New Bike!!

I got my first brand new big boy bike this past weekend. It is awesome! Mommy, Paige and I went to the store to pick it out. I even got to pick out my helmet. I don't exactly know how to peddle yet BUT we are working on that. Daddy took me out and is teaching me how to ride. I've almost got it. Sometimes I get distracted when we are out there and want to look at the squirels and such but I'm really going to learn because mommy says when I can peddle, I can ride all the way to Jacob's house!!

The Boys...

Havin' a lazy weekend morning..

Zoo with Mimi -

Daddy wasn't the only one having some fun last weekend. While he was away on his golf trip, Mimi came down for a visit. We went to the zoo. It was perfect weather outside especially for March...60+ degrees!! I was all decked out with my gobbles (goggles) and backpack.

Words -

Paige is learning so many words. Here's what she knows so far:
Ni-Ni (Nite-Nite)
Duckie
oggie (Doggie)
Mama
Dada
Angie
Uh-Oh
Ashes Ashes (from ring around the rosie song)

She is getting to be a little smartie. She can retrieve many different things when asked: Dolly, Doggie, Binky, Duckie. She knows what going nite-nite means. She knows her bottle of milk. Knows Marley and points when you say his name. She knows where her hair is and where her nose is. And when you ask her where her eyes are she points to her forehead, minor details we are working out.

Weekend with Chase and Madison

We had Chase and Madison for the weekend. Luke was VERY VERY excited for them to spend the night. We rented The Little Mermaid and Luke picked out a very special cereal for the weekend. A little too much fun and not enough sleep. This is what Luke looked like at the end of the weekend....

Running...Running...Running...

Rainy day + too much candy =

New Shoes...

Mom, Luke and I went to pick out my first pair of big girl shoes this week. Now that the weather is getting nice the slipper shoes aren't going to cut it on the playground. Check me out. I'm stylin' and profilin' in my new kicks. When the nice sales lady put them on me I froze...like they were glued to the floor. But then I was off and running...

Old habits die hard...

As Luke was stickering his sister's head this week, I had a strange feeling that we've been here before.

NOW -



THEN -

Trading Up -

Luke has noticed the trend of trading up going on in the house lately. A few weeks ago we got a new refrigerator and stove. We went through endless questions at the time as to why we were getting new ones, etc. Yesterday, they delivered our new dishwasher. Again, more questions as to why we were getting a new one. I explained that the other one was getting too old and it was going to be taken away. Later that day, Luke asked when we were going to be getting a new microwave. I told him that our microwave was almost brand new so we wouldn’t be getting a new one. We were only replacing the things that were old. Last night as I was putting Paige to bed, Luke settled into his routine of playing on the floor as I gave Paige her bottle. He said to me, “Mommy, can we trade Paige in for a new baby?” Trying not to laugh, I said “OH NO buddy, we like Paige. Why would we want a new one?” Pleading his case, he continued to explain that she was getting too “old” and that we needed a new baby.
He definitely notices how big, or old, Paige is getting. He will say to me on a fairly regular basis. “Mommy, Paige-y is growing big!” The fact that she walks now is HUGE. He bangs on her less and less and treats her more like a person and less like a drum :)

Pull it together please....

We’ve been working on our manners here at the Peabody house. Before Luke gets up from eating, I’ve “trained” him to say “May I please get up, mommy”. When two adults are talking he says “excuse me”, loudly and gets louder and louder and repeats until someone acknowledges him. We are working on refining that one a bit. When he asks for something, I’m working on starting with a “May I please have…”. Basically, we are working on all the usual manner for his age.
Today, we were getting ready to go out and run some errands. Luke was on the verge of a meltdown about something and I told him that he “needed to pull it together if he wanted to go out”. He said back to me, “you need to pull it together mommy”. I looked at him and said with that you said something wrong look, “what did you say to me?” He looked at me and said “May you please pull it together, mommy?”
I first thought he was bring fresh by telling me to pull it together but then kept saying, “I don’t know how to pull it together. Will you pull it together for me, mommy?” I tried to blow it off because how do you explain figures of speech to a 3 year old but he was having no part of that. I finally had to say, “OK buddy, I just pulled it all together, we are fine now. Let’s go to Target.”
All was OK again at home.