Monday, January 23, 2012

Drawing

We've been doing a little drawing this afternoon. :) Check out Hunter's "H" and his smiley face. I'm so proud!!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

33 months

3 months away from 3 years old! I don't like this one bit. It seems like Hunter JUST turned two....how can he possibly be almost three??

Our little genius is quite the comedian. He cracks us up every day with the funny/random/surprising things that come out of his mouth. He's exceptionally smart, if I do say so myself. :) He's still really in to numbers, letters and shapes. He can almost draw a smiley face. Even though he's becoming a big boy, he still likes to be rocked when he's sleepy and I think I'll hold on to that as long as I possibly can.

They say that age 3 is worse than age 2 and I'm already preparing myself for that. Hunter is quite independent and sometimes has some ideas about how things should be done that are different from what ours are. For the most part though, he's very well behaved and is still a super sweet little boy. He loves to be involved and wants to help with whatever you're doing.

Some of his current favorites are --
Food: PB&J. Interesting since he wouldn't eat it at first, then would only eat it with peanut butter and no jelly. But, 9 times out of 10 this is what he requests for lunch.
Drink: He's still a big milk and water drinker. I occasionally treat him with a little juice, especially if he needs the vitamin C, but he's not really a huge fan.
Fruit: Bananas. He's eat 5 a day if I'd let him. He really likes the little Cuties mandarin oranges too. By the way....both of these must be peeled by only Hunter.
Toy: Anything that involves playing outside. He really likes his basketball hoop, train track and play kitchen. With the chilly weather this winter, we've been going to some indoor playgrounds and bouncy places to play and he loves running around and still loves to jump.

He is quite the little singer and has a really great memory for lyrics. He sometimes will just sit in the back seat and sing. Some current titles are the playlist are: Row row row your boat, You are my sunshine, Old MacDonald, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Ring around the rosy, and the IU fight song. :)

He's currently around 31-31.5 lbs and a little over 36 inches tall. We'll see what his official stats are at his 3 year well check.

Sometime over the next 5-ish weeks, Hunter will become a big brother and I am certain a good big brother at that. He is convinced the baby is a girl, so I hope he's not too disappointed if he's wrong! We've been preparing by getting baby things out of the attic, washing clothes and all of the fun stuff that must be done before Baby gets here. He's interested in all of the baby gear and toys and always asks if it was his when he was a little baby. We've been looking at pictures of him when he was born and he really enjoying doing so. He also likes to talk to my tummy, which just melts my heart. One exchange earlier this week went like this:

(Lifting up my shirt while I was sitting on the couch) "Baby, where are you? Baby, come out! Mom, she won't come out!!!"

Soon enough. :)

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Happy New Year!

Happy 2012!

This year we stayed in Texas for Christmas. Since I was at the point in my pregnancy where the Dr. didn't want me traveling past, Mimi and Papa came down to spend Christmas with us this year. They flew down on Christmas Day and stayed for a week and we were very thankful that they spent their Christmas with us.

Santa was very good to Hunter this year and even brought the red rocket ship that he specifically requested when he sat on his lap. :) He made cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve and even put the sprinkles on them all by himself and finally got to rip in to those presents under the tree that he had been begging to open for the past several weeks.


Here are a couple of pictures of him on Christmas Day:

I wasn't great at getting very many pictures. That seems to be a recurring theme in my blog posts recently....

I hope you all enjoyed your holidays as much as we did this year. Hunter really understood it a lot more this year and it was so much fun watching him. We are truly blessed.