George

Weston got a birthday package in the mail from Uncle Greg and Aunt Alysia's family. It was filled with Curious George books and most importantly George himself. As soon as Weston laid eyes on George he squealed in delight and I knew they were going to be best friends for a long time. I've never seen Weston play 'pretend' with any of his toys before. Now he sets George up in his high chair and feeds him lunch. He laughs and laughs as he says "George, eat" and feeds him a chicken nugget. Then yesterday he grabbed the package of baby wipes and said "poo-poo" and opened up the high chair and pulled out George and took him to the diaper changing spot. "poo-poo, poo-poo".

Also, this is our new favorite snack. Florida's Natrual Fruit Juice Nuggets. I found them in the same place as the other fruit snacks but these are way better! Try them- If you don't like them just mail the leftovers to us.

Welcome to my world

These are just a few examples of what Weston has been up to the last couple of days. I can't tell you how many bang-head-here moments I have had since he was born. As much as I love being his mommy, it is a constant reminder of how I am not very good at it- obviously.

Example 1: Weston has a bad habit of throwing his food across the kitchen when he doesn’t want it any more. I don’t know how to get him to stop. So the other day at lunch he threw his string cheese onto the floor. I put on my best “disappointed” face and said, “WESTON! That is NOT NICE. We do NOT throw food. Now you are going straight to nite-nite”!!!Weston, obviously distraught about this prospect, gives me a huge grin and proclaims happily “NI-NITE!!!!!!!” I got him out of his high chair and he ran full speed to his bed. *sigh*

Example 2: While coming home from church this week I was explaining to Mike that I am not doing a very good job of teaching primary because I keep using bad language in class. A few weeks ago I said the work “stupid” and got an ear-full from my disapproving 5-year-old students. I apologized. Then this last week I said “Does Sister Kinney ever do dumb things and need to repent?” YIKES! Shrieking children: “You said the ‘d’ word!!” So as I am telling this to Mike in the car I asked him, “Should our children get in trouble if they say the word ‘dumb’”??? And our little parrot in the back seat calls out loud and clear: “DUMB!” *double sigh*

Example 3: Now this morning I sit Weston in his high chair and ask him what he wants for breakfast. (Please note: I am not expecting an answer) But he did answer me and requested a “cook-ie” for breakfast. What? Weston, you don’t get a cookie for breakfast. How about a banana? Weston shakes his head and says: “Choc-late!” WHAT?!? NO WESTON! You don’t get chocolate for breakfast!!!! I have NO idea where he gets that from! ;)

Memory Game

Just following the crowd here:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, if it is recent or years old, silly or serious--anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

Weekend on the NC Outer Banks

We got invited by some cool friends (See: 'My Favorite Family' on my bloggin' friends list) out to vacation on the outer banks this weekend. They knew where we could rent a house for $50 a night. Can you believe this house?? We had the upstairs to ourselves and free range of the kitchen, pool and pool table!

This is the bridge out to the beach.

And the view from the top.

Weston playing with dad at the beach. He was much braver with the water on this trip. In fact, we had to pull him back a few times.

A fun site on the outer banks are light houses. This one is the Bodie Island lighthouse- inside and out.

This is the harbor in manteo. They had a big 'to-do' for the 4th of July. The 3 of us hung out for the early festivites and then headed back to the house where we had a perfect view of the fireworks, but we were far enough so Weston didn't get too scared. I wish I had a picture of his face while watching the fire works. His eyebrows were up as far as they could go, his eyes were as wide as could be and his mouth hung open!

Saturday afternoon I tried to get some fun shots at the beach. Here are a few of my favorites.

Weston's 2 year old pics: THEN AND NOW

Weston's first day home from the hospital: July 4th 2006

2 weeks old:

9 Months old:

Then and Now- 1 year old and 2 years old:


















I LOVE YOU PRINCE WESTON! You give me sunshine every day!