The Horton Family: June 2010

Waiting....

In a measley 4 days, I will be here.

The problem is, I don't know if I can make it for 4 days without going stir crazy! :) Me and my guys are really looking forward to the long holiday weekend lounging, relaxing, swimming, sleeping, eating, and spending time with family. Let's hope I can make it until Friday!

Mr. Fix It

We have had issues with our A/C since we moved into our house. For some reason our bedroom does not cool down like the rest of the house. Since Luke likes it to be below 68 degrees to go to sleep, this has been a recurring problem for us. We've had people come out and do little fix-it's here and there and the last guy told us we needed new duct work and they would have to cut into our walls, blah, blah = $2k plus. We took the temporary fix and it has been fine. This week something messed up with it and my hubby, aka mr. fix it decided to take a look himself. He spent 2 nights after work in the attic doing whatever he does to fix stuff. He took care of us but in the meantime he got all kinds of cuts and stuff from the fiberglass up there. On the second night he decided to cover as much of his body up as possible and I took a picture of it. He will die when he sees this on here, but it's so cute. I don't even know how he knows how to do all this stuff around the house, but I am so happy to have my very own mr. fix it to rely on. :)

So all of this attic work got Colin very interested. He already wants to do whatever his Dada does anyway, but this time it involved a ladder and with his newly acquired climbing skills, he was all over it. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of my 17 month old on the ladder. See, when it happened I was already on the ladder taking Luke something he needed. Colin must have come out of his room and decided to climb on. When I was climbing down I looked and saw my little rugrat climbing up to meet me and I freaked out. He is really great at climbing so far but the getting down part is not so good yet, but he did it without a concussion and I didn't pee my pants. :) I do have a picture of him having a conversation w/Elmo last weekend. He is getting so big and gets even more handsome by the day.

Happy Father's Day!

We started off the day with breakfast at Waffle House, per Luke's request. It was a treat for us and was so good! Colin is the luckiest little boy to have such a great dad and it was fun taking the day to celebrate him. Colin delivered his gifts to Luke, aka Dada, one at a time and he was just the cutest little man. Of course I enjoyed seeing my own dad for dinner too! I am one lucky girl to have such a great dad who has sacrificed and done so much for me and to be married to an amazing man who is the best father to our son that I could ask for. I also happen to have a pretty great father in law too! Happy Father's Day to all of the men in my life, I love you!

Colin (chewing a piece of bacon!) and Luke at Waffle House, 6/20/2010

Our weekend in pictures...

Here are a few pictures from our weekend at home with Colin and our nieces. We got to have a big slumber party for the weekend and it was a blast. I didn't have a chance to grab my camera very often but I managed to get pictures of our morning trail walk in our neighborhood and our afternoon at the pool. We all got some quality niece/cousin time this weekend...can't wait to do it again!

Nora and Lauren running on the trail.

Jillian and Colin riding in the wagon.

Nora showing me her pretty flower.

The cousins! Nora, Jilly, Colin, and Lauren!

Towards the end of the walk Lauren got tired...

Lauren and Jillian in the wagon!

Colin - happy to be out of the wagon and running after Nora.

Bubba taking a break - he got a scraped knee on the way.

After his break, running to catch up with Dada and his cousins.

Nora and Jilly having fun in the pool.

Colin splashing everyone.

The big splash is Lauren coming off the slide...you can see Luke behind the water.

Lauren and Uncle Luke in the big pool.

A Long but Exciting Week!

This is the first week back to work that I have had to work all 5 days and it has been so incredibly LONG! I know, you feel really bad for me, right? At least we have another holiday coming up in less than a month and you know I am definitely counting down the days! Even though it has been a long week it has also been a really great week filled with exciting happenings.

On Sunday I went to Bailey’s baby shower and had a marvelous time celebrating baby Jack and his marvelous mama. Take a look at her blog for all of the updates on Jack – he is doing exceptionally well and it seems like every day this week has been filled with good news. According to Bailey he is having his second surgery the first week of July and hopefully will be sent home a couple weeks after that. Plus he is growing like a weed – like I said, check out her bloggity blog! Tuesday I got to have a girls lunch w/Bailey and that is always a highlight of my week – to actually escape the four windowless walls and get out of the hospital for an hour always makes for a great day.

On Wednesday we got the news that Miss Kirsten Alexis Moon had arrived and I was tickled pink! (get it?). We went to visit her and her parents (Ryan & Kandace) on Thursday and I swear, I did not want to leave the hospital. She is so cute and tiny and perfect and lovey…here are a couple pictures Luke snapped w/the Iphone because of course we forgot our camera. Ignore the weird look on my face...I was in baby bliss mode! :) I didn't get any of Luke w/Kirsten because I was too busy being a baby hog!

I cannot wait to see her and hold her again – holding a newborn just brings back all of the precious memories of my little man being so new and tiny and I love it! Plus, did I mention how sweet she is?

Today, Friday, we found out our nieces will be staying with us for the weekend and I am so super excited! We have big plans for the weekend and I can’t wait to pick them up after work today!!! I will post again on Sunday with highlights from the weekend. Happy Friday!

Success!

Tonight was a success and the first time Colin used the Elmo potty! Wahooooooo!!!! I picked him up mid-stream peeing on the kitchen floor and put him on his potty and he took care of business. I don't know what he was more excited about - Elmo telling him he did a great job or me and Luke clapping and cheering like crazy people. He was so proud too! Just wanted to document the occasion -- I am so proud of my little man! No pictures because I didn't have time to grab the camera in between the kitchen and the potty....hopefully we will have many more nights like tonight. This is only the beginning....

Elmo is EVERYWHERE!

I will start this post with a couple of disclaimers:

1. I will be talking about toddler pee & poop.
2. I could be completely crazy. But, I don’t think I am. At least I hope I’m not.

Colin got this over the weekend and it’s a big step for our little family.

I know what you are saying, he is only 16 months old, he’s not ready to potty train. Well, I am hoping you are wrong. Let me start by saying that we are just starting this whole process. I am reading a book called “Diaper Free Before 3” so I figured, why not? Besides the fact that Luke and I both think our son is a genius (all parents think that, right?) he is already so obsessed with the toilet. If he sees me walking towards the bathroom he starts yelling ‘tee tee’ and runs towards me. He flushes the potty when I am done and claps for me – I think he has this thing a little backwards! Anyway, the point is that I think he ‘gets’ what I am doing – at least a little. If he is not wearing pant/shorts he is constantly wanting to take his diaper off.

So when we were at Babies-R-Us shopping for Jack and my mom told me she wanted to get Colin something fun, I convinced her an Elmo potty was fun. Colin really loves it – you can high five Elmo’s hand and he has cute little sayings, plus Colin loves anything Elmo. At one point yesterday afternoon Colin let out a couple of loud toots – he walked over to me and pulled on my shirt and said “I poo poo” so I checked and alas, none of the dirty stuff was there but it further convinced me now is the time to at least start introducing him to the idea of potty training. We are taking this very slow and started last night – I loaded him up with milk, water, every kind of liquid he would drink. Then I took his diaper off and let him run around. Luke was completely paranoid and I felt like a crazy person, constantly checking him to make sure he was peeing on the floor. He sat on the potty a lot (he is also obsessed with chairs) and we even got a couple of drops. I was pretty happy with that! I kept telling Luke that I just knew he had to go and it was going to be any second. Luke got tired of waiting on me waiting on Colin to pee so he took him upstairs for a bath and bedtime. Wouldn’t you know that as soon as Luke turned on the bathwater, Colin let loose. He was standing at the stair banister and I thought I heard something, but then thought I must be imagining it. I was not imagining it and neither was Luke as he cleaned it up.

So, our potty training adventure begins – my goal is to have him out of diapers by his birthday (Jan 26)….we’ll see what happens. Wish us luck, I think we are going to need it!

Fun at the Beach

For Memorial Day we spent 5 days in Galveston and had a blast! We spent 5 days relaxing and splitting our team between the pool and the beach...it was just what we all needed. We got to spend a lot of time with family and I got some quality time with my guys. We tried a couple of new restaurants...Shrimp -n-Stuff (yummy!), Cafe Michael Burger (delicious burgers!) and The Original Mexican Cafe (always good!). Colin kept everyone entertained and for the most part he loved the beach. It was not easy going back to work this week! Here are some pictures from the weekend....