Red Faced

This might be a little disturbing to some, but it was funny to me so I had to share it. Hayden and I were sitting at the bar sharing an apple the other day and I noticed he had turned his back to me. So I looked over his shoulder to see what he was doing, he was just eating his apple but his face was blood red. I looked at him and said, "what are you doing Hayden?", he quickly turned to me with a straight face and says, "try to poop". I know, TMI (to much information), but this kid was so serious, like I had interrupted his business, well I guess I had right. It was hilarious!

Fixing Daddy

I walked into out bedroom where I knew Jeff was trying to rest for a little while, to check on him and I found this...

I asked Hayden what he was doing and he said, "daddy fix". I tried to explain to him that he was going to be working for a while and he would probably be disappointed by the outcome of things. It didn't stop him though, he went straight back to work with his sander and screwdrivers.

Workin' man

Hayden decided he wanted to be like daddy and stack the wood when it was cold several weeks ago. We didn't ask him to do any of this, he moved it from the pile by the fence and put it closer to the house so we wouldn't have to walk so far. He started with nothing and by the time he finally pooped out he had a least 50 pieces of wood stacked up without the help of Jeff or myself.

Potty Time

Well it has been a little while since that last post, but I had to get through the holidays and the virus Hayden had. After a week and a half of throwing up and NASTY diapers he is doing much better and is back to his spasmic self! Now we are going full force ahead on the potty training. I am so tired of changing tee-tee and poo-poo diapers it's not even funny and I think he is actually ready to start also. I started a while back just rewarding him with stickers and then I moved on to a sticker chart, where every time he went to the potty successfully he got a sticker and in the end he would get a toy for a full chart. That went well for the first 2 times and then he didn't really care so much. After that I moved on to giving him candy and stickers for a successful moment. After I saw that he had a good response to both of those I bought him some "big boy pants". Today was a great day!!! He has gone 5 times in one day with the only major accident being that he didn't sit back far enough on the toilet and soaked EVERYTHING! I put them on him after he had on a pull up, after he soaked that I put the underwear on him and told him that if he went to the bathroom in his pants he was getting a time out. Immediately he said, "go potty now" I got him to the potty and immediately he went. Not 5 minutes later he said he had to potty again! I can't tell you how happy this makes me, I'm definitely a mom that is beyond excited about this potty thing. Now I'm just scared about doing the number 2... guess we'll see how that goes later. I'll let y'all know about tomorrow. :o)

Chrismas 2008

So I tried again to post the other day right after I said in the previous post that everything was normal again. It wasn't, my blog did the same thing after I posted about the problem.
Oh well, so Christmas is well behind us and I am behind on posting about it, so here goes.

We did the family thing of course as usual, the good thing was that Jeff got to be home for it this year instead of being in Afghanistan. I was so glad about that too because this was the first time that Hayden really got into opening presents and we had so much fun watching him. Our Christmas started off as usual going to my Aunt and Uncle's house in Pisgah for an early Christmas a couple of weekends before. We ate to much food, did a lot of 4 wheeler riding and fishing (so much fun) and of course we can't forget the presents. Christmas Eve day we went to Jeff's parent's house and ate a lot of food and opened presents there also. Right after we left there we headed back home for a few minutes just to turn around and leave again for my Step-dad's parent's house (Granny and DaddyBill) to eat MORE food and open gifts, and we can't forget the stickers that Hayden always finds when we are there. Christmas morning we woke up to a ton of presents and a lot more food. Talk about a new year resolution, I'm just gonna try and not eat that much next year during the holidays (yeah right!). I've posted a few pictures of our adventures...

Problems

The other day when I posted my last post I had full intentions of posting more, but for some reason I couldn't. Every time I would try to start a new post it would take me to the Mom's Squad Blog, although I'm a part of that, it's not where I was needing to post. Oh well, hopefully the problem is fixed now.

Christmas in Canton

Sunday after church and our regular Sunday naps that afternoon we took a trip to see my best friend Jana in Canton so she could take a few pictures of us and also to see her new house. We arrived on the square and they had everything decorated for Christmas (if you haven't been by to see the City of Lights you should take a drive to the square). So the main purpose for this visit as I said was to take some pictures on the square and here are a few of the results. Jeff of course I had to fight to get him to get dressed and Hayden wasn't any better. First I had to wake the kid up from his nap and like his mama he doesn't like to be woken up at any time. Once we got there though we had a great time, even Jeff started climbing in trees and getting Hayden into the picture taking mood. I was a proud mama!!!