My first Christmas

My Daddy wanted to get me little pajama's that said 'Baby's first Christmas' none of them were my size because as mommy tried to explain to him, it's not my first Christmas. Daddy says it's the first Christmas I'm going to remember but that's not true either, I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. Next year is going to be my real first Christmas so for all my Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles out there that forgot to get me something this year, don't sweat it, I won't remember anyways, but if you forget next year...

Like Dadda's like Ike

Ike likes to play with the playstation controller any chance he gets. I have a feeling he's a budding gammer, just like his dadda.

You'd think he was really playing something, but he's just excited to have the remote all to himself.

Ryan is out of town for a couple of days and we miss him already. Come home safely Daddy, we'll keep the PS3 warm for you.

Printed T-shirt

Ike and I finally made it to Signed and Numbered to get a shirt printed. Each month they have a different design that they will print on whatever you bring in.

This month of coarse was Christmas themed. I thought this reindeer was really cute. They also have a lot of really cool prints mostly original concert posters but some non concert ones that are really cool too. It's one of my new favorite places to go.

Especially since I got to meet up with my friend Jemma and her cute little stinker Liam. She invited us over for chicken soup afterwards which is just what my soul needed (here's where I would insert a smiley face is I was one of those people). Thanks Jemma, it was fun hanging out.

A week of being a two year old

I'm not sure if the haircut was inspired by the behavior or the behavior was inspired by the haircut. But for about a week around the time I gave Ike a mohawk he acted like a bratty two year old. Throwing tantrums, crying if the littlest thing upset him. I seriously thought I was going to loose my mind. But I must have done something right because after about a week he kind of snapped out of it. He still throws little ones or does the hands up back arch when he's not happy but nothing like that week. He's been the sweetest little boy up till now. Then Jason had to go and say 'maybe Ike is just always going to be perfect', then a couple days later it started. Thanks alot Jason.
I think I have my sweet boy back now, knock on wood.

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Dino Museum

Ike and I finally went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. We met up with my new friend Rachel and her 5 year old boy Daniel. He was very cute and helpful showing me and Ike all the cool stuff at the Museum.

At the end they have an area with sand where you can brush away the sand to reveal the dino bones. Ike was a little freaked out by the sand at first but quickly got over it and ended up playing in there for a long time with his new friend. It was a good day with new friends.

Coolest Happy Mail

Ike and I got the coolest Happy Mail from Rainey the other day. She said that Simon saw it and just had to get it for Ike. Good eye Simon, you pick the best Happy Mail ever.

Ike loves it and Ryan had fun playing it for him and trying to scare him with it.

Giddy Up, Giddy Up, Giddy Up Yee Haa!

Jace was making Ike laugh so hard on Sunday. Ike just insisted we watch it about 20 times with a few crying fits mixed in there. I wonder If I can somehow make a 2 hour loop of this video, then I could take a nap, clean my house, make dinner and take a bath. How would it be.

I'm gonna knock you out

I figure if I just have Ike where a hoodie everyday till his black eye goes away people will think he's a little boxer instead of an abused child.

What happened? Oh yeah, people keep asking me and I keep forgetting that my sweet little boy has a big shiner. Well he crawled up on my magazine rack Saturday night and fell off hitting his big wooden toy on the way down. Ryan and I both watched him do it. He actually didn't cry for that long and then fell asleep pretty soon after it happened. (and stayed asleep, I'm thinking of adding it to his nighttime routine). He got a balloon out of it from a nice lady at Smiths who felt sorry for him. He seems to be a quick healer so hopefully it will be gone soon.

Little Stinker Dinker

I was frosting some Halloween cupcakes and Ike kept trying to climb up on me and then cry when I wouldn't pick him up so I put him in his highchair next to the table to watch while I frosted them. I found a cute design online for the cupcakes and had to run downstairs to remind myself what they looked like. While down there I checked my email and was starting to reply to when when I had a feeling like Ike was probably out of his highchair on on the table eating all the cupcakes. So I ran back upstairs to find this... He was so happy when I found him how could I be mad. He ate half of one and was onto his second when when I got there.

Can you say sugar high, I gave him a bath after I found him and had to chase a naked boy around the kitchen for a while before I could through him in the tub.

The real options

Thank you everyone for voting on what Ike should be for Halloween. But the truth of the matter is I don't have any of those costumes and at this point I'm not going to go out and get them. Especially since Ryan has informed me that all holidays are stupid and just a capitolistic ploy to make people spend money.
So below are the real options. Please take a moment to comment on the one you think he should wear. I'm honestly torn, I think they are all cute, but then I'm bias because of who's wearing them. Sorry about the bogus poll, I would love to dress Ike as Elvis, maybe next year.
Vote!

Newsies

The Inspiration
This one is thanks to Grandpa Dennis, he mentioned on Sunday that Ike should dress like a Newsie because of the grey hat he loves to wear. Good idea, plus I just happen to have this whole outfit, knickers even, go figure.

This one looks like he's dancing.

Vato

The Inspiration
Blame this one on my Southern California upbringing. The tear drop smudged a little but you get the idea.
He wasn't very happy about this outfit, but I think he looks so cute.

Run-DMC

The Inspiration
Obviously I don't have the right 'Bling' for him to wear yet, but I did find the Fadora today so I was pretty happy.

Ike Voted!

Have You?

Thanks Aunt Marlene

My Aunt Marlene is awesome. She sends Ike a card for Halloween, Christmas and his Birthday Plus a few other holidays. She also throws in a little sumthin' sumthin' which almost always ends up in Ike's piggy bank. The kid has more money than I do.

It's so nice that she is always thinking of Ike and sending him sweet little messages. We got some cute Halloween pics taken at Target that we'll have to send her as a thank you.

Snap to the beat

I discovered that Ike likes Adele, the singer. She was on SNL and he was watching intently and clapping when we watched it, no I didn't keep him up till midnight is was recorded. Ryan was watching it later with Ike and started dancing for Ike and snapping his fingers and Ike started doing it too. We played it for him again and caught him doing a few snaps.

Horsey Ride

Ike and I went to Thanksgiving Point again to see the animals. Well really to ride the horsey. Ike really enjoyed it this time. He even road the horse all by himself without me holding him.

Captain Third Eye

I forgot to post this from Jace's birthday party. It's a little disturbing, for me anyway.

I'm not a fan of guns, especially for my kid to play with, but boys will be boys, and I don't know how they innately know what to do.

It was a super hero party and Ike didn't fit in any of Jace's 100 costumes so instead he wore a pirate eye patch over his third eye and became Captain Third Eye, there's a whole back story but I won't go into all that.

Pumpkin Carving Time

It's that time of year!

Aunt Brittany was nice enough to have us over to carve pumpkins and make a mess in her house.

Ike sure loves his pumpkin, He's learned to give kisses, apparently indiscriminately.
Brittany has the coolest Halloween tree in her front room that Ike was fascinated with.

Now we all want cool Halloween trees now.

All the boys made cute pumpkins. Owen carved a black widow all by himself, amazing. Ok, Jace is the only one who actually carved it himself, and I think it's the cutest. The boys thought mine looked scary but I was going for it looking like Domo that Target is using to advertise their Holloween. And Christain got this cool 'light bright' kit that he got to hammer into his pumpkin.