Our poor neglected son...

This last month or so has been crazy with going back to work and nick finishing up his classes so thankfully we have had some help with Brent between the grandparents/family and daycare (or as Brent refers to it as "school"). He loves his teacher "miss jessica" and he loves his newest classmate "emma" (the only girl) and apparently went around hugging her all day her first day she was there. I am offically done with my 5 week orientation which I refer to the time as "the black hole days" which therefore means I have returned from the black hole and doing much better working my 1-2 shifts/week.

I randomly ran into a girl I worked with at st. louis children's hospital (6 years ago!) who just started working on the same unit as me a month before me. Small world.

Humm what else....Brent is as strongwilled as ever. The other day he was mad at me cause I wouldn't let him help me make pancakes and stir the batter (since I had just scrubed my floor on my hands and knees the day before) so when I went to shower he decided he would make his own breakfast......a dozen eggs on my kitchen floor! I knew I was in trouble when he can walking into the bathroom as I was getting out of my 5 minute shower with 2 eggs in his hands...one in which had a finger whole poked in it and was dripping yoke from the kitchen, through the livingroom, to the bathroom.

I am guilty of not having finished/started his baby book, so that is my goal these next couple months to go back through the blog and figure out dates and stories. So for now some side notes for his baby book (well almost 2 years old book I guess now):



Current favs:

1. spiders/ants and alligators (more of a love/hate relationship though with the last though)

2. The Wheels on the Bus

3. "mowing" the grass (toy lawn mower I picked up at a garage sales saves the day everyday)

4. "outside" (repeated every 2 minutes of the day we spend inside)

5. still likes to "work" fixing things with his tools (a lot of times we have to go run errands with a toy hammer...and then I get the looks from everyone, "no wonder you son has bruises on his forehead)

6. banging his head with frustration (ie: his strong will, bruises on forehead)

7. his "baby" a porcelain doll figurine grandma miller (karen) made when nick was a baby (bad combo, brent-porcelain-hammers-etc) but he really does take good care of it...gets a diaper (or 5) out for it and always says it's "butt itches" and puts desitin on its bottom

8. New love is the beach...which we are lucky to have a nice one on base and free and no one but us it seems like goes there



Anyways, hopefully now that I am back from the black hole I will be able to put up a few more pictures and stories....or even better yet be motivated to print off my 1,000 pictures I have taken of Brent over the past 2 years for a baby book:) I just don't know where to begin though at this point....okay by his 2nd birthday it will be done!