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...."