Wyatt’s one!  Now that he is all grown up… its easy to see just how different boys and girls really are.  All boy, this one.  Wants to wrestle and play fight all the time.  He loves to torture  his big sister, and she likes to try to push him around… too bad he almost weighs as much as she does, and takes her down like a WWF superstar.  His favorite thing to do now is play chase, and destroy stuff.

Marley started preschool at the church a few weeks ago, and she really loves it.  Right now she is only going once a week, but hopefully more room will open up in another class and she can go more… but she is only two.  Once she hits three, preschool will be more involved… I hope.  And maybe I will be able to take Wyatt somewhere too?

I would be nice to have a few hours a week to myself to get some much needed house work done.  Cutting the grass, repainting some stuff, and a list so big, I don’t know if it will ever all get done.

Again… I thought  I was going to have a little more time before the little guy started walking.  Nope, just like his big sis… he picked up walking early.  Just over nine months… and he is staring to walk around, determined to master the two legged art of the giants.  And I am sure that in a week or two, running will come, along with a whole new set of injuries and adventures.  But for now… 10-12 steps at a time is whats going down.  He is climbing and hanging off anything he can get his chubby little self up on.

It’s been a few years since i last baby proofed the house, and now it seems, its time for it again.  It never fails, that the one thing that your forget to make safe, is the one thing that they will hurt them self or go for, over and over again.  Here is my list of necessary things to be baby proofed, again.

Covers on all the outlets – babies like to stick things there all the time, toys, fingers, sometimes they try to eat it

Latches on any drawers and cabinets with dangerous, or stuff in there that you don’t want the kids to get into

R ubber or plastic edges on sharp corners- a light bump on a sharp corner is an instant black eye or lump

Secure Unstable things to walls, so they don’t fall on the baby when they pull or climb on them, like- bookshelves, standing lamps, mirrors etc

Gates on the stairs- because a baby falling down the stairs in not good for anyone

For me, the hardest thing that you have to do to keep the baby safe, is keeping all of the tiny little things off the floor.  Especially when you have a toddler that plays with barbies and all their little stuff…

The boy is nine months old now, and I can tell… he’ll be walking soon.  He is learning some good tricks from his big sis, like how to climb up on things by stacking things up to get higher.  Soon he will learn that the higher you get… the harder you will fall.  We have had a few good falls, no blood… but still good falls.  I can tell that this boy is going to be tough… little tank.

We have his nine month appt  in a few days and am looking forward to seeing just how big he has really gotten.  He is in 12-18 month clothes size 4-5 shoes, eating solid foods (tiny bits) loves meat!  And wears the same size diapers and the girl! (Yes the girl is still in diapers… working on it)  The boy is huge and really mobile and determined to be big.  Totally opposite of Marley who is all girly girl, this guy is all boy… but a super mama’s boy.  Man, he loves his mama. Its super cute to see… but boy oh boy….

Marley, who is just turning two and half acts way to old for her own good.  She literally knows everything that is going on.  Her vocabulary is amazing, and there is nothing that she cant say.  It’s really fun to have a full on conversation with a 2 1/2 yr old little girl, I spend most of the day laughing and amazed at what comes out of her mouth.  I know I’m some deep shit when she gets older, because this girl has a mind of her own.  Dresses every day, high heels, hair done.  The girl even gets pedicures with her mom a few times a month.

Tonight she said to me

“Dad, my toes are bad!  I going to get my toes done with mom”

You are?

“I getting purple sparkle toes and fingers too! I am, I am!”

We recently made the switch to solid foods.  Well, not really solid… mush.  I am really starting to miss the days of a strict boob milk diet.  Not too many poops and the smell was bearable.  Now, with the addition of formula and baby food, the poo flood gates have opened and I have found myself in a non stop diaper changing haze.  I mean it’s nuts man.  It doesn’t stop.  Back to back to back do do’s.  And to make it worse, I still have yet to get the girl potty trained… but it’s just been so damn nice outside, I don’t want to spend the entire week inside.  But, I guess that’s my fault though.  Sorry mama, looks like we might have to wait until you take your next vacation to tackle the potty training thing.

Just kidding, I got this under control… I hope.