Out To Dinner!

Lee and I went and helped my friend Amy and her little daughter tonight and then went out to dinner. Lee is big on making his own choices now for what he wants to eat. So this is what happened.

Me: Lee, would you like a hot dog or Mac N Cheese for dinner?

Lee: Ummm, Hot Gogg

Me: Ok, but Maple is getting Mac N Cheese are you sure you don't want that?

Lee: No, Hot Gogg

Me: Ok, sounds good

(About 20 minutes later after Lee got his hot dog and Maple has her Mac N Cheese)
Lee: (takes bite of hot dog, then spits it into my hand) Yucky, no like it!

Me: What? You wanted a hot dog?

Lee: No hot gogg, yucky, I Mac N Cheese?

So, what do you do?? He eats hot dogs just about every other day. I know that he LOVES them, which is why I didn't argue when he wanted one. Everyday I'm just astonished at what he says. Today seemed like it was one of those days where he woke up and was talking everything he wanted. It's crazy how fast he learns. I've never heard him say "no like it". He says yucky all the time, but not the no like it part. He just cracks me up!

Here's a picture from last week of Maple and Lee at Brookfield Zoo. She just turned 3 in March.

19 Months Old

Playing video games with Daddy. You will sit on his lap for hours if we let you. You love wearing the headset and listening.

Lee's almost 2 years old. I feel that if I blink too hard it will be here and it really truely scares me. On the other hand, he's getting to be so big and smart, everyday he is surprising me. Here are some funny and new things he's doing.

Walking up and down stairs all by himself. He refuses help and wants to do it himself. Scares the life out of me because he's actually walking down them instead of crawling now.

If you ask him his favorite letter he'll say "p". Last night at my parents we were there for dinner and after I asked him his letter, he followed it by singing (actually singing and you could tell it was the abc song) "p p p p p p p p, p p p p p p p p." He was singing to the tune of ABC's but only used the letter "p".

If you ask him how old he is, he'll tell you he's 2.


He's starting to get the TV shows he watches. He'll sit there and laugh or he'll say "oh no" at the appropriate oh no times.

He can turn on the TV and then he'll bring you the remote and either ask for you to turn on Elmo or Choo Choos.

He's really curious about putting on his own clothes. He'll get his arm in or his leg but then is stuck.

His signing is getting much better. He can sign: amen, all done, more, eat, drink, pig, home, bath, please, dadddy and potty.


He also knows where the following body parts are: hair, ears, eyes, nose, teeth, tongue, hands, belly button and feet.


3 favorite toys right now are trains, mr. potato head and books.


You can feed yourself just about anything with a fork or spoon. It's still a bit messy, but you do a very good job!


You're still going to bed about 7pm every night, waking up between 7-8am and napping from noon-3pm (most days).


When I ask you a question, you will say "umm" before giving me the answer. It's really funny and I laugh everytime. You will also ask me what things are, "whats it" is what I think you're saying. You want to know what everything is, and you repeat what I tell you. 85% of the time, I still don't understand you, but you have a lot to say!


You LOVE to play video games with Daddy. He will even switch video games so you can sit on his lap and play with him.

You love to color. You are most definately left handed also.

Bedtime the last few nights has been horrible. You will cry and cry and cry. I have no clue why other than you're extra tired and don't want to go to sleep. You're fine if we're in there with you but you hate being left alone.

You refuse to wear socks. I don't even put them on you anymore. Once your shoes are off, so are the socks!


Below are some pictures from the last month or so.

Playing in the snow. Like socks you won't keep gloves on either.

Climbing on everything.

Trying to dress yourself.

You love to help me make cookies... and eat them.

There were major problems with the cars and your garage. You can see the tongue sticking out, you were thinking hard!

Words and Talking

Lee has been talking up a storm for the past three weeks. His words are finally starting to make sense and I can now tell what he is saying to me. Here are some favorites that he likes to say (besides "choo-choo twain"). Also, in parenthesis I will put how he pronounces them.

More, Up, Down, All Done, Please (peas), Thank You (ah chu), Socks (cocks), Shoes (shoosh), Mommy, Daddy, Papa, Nana, Grandma (nama), Jackie, Kelly (Kakee), Cheese, Milk, Water, Juice (jujice), Doggie, Ball, Bath, Come on(comema) , Let go (wetgo), Barney, Elmo, Dance, Potty (potta), Cookie, Cracker, Yucky (yunny), TV (PT), Press Play (prepa - used in the car DVD player), and Nye-nye.

He asks to go to bed most of the time, then cries as he walks himself upstairs.

He started today blowing his nose for the first time.

He will always put "please" or "thank you" at the end of all his words and sometimes it doesn't fit at all. It's really cute.

He will bring you his shoes to put on and wear. He loves to wear other peoples shoes too.

He really, really likes trains, have I mentioned that yet?

18 - Month Dr. Update
27lb, 37" tall and he was in the 90th percentile.

Animal Sounds

Lee knows the sounds to the following animals:
- Horse
- Cow
- Cat
- Dog
- Sheep
- Owl
- Snake
- Bunny (not a sound but he makes a bunny face)
- Duck

He will also do the sign for bird. I keep trying to get a video of him doing these animal sounds, yet once the camera turns on, he freezes and won't say them. Here he is hamming it up, NOT saying his animal sounds!

Please ignore my continued cackeling and singing. Everytime he makes that face I laugh.. errr.. cackel.

10 Months Old

Dear baby boy,

I can't believe that you are 10 months old already. You are growing up too quick and it is starting to make me really sad. I wanted to write a quick note to you so hopefully when you're 16 and hate me, blogger is still around and you can read how much of a pain you were, ha, ha. The most wonderful, amazingly special and joyous pain ever!

Lets see, what's new these last 2 months (since I didn't post last month).

You're favorite thing to do is read. The ladies at church can't believe how well you sit for books. We on average read about 15 books a day. As long as you're not too tired, you love quiet time to sit on someones (anyones) lap and read. You also like to turn the pages faster than we can read.

February 21st was the first time you took a few actual "crawls", March 6th you started crawling full time. You woke up that morning and got on your hands and knees and took off. You have not army crawled since that day.

You make the sounds "w", "b", "m", "l" and "d" a lot. You use "de, de, da, da, du, du" all the time. Everything is da, da, da.

You dance all the time. Whenever there is music or a beat (ex: daddy hammering) you will rock back and forth, side to side to dance. It's really funny.

You love to feed yourself anything. I have found with slippery food you can get a fork in your mouth by yourself. I just spear the food and you can get it in your mouth. You always smile all proud of yourself. You've have had: cheerios, goldfish, oyster crackers, puffs, cartwheels, bananas, peaches, pears, noodles, mac n'cheese, hot dogs, lunch meat, cheese, cottage cheese, lemons, oranges, apples, mashed potatoes, ice cream, chicken and ham.

You've been pulling yourself up on furniture for quite awhile, but now you like walk around holding onto the furniture. You also like to go from one piece to another too. You have not figured out how to climb stairs yet, though I think it's just around the corner. You will stand at the bottom and lift your leg to try to get it on the step, but it doesn't always work. So that's the new thing you are working on. Daddy and I are not about to show you how to do that either, so take your time, no hurry coming from this end.

You love to give kisses. With all the drool going, people LOVE to get kisses from you too ;) Corey and Grandpa Shoes are the 2 people which you LOVE to kiss most. Here's a picture of you giving Grandpa Shoes a kiss. I love that picture ;0) Last week we had a game night at Crystal's house and you came with. You must have given Corey about 20 kisses. You loved her.

Last but not least, you threw your first official temper tantrum. Steve has about 3,000 electronics below our TV and Lee likes to get into all of that and mess it up (aka - knock it over and punch buttons). Lee, you used to listen to the word "no". Well, last Friday you threw your head back onto the floor and screamed/kicked and made a huge fuss. I picked you up, put you on the floor by your toys and walked away. You didn't like that at all and decided to follow me around crying and whining.

Dinner for Grandma Shoes Birthday

You and Grandma Shoes.

Your love of books. Grandma Lil loved reading to you!

9 Months Old!

Helping Momma with laundry. This is the shirt that Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa got for you for Easter!

This is the funny face you make all the time.

Until next month, please stop growing! We love you!
Momma and Dadda

8 Months Old!

Officially 8 months old. Wow, it's just craziness. He's getting to be such a big boy. He's into everything which always makes for a fun day! He is turning into a toddler it seems, and not so much a baby.

I love going into his room first thing in the morning and seeing him standing in his crib, smiling away at me. He loves to stand up so much, that it's been a problem putting him to bed because he will stand there now and hold out his hand and cry for you to come back. He will eventually fall asleep, but it takes about 10 minutes. It's kinda funny. He's learning though, that once he's in his crib, we're not coming back in to get him until he sleeps. Although at night when he's asleep, I do go in there and pick him up to hold him. He's just too cuddly and sweet not too.

He's pulling up all the time. He has learned how to fall down too. He will fall into a sitting position and then pull himself right back up to stand again. He's crazy. Other than pulling up, he is still army crawling. I'm not sure he's ever going to normal crawl but that's ok with me. The slower... the better ;)

He's still teething pretty good. He's into chewing on his thumbs now, so I think back teeth are starting to come down. He now has his top 4 teeth and his bottom 2 teeth. You can see the picture below of all his "goofer" teeth. His top teeth are so big, LOL. He's been grinding his teeth which was funny because Steve said "Hey, what are you doing" to Lee, then Steve said "Hey, Aghhh, stop grinding your teeth!!!". Ha, ha. It really bothered Steve.

Feeding Lee has been fun! He gags or throws-up any type of "normal" food we put in his mouth. Lee only likes his bottles, water, yogurt or his baby food. We even tried the stage 3 green beans and rice. There are little bits of rice mixed in green beans and he gagged on that. So any suggestions on how to get him to eat whole foods better, will be greatly appreciated!!

Other than that he's not talking at all. He coos and gaga's but he doesn't say anything resembling a word. Although, if you say his name he turns towards you. If you say "are you hungry?" he starts breathing really hard and moving his feet very fast. If you tell him "no, no" he will look at you and give you this smile (and will also crinkle up his nose), little stinker knows better.

16 Weeks Old
My Little Punkin Head!!

So there have been a few firsts this week:
1) First time to a pumpkin farm.
2) First time to the park and in a swing.
3) First time giggling when tickled.

Steve and I took Lee to the park for the first time. We have a small one in our subdivision so we walked over there. We put him in the swing with his blanket behind him to hold him in there tighter. He did really good and liked it a lot. The picture on top is of LJ in the swing.

Lee has been blowing TONS of bubbles/raspberries. He is talking (cooing) a lot more too. I have a video of him talking to his bears in his swing. It's kinda hard to see him because he's buried in his blanket and I didn't want him to see the camera because then he would stop. He probably sat there 20 minutes talking to the bears before he passed out. I'll post the video a little bit later.

He still seems like he's teething, but nothing has broken through yet. I can still see them under the gums and I can feel them. Also he has been eating 6oz, sometimes even 7oz. Next week we start solids and I can't wait. We are still working on the pacifier thing. Lee's not too into it. He plays with it alot when in his mouth. He will hold onto it, take it out and then drop it, just this week I saw him take it out of his mouth completely and then put it back in so I think he's starting to get the hang of it.

I tickled LJ a few days ago and he actually giggled instead of grunting. I think he is starting to understand that it's a good thing. Sometimes he looks at you like you're growing horns on your head.

I went and visited Crystal, Emily, Frank, Madison, Steph & Malachy yesterday (Tuesday) and we had so much fun! We all went to Goebberts pumpkin farm to hang out and play. The kids had a bunch of fun! Madison and Malachy went on pony rides. Frank & Emily went into a haunted house and then right back out. It was VERY dark in there so Frank and I went and ventured through it. I screamed only twice, Frank screamed only none ;) Ha, ha. Pictures below.

The Pumpkin Farm

My little punkin head :) Crystal took this picture... I LOVE it!!

All the Kids!

How big is Lee?

Group shot! (Emily holding Madison, Frank infront of Crystal, Me holding Lee, Steph holding Malachy)

When I was a baby, my Dad used to call me punkin head. I guess I had a big head like Lee ;0)