Potty time...

The interaction that I had with Dean yesterday when I put him on the potty...

Me: "Dean can you go pee pee on the potty?"

Dean: "You go, get out, I want prisassy (privacy)" as he's pointing to the door for me to leave.

Dean and Austin

Dean keeps saying to Austin "Oh Baby Austin, you really really get a present of the moon don't you?"

UPDATE: Just wanted to say I figured out where Dean got this from. He watches a Little Einstein episode where they get a present for the moon.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Lucky and Charming...

Freezing

Well our heater broke on Saturday morning and we've been without heat since then and will continue to be until at least Wednesday. This is because they have to order a part and wait for it to come in. It was quite an adventure on Saturday and Saturday night to try to keep warm in our house. It was only a high of 56 degrees on Saturday so the house was freezing! We bought 1 space heater and it wasn't enough. By 3am Dean was shivering in bed (even though he was under 5 big blankets) so he climbed into bed with us and we moved the space heater from Austin's room into our room. Even on Sunday it was freezing so off to the store to stock up on space heaters for the rest of the house. Luckily the weather has gotten warmer and the space heaters have helped everyone sleep more comfortably. It's also a good thing that we live in California and not somewhere colder.

Dean counted 18 stickers today. That is the highest I've heard him count yet.

We went on a long walk the other day and I picked some flowers for Dean on the path we were on to keep him busy in the stroller. He was so excited to smell them and tell me what colors they all were. It was nap time as soon as we got home and he wanted to sleep with his new flowers. When he awoke they had all died and he cried for a very, very long time about it. He didn't realize that flowers die, it was sad.

Some of my favorite things....

Here are some pictures of our recent visit to the Bay Area Discover Museum in Sausalito.

I feel like I should be posting some of my favorite things that Dean is doing these days before I forget them and he stops doing them. I also want a way to remember them for Dean's scrapbook. So here it goes...

Dean sings the ABC song and when he's done, we both clap for him and then he runs to me to get a hug and hear me say how great/smart he is.

Dean is always comforting his baby brother by touching him softly and stroking him, saying things like "Oh baby Austin, it's ok" and "Baby Austin, I know I know" or "Baby Austin, I'm coming" when he's crying. He also kisses his brother without being asked to.

Which brings me to...I love that Dean is giving me kisses (finally!) lots of kisses everyday. Of course I have to ask for them, but he seems happy to give them. He used to just say "How about a hug?" when I asked him for a kiss.

I love how he runs to the window every morning to wave good-bye to his Daddy as he drives away to go to work.

When we are putting his train tracks together, building something with blocks, or cleaning up his toys he always sings "What's gonna work? Teamwork!" from the Wonder pets.

He's a little actor everyday. Sometimes he crawls onto the floor and pretends he fell there and is stuck to ask for my help. He also uses hand gestures in the cutest way like putting his hand up to his ear when he is saying "I hear frogs".

I love listening to him sing songs all the time when he thinks no one is listening.

When he's playing with his toys he says "I'm so happy, I'm so happy, I'm so happy" like right now as I'm typing this.

I love watching him playing with all of his animals and telling what kind they are and what sound they make. The best is hearing him say all the big dinosaur names.

When I can smell his dirty diaper, I ask him "Dean did you go poopy?" and he always replies "no" because he doesn't want me to change his diaper.

He has conversations all by himself. Like when he gets hurt he says "Are you Ok? I'm ok" while he's crying.

There are a million other things that I love witnessing everyday, but I can't list them all here tonight. I have 2 loads of laundry to fold and have to get Dean to bed. Before I end this post I have to mention that my favorite thing that Austin is doing right now is the way he looks at Dean and gets so excited watching him and lights up when Dean comes over to him. Too cute.

Peppa Pig

My favorite thing that Dean does is when he reads his books aloud as he knows them by heart. The best is when he reads Peppa Pig out loud as it is a really long book and he knows every word and even speaks with a British Accent as Kevin and I have both read the book with an accent as Peppa Pig was developed in England.

Some recent pictures

Here are the boys laying together...

Here is Austin in his Summer Seat that he loves. He gets to watch me washing dishes, making bottles, cooking from his seat.

Austin on tummy time.

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Get the Camera

Dean keeps climbing onto the changing table when I'm changing Austin on it. The other day I moved Austin out of the way so that Dean could lay on it and then I put Austin next to him. But before that I made sure to get my camera since I knew where this was headed. I was able to get a couple of pictures of them together on it, but I haven't uploaded them yet. Today I was changing Austin and Dean climbed up on the table and I picked up Austin to get him out of the way. Dean proceeded to tell me to "lay baby austin down" onto the table with him and once I did and they were cuddling together Dean then ordered me to "Go and get the camera!"

Dean hiding and Austin crashing

Here are some pictures of us with our Little Valentine...

Rain Rain Go Away

We've been cooped up in the house the past couple of days due to rain. Dean has been acting his Terrible Two's with a capital "T". I just spent 30 minutes replacing 22 keys on my keyboard that he ripped off while I was putting Austing to bed upstairs. I still can't get the last one on. He's also been playing in Austin's exersaucer, summer seat & swing. I can't even count how many times I've had to reassemble his train tracks after he's pulled them apart and off of the table. I take them away for a day at a time, but then he always begs and doesn't stop asking for them again. I don't get why he keeps messing them up. Last night he ripped off his diaper while in the kitchen and came over to me as I was feeding Austin in the other room and said "slippery" and you can guess what he had done on the kitchen floor. We practiced sitting on the potty but all he did was cry. I'm not sure why, maybe I was putting too much pressure on him to sit on it, but he certainly doesn't show any interest in sitting on it on his own.

I took a cute video of Austin after he finished eating his cereal. He was cracking up for me when I was saying "boom" but he didn't laugh so much once the camera was turned on. I still think he's cute : )

Austin's first real giggle...

Dean is helping me blog right now. He loves the blog, especially looking at the videos. He always asks "Watch Dean?" He's been such a good big brother, I'm so proud of him. I thought there would be jealousy but there is not at all. I guess it's b/c Austin doesn't want to play with Dean's toys yet...

It was nice to put away the christmas decorations and tree to have less clutter in the house, but now I've got to add clutter with all the baby stuff. Dean's new train table takes up a lot of room and I'll be adding the Exersaucer and Jumperoo to the mix shortly. Not to mention I was so happy to put away the high chair about 6 months ago and now I'll have to bring that out again. I keep thinking of what I can put away, but I think Austin will still want the gymini and swing a little while longer.

More Pictures

Just wanted to post some more pics from my new camera that I

got for Christmas.