Soaking it Up

I love being a stay-at-home Mama. I looooove it. I am thankful for working moms.. because of them, my kids will have wonderful teachers when they get in to school. My niche is just here at home. We have lots of fun. Luke and Landry have slowly gotten acquainted and are growing pretty fond of each other, and it's been a blessing to watch their relationship blossom like it has in the last 5 months. He went from pretending she's never here to giving her goodnight kisses and consoling her when she's fussing before I can get out of the shower. They giggle at each other, and it's quite contagious!

Landry just turned 5 months old. She is rolling over both ways - although she gets stuck on her belly sometimes with her arms by her sides and reminds me of a seal, by the way she looks and sounds, when she gets in this position! She's as ticklish as I am. She is sitting up by herself but is still pretty wobbly. She still refuses all pacifiers and bottles and could live without cereal, and she is still a good sleeper! She loves getting kisses. She'll hold her mouth wide open, dive into my face, and stay there as long as I'm kissing on her. She's babbling and cooing more everyday.

Luke is quite the character these days! As I write this, he is sitting with Heath in his chair flying airplanes ("harplanes") on Heath's flight simulator. He's pretty good at it! They take turns pretty well. He's hit a phase of wanting to be several places at once. He wants to stay, but he wants to go. He'll go back and forth and change his mind 10 times before a car leaves the driveway and is usually pretty unhappy with his final decision, but the alternative wouldn't have been any better.

He's saying longer sentences but gets flustered in the middle of them sometimes and starts over 3 or 4 times before it comes out the way he wants it to. He's learning that there are words you should and shouldn't say, and he's also learning that he is not the boss! (He's swung at me and said "pank a butt".) He still loves Buzz, Woody, Lightning, and Mater. He watches YouTube on the iPad ("Hi-pad") for hours. As long as I search to get him started, he can go from video to video and occupy himself forever. He sings "Real Gone" from Cars and "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story. It's sweet to hear his little voice trying to catch the melody.

Potty training Luke was easy. He decided he was through with diapers when Landry was just a few weeks old. Getting rid of the diapers was the easy part! He's never needed one at night or anything since. However, I am very thankful that he is my only boy to have to teach to aim or "hold it down" to use the potty. This kid makes THE BIGGEST MESS when he goes to the bathroom. He can be sitting on the potty and pee in the bathtub. I clean pee off of the back of the toilet, around the toilet, on the floor, the walls, etc. every day. A few weeks ago, he somehow managed to pee in my hair! Boys!

The vocabulary of a 2 year old is always entertaining. Everyone is "she" or "her" whether they're male or female... Buzz is even "she"! He uses the word "my" in place of "I". So, "I wanna do that" is "My do dat". He calls us both by our first names sometimes and even will call us "babe". It's not uncommon for me to hear him say, "Babe, where Heath?" When I tell him I love him, he says "Yep." We pulled up at Sonic one day and he told me he wanted "tick chicken and a cheerio coke". Translated, that was cheese sticks and a cherry coke. Haha. I just love that boy.

I'm already living in the days I've dreaded since he was born. I wanted him to keep that pure innocence for ever. It's gone away some, but he still has a lot of it. I gave him the option to pick out any cereal he wanted at the store one day, and he picked the generic brand of fruit loops. He loves them because he picked it! I wish the world didn't have a way of ruining that.

All of this being said, I think the good Lord knew what he was doing when he made 2 year olds so darn cute.... It all makes the stubborn, hard headed, fit throwing, time-out frequenting, terrible twos a little easier!

If you dress a girl in blue, just put a big bow on her so she's not mistaken for a boy. :)