Hail storm!!

Declan and I went over to the old house today to pick up some trash etc and decided to go for a walk and hit up the park. Well about halfway thru the walk (and over a mile from the house!) the hail started. And then came some intense wind. And off Declan and I ran. Or rather, my fat pregnant butt was sprinting, pushing my poor son in the stroller who was crying because the hail was smoking him in the face. Luckily we made it to the mail boxes where there was a little cover:




But then on the way back to the house this is what we saw:



The storm had knocked this tree over. Sweet........


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Cleats!

I asked Declan to go get his shoes so we could go outside and play and this is what he brought me.






So we went to the park in our cleats today! And fell everywhere :)


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Pain in the @$$!

For real.

I have sciatica. For the past 2 weeks I've had some pretty horrible pains down there, ya know, which is what it is but last week I also started having some serious pain in my left butt cheek whenever I would sit. And it would shoot up my lower back. I thought maybe it was a function of just moving and the stress that comes along with it etc but it hasn't gone away and just seems to be getting worse so I finally called my doctor today to ask what the heeeeell is going on in my butt. Before I could really even finish she said "oh yep, that's your sciatic nerve". Which I was dreading. And the other part I was dreading, "that it will probably get worse until you give birth", she said. Awesome.

Little little buddy is really giving me a run for my money!!!!! Declan was SUCH a breeze and this pregnancy has been different in every way that it could be. Its so funny, I just can't believe how different they already are. I suppose this is just getting me ready for dealing with their different personalities/likes/dislikes/etc etc etc. Phew. I'm already tired thinking about it......I must say though, no matter how hard this has been and literally, how little little buddy is already a pain in my butt, I love him so much and I can't wait to meet him. Actually, yes I can. I will deal with the shooting pain. I'd much prefer that than an early baby so keep cooking little man, if you want to hang in as long as your brother that is fine. I know this is not permanent and when its all said and done, you are MORE than worth it. Love you. Just please be nice....

Hummus

This kid is in love with hummus. LOVE. It's ridiculous. It's all his too because after he dunks slobbery carrots in for the 3728th time you want no part of it so he's a little sneaky about keeping it to himself.....



Look how happy it makes him :)



On another note, by 12:30 today he had eaten a massive bowl of frosted mini wheats for breakfast, came over to sit in my lap and finish off my cereal then proceeded to go sit on Paul's lap and finish his oatmeal. Then he had a whole banana. Then basically the entire grocery store trip he ate grapes....so 30 mins straight he ate grapes. Then we came home and he had a pre-lunch snack of carrots and hummus. Then for his actual meal he had a ham/cheese/spinach sandwich. Unreal. I have to believe he's going thru a growth spurt because the amount of food this child has been consuming the past few days scares me. What is gonna happen when he is 15???????? OMG.


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Date night

With my main man, Declan Brady. We went to old navy to try on some winter clothes for little buddy then played........









ate dinner..........and then little little buddy wanted ice cream so obviously I had to give him some :) and decky enjoyed it as well!

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Foam pit!

We went back to the gym today and had fun in the foam pit............. It took me about 25 minutes to get out of there but that's besides the point :)


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A few things about the boy right now......

-He kisses EVERYTHING. seriously. tonight he kissed the water in the shower. when he says "bye bye" (which we have to do in order to avoid a serious meltdown) to something he wants to kiss and give it a hug so tonight, in the shower, when we were done, he said "bye bye wawa" and leaned in for a hug and a kiss. hilarious and beyond cute to watch.
-He is full on in the terrible 2's. i'm scared for what's ahead, truly. he has a really bad temper and is more than willing to show it to you. very stubborn and VERY into asserting himself and what he wants/feels like he needs :) we have so so so many talks per day about not screaming, not throwing things, not hitting our heads against the sofa etc that it is really exhausting.
-along these lines - i am learning just how important it is to be CONSISTENT. again, with all the talks we have a day it would be so easy to skip one or just give up for a little bit (which i want to do a lot, trust...) but i do see tiny bit by tiny bit him improving............so that means hopefully by the time he's 16 he won't be throwing himself against the wall when I say "no buddy, we already watched the elmo song today".
-along THOSE lines - he LOVES elmo. love love love. he doesn't watch tv, he just doesn't sit still long enough but on youtube there's an elmo alphabet song that's about 2 mins long and he looooooooves. he asks for "melmo" a minimum of 15 times per day.
-he knows his colors and the best way to test him is to ask about..................trucks! he can tell you all the colors on all his trucks which is very cool. "wewwo (yellow), booooo (blue), raaaa (red), geeen (green)"
-he also loves to draw circles. well he loves to draw, period, but he likes circles and anything with a circle he will trace with his finger
-he has a crazy weird memory and i don't know if most kids or like this or what BUT my dad has a photographic memory and i'm kind of thinking decky does too.
-super into horsies ("neighs") right now
-humongous mama's boy. and i do love it, really i do, but sometimes mama needs a break!!!! yesterday morning paul got up with decky and let me sleep.........for about 2 minutes until i heard declan crying "mama.....mama........MAMA". paul also was going to put him to bed last night and decky looked at me and stuck his lip out and started his fake crying. haha. oh my gosh i mean it was so cute but a) he was faking and b) he was fine the second he was out of the room. good try, buddy.
-such a big boy. doesn't even sit in his booster anymore, he sits in a real chair, uses real utensils, doesn't let me feed him a thing. i also haven't fixed him a kiddie version of our dinner in weeks like sometimes i would do in the past, he's just eating whatever it is mommy felt like cooking for that night!
-still the light of our lives. as hard as somedays are right now, and as ornery as he can be, inevitably by bath time he is a little gem and watching him run around naked, cuddling with him with his teddy bears and reading, singing right before bed, its like you forget what the day held.............no matter how frustrating :) he has a charm about him that will dangerous as he gets older. love my boy. love love love love looooove.