Just keep swimming

His new favorite game: while eating toast with peanut butter, or in this case cream cheese, eat it in a way that will spread the maximum amount of topping on your upper lip then pretend to sneeze until Mommy looks up, sighs, and wipes your face off.

I'm sure he was explaining something very interesting.

Eating his grilled cheese and playing with his tomato soup.

Things are going well. Recently he's been nursing before bed but totally ok with me leaving him in his own bed and falling asleep with out me. He does however need his dinosaurs, a baby brontosaurus and a big triceratops (both plushies). And last night when he woke up the first time freaking out I was able to get him to fall back asleep without the aid of nursing so maybe we really will be able to stop that before he's 5. 

He just ran up to me saying "finger nail, finger nail" and bringing me the nail polish. I told him not right now and he pretended to cry and say "paint, paint" and then ran off to Grammy who doesn't care if hes a girly boy. 

The cute... boy(?)

"What's with that face?" You're wondering? I had just asked him to smile... 

I bet most pirates have gotten their foot stuck in the handle of their sword. Wait- what's that on his toes? Is that nail polish?

And it's on his fingers too! Who did this to the poor baby? Grammy.

Worst part is that he got ALL excited and then wanted to paint mine, then buff the nails, then push back the cuticles and everything else that goes into a full manicure which is what Grammy had apparently done to him. 

I think he looks too cute. And a bit like thePirate. 

It's crazy how big he is.

I love it when he laughs.  

Hiding in the warm folded laundry.

Coloring with chalk. 

We're still here. Having fun. Helping out. The usual. 

No lack of energy here.

We had just tried to take a picture and Matey had done a scrunch face so Mommy was getting him and snapped this one.

Playing with Fire. Matey LOVES fire. I'm not actually sure how he knew that matches could produce fire, I thought he had only seen lighters work, but he built a little camp fire and then told me to light it. (I didn't).

He's going to be Very sad when he can't fit into suitcases anymore.

My Bubbles! Matey LOVES bubbles. The problem is that hes not the best at blowing them... we've got two different types of bubble guns and normal bubble wands but he's not consistent. He can't ever decide what he wants to do more: blow the bubbles or chase the bubbles.

Ahhh! Run away. Run away! The little pirate baby is coming to attack!

Throwing me off my groove

Matey is a Big Boy now.

He doesn't NEED naps anymore.

Well... some days he might but don't count on it ok?

Cuz if you do you'll be SORRY!

The only positive is that when he doesn't take his naps he falls asleep that night in like 5-10 min. and I can get back up and do a few more things before its my bedtime. 

But I wish he would still take his naps. Its been a VERY long time since I napped with him but I've found over this last week my body got some rest while he was down because now that he doesn't always take it I've been dragging.

Vacation is Awesome

Looking at the bug larvae LittleUncleJon found while fishing.

Yes mom?

Matey is hard working farm hand driving tractors all over the place.

Lining up his toys, just like at home.

Snake! This was taken at Great Grandma's house but Matey was asleep and missed it.

He's not so sure about Fergus, and Fergus isn't so sure about him.

The most tame Irish wolfhound they had.

Matey wasn't able to pet the others, they were too jumpy.

We went to Robert and Cathy's and Great Grandma's and Pat and Carols. Matey loved each place but his Favorite was the Cows (Cathy's). I hope to be able to take him up there again soon, but for a longer visit.

Vacation is Fun

Help! Help! We're stuck! There was an 8-10inch gap between the house door and the screen door and we got stuck! Oh no! Matey btw didn't think it was very funny.

Step, step, step...

... step, step, step, step. What's a vacation if you can't trudge through mud?

"Fishing" with LittleUncleJon. We stopped at McAllister on the way home from Great grandmas so Matey could stretch his legs. They sat on their butts for 15 min "fishing" but when we put the boy back in the car he was as happy as could be (we kept the stick/fishing pole).

SO Big! It was very nervous to have him up there by himself but I wanted the shot. He's about 12 ft off the ground and LOVED it. We had been in the barn multiple times and he thought the hay bales were interesting but when I told him he could climb them his face just lit up. I had to threaten him with a time out for him to come back down on his own (for a second I really thought I was going to have to go get him).

This was not very tall at all- like 4ft high at the center- but after I let him climb the hay he wanted to climb everything. After I took the picture he told me to climb up too and held out his hand to help me when I got close to him. He is the sweetest boy.