My Gentleman in Training

The other day at bible study, I was standing by the elevators about to head out with the boys. A woman walked up with her son that is Wright's age and said to him "Hunt, is this your friend from your class?" and then turned to Wright and asked "What is your name?" He answered "I Wright." She said "What did you say?" And he said "I Wright and (gesturing toward me) this is Christine Morris." Everyone around started laughing and I responded "Well that is my name, nice to meet you." What a ham!

Christmas Decorating

Last night we bought our Christmas tree and got it up with lights. First thing this morning we started the outside lights, and this evening we finished the tree decorating. All looks so festive and beautiful. I always love our house the most this time of year.

Little bundle outside with us while we were putting up lights.

The house - we added the bush lights this year.

The tree - definitely think its one of our prettiest. Just hope it doesn't die in a week ;)

More funny Wright quotes

As I am walking around after he is in bed tonight, I hear him calling to me. I go in and he says "Mommy, I am trying to sleep and you are walking and being louder!"

When Spencer was sitting on my leg, he says "Mommy, I want to sit in your other lap."

We are listening to some of his favorite songs and he says, "I want songs with drums." I think he means a song with a loud beat so I find another song and he quickly says "No Mom! That is the piano!" He is right, so I think that has to be a coincidence and change the song again. And he says, "Mom! That is the cuntar! (aka guitar)."

He has started stalling for his naps by saying he has to go to the bathroom. Today I finally had to make him get off the potty to go to bed. He was so mad and screamed at me "I am going to poo poo in my princess pull-up all day long!" Side note - yes he has princess pullups (they were free hand me downs ;)

Spencer's Mysterious Hives

My poor baby. Today at school, I got pulled out of class because Spencer had a "rash" on his face. So I went to the office and his teacher was holding him and what I saw was MUCH worse than I expected. His whole face was swollen with hives and he looked awful. They had not given him anything new or strange to eat, so the cause was a mystery. I decided that I would give him some Benadryl which they had in the office and see if it got better. About 30 minutes later, I went to check on him and the hives had spread over his entire body. He was also coughing and crying. So at this point I was a little freaked out that his throat might close up or something. I ran back to Claire's office and said I had to leave then drove him to the doctor. When we got there, even the nurses looked concerned and they got us back to see the dr quickly. After all my panic, it turns out that he has a virus and apparently these types of hives can happen in babies with this virus. So there is really nothing that I can do, and the hives will go away when the virus does - probably a few days. At least he seems to be ok, just normal sick acting. So I guess all's well that ends well, but that was scary!

Some pics - these do not do it justice though.

Spencer 11 months

How is it possible that Spencer is almost one!? He is such a sweet little guy and we love him so much. I have been much more nostalgic about him turning one than I was with Wright. I guess I want him to stay a baby longer.

Here is what he is up to...
- He is crawling fast all over the place, pulling up, walking behind a walker and on my fingers
- He likes to climb up my legs for me to hold him and if I start walking while he is holding on, he will walk behind me holding my pants ;)
- He says Mama, Dada, Bubba (brother) and Hi
- He is drinking pretty well out of a sippy cup but still prefers his bottle. He feeds himself out of the bottle almost every time and is used to eating on the go.
- Overall he is doing better with eating but is definitely picky. He also does not eat near as much as Wright did.
- His favorite toys are hot wheels, the train table and foam puzzle pieces that he can chew on.
- He does not like to watch TV and won't really sit still for books.
- If he has his blankie, he will suck his thumb automatically and be content for hours. He does not suck his thumb otherwise.
- He does not love Lucy like Wright does, and he gets very annoyed when she licks him.
- I think he is going to be a Daddy's boy. He reaches for Daddy and says Dada all the time!

Comparison pics - Wright top, Spencer bottom.

Gingerbread Houses

This was our second annual Cousins' Gingerbread House Decorating Party. It was a blast. Wright decorated a little more this year than last, but still ate his fair share. His favorite part of the whole night was playing guns with his big cousins though.

All nice and neat before the mess began.

Luke's house took the prize - he did not leave one tiny hole uncovered by candy!

Wright's finished product.

Playing funs with Stewart.

Posing with his house - this was seconds before the roof caved in :)

Sweet brothers in their Christmas PJs with their Little People nativity.

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year in Midland. Our family and Megan headed there from Dallas on Wednesday and stayed through Saturday. We all pitched in a cooked a few dishes for the big feast. The boys had a great time and Wright kept saying he did not want to go back to Dallas the whole way home.

Megan, Gigi and the boys.

Papoo reading books to Wright was a huge hit! He was intrigued by Papoo's beard :)

Aunt Meggy and Spencer.

Wright did not eat much of the Thanksgiving meal.

Attempt at a pic of the two of them - this one looks like choking but its supposed to be hugging.

A little bit better.

Oh Wright...

Everyday Wright cracks me up with all the hysterical things he says and melts my heart with his sweet nature. He just sounds so grown up, and we are learning more and more that he listens to EVERYTHING we say and will repeat it! A few examples...

After a car honked at me in a parking lot, he said "You have got to be KIDDING me!"

Brendan was messing with him before Lanie came over the other day and asked him who Lanie was. And he said "Dad! Lanie is my girlfriend."

Today in the car, he was talking silly and saying "poo poo" a lot. I was getting on to him about it and how that word is for the bathroom only. He responded, "But I REALLY like that word."

He was singing to Spencer in the car the other day to get him to stop crying. After Spencer finally calmed down, I was thanking him and he said "I really love my brother. I love my brother always."

The other night he overheard Brendan making a joke about my pj pants being my cookie pants. That night in his prayers, he thanked God for "Jesus and Mommy's cookie pants."

Wright Quote of the Day

After he brought me a flower he found outside... "I picked you a beautiful flower. Mommy, I love you always."

Spencer's 10 months

Spencer is 10 months old! Here is what he is up to these days.

- Talks very little, but has started saying "Hi!" when I come pick him up from school.
- Crawls fast all over the place. Pulls up and walks around things.
- Still a mama's boy, but has started pushing me away because he wants to get down and crawl around.
- Loves his big brother, will chase him throughout the house and only wants to play with Wright's toys - this of course can be a little difficult sometimes since Wright does not like all his toys in Spencer's mouth!
- Very picky eater. He has finally started eating real food but doesn't like very much. The only things he will inhale are bananas and tortillas with queso :) Sometimes he will eat veggies and other fruits if they are soft, yogurt and turkey hot dog. Pretty much everything else, he spits out. Not excited about the road ahead on this.
- Smiles ALL the time, he is still generally the happiest little boy.
- Great sleeper. He will take a morning nap anytime he can get it and then sleeps 3 hours in the afternoon. He has finally dropped the evening nap and tends to get super fussy in the evenings.

Comparison pics to come...

Halloween

We had a wonderful Halloween this year. The Beales and Croffords came over for trick or treating and dinner and it was blast. Wright has been asking for candy and treats non-stop since.

Our neighbor down the street was sitting in his yard in this Burger King mask - hysterical.

Spencer and Wesley.

Trick or treat!

The four kiddos getting ready to head out. How cute is Minnie Mouse?

Pumpkin Wesley.

These are our Jack o lanterns we carved. Brendan's witch doctor took about 3 hours. Wright chose to do the "batman" one.

FINALLY - eating table food

I am posting this because I want to remember how big of a deal it was trying to get Spencer to eat table food. He is 9.5 months old and is really just now eating most food that we offer him. Wright did this at 7.5 months! Baby food is way easier because he eats it at least 5 times faster than he eats table food, and he still cannot really feed himself. But at least he is making major progress. Here he is at dinner tonight - and yes he ate almost all of this! BTW, he is cutting his 8th tooth, so a lack of means to chew is not the problem :)

My favorite thing Spencer does these days is everytime he sees me (even if I just walked out of the room for 2 seconds) he laughs and smiles so big and comes crawling fast to me to pick him up. It's like he hasnt seen me all day. Pretty adorable.

Sunday School Walk of Shame

Today as I was walking up the nursery hallway at church with Spencer in my arms, I saw Wright standing next to Brendan in the middle of the crowded hallway in nothing but his shirt, shoes and some loaner underwear! I was like "Oh my gosh, what happened?!?" Apparently he told his teacher he had to go pee pee but when he sat down on the small potty he sprayed all over his pants and underwear. He did not seemed to be phased at all, but Brendan and I felt like we were walking the ultimate walk of shame...we could not get to our car fast enough.

By the way, funny side story. The other day Wright said to me "My name is Wright mommy!" and I asked "Why do you say that? I know your name." He answered "You keep calling me Buddy." LOL

Wright Quote of the Day

To the pizza delivery woman:

"This is my friend, Mommy."

Wright's 3rd Birthday Party

Super Spidey had his super hero birthday party today. All in all it was great, minus a few breakdowns by the birthday boy. Is that just inevitable for the guest of honor at a 3 year old party? Must be... The kids played on the playground and bounce house and made super hero masks and power bands. It was a big day for Wright and he is still reeling over all the excitement.

Spiderman before the guests arrived.

Spiderman and his web.

Mimi and Spencer.

This might be the most action this playset has ever seen!

The kids LOVED the bounce house.

At this point, Wright was still really happy.

Here we are minutes from a huge breakdown over spilled juice and a missing napkin?

Wright loved the big boy toys he got from Stewart and James - especially the Nerf gun.

And as always, he wanted to spend most of his time with Max and Luke.

Baby Wesley "Superman" Crofford could not have been cuter.