Tuesday, February 2, 2010

22 months and counting...

Our little baby boy is growing fast. We're doing a lot of "big boy" stuff now. No more bottles. Switched from the highchair to a booster seat. Went "free range" in the tubbie. Our family room is crowded! But not with the usual suspects. All he wants to do is READ! "a read! a read!" It Looks Like Spilt Milk is his current favorite. He says "play car? play car?" while taking you by the hand over to his toy cars :) He loves the movie "Cars" and knows Mater and Lightning McQueen (queen, to him). Mater gets him so excited! He loves watching concerts and cheers wholeheartedly at the end of the songs. He still loves "Shaun sheep?" and has a few favorite things to say now. "ewwwwww gross!" and "hecicocter". He's very good at repeating anything you say. Good thing we're a non-swearing household! He's all into transportation. cars. big trucks. bus. helicopters. typical boy. And oh boy does he love to color. Crayons. markers.

Thank you Kym for helping to reinforce and teach our boy!! We appreciate how you work with him and read to him.

Preston watching Shaun the Sheep

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Happily Drawing

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And a picture that is just plain cute.

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And a couple of videos. looking at a Tower Hobbies catalog with helicopter, some fun at Cindy's house, and just running around upstairs



Sunday, January 3, 2010

New Year New Look

Happy 2010 everyone!!! 2009 was not one of the greatest years for me so I'm hoping for only good things in 2010. So far so good. Peter decided the blog needed a new look so I hope you like it. Preston is growing up so fast and we're loving every minute of it. He is such a sponge right now. He might have been a late walker but he is certainly an early talker. He will repeat almost anything you say and I'm amazed at how large his expressive vocabulary is. He knows all his letters, he knows his numbers up to 14, he knows some shapes and starting to learn his colors. We are so happy that Preston is with Kym every day while we are at work. She always has fun things to do and plenty to keep Preston busy. Hopefully 2010 will have lots of new adventures to look forward to. We might as well start the new year off right with 3, yes I said 3 videos of Preston. Enjoy!!!!!

(remember that you can see these larger if you go to our youtube channel linked on the right!)




Saturday, December 26, 2009

Merry Christmas!!!

All of that planning and it's all over in a blur!!! Santa was good to us this year and we enjoyed spending time with our family. Preston got lots of new toys which took him 2 days to unwrap everything. A few of his favorites are his school bus, alphabet letters, magna doodle, crayons and coloring books and a bowling set. Now it's time to put away the old toys to make room for the new. I can't wait to spend next week with him playing with all the new toys. So fun!!! Thanks to our generous family and friends, a good time was had by all.

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Preston checking his stocking.

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Here's the gang minus Preston. Not interested in getting his picture taken.

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Lucia waiting for her presents!!! Hurray up Aunt Kirsten!!!

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Lucia sleeping! Anna got lucky this time!!

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Christmas morning!!

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Peter with his girls! I like this one!!!!

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Andrew and Aaron playing wii

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Ohhhh, I ate too much!!!!!

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Penny sniffing Preston's poopie diaper!! Ewwww!!!!

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The end of the day, chillin', eating blueberries!!!

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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Santa

Preston got to meet Santa Claus today! We were hanging out at the Wos household and Santa Claus decided to stop by. Preston was not too sure how to react. He liked him, but didn't want to sit on his lap. Preston loved his gift. Crayons and coloring books.

Here he is approaching him.

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"high 5"

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Santa helping with his crayons.

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he loves his crayons. :)

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Christmas Decorating

We've been very busy getting ready for the holidays. Hope everyone is doing well. Here's a cute video of Preston helping us decorate.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween

Not one of my favorite holidays so the rain just made it worse. We took Preston trick or treating in the rain and he was so not into it!!!! He was having more fun playing in the wet leaves and picking up pine cones. We only made it to 2 houses and Peter and I said forget it!!! We got most of our goodies from Guggie!! Thanks!!! We did get a few pics though. Here is Pirate Preston

He wouldn't leave the hat on.

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It looks like he got into the silly sauce.

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Checking out the loot!!

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Beautiful One

by Anneke van Giersbergen

Beautiful One
Your hair shines in the sun
I wish I'd never left

The wind intwines our hair
Our words get swept through the air
I wish I never left

Your face shines in my eyes
Our last look before our goodbye
I wish I never left

Beautiful One
You shine like the sun
I wish I never left
Before I have said
You are the one
You are the one

Your sun will come and go
But its beauty will keep its glow
I wish your rays would shine over me
Keep filling me with your beauty
I wish I never left
I wish I never left

I sing this song to Preston every morning on our way to Kym's. Sometimes it sounds like he is trying to sing it too. Anneke is our favorite female singer of all time and I just love this song. And knowing that she wrote this song about her son makes it even more special. For now, you can hear the song here: http://www.aguadeannique.com/music