I glanced over at my phone this morning, refusing to open both eyes. If I opened both eyes, then I would be admitting I was truly awake. I knew it was early, the sun wasn't up yet. I managed to find the button on my phone. Dang. Way too early. But with a stuffy nose and a sore throat, I couldn't find a comfortable position to get back to sleep. Don't you hate waking up early on the weekend?
I'm going to use the opportunity to give a much-needed update. I don't remember the last time I was Knox-free and work-free at the same time. He typically gets up when I do, and then falls asleep after me at night. To say he requires little sleep would be an understatement.
So what have we been up to? Well! Cody has started track season. It's been interesting. You see, at the end of January, we sold his truck (following Dave Ramsey's advice). We decided to take the rest of the school year to save up for another vehicle. SO we are down to one vehicle, which isn't too bad considering we work at the same place. We forgot about the times when Cody has morning practice. Or when he has to take kids home from practice and there's a car seat in our back seat. But really, we are saving $300+ a month so those problems are minute in the grand scheme of things.
As for me....I've been doing some projects around the house (I'm working on a 30 days of organizing post...very close to finishing), working, and enjoying the beautiful outside weather with Knox.
Speaking of Knox (see what I did there??)....he has been learning so much! The kid still talks like Boo off of Monster's Inc. but he Is learning lots of new words. We started keeping a list, but it got to be too long. He knows well over 50 words by now, and attempts to talk in complete sentences (hence the sounding like Boo thing).
Things Knox is working on at the moment...
-he has been riding his tricycle. He can make it go a couple times forward and backward before he gets frustrated.
-anything sports and/or physical! We think he's going to be a basketball star because he can make some pretty good shots, but he could also be a quarterback because he has quite the arm on him. Then last night Cody decided he may be a baseball guy. Cody was holding the ball in his hand and Knox was smacking it with his bat, and not even hitting Cody's hand.
-tools! Knox loves 'fixing' things. I think we make people nervous because he plays with real tools (not a table saw or anything) but he's always been really good with stuff like that.
-WE are slightly working on potty training still. We don't want to push him because he's not showing he's completely ready. But he has made the choice to sit on the potty a few times and has gone in it several times too.
Here are a couple of stories:
One night, Cody was out late picking up pole vault poles for the track team. We have been trying to get rid of the pacifier, and I thought I would try the cut-off-the -nipple trick. My sister said her friend did it and her daughter never wanted it again. Sounded easy enough. He only has one good binky left, so I got one of the newborn pacifiers that he never used, and SNIP! He put it in his mouth, took it out, put it in, took it out, and gave me a dirty look. Then came a 10-minute lecture (God only knows what he was saying). I did hear the word 'da da' several times in there. I just kept explaining that it was broken and he needed to throw it away. Then he grabbed my hand and pulled me to the top of our stairs. I opened the baby gate, followed him down....past alllll the toys....and into the work room. He pointed to the tools. I gave him a small electric screwdriver. He marched right upstairs with it and spent a good 15 minutes trying to 'fix' his pacifier.....
I think this kid is too smart for us.
Next story....picture this. I have been working for a while to get Knox to 'show me his muscles.' I hadn't tried it in a while so I gave it a shot the other day. 'Knox! Show me your muscles!' Knox smiled real big to show me all his teeth. Hmm. That's weird. 'Knox! Show me your muscles!' Again, he smiled and showed all his teeth. So I called Cody into the room to see what he was doing. Cody decided to give it a try. 'Knox! Show daddy your muscles like this...' I look over and Cody has his arms up showing his muscles and, for lack of a better word, was growling, bearing his teeth. SO I came to the conclusion that Knox was trying to do the same. So. Funny. Now he shows his teeth like that and puts his hands way up under his armpits.
I have video of both of these stories. I couldn't get it to load on this blog, so I may have to just post it to Facebook.
But I do have some obligatory cute pictures. The first is Knox and I taking a nap. The second is Knox in a hat my sister made him for his newborn pictures. He found it somewhere in his room and came to me wearing it...so silly!
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