The Family Blog

Oh my...Easton soooo woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning. It was awful at first. Tantruming right off the bat. He kept screaming for no good reason so for that (and to hopefully help him calm down) he earned himself a timeout. As I was carrying him downstairs to his timeout spot he kept yelling, "Want down! Want down!" at me and at one point took my face in his hands to make me look at him to tell me, "Want down!" Wonder where he got that from? :)

It took awhile but eventually I helped him calm down and we went on to have quite a lovely morning together. Dalton has been asleep for a lot of it, of course. Once D woke for the day (almost 9:00!) we made our weekly doughnut run. As we were pulling through the drive-through Easton said, "Want sprinkles, Mama". How do kids just seem to know that "kids like sprinkles"? Anyway, last week he told me he wanted sprinkles but it was after I had already ordered our plain glazed ones. I told him, "I'm sorry, bud, I didn't order any sprinkles" and being very understanding he said, "Maybe next time." So today was "next time" and he got his sprinkles and ate one of those and almost another whole plain one. Yay!

He has been quite amusing lately. Kids really do say the darndest things. For example, the other day he climbed up to peek through our little "portal" that separates the kitchen from the living room.

Jason was on the kitchen side and Easton was on the other and once Easton climbed up he "ordered" some "tiny apples". When I saw him he was saying, "Want tiny eggs. Want tiny bananas." Tiny? Where on earth did he get that from?

This one isn't quite as interesting but I'll share anyway...he was eating his yogurt and watching Little Einsteins. June was "doing her favorite thing in the whole world" (dancing) and so I asked Easton, "What's your favorite thing in the whole world?" just to see what he'd say or if he even understood. He told me, "I like the man" (his little Lego dude).

In fact, little Lego man--he has two and says the big ones "name is Daddy" and the little one is Easton--anyway, one of them is his napping companion of choice today. We like him to take something to bed so that when he's being rowdy and not sleeping we can threaten to take it away. Usually works. We're so mean. I took it away from him yesterday and put it on top of a framed picture hanging above his bed. He reached up on his tippy toes to tip the frame to get Man to fall off! All while he was supposed to be napping. He is very very quiet about all of this. We're not sure if he napped at all yesterday. I think he woke up after 30 minutes and was done. Then he still took forever going to sleep last night.

He and Daddy did some tee ball in the backyard:

The set (Big Lots) is crap and we're taking it back.

Then check out Dalton:

Yesterday I noticed his foot "stuck" under the tray like that so I moved it for him and he put it right back. Apparently he likes hooking his toe on the edge. What a goob!

The boys being brotherly:



Well I finished "The Pursuit of Happyness". Meh. I hope the movie is better. I've just started "Time Traveler's Wife" so I'm excited about that. Oop, Dalton is waking and I should peek to see if Easton is getting into any mischief or actually sleeping. Toodles!