Enter, the Step Stool....

unearthed from my closet(so I can reach all my shoes, kept up high) by the Pax man and dragged upstairs, to his room, this is now his favorite accessory. He steps onto it to look out his bedroom window, carries it to his bathroom so he can get up on it to wash his hands, brush his teeth and hair. He used to carry it down stairs to use at the kitchen sink, until he realized we keep another step stool in the laundry room, which he now uses for downstairs activities.

Who knew so much fun could be had from one step stool. Guess mama needs to buy one more, for her closet again :)

RSV Playdate

no, not RSVP'ing for a playdate, but the nasty upper respiratory virus that experts say ALL kids will have by the time they are 2...we were lucky to pick it up at one of our playdates.

Total drag, as it is nasty in little people. Plays out like a cold in adults w/ more mature immune systems, but in your toddler be prepared w/ the puffs, humidifier, pedialyte pops(for hydration), honey elixir to soothe the cough(since you cannot give them any cough syrup) and tylenol to reduce the fever they are guaranteed to get. Also, there is no medicine for it, so might as well save yourself the wait in the sick area at your pediatricians office, unless the breathing is really labored and your little one has a really bad case :(

Oh , and consider yourself in quarantine for a week...incubation is 2-7 days.

Better have a good rotation of videos you can tolerate watching w/ the little one in misery, as playing is almost out of the question.

Wah!

Personal Shoppers are AWESOME!

I may be very slow in discovering this fun little service at Nordi's, but love that I now have someone else's ear to bend re:fashion, besides that of my husbands!

does this go w/ this?....should I wear these shoes or these?...what necklace should I wear?

Though Jay may not always have the answer, this personal shopper just might.

My new BFF is only a phone call away :)

No need to have someone come shop my closet, now I can slowly bring it to my personal shopper for pairing and perfecting , oh happy day!

Raising a climber

climbing the ottoman, climbing on to the couch, climbing onto his rocking chair, and trying to climb onto mama's too tall bed :)

sorry son, some spots are just off limits. Though I 'm sure it's not long before he figures out how to get up onto my bed.

He is all boy, oh boy, I love him!

The words are coming faster now too, which is exciting.

He readily tries to imitate what he hears, but L's do not come. He can mimick his friend Joshua's name....zha zha, but has no clue where to start sounding out Lily :) he just gives me the 'what the' look.

Paxton's Vocabulary to date

mama=milk

do=dog

chee= tree

ball

car

rubs chest in a circle=please

cackah=cracker

opple=apple

chuck=truck

moo=cow

choo choo=train

qack qack=duck

chee=fish

geo-cheerio

shoes

col=cold

ha ha=hot

doh=don't(imitates mama yelling don't touch or don't go in there)

Merry Christmas 2011!

It's wonderful to capture that 'O' shot of a kid at Christmas.

Perhaps Blogger does not like Apple files, this might not EVER upload :(

And then there was Print Awareness!

They tell us at the library story time that print awareness is one of the early reading signs in kids.

Paxton is now well aware that you cannot read or view a book, an Ipad or an Iphone updside down :)

A proud moment to see his awareness take hold.

He also can point to almost all his body parts, recognizing them when you say the word.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes!...sing it :)