A cut above

Last night in the Fish household we had a fabulous dinner on the back porch with good friend Eric and then we got into the hair cutting business! Jeremiah keeps his hair nice and short, we could cut it every week, but let it go at least 2 weeks, sometimes 3 and then goodness whe have a mound to cut, but anyways, not the reason for the post. Xavier had a ball with the clippers, he had to help with daddy's hair (no ears were lost or anything!) He just loved it and the funny thing, when daddy's was done, he started asking for us to cut his hair. Well from past experiences with the Xavier hair cutting, it has went like this, NO NO NO and wiggle wiggle wiggle. So he always looks alittle funny for one day because he would only let Grandma-D cut one side at a time. But wonder of wonders-HE LOVES getting his hair cut by the clippers. He never moved, just let Jeremiah buzz away.

And the Finished product...

Definitely shorter than we have gone before, but there is still enough hair for him to swirl as he is going to sleep at the back.

And 2 has hit with a storm...

The 13th of June came and went, Xavier turned two, got poison ivy on his hands, stepped on a stinging Caterpillar...but all seemed relatively normal...then 2 years and 1 week hit and it was like Xavier's head spun around and his bad twin has come out to play!!!

Don't get me wrong, Xavier is still the lovely boy that he has been, but every once in awhile he gets this strange nerve spark in his brain and gaskets get blown and the terrible 2's come out in full force!!!

Last night he had a complete melt down because his mac and cheese noodles were not elbow noodles, but straight noodles and how could I have been so neglectful and not have known that only elbow noodles work? The only way to calm the noodle storm was to eat a grape Popsicle, but then that fell apart and there was no holding back the head spinning. Thank goodness gee-ma was out watering the garden, because if your parents are not up to par, gee-ma and papa can solve all problems.

So as we are tip-toeing around the lovable head spinning 2 year old who has invaded our home, I just marvel that about 3 weeks ago I was thinking, yeah I think I could handle another kid, which I guess hasn't really changed, but there is definitely doubt...

The craziest part of all this new side of Xavier is that he has officially moved into a separation anxiety phase. Every morning I wake up with him next too me, even though he went to sleep in his own bed. The funniest, this morning when I woke up, Xavier was sleeping with me and Jeremiah was sleeping in Xavier's bed (pictures to come of this). I got a good chuckle out of the fact that Jeremiah was covered up by Xavier's small blanket that only covered from his shoulders to knees and Xavier was in the big bed with blankets galore around him. Cracked me up!!! Gotta love my men!!

I just have to keep my mantra going, "this shall pass"

On a non-head spinning note, I am pretty sure that Xavier will be swimming by himself by the end of this summer. He is so close to be able to keep himself afloat. He will just run off the side of the pool and JUMP into your arms and wants to go into the deep water. I have great swimming faith in him, he will do his last name proud!!!

Raising a Country Boy

4-wheeler-check, to'mater hat-check, jacked up truck-check, nothing but a diaper-check...

Sleeping cuties

This morning when I got up for work, Xavier woke up as well. Typically this means he is starting his day at 6:15 a.m. (ahhhhhhh) when he usually gets up around 7:20 a.m., so fingers crossed I snuggled him down with Jeremiah in bed and the below picture says it all....

Don't I wish I could just lay back down and go to sleep. What kills me, is they won't wake up until well after 8 a.m. now!!! Jeremiah says the mornings that they fall back to sleep together they sleep longer, sometimes until 9!!! How nice it must be to be Mr. Mom 3/4's of the time!!!

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!