The things he says...

This shows you how behind I am...this is an old post from Feb. 19th that I had saved as a draft and never posted!! I think I am almost all caught up.

I know I am biased but my child might grow up to be a comedian. This morning he woke up about 6am (way to early in our house) and he got in our bed. My rule is we don't get out of bed until 730am. Even if this means he is in our bed watching cartoons some mornings. I know it may be selfish but I just don't function before 730am anymore. So today Wade was watching Blue's Clues while Josh and I were trying to get a few more minutes of sleep. All of a sudden Wade turns around in bed and looks at us and says, "Guys you sleeping?" We of course were not really sleeping and both busted out laughing. Why my almost 2 year old decided to call us "guys" I will never know but it was really funny!

We had a great day playing at the park, going for walks, and having lunch in Downtown Apex. I have to say I am SO ready to move but I will miss being able to take a walk downtown. We are all enjoying this great weather so much!

We decided to go to church tonight because we are keeping the nursery in the morning. Well Wade does not cry anymore going into his room but he is still not thrilled about going to church. Here is an example...this was Josh and Wade's conversation in the car on our way to church.
Wade- "No No church daddy, No church go home."
Josh- "What would you do at home?"
Wade-" Umm watch tv"
Josh-"What would you watch?"
Wade- "Wow Wow Wubsy"

I also hear multiple times a day "I want that" or "Wade do it first!" I love that he is saying so many new and funny things!!

Beach Bound

Josh decided for sure on Friday that he was going to take Wade to the beach. Josh's parents have a place at N. Myrtle and they were going to be down there as well this weekend. We talked about it a little on Thursday night but he had not decided for sure so we didn't mention anything to Wade. Well Friday morning I told him where he was going and he was so excited. I was packing his stuff before we met mom and Ashley for breakfast and Wade found his beach hat. He grabbed it and wanted to wear it to breakfast! Mom, Ashley and I did some shopping and got almost all of the things I needed for Wade's Birthday party. He is having a Elmo party this year! It was so nice to have some help shopping and getting everything. I hate waiting until the last minute to do things so it was great to get this done.  Wade kept talking about the beach the entire time we were out and about. He even had the hardest time settling down for his nap because he kept saying "go beach" "go beach."

I told him I was sad and that mommy couldn't go because I had to work and he said "mommy cry" and I said yes mommy may cry when you leave. After his nap I wanted to do something special with him so we got ready to head outside and play soccer! We had the best time playing;  it is moments like that that I will always cherish. I love it when we do things as a family but I also love one or one time with just Wade!

This picture is priceless to me and will probably be used for his yearbook or wedding. He was in his PJ's after his nap and while I was getting ready to go outside he somehow put his hat on, grabbed his Elmo basket and put my shoes on his little feet. He was standing at the door when I came into the room and looked at me and said "go beach" and boy was he ready...and looking good too!

I am a little sad that I am missing his first trip to the Aquarium. I have never missed a first before so that does make me sad. My mom reminded me that I get to do a lot of fun things with Wade that Josh misses when he is a work and that I should be really grateful for my wonderful husband! I have to agree Josh works so hard all week at work and he is the BEST dad when he gets home at night and on the weekends. He is such a help around the house and with Wade and I am so thankful for him!

This is just an FYI...I know I have mentioned this before but it is amazing to me that MY family is still not quite understanding. If I had a dollar for each time I was asked this week about having another baby I would not need to work. Mostly from my family but even from people I don't know that well. They will ask how old Wade is and then give me this look and say...well you know it is time for another one. I just smile and think in my head "well actually no it is not!!" I love that everyone is so excited about another new baby but they are going to have to talk to my sister on that one if they want one anytime soon! Now we are not waiting too long but as of right now we will probably try sometime before 2011 is up!! That is all we know. Right now we are loving our small family of three and Wade is getting so easy. Now he is busy don't get me wrong but he is easy. He plays by himself, feeds himself, tells us if he needs something and I love it! I also think he is only little once and I want him to have some more time with just us before we add to our family. So one day down the road (many months from now) I am sure we will revisit this topic and we will be ready to add to our family. Josh jokes with my mom that he will call her the night we start trying!!  Plus we are being a little selfish because we are planning our yearly trip out of the country at the end of May and I do not want to be pregnant when we go. I went to the Dominican and the Bahamas pregnant and hopefully that is all the travel I will do while pregnant!

Behind!

Do you ever feel like you are "behind" and just can't quite get caught up? I was reading my friend Nickie's blog this week and oh how I can relate. I know things are really busy around here and that is part of the problem. With taking care of a toddler, working as a nurse, starting a new Thirty-One business, getting this house organized to go on the market, and getting things ready for our new house I have to say I have been a little overwhelmed. Now don't get me wrong these are all great things but they are just keeping us busy. I know once we get closed on our new house and move and get settled (one day!) things will start to slow down. I am such a type A personality...everything has its space, everything is organized and so on. However if you saw my house, car or office this week you would have thought I had lost my mind. Stuff was everywhere and all out of place. So this weekend I am HOME ALONE...the boys went to the beach. I am so sad they are not here but it has allowed me to get some stuff done for my Thirty-One Party last night and has given me the chance to get the house a little bit more organized and clean! I had my first in home party last night and it went great. I had a catalog party last week so technically this was my 2nd party but it was my 1st one that I did at someones house. Thanks girls for doing those for me...I am so excited because they had great parties and the hostess got so much free and half price stuff! We had a great time and I LOVE this stuff. Selling monogrammed bags/totes is right up my alley! I love everything we have.  I have also been behind in my picture taking but here is one from last week. I was looking everywhere for Wade and finally found him in his closet!

Wade has been a character this week. He has been so sweet and I just love him!! Here are some funny things he said:
-We had a play date at the park on Tue and wade was running and fell down. Well being a little dramatic (not sure who he gets that from?) he kept laying on the ground and yelled "I'm ok Ben" "I'm ok Ben" and he did this until Ben walked over and acknowledge that Wade had fallen down!
- We decided to get Sushi one night this week and wade had a blast. We walk in and they have these little umbrellas hanging upside from the ceiling. Well he love it and it must have reminded him of one of his favorite shows because when our waitress walked up he got very excited and said to her "Ni Kai Lan" thank goodness she did not know what he was saying. She didn't speak too much English! He said it a couple of times and he thought it was so funny!
-I was talking on the phone to our realtor one day and I guess I said "Okay" a lot because in the back seat I hear "yea, Okay" "okay" "okay" and he was pretending to talk on the phone too!
-We were in a hurry because I had a MD appt for my ankle (which is not fractured thank goodness!) and of course Charlie decided to run off chasing a cat. I was so mad and yelled at him and told wade he was getting a spanking for not listening. Well I finally got him back in the car and wade says "Charlie go time out!" I love that kid.
-Thursday we had playgroup and all wade wanted to do all morning was eat. He acted like he was starving and ate way too much. So much that I didn't even feed him lunch before his nap. We got back in the car and he says "my tummy hurts" Bless his sweet heart, he has never told us something hurts before without us asking him. I couldn't believe he knew to say that, he sounded like a 3 year old telling me something was wrong. I was just glad it was from eating too much and not the stomach bug.

House update!

To say the least this week has been CRAZY!  We have been so busy but in a good way. I am in the middle of my first Thirty-One Catalog party and trying to learn all that and then we have been trying to get everything done on the new house as well. Thank you to all my great friends and family who have helped me get started in this new business. Thank you so much for ordering stuff, I know you will love it all!

We had our inspections done this week and we have gotten all of our paperwork together for the loan. I feel like I have signed my life away on all those papers. Thank goodness this was not last week when I felt so bad! As far as I know we had the appraisal today and we should hear back about that early next week. So...all we are waiting on is hearing back from the seller's about what they will/will not fix from the inspection. Overall it was a really good report so we are hoping they will fix it all!!

Happy belated Birthday to my wonderful Mother-in-Law (her birthday was yesterday!) I was hoping to post this yesterday but I just ran out of time. We hope you had a great birthday and we can't wait to see you guys soon. Thanks for all you do for us and Wade! We can't wait to show you guys the new house.

Wade has been cracking me up these last two days. Here is what he has been saying:
"Mom, where's Charlie?"
"Mom, where's Mimi?... go get her"
"Play park"- he has been loving this weather as well

He has learned a new trick (from my mom)...my mom is a orthodontist hygienist and uses mouth wash ALL the time. Well wade loves to watch her "swish" and spit it out for some reason. Yesterday he started "swishing" with his milk- yes lovely I know, and spiting it out on his clothes. He thinks it is the funniest thing in the entire world. He did have to get in trouble today after changing his clothes for the third time!!

Today in the car he almost made me cry. I was driving and not talking to him and the music was off so it was really quiet. All of a sudden I hear, "Jesus loves me I know the Bible tells me so!" He was singing it so well. Oh it just made me so proud that my not quite 2 year old has learned this song. I am so happy we listen to our bible songs everyday (even if I do miss my radio every now and then)

Bless his little heart my child is a child of routine and structure. It is just my personality and its how I function. We mostly have the same schedule most every day and at bedtime. Well I guess tonight something was not right and he was not wanting to go to sleep until we fixed the problem. We put him to bed and a minute or two later I hear, "Mom" (that is all he calls me now?) then I hear it again "Mom" "Mom" so after the fourth or fifth time I decided to make sure nothing was wrong. I go into his room and he is sitting up in bed looking at his feet. He looks up at me and says "Mom need socks" and points to his feet. We always as part of our bedtime routine put his PJ's on and then tell him he needs his socks on so his little feet don't get cold. Well it was so warm today I didn't think he needed his socks tonight...well I guess he did because the minute we put them on he smiled and then went right to sleep!!

My little Valentine!

We had a pretty uneventful V-Day yesterday. Josh and I aren't really into Valentines and we do not even get cards for each other. We got Wade a book and a little "boots" stuffed animal. That was the excitement of our day...watching him open his surprises. Since my birthday is so close to V-Day we hardly ever go out or celebrate. Mom and I actually went to a WW meeting and then the guys grilled out and we ate over at my parents house. Here are a few cute pictures of our sweet boy!! Hope everyone had a great Valentines.

Wade has been cracking me up over the past few days. This may bore some of you but I want to always remember these cute sayings:
-"remember punkins mom?" We were laying in my bed about 715am and I was pretending to sleep while wade was catching away and he randomly said this?? I guess he saw a pumpkin or remembered them. He likes to call us mom and dad these days
-"popsicle mom"
-"I proud you sweet boy" This just melted my heart today, he said this when I was putting him in the car after leaving the park. I guess I have said this when he was being good? He makes me laugh!
-"Here birds!" Today he was getting out of the car and did not want his last apple so he was trying to give it to the birds. He was holding it straight up in the air trying to get them to come down and get it!!

Wade was in his high chair today having his snack and I was looking at my Thirty-One catalog trying to learn everything. Well I guess he wanted to talk and he randomly says: "Charlie got boo boo" I was thinking he must have done something ugly to poor Charlie. I asked him "how did he get a boo boo?" Wade says "Pops came home- got boo boo" I started laughing and asked what pops did to charlie and wade looks at me and says "kick him" and he kicked his little leg in the air like he was kicking something!! I have a strange feeling that my dad did not kick Charlie but that maybe Wade did and he wanted to blame someone else? Oh that boy!!

Our first 5K!

We packed up and headed to Greenville for part of the weekend. We were going Thursday night but since we put an offer on the house we had to sign everything before we left for Greenville. Josh had two vacation days left so he used one of them on Friday. We headed down on Friday morning and had the best day. We stopped by the hospital to see all of my old work friends, ate a great lunch with the Nicholson's, and then went by to see our great friends and old neighbor's. Stephen wasn't home but we got to see Erin and the boys and Wade had so much fun playing with Drew. We miss living two doors down from them so much. We are hoping we have great neighbors when we move because we had the best neighbors in Greenville!

We stayed with Carrie and Brandon and had a blast as always. The boys had so much fun playing together. Thanks to our husbands who kept the boys so Carrie and I could do a little shopping and meet Jen and Stephanie for dinner. I miss these girls so much and we had a great dinner/girl time at Winslow's!!

We got up early Saturday and got ready for our first 5K. Now I had felt that I prepared well for this but of course something happened last week to my ankle. I can't remember the last time I had an injury until now. I don't know if it was from body attack or zumba but somehow I injured it? On Friday this lovely bruise showed up with a little swelling and it started hurting when I walked. Somehow I was able to run the entire race and Carrie and I even finished in 32 minutes!! We were pretty happy about that. Today my ankle is black and blue but hopefully it will start getting better soon. Running probably wasn't the best thing for it!!

Josh and Brandon did great too. Josh pushed wade in the stroller (which is a lot harder than you would think) and finished in the top 100. He finished in 28 minutes. Here is a funny story. When Carrie and I were finishing we were thinking the boys would be there to cheer us on. Well we were wrong; we didn't see them anywhere. Then we saw them coming out of the gym with food. We were a little irritated that they didn't wait for us. Then they told us the truth and we laughed. They said "we thought we had plenty of time to grab a water and food and get back to see you guys finish!" Oh ye of little faith, so what that translated to was  "I can't believe you guys were able to run that fast and finish only a few minutes behind your handsome and athletic husbands!!" Oh those boys.

Wade was so good and so excited about the race. It was really cold but he was bundled up and didn't seem to mind. If you ask him what he did he will say "run a race" he was so sweet and thought that he ran too!

Back from the dead!!

So I have played catch up today and done quite a few posts. I don't know what was going on last week but I had an "off" week. It was the strangest thing. I pretty much had a constant headache all week, some vision issue's and felt like I was in a "fog." I don't know if it is some strange virus but I was just out of it. I do feel better today and only have a slight headache. I did make an appointment at the eye doctor to see if that has something to do with it. I have not been in almost 2 years.

One of my best friends even said "you are alive" after I finally called her back! Maybe it was a virus or maybe the stress of the house situation. Could be that I started a new job with Thirty-One and that has been a little overwhelming  trying to learn things while taking care of a toddler! On that note if anyone wants anything or wants to have a party please let me know. Thanks to all my great friends who are helping me get this started.

Poor wade has been ignored some this week and I have felt so bad. I just did not have the energy to "play." He has been so good and did so well playing by himself. I know what some of you are thinking...no I am not pregant!!! We have actually put that on hold for a little while. We are really just enjoying Wade and want to get settled in our new house before we start thinking about that again. Moving is stressful enough and I don't want to have all that stress while being pregnant. As of right now we have not decided when we will try again but we are thinking sometime after Wade's birthday.

That is another thing I need to get going on...planning a birthday party for my sweet boy. As of today he wants an Elmo party. It changes from Elmo, Mickey Mouse or Pirates on a daily bases. Once I order his birthday shirt it is a done deal so I was trying to wait to the last minute to decide!!