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I've been a horrible blogger.  I know not many people read this, and that's OK, but I'm sad that I've been so horrible because I love looking back at this blog and remembering things that I may have forgotten.  And let's face it, a mom who works full time and has two kids and a husband that coaches, forgets things.  And here I am, with a son about to turn 7 and a baby who is 14 months old and learning new things every day, forgetting to blog the little stuff. :(

But alas, here I am.  We'll try to do a quick recap of lately:

Little man continues to amaze us.... he's growing so big and is so dang smart! He's hard to keep up with, both physically, and with all his developments!

Let's see... he has learned how to spin around and make himself dizzy, throw things through the baby gate down the stairs, kiss on the mouth, become very good at signing please, more, and eat, play golf, say bath and puppy (along with voom voom from earlier), ride in the truck cart at the store, get his own shoes and bring them to you when you ask him to, bring you something to eat and ask “please” so you open it, sneak into Brecken's room to get something, and just last week took a few steps backwards on purpose.

Making himself dizzy – he loves it! He spins as fast as fast as he can with his feet and then laughs when he can't walk straight. Crazy kid!

Throwing things – he'll take anything that will fit and throw it down the stairs through the slats on the baby gate. Balls don't fit, so he throws them over. We always have quite the pile of toys at the bottom of the stairs! He also uses that baby gate to stand at and cry, cry, cry when someone goes downstairs without him. He has hit a major separation anxiety stage and even though he can see us, he cries like we'll never ever come back.

Kissing – he is very choosy about who he kisses and when he wants to. It's nothing that he gives out a ton of, unless he's feeling especially lovey and then he will kiss you for several minutes while saying “awwwww”. We're working on blowing kisses. He laughs when we do it but won't do it on his own – I think it's stubbornness more than the fact that he “can't”. :)

We are impressed with his signing! He is really good at signing please especially. Funny story – he was trying to poke me in the eye. I told him, “Owie! Don't poke me in the eye!” He got really mad at me and signed “please please please please”. Haha! No, buddy, even if you ask please, you still can't poke me in the eye!

He's obsessed with golf right now. So much, that if he doesn't have any clubs laying around, he'll find a wooden spoon, a stick, anything, so that he can “golf” with that. We went to a store and he insisted on getting down, and when he was on the ground he walked right over to a plastic set of golf clubs that he somehow managed to see. That is now his favorite toy. He must go EVERYWHERE with at least one golf club and a golf ball. He knows where we keep the golf balls in the garage and goes and helps himself while we play outside. We probably look weird going for walks with him holding his golf club in the stroller! :)

He still loves bath time and will go in the bathroom, stand by the tub and say, “Ba? Ba? Ba?” until we either carry him out of the bathroom (because there's no time for a bath) or we give him a bath. He loves baths! He loves dogs too and quickly learned how to say “puh puh” for puppy!

He loves to eat still and we really haven't found anything he won't eat. He quite frequently eats as much as his big brother does. :) Pasta is one of his favorite things to eat.

He LOVES to be outside. He goes out as often as he can to ride his little bike or golf or play in the water table. If someone dares to go out without him, the temper comes out!

Little b is learning how to be a true little brother, too. B-man has this toy that b LOVES but B-man won't let him play with it very often. The other night after B-man had gone to bed, b snuck into B-man's room so quietly that we didn't even know he had gone in there. Pretty soon we hear B-man shout his brother's name and heard b scream and run down the hall as fast as he could, holding that toy for dear life. He had snuck in to get it! We laughed so hard we had tears. Little b was quite proud of himself for succeeding in his mission. :)

We spent a long weekend camping in Yellowstone at the beginning of August .  Both boys had an absolute blast and were filthy dirty by the time we got home!  They loved walking around the campsite (it was large since we camped next to my aunt and uncle and cousins and had their area to run around in too) and playing in the dirt, and liked seeing the things there are to see there. Even there, b was golfing with pine cones! B-man took to my cousins right away and even rode in their car for two days.  He had a great time.

We had little b in to get his shots on August 19 and he weighed in at 26 pounds! We finally found him shoes that fit – we had to go to a child's shoe store while we were in Denver. His feet are fat enough that normal size shoes don't fit, so we have to get him wide width shoes. He's wearing a 5 ½ W. He loved his new shoes and kept walking around, then stopping to look at them, and then taking off again! He has quite a few 24 month and 2T clothes that fit him now, too. It won't be long before he's in those full time.

Little b STILL only has 4 teeth! And he has still been ear infection free!!!

As for my B-man, he started 1st grade and totally loves it.  He loves his teacher, he loves that he can check out two books at the library this year, he loves that he gets to come with me to school every morning.  He's having a great time and is learning a lot already!