Best tantrum ever

Last night we were giving big guy a bath. Admittedly, it was a horrific day. Everyone was tired, grouchy, and miserable. Big guy threw a full on tantrum when I out him in the tub. Crying, stretched his legs straight, screaming. The works. Luckily, he as done that enough times that we know the drill. Just keep putting him in the water. He eventually calms down. Tonight, hubs emptied his toy bucket into the tub. Big guy proceeded to tell us how he felt about it. Several NO's at the top of his lungs. Then picked up each of the toys and put them back in the bucket. Saying no to each one as they plunked. Best tantrum ever!

Wheezing... Again

Apparently the changing weather and pollen has become an issue for big guy. On Wednesday he woke up with a slight cold. By Thursday night, he had a wicked cough. Flash forward to two am on Friday and big guy was up coughing until 4:30! And it only got worse from there. By the time grandma C came to spend the day he was wheezing. And after she nebulized, he puked up the few grapes he had eaten. Then he napped for a few hours. He was up when I got home. But wheezing big time, I've never seen wheezing like that. His diaphragm was jumping Up and down. So I popped in cars2 and nebulized him. He drank a couple of sips of juice and then sat with me. About a half hour later, he puked it all up and was looking pretty pathetic. I called the dr and spoke with the nurse. She was concerned about the wheezing. She said the pollen wasn't helping the trouble with his breathing. So we are inside with the air on for a while. And to give him a sip of something every ten minutes. Which we did with pedialyte drink boxes that hubs in a moment of brilliance had bought during the last cold. And we definitely slept a lot better last night getting up at eleven to nebulize/fight mommy while nebulizing. But he slept until 5:30. We've nebulized and drank a juice box even taking a few bites of bagel. But we are off to the drs in a little bit. The nurse was concerned after all.

More words

Big guy has really been busting out some new words recently. It's so cool to see language forming and really amazing that we learn how to speak! "More" came over the weekend as we were munching on m&m's. As in more m&m's mom! He's been saying "no thank you" to stuff he doesn't want, instead of just no. Which is very much welcomed after just no for so long. Although today after his teacher gave him some nilla wafers and I said, say thank you, He actually said it. And later when we were pulling weeds, I said, tell mommy to pull, he very gently said, pull. Though we weren't as gentle with the weeds!

Bye bye spring break

Spring break ended last Monday. I have to say, it was totally fabulous. Big guy and I were together every step of the way. We snuggled, slept, played, went for walks, and just had a really good time. It took a couple of days to hit our stride, as in big guy was being difficult about eating, listening to mommy, etc. but on Tuesday he really just started being awesome. One of the highlights was Easter this year. S much fun to be with family eating tons of food, relaxing, and enjoying the nice weather.

Last Easter was really cool bc big guy started being a real toddler. So it's fun to see how much older and wiser he is this Easter. He was playing outside, still not with the big kids, but he has a lot more stamina. He was charming while playing on the slide, ate like a champ, showed off his most recent I don't use a sippy cup drinking skills, and ate like a champ. He also made a huge mess while playing in the dirt!

And the Easter egg hunt was precious. Big guy was allowed out first bc he's the youngest. And he Picked up an egg, all the adults started to cheer, then he proceeded to throw it. Which made everyone laugh. But he quickly got the hang of grabbing eggs and putting them in his basket. And he was definitely surprised to discover there were yum yum's inside the eggs!

Overall, spring break was a definite success and now I'm really juiced for summer break. The pool, music class, the zoo, and getting to be with my bubba for two months straight!

Go away

Big guy has started to say "go away" to everyone. Not in a mean way, usually he just says it when he's saying the word go repeatedly. But I noticed it last week in e evening, and I did a double take, like, did you just tell me to go away. Suddenly his adolescence doesn't seem that far off! When I asked about it at school his etcher told me that the big kids next door have been saying it, so of course the little kids start saying it when they intermingle. Which just starts the whole thought process that big guy's peers are already starting their more influential than mommyness! Oh my!

Kiss kiss nose

Big guy has recently developed a new pushiness- literally pushing someone to where he wants them to go or what he wants them to do. He has a new thing over the past few days that I've aptly named kiss kiss nose. When one of us is holding him, big guy will grab both of our faces and push them together so we kiss, not once but twice, sometimes more. Then he puts his index fingers on our noses and says, nose! Then I put my finger on his nose and say, nose! And then we all burst into giggles. It's so precious, I hope to get it on film so I can remember it for a long time.

Big pun

Yesterday, I realized that I don't play enough music for big guy. So, I opened up iTunes and played some of my favorites. save the last dance for me by Michael buble- it was the last dance at our wedding. Then some good Elton John, one that made me start sobbing. Here's the line- "I hope you don't mind that I out down in words- how wonderful life is, now you're in the world." and it's true. Life is wonderful with big guy and then I swept him up into my arms and we danced for the rest of the song.

But the funniest thing happened when Big Pun's song- don't want to be a player no more, came on. The song is all about big pun- who was this huge rapper, both physically and entertainment wise, singing about how hes not a player, but just crushes on girls and likes to have fun, living the good life, right?. Which is clearly not true! Anyway, during the chorus when he's repeating his non player status and breathy girls are in the background supporting his laments, my big guy stands up and looks at me, then says, "no, no, no, no, mama!" clearly, he got the message, don't be a player! And clearly, he got my awesome music taste, much to the chagrin of hubs.