Earlier today Adam was using his toy hammer to test my reflexes – a definite sign that our genius baby is going to be a doctor.
Although, I guess hitting me in the knee with a hammer could also indicate a career with the mafia.
I’m going to stick with doctor.
The good news is that Adam is feeling much better.
The bad news is that I am not.
Which I am honestly okay with. If one of us is going to be healthy then I’d definitely prefer it be him. However, it is difficult trying to keep up with him when all I feel like doing is laying on the couch and sleeping. Being all stuffed up with no sense of smell has also resulted in my being caught off guard by two nasty surprise diapers.
Fun.
I took a trip to Walmart earlier – alone. It was fantastic. Aunt Stacy stayed home with the little dude (thanks again!). The main purpose for the trip was to pick up the following items:
Yeah, not such a fun shopping list.
As much as I dislike being sick, I hate it even more when Adam isn’t feeling well. The poor kid has a really runny nose, a cough, and has had a lowgrade fever on and off for the past couple of days. He also hasn’t had much of an appetite (the exception being when it comes to the chocolate chip cookies my friend Shannon brought us – he has been caught several times trying to scale the cupboards to reach them on the counter).
Okay, I’m going to find some warm fleece footed pajamas for my poor sick boy and slather him in Vicks. Let’s hope it does the trick and we’re both feeling better soon.
Lately Adam has been playing a lot with the horse his Great Gramma Elsa got him for Christmas. He likes to sit on it and bounce up and down – he prefers if someone (me) dun-da-da-dun’s the Bonanza theme at the same time.
He also likes to pretend to fall off of the horse and will laugh like crazy when he does. I’m not sure what to think about that. I think he needs lessons from Aunt Amanda. I am just happy that he’s finally sitting on the horse facing the right direction.
Yesterday was awesome. Adam and I had a really great day. It started with this:
We were playing with the webcam on my computer while we waited for Dave to log on so we could chat. Adam likes to see himself on the screen and we were yelling during this picture. (Fun side note: As I was writing this post, Adam was sitting on my lap. When he saw this picture he started laughing and yelling again.)
He took an earlier than normal nap (which was very necessary, since he was up way too often the night before), and after he woke up we took a trip to the post office and then went to lunch at Friendly’s.
He was so good at lunch. He colored until the food came and then ate almost everything on his plate – there were a couple of bites of mac-n-cheese left (he had that with a hotdog) and of course the pickles (because he is just like his mama and daddy in that respect, pickles = yuck). It was the perfect belated Valentine’s lunch date.
We came home and played for a while. He likes to put a tambourine on my head and then giggles like crazy when I pretend to sneeze and it goes flying off. Then we had our pre-bedtime snuggle in the chair while watching cartoons (it’s a nice way to wind down before it’s time to sleep). He went to bed right at eight with no complaints.
Pretty much a perfect day.
Some guys can pull off a mustache, some guys can’t.
I’d have to put him in the “can’t” category.
Thankfully these pictures were taken just before he shaved it off. Without or without the mustache though, there isn’t anyone else I would want as my valentine.
Well, here’s the dinosaur project I mentioned in my last craft related post. I combined the car caddy tutorial with the dino playmat found here. This was just a little more labor intensive than the car one, but still a fairly quick and easy project. The main difficulty was keeping Adam away from it when I was working on it. He really likes the dinosaurs on the back and the numbers on the front. I definitely need to make him one too.
I’m really not sure how it’s going to hold up since the felt pieces cross the fold line. Hopefully it’s not an issue, you can sort of see the creases though already. The velcro and belting went on much easier this time. Especially once I realized the easiest way to keep the belting from fraying on the end was to burn it with a lighter.
Fun fabric on the back, no? It’s been in my stash forever and I have no idea where it came from. Adam loves it though, he carried around a piece of it for a while earlier and kept showing me the dinos and roaring at them. Hopefully the birthday girl (another big dino fan) likes it too.
Yesterday I was sitting down and Adam was sort of sitting/leaning on my stomach. The baby was going nuts – kicking like crazy. I told Dave, thinking it was a cute story. His response: “Great, the baby’s not even born yet and the kids are already fighting”.
Ha ha.
I prefer to think that Ducky was just saying hello to his (or her) big brother.
At Adam’s checkup earlier this week the doctor asked me how many words he says. I honestly had no idea, but guessed “at least fifteen”. When I got home I started a list. This is what I’ve come up with so far:
A little more than 15 – and I am sure I’m missing a couple.
So while this isn’t the big brainstorm craft idea I alluded to in a previous post, it’s close. That project is at a standstill until the fabric I ordered online gets here. It is similar though, so I made this to practice.
Here is Adam’s new car carrier. It took me less than 2 hours total – it’s pretty basic, but I really just wanted to get an idea of how it went together for a different project I have in mind.
(I used this tutorial by Homemade by Jill.)
That’s my car in the lower left – the purple metallic Dodge Charger. The finished size of this mat is roughly 16×9 inches. So it’s the perfect size to take to a restaurant to (hopefully) keep him entertained while we wait.
Basically the way it works is you fold it in half like this (you can see the fabric on the back – that fabric is 14 years old – left over from my senior year driver’s ed project).
Then you fold it in thirds and tie it closed with the attached shoelace. It folds up to about 5 square inches and is the perfect size to toss in my bag when we’re going out.
We have a birthday party to go to this weekend for a soon to be two year old boy and his recently turned four year old sister, so I decided to try another one tonight. This time I used velcro to keep it closed – I figured that would be easier for little hands to manage. I also added some numbers like they did in the tutorial, just to jazz it up a little. I sewed my numbers on, but I think I am going to try her painting technique on the other one I made – since I think the numbers are Adam’s favorite part.
Do me a favor and ignore the crooked velcro here – it was my first time using it. I definitely think velcro is the way to go in the future with these though.
I can’t wait to start on the next one. It involves dinosaurs, that’s all I have to say about that.