Sweet Timmy

At bedtime sometimes Timmy hugs me, kisses me, pats me on the head, then lays down, takes my arms and wraps them around him.

He likes to pick wildflowers in the backyard (wild onions right now) and give them to me, saying "Here's some nice flowers for Mommy" .

Every morning he wakes me up saying, "Mommy, the sun is shining. It's time to wake up", in a happy, sweet voice.

Sometimes he holds my face between his hands and says "I love you" or "Mommy loves you."

The other day he said, "I don't like our white house. Let's go to our brown house." It was when we wasn't feeling well, and I was trying to clean the kitchen. Later that day, while I was changing his diaper, he asked me to put Lexa back in my belly button. Poor little Timmy.

Today we were dogs, from Clifford, the Big Red Dog. I was T-bone, Timmy was Clifford, Lexa was Cleo, and Patrick, who was at work, was KC, the paraplegic dog. Later we were the cars from the Cars movie. I was Mater, Timmy was Lightning McQueen, Lexa was Sally, and Patrick was Ramone, which Timmy pronounces 'mone.

Timmy has just discovered his throat. Yesterday he told us there's a crack in his mouth. While he was eating today, he explained to me that the food was going down his throat.

He did great at playgroup today, sharing his cars with a bunch of kids, and sharing the other toys too, mostly when the kids weren't interested in them. He tries to stuff toys into their hands that they don't really want. He still tends to grab the ones they do want more often, but he's getting so much better and understands taking turns, sometimes even instigating the turn taking. The other kids were enjoying playing with him today because he was telling them what to imagine - that he was a dog next to a house and they were fishing.

More Costumes

Timmy loves to dress up in costumes. The kids went to playgroup last week in costumes. Timmy wore his dragon costume from Halloween last year. He had lots of fun being the dragon and roaring while chasing the other kids around.

Baby bear. What a cutie!

Lexa already had a monkey costume, but I couldn't resist the bear costume when I saw it. It's the one I wanted to get for Timmy for his Halloween costume when he was a baby, but Patrick had already gotten him the Yoda costume.

Cowboy Timmy at home.

Happy Halloween

Mom and Sara came to celebrate Halloween with us. We all dressed up.

As a crazy old lady we met put it, The Great Naturalist and her Chimp

Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat

A Candy Corn and a Devil with a Blue Dress On

In the afternoon Timmy and I went to a carnival. Timmy played a toss the bean bag through the hole on the scarecrow game, but Timmy decided to just walk up to the scarecrow and drop the bean bags through the hole. It was cute. We ate snow cones and I stood in line to take a picture of Timmy sitting on a hay bale surrounded by pumpkins, but right when we got to the front of the line, they announced over the loud speaker that they were giving away the pumpkins and children swarmed over us from all around and started picking up and carrying away the pumpkins. In less than a minute there were no more pumpkins. Here's a picture of Timmy as a kid removes the pumpkin from behind him.

In the evening we all went to a Halloween carnival with kiddie games, bouncy castles, and a trunk or treat (tricking or treating from car to decorated car in a parking lot). Timmy tentatively went into a scuby doo bouncy castle, only to have it immediately start to collapse because the hose fell out or something. Now I'm sure he won't be willing to go into another one for quite awhile. He kept saying that "it will crush you." He loved seeing all the other kids in their costumes and seeing his daddy as the man in the yellow hat. After the carnival we came home and mom made caramel apples. Sara made us grave yard dip (7 layer dip) and mummy dogs (pigs in a blanket) which we drank with vampire blood (punch). Timmy wanted to eat all of his candy. We had to hide it.

Timmy painted a pumpkin and I carved Thomas the train onto one. After that we played a couple of Halloween games, read a book to Timmy that granddad had picked out, Mater and the Ghost Light, and Timmy watched Micky Mouse clubhouse Trick or Treating. Now Timmy has started pretending that he is Pluto.

Music and Story Time

We've been busy lately, going to playgroups, the children's museum, story time at the library and music makers class. Timmy loves being around other kids, singing, playing and dancing.

Popping bubbles at storytime Halloween week.

Doing an animal dance at music makers class.

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Upside down, in a box

Just Timmy being a goofball, as usual.

He likes making up words and names for things lately, and is always pretending. We pretend to be animals, cars, spaceships, underdog, Clifford and curious George. This morning Timmy was a green dog, I was a big blue dog, and Lexa was a pink dog. Sometimes he likes to pretend that he is scared and have me hold him, or he'll say that there's a monster in a cave and we need to give it a popsicle or a lollipop. Sara said she saw him squat down under the table like he was going to the bathroom in his diaper and say "Timmy is a bear pooping in the woods."

I <3 Dad

Dad <3's Lexa

A Visit from Auntie Sara

Aunt Sara came to visit and help out last week. Timmy had a great day with her. They did some finger painting, lots of story reading, red wagon riding, and sand castle building. Timmy wore her out! She got here just in time because I was getting sick with a yucky stomach bug and really needed some help with kiddos. She was so much help. Lexa gave her big smiles.
Timmy really loved the finger painting. I think he said he painted whiskers on his cheeks to be a Tiger. After he finished this he took a very long bath.

Timmy likes looking through binoculars. So much fun!

Timmy helped Aunt Sara make cupcakes. He helped with pouring, stirring and decorating and really got into it. He did a lot of eating of the sprinkles and candy too.