My Boy

I just love the things this little guy says. He is so much fun! I know I say that at every stage, but I love that he can communicate using actual sentences now.

Just last night while we were drawing on the sidewalk with chalk I yawned & he said “Tired, Mama?”

He’s so thoughtful. He is very polite too. Right now we are working on yes ma’am & no sir. TAG & I grew up saying it & so will our kids. Period. He usually remembers, but he sometimes gets the whole ma’am/sir thing mixed up. 85% of the time I’m a sir with him. Ah hem…anyway, I think it’s great he’s trying.  If he burps or if he wants to get by you, he says “scuse me!” He also says "Thank you sooo much" when he gets something he really wants.

Averly was babbling in the car the other day & he said “whatchu talking ‘bout Avy?” PRE.CIOUS. He loves that little girl so much. He always almost always shares his toys with her. He gets very concerned if Averly doesn’t have enough bubbles in her bath & has even taken it upon himself to correct that problem for her a few times. He’ll also point to her & say “Avy, little sister. I lub you Avvyyy!” and give her a kiss.

Yesterday he was eating a granola bar & wanted more. He kept saying “Mama, monkey bars. Please?” Cracks me up.

As mild mannered as he may seem, don’t let him fool you because he is ALL BOY. He loves to wrestle & play “foofball” & baseball with his Dada. He is rough as a cob without a doubt. Rarely does he ever not have dirt under his fingernails & his favorite place to be is outside “running fast”. He loves to pretend that he is Spiderman or Ironman. Watch out if he’s Spiderman because he is climbing all over everything.

He also has a love for books & learning. He can count to 10 easily so we are working on going up to 15 now. He can get to about 13 by himself. He knows the colors green, blue, brown, red, yellow, white, black (sometimes) & orange. He can almost say all of his ABC’s. He starts out pretty good, then muddles through the middle & picks back up at Q, R, S…

I could go on for days about all the things he says & does nowadays. And I just might. We never know when something great is going to come out of that little mouth of his.

His new favorite phrases are “Huh?” & “Why not?” Most kids ask ‘why’ but Riley asks ‘why not’.

The other day he wanted to watch 101 Dalmatians. He picked it out & said “Watch 100 dogs, please?” How stinkin’ cute is that?!

He can do a front roll & loves to show out doing it.

Lately everything is "Awesome!"

We stayed at my parents’ house a couple weekends ago & he sleeps in my sister’s old room when we are there. She has a heart-shaped picture frame on her dresser that has magnets on it. Riley was naming his shapes & I told him that one was a heart. Then I told him he was my heart. He replied back, with a hug, “You my heart too, Mama.” Stop.The.World.

Now that Averly is drinking out of a sippy cup, we will grab his & say "Cheers, Avy!" as he knocks the cups together. Such a stinker.

We are still working on the whole potty training thing. He just goes in the potty when he wants to, but it's not on a regular basis. He has gone #2 in the potty once about 3 weeks ago but nothing that exciting since.

He will hold his hand out to shake yours & say "Heyo, how you doing?" When you respond, he will say "Yea, I know it." He reminds me so much of a little old man.

He also told me he was going to build a house for me. I was helping my mom nail something on his playhouse that he has there, so he got a hammer & decided he wanted to help too. He said “Build you {a} house Mama.” Maybe he will do just that one day!



Oh how I love, love, love this little boy!