Getting Started

I'm new at this blogging thing, so bear with me! I decided I wanted to start a blog to document all the fun times we're having as a young growing family. Miles is up to so much these days and is constantly cracking me up! I want to be able to come back and read about these adventures he's taking and remember all the new things my baby is learning and doing. I want to say I'll always remember what he does and says, but the truth is, after almost 3 years, I'm still sleep deprived and my memory isn't always so good! Plus, with another on the way, I don't see that improving anytime soon. So, I decided to write down all the funny stories, good times, trials, and tribulations we go through. Let me first catch up on some funny stories I've been wanting to remember.

Miles cracks me up when he always says "who dat mommy?" for everything instead of "what's that?

Miles sometimes doesn't want lotion on after his bath. Sometimes I can convince him for one reason or another to put it on (you have a boo boo that needs lotion; we need to put lotion on the bug bites you have). Sometimes though, he's not buying it and will take the lotion bottle and tell me "no lotion mommy" and try to hide it. He'll hide it in a bin on a shelf or in his diaper hanger or his laundry basket. The other night (and this is the second time he's done this one) he took the bottle and put it in the hallway and then closed the door to his room! It cracked me up. I couldn't blame him on that one and gave in, not putting any lotion on.

Hmmm, there were many more, but now that I'm writing, I'm not sure what they were! I'm sure they will come to me and there will be more though. Miles was having a rough few weeks the past two weeks. It started with some hitting again, but this time at school and then it spilled over to home. It came out of no where! So we started doing timeouts when he got home from school if he had one at school that day. He didn't like that one bit. And then we started stickers if he didn't have a time out that day. This all seemed to work and the hitting has subsided and he hasn't had a time out all week. We are so glad! Last week, on top of the hitting, he began having accidents everyday, sometimes more than one a day. He was previously having maybe 2 accidents a week and now it was daily. And they were poopy accidents! He'd had one poopy accident the whole time he's been potty training, and then he had like 4 in one week! Not sure what was going on in his little head, but that also has seemed to pass and he hasn't had an accident in over a week.

Last weekend we took Miles to his first movie. I think it was more because Daddy wanted to go, but you enjoyed it too! Toy Story 1 & 2 were playing a double feature for a limited time only. You've been watching those 2 movies at home anyway for the past month or so and we were so excited when we found out they were going to be in theaters. We weren't real sure how you'd do. We thought you'd get through one of them just fine, but wasn't too sure about two of them. You loved the popcorn and fruit punch! You watched the first movie just fine with a potty break almost at the end. Then when it was over, you said "all done! go home?" We said that we could go home, but there would be another one if you wanted to stay for it. You said "Yes!". So we stayed. You were hitting the wall though in the second feature and must have taken 5 or 6 potty breaks. I attribute that to all the fruit punch and lemonade you drank and also to trying to stay awake. By now, it was about 2 hours past you normal nap time. But, you did make it through the whole thing and even played a game or two afterwards in the mini arcade with daddy. By the time we got home, you were wiped out and only too minutes to fall alseep for the next 3 hours.


Baby #2 is doing quite well too! We are debating again about girls' names. We were set, but for some reason, the name we had chosen isn't feeling right to me now. We may still keep it, but we are exploring other options too. We are so excited for you! I can't believe how close it's getting now and it still feels like we have so much to do. I plan to work on your room some more this weekend and hope to have it mainly prepped to paint. We think we're going to keep the carpet in there for now and maybe replace down the line. We'll just get it cleaned for now.

Ok, well, this is a longer first post than I thought! I guess I had some things on my mind. That's all for now.

I love you!
Mommy