How does your child sleep?

Mine sleeps with rain boots on! This was absolutely too much last night, I just had to take a picture!

Xavier is a big puddle stomper, so the rain boots are a must, but for sleeping I am not sure, guess he must have been dreaming about splashing through the puddles!

He couldn't go to sleep last night, or won't might be a better word until he had run around with his rain boots on, and apparently fall asleep with them on.

This wonderful pair of rain boots is the 3rd (I repeat 3rd) pair I have had to bring home...the first 2 pairs were so big it was crazy, I mean he could not walk in them, which caused major fussiness and total Xavier drama. I think the boots rank up there with nursing for him!

Funny thing about the rain boots is that he will not wear them while eating in his Lighting McQueen booster seat...strange I know, he'll wear them to bed, but not to eat at the table. He will however wear them while eating at the kitchen island thingie we have (he has a chair pushed right up to it and LOVES to eat his snacks there), but not at the table...

The inner workings of the 21 month olds mind....

Cutest Stationary EVER...

So I finally ordered and got my WONDERFULLY CUTE Thirty-One stationary from my personal Thirty-One consultant (which you can have to by visiting Mary's website www.mythirtyone.com/marypark/). Mary is just fabulous and you will love working with her, she took pictures of one of the wallets for me so that I could see how much junk fits in it. Because as everyone knows I have JUNK in my wallet, when I take out my wallet my purse raises up about 3 inches and my shoulder sings a song of thanks for taking out that heavy stupid wallet...Regardless not why this post is being posted...This post is about what happened when the stationary arrived and I opened it with glee.........

so imagine Jeremiah and I are sitting on the couch after we get Xavier down and we finally get to the mail and low and behold there is a Fedex envelope in the pile from Thirty-One!!! I am so excited and can't wait to open it and show Jeremiah the lovely new stationary that I will be sending all over the place (I have been eyeing this stationary for about 6 months). So I open it and squell with glee (as I tend to do when excited) and just marvel at the cuteness of the Fishes'. So I pass it over to Jeremiah so he can share my excitement and he says in his very deadpan way-"Oh thankgoodness Xavier and I are darker, wouldn't want to be casper-y like you" and hands it back to me.

Wow, yup and that was it. I think I had a look on my face like, OMG Jeremiah is that it? I mean, yes, it it totally cool that you can have different skin tones, but that was all I got...men...

Boogies anyone?

So the cuteness that I call Xavier is officially a nose picker or as he calls it "boogies" I will ask him,

"Xavier what are you doing"

and he will respond with
"boogies" (he says this with a smile)

And then he freaks out about because he can't stand to have his hands dirty and I must quickly whip out a wipe and clean him up. This of course cracks me up, thank goodness he is not into the eating the "boogies" cause I think I might just hurl!!

I caught the above picking yesterday on our way home from a family dinner. My picture was a little late however, because he was first laying his head over on its side and picking his nose, which was really funny-obviously it was a better angle that way.

On to a more winning quality-Xavier has a wonderful time doing laundry with me. He loves to pick the clothes up and put them in the basket and finds the basket of clothes a wonderful play toy, you can put thing in it like balls and match-box cars (I have washed a few recently) and well the climbing in and out of the basket is a great aerobic activity.

Interesting BumperStickers...

So as I was driving to work this morning I passed a truck that had a bumper sticker that caught my attention and had me wondering about it the rest of the way to work...I went looking for the bumper sticker online, but have yet to find it, so here it is...

Imagine the Jesus Fish with deer antlers coming off the top of the fish and under it say:
Christian Hunter

Here was my question-what is a Christian Hunter? Are we talking hunter as in a hunter or are we talking hunter as in hunting for new followers?
So this got me thinking, if indeed we are thinking hunter as in bang-bang I killed a deer, what is different about a Christian Hunter than a non-Christian Hunter-am I going to far with this, because I am assuming it means they are Christian and also hunt.

I am still pondering this bumper sticker and feel that it created more questions than answered and that I am probably reading way to far into it...

The World of Autum

So I have recently been thinking that I live in my own little world...I am going to call it the World of Autum...things in my world just go along swimmingly. It has recently come to my attention by my darling husband that I am sometimes so out in left field that well, I have left left field in the dust! I will bring something up and he then looks at my like I have grown a third eye, another head and sprouted elf ears (the terrible thing is that in my world it was a totally great thought!)

So the other night I asked Jeremiah about his curious look at me and he responded with (I truly love this respond)-It is a proven fact that women can think of multiple things at once, where men only follow one train of thought and this Autum is why you are confusing me.

The sad thing is that I could not tell you what we were talking about other than I obviously switched modes in mid conversation and (as I said, it all makes perfect sense in my mind) continue on my way.

As I was thinking of this post I had tons of thoughts on what it is like to be in Autum's World, but then I come to write and well nothing comes to mind...must be my mind is being tasked too much by my mulitple lines of thought....

spring has sprung...

Love my little gardener! Xavier absolutely LOVES to get dirty and gardening is high on his all time enjoyable activities! While walking through my parents garden the other day, Xavier was telling me all about each flower bed and pointing things out, but when we came across some beautiful spring flowers, he took a break to have a smell...oh my gosh so cute!!!

This past weekend was absolutely beautiful, so we spent as much time outside as we possibly could! Xavier would rather be outside than anything else and has a tendency to go outside and then take off up the drive way and down the hill to my parents house. Which is tons of fun, you always know where he is going and well the walk back up the hill is a fabulous workout!

We have had to start locking the door when we do not want to go outside because, Xavier aka houdini fish, can open the door all by himself and likes to escape!! Please notice Xavier is not wearing any shoes-he just busted loose and was out the door quick as anything!

Regardless some fun pictures from this past weekend at a birthday party and also of Xavier escaping and having to be snagged by Jeremiah and finally of the deconstructing of the sheds roof (soon to be reconstructed and officially become Jeremiah's man hut!).

Operation Big Boy Bed

to be more precise, operation big boy mattress on the floor is underway at the Fish Household!! Xavier has officially been 'sleeping' in his big boy bed since Saturday. Last night he slept until 3 am at which point he had worked himself up and over his pillow and over the top of the mattress and was dangling off the top (good thing it was only about 4 inches to the floor) at which point he frantically called "mommy."
I have great faith that tonight he will sleep all night or at least sleep all night in his bed, I am sure he will wake up multiple times, but as long as he doesn't want to get in bed with us, that is moving in the right direction. Updates to follow!!!

Update-so we have had a set back, Xavier has wanted to be touching me for the last two nights. And when I say touching me, that is exactly what I mean-just touching me with one hand, sometimes one finger, but the second I move all heck breaks loose...two steps back for every one forward right?

I just wonder what I did so wrong with the sleeping thing?

An Orange kinda day

It seemed that Orange was the theme of yesterday in our house! It was a nasty rainy day-which made for a little cabin fever and well consuming lots of oranges and pretty much getting as much orange as you possibly can on. Xavier was 100% all orange, even the toys he played with where orange (not really sure where the orange theme came from, but Xavier led the way by picking out his pants and I just followed suit and put him in more orange.)

When we first got up, we had to eat some orange, then he had some fun with papa (my dad) with SBC pompoms, then we went swimming which was a blast, but there were tons of people in the pool because it was so nasty outside-Xavier loved "jumping off the side" which is more like he runs up the the side and then tries to climb in backwards, but whatever works. His favorite part was probably sitting in the hot tub-he likes to swim from one side to the other and watch all the big kids in the pool, then we stopped to get a hair cut at granddaddy's and then had fun with his ORANGE punching balloon-we are talking serious giggles (he was giving it raspberries).

I guess I should have worn orange too, but alas I wore pink...