Xan's Ten

1. He loves to paint. He got a Thomas the Train coloring book that came with water color paints attached in his stocking. He asks to paint every day now. He is not as messy as I thought he would be.

2. He does not like to be dirty and is constantly asking to wash his hands. He will have you wash him off mid painting and sometimes in between courses while eating.

(getting upset that his hands are dirty)

3. He just learned how to open the child proof handles on all the doors. We keep his toys in his closet and only let him have one toy out at a time. Now he just gets out what he wants when he wants. We are currently working on a new system.
4. He loves Christmas! We haven't taken our tree down yet. He starts to cry when you tell him that we will be taking it down. I am thinking this coming Sunday will be the day. If he had his way it would be up year round.

(Showing me his favorite ornament)

5. We left his favorite orange blanket at my mil's so as a trade he sleeps with one of my aqua sheets each night.

(sleeping his new cars pillow pet and his mighty machines)

6. He loves watching Caillou and pretending he is Caillou and I am Rosie. It is probably my least favorite TV show he watches.
7. He loves the new Luke Bryan CD. "Shut it down", is his favorite song off of it. We will play Luke Bryan sometimes, he will be Luke Bryan and I will be a pretty girl.
8. He has to give you hugs, kisses, and loves before bed each night, in that order, and not just Scott and I, if you are at our house at bed time you willalso get hugs, kisses, and loves.
9. He is into anything construction and calls all construction vehicles mighty machines, even though he does know what most of them are called.
10. He has been carrying around a brown duplo for the last few days and has been telling everybody that it is his pet bunny. He has named it "Little Bunny". It lives in a box in my room and there is currently a plastic piece of lettuce in there with him.

10 Things I did today...

1. Woke up at 8:30. Not by choice but 8:30 is better than 7:30.
2. Took Alex to a play-date at the park. He was fearless of the big slide. I on the other hand am a big scardy-cat!
3. Spent way too much time on Pinterest.
4. Ate a salad for lunch. A healthy salad at that!
5. Deep cleaned the kitchen and did 2 loads of laundry. Should probably go put another load in. 
6. Spent all of 15 mins. working on my mess of a scrapbook closet. Got too overwhelmed!
7. Was super patient with Alex. Yay me!
8. Was probably too bitchy with the hubby, will try harder tomorrow.
9. I am currently watching game two of the NBA finals. Go OKC!
10. I blogged. It is long over due.

What I am reading today...

I am currently reading, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, by Michelle Moran. So far I am loving it. It makes be want to re -watch the movie Marie Antoinette, the one with Kirsten Dunst. I knew nothing about Marie Tussaud. I have heard of the wax museum in London of the same name, but didn't know it was named after a women. I am not very far in. Our whole house has been sick, so between working 8 hours a day, coming home and taking care of the little one, I have not had much time for reading. 

Sick baby...

Today the little one was sick. So not much sleep for any of us. I felt guilty leaving him home, but I would have felt just as guilty staying home from work. So it is a lose lose situation either way. He stayed home with daddy, so I know he was well cared for, but I just want to snuggle him when he doesn't feel good. He seems to be doing better, he ate some rice, but refused a bottle. He is sleeping now. Hopefully he will sleep through the night, but I am not too hopeful. My goals for tomorrow are to not sleep in past ten and to have a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. It is so much easier to stay on track throughout the day if it starts out right.

What I am reading today

I am almost finished with the book Breaking the code, by Karen Fisher -Alaniz. When I first started reading it I could not put it down. It is a memoir about a daughter whose father gave her the letters that he wrote home during world war II. There is parts about the war that he has blocked out or forgotten and Karen is trying to help him remember by studying and typing out his letters. I am almost finished. At this point I am just skimming through the letters he writes home, but I am still very interested in the memories that he is remembering.

baby bedding

We choose Enchanted Hollow by Eddie Bauer for the Little one's bedding. I got the main bedding package, some decals, and extra crib sheets for my shower. It is just sitting in a box waiting for the crib to be bought and put together. I would really like to still buy the wall hangings, matching hamper, lamp.

My Ultrasound

I haven't slept a wink yet tonight. My ultrasound is today at 2pm. I am way nervous. Once I hear it's little heart and can see it moving I should be okay. I don't even care if I find out the sex, I just want to know it is okay. Of course I really want to know the sex. It would would give me a more narrow focus. I am officially at the half way point, that in itself is kind of scary. I still haven't had any cravings yet, food just doesn't sound good anymore.