mike and sue plus two

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11/21/08
is happy and relieved after having baby sy's first OT appointment this morning...

2/10/10
Sylas fighting his bedtime tonight by dancing to the Freshbeat Band!

2/14/10
is it funny to hear a 3 year old say, "well, apparently" in correct context? yes. is it funny to hear him say, "mom, may i please have 9 tootsie rolls?" sweetly, as if it were as normal as asking for, say, 2? yes. is it funny to hear him say, "i'll get the bastard dad" and RUN SCREAMING into the living room only to find out he really said "blaster"? yes. perfect ending to a perfect day. :)

3/8/10
sylas has started with the terrible 2's method of sleeping... scream your lungs out until someone comes to get you then stop, then scream when put back in your crib. ugh i remember these days from when zeke went through it. not fun!

3/9/10
sylas discovered the stopper tonight in the bathtub... for the life of me i couldn't keep water in that darn tub!

Sylas was doing downward dog for like an hour tonight and every time the camera shot, the little stinker sat down!!!

3/12/10
zeke just said, "mom, my heart is pumping blood to my hands and to my feet and to my elbows and my shoulders and in my whole body. and to my hiney too." where do they come up with this stuff!

sylas moved the pack & play we were using as a gate... so all the sudden i turn around and he's on the 7th stair, heading all the way up! he did all 13 stairs! i've never seen him do more than 3!

3/15/10
quotes of the day from zeke: "mom, i'll be lou skywalker and you can be e-yoda". "dark vader is dark and hard to see; that's why his name is dark". "mom, you spell r2d2 r 2 d 2. i know that because i can spell". "we were wearing smallks and painting." me: what are smallks?" "smallks are big t-shirts we wear to paint at school. they're not small; they're really big so i don't know why we call them smallks".

3/16/10
my little leprechaun will be 4 tomorrow! bonus, when we were walking around in the yard today, we found a gold coin with a shamrock on it... he's so happy... he said, "the sky has rainbows after it rains and maybe it ended in a pot of gold in our grass!"

3/28/10
Today I did something I thought I would never in a zillion years ever imagine myself doing... I held the worm zeke was playing with in the yard so he could run in to pee. Such sweet (and GROSS) things we do for true love. It was, as zeke sayss, duhsgusting, but it was a very cool thing to see him so concerned about the worm not getting lost!

4/7/10

sylas just pulled my camera off the computer desk, handed it to me and said, "eeeeeeeese"... i'm assuming he wants me to take his picture?!?!? so cute!

4/11/10
who knows what bok choy is? zeke just said to me, bok choy is a vegetable. there's celery inside but you have to pick all the green stuff off to get the celery that's inside... " i said, "you're pretty smart" and he says, "you're not, you don't even know what bok choy is!"

4/21/10

i just asked sylas what he wanted to watch on tv and he said, "wow wow wow", so i assume that means "wubsy"... pretty smart of him. smart is not, however, standing on the table to replace ceiling fan blades and crashing it to the ground! that's TWO tables mike's broken so far!

5/1/10
Zeke has learned the chorus to "rain is a good thing"... "rain makes corn corn makes whiskey whiskey makes my baby feel a little frisky". Should I be worried?

5/14/10
Zeke is having his first real sleepover! It's really cute but boy are 3 kids a lot of work by yourself!

5/18/10
Its not the first time but it's still cute... I go to the computer and am surprised by a word doc containing the following type: r2d2c3por2d2c3por2d2c3po. ZEKE

6/12/10

Zeke, fighting his bedtime, likes to talk... tonight... "mom, your spit goes into your back then you make more. That's how you do it."

6/16/10
Zeke repeating a toby keith song line as I say it... hot dog, hot "dm&m" (hot damn)

7/15/10
Who's the dope who left the cheezits on the couch? 5 min after sweeping the floor of crumbs for the 2 millionth time this week, sy dumped the whole box...

8/9/10

What do you do when your 4yo tells you, crying, he doesn't want to go to camp bc one of the kids told him the other kids don't like him? Breaks my heart!

8/30/10
Dreaded day... zeke's first REAL punishment... video games, ALL toys and tv are gone until the "terrible 4s" attitude is gone! Grrrr long day!!!!!

9/8/10
Zeke and daddy playing their first game of Battleship... too cute for words!

9/9/10
Zeke's first football game is tomorrow night under the lights!!!

9/10/10
how do you punish a 4yo who says no 200 times a day? Kicking, hitting, pushing, not listening, defying, everything is "no" anymore and it's driving me crazy!

9/14/10

Zeke says..put a phone in the ground and put dirt on it and water it and it grows a whole bunch of phone. Then we could sell em for phone bills. Is that cool?

9/16/10
Sy just took 25 steps, steadied himself, then took 14 more!

10/3/10
sy walked half a lap at the buddy walk today... so proud of him!

10/13/10
Zeke: mom, you're going 29 and that's more than 25... you're going too fast. Me: it's okay Zeke. Zeke: ok well let's listen for the sirens...

10//13/10
Another Zeke quote upon hearing me hiccup... "I have some hiccups too but I don't use em that much"

10/19/10
zeke is reading the cat in the hat... sounding out and spelling and everything! what a proud day to be a mom!

11/10/10

2 years, 3 months and 4 days after his birth, sylas made his pooping in the bathtub debut! gross!!! but he seems pretty proud of himself!

11/20/10
sy likes to walk while drinking his sippy cup with no hands... he was too dizzy to walk so he sat down, spilled his milk, then cleaned it up!

11/27/10

sylas just said e-e book (mickey book) & picked it up, then said open & opened it, then said ooose (close) & closed it, then said ead book (read book)! i was just sitting there watching him... not one prompt on my part! it's like he was telling his own little story! so proud of him!

11/29/10
it takes a couple seconds to get him going (and excuse the house for being a mess during playtime lol), but sylas starts talking on the phone to "daddy", then gets up and paces around the room while talking, just like mom does! so cute to see him mimicking my actions and talking! no idea what he's saying though.

12/10/10
sy's new favorite thing to say? "no night night"

tonight is the second night of clear "no night night"s from sylas... it's been almost an hour... seems i forgot about the terrible 2's... they're baaaaaack!

12/18/10

so sy's 30 mo IFSP review is on tuesday and i'm doing a goal/vision statement for him today for the first time. it's funny how it's supposed to be short, simple, attainable goals, yet at the same time, you have to figure out how to include a ton of other things into the goal that he will learn while working toward the goal. i've definitely been doing too much reading today!

1/10/11
zeke just said to me, "tengo sed, leche por favor". i said, WHAT??? and he repeated it! guess the spanish is paying off!!!

1/12/11

sylas just watched the beginning of go diego go and then sang, "e ay o, e ay o"! then he said, "do e ay o do!"

1/14/11
zeke just said to me, "mom, can i watch more flintstones? that's a funny show because they talk funny. i mean, what's a nincompoop anyway?" i said, "did they say that word on the flintstones?" and he says, "yeah, they said poop."

1/17/11
yesterday sy and i we were feeding his toy puppy plastic bananas and strawberries and corn, then today he walked up the stairs into the kitchen with a plastic banana in his hand, looked at me and raised his arms and said, "uuuuuu" (up). i picked him up and he dropped the banana over with pile of real bananas on the counter, pointed and said, "eee nana" (eat banana). then he ate it!!! language is coming finally!!!

1/18/11

sylas sliding down the stairs on his belly... been trying to get this on video for a month!!!

somebody remembered how to use a straw!

1/20/11
dear sylas, please stop this "7 outfits in 1 day" crap. love, mom. 1. am pjs, 2. change out of pjs, 3. immediately spill milk and get new outfit, 4. making homemade oj calls for new outfit, 5. spaghetti all over that outfit; need a new one, 6. pee through that outfit, into pj's, 7. immediately spilling zeke's milk calls for new pjs. looks like i'm doing laundry (again) tomorrow!

1/23/11
sylas moved a chair over to the gate between the dining room and kitchen, climbed up on it and jumped off into the kitchen... and landed without falling! who taught him that?!?!?!? my thought? UH OH!!!!!!!!

1/27/11
so sylas DOES say his abcs... with his dad, not me! tonight, i heard him say a,b,d,e,g,h,i,j,p,s,t,u,v,x,z along with daddy! and he came up to me, did the itsy bitsy spider hand motion and said, "ditty ditty ditty"! so proud of him, again, he's amazed his mama!

2/1/11
so i come home from grocery shopping to find sylas shirtless... why? because he took his shirt off himself!!!

2/9/11
day 1 of sy sleeping in a big boy bed (well, on his crib mattress on the floor)... he's been in his room awake for 2 hours... obviously no nap going on today. how many days of exploring will it take before he conks out!? so not looking forward to putting him back in his bed every 2 seconds for hours every night until he gets it! any pointers?

‎4:45 and he's finally asleep... he tore every book off his bookshelf, threw around his stuffed animals, took the pillow case off his pillow and tried to take the sheet off his mattress... finally the poor little guy fell asleep with his head at the door... i was able to snap a quick pic but i couldn't open the door far enough to get his head. so maybe this will work!

2/10/11
SUCCESS! when i put sy in bed last night, he went right to sleep and woke up this morning still on his bed! had a great morning until about 20 minutes ago when he walked down the stairs with something in his hands, about to go into his mouth... when i looked at what it was, well, i smelled it... poo! GROSS! needless to say, we had a tubby and he's all clean, but man, gross! i guess my little man's growing up!

2/13/11
found my glasses in a laundry basket along with a remote, zeke's DS and sy's toothbrush after 30 minutes of blindly looking for them. BAD SY! on a good (and kinda bad note), dad/zeke saw sy in his high chair and dad didn't put him there... he climbed up on a chair and into his high chair all by himself this morning!