All Tuckered Out

Once Mikey left today I tried to get Austin to lay down for a nap, but he was having no part of it because Daddy was outside and he wanted to be as well. So outside it is and about 5 pm we came into the house and as I was typing on my other posts he laid down on the kitchen floor in front of the fridge and below is what came next. You got it...he just couldn't stay awake any longer so it's naptime on the kitchen floor!! I just couldn't help but to get a quick picture of it and then I moved him to the bed. It just doesn't get any sweeter.

 

Playin' With Cousin Mikey

My nephew "Mikey Smith" as Austin calls him came for a visit today. We don't see Mikey a whole lot since he doesn't live close, but Austin enjoys playing with him. Here are a few pictures from their brownie break they took today. They are two silly little boys!

 

 

 

It was a Birthday Party...

and Austin had a wonderful time. Austin went to a birthday party on Saturday for a little boy named Daniel (I work with his mom) and Austin really enjoyed it. He came up to me outside today and hugged my neck and sweetly said "I Love You Mamma, thank you for taking me to the birthday party". So I guess that speaks for itself. Thanks for the invite Cheryl!! Here are a few pictures from the party.

The birthday boy wearing his Elmo t-shirt and riding his new tricycle

 

Pin the nose on Elmo!

Austin playing with what was the decorations

Daniel opening his gifts

and Austin wearing a bow from Daniels gifts

 

More presents

and I think this little truck was a hit! It's always the little things that they like the best.

and by this point we're so tired and fussy on the way home that we'll just wear the bow on our head.

 

My First Attempt...

at decorating a cake. It's not awful, but it's not great either. I'm not real good with icing the sides of the cake, but with practice I'm sure it will get better. I think that my icing was too thin. I was putting balloons on it and Austin said that he wanted his name on it, but I didn't have the room so he got his initials instead. Good enough for him. The stars and dots were alot easier to make than I thought they would be. And don't worry I won't let him eat out of the icing bags if I was making a cake to take somewhere!!

 

My Little Tater Peeler

Austin seems to have a thing for knives. I guess because his Daddy, his Papaw and most every other man he has been around carries a pocket knife. If you're cutting on anything he thinks he needs his own knife. He even told Brandon that he needed to call Santa Claus the other day because he needs a new knife! Anyway one afternoon last week I was peeling potatoes for supper and you guessed it, he needed a knife. So I gave him his plastic butterknife and he went to work on his one potatoe. He actually did get some of it peeled, but brought it to me to finish. You can tell that he is concentrating hard on getting this done.

Bible School Week

What a busy week this has been! Austin went to Bible School at Bethesda Church and he absolutely loved it. He really enjoyed getting to eat with the other kids and doing his crafts. Of course the Bible study part of it he doesn't fully understand, but he did really well sitting and listening. Each night when I went to pick him up he cried because in his words "I don't want to leave Bible School Mommy"! So that let's me know that he really enjoyed it. I do believe he is going to be one that wants to participate in everything that he can because he really likes being with the other kids and getting to do just like them. On their last night the Church rented a big water slide for the kiddos and they had the kiddie pool that they borrowed from one of Austin's babysitters for the little ones. Of course Austin wanted to go down the big slide and not just play in the kiddie pool. He went down the big slide about 5 times before the big kids just got to be too much for him. So here are few pictures from Friday night.

This is him waiting for his turn to climb the ladder (with a little help of course).

Here he is waiting at the top so he can go down.

Here he is at the bottom right corner of the slide. He's so little on that big thing that you can hardly see him.

And of course having to get help out of the pool.

Austin & Andrew; the only other 2 year old there.

Playing with the little kids.

And of course we're going backwards down the slide because forward is just not an option.

And if backwards isn't enough, we'll just go down on our belly.

And this one I'm adding in just because I thought it was precious. He goes all day without his blanket and his baby (paci), but the moment he gets in the truck with me he is asking for it. So of course I give in and let him have it. The blanket isn't such a bad thing, but we've really got to get rid of the "baby". All in due time I guess.