Check It!

Harper, Mona and I spent the day at Grandad's yesterday. We had so much fun. Harper has been looking forward to going for days.

My dad has, well, kind of a jungle in his backyard. He has so many plants and flowers, it's simply beautiful. And it's great fun for a three year old and his dog to explore! Some of his explorations led him to the side of the house to the door to the garage. When he found the garage he stopped, leaned back a little and said, 'Aww, check it!' Where does he get this stuff?! Lol





Harper found a football that at some point had been kicked over the fence. So I dug that out for him. I was cracking up at him and Mona playing with each other. Harper would throw it, Mona would chase it. Then Harper would want me to throw it so he could catch it.





And I've never seen so much running. For either of them! They were worn out on the way home.



We go to Grandad's more than once a year, but we went last year to get our picture taken, too. (My dad is a photographer: Jim Nay) There were a lot of really good pictures, even though Harper didn't really want to get his picture taken. This year, Harper was all about it, but I couldn't get Mona to cooperate. Silly kids. ;)

I did manage to get a lot of good pictures of them individually. There are a couple with all of us.

Night Talkers

My house is a loud house at night. We all (Harper, Mimi, myself) talk in our sleep. Mimi is louder than others. She doesn't so much "talk" as she screams. On more than one occasion I've had to go in and wake her up.

Harper yells. Sometimes I'll hear him in there talking, but he will wake me up yelling something at the top of his lungs. This morning at 5:00 a.m., I was awoken by him yelling "It's not yours! NO! You're in MY WAAAAAAAY!" When I heard him, it sounded like he was standing at his door. So I got up, turned on the hall light and opened his door to check on him. He was laying in bed, under the covers, sound asleep. You'd never know what was going on in his dream, he looked so peaceful. He was probably getting out his naughtiness in his sleep, because he has been an absolute angel all week.

C'mon!

Last night, Harper was messing with the tv in the kitchen. I had recorded the Thursday night line up for Mimi so she could watch it and it was still in the vcr.

Harper went to the tv, ejected the tape, and I guess he thought it was one of his Thomas tapes. He waited a minute and started watching whatever was on at the moment, probably 'Mickey Mouse' or something, when he accidentally pushed in the tape. When that happens, it automatically plays, no button pushing is necessary.

Suddenly, I hear him pushing a lot of buttons trying to get the tape to stop so he could go back to his show. He suddenly yelled, 'OH, C'MON!' with such exasperation. It was totally me coming out in him.

I helped him to do what he wanted to do, but it was SO funny.

With Liverty and Justice FOR ALL!

Harper is learning the Pledge of Allegiance at school. I'm most impressed that he actually says 'indivisible' and not 'invisible' like most kids.




At the end of this, he says he wants to listen to it on my telephone because the night before, I had recorded him saying it with my phone. Just so you know. :)

Joy!

Last night I was putting Harper's pjs on and I asked him to spell milk, which he did. I've only told him how to spell it twice. I said, 'Did you know you're a genius?' And he said, 'Yes! I *AM* a genius! Do you enjoy that Mommy?' I said, 'Yes, I do!' Then he said, 'I'm a joy!'

After I laid him down, I walked to the door and I blew him a kiss. I said, 'You have sweet dreams. I'll check on you in a bit.' He said, 'I love you Mommy.' I said, 'I love you, too, Angel.' He said, 'I love you SO much.' I said, 'I love YOU so much, too.' He said, 'I love you the whole wide world!' (He means, more than the whole wide world.) I said, 'Aww, I love you more than the whole wide world, too, baby. Do you want another kiss?' He said, 'Yes,' and as I bent down to kiss him he added, 'and a hug.'

So sweet.

Just a Minute!

Every night we have the same routine. Harper takes a bath, then he likes to tell Mimi good night. Thursday night was no exception. However, Mimi was watching 'My Name is Earl', since it was back from the strike. So while I was getting pjs and chocolate milk ready, Harper settled in next to Mimi.

I told him it was time to go get jammies on and he said, "Just a minute, Mom. I'm watching this show."

Great.... I had visions of me as a child telling my parents, "Just a minute...!" He is his mother's child.





The sticker on his belly is for telling us he had to go potty instead of going in his diaper!

Potty Training

Mimi just called and said that Harper is in big boy pants (Thomas underwear) today. He's gone potty on the chair like he's supposed to and only had one accident.

She told him that if he wore big boy pants all day and told her when he needed to go potty, he'd get a prize at the end of the day. He said, "A prize?" and Mimi said, "Yes. What kind of prize would you like?" and Harper said, "Hmm... let's see... I know! SNOW!"

Good luck with that Mimi! lol

Waterboy

Last night I was running Harper's bath and he was playing in the dining room. I said, "Come on, H. Let's go take off your clothes and get in the tub." So he took off for the bathroom. I was walking behind him... MAYBE two seconds between us. By the time I got to the bathroom, he was standing in the tub, fully dressed. Shirt, pants, socks, AND tennis shoes. Water up to his knees.

Nice. I would have taken a picture if I had thought it wouldn't be encouraging him to do it again. And considering it's the second time his tennis shoes have been submerged in water in less than a month, I thought I should get him out of there quickly.

Who said raising a three year old boy would be boring?

The "Potty Party"

Monday night Harper was invited to his friend, Jack's, "potty party". Jack has been diaper and accident free for over a week, so his parents took him to celebrate at Chuck E. Cheese. It was Harper's first time to go and he had a blast! He went down the slide, he rode some rides, he played with a train and won a bunch of tickets! He and Jack danced, and Thomas the Tank Engine called to tell Jack what a big boy he was, and of course Harper had to talk to him, too. He got to stay out past his bedtime, and I'm glad to say, he was really really good.
Now all he talks about is how he wants to go back to Chuck E. Cheese. I told him that when he starts wearing big boy pants like Jack and he doesn't wear diapers anymore, we'll have a potty party for him. He said, "I don't think I can do that Mom." He COULD if he would tell us when he has to go instead of going in his diaper. So pray for us that he'll have the desire to potty train!

He had some issues figuring out that he was supposed to hit the puck to the other side of the table. He kept hitting it into the hole on his side.

He went down the slide about a hundred times. Backwards, Forwards, Upsidedown... He's a daredevil!

He rode in the car, but he wouldn't drive it.

Jody and I didn't think he would like this at all, but he loved it!

Here he is taking a call from Thomas.