Austen-isms

Austen has developed some catch phrases and I'm sure they are only funny to me, but I need to document them so I never forget.

He loves to say "it's no big deal" and "that's o.k.".
He says "who's that" all the time when we're out...it can be a little embarrassing.
He loves to pretend his food is saying "oh no, don't eat me" and then gobble it up.
He has combined some words to make new ones like "milkstache" or "hanitizer".
My absolute favorite is
"Hey don't ________" He fills in the blank with "take out my passa" or "put that away".
It's all very funny especially when you get to hear it in person!

My cute boys "smiling" while playing play dough.

Four Blog Posts In One

I think I could make four different posts out of this, but I've decided to condense and mash four totally unrelated things into one post.

First I just want to say I am so amazed with Austen's transition to a big boy bed. I have been dreading it and putting it off for a while because I thought it was going to be hell. I had no idea how I was going to keep him in there because he's the kind of kid that would get out a million times and not be discouraged by discipline. I'm happy to say that he doesn't get out and he slept through the night last night for the first time in four days! He has finally gotten used to the new surroundings and doesn't wake up sad and confused in the night. He also gets really excited to go to bed and actually asks for bedtime! If I knew it was going to be this uneventful, I would have done it sooner!

Here's his bed. He wanted all his treasures on there for the picture.

Austen's always been very interested in what I'm cooking on the stove and lately he has been getting a little too close for comfort. I keep telling him it's hot and not to touch it, but I figured it was just a matter of time before his curiosity won out. Well, it happened. He touched the burner the other day. Both Brian and I were standing right there, but couldn't stop him in time. Luckily he touched it pretty soon after I had turned it on, so it wasn't at it's hottest yet. It still burned him though, but it could have been a lot worse. I hope he learned his lesson and doesn't try that again. Here's his battle wound.
Remember my post about bi-polar weather. We went to go fly kites in 74 degrees and woke up the next morning to this:

That is for sure crazy weather.
But to make myself feel better I look at the following picture:

And I remember the world's best cupcake. Brian took me to The Sweet Tooth Fairy on our date night last week and convinced me to try a cupcake. I'm not kidding best cupcake ever!!! I usually get their cake bites because they are amazing, but the cupcakes are even better. If you go, you should get the Va-NIE-lla. Soooo good!

Favorite Foods And A Big Boy Bed

Austen has been eating like crazy lately! He has also been growing....none of his clothes fit him anymore, but I don't want to buy new winter clothes, so he's been wearing floods while I hold out for warmer weather.

He loves fruit! It is by far his favorite food and has been for a long time. He eats pears like candy, loves bananas with peanut butter, gets excited over cantaloupe, and I thought he was going to die when I couldn't find grapes anywhere for a whole week. He's also been loving asparagus and red peppers lately. (see he does get something from me.) He loves ketchup and salsa on everything......even weird things like pineapple and strawberries.

We took a late night trip to the store the other night to get an ice cream fix and we let Austen pick out what he wanted. He went with the little ice cream dot things and he devoured them! Look how wide he can open that mouth!

Dipping a strawberry in salsa

And currently the ultimate meal for him
Costco hot dog and a root beer.

And since he's getting so big from all that eating we decided to make his crib into a big boy bed. It's a very long story, but to summarize we bought a crib that is supposed to convert into a big boy bed. We bought the conversion kit at the same time we bought his crib, but they were never able to actually get it from the manufacturer and I can't find it anywhere on the internet. So, we had a little (read big) problem trying to make a toddler bed. I wanted to throw in the towel and just wait until we can buy an actual toddler bed, but luckily I live with the world's second best problem solver and he made it work. Last night was Austen's first night sleeping in his bed and while he was super excited before he went to sleep, he didn't really sleep that great. He is definitely a creature of habit and not a fan of change, but I'm sure he'll adjust eventually. In the meantime at least he's really proud of the big boy bed even if he doesn't want to sleep through the night in it.

Bi-Polar Weather

Since it snowed about 12 feet today I thought I'd try to keep myself from getting too depressed by looking at pictures from last week.....when it was starting to warm up.

Here's our latest trip to the farm.

Austen's cute cousin J got to milk a cow.

Austen steering a tractor.

Eating the duck bread that you have to sign a waiver saying it won't be used for human consumption before you can buy it.
I'm sure it's fine.....right?

Let's Go Fly A Kite

Another "real time blog post".
See, sometimes I am so on top of this blogging thing. We were flying a kite just minutes ago and now you already get to see pictures.

Today was seriously perfect kite flying weather..... warm and windy. Austen got a super cute Buzz Lightyear kite for his birthday, so we took him out for a spin. Some of my favorite childhood memories are of flying kites so I was really excited to go. Brian claims he has never flown a kite, but he was a natural and I'm expecting him to take up stunt kite flying any day now.

Austen thought it was neat for a minute, but the novelty wore off pretty quickly. Pine cones on the other hand held his interest forever.

Sophie hated the kite and wanted to kill it. She kept trying to attack it when it would crash and barked at it while it was fluttering high above her in the safe zone. She has mental problems, but we love her anyway.

Get comfy cause I posted tons of pictures. There were too many cute ones to choose from so I posted them all.

You can kinda see that he's pointing at Buzz.

Look how high he got!

Here's Austen imitating Buzz's crash landing. Notice crumpled Buzz in the back.

Doing it "all by self".

Sophie attacking...

Cute Daddy moment.

Boys are weird. I have no idea what Austen's doing (besides being a spaz), but this pic made me laugh.

This one is so cute I think I need to get it framed!

We WON'T Be Doing This Today

Austen got loads of Play Dough for his birthday and I swear it has gotten us through the winter days.
He absolutely loves it and asks to play with it every single day!
BUT
Since today is the nicest day we have had in what feels like forever,
I can guarantee we WON'T be playing with it today.
We are going outside.
(With plenty of sunblock because we haven't seen the sun in ages!)

Here are some cute pics of Austen's favorite winter pastime.
They'll have to do until we have some of him playing outside.

I loaded them in the reverse order. Woops......well you get the idea anyway.
Happy Friday!!!

Sometimes Being A Mom Sucks

Sometimes it's really hard. It's messy, it's trying, and it definitely takes your patience to levels you didn't know existed. Sometimes it sucks and I don't feel guilty one bit for putting that out there!

Austen and I haven't really been seeing eye to eye this week, hence the lack of blogging. I didn't really have anything good to say. He's been uncooperative, disobedient, and not so successful in the potty training arena. (Yes we've had a major setback there, so for everyone hating me for how easy it was going and my smugness about it, rest assured, I've cleaned up more human waste than I care to talk about.) The one thing that saved us was that he's at least been sleeping good. Well, that and we finally had a nice day today.

I think he's just really bored and he's 2, so he's pushing the limits of everything! Including my patience......I think he's even a little frustrated too.....

But I can't stay mad at this:

Getting out of the house and letting him run around was all he needed! He's been an absolute angel today! Obedient and everything!

The other day he pulled his tool bench in front of the curio cabinet, climbed on it, and sat there to eat his snack. I thought he was just being silly until I realized why he had done that.

He totally wanted to watch himself in the mirror. Like father like son! They can't get enough of themselves!!!