Cracking me up!

Well Wade has been just cracking us up this week. I thought the pretend crying by the doctors office was pretty funny but he has out done himself. The next morning we were sitting in our bed...Wade has picked up a nasty cough and runny nose this week and he never sleeps well when he is sick. I am so ready for this cold to go away!! Anyways so we were sitting up in bed watching tv and I look over and his little finger is up in his nose. I said "Wade what are you doing?" He answers "Pickin nose!" I should have guessed!!

Two days ago we drove through Wendy's to get my lunch and I gave the nice (African American) man my card to pay and he waved to Wade and all I hear is "Daddy, Daddy!" I was so embarrassed. I just smiled and drove off. Yes I am sure he heard Wade because wade was not just saying it he was yelling it to him!!

Thursday Wade refused to sleep (thanks to this lovely cold) so finally I put him in the car and we headed to the mall. I really needed a couple of sweaters or tops and a pair of boots!! I knew he would probably fall asleep in the stroller since it was 4pm and we had not had a nap all day!! He was perfect angel in his stroller. He just sat quietly and had a snack while I shopped. He of course fell asleep in the stroller when we were in our last store. He was so tired I was able to take him out of the stroller and put him in the car seat and he stayed asleep and slept the whole way home. Of course this messed him up for bedtime but that was ok because my dad came over to keep him so Josh, mom and I could go to the musical at our church with some of our friends. It was so good!! We got home around 9pm and Wade and dad were laying on the couch together almost asleep. Bless his heart he kept saying "pops night night too."


Yesterday we were running some errands and Jingle Bells came on the radio. I started singing it to Wade because I knew he liked that song. Well he may like the song but I don't think he liked my singing. After a few minutes of singing I hear... "no sing momma!" "no sing momma!" I guess he wanted to tell me twice to make sure I heard him. He is really trying hard to put sentences together and sometimes they are so funny. When Josh is home on the weekends he only wants daddy to do things with him or to hold him. So when we get him out of the car I will say "can mommy hold you" and he will say "No, Daddy holds you" It makes me laugh every time. He can't quite get the "me" part. I will say you mean "Daddy hold me" and he says "no daddy holds you!!" Josh thinks he is funny and will say "mommy is too big to hold!"

My child the comedian

So we were in the car on the way to the gym and we were sitting in traffic. We were stopped and all of a sudden I hear Wade pretending to cry. I said "What's wrong?" Wade says "nurse ouchy" (we call shots ouchy's at our house!) Then he looks over and points to the left and says "Wade's doctor." Sure enough we were stopped in traffic right across the street from Wade's pediatric office. I think maybe this means we have been there too many times that he recognizes an office building that is actually back pretty far off the road!! He was so cute because he pretended to cry a few more times and then I told him it was ok because we don't have to get another ouchy for a long time. This sweet and smart boy is going to keep me on my toes.

Wade also decided to be funny at the gym when I went to pick him up. This is the third time this week I have had to go in and get him. He used to run to the door so excited to see me...not anymore. Today for some reason he thought he would be a steam roller and lay on the floor and roll around for about 5 minutes. I guess he thought that I wouldn't be able to pick him up if he was rolling on the ground!! So I think I am going to start taking advantage of the daycare and start leaving him in there a little longer. Its funny because when he turned 13 months we started taking him and only left him for 25-30 min because he cried so bad. Well after a month or two we increased it to 45min and now we leave him for an hour. Our membership pays for 2 hours a day so I am thinking I may start staying a little longer since he really loves going now. It is so nice that wade has fun and that I get a little break each day. I am so thankful I don't have to leave him in daycare all day every day but it sure is nice to have a little break to get in some exercise and watch tv (that is not Mickey Mouse, Elmo, Happy Feet or Barney!) at the same time.

Busy Busy Week...

I don't know about you guys but my December calendar seems to be more full than any other month. It is a great kind of busy with fun parties and spending time with family but it is still busy. I think this is one reason I have always tried to have my shopping done by the beginning of December so I can have one less thing to do. Yesterday was pretty low key- Wade and I went to the gym in the morning and he did not want to leave when I picked him up. (this is a slightly different child than I had six months ago who cried the entire time!) So I had to go in and drag him out. Josh and I met with our financial planner after that (actually he is a good friend of ours and has been so helpful) to talk about the new house and about things like life insurance and retirement. Josh and I have been praying about the new house because it has been pretty stressful trying to get a construction loan and all that jazz but today we got good news that we should be closing in the next 30 days!! Finally...and our house plans are getting drawn this week. Once we get those done we then have to take them to the town of Apex to get them approved. Poor Josh has been so busy between working with the builder, going between two banks and trying to get a closing date. I have kind of asked to stay out of all that because it really stresses me out thinking about money, loans, plans, etc. However I am all ready to pick out some wall colors. cabinets and flooring!! We are probably going to live at Lowe's the next 6 months or so. So we met with Jared (our advisor) to make sure we could afford this house and still have money to put in savings. Obviously it is going to be a bigger house payment and all that so we will just have to work harder on saving and I really need to work on cooking more so we don't eat out as much!!


On a fun note today we went to a "Happy Birthday Jesus" party at Carrie's house. All the kids had a great time and so did all the Mommies. Thanks Carrie for hosting such a cute party. Wade did have a melt down while we were there because he wanted to eat his snack in her living room. Not to mention he wanted to eat the entire time we were there!! We went to lunch with Ashley because she was in town getting her hair done and Wade was wide open at Chick-fil-a...probably due to the cupcake and M&M's he ate at the party. Tomorrow we are having a diapers and wipes shower for my good friend Courtney who is also in our playgroup. Baby Chloe should be here sometime around Christmas or the week after. I am excited for a girls night out. We are going to have it at a restaurant in Apex. Thursday night we are going to the musical at our church. We did not get to go last year and I am so excited about going. We decided to go Thursday so we could help in the nursery Saturday night and Sunday morning. We are supposed to be completely maxed out on little one's this weekend due to the musical. They perform the musical both Saturday night and Sunday morning during the service's too. We can't wait for Friday because the Nicholson's are coming to Raleigh. We are meeting them at Crabtree to take the kids to go see Santa and then are coming back to our house to hang out and have dinner. We can't wait to see them. Saturday we have a babysitter!! (thanks mom) and we are heading to a Tacky Christmas Sweater party at Erin & Britt's house. All I am going to say is...Josh and I match! Even though we are crazy busy this week I would not change a thing. I love this time of year. I also love that I don't work at all this week except for Sunday evening.

I have to blog about mine and Wade's conversation in the car on the way home from the gym. He once again did not want to leave and said "gym" when we were leaving. On the way home I said "wade what do you want for supper?" He says, "um (um is his new word) ravioii (ravioli). I said "no you can't have that again how about broccoli?" He says "um ravioii" actually he said it two more times then I said try again and he says "um pizza." Bless his heart I made him eat broccoli but I put some pizza sauce on it because he will not eat it plain. He also got some Mandarin oranges and some turkey!! Here is what I turned around to the other day. Wade had climbed on top of his ball bucket and said "ta da," then however when I went to get the camera he got scared while being up there and started crying. I just had to laugh at this silly child.

20 Months Old! ( A day late)

I have been trying really hard to keep up with pictures and blogging but I have to admit some time it is overwhelming. I guess I take too many pictures. I think they know be by name at Walmart because I wait and wait and print way too many pictures at one time. So I know its only a day late but I forgot to take a picture of Wade on his 20 month old birthday. Luckily Josh took these yesterday before the parade but I would have loved a close up...but its ok!!

Here is what our 20 month old is up to. I can't believe in 4 months I will have a 2 year old. It just does not even seem possible. Wade is just a little man these days and is a character just like Josh. I swear he make me laugh more than anyone I know. My favorite things to laugh at are: the hot dog dance (mickey mouse), he watches this one Barney episode all the time because Barney "jumps" and Wade will jump every time Barney does, I laugh so hard when he copies me...with Charlie he will say "come on Charey" and clap his little hands, and when he comes I always hear "good boy Charey." He has also started saying something I always say. He saw a mess on the floor last week and said "oh my goodness," I just busted out laughing. I know there are more but these are his daily activities that make me laugh!

-He weighs around 28lbs and I am not sure how tall he is now- probably 33in or more

-Wears size 18-24 months tops and 24mo-2T bottoms. Most 2T are still a little too big

-wears shoe size 7-7.5W

-Eats all the time and loves to eat most everything (except vegetables)

-Just started him on juice a couple of weeks ago (because it has a serving of veggies in it!)

-Sleeps WONDERFULLY!! and puts himself to bed for naps and at bedtime. He walks right back to his room and turns on his sound machine by himself and says "night night." He also thinks its funny to say "mommy cose the door" or "night night baby" because I always say that to him.

-Takes one nap a day that is 2.5-3 hours long almost every day

-Has been without paci for one month now and only cried one day for it- doesn't even mention it at all

-Loves dogs, rocks, fire trucks, ambulance's, big trucks, and school buses

-Loves to be outside and loves his bath's...he says "mommy take a bath "

-Has started to pretend play; it is so sweet it almost makes me cry to hear his sweet voice pretending his animals are talking or eating or playing

-talks all day all the time and talks in sentences some now

-knows all his colors, animal & animal sounds, can spell his name, count to 10 and knows most of his ABC's

-LOVES the gym daycare (praise!!) and today for the first time he did not cry when I dropped him off at church (major praise), he did cry a little during service but they did not need to call us!!

-thinks it is funny to say; Josh, Shannon and Donna

-Started saying "nope" yesterday...I said "do you love mommy" today and he said "nope." I asked him who taught him that and he said "Ashley"

-loves babies so much; at playgroup last week he just loved baby Caroline and wanted to hold her, He did this on Thanksgiving with baby Rylan as well. He will even say "daddy mommy baby" and I say "not quite yet sweet boy!!"

-Has never hit or bit another child but thinks it is funny to hit the TV or us and sometimes he will try to bite us?? We are working hard on that one!

-Has pretty much stopped rolling his eyes at us- thank goodness

-Has started telling us "that way" as in driving directions... I know it is crazy but he has Josh's memory and he will say "Mimi's house that way" and point where we should turn. He amazes me.

-Still likes to say "mooze mommy" when I am in his way or even when I am turned around looking at him in the car. He even says it when I am pushing the shopping cart. I always tell him if I move my hands you will just sit here in the middle of the isle!!

I know I am forgetting some stuff but this is most of what he is up to these days. We love our sweet boy so much and I can't believe after the New Year it will be time to start thinking about a birthday party before too long. Here are some pictures of Wade playing outside yesterday.

He did something really funny today...I was singing "ring around the roses" and he looked at me and said "Nana's house- Peyton." Last time he played this was at Thanksgiving with them. Then tonight Josh called me at work and said Wade wanted some chips to eat. He opened the pantry and Josh said what do you want and he pointed to the pringles and said "Nana's house." I bought the pringles last night because we had them at Josh's moms house and I really liked them! We also tried to bribe him today at church and told him if he didn't cry we would go get a bagel after church. Sure enough as soon as we got him from the nursery he said "bagel!"

We love you Wade Harrison!

And just because... here is my little helper vacuuming today, Josh actually turned it on for him and he went to town cleaning the floors. Don't worry I don't normally leave scissors on the floor like that. I was sitting there wrapping presents today. I am so happy to say I am done Christmas shopping and all the presents are wrapped. We just have to put together Wade's gifts from "Santa" on Christmas eve.

Downtown Apex!

Here is Wade on Friday night with his new Santa Claus shirt on...we were getting ready to go see Santa downtown and he was so excited. He kept saying we were going to see "big Santa." I love the third picture it really shows how excited he was. Even with all the excitment this year will we not be getting a picture of just Wade and Santa...he does not like him that much!!

I know I have said this before but I just LOVE our little town. This past weekend they had so many fun things for families. Friday night Josh got home from work early...yay!! We got ready and headed downtown around 5:15pm. At 5:30p they were going to be lighting the big Christmas tree and then "Santa and Mrs. Claus" were coming!! Well we live only a mile from downtown so we drove a little ways and then parked close to downtown. They block off the street so everyone can walk around and they also block it off for the horse and carriage rides. Well it just so happened that where we parked was right near where Santa was waiting to get on his sleigh. So we quickly grabbed Wade out of the car and got a picture with him and Mrs. Clause. Wade of course wanted Daddy to go and still wasn't too sure about them but we did get a cute picture. He was more interested in the black horses that were getting ready to pull Santa down to the tree lighting. We took our picture and then made it down to see the tree. It was so neat to see all of the families with little kids waiting. There was a man talking...I am guess it was the town manager, mayor or someone like that but he even commented on how Apex really takes pride in families and doing activities like these for everyone. Wade was so excited when the lights came on and he loved the "big star."

After seeing Santa and the big tree lighting we walked into a few stores for some shopping and special treats. Wade and Josh were so excited to see that most of the stores had cookies!! We didn't shop too long because it was so cold and Josh and I were going on a dinner date. We took Wade back to mom's house and she kept him so we could go out to eat. It was nice because last week was so busy we got to sit and talk for a little bit. We rented The Last Song and watched it when Wade went to bed. I have to say I am not a big Miley Cyrus fan but the movie was really good. I like the book better but I did like the movie too.

Saturday morning we got up and headed back downtown for the pancake breakfast at the Fire Station. It was really crowded and cold but it was really good.  Wade was really excited about eating where the fire trucks sleep!! We ran a few errands and then headed home for lunch and naps. I had to work Saturday night and was so sad I had to miss Wade's first Christmas parade. It was snowing and sleeting so I didn't miss out on sitting in the cold. Josh kept asking Wade if he was cold and wanted to leave (Josh did) but Wade kept saying "stay." I think that he really loved the parade. Josh had his hands full with blankets and chairs so he only got one picture of Wade walking towards the parade. I have to say I think Wade had more fun than Josh..Josh was freezing by the time they left. We rented another movie last night when I got home from work. It was Josh's turn to pick and he picked "Grown Ups" and I have to say it was cute. Not my favorite type of movie but it was pretty cute. I do still miss all my friends in Greenville so much but I have to say weekends like this make me happy we are in Apex!!

Caffeine Needed!

So this week has been a little long for me...a good week but busy. After traveling all last weekend and putting up our tree our house was in a bit of a mess. So Monday and Tuesday consisted of lots of picking up and laundry!! By Tuesday we were caught up and that was a good thing because Josh called me at 430p and said he was picking up his big boss from the airport (from W. Virgina) and it looked like they would be going to North Hills to eat and have drinks. So Wade and I went to Chick- fil-a with my mom for dinner and did a little Christmas shopping! I was able to keep Wade up until 840p to see Josh but he was so tired at that point that they just read two books and went to bed. Yesterday was Josh's big day for his mid year meeting with his two boss's and things went great. Right now Josh is VP of his company and they told him before too long he would be promoted to President. Such a blessing, we are so proud of Josh. They basically told him they were buying this new office building for him to run!! He also told him they have never had a president under the age of 30. He didn't say when he would be promoted but some time in the next year or so it looks like. He has worked really hard for this title. So back to the point of me being tired...after work on Wednesday his boss's took him out to eat and to the Duke/Michigan game. Evidently that was a really big game? Josh was wined and dined and was even sitting in the section close enough to see Dick Vital (not sure if that is correct spelling?) However I was one tired Momma because Josh had to be at dinner by 6 and then the game was at 9p. It was nice that he came home from 430-5p to see Wade and I. I love it when Josh gets home at night because he is such a big help with Wade and I can have a little "me time." So after two days and nights without him I was worn out. To make matters worse I had to work last night from 5-11p so Josh and I missed seeing each other again. It has been a long time since we have been apart for three nights in a row (except for sleeping!) So tonight is Family Night!! I am so excited because downtown Apex is lighting their Christmas tree and Mr & Mrs. Claus are coming along with horse and carriage rides. The stores are going to have snacks and they are going to be open. I think there are also some carolers singing. We are going to go see everything and then get some dinner. I am sad because tomorrow night is the yearly Christmas parade and I have to miss it because I have to work. Josh and Wade are going to have a blast...they may freeze but it will be fun. Wade is really excited to spend some time with Daddy. Here are a couple of pictures from our week.

So back to being tired again. I was corrected again by my toddler this morning. Wade woke up about 715am and I was clearly not ready to wake up after going to bed at 130am. So I am sitting on the couch and he comes in with one of his toy animals. I say "Oh you have your lion to play with." Wade says "no lion" "a tiger"...well he was right and I was half asleep!! Just in case I didn't get it he says "tiger momma." On that note I got my diet mountain dew out of the fridge. He did the cutest thing after that. He started making a little noise with his mouth like he was chewing...he was pretending like the tiger was eating the couch. I said "what is tiger eating?" and wade says "eating grass." I love that he is starting to pretend play. It was so sweet. Then he walked him over and said "eating candle" and had Mr. tiger pretend to eat my candle. Here is Wade in his first "fort" or little house as we called it today. The house actually had fallen in but I couldn't resist this sweet picture! I can't wait until we really start building big forts and playing!!

Last night when I was working we had a "first" in our house. Wade actually "talked" to me on the phone. Sometimes he will say "hey" and then he is done. This time he listen and we had a little conversation. A little boy hit him yesterday in the Chick-fil-a playhouse thing and we were talking about that. I asked him if he told daddy about it. He kept listening and saying "ok" and then he is even repated me and said "boy not nice" and "cry" meaning that he cried when he got hit. Then he said "bye bye." It is the little things like that that are so special to a mom!! So to the mom in Chick-fil-a who was out socializing and not watching her child...if you know your child has a hitting problem (he punched wade right on top of the head-hard enough to leave a red mark) please do not leave your child alone!! She came in and apologized for him and said, "we are working on his hitting problem" Well not well enough...I could understand if he was Wade's age or even two but this little boy was probably 4 years old. Anyways I was really nice because I understand that it probably will be my child doing something ugly one day and I hope someone would be nice to me if that happens! I do know one thing if Wade punches someone at the age of 4 for no reason we are going to have a little issue!!

Starting to look like Christmas!!

Here is one of Wade's early Christmas presents from his Nana and Poppy. We found this and got a great deal on it Saturday when we were out shopping. I can't wait to use this either in the playroom or basement of our new house. Wade loves pulling all of the toys out of the bins and loves throwing his balls into it!

When my parents brought Wade home Sunday night we put the movie Elf on and started decorating the tree. Wade was not too interested in helping but did love this one little gold star that he found. He has done really well with the tree and has not tried to mess with it too much. I was even able to put a few presents under it and he has amazingly left them alone!

We wanted to try a family picture by the tree but one little boy would not cooperate! Here is the best one we could get. We had not finished decorating yet but my parents were leaving so we went ahead and took one.

 Here is Wade with the finished tree. For some reason it looks like we don't have ornaments on the left side of the tree but I promise we do!  I was only able to keep him still if I moved his little chair over to the tree. Pictures are so hard to get these days due to this busy wild child. You can forget a smile...I am just happy to have him looking at the camera!!

The other night when Josh got home they had the good idea to put Josh's tie around Wade's head like Rambo!! Here he is riding away on his purple elephant.

Knock on wood Wade has been sleeping so well lately. He has always been an ok sleeper but not a great sleeper. Well since the day we started putting all his animals in bed he has done great. He has always slept about 11hrs at night but would usually wake up once around 4am. Now he is sleeping much better! He has also gone from taking 1.5-2 hr naps to taking 2-3hr naps. It is wonderful. Its funny because I always thought he would sleep less when we got rid of the paci but he is actually doing better. Now I would have never put these in his bed if he was under 12 months and I actually take most of them out when I go to bed.