Things to remember-February

February was such a great month! Feb 2nd is Breyton's 'half' birthday, so he is officially over half way done with the terrific twos! Feb 12th was the 5 year anniversary of when Mason proposed to me....which reminded me we are overdue for a hiking trip back to the mountains where he popped the question, soooo need to plan that for sometime this year!

Breyton continues to grow and change so much each month its amazing to watch all that he learns and sometimes scary to see habits he picks up from watching us! The true test of keeping watch over your actions and words is having a 2 year old with you 24/7 who has a great memory! lol So thankful we don't have too awful of habits haha.

Some of all the awesomeness from 2-12 to remember:

1) Our Tulsa trip is at the top of the list! B still takes his souvenir shark to bed with him and plays with it all the time! He loves to say "Shark attack!" and "Shark coming!".

2)Another one of B's favorite new phrases is "Save me!". He loves playing pretend and usually it involves some animal attacking, so he always yells for me or dad to 'save him'....and its really cute when he occasionally pretends to save us instead, he will yell "I'm coming!" to rescue us.

3)The beginning of the month he watched ALL the 'Land Before Time' movies on Netflix. This really peaked his interest in dinosaurs lol....he would go around the house pretending to eat and chomp on the few house plants we have.

4) The way B says dinosaur is probably the funniest thing ever and I hope I never forgot his little voice saying it so wrong=) Not sure how one would spell how he says it, but "dinoswaaurdesss' is my attempt!

5) A habit B picked up from me is saying 'dadgummit' when he accidentally does something. Not a bad word, but it doesn't sound as innocent coming from a 2 year old's mouth!

6)Another great thing that happened in Feb was that we got Breyton back on track at bedtime. He was dragging it out for like 2 hours.....so we happily have him back to going to bed on his own and falling asleep much faster which makes evening much more enjoyable!

7) Breyton also went bowling for the first time this month and he really liked it!

8) Started planning our garden and planted seeds inside to transplant soon.....we are also changing up the flower bed in front of the house, so between the two Breyton had fun playing in a LOT of dirt this month!

Now springtime is here, excited for March especially Masons spring break he gets from school!

The start of Breyton's first garden:)

We started the process of getting a very small scale garden going! We are currently planting tomato's, carrots, peppers, cucumber, and strawberries ....maybe a few others too. Breyton has enjoyed helping pick stuff out and definitely loved the dirt and planting seeds. Even though its harder we are starting from seeds because its much cheaper and trying not to invest more than necessary until we see if it's going to be successful.  We have a pretty redneck setup with random yogurt cups, styrofoam, and whatever other containers I had in the house, however it's working well. Our little seeds were planted last Monday the 20th, but are all already sprouting....B loves watching them come up and grow! Looking forward to this spring and summer;o)

Breyton with his little tomato seedling that just sprouted!

 A few of the others that sprouted first....

Our mini, but amazing trip!

                          Start with some favorite pics!

 ....So as you can see our trip went AMAZING. If its possible to have too much fun I think Breyton did!
Starting off with swimming, slides, hot tubs and ending with sharks, sting rays, and every other sea animal there is.
   
    We got to our hotel about 3pm on Wednesday checked in and changed into swimsuits super quickly and we were swimming by 3:30. We stayed in the water for close to 3 hours straight until all our hands were wrinkled up like prunes and ears water logged lol. It was so hard to get out of the water knowing it was our only chance to get to enjoy it because the next day was going to be too busy! I already wish we were back in it and need to figure out how to get an indoor pool asap hehe.
 
    Something about the water makes you super starving, so we immediately changed back into winter attire and headed across the street for a homestyle meal at a restaurant. Stuffed ourselves with chicken fried steak, chicken and dumplings, okra, green beans, rolls and ending with peach cobbler topped with ice cream......yuuummm. Now we were all full and worn out so went back to the room where Breyton played with telephones, lamps, ice bucket, and everything else that intrigued him about the hotel room for about 45 minutes till it was time to get tucked in. We had 2 queen size beds in the room, so B got an entire bed(plus 4 huge pillows) to himself which he loved! He slept pretty great on it and makes me even more excited to get his bigger bed ready at home.

  Next morning B had us awake at 6:45 and we had to get ready for Masons award ceremony which started at 9am and lasted till 11:30. Breyton as always was not shy at all and shook other police officers hands and went around roaring at people before and after the ceremony like he was a dinosaur...he never has trouble getting attention! Afterwards we left to head to the aquarium and B got an hour nap in the car to re-energize for the afternoon!
  
    Started off at the aquarium by heading to the shark tunnel because they feed the sharks at 1:30 and we didn't want to miss it! This was Mason and I's favorite part because we love sharks and it was neat getting to watch them eat and see Breyton's fascination. Looking forward to getting to do a shark cage adventure in the future even more! Next we went all through the aquarium seeing everything including a tank with clown fish(Nemo) and Dory together. When it came down to it Breyton's favorite part was definitely petting the sting rays! He always asked to go back to it and we spent an hour probably with the sting rays. He also got to touch a starfish and sea cucumber and he thought it was pretty neat! 

  Sadly the day had to end.... and we listened to Breyton saying "go back, turn around, wanna see shark, see stingray" for close to 2 hours on the way home! Oh and he had to go potty right when we where in a spot that had no exits for 15 miles..he was saying "hurry, don't pee pee in floor!"(because that's what I used to say)....so we pulled off to side of road after realizing he probably wouldn't make it and right as Mason pulled down his pants and opened door he started 'going' and it went all over car door and Mason (hehe)...extra good memories, right?! All in all we had so much fun and will definitely be going back hopefully making this an annual little trip for a many years while we have younger kids!

Things to remember -January

January has been a surprisingly busy month as we adjust to new schedules! Mason's school scheduled changed and its messing up our old routines....so we are figuring out new ones as we go! Its kind of a bummer because he has to go to class every single day right in the middle of his sleep. Plus, having only one car can occasional make it a challenge if there's somewhere I need to be. However, we just have to survive till May...the end is in sight! We don't get to go down to our parents on his 'weekend' anymore either because of it, so Breyton has been doing a few 'sleepovers' at the grandparents to make up for it! This is also his first full month potty trained, but it feels like its been longer than that!
This month we spent time figuring out B's big boy room and getting things ordered. Almost everything will be in this next week and I'm so looking forward to putting everything together.....though it may be a few weeks since I'll need Masons help and we have too much going on right now, but will be worth the wait. Plus I'll be doing a bunch of DIY projects for the room(thanks to pinterest and to save money) we will see how my minimal sewing and painting skills hold up.
Here are a few of the sweet and crazy memories Breyton created this month:
1) So we got netflix. Its good and bad lol. Breyton loves it, but we probably spend way too much time watching tv now! Anyways, he loves documentaries. He prefers them over kids shows sometimes and its rather funny to watch him watching them!

2)This month he is still obsessed with coyotes, but now dinosaurs are starting to take over. I've gotten several videos because he goes around all day roaring loudly and picking his legs up high to stomp around like a dinosaur. And of course he's not happy unless Mason and I pretend to be scared and run!

3) He's got a lot of new phrases he's saying that are funny to us...I think just because of the 'grown-up tone' he says them in. Just a few I can think of right now:
    -"I'm coming!" ( if you call for him)
    -"Thats,cool!"
    -"Did you see that??!" (Every single time he does anything worth noting!)
    -"Watch me!" (Loves an audience.)

4) He's always had a good arm for throwing things and its just getting better. He can aim at something and hit it square on even from a good distance!

5) When he's saying good bye to anything and everything he always says, "Bye-bye, see-ya-later, see-ya-n the morning! Bye, see ya in the morro(tomorrow)". He makes it a big long sentence repeating it all over a few times. Funny thing is he says it to everything...like random planes, the sun or moon, and he of course says it on occasion to pee/poop he flushes after he goes potty. Got to love the minds of  2 year olds!

6) He got to help pick out stuff for his new room and really loves some of it! He sort of 'chose' his bedding and after it came in he dragged it around and layed on it because he wouldn't let me put it up at first.

7) Almost every naptime and night he picks something to take to bed with him. A lot of the time he choses very hard toys like a dinosaur or bunch of little animals, but still lines them up by pillow to sleep next to. If they go missing in the night first thing in the morning he has his light on(before I even go in there) to find them.

Thats a few of this past months favorites! Really looking forward to some things in February....most of all next week we are going to stay in a hotel in Tulsa that has mini waterpark for Breyton and taking him to the big aquarium up there too! Can't wait!



                  Mason went to lay in B's room to get him asleep and
                            after awhile I went in there and
                    found  them both sound asleep next to each other=)
                   

What is it about sleeping babies?!!!

Just soooooo peaceful and precious!
I LOVE watching Breyton sleep.
Maybe because it's the only time he's still, but nonetheless I love it.
I can go sit in his room just to watch him breathe and usually spend time praying over him for God's protection and that he will grow to be a man who follows and loves our great God. Mason calls it a little bit creepy, but I call it a mom thing=)

Today at nap time he insisted to sleep with his shirt off lol and I found him snuggled next to his Mr. Mouse buddy.

 And here we are watching him sleep the day we brought him home from the hospital...he's grown soo much.

Father and son

I love when Mason and Breyton get to have quality father/son time! Its great for the two of them to bond and gives me a little time to get things done or have some quiet time to myself. Mason has always been a great father and I'm very thankful for that, but over past few weeks Breyton went through a major phase were he only wanted mama. It was bad.
For some unknown reason only I could do EVERYTHING....he didn't want Mason helping with baths, with getting dressed, with any snacks/food, washing hands, going to the potty, reading books, bedtime, I could go on and on. He always said "no, mama do it!" and had screaming fit if Mason did. Thankfully....very thankfully this only lasted about two weeks because it was rather draining! The hardest part was bedtime because that's Mason's main 'task' :). I gave in and did it a few nights because you would have thought it was the end of the world to Breyton for dad to put him to bed for a couple nights.....then as suddenly as this phase started it ended for no known reason.
According to my very brief  'research' I suppose it can be a pretty normal thing for some toddlers to go through so I guess it was just a short lived phase.Things are back to normal and Breyton happily lets daddy help do most things as was before. Mason is more glad its over than me I think because it sort of hurt his feelings when Breyton made such a big deal over it all!
Breyton is actually back to preferring 'play time' with Mason because after all he's the more fun parent lol. Here's Mason trying to teach Breyton how to play football....B was all about the tackling and stealing the football!

Things to remember-December

My sweet sweet little man is getting so big. Here are some favorites for December:

1) He loves Finding Nemo...we watch it almost every. single. day.
2) Sometimes wants to hold my hand while falling asleep.
3) Potty training went amazingly well and he has been such a big boy about it! Tells us every time yelling "peepee, hurrry!, peepee!"
4) He looks so cute in his 'hanes' underwear:)
5) Will help sing along and do motions to "My God is so big, so strong and ALMIGHTY! There's nothing    my God can not do!"
6) Asks me to sing 'sunshine song' when we are rocking. Aka "You are my Sunshine"
7) Had soo much fun opening presents.
8) Loves to try to repeat everything we say.
9) He really loves his grandparents and asks to go to "grammy's house" or "meem's and papa's" often.
10) When I get too busy he asks me over and over to "sit, play trucks mommy". He just wants me to sit and be with him.
11) He is getting so smart and can tell from miles away when we are almost 'home' or to the grandparents house.
12) When its time to go somewhere and he doesn't really want to he says in the sweetest voice "wanna stay home with mommy". Melts my heart.

There are so many other things I could type,but these are just a few from this past month that are special to me<3