The Terrible Two and a halves...

Doesn't my little guy look so sweet and innocent in the above picture? Let me tell you that evil lurks inside. The so-called "Terrible Twos" have hit big time. The kid throws unbelieveable tantrums, often repeating the words "I got boogers," until I want to slam a box of kleenex up his nose. Fortunately, he is a cutie.. It's about all that saves his life some days. Grandma Thomas just came for a visit this week. He likes her a lot. We also celebrated Braden's birthday last week.

Alex and I went to the Big XII tournament in KC a few weeks ago. We had a great time. It may be the first and only time I will ever get to see so much KU basketball in person within three days. I was in Heaven! We stayed with Zach and Susan and Sam while we were up there and had a lot of fun. We were able to hit a few fun restaurants while we were in Lawrence.

Above: Me, Vinnie and Cherie (It was so awesome to catch up with them!!)

Other random pics......

Above: Holding hands with daddy. Alex has a very irregular sleep schedule and often minimalistic schedule so there are a lot of Alex sleeping/Solomon hanging out photos in the archives.Above: He's very into legos which I love. I've always liked Legos. He gets so excited when he builds something. Above: We were sharing a cookie. Mmmm...mmmm.. Above: Solomon participated in his school's Easter Egg Hunt/party today. It was a lot of fun. He loved finding the eggs.

Above: Just like last year, he loved decorating the eggs with dye.. especially getting the dye on his fingers, of course.
Above: Solomon with his good friend at school, Ella. She's a cutie. Her hair is a bit disheveled due to the Kansas wind.
Above: Solomon and Ella share a hug. I love it. I also love that girl to the right that looks like she's saying "Look what I have to deal with everyday. Get a room you two!"

A few cute pictures

Zoe & Solomon hanging out on President's Day

Another good week is behind us... I went to OKC for a work presentation I had to make. Solomon has been absolutely crazy and insane lately... more than usual for those of you who just internally said "so what's new?" :) Anyway, we have had our moments. He stayed with my parents last night and this morning at some point, pushed one of those closet doors in until it broke and fell off. I'm sure they'll want him back really soon! My parents looked utterly exhausted when I went to pick him up. Of course, he was also exhausted because about one mile into our drive home, he passed out.

In the video below, you can see that Solomon thinks Coco should be covered by the blanket. He assumes that because he worships it, everyone, including Coco, should as well. Coco is such a good sport though.

He's being dramatic a lot lately. I have no idea where he gets this from.

It appears he's about to perform some sort of barbaric procedure on poor innocent Coco.

Below: Coco gets hugged and almost hit and sort of covered up.. etc...

Seriously....

Seriously (said in an annoying Valley Girl way) is just something Alex and I say to eachother sometimes for fun. It really is seriously hard for me to believe it's been more than a month since my last post. Time flies. Oh it does..

Anyway, we've had a lot going on. Solomon has settled nicely back into the routine of part time daycare. He really likes it there and the teachers seem to like him. He's always telling me that "Ella hit Brock" or "Romy hugged Ella," etc... It's funny. The kiddo is literally obsessed with Curious George these days. Experts say two-year olds should watch no more than two hours of TV a day. We really are good about that, except for when he was sick a few weeks ago. It is so hard though because he "hearts" C.G. like nothing else. He giggles out loud when George imagines something. Solomon is always telling us how "Curious George can't find the ball. Too dark in cave." He's very serious about these two facts. He's still loving his Thomas the train engines and is really into coloring on his chalkboard and with his crayons. He also, as expected, LOVES the Curious George book that Kandi, Jimmy and Zoe gave him for Christmas. It's funny how they've never updated that book and it still shows the Man in the Yellow Hat smoking a pipe. That would be a big "no no" these days.

So, could it snow one more time?? Ugh.. I'm sick of it. I'm sure it could snow MANY more times before this Winter is over. However, I'm hoping we're past the worst of it. We/I did make a sweet little snowman after our second to last snowfall. Solomon was only a little impressed, while Coco just kept pulling off its stick arms.

This past weekend was a lot of fun. We had dinner on Friday with some of my past KSN co-workers at Sara and Shane's house. Their two kiddos were there, plus eight other kids from three sets of parents and Solomon of course. He had a blast and it was fun for us to catch up with everyone. My sister turned 38 (OMG!) on Feb. 3rd so we celebrated her b-day on Saturday with lunch and cake. Then, Sunday, we watched the big game at Abby and Brett's house. There were several kids over there too, so Solomon fit right in. He tried repeatedly to swipe Abby's delicious cookies off of the dessert table. He succeeded many times, but not everytime. The kiddos all watched Finding Nemo and then settled in on A Very Monkey Christmas later on in the evening. Solomon and sweet little Lennon were loving that one. They danced and jumped on Abby and Brett's bed together. It was pretty darn cute. Both of them have wavy brown hair. They were little sweeties.

Check out the videos below. They are funny to me at least.
(Below) Solomon dancing w/ Alex

(Below) Yes, it's even funny when toy dump trucks pass gas!

(Below) Two Monkeys Jumping/Dancing on the Bed...

(Below) Alex and Solomon take a dance break (to the Curious George opening theme song ) while snuggling in bed

I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Christmas Pictures

I have posted just a few pictures below from Christmas.
Below: Solomon with Santa after Christmas Eve mass.Below: Solomon opening one of his Thomas and Friends engine. This one is Gordon.

Below: Zoe with D-Rex.. It moves, talks, eats, etc..
Below: Solomon loved his chainsaw. Not surprising. He loves to destroy. :) In this case, he's destroying his Daddy. Ahh.. the Christmas love.

Below: And then.. He moved onto D-Rex. D-Rex required immediate surgery.

Below: Christmas morning video.

More Christmas pictures are to come. There will be some from the Thomas Family Christmas as well...

He's a Dancing Machine

You've gotta admit.. He's got some good moves...

and then...
My favorite video of the year....

Thanksgiving Fun

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun at Alex's brother's (Ray/Zach) house in Lawrence. He and his wife, Susan, and their son, Sam, were great hosts. Of course, we also ate a lot of great food and dessert! Below are some fun pictures from the day as well as a video of Solomon and his cousin, Eli, being crazy with Grandma Thomas. Above: Solomon and Eli

Above: Arianna (we also celebrated her birthday!)

Above: Sam enjoying some cake

Above: Susan, Trooper (the new puppy) and Sue (KU student)

Above: Grandma Thomas, Roy/Thomas (Alex's brother) and Arianna (Zach/Ray, Alex's other brother, is behind)

Above: Zach & Solomon reading a book. We heard "Uncle Zach" come out of Solomon's mouth several times that day!

Above: Funny video of Eli and Solomon having fun with Grandma. Two crazy little boys.
My time up in Lawrence was capped off perfectly as well with breakfast with my BFF, Erin. We ate, walked around downtown and of course talked our mouths off! :) It was fun.

Life has been busy ever since. We're getting the upstairs portion of our house repainted. All the trim will be white. They started with our bedroom. It looks great. The painters sanded off all of the popcorn ceiling and painted our walls in there. We also got new bedroom furniture. I love it. I can't wait for it all to be done. Then, we can put up our Christmas decorations. I can't wait for Christmas!

Happy Halloween... Yes.. two weeks late.

Above: Solomon in search of candy

Above: Mommy and Elmo

Above: Zoe the good witch with her friend Emily the astronaut

All the pictures above are from the day of Halloween. We went to Barnes and Noble and saw the "Where the Wild Things Are" characters. "Max" the guy in the white outfit was a little odd in person, but the kids sure did like him. Back to the KU game!