Ty 3 Months!

This boy is HUGE!  People ask if he's 6 months old all of the time.  The best word to describe his personality is delightful.  He is always so happy and giggly and talkative.  I love it!  He is SO fun.  He likes to wake up at 3am just to talk.  He isn't even hungry most of the time.  He just wants to chat with me.  He gets so happy when I walk in.  He starts flapping his arms and kicking his legs.  Having someone so happy to see you feels really good!  Here are some highlights from this last month:

*He moved up from 1's to 2's in diaper sizes
*He's wearing 3 month clothes
*His hair started falling out in clumps!  I'm so sad!  I loved his dark silky hair.  Now he only has a little peach fuzz on top. 
*He still has extremely bad gas!  Luckily it doesn't seem to bother him too much.
*He still loves the bath.
*He watches his sister and smiles at everything she does.  He adores her.
*He has the most beautiful blue/sparkly eyes I'm so happy that I finally got a picture that shows that. (The one above)
*He shakes his head violently while trying to fight off sleep.
*He weighs about 15 lbs right now
*He is extremely tickelish.  Especially his feet.
*He giggles all the time.  All you have to do is kiss his cheeks.
*He is exploring his voice.  He copies the noises we make and he LOVES it when he feels like we are copying him back.
*He gets really sad when he hears loud noises.  His little lip pokes out and his eyes get all teary.  It's pretty dang cute!
*He can fit his whole fist in his mouth!
*He can almost roll over from his back to his stomach
*He spits up pretty much everything I feed him :( but he's still gaining weight so I don't worry too much about it. 
and...thats all I can think of right now! 
I LOVE this little cutie!!!

Perspective

Sometimes when I feel like things are hard I like to read this: http://patrickandashley.blogspot.com/2010/09/answers.html
It inspires me to be a better Mom and it really puts things into "perspective" for me.

NC Zoo

"Ew elephanto bummies!"-Sadie (I really don't know where any of those words came from!)

Since Saturdays family activity was sort of a failure.  We decided to use Ben's day off to check out the North Carolina Zoological Park.  Sadie LOVES animals so we knew it would be a hit. (It was!) 

Even the 2 hour ride there was enjoyable.  I could hear Sadie in the back saying "CAAAMMMEEELSSS deener time!" (Camels! dinner time!)  She was so excited.  The weather was perfect and the drive was beautiful.  We got a little nervous when the GPS was telling us we were almost there but we were driving down a dirt road.  Also we hadn't seen any signs suggesting any kind of attraction whatsoever.  Other than pottery shops.  I think we passed at least a hundred different pottery shops.  I thought it was weird at the time but the history of it is actually kind of interesting.   

"Bye Bye big bird, Night Night"-Sadie

Sadie LOVED this Ostrich.  She talked to it like they were best friends.  Then she said "Shoo!  Shoo! bird" "Cheep Cheep Cheep" She was sad to say goodbye so we told her he had to go night night.  She was ok after that.  I think it was because she didn't want to have to go night nights too.

I was impressed by the acrobatics that I was able to do to get myself out of that egg!  It hurt a little. 

This girl is just like I was when I was little.  She has an obsession with rocks.  I love it that I see that part of me in her. 

Tyson was amazing through all of this.  He did have a pretty nasty blow out when we got to the zoo though.  Luckily we know our kids and their proneness to major poopage so we were prepared.  It's amazing how much more skilled you are with your second kid then with your first.  If it would have happened when Sadie was a new born I probably would have cried.  It would have ruined my whole day.

OK so here is the 411 of the NC Zoo:

*Be ready to walk, A LOT.  Wear tennis shoes!

*The exhibits were great because the animals had a LOT of room to move around and be more "natural" but at the same time you might not see all of the animals because they have places to hide.  (The gorilla hid behind a log, Sadie was very disappointed.)  Maybe take binoculars if you have them.  In a way it makes it feel like a real safari because you don't really know what you're going to see.  We only made it through half of the park in 5 hours.  We were EXHAUSTED after!

*They charged 2$ to see the giraffes which was really really dumb.

*The indoor exhibits like the desert and the "swamp ghosts" were pretty lame. 

*There were lots of drinking fountains and they even had air conditioned rest areas. 

*If you stay until 5 stop by the chimpanzees.  They went CRAZY after they got fed.  They were so loud! It was pretty cool. 





More Golf pics

Mini Golf

The attempt at mini golfing with Sadie wasn't quite a failure but it definitely wasn't a success either.  We had fun for the first 3 holes and then she was done.  It was SO HOT!  We forced ourselves to keep going because we didn't want to waste the 18 dollars we spent to play but at the ninth hole we just couldn't take the heat anymore.  It was really bad.  Mini golf wasn't quite Sadie's speed anyways.  Every time we hit the ball Sadie would retrieve it for us.  Poor little thing was drenched from running around so much. 

A few more...

Here's a few more Sadieisms to end a fabulous Sunday night on.

-Outside of Tutti Melon a scantily clad women walks by;
S: Pointing says "NAKED NAKED NAKED!"

-A black man walks by us at Olive Garden
S:  Eyes light up and she yells "Mickey Mouse!!"

-Today while Skyping with my Mom;
S:  Wraps the Boppy around herself and says "Feed him" and points to Tyson and then points to the Boppy.
M:  Oh yeah?  How are you going to feed him?
S:  Feed him boobies.  (Grabs her chest)

Just Fishin'

I'm lost in her there holdin' that pink rod and reel.
She's doing almost everything but sittin' still.
Talkin' bout her ballet shoes and trainin' wheels,
and her kittens. And she thinks we're just fishin'.

I say Daddy loves you baby one more time,
she say's I know, I think I got a bite.
An all this laughin', cryin', smilin', dyin' here inside
is what I call livin'

(Chours)
An she thinks we're just fishin' on the river side,
throwin' back what we could fry,
drownin' worms an killin' time,
nothin' to ambitious
she ain't even thinkin' bout what's really goin' on right now
but I guarantee this memories a big'in
and she thinks we're just fishin'

She's already pretty, like her momma is
Gonna drive the boy's all crazy
giver her daddy fits
and I better do this every chance I get
'cause time is tickin'
(Chours)
An she thinks we're just fishin' on the river side,
throwin' back what we could fry,
drownin' worms an killin' time,
nothin' to ambitious
she ain't even thinkin' bout what's really goin' on right now
but I guarantee this memories a big'in
and she thinks we're just fishin'

She ain't even thinkin' bout what's really goin' on right now
but I guarantee this memories a big'in
and she thinks we're just fishin'
Yeah, aww she thinks we're just fishin'
We ain't only fishin'
This ain't about Fishin'

-Trace Adkins