Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Because I need to...

Because I need to update a bit. :)

We went to a Fish and Game Nature Center in Little Rock last weekend. Here are the three boys looking into one of the aquariums. I was a bit disappointed. Dillon loved it. He wants to fish so bad. We got him a pole yesterday to practice with. I wished it could have been bigger with the time it took us to drive down there and back. We probably spent more time in the car than we did at the center itself.

Robby sent this blanket to Maddie. His girlfriend's mom made it and I love it. Dillon wanted to be a ham and have his picture taken and I love how blue Maddie's eyes are. i hope they stay this blue!!

Check out http://www.madelynnbyrd.blogspot.com/ for more pictures

Wordless Wednesday

Just Because

Dillon picked this "outfit" out. Hee hee. A pink onesie and leg warmers.


Dillon wanted to be included in the comparison shots. He loves his sister. :)

Week one with a new baby!!

It's been a week! :)

All Madelynn and I do is sleep and eat. ha ha

Dillon was a bit jealous when she first came home. You could see that he finally realized what it meant when he got a new sister. He is doing great now though. He kisses and hugs her good night. He wants me to feed her with a bottle. He doesn't understand why she doesn't eat with a bottle. He reads to her and sings to her too.

Cory is a teenager and thinking, great another baby. We know though that once she is able to interact with Cory he'll be more interested. Cory will be inducted into the National Jr. Honor Society this weekend. I'm not sure if Jeff will go or if I will go but we will try to take pictures.

Madelynn had her one week well visit today. I updated that information here: http://madelynnbyrd.blogspot.com/. Be sure to check out how much she weighs and the doctor's information. She is still sleeping, eating and pooping. That's her update. LOL

Jeff has decided since he has some days off that he is going to build a pergola on our patio. I will take pictures tonight when he is finished and keep you up to date on how it's going.

As for me I am off to go get Dillon from daycare then come back and cook dinner. :)

Love you all!!

Pockets

Dillon just told me his underwear had pockets.
Too funny!
I just changed him out of his PJ's and left him in his underwear while I got ready and then I was going to come back to him.

He rounded the corner and said, Cory, my underwear has pockets. Hilarious!!

Dillon's concerns for the baby

For Christmas Dillon got a doctor's kit. It has a stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, thermometer, etc. He has gotten to where he'll come take my blood pressure and listen to the baby's heart and give her shots through my belly. It's sweet actually.
So today when he was doing this I asked his if he was going to be a good big brother and help me with his baby sister. He said yes. Then I asked if he was going to help me feed her. His response:
But she doesn't have any bottles to drink from... How can we feed her if we don't have any bottles.
I said, we have time she'll get bottles we just don't have them yet.
He said, she doesn't have a dolly either. She needs to have a dolly too.
The concern on his face and in his voice was too cute. It cracked me up.
So, he and I got on Target and looked at all the dolls they had. He picked out a doll that he thought she would like and we put it on the registry. I figured I'll go pick it up later but the fact that he got over his concern and he picked out the doll made him feel so much better. While we were searching for the doll he saw a cube where you can put pictures in it. He liked that too and said she has to have that too.
I haven't really gone to the store to "get" anything yet. I have a ton of nesting that I feel like I need to do but the first few steps I need to complete I need Jeff here first. I want to put some shelves up in Cory's room so that I can get all of Cory's stuff out of Dillon's room. Once that's done then I can start to reorganize Dillon and Maddie's room the way I want to set it up. We are going to get a loft bed for Dillon to sleep in and roll the crib under the huge space that's meant for another bed or desk area. Thank goodness Dillon's bed was convertible, we just convert it from the toddler bed back into the crib (Thanks Sunny and David!!). Once we have the bed set up we can start to restructure the rest of the room. Obviously though all the heavy lifting Jeff wants me to wait. So I'm really waiting on doing any major shopping until he gets home. Which by the way is in about 25 days or so!!!!
Once he gets home though I feel as though it'll be a huge whirlwind of stuff to get done. I keep putting this off but I think today I am determined to get started on all the stuff I want to put on ebay (finally)! I have a ton of old (not old old but books I won't be using old) books from previous semesters that I need to get rid of. I used 11 books alone last year. Dillon is actually wanting to take a nap today (he's not feeling to well) so while he is done I'll get as much as that done as I can.
Anyway! I came on originally to talk about Dillon's concern but this ended up being a novel!

Love.

Dillon is into saying I love this or I don't love that for his likes and dislikes. So today we are driving down the road and he says I love firetrucks. I love trains, cars, trucks, trailers, bridges, candy, pumpkins, and on and on and on. Eventually because we were in the car he was just saying anything we passed along the street. clouds... signs... birds... too funny!

The Baby!

I found out five weeks ago that I was pregnant. The due date they gave me I would be 18 weeks right now. I had a doctor’s appointment this week and the ultrasound said that I am only 10 weeks along. 10 WEEKS! So I thought that I have been out of the testy first trimester stage and we told Cory and Dillon all about the baby. They actually both want a sister.
Dillon was laying on the couch Monday with his head in my lap and my stomach started to gurgle.
Dillon: What was that!?!
Me: The baby is talking to you!
Dillon: The baby is talking to me?
Me: What she saying?
Dillon: You hear that? The baby is talking to me!
Me: What is he saying? (I switch between he and she for some reason)
Dillon: You hear that? The baby farted!!
This kid cracks me up. Lately his favorite word is farted/fart any derivate of it.
On a side note Dillon is finally taking to potty training! The only time he has gone in his pull up is during nap time and then during bed. I put him in underwear when we got home tonight and he didn’t have any accidents. He’s in the bath now and we’ll put him in a diaper for bed but it’s a start.
Cory had a cross country meet yesterday. He came in 33rd but he had fun. He has also joined the Science club at school and next week he’ll be starting the Junior National Honor Society. He’s having fun with school!
Jeff leaves for the desert in about two weeks. Pray for a safe journey home and for him to not be to overwhelmed over there. He will still be finishing his economics class when he gets over there so he’ll be busy studying at first.

Quarterback Vs. Razorback

Jeff and I were talking about Quarterbacks this morning over diaper changing.

Dillon looks at us and says, "It's not Quarterback it's Razorback".

Jeff and I look at each other like where did he learn that word? Normally when we talk football it is either NFL, Notre Dame or Arkansas... we never really say Razorbacks.

So I looked at Dillon and asked him, "Where did you hear that word from"?
He said, "Ms. Tamela", his daycare teacher. Great! They are corrupting him. :)

On another note:
Dillon is at the age where he says funny stuff so...
Cory and him were cleaning his room the other day and Dillon says to Cory...
"Let's concentrate on this area over here".

What? Wait! He said concentrate... he is learning so much!!

I got Cory's cross country running schedule last night. Expect to see some pictures of Cory running on here pretty soon.

Cory is a giant!!

So Dillon and I were talking the other day about little kids. I was saying that he was becoming a big boy and needed to use the potty more. I then said you are a big boy like Cory. He said, No Mommy Cory is a giant!! The things they think of....