Gobbles & Muffets

Today I took Roo to the doctor for his never ending cough that seems to never end. We had a really fun day together and on the way home I was telling him that we are planning to go to the movies on Friday with Uncle Matt. When I told him what we'd be seeing he said, "I don't want to see the Muffets!"

Daddy took Bug to the ENT for his ear tubes post-op today. His ears look perfect. He was fitted for ear plugs for swimming and afterwards he told the doctor and nurses that he needs gobbles for the pool!

Tonight at bathtime, bug played in the tube with Roo's gobbles while wearing his new ear tubes!

These kids crack me up!

One of my Favorite Rooism's

I love how Roo will say "oh my cow" it's such a great combination of two different phrases. I caught myself saying it today when a huge storm was rolling in. It's definitely a keeper!

Good Words, Bad Words

Roo is picking up every word we use in our speech now. There's a part in Toy Story where Woody says the word "stupid." I wish the movie didn't have that word in it because it's really hard to miss and Roo picked right up on it. So we are working with him when he picks up words like this to not say them. So we went for a walk after dinner tonight and Daddy said something was "stupid" to which Roo said to daddy, "no daddy, we don't say that word."

A New Stage

Not only has Roo gotten taller in the last 2 weeks, he's also entered a new stage.  It's the 'outwill mommy' stage as I like to call it.  How can mommy win the battle if he's going to ask over and over and over and over (you get the idea) for the same thing.  For example, if he wants red strawberries and we've got the fridge locked....he'll just keep asking.  I'll ask him to either sit down and wait or to please stop or tell him he can have some later, but nope...he just persists.  

And what's unique about red strawberries?  Well, don't you know, they're a lot different than blue strawberries.  Well where can you find blue strawberries?  In the blueberry container of course.  Red is Roo's favorite color.  I seem to be able to avoid a lot of these outlast moments by offering him red items....at least this week!

And Love Bug did something very exciting tonight too.  He said 'dada!'   Yay!  The boys will always have major points in my book for saying 'mama' first though ;)

Nonsense

Because it's our parental duty to teach Roo, we've taken the liberty to teach him some nonsense too.

Enclosed in a McDonald's Happy Meal was the dumbest toy we've ever seen.  It was a guy in a knight uniform sitting on a large squirrel.  When you put the playing card in and wound up the toy, it hopped.  Pretty dumb if you ask me and since we're not up to date on recent movies we don't really even know how popular this toy may be.  So we taught Roo to call it "Dude on Squirrel."  Because, it's really important for our two going on three year old to know the word dude.

Sometimes, when Roo doesn't hear what we've told him or doesn't understand what we've said he'll say, 'what.'  It's one of the dumber sounding 'what's' that we've ever heard, so to make it even funnier, we've taught him to say 'huh' to go along with it.  Nothing like having your kiddo repeat, 'huh' 'what' after you.

We're so happy he's repeating words we've just said, it's taken a good amount of time for him to get to this point verbally, but we can't help but have a little bit of fun with it once in a while.

No!

A typical day:

Dada: Roo, would you like breakfast?
Roo: No....proceeds to wait for breakfast.
Dada: Roo would you like a banana?
Roo: No.....proceeds to eat the banana.
Dada: Roo, would you like to go outside?
Roo: No....proceeds to take off shark shorts and put shoes on....who needs any other clothing when your 2 and it's freezing out.
Baxter: Outside, I love outside, lets go...hurry up you humans I want to go out!

and so the day goes......

Needless to say, he's just now starting to say yes, thank goodness. But this keeps us very entertained and busy. And if anyone wonders, the 2 year old definitely runs the house! If you ever get bored and want some entertainment, feel free to join us for a day.

Finally, if you happen upon a pair of white shorts with sharks on them from The Childrens Place, please buy them in sizes 3T and 4T and possibly even 5. Roo spends his days at home in these shorts and sleeps in them for naptime and at night. We can't imagine what would happen to his little world if lets say, Baxter ate them.....or if mommy just decides she can't stand them anymore.

Growing, Growing, Growing....

The house has been exciting lately. The Roo's vocabulary is blossoming and we're beginning to have very entertaining conversations with him. Here's one of my recent favorites:

Mama: Roo
Roo: What
Mama: I love you
Roo: Alright

Isn't that sweet! 'What' has become a lot like how Roo uses 'no' and it's just funny to hear. He's a riot though. He loves holding 'the baby' and calling baby by his name:

Dada: Roo, what's the baby's name?
Roo: Baby Of course, why would his name be anything else! In addition to talking a lot more, he's also singing a lot. ABC's, Elmo's World among other tunes. This is a very exciting age and we're having a lot of fun watching the new things Roo says and does on a daily basis.

Love Bug is 5 weeks old now. It's amazing how much he has grown. After a very long night earlier this week, he rewarded mommy with his first big smile. He's now around 12 lbs, in fact, his height and weight are pretty much tracking with Roo's around the same age. We think Love Bug will be taller. Oh, and lets all cross our fingers he keeps his beautiful blue eyes!

Hurricane Fun!

Yesterday, tropical storm Hanna blew through town. Well, not really, we got some rain and a little wind, but she could have been much worse. But, we planned to hunker down in the house all day and thought of fun ways to keep The Roo from getting bored. As you're aware, the house is torn apart a bit right now as we undergo construction so we took the opportunity to give the blue couches a much needed vacuum. These couches normally reside in the living room and Baxter lays on the big couch and longingly looks out the window all day waiting for us to come home. Well, the result of this is that it's covered in dog hair....ick. So, we all, include Roo helped vacuum them clean. The Roo had so much fun with the upholstry attachment that he decided to nap with it, what, wouldn't you?!

After naptime, the first thing Roo said was, outside. And we explained to him that it was raining and we couldn't go out. We told him that if he sat at the table we could make a cake. He definitely had a blast baking. He's a good little helper too. Though he gets a bit messy, he is really good at stirring the ingredients together and making sure it tastes ok. The best part about this recipe is that it doesn't have any egg.

The best thing Roo said while baking was when daddy came to help him stir...."No Nate!" Yes, Roo has learned dada's first name and will sometimes call him by it. Mommy thinks it's funny. Daddy not so much :) The cupcakes were yummy and we all enjoyed them, Roo a bit more than the rest of us!

That's right, The Roo is finally saying no. I was wondering when he would. We try not to say no too much and give him a reason why he should stop doing whatever it is he's doing that he shouldn't be doing. But, the time has come and he enjoys saying no, especially around bedtime. It's a very cute yet somewhat defiant no, much better than how we imagined it would be. Here are some fun examples of Roo's 'no':

Mama: Roo, would you like to take a bath?
Roo: mmm....No
Mama: Roo, lets change your diaper.
Roo: mmm....No
Mama to Roo who is sitting in the bath: Roo, would you like to stay in the bath?
Roo: mmm...No (he gets mad if we actually take him out of the bath at this point)
Mama to Roo after bathtime: Do you want to read a book?
Roo: mm.m..No (he normally asks for a book a few minutes later as we're putting him to bed if we weren't already reading one)

So, you see, a lot of times he appears to be thinking about his answer and really means no, but it seems that as the day goes on and we get closer to actually putting him in his crib, no becomes his word of choice no matter what we ask him. Now we're trying to teach him yes.

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On a different note, the construction for the addition began yesterday and they made good progress. Now that I can see some of the work I can easily see how the work will be done and I'm getting pretty excited about it. Our only concern is that the hurricanes don't slow the progress down too much. In fact, they would be taking the roof off this week, but with Hanna scheduled to arrive this weekend, they're going to wait until Monday. We'll have to take some pics as the work progresses. For now, the only noticable difference on the outside of the house is that the siding is missing from the garage.