big boy bed

Aaron slept in his big boy bed yesterday and today!!

When I took him in for his nap yesterday, he told me he wanted to sleep in his big blue bed. I told him to stay in his bed or he would have to sleep in his little bed. He really surprised me. I went in to check on him once and he sat straight up and said, "I'm awake!" But he went to sleep right after that and stayed asleep for a couple hours.
This is an actual sleeping shot from his nap today.

This is a fake one. He can't even stay still with his eyes closed for 3 seconds while I take a picture.

my big blue bed!

Easter Eggs

I know these aren't Easter pictures--just hang on a sec!

I wanted to show you guys how big my "baby" is--I really am not liking this--he looks so big to me lately.

His new thing is to go "swimmim" in the bath tub.

He has like zero baby fat!

He wanted me to take a picture of his "dine-sore" excuse me, his "lellow dine-sore"

He loves to take a bath. It's like a whole new level of playtime right before bed.

Okay--he does still look "little" in this picture--

I put my Easter egg pictures on facebook--it's so much easier when you have a bunch!

JV debut

The rain finally held off so Danny could have a home game. He was in SC last week with the baseball team--so I actually missed his first high school game--bummer! He played last night. The thermometer in the car said it was 48 degrees, but I really don't think so!! We were freezing!!
Aaron was so excited to see Danny at bat. He kept saying, "Danny right here!"

Danny on second.

"Ohhh! It's cold!"

"GO Big Macs!"

Uncle Jeff came up, too. Look how happy he was that Aaron wanted to sit with him and eat that sucker!

design on a dime

I just re-did my bedroom for pennies! Well, not really but close!
These pillows came with my couch and I pulled the blue from them.

I painted an accent wall blue and got new lamp shades and a throw for the end of the bed. I also found a set of blue sheets from TJ Max. I used the sheets to match the paint. I'm going to put up white roman shades on the windows. I just have to hem then first--that saved about $300. The custom order shades were ridiculous!

I got a new box for Brian's dresser. We had been married for about a year when I gave up the battle over how messy his dresser ALWAYS was. I put out a ceramic bowl and told him I didn't care what was on his dresser as long as it stayed in the bowl--it has worked well for us. We will be married 5 years this month!

I did "splurge" on the picture. I bought a poster at Michaels and a frame at Target. I eventually want to get some end tables--dark wood--to match the frame. I'm still bargain shopping for those!

and here's Aaron's big boy bed--as you can see, it's still empty!! because...

...my big boy is in a crib!!!

What to do--what to do!

Canon-Mac Big Macs

Yay! It's baseball season again. I must say--baseball is my favorite season as far as sports go--and then football runs a close second. Danny is on the JV team this year at Canon-Mac. They are called the Big Macs! He got his uniform tonight and of course, I broke out the camera. He's got his first game tomorrow night so be looking for some action shots!

"Can I get a turn?"

Aaron tells me all the time, "Danny at baseball."

I love this one!

potty time!

It's potty time---not party time! I started on Monday and I have to say it's going rather well.....considering.
We started in pull ups.
He's telling me, "4, 9" He says "4,9" for everything numbers.

Tuesday afternoon, we graduated to real underwear! He calls them "wears".

He told me, "I poop wears, Mommy." So I explained to him to poop in the potty and not in your "wears". He answered, "I poop wears, Mommy." We'll see...who's more stubborn...

WooHoo!! Check me out! Dinosaurs!

Here's a pile of "wears", pants and socks. We went through all these yesterday. But I will say today is easier than yesterday. I am sure--fingers crossed--that tomorrow will be easier than today.

He came to me this morning--all on his own--and told me, "poop potty, Mommy!" YAY!! He got "brown candy" for that one!! (he calls chocolate "brown candy")

I wasn't sure about this post and all the talk of poop, but I figured you would want to be in the know!! Plus, how stinkin cute is he in his "wears"?!?!

color paper

Aaron loves to color. He says, "color paper?" to ask someone to color. We have a continuing discussion in our house to color paper--no color table! no color truck! no color chair! I always say, "color paper." So that's what he says when he wants to color.

He especially likes to "color paper" with Daddy, because he can draw! Mommy isn't so good at even stick figures--but Daddy can make all kinds of pictures. Aaron's favorite is to draw a snowman--in every color! He's borderline obsessed with snowmen! He watches The Legend of Frosty every day--that's the newest Frosty video. (yeah! thanks Mamaw!!)

We have been working on colors. But, he's SO distracted!! He picks up random objects during the day to tell me what color they are. He's right most of the time now. I think it's so neat when he learns something new.

I like how he blatantly ignores you when he doesn't wan to to do something. Oh, and Daddy wanted me to post his artwork!

I know it's a lot of videos, but the first 2 where just practice! He does really well in this one!

I know everyone is anxious to see pictures of the new house, but I'm still putting things together--soon, though!!