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to infinity….and beyond!
For a little while, Timmy was off the Buzz Lightyear/Toy Story kick. But now it’s back on at full force. I guess he’s gearing up for our Disney trip next week (notice the Mickey sweater?). He’s back to asking to watch Toy Story or Toy Story 2 at least twice a day and all the Toy Story toys have been going into the crib with him every night. He loves his Buzz. My favorite thing is:
"mommy, close his eyes closed"
This does not have anything to do with Buzz’s eyes however. In Toy Story, Woody and Buzz are arguing about whether or not Buzz can fly. "can" "can’t" "can" "can’t". Buzz says "I can fly around this room with my eyes closed!"- and out pop his wings. So now everytime Buzz’s wings break or Timmy wants them closed he calls them "his eyes closed". Pretty cute and very amusing.
Timmy is super excited to ride on the Buzz Lightyear ride at Disney and to see Buzz in person again. He keeps telling me that he is dressing up in his Buzz costume in the park. I think I’m gonna have to let him.
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And in other news… I spent the majority of the day
ignoring the kidsscrapbooking the Disney trip from last year. I am almost done with it and it will be completed by Monday. Just waiting to get a few more pictures printed up at the camera store. So excited- it looks great! I actually accomplished my goal of getting it done before the next Disney trip. Woohoo! I will post it when it’s all done.Two shoots tommorrow, so there should be lots of new stuff to look at on the blog this week. Catch ya later!
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silly
Just a few shots of Timmy playing his "silly faces" game. He’s way into games lately…old macdonald, don’t spill the beans, candy land, hi-ho cherrio. This one is my favorite though.
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the frozen orange bowl & the $12 dolphins
So here are the sporting events from our Dec/Jan Florida trip. They were all on disposable cameras so I had to wait to get them developed. So not used to that anymore.
John and Grandpa took the big boys to their first NFL game- the dolphins vs. the bengals. They got $12 tickets, so they really HAD to go. The boys had a good time. And going on a sunny, hot florida afternoon has to beat going on a freezing December day up here anytime.
We went to our second annual Orange Bowl game on Jan 3rd, and man, it was freaking cold!! The weather forecast said it was in the 50’s but there was NO WAY it was. It was definitely in the 40’s. Plus the fact that it was drizzling on and off all night, and we were up really high in the stands so we had a wind blowing! I ended up wearing about 7 layers- a long sleeved t-shirt, a sweatshirt, a heavy windbreaker sweatshirt, a lined windbreaker jacket, and another sweatshirt over that. And gloves. And I was still freezing! John keeps telling me that "some of us were more freezing than others" cause I had most of his clothes on too. So in my friend I’s word’s "Can’t. Raynauds." (I have raynauds syndrome which is where you lose circulation in your extremities when cold- so my fingers turn dead-fish white, and my nose, hands and feet are always freezing). And I don’t drink beer, so there was no warming up that night. We had the heat on in the car on the way home. In Florida!!! All wrong I tell you.
The game was great- very exciting. They had the usual jet flyover before the game which is SO LOUD. Although last year it was timed better with the national anthem. John always says that he dosen’t understand how 3rd world countries see/hear those jets overhead they don’t just freak out and say "okay, we give up". They are that intimidating in person. Really. The game was so exciting right up to the overtime ending with Kansas winning (which no one expected). While our whole family was rooting for Virginia Tech, of course Jack had to be different and route for Kansas. So he was happy in the end. I just hope it’s warmer next year!
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heeeeere’s MEL
This man is THE crankiest, unfriendly, mean SOB EVER!! He lives at the same complex that my parents have their apartment in Florida. He is head of the fun police. He obviously hates kids. Whenever the boys are in the pool, all you hear from him is "watch your hair, Evelyn. They’re splashing again!". The boys know better than going anywhere near Mel in the pool. I saw him in the hallway once and said hi and he actually growled at me. Growled. WTF?That all leads me to the story of last year when we there and he was being his usual "melness". John had really had it with him at that point. He was making comments about the boys being in the pool (really, they weren’t doing anything. Just playing in the pool. Not wild, not splashy. Just playing). So John just started mouthing "f*** you, f*** you, f*** you" over and over at Mel. It made John happy. I don’t think it made Mel happy. So this is John’s favorite picture from the trip
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the crib flip & football playoffs
A new trick of Timmy’s that we were just introduced to on Sunday night. Didn’t even know he could do it. While John and I watched him we both said "well, that’s no good". (click on the picture below to see bigger). The crib flip is quite funny- he basically does a forward flip into the crib, laughing the whole time. He even explains it step by step as he’s doing it. "okay, you move the bench over. you climb up and put your foot here. you put your other foot here. heeheeeheeeee. then you go in. haaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaa! I did it!!" Luckily, I just purchased all his bedding for his new "big boy" room
at pottery barn kids on Friday. I am holding off on the bed until after Disney as I need the crutch of papi’s at Disney (Timmy and I discussed the fact that there will be no more papi’s when he gets a big boy bed) and I need him in the pack and play at Disney. No point doing it now. And I figure if there is going to be a lack of sleep due to new sleeping arrangements, I can handle it better during the week break from school- not having to be anywhere in the morning will be a plus. The breaking of the papi habit isn’t going to be as funny as the crib flip. He is very attached- he needs one for his nose (which he just holds on his nose) and one for his mouth every night. I remember when we took the papis away from the big boys when they were the same age- actually like a month or two older. They were all set to give the papis to the papi fairy in return for a great toy (I think it was a new rescue hero). All was fine until it was lights out and then the screaming started…."I can’t BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEATHE without it!!!!!" Like heroin addicts. It wasn’t pretty. But they’ve managed fine since around the third night without it. In other weekend news…we stayed in our pajamas (the boys and I anyway, John had to work today) all day Sunday and Monday. It was niiiiice. It was so freaking cold here that I was walking around inside the house in a hat. Nice touch, huh? John said I looked like a homeless person.
John and the big boys watched the Giants/Packers playoff game on Sunday night. It was an exciting game (yes, I caught a little of it in between pictures) and there were a few "I can’t look" moments. John and Patrick were rooting for the Giants, but Jack HAS to be different and wanted the Packers.
He was a little dissapointed. Can you tell?