Smells like summer

There is nothing better than a beautiful Memorial Day Weekend to kick start summer! We Fishes' had a ball this weekend and did not stop for one minute!!! We played in the grass, ate Popsicles, had hot dogs and went swimming!!!

Xavier taking a little break from playing ball. After watching him run around his great-aunts back yard as I was sitting on the porch swing I looked over and told Jeremiah that we need a fenced in yard. Too bad out house is on a hill and that grass does not seem to want to grow! Oh the fun we had running around! Note to self, orange Popsicles do NOT come out of cloths. Good thing he got to wear the shirt once before operation Xavier Cloths destroyer come in full force!!! But what says summer more than drippy Popsicles!

Cooling down in the lake with Geema and Pa-pa. Xavier would scoop up a shovel full of sand and deposit it on Pa-pa's toes then Pa-pa would splash a shovel full of water on Xavier. This was so much fun we had to repeat it for about 10 minutes!

This is just sweet!

Oh the fun we will have this summer!!!

Holy Asteroid Robin...

So Xavier officially slept thru the night for the 1st time last night (yes at 23 months to the day!). He slept from 10pm to 5:30 am. And let me tell you something, it was amazing, fingers crossed it will be a trend and sleep will return to a peaceful 7-8 hours each night...oh please...

Don't want to write too much about the above, can't jinx myself...

A new favorite at bath time in the Fish household are Elmo's Fizzy Colored Bath Tabs. For those of you who do not know about these and have little ones, they are a must...at bath time we now have the conversation, "Xavier what color bath do you want tonight?" His all time favorite is the RED bath, but blue is close. Below you will notice the lovely blue water, it does prolong bath time, but at least it is a clean activity! Not sure about anyone elses' little boys, but Xavier LOVES all thing that mow, so watching Daddy weeeeeed-eat is a big deal in our house. While Daddy is outside slaving away, Xavier and I move all over the house from door to door, window to window and deck to deck to get the best watching location.

This below picture is what has my mom and Xavier's great-aunts in a tizzy about-that Xavier is going to A. climb up and over the banister upstairs and fall down to the first floor B. climb out one of the windows.

So after watching Xavier climb up on his toys, then into the window to try and watch Jeremiah mow, I too am in a tizzy...because window screens are not going to keep this boy at bay and well Jeremiah has been told sternly by me that he is no longer allowed to go up stairs or come down stairs by climbing over the banister...I feel the gray hairs coming!

And Finally, I can not wait to show this picture to girlfriends! Riding a tractor in a diaper, t-shirt, pulled up socks and light up buzz lightyear shoes! LOVE IT!

How do you Elmo?

Elmo is a major player in our house...anything can be cured by a little Elmo love, Easter baskets are Elmo, Elmo sleeps with Xavier and Elmo is said with eyebrows raised in a question whenever we need to watch a little Elmo. Last night after bath and before bed, Xavier had to do a little Elmo watching, but first he had to get his rain boots on. He would not go down stairs until his rain boots had been put on, "boots on, boots on" was the phrase of the evening. Once boots where on, Elmo watching was underway, I snapped a picture of Xavier in his Elmo watching gett-up (there had to be a few trips up and down the stairs before Elmo watching could get into full swing.)

After Elmo watching, Xavier went to sleep with his Elmo, which was next to his monkey and big stuffed ladybug which just happened to be next to his bunny and the horse lighting, who all had to be put to bed. When he woke up this morning, there was not a stuffed animal on the bed...How I love my little man!

missing chick flick and my wish list

SO, tragic last night, could not find my copy of Pride and Prejudice! Not sure where it has gone, either I have lost it, misplaced it or lent it out to someone and it has not made it back to me (I am thinking this is what happened-so if you are reading this and you have my copy please let me know...please). I needed a good snuggle up and cry movie last night (I cry every single time I watch P&P, and it does not matter what edition it is, the newest version, the A&E version etc...I just cry and smile and love every minute!) So, it was tragic last night...so I went to the next best thing making my wish list of clothes that I "need" from the 2 new clothes catalogs I have recently gotten in the mail. Jeremiah thought I was crazy, but I was having a blast, there are so many things I should have in my closet that just are not currently there! I got this new catalog (can't for the life of me remember the name of it) that has fabulous looking clothes! Very outdoorsy, all natural fibers and well they just looked so comfy but still stylish-which means they cost an arm and leg-so I needed about half the catalog (the other half was for men!). And after my wish list was created I decided to see how much I had wished for in dollars and well what do you know it was more than a months pay...good wish list!
So then I had to start crossing out the things that I just kinda wished for and came up with a much smaller list, but still extremely ridiculous and started to chop the list down again and well after about 20 minutes of hemming-n-hawing I came back with only 3 things I really NEED. So the wish list has become a possible list and maybe just maybe I will order something. The excitement...I know...is killing me too!!

Crazy Wild Weekend

Xavier to the rescue!!! You had best watch out firefighters because Xavier is on the scene, powering out of the firehouse on his rescue machine! Xavier had a blast on Sunday afternoon cruising around the firehouse on his little firetruck scooter.

This picture cracks me up, I have a mental dialog of Xavier saying, "hey big tanker, we'll take it from here, you can stand down." He kept motoring up to the tanker to give it a big smack on the bumper and then would push off and make a big yelling noise as he was doing it. Needless to say, we have many great pictures from our afternoon at the firehouse. I don't think there was an inch of pavement or inside the firehouse that Xavier did not explore!

As many of you know, we got a ton of rain this past Saturday. Just wanted to give you an idea of what our drive way looked like. As you can imagine after looking at the pictures our driveway was about 500 feet down the road after the rain stopped and the flooding subsided. After a good bit of tractoring on Sunday our road is still a mess, but driveable! Crazy Crazy Crazy!!!

'FUN'

There is nothing better than a beautiful Sunday afternoon spent outside!!! After Xavier woke up from his nap on Sunday afternoon we hit the outdoors with much excitement, especially after such a nasty and rainy Saturday and Sunday morning!!!

Xavier and I took off down the hill to see if Grandma was about, but alas, both Grandma and Papa were not home...however, Papa did not disappoint and come driving down the drive way before we headed off to find more adventures! Xavier had a wonderful time helping my dad unload a load of manure for the flower beds, my parents keep a little yellow shovel in the farm truck just for such occasions. Xavier has a wonderful time "helping" which he says every time he takes a shovel full and dumps it off the back of the truck. After that, we went in search of some fun to 'drive'. Xavier had a hard decision, the riding mover or the tractor, of course the tractor won out and we spent a lovely 15 minutes 'driving' the tractor, Xavier even let me sit up on the wheel cover. After that wore off, it was back up the hill to our house, or so I thought, we got half way up the drive way and then Xavier had to go 'running' (which he says every time he starts to run) back down the drive way. Finally we made it back to the house, but only for a minute before we heading back out to do some more 'running' along the drive way.

This is when our weekend got really exciting, we found the mud puddles!!!!! I so wish I had taken either my camera or phone with me. Xavier started off by just throwing gravel into the puddle, then he sat down on the drive way to throw rocks into the puddle, then one leg touched the muddy water and then finally he just starting splashing through the puddle, but of course he was 'running' through the puddle and the grande finale, he sat down in the middle of the puddle and started picking up the gravel he had thrown into the puddle and putting it on his lap. We spent a good 45 minutes in the puddle. So a water logged and extremely muddy Xavier and I did some more 'running' back to the house to strip down and get clean.

Xavier had just gotten clean when Jeremiah came back into the house and they were off again...but this time it was to have 'fun'. Xavier refers to the 4-wheeler as 'FUN', he will point to it and say "fun" (please see above picture for 'FUN'). Apparently, Jeremiah and Xavier had to take a little detour during their 'fun' time to play in the sand on the drive way at the bottom of my parents drive. For whatever reason, after it rains my parents have a natural sandbox at the bottom of their drive way, this of course is one of Xavier's favorite places, ranks right up there with the puddles. So Jeremiah and Xavier had to do a little laying down in the sand and when I say laying down, that is just what I mean, Xavier likes to lay on his back and make the snow angel motion. When they finally made it back to the house, Xavier had enough sand in his hair to make me wonder if he left any on the road. Of course, he then promptly fell asleep, without a bath and let me tell you, he was on dirty little boy...I bet he had wonderful dream of playing outside!!!

At the Pump

All I can say is YUK, buying gas makes me sick! I left like digging my heart out with a plastic spoon would have been more enjoyable than watching the total go up about 4 times as fast as the gallons! Thank you Gracie-lou for the beautiful spoon analogy!!! I was having a great morning until having to fill the Silver Surfer up, Xavier only woke up once last night and stayed asleep until after I got out of the shower this morning, my outfit looks good, got to eat my oatmeal while sitting down!!! I mean wow that is a morning!...then I hit the gas pump, blah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I should have taken a picture of the total, just to remind me next week when I have to go again that I got a great deal today! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... However, had a great convo. on the way to work with MBDB, so that helped the nerves and then I saw a great car on the highway, it had a dog in the back window curled up. This was not a little doggie, but a biggish dog that took up the entire back window...but it gets better, then there were two more dogs in the bag seat sitting up, one on each side (just like kids!). Crazy, put a smile on my face!