first thing in the morning...


Good Morning Baby Monitor Update:
"sun comin' up...ohhh...(yawn)...my bed!...oh no...dunder the covers, baby...ready set...pillow pet's gone?..."

Bath Time Edition

In the bath tub in Destin Florida, 2009

Special Edition of the Baby Monitor takes place in the bathtub tonight, I was in the bathroom with him the entire time and he was having about as much fun as a kid can have in the tub with mom watching....


Bath Tub Monitor:
" Sheep magnet! whoa!...(puts suction cup net that holds the toys on to the tub) ...ahhhh...(pulls the suction cups off, does this lots and lots of times)...mommy look at that!...oh no! hey! turn water on (mommy says, "no, you have enough water, I know you want more, but you need to keep it off")....sad sad sad, want more water mommy....(mommy says, so very empathetically, "I can see you are sad but no more water.") ...I see you be mad at me, I turn the water on...(turns water on)....(mom turns water off)...My hippo! look, my hippo!...(drinks a big glub of water, swishes water in his mouth, picks up the small mirror to watch himself spit x4)...mommy, take you jammies off play in my tub, go swimmin, where my foot go? Oh there it is!...( I am so glad that even in the middle of a conversation I am pretty sure where my feet are)...Hey! I made it mommy! look at chicken cups! (he points to the SUCTION cups on the net)... chicken cups! I love it!...my poop sleepin' mommy....hey, chicken cups! on my feet, climb a wall...(tries to attach SUCTION cups to his feet)...mommy, want a wear those chicken cups in a bath tub?...mommy come my bathtub! ...(drinks water again)..."

Continued to play in the tub, it came time to get out, here is how that went down....
Mommy, "time to get out in 10 seconds"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "10"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "9"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "8"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "7"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "6"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "5"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "4"
kid, "no."
mommy, "3"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "2"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "1"
kid, "no."
Mommy, "0, time to get out!"
kid, "no, no,no,no,no,no!!!!"

A large battle similar to that in the Old Man and the Sea ensued, in the end, mommy came away with a very slippery and giggly 34 pound Anthony Fish.

santa come again

he was so cute before he could talk and now we know what he is actually thinking...

kid, wearing Nana's brown shoes, Daddy's work hat and scooby doo underware, "Anthony, bye!"
mommy, "where you going?"
kid, "goin' pizza, daddy mommy, bye."


Baby Monitor Update:
"Oh Clementine, read it, mommy...anthony, walkin around it's santa!!! please santa come again bring a baby....so pretty...bunco baby! oh pillow pet, bunco baby and pillow pet, oh! I love you...hee haw hee haw, read book, readin that one, pillow pet, big boy book...orange, happy orange...that way turtle...not a bug...get off!!...tick tock tick tock...somebody, oh no big baby, oh no! get him, get him! (fake frantic breaths) oh my foot! oh my leg!...eat um!...don't eat those! yuck nana!...my cat, my cat (x12)...seen my cat? (x 12) look! my cat!!!...what ya lookin at guys?...broken...( 2 sneezes)...good night lightning...good night baby, good night giraffe....woooosh! don't eat....love....something pillow pet...thanks, welcome...I did it!....lets see that book..."



What is he reading?
Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle

Baby Monitor FAQ's
How has the new pillow pet, Clementine, changed the family dynamics of the "friends"?
That is a good question. Considering we have only had a few days to see how the relationships will form and change the dynamics of the friends, we can only guess at the long term effects. However, it has been observed that pillow pet is much better behaved. There are fewer angry outbursts from him in the last few days as well as less tooting. Overall, the rest of the friends are very welcoming and receptive to Clementine. Blue Blankie could not be reached for comment.

Sometime in the future on the baby monitor update.....
"WHAT ???A SLIDE IN MY ROOM?! THAT'S CRAZY!!"

Happy Clementine's Day!

Mommy, "OK, we are done cooking, lets get out of the kitchen."
Kid, " No Mommy! Not YOUR kitchen MY kitchen, I want you gone"...what a sweetie, who ever encouraged this kid to learn our language anyway?

Baby Monitor Update: "What's in there guys? batteries...(chirping noise from some McDonald's toy)....my Gilbert!(see below) ....oh blue blankie, my pillow pet here...blue blankie...cuddle up....I love you Clementine....Anthony...mommy dad, mommy...shush!...chugga choo choo!...lookin' books guys...chugga choo choo!...bridge...look train red...uh oh...ready?...pillow pet...squish! ooooh!...(more noise from that toy)...move guys..sit, sit...sit down...nice...ok...oh put gilbert back (see below) ... Bunco baby! bunco baby!...name's bunco baby (see previous blog)...shhhhhh...(fake snoring)...silly...sleepin' guys, where Tee-go? where are you? uh? (Tee-go, see below)...monkey, gone? no? yeah?...yeah?...(laughing)...blue blankie, that mine, where my feet go? under my covers!....ah! there's more here!...like my rug...you all on my bed...good one guys..(yawn)"

What's he reading? Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by, Kevin Lewis

Who are all these new friends?

Daddy found a new pillow pet to bring home for Valentine's Day, kid has been calling it "Happy Clementine's Day pillow pet!" (Clementine: Cailou's friend on Sprout)












Tee-go, another stuffy from daddy. This one was purchased the summer of 2009 in the airport in Chicago to help make the last leg of our flight to Maine tolerable...and he barks because we don't want our kid to have to make the noise for his stuffies, that would be crazy...


and Glibert, named for the cat on Cailou on Sprout, he loves that show, and this was actually daddy's when he was little! Poor Gilbert, ends up on the floor every night. Note his hand sewn features, including tie dye felt ears, a very fine example of the early 1970's crafting...

...he is gonna need a bigger bed