Strawberries Anyone??

We went strawberry picking Saturday and had a wonderful time! We were just planning on picking a few, but once there, decided to pick a whole gallon bucket!! We will have strawberries for weeks! They are dark red, juicy, sweet, and delicious. Cohen and I got right into them when we got home!! Evan was very tired and wanted to sleep the whole time we were there, but soon decided to try a nibble of one!!

Our little monkey is 10 months old!!

I can't believe it!! He has changed so much in such a short time! He is now crawling, pulling up, trying to let go, and takes a few steps when we hold his hands. He went from nothing to ALL. OUT. WILD!! He is so fast and stubborn. He insists on being on the floor and if you look away for 1 second he is out of sight. He cracks up when you call his name and find him somewhere that is off limits. He LOVES crawling on the hardwood floors. We don't really let him on them right now because he is still a little unstable!!! He keeps trying and we turn him around the other way and before you know it, he is back again! Man, he is FAST!!! I love it though. He is getting into everything. I had to move our plants and block off the fireplace. He gets put in his pack-n-play, sometimes although he hates it! I mean......I DO have to go potty sometime!!!!

He is sitting up well and is now in the big bathtub. He loves to play with Cohen and still splashes like a mad man! He can get from one side of the tub to the other in the blink of an eye. I have really never seen anyone faster!! His nickname has been monkey up until this point but we might need to change it to an animal that moves much faster!!

He LOVES LOVES LOVES to eat! He will cry if I try to give him baby food and shuts his mouth tight and will not open. He wants what we have. I am SSSOOOOO nervous about it, but I am getting better. So far he has had peaches, pears, and bananas (all cut up very small), mashed potatoes, and toast. I will have to try some new things. I think he is getting tired of the puffs and wants more variety. He might eat us out of house and home!! He still loves his bottle and refuses a sippy cup of any kind. I am not really sure what we are going to do. We keep trying, but he is STUBBORN and refuses to try it. Am I going to have 2 babies on a bottle????????????

He is a talker for sure!! He says dada and mama (although not to us usually-he just babbles). He did say "Hey, Dada" today!! It was really cute. He only did it once and would not do it again. He is a watcher just like Cohen. I will catch him studying what we are doing and then he tries to do it.

By far his favorite time of day is bed time. He is asleep by 7:30. He would prefer 7:00, but sometimes we just can't get there so soon! He is still the best baby ever--although a much faster baby!!!

We were waiting at a red light today and a big "hoopty" car stopped beside us with his rap music SOOO loud. It was vibrating his car and shaking our windows. Cohen just stared out his window at the car and I wondered what he was thinking. After we drove off he said, "that car has some cool music. I really like it. Do you?" I said, "no, it is too loud for me." He said, "oh man, I love it. It is really cool."

Cohen was on yellow yesterday when we picked him up from daycare. That means he had to go to time out a few times and was not listening. Today, he was on green so I told him we could do something fun for a treat. He picks.....go through the car wash! YES! A treat for me too! What a good kid!

Happy Easter!!!!!!!!

Atlantic Station

We decided to spend the beautiful day today at Atlantic Station and had SO much fun. On the way Christy called and asked what we were doing or where we were (something of the sort) and I said "we are at Atlantic Station just hanging out." We chatted for a few seconds and then hung up. Cohen then reminded me that "we ALWAYS tell the truth, Mommy. You know like when you are picking your nose and your mommy says 'are you picking your nose' you have to say yes because if you say no that is a lie. You said we are at Atlantic Station and we are not hanging out in Atlantic Station we are riding in the truck. You need to remember to always say the truth!" So sorry Christy. I should have said "we are riding in the truck getting ready to park and then hang out!!!!"

So anyway, we had a great time. Well.....Jeremy, Cohen and I did---Evan, not so much. He had his shot yesterday and I think he is cutting teeth so he was pretty miserable and grumpy the whole day. We kept him a little happy with Puffs and bottles----the boy LOVES to eat! I decided that the old phrase, "if mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy" should be changed to--"if baby ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!!" No really---he was fussy, but we still had a good time. We went to IKEA and got lots of good deals and Cohen acted like it was Disney World the whole time! He was in awe and kept saying "ooohh look at that!!!!" He said it like 100,000,000 times!!!! It was funny. I am sure people thought, "poor kid, they never take him anywhere!!"

Atfer loading up all our goodies from IKEA, we drove around the underground parking deck trying to find a good spot and Jeremy ran a stop sign. Well, of course our good samaritan in the back seat let him know rather quickly that "he was supposed to stop and he better be glad there was not a police "ossifer" around or he would go to jail for a LLLLOOONNNGGG time!" Jeremy apologized and made sure to stop at EVERY. TINY. stop sign we passed. We parked, unloaded fussy pants and bossy pants and had a fun time walking around "the city" as Cohen calls it. Cohen kicked the soccer ball with some kids that were playing on the grassy knoll and we ate and walked and shopped! It was a good day!

At about 7:30 we decided we'd better head home. We had 1 diaper left and no bottles, so---it was time!!! When we got in the truck we had several fast food cups as souvenirs from the day. I needed to get rid of some and I looked all over for a trash can. I could not find one so I put them every so neatly on a light post near by. Oh goodness! What was I thinking?!?!?! I hear from the backseat--"mommy, is that litter bugging? You should always use a trash can or recycle your trash." He caught me!!! Lucky for me, he can not read yet and there was a sign right above where I put the cups that said something and had an arrow pointing straight down. I told him it said, "put trash here and we will recycle it." SSHHH!!! Don't tell him! We always tell the truth, and don't litter or we will go to jail for a LLLOOONNGG time!!!

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