ice teem

Brecken fell in love with peppermint ice cream this weekend. He can't get enough of it. He makes sure every last drop is gone!

eat it

We had a great weekend!  My mom and dad came down after work on Wednesday and were here by B's bedtime.  Thursday we got up and got cooking!  We had a great spread- turkey, mashed potatoes, the most delicious gravy, rolls, jello salad, the works.  

Friday morning, we went up to get a Christmas tree from the mountains.  B was decked out in his snow pants and snowboots and had fun walking in the snow.  He called it "sticky messy".  Hadn't thought of describing snow as sticky....

That afternoon, my sister and her family came over.  Ryan and Brecken had a fantastic time playing together.  They played HARD and very well together!  Josh and I got to go out on a date that night and celebrate my birthday since we had a lot of babysitters.  I had a delicious dinner of steak and crab legs and Josh had a plain ol' hamburger. :) 

Today we spent the morning baking Christmas cookies.  It was Ryan and Brecken's first time doing so and they thought it was great fun to pound out the dough and roll it out, then cut it out and decorate them with sprinkles and colored sugar.  Some of our cookies are covered in lots of sugar!  After a while, Brecken figured out the dough tasted pretty good and spent the rest of the time saying, "eat it."  As you can see, he gave up making cookies and just ate the dough.

Tonight, Jeff and Beth stopped by on their way home from their travels, for a quick stretch and some free dinner.  It was good to see them again.

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend!

bastetball, mommy!

We headed up to my school today so I could do pictures for the middle school boy's basketball team. This team is 12 players strong, made up of 5th-8th graders. B LOVES basketball. (I need to bring my camera to one of Josh's practices some night, because B does the stretches and pushups with the girls. It's hysterical.) He watched as the boys lined up for their pictures and then got in line and got his picture taken, too. Could I love my little boy any more?!

gobble gobble

Look what B made at preschool today!  He's very proud of it.  He painted the feathers himself.  If I do say so, he did a great job!  But when I asked if he'd put it on and let me take his picture, he said, "No pictures, mama."  Because he is 2 years old and it wasn't his idea. :)  

mmm...mmm...mmm!!!!!

That's what B said when he tried the pumpkin muffins he helped me make. And I agreed! You must make them- they are DELICIOUS. Josh ate his with whipped cream- kinda defeated the "healthy" part, but even more delicious, none-the-less. :)

thoroughly enjoyable

Not. This nebulizer thing is pretty terrible.  Brecken hates every minute of it. But he didn't cough all night long last night, so I know it is working!  We had to do the nebulizer last year when he had RSV, and I don't remember him hating it so much back then!  We still have the mask and tubing from last year, so we let B put that on Elmo's face to give him his "medicine" while we do the mask on B's face.  He cries and cries, though- he's terrified of the noise and the mask and the stuff coming out of it.  Hopefully the cough will go away soon and we'll be done with it!  His cough today was super loose, so I hope that means the junk is loose and will come out soon.

If you didn't take the time to thank a veteran today, make sure you do it tomorrow.  What sacrifice they made for us.  If you are a vet and are reading this, THANK YOU.

home sick

Brecken has had a terrible cough for the past couple weeks that got suddenly worse this weekend. He can't sleep because of it. It's a nasty sounding cough. Josh called Dr. Jake yesterday while we were in Lyman and Jake thought it sounded like the strep throat that has been going around lately. So, I stayed home with him today and got him into the clinic.

No strep, thank goodness. His throat is red and irritated but not yucky like strep. No fever, either. Just a lot of junk in his lungs. So we got sent home with a nebulizer machine to give him nebulizer treatments for the next week or so. Hopefully that will get the junk loosened so it will come out and his cough will go away.

We pulled up to the clinic and B goes, "Sucker medicine!!" He knows what you get there, apparently! The whole exam, he kept asking Jake for a sucker. He got one at the end, and had it gone by the time we left. :)

The GREAT news is, he gained a ton of weight in the past 2 months! He was at 22 lbs 10 oz today! He had his jammies on still, but they are lightweight cotton and his diaper was brand new so that didn't weigh anything. That's almost a pound and a half in 2 months- I'll say a little over a pound if you take away the clothes. YAY! That's the most he's gained in that period of time!

my heart has melted

I was sitting on the floor in the living room tonight.  Brecken walked over to me and said, "I love you!" and gave me a huge hug.  That is the first time he has ever said that.  My heart melted into a huge puddle.

Man, I love that little boy!

daddy games

 

thankful

We are currently watching the Noggin channel on TV. Moose A. Moose (for those of you who know what I'm talking about) asked, "What are you thankful for?" I asked Brecken the same question. His answer?


"Eating chicken!"