Thanks and giving.

I came across this blog post tonight and I just had to share. What a perfect time for this to put me in my place. It's so hard to always be grateful when you are so easily distracted by other things in life, many of which are not important. I'll be honest, I get a bit annoyed with the daily Facebook posts about being thankful. Those peeps need to head to Barnes & Noble (or Oliver's Twist, whichever is closer) and pick up a Gratitude journal ASAP. However, I understand the shift in attitude from complaining to gratitude and for that you've got to respect their thinking. This thanksgiving, I'm thankful for:
1. Reading this post to help me put things in to prospective.
http://www.handsfreemama.com/2012/11/20/today-let-me-appreciate/
2. Our health.
3. This precious little person who has spunk like no one I've ever seen.


4. Grandparents who love miles to pieces.
5. A job I love.
6. A husband I love even more. He's my BFF, my partner in crime, my Starbucks deliverer, and the best dad. Life is so much easier with him around and I'm so blessed to have him.
7. A perfect God and the freedom to worship Him.

Cheers to a great thanksgiving twenty twelve.


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too cool for school.

We did it. Tomorrow will be the end of our first two weeks at Primrose. Miles has been a big boy. Here's a recap.
Day 1: Wednesday, November 7th.
-We were all a little depressed about the election results but it was nice to have something to take our minds off of Miles starting school. Ben worked open until noon so it was me to take Miles. He was great all morning. We went there and he sat with me for a bit in the room and then would go play and come back to make sure I was still there. I sat with him for about 10 minutes and chatted with his teachers. I told "Miss Beth" that next time he got up to play I was going to jet outta there. Thats exactly what happened. I am thankful no one was in the office because I didn't want to stop to talk. I wasn't upset but I knew it would make it harder if I stopped to chat at the office and could hear him crying in the room. I called to check on him around lunch and they said he was doing great but was upset at lunch time. He didn't want to eat and didn't want to sit at the table. Ben went to get him early with it being his first day and walked in the room, looked around, then looked down and saw Miles passed out curled up on a cot. Breaks my heart. So he left and they called him when he woke up and Ben went back to get him.
Day 2: Friday, November 9th.
-We went to breakfast and loaded Miles up with food for fear that he wouldn't eat at school. Then I took him over, preparing myself for the worst. I remember when I worked there and it was always the 2nd and 3rd days that were the hardest for kids because the first day they kind of think it might be a one time thing. The following days they realize this is becoming a routine. Miles did great at drop off. Kind of the same thing. I took him in, sat down for a few minutes, and got up and left when he went to play. When I went to pick him up they said he had a bit of a rough day and didn't eat much and it took them a while to get to sleep. That was expected, I was just glad we made it out of the first week with no injuries or throw ups.
Day 3: Wednesday, November 14th.
-I took Miles to school again and Ben picked up. It was a great day. He sat at the table and ate lunch, took an hour and a half nap, and they said he was in a good mood all day. Ben went to pick him up and he immediately started blowing kisses to his teachers and friends. I think he will really like it once he gets used to their schedule.

His teachers are as sweet as can be. On Wednesdays he has Miss Beth and Miss Kelly and on Fridays he has Miss Beth again and Miss Ashley.  I think he is closest to Beth because he is with her both days. I am nervous for her though. Miles loves to grab peoples noses and she's got her nose pierced. I want to warn her but don't want her to think I don't like her piercing. I'll just wait and hope he doesn't do it. She is seriously the friendliest girl ever. She has been sitting with him in the rocking chair two out of the three times we have picked him up so far. Also, last week was just rough in that class. Out of 10 toddlers in the room, they had 4 new ones starting last week. Those poor teachers.  He also has a friend named Alexis in his class. She just looks like a funny girl and like she has an awesome personality. She gave Miles a hug while I was there on the first day and she always has some sort of animal on her shirt that Miles is always intrigued by. Yesterday it was a bunny. The first day it was a cat (a true match made in heaven).

That's the recap of the first few days! I am relieved that it is over and going to get better from here, aside from a few colds here and there. Next up, Thanksgiving!!! Yay!!!

Photos to come. I'm on my new computer and haven't figured out where they all go yet. :)

Friends are friends forever.....

This is why erin and I are such good friends.







And I still need to blog about miles debut at school, but instead I'll wait until day 2 is over with tomorrow.

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Myrtle.

We are suckers for good, nice, local places we can shop. Altums is one of those places. I love an excuse to go there, partly to look and partly so miles can visit with their cat, myrtle. He's so gentle with him and just smiles in his face and points to his nose. I've told Ben before about how miles loves myrtle and altums. Today was bens stay-at-home dad day with miles. He said he took miles to altums today to talk to myrtle and buy pumpkins. How sweet is that? It just put a smile on my face to pull in the driveway to see three pumpkins awkwardly spaced out on the porch, one for me, Ben and a little one for miles in the middle. Happy fall y'all!



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20 months!

This month will be busy, but in a hopefully good way. This weekend I'm having a garage sale and a shower and Ben goes on a fishing trip. Then the third weekend Ben is off so we are heading to Chicago for a night just for fun. Linda and her family are going to Greece for an extended fall break so Grammy Marcia is going to help out a few days here and there while she is gone. In November, big Miles makes his debut at Primrose. I'm sure he'll do fine when he gets used to it, but I'm gearing myself up for some big tears from all of us those first few days. I don't feel like he is a shy boy and I think he plays pretty well with others but he is always with people he knows well, and these will be new faces for him. We will see. I'll try dropping him off the first day but hopefully I'm not back by noon to pick him up! He's so funny lately and I feel like he is finally to the point where you can kind of talk to him/reason with him a little. For example, he gets in the car better if you tell him we're going to drive to look for horses. Then when I slow down and roll his window down, he leans up and says "oooooohhhhhhhhhh" if he sees a horse. If he doesn't see one and they are in the barn, he puts his hands up in the air and mumbles something like "where are they?"
As far as food goes, he still doesn't like real fruits and vegetables but his new thing is he loves pretty much anything dipped in ketchup, bbq sauce or ranch. Tater tots, french fries, chicken, pork, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, grilled cheese. I started giving him some peanut butter and he loves it. He also loves chocolate milk and milk shakes (duh, who doesn't).
Last weekend I took him to Huntington with me because Ben had to work open to close for a few consecutive days (is it winter yet??) We left at his nap time so he slept for about an hour of the way. Then Erin let me borrow her dvd player so he watched a baby einstiein. *Side note: After borrowing that little piece of gold, I sent Ben to target and he came home with a 2 pack of dvd players. Love him. Anyways, Miles loved Huntington. A huge yard to run around, and a grandpa giving him EVERYTHING he wants. I told my dad miles likes bobcats and dozers so one of the driveways didn't even need it but dad said "well, I guess I could grate the driveway" so Miles stood and watched the bobcat go back and forth for quite some time. I got some cute pictures of him while he was watching. Now I think whenever he sees a bobcat he thinks grandpa is in it.




Watching grandpa.


Snooze on the way to Huntington.


Parkin' with Linda.


Mowing grandpas driveway.


Loving salsa.


Playing in rice!!!

Long time - no blog.

I have so many events, thoughts, and random things to share I don't know where to start. I guess I'll start with the most fresh on my mind and work backwards.

Right now I can't even think about much because there is this girl that I have a few mutual friends with on Facebook that lives in Noblesville. I have never met her, only clicked on her page through Facebook. I knew she ha some sort of cancer because a friend of mine kept posting encouraging messages on her wall. Turns out she has a husband and 17 month old little girl. She died today and I can't wrap my brain around it. I'm sure they knew it was coming but the mom in me especially feels for them. Actually my heart hurts for that family. People say God works in mysterious ways but this seems unfathomable. I hope and pray they believe in the grace of God and peace and joy in heaven. God put me in my place by just reading her story. Be thankful EVERYDAY.

On to my "bitty" as we call him. We almost had to issue an amber alert last week for "puppy". He was with Ben all day and they came to see me at work. Bed time came and we said "where's the puppy?" We looked everywhere and couldn't find it. So we decided to load miles up in his pajamas and head back to the store to look for it. It wasn't there so we looked at chick fila, because they had gone there afterwards. Then we slowly backtracked home driving with the brights on because he has been notorious for throwing things out the window while the car is moving (my iPhone, sippy cups, etc). We didn't find it and we pulled into the garage and there it was. Laying next to the play kitchen that was once mine. He loves answering the play phone on the kitchen and the puppy was laying near it. He must have gotten an important call and ditched puppy. This whole search he was just talking and laughing and in his head thinking "best day ever"! He got in bed about 10 pm that night.



This is a pic from a day or two before the incident....


I'll post more stories later. Right now I'm on my phone so sorry about the typos.


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dr. glass, medicine woman.

This lady was a-m-a-z-i-n-g. First of all, we get there and I say to Ben, I'm gonna run in and fill out the paperwork so get miles out of the and take your time coming in. Before I got the one sheet filled out they called us back. Already off to a good start. We walk back to the room, the nurse ("Evelyn") opened the door and guess what was plastered all over the room?
CATS!!!!! YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
First we saw this cat poster:

The nurse was asking us a bunch of questions and Miles starts talking and pointing up at the ceiling. We look up and this is on the ceiling. A cover on the fluorescent light:

Hahahaha, creepy to us, maybe, but Miles felt like these cats were going to be his guardian angels  looking down on him. Miles did get a little nervous about the nurse putting the tape measure around his head but not bad. Then Dr. Glass came in. Seriously I'm in love with this woman. She came in, said hi to Miles and sat a bucket of toys down and started talking to Ben and I. Miles got down and handed her the toys out of the bucket one by one, which she proceeded to line up on the edge of the table so he could see them. She told him she liked his IU shirt and that she went to IU. Another plus. :) He didn't like her checking him out but she continued to talk to him in a sweet voice and was very quick doing it. She asked us if we had any height in our families. I wanted to say "um, no. you should see his grandpas!" She said he is in the 95th percentile for height at a whopping 34 inches tall. At 27.5 lbs, he is in the 74th for weight. So he got his flu shot and one other one and doesn't have to get anymore until he goes to kindergarten. woohoo. And he doesn't go back for another check up until he is two.

Just love our sweet boy. Some days I feel like my heart jumped out of my chest and is walking around with the name of Miles.

Here is one more picture (after the doctor was finished) pushing around one of her toys on her stool.

18 mo. check up.

never happened. we were all geared up to go back to the doc (after a few rough visits. one of which miles puked in the doctors office and the other which we had an hour wait, keep in mind the pediatrician office shares a waiting room with an immediate care office) and he was sick for a week afterwards. He either picked up a virus in that office or the shots made him sick. Either way, not a good couple of experiences. So Thursday was his 18 month wellness checkup where pretty much test his awesomeness. ha. We also knew he was scheduled for another round of vaccines and then didn't have to get anymore until he is five. His appointment was at 3:30 so I told linda i would pick him up at three. She put him down for a nap at 12:15 and at 2:45 he was still sleeping so she woke him up to get him ready for his appt. Then she texted me and said maybe it was because he just got up but he was feeling feverish. Greeeaaaaaaat. We haven't even gotten to the drs. office and he's already got a fever. I talked it over with ben and we said screw it. We have been thinking about switching pediatricians for a while and we figured there was no sense in taking him one more time and to just start fresh with his 18 mo. checkup with a new doc. We think he needs a lady doc and we love the lady in our current office but thought we'd just switch all together. So Monday is the big day. Let's hope "Dr. Glass" is as sweet as can be to our precious "bitty" as we like to call him. I don't want him to be scared of his doctor and so it was time for a switch. Our "old" doc was nice and I like his thinking on things but let's be honest. Miles warms up to ladies a lot easier than men.
I'll be sure to post an update on Monday! Say a prayer for a good experience!!!

Oh, and Miles is doing better. He did have a fever Thursday and Friday but may be his teeth and seemed more normal this morning before I left him for the day with Grammy Marcia.

Last weekend we had some good friends of ours visit from Atlanta for the weekend. Laura was my college roommate and wish she lived closer! Adam and Laura have an adorable little gal named Caroline who came along as well. Norm was thrilled with visitors who loved on him.

Blog worthy.

Ben just said: "watching this (women's beach volleyball) is like watching the back nine of the masters."

Thought that should be recorded somewhere.


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1.5

Little big man is 18 months old. He continues to have new loves every week. Lately he's been really into reading books, iPad apps that my dad discovers, standing on a crate to put things into the washer (I recently washed a plastic golf club), and sometimes will give into kisses, but likes to dish out the hugs. He is a man of many words, right now you just can't really understand him. There have been a few words that I think I've picked up on such as "outside, Norman, and Jacob". We are so blessed to have such a happy, healthy and handsome little boy.

Speaking of healthy, he has had a few viruses this summer that have only lasted a few days but has been 103 degree fevers, a few throw ups, and not sleeping well. His last one happened to come the weekend of my family girls weekend that we have been doing for 11 years now. We call it a girls weekend because unless you are nursing a baby boy, no other boys are allowed.
So Friday morning miles wakes up moaning and fussy. I was keeping my fingers crossed that it was just teeth so I took him to target with me and stocked up on supplies for Ben for the weekend (including ibuprofen and some extra pacifiers). He seemed a little better so we got home, gave him lunch, and I put him down for a nap and headed to Chicago, hoping lunch, motrin and a good nap would do the trick. He slept two hours, which was good, then Ben took him to the south side to go to a farm with Ted, Ashely and the kids. Normally miles would be all over this and getting up in the animals faces. Well Ben said he laid his head on bens shoulder the whole time and Ben couldn't put him down. He got him home and knew he had a fever (miles will not let you check his temp even though we have the 3 sec. one, something we should probably work on). So he gave him Motrin and couldn't get him to eat dinner so he put him to bed. To make a long story short, miles was up crying every few hours so Ben was then alternating Tylenol/Motrin. I don't know who I felt more sorry for, Ben or miles. At around 3:30 am Ben texted me and said miles was throwing up everywhere. Ben had to work on Saturday and m was going to hang with erin and her kids. I couldn't ask her to watch him while sick and I knew ben needed to go to work because they were having a tournament. So what did I do? Hopped in the car at 3:55 a.m. and drove home! I had been planning this weekend for about 8 mo. :( I was home by the time m woke up and he seemed a little better. Ben said if he would have been that way all along he would have never agreed to let me come home. I believe him. I think Ben was doing all he could and was nervous and stressed because he just didn't know what to do and didn't have help. I took a shower and gave m a bath and I put that boy in the car and we headed back to chi-town!!! He didn't throw up anymore but still had a fever and wanted to be held. Thank god I had an amazing posse of family women that were helpful. I hope he didn't crash girls weekend but you gotta do what you gotta do, right? I was glad I went back. Every occasion like that, even though it's difficult, I feel like makes me a better mom. Especially when you have those nights where you think "I can't do this". I guess like my mom says "you can and you will". For your entertainment, here are a few pics:



When he woke up, looking a little rough.



"mom, I win AGAIN!"



"I love Chicago. All I had to do is vomit all over dad to get here."

Side note: on my way out of Chicago around 4 am, I honestly had to wake up a toll booth attendant so I could pay and go through. Whew, that weekend will go in the memory books for me!

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17 mo.

Miles is so funny. Or at least we think he is. This stage is the best. He learns new things all the time and you actually feel like he knows what you're talking about. Here are a few things on his favorites list.
-loves to sit in the drivers seat of the car and "drive"
-hears airplanes in the sky before we do and points to them.
-loves all kinds of animals. There is a horse and goats within walking distance that he adores. Grandma has also been taking him to Conner prairie where he smothers sheep and cows. We also went to petco today and they were having a cat adoption and there were tons of cats in cages. He was intrigued but wasn't sad when we left. :)
-speaking of leaving, anytime someone heads for the back door miles gets super sad and starts crying. He is easily distracted afterwards.
-his new grocery cart is his favorite toy right now. He pushes it around the house and collects things. Right now it has a wooden spoon, tape measure, and thermometer in it.
-his favorite book is either big red barn, brown bear brown bear, or there's a wocket in my pocket.
- loves this iPad app called "I hear ewe". You touch an animal and a very many voice says "this is the sound a ________makes."




Shopping for cats. No he doesn't have shoes on. He wasn't getting down.



Thinking of what he's going to buy with my debit card.



"driving"



His pals the horse and goat.


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Stroller yoga

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A night with grandma.

What happened? Looks like a special someone had too much fun with grandma last Friday night. You can see it by his hair before we left and the next morning at breakfast.



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Dadadadadadada

Miles never stops with just dada. Nor does he say it on command but he does know who that guy is we call dad. He is so lucky for Ben who treats him with nothing but love. He also puts up with our antics every now and then, usually with patience and compassion. And besides that, who else could make our grass look this good?







I am also thankful for my dad. He is always eager to help and would do anything for us, no matter what ridiculous job I ask him to do. He does things I never thought 62 year olds should do.
Things like this: our cleaning lady said it looks like we might have a small leak in our roof by the looks of our laundry room ceiling. I called my dad and he said he'd come over on Sunday because it was supposed to rain on Monday. Next thing I know, there he was in all his glory, sitting on the roof with about 6 tubes of caulking. See him up there by the chimney?



He is awesome with miles and I am thinking he'd be a great babysitter even without my moms help. This is a pic of them at the mall. Didn't take them long to find one of those race car shopping carts! At first my dad couldn't understand the concept. He kept thinking we were stealing someone's stroller.



We are also thankful for the other guys in miles life. I don't have time to write about them now but happy belated fathers day to grandpa Larry, uncle jon, and uncle Ted! We love you!

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Fore!!

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Memorial Day '12

This memorial day we ventured to fishers for a get together at jon and stacies. This party would have been pure misery if you were there and didn't have kids. Obviously.



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Quote of the week.

Last night we are laying in bed and I was looking at my phone and said:

"I love how all these people are tweeting and posting pictures on Facebook about their big 500 parties. Get a life people."

Ben said:
"what? We are laying in bed on a Saturday night at 9:30 with a 200 lb. dog between us watching the golf channel. Who needs to get a life?"

We both busted out body-shaking-tearful-uncontrollable laughs for about five minutes afterwards.

I love my life.

And because it wouldn't be a true blog post without a pic of our mini, here is one from this week. He loves the splashing and water at west park. Photo courtesy of Linda's new iPhone!



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15 mo.

Yesterday we went for miles 15 mo. check up. It was supposed to be a few weeks ago but we had to reschedule for yesterday. I think I posted about our experience last time. Anyways, when I was rescheduling, his dr didn't have anything til the end of the month so I was kind of excited to try out the lady in the practice who I know from when I worked at primrose. Nicest person ever. So his appt was at 3 and so I picked him up from Linda's at 2:40 and was there on time. Ben was able to sneak out of work and meet me there. Now it's almost 3:30 and we still hadn't been called back. I really didn't want miles running around trying to talk to everyone in the waiting room but that is pretty much what happened. Finally we got called back and m was just a different boy this time. He wouldn't sit on the baby scale, so he stood on the big boy scale. He didn't want anything to do with the nurse. Didn't want to get measured, temp taken, anything. We got him calmed down after she left and then the door opens and in walks m's doc, the man not the woman. I said "um I didn't think we were seeing you today?". Anyways I told him the story and was honest about miles having a terrible time at his one year checkup. He said its normal and that he sees kids like miles react that way because they're so independent and are used to doing their own thing. he said he sees it especially with little boys. Poor miles. He freaked out even when the doc was trying to listen to his heartbeat or lungs or whatever he was trying to hear. Miles was like a caged animal crying crocodile tears. Felt so bad for him. Then the nurse came in, gave him a shot in each leg, and we were finally out of there at 4:15. In five years I'll look back at this and say no big deal but right
now my heart breaks for little m.

I've been with him all afternoon and he has no appetite, a little fever, and doesn't want to play.

.........

I wrote that on Wednesday night. Fast forward to Saturday night. Little guy is all better, but still getting those nasty molars.

Here is a pic from earlier in the week:



And here is one on Wednesday afternoon:



Is it not so sad? I toyed with the idea of doing some research on homeopathy. Just kidding, it would be our luck that one of us would get some wacky disease. We made it though! Praise sweet Jesus for giving us a little patience and for Starbucks! (and when we go at the time miles wakes up, it's so early you don't have to slow down through the school zones.) Woot woot!

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A fourteen month update, and lots of other random things.

MBD got his pictures taken a few weeks ago and we are so happy with them. He is great about smiling but not always great about sitting/standing still. The photographer had a cute bench for him to sit on in the woods. Not a chance. He'd rather pick up rocks and sticks and "run" down the walk path.

Instead of uploading all of them, you can see them here:

http://gallery.me.com/davidsonkristyn#100211

He gets more and more "personality" every day. Lately, he likes to do things to try to make you laugh. For example, I will be rocking him to sleep and he will start hitting me in the face and trying to stick his hands in my mouth to get a reaction. I can't be mad at him for that. He's not doing it to be mean or because he's mad, he just wants to laugh and get me to laugh. Then as soon as I indicate I think it's a little charming he busts out the most devilish big kid laugh you've ever heard. It's classic. At that point I just have to put him in his crib and let him go to sleep on his own because I know in my mind we are getting nowhere. I thought it was just me but he has done it to my mom as well. Doesn't seem to do it to Ben, he knows dad means business.

He's in love with chick fil a. Anything from there really. Grilled chicken, chicken nuggets, applesauce, ice cream, etc. My kind of guy.

Today we are heading to his pal Elaine's first birthday party. I am taking him solo because Ben will be working but he usually does well when he can people watch. Cousin Sam will also be there so that will be fun.

Last week I took him to West Park on my way home from grabbing a few things at Target (not a good idea). We couldn't stay long because I had gotten some meat that was in the car and I needed to get it in the refrigerator. So we went for about 15-20 minutes and I let him swing, walk around looking at people, and pick up mulch. I thought we better go so I headed back to the car with him. That's when he unleashed something I have never seen before. Screaming, real tears, kicking, arched back, etc. You get the picture. I couldn't stop laughing because it was that ridiculous, which made him even more angry with me. I had to bust open the graham crackers I had just bought at Target and luckily I had a bottle of water and sippy cup in the car so I gave him some water. Once I got him buckled in and started the car he was fine and was laughing by the time we got home. I'm sure this is the fi rst of many of those moments. Here is a pic pre-meltdown.

He loves sunglasses. He will not take them off, we have to take them off of him when we go inside because he would wear them all day if he could. It's almost embarrassing.

We ran across this baby picture of Ben this week. And let's just say Miles looks exactly like him. It's starting to freak me out.

He is risen! He is risen indeed.

Happy Easter! This little bunny has been so good today. We were just going to go to brunch with bens fam and to my moms for an Easter egg hunt this afternoon but when I was talking to my pal erin yesterday about Easter plans I said "I dont think we're going to go to church, just brunch." The minute those words left my mouth I thought that's crazy, it's Easter, get it together. So sure enough we did and headed to southport Presbyterian for the 9:30 Easter service. Like a champ, miles snoozed for 15 minutes on the way there and was ready to play with cousin remy when we arrived.
Then we had brunch with the entire Davidson clan at bravo and somehow he stayed awake the whole way home. Hes sleeping now and when he wakes up were headed back out for more fun at the 1st annual oliver Easter eggstravaganza! Grandpa bob will surely have no shortage of eggs for his two favorite little guys.



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Vroom vroom.

Baby parking!



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March

Our little Miles is something else. I'm not sure how he has so much spunk but he goes and goes and goes from sun up til sun down. And we love it. Well, we do get really tired chasing him around but we still think he is funny. Here is a recap of ole MBD in the last month.

-He loves to look underneath closed doors. Weird, I know but he gets down on the floor and tries to look underneath, he especially loves it when there is a light on behind the closed door and it shines through just a little bit.

-He likes to stomp his feet when he gets his shoes on. It kind of looks like he's tap dancing but for Ben's sake, lets say he's stomping.

-He tries (keyword: tries) to repeat everything you say, and is quite chatty and loud. He'll talk to strangers, norm, yells out the windows, etc. Pretty friendly little guy.

-Obsessed with the great outdoors. Could walk aimlessly around all day up and down the driveway, looking at plants, picking up mulch, and "chasing" norm. I got him a "water table" because I love how much bright colored plastic looks on our deck. Such a nice touch. Never say never.

-Claps. Seems like other babies did this a lot earlier but he is just now clapping. And it's a wild clap. He's even been seen sitting up in his crib and clapping when he wakes up.

-Likes sitting on the porch listening to the little white dog across the street (named marshmallow I might add) bark at everything/everyone. He likes it. Ben and I on the other hand have different feelings about marshmallow.

-Parks. We hit up the park behind our house every few days at least and he really likes watching big kids play. Its like he thinks he knows what they are talking about and is always trying to get in on their conversations.

-I've started taking him to LePeep for breakfast on Fridays. Ben's work has started back full force so I thought breakfast on Fridays would be good for M and I. Plus every other week the cleaning ladies are there so we can get out of their way. He does great. Except he stares people down. For example: this guy. He thought he was going to go have coffee and a nice breakfast. Instead he has a baby turned around 90 degrees in his high chair staring him down for 30 minutes. The poor guy was trying to act like he was busy on his blackberry (that i'm sure he didn't know how to use) and would look up every now and then and smile at Miles, to which Miles would laugh and keep staring. It was awkward. I couldn't distract him with anything. Jelly packets, pancakes, cheerios, bananas, sippy cup, toys. I'll just have to face Miles out to the restaurant next time so he can see everyone!

Spring fever

Loving this Indiana weather!!!



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Naps are for babies.

This is what afternoon nap time has been looking like lately.....

Miles: 1
Me/Ben/grandma/Linda: 0


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Toast monster!

Miles is liking more and more foods. Toast with butter is his favorite so far, at least of what we allow him to have. Like his parents, he also has a soft spot in his heart for chick fil a. He would eat it every meal if we let him but for now it's a lot of toast, and fruit and veg. baby food. He still likes it so until he'll eat real sweet potatoes and bananas, baby food it is! (with some chick fil a treats here and there)


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Busted.

Can't turn my head for even a minute with this guy.



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Firsts.

A few new things.
1. We took miles to the monon center indoor pool on Wednesday and he loved it. Was belly laughing after sticking his face in the water over and over. Got so excited after 20 min. pooped in his swim diaper. Got him out and changed him and decided we were not up for getting him ready to get back in the pool. We bought a punch card so we'll be back. It was a blast. Then ben snagged a b ball and miles and I watched and ate goldfish.

*sidenote: when we were checking in there was an irate mom complaining about this toddler open gym and how there weren't enough toys in there. OBVIOUSLY she needed a break and shouldve taken her kids to a babysitter if that was the case. Made me realize how I don't want to act. She should be embarrassed. Shame on her for acting that way in front of her 4 yr. olds.

2. Miles loves brushing his teeth. Actually he loves sucking on his toothbrush and eating the toothpaste off but hes great about letting me actually brush his pearly whites.

3. Pooped in the tub for the first time last week. Funniest/grossest thing I've ever seen. Enough said.

4. Obsessed with real milk instead of formula. Actually ben and I are pretty excited about it too. So much easier and cheaper. We are finding out that we go through it faster than we think and have made a few cvs runs this week for more.

5. He marches to the beat of his own drum. He now hightails it away from me when he sees me grab a diaper or if he thinks I am going to take something from him. He doesn't even know how to run but he moves as fast as those chubby little legs will allow.
He can be quite a stinker but at this stage it makes him that much more hilarious.



Loving the pool


Watching his favorite show, wheel of fortune, while drinking milk before bed.


Home away from home: nordstrom ebar.
*sidenote: you might think "was kristyn mall-jogging?" the answer is no I'm just waiting on ben to have a weak moment and tell me he'd LOVE for me to get the stroller I've been wanting for over 6 months now.

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