Ho Hey!

Henry and I have a routine.  I work in the mornings while he spends time with Grandma.  After work/Grandma time, we (do a whole bunch of things to make this pleasant including getting everyone a sip of water, the dog on a leash and that leash handle wrapped around my foot) “rock rock” together.  He sits on my lap while I rock him. (and hope and pray that he takes a nap because as much as I love spending all of my at home time with him, we’re both just happier if he gets some rest.  And this is the nap method that works best for us.) 

I thought I was the only one of the two of us that really loved this routine.  I love getting to cuddle with him even though he quite frequently fights me so hard an outsider would think he was fighting for his life (hence my thinking he hated nap time).  After an eternity a couple minutes of this, he settles down.  He’ll be calm and comfy for a few minutes then he decides he doesn’t need a nap and would rather play.  He is getting to that age where naps are kind of optional but still very much needed, so I do take how he is doing into consideration.  The rule is 20 minutes.  If he can sit still and quite for 20 minutes, he can play.  After 20 minutes he’s either rested and happy enough to keep going, or asleep. 

ANYWAYS!  That’s our routine. 

One day, our nap routine got a little mixed up.  He was so sleepy, he fell asleep at Grandmas.  I was cool with this because I had stuff to do in “the City” (aka Provo) and didn’t especially want to disturb his nap time or keep him up and push him past that point of no return.  

That night we were getting ready for bed, doing our usual thing, and Henry came up and said "Ho Hey!"  (Henry for hold me.)  "Can you rock rock me?  We missed it today."    He needed his "rock rock" time.  Funny!  I guess he does like our little nap time routine.

Folding Laundry

I have a stack of posts (almost) ready to catch me up on what we've been doing and so that I don't forget things that I want to remember.  BUT, before I do that I thought I would post this because this ecard is the most accurate reflection on my day to day life I think I've ever seen. 



(Henry isn't a toddler anymore.  It's like a fan on low these days.)

Me folding laundry usually involves backhoes, bulldozers, cranes, tow trucks, trains, etc.  We dump the clean clothes on the floor or bed and "mighty machines" help me move the pile around and "tidy  up" until all of the clothes are folded.  I do not love the part where my clean clothes sometimes end up on the floor, but the rest is fun and makes it worth it!

Does anyone else love this house?

We have been watching a lot of Andy Griffith Show lately.  Every time I see this house, I think "look at all that character!" and notice something different.  I love the side porch, the front window and half window above it.  I love how the chimney isn't where you would expect one to be.  There are lots of cute things about this house.  I want to see inside it! 

Happy Christmas!

We have had a nice Christmas here.  We're all sad that it is almost over but grateful that we have been able to spend so much time together.  I hope everyone else has had just as wonderful of a day.  Merry Christmas!! 

Henry and Daddy fighting off bad guys.

 

Henry's tent with a little Christmas tree.  You can see his new sleeping bag and garbage truck.  Other presents are in there with him too.

After watching parts of Brave, Henry spent the rest of the night on a bear hunt.  He protected us from lots of stuff today.  Santa picked well! 

Getting Ready

I am always take fewer pictures than I think I do. We had family here and did not get a single picture of it. (I know pictures exist, just not on my camera).  Grandmother, Faye, Emily, Ian, and Rubye were here to help us decorate our Christmas tree.  It was a nice, fun Christmas-y evening. 

These are some of my favorite pictures of pre-Christmas fun.

Helicopter helped us decorate the tree.  Henry attached ornaments to the helicopter hook then flew them to the tree.

Henry and Daddy made and decorated a train shaped rice krispy treat. 

Cousins

Henry and Rubye are sweet together.  Henry loves seeing Rubye and I think Rubye loves seeing Henry.  She watches everything he does and he loves to help her and play with her.  It's cute.

The other night Henry and I were driving around with Emily and Rubye.  Henry and Rubye were both in their car seats in the back seat talking to each other.  Rubye was babbling like 6 month olds do and Henry was repeating all of it to us.  As he was telling us something she said, she kept talking and Henry looked at her and said "What was that?"  I guess he was really interested in what she was saying and didn't want to miss any of it.  Funny boy.

Fire Hazard Gone

Let it be known that I am currently cooking on 2 big burners at the SAME TIME!!!!  A few weeks ago we got a new stove.  This is very good because the last one was completely missing one big burner and the other was a bit of a fire hazard every time I turned it on.  

This isn't the first time this has happened this month but I smiled to myself when I thought about it and wanted to share. 

Somewhere I have a picture of the old stove and the new stove but I can't find them (they may have been deleted in a panic to capture Christmas fun), so you'll have to just imagine old, terrible, fire hazard stove and new, beautiful, 5 burners on a glass stop stove.  So beautiful in fact that when it was delivered, Henry said "It's beautiful Mama!"  A stove that is beautiful even to a 3 year old little boy.  Now that you've got it all pictured in your head you can imagine how happy I am right now.