Big Changes coming

First Day of VBS!

Family Photo at Memorial Day Celebration

2014 Summer time Fun with cousin Lucy

Catch of the day with Tee-Toe!

We are MOVING! Big changes have begun to occur on Old Ox rd. My husband is accomplishing one of his goals and will be renting out our house as we move into another house closer to his work. I def have mixed feelings about this move and I will admit, I've given my hubby a pretty hard time about it. I love my house here, my big yard, my neighbors and most of all my Cul-de-sak!!! It is a tough change and i think I'm the one taking it hardest. Joseph is pretty excited about his new toy room in the new house and his bedroom. The house is a little bigger than the one we are in, a gameroom and guest room are upstairs so the master and Josephs room is downstairs. JOey is currently re modeling the kitchen so it is gutted and lots of work to be done.
ANother change... Joseph will be attending pre-school in September!! A huge step for us but after talking to his pediatrician we believe he is just bored at home and needs to be in a program. I've signed him up at a catholic church close to Joey's work and our new house. I am SO excited and I think he will love it. It will be 3 days a week from 9:15-2:15.
I may slowly start looking for a job, but the new house needs work, so when he's at Pre-K, I'll be painting, tearing off wall-paper, and arranging our new place. I'm still suffering from head/facial pain on a weekly basis, so that puts a major damper on life, but on my good days I hope to get lots done and start making our new house a HOME :)
THankfully JOseph slept late today, it's after 9am so I was able to update! :)

Busy, busy boy

I read a couple of my friend's blogs this weekend and it got me back in the mood. pICTURES Posted at the bottom :)
Joseph is a busy boy these days. Every day he is asking me where are we going, who are we playing with? Can we go to (name a friend)'s house? And before bed each night, what are we doing tomorrow? He wants to stay busy and if we are not playing and busy at home we better be somewhere else playing cause then he gets bored and starts asking for tv and phones, ect..and he only gets certain amounts of time on electronics a week.
He is on a waiting list at a MDO program for the fall, he is number 7 on the list for a 2 a day program, the church is very close to our house. We decided against the Pre-K at the catholic school this Fall, since I am not working and it is not close to our house, realistically, it just wasn't the smartest choice for us financially. Plus, it was a M-F program and he has never been in an organized program like that before, I'm sure he would do fine and love it, but I feel more comfortable with a 2 or 3 a day program. We may try the catholic school once he is 4, we'll see.I may be working by then.
Currently Joseph is into soccer, airplanes, and always his race cars. We took him to see a B-17 on memorial day and bought him some airplanes. He is obsessed with his Daddy and soccer. He always wants his Daddy and him to be wearing a soccer shirt-that is one with a number. Occasionally, I'll take him to see Daddy play indoor soccer and Joseph doesn't really watch the game, but he runs around the dirty, filthy place kicking his own soccer ball and meeting new friends. I get to watch Joseph instead of the game, he doesn't get to go very often but he gets super excited when we tell him he can go. Otherwise he doesn't even know Daddy goes or he'll be very unhappy he's being left behind with Mommy. PLus there is a "snack bar" filled with horrid candy I would cringe to let him eat, like those nerd ropes, and ring pops...So I always have to give him a speech before we go in that he can't ask for anything because I'm going to say no. He's been pretty good the last 2 times we took him. Sometimes I'll sneak him in some m&m's.
Currently all Joseph wants to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, is Basic 4. Could be worse but if I want him to eat anything else I pretty much spoon feed it to him while he's playing. I know, a mommy no-no but hey it;s the only way he'll eat good stuff. I just found out he like popcorn shrimp too! So here is his basicis, the same ole stuff he's been eating for most of his life!! Milk, juice w/water he calls
"Tea"eggs w/kale, cheese, nuts (pecans!), corn dogs, spaghetti, pizza, pasta, tuna, grapes, banana and peanut butter, bread and jelly, beans, rice, plain popcorn, and oatmeal w/applesauce. He's gotten pretty picky...
Our weeks consist of meeting up to play with a friend about twice a week, library about every other week, and he goes to joey's parents to stay about every other week, sometimes he stays the night. We still stroll for him to nap, so he naps in his stroller in the living room. We are so excited about summer! Our family will come stay with us and he may even go stay with them a few nights. Ok here are some pics!

MEMORIAL DAY!

 SPLASHPAD AT MARKETSTREET

 DADDY'S LEAF BLOWER IN THE FACE.

WE FILL UP THE WAGON AND HE PLAYS IN THE WATER. THIS DAY IT WAS WITH BUBBLES!

 NAPTIME IN THE STROLLER, WEARING HIS FAV SOCCER SHIRT & READING OF COURSE.

 I FOUND THIS CRIB SIDE IN SOMEONES TRASH ON A WALK AND CARRIED IT ALL THE WAY HOME. YEP, MY VINE NEEDED IT, AND APPARENTLY SO DID MY SON. NOW HE CAN SEE OVER THE FENCE.

Been a while

My computer crashed. Joey has been trying to see if my files and pictures are saved. When it crashed I stopped blogging. So instead of playing catch up, I'll just start off where we are as of now. I'm using a laptop we had but not a lot of pictures are on it. So here is whats new.
     First of all, I have started reading 1-2-3 Magic because we need some discipline in this house.  Joseph as a 3 yr old is so much worse that him being 2. I plan to finish the book this week so we can start implementing what I've learned.
     I am really enjoying being at home with him, our morning include playing with cars, working puzzles, playing with legos, dancing, playing outside, stroller rides. and about half of the days he will still take a nap for me.  We attend Nature story time at SpringCreek Nature Center once a month. We currently are not doing a library story time. We had a bad experience about 2 weeks ago and I decided we are going to take a break from it for a while plus we read ALOT to him at home still. I also have a lot of mommy friends I get together with on a weekly basis at parks, play dates, or just in the cul de sak to play :)
     Joseph's diet mainly consists of cereal. He wants to eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner. So I always fix him a bowl of cereal plus feed him whatever else I want him to eat, but he always has to have that bowl of cereal, milk, spoon, and a straw. If you don't give it to him, he will ask you for it in that order. His cereals are: Chex, Frosted Mini Wheats, Raisin Bran, Cheerios, Kix and Rice Krispies.  If we come to your house and you have color cereal like fruit loops Joseph will raid your pantry and eat your artificial flavored and Red dye #40 cereal because he ain't getting any from this mama....
     Joseph is potty trained!!! He still wears pull ups at night but he never wets them. He gets up at night to potty and potty's in the morning. I am so proud of this.  I felt like others potty trained to early when their children aren't ready and i saw how hard it was on the parents and I did not want to be like that. Although JOey and I would talk alot about going potty we never pushed him to use the potty because he was kinda scared of it. He came around like the doctor said he would and sure enough he is a pro at pee and pooping in the potty! We gave him m&m's as a treat when he made a pee pee or a poop :) So I guess he did get a little of that artificial color in his diet.
     OkI'll try to keep up blogging now. March is right around the corner I hope all had a great new year!

Special

Over the Thanksgiving break we stayed a week in Corsicana. We visited my Memaw and Aunt Eileen at the nursing home. Here is Joseph holding each of their hands. Very special :)

Yummy but tired

Halloween

I'm trying to get caught up before the end of the year :) Joseph was Batman at all the Halloween festivities we attended the month of October. He ate more candy this month than he ever has. We went to the Trick or Treat trail at Jesse Jones park where he loved the hayride most of all. Halloween night we ate hot dogs with the neighbors and decided to head to a few houses. He was a challenge that night, it all began when he did not want to be batman. So he ended up being a barefooted fireman. At about the 2nd house of trick or treating, the decorations scared him (a skeleton) and then he wanted to us to carry him. I was cold and went home and Joey took him to a few more houses. We will probably do something different next year. Depends if he is still scared of Halloween things! All his pictures of the barefooted foreman are on joeys phone.

My Batman