my lil PB&J kinda man...& 16 months

Well, 16 days ago my lil man turned 16 months old.  Is that even possible?  Man am I behind!  & get this...we JUST went to his 15 month appointment last week!  No one told me he needed one until I saw lil T who was born the SAME DAY as Ryder had his & I was like oh em gee!  So...I'm behind.  Life happens I guess.

He devoured a PB&J sandwich today!  But he ate the WHOLE thing!  I was so proud of him, he doesn't always eat so great!  He made just bout the biggest mess ever, but I didn't care!  :P

& this is the face you will get if you ask him to "show me your teeth..." & yes, he still only has 2 little teeth down there on the bottom!  ha!  one is coming in beside them though!

16 month stats:

Weight:  23 lbs. & 10 oz. (50th %tile)

Length:  32.5 in. (80th %tile)

-Mainly 18 month clothing, some 12 months

-Size 4 diapers

-Has FINALLY said "Mama" {insert happy dance}

-LOOOOOVES fruit!  Will eat blueberries, bananas, apples, grapes all day if I would let him!

-I don't have to put him in time out very often, he's actually be behaving, besides not getting his way here & there.

-He can say shoe, sock, duck, lips, woops, uh oh, mama, Kati, dah dah, Pops (pop pop pops), KeeKee (Tee Tee), drink, up, juice, G, hair (haaaah), hat (one of his favorite)....all I can think of for now!  :P

-Speaking of G (Uncle G, my brother)...he taught him "boom boom" for when he has to "use the bathroom" with some motions that go along with it..& believe it or not my kid can do it!  & at the appropriate time!  Oh my goodness gracious!  No freakin' tellin' what Uncle G is gonna teach my kid!  :P  Sadly, he does it AFTER he has gone...not before.  :/

-We are working on pictures books at night & he's doing really well!

-He wants to do anything anyone else is doing!  & wants to be right in the middle of things!

-Loves to color with his big crayons Mimi & PawPaw got him for Christmas!

-He is obsessed with putting everyone else's shoes on!  & he'll just wear them around the house while he's playing!

-Will show you his teeth when you ask...

-Will open his mouth when you ask...(to see that there's nothing inside so he can have another cookie)  He finally learned how it works!  :P

-Loves to drink out of a straw!  ALL.THE.TIME!

-He has learned how to work his sit N' spin!

-Also said the word "Pooh" yesterday, which is his lil blankie!

-He bit me once, but he was totally playing...but it hurt!  Luckily it hasn't happened again!

-The kid won't watch TV for anything...except maybe when a commercial has music on it, like the iPad commercial.

-You can definitely say he is curious about his "body parts" when we take a bath & change his diaper!

-He can point to multiple body parts including feet, nose, eyes, ears, lips, mouth, teeth & hair.

-He understands simple commands like "go find your pooh" "bring that to mommy" "where's your sippy" "let's go change your diaper" "time to go bye bye" "go put that back" "go get a book" "lets put on your coat" "you want to eat breakfast" etc.

-He uses a fork for some things, but still uses his hands for most cause it's just easier!  Haven't mastered the spoon...I don't really want him to try!  :P

-We're brushing his teeth twice a day & he LOOOOVES it!  He'll even go & get his tooth brush when it's NOT time to brush his teeth!

-We are done with PACIs!  YAAAAYYYY!!  It didn't take him long at all!  I just cut the tip off those suckers & he didn't want them any more!  

-He has started to take a longer morning nap & still an afternoon nap.  It just depends on what we've got going on that day as to how many & how long.

the "a" word...

Abortion.

This is what was preached on this morning at church.  Uhh...such a depressing word. As Jason started stated facts about abortion, I literally got a knot in my throat, & almost grabbed my coat, purse, Bible & Starbucks drink & walked out to go pick up Ryder from the nursery where I had just dropped him off, & go to Target to do some shopping.  I didn't want to be depressed the rest of the day or week, thinking about all the facts he was telling us.  But then I started thinking. I needed to hear these facts & didn't need to just ignore them because they were what was going on in our world today.  This is a REAL thing that is happening every day around us.  Sometimes I think if I just ignore something, then it really isn't a problem & I don't really have to know about it. No big deal.  So...I decided to face it & be a big girl, because THIS.WAS.REAL.

Abortion was legalized in 1973 with the case of Roe vs. Wade (one thing I CAN remember from college).  :P  About 1.5 MILLION abortions take place every year in America.  This is about the same as the casualties of the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea & Persian Gulf combined.  That seems so OUTRAGEOUS to me. America's definition of a human life is someone with a beating heart & someone with active brain waves.  Well, you know what...babies have a detectable heartbeat around 6 weeks & brain activity shortly there after.  So why isn't an abortion the act of killing or murder?  Something seems awfully messed up with our system...but what's new?

As a mom, it made it even harder for me to sit & listen to Jason's sermon.  I couldn't imagine my life without my little man!  Being someone who didn't get pregnant at just the ideal time or age, being in the middle of college, not being married & just a child myself, abortion could have been an easy out for me.  No one would have known that I had sinned & I could have just stayed in school, gone on to graduate with my starting class & no one would have ever known what I had done.

I knew that abortion was wrong, but being in the situation I was in & dealing with everything I was having to deal with, I would be lying if I said that I didn't think about it.  It just seemed like it would be an easy way out.  As Jason said today, when we sin, we shouldn't try & cover up that sin by committing another act of sin, which is what an abortion would have been.  I am SOO glad that I knew it was wrong & knew that it would be a mistake.  I choose to face the battles ahead of me & do what I knew was right & I am SOO thankful that I did!  :)

We all sin every day, I just happened to sin in a way that would really show for 9 long months, & even after that it would continue to show every day for the rest of my life.  Luckily, not all sins are that way, but what if they were? Would you be out doing some of the things you are doing?  What if you had to wear a beer bottle around your neck every day, every where you went to show that you had been out partying the night before?  Or  what if you had a bottle of prescription pills tied around your neck that you bought off the street last week to get high when you felt down?  What if....?  Just something to think about (little off subject!  :P)

I knew I had to write after walking out of that service today.  I had been there, when I used to tell myself that I would never dare think about getting an abortion!  Luckily, I had been taught that it was wrong, & sadly not all woman are taught the same.  I can't imagine having to live with myself after making a decision like that.  On the outside, it might have seemed like the "easy way out" for me, but on the inside, it would have only made the situation worse.

I am so happy & proud of my decision today & I wouldn't trade all my heartache, hard times, tears & fights for not having my little man asleep in his crib in his bedroom right down the hall.  CANNOT.IMAGINE.

Thank you Jason for being real with us & helping me to not ignore the facts of life today, as sad as they may be.

we love lunch dates!

Last Saturday Allie called & said her & Amy were coming to town for a little shopping & wanted to see if we wanted to have lunch with them...well OF COURSE!  Allie said if she was going to eat lunch here, then it had to be at Stoby's!  I should have known!

We had a great time & probably sat there & chatted for two hours!  Luckily Punkin' behaved himself for the most part & we got to chat & catch up on a lot of things that were WAAY past due!  :P  

Thanks for inviting us to lunch Auntie Allie!  We loved seeing you & Amy!  =)

Holy Guacamole!

This has become a easy, yummy "throw together" favorite of mine that doesn't take too many ingredients to make or much effort!  I made up this recipe...sorda..I copied Cantina Laredo's just from watching them (minus the cilantro)!

Ingredients:

3 avocados (less or more...doesn't matter)

small white onion

2 tomatoes (I LOVE them, but 1 would work!)

onion powder

garlic salt

Make sure your avocados are nice & ripe...mine were a little over-ripe but that's okay!  They were just a lil bruised on the inside.  Slice them down the middle to half them...

It should look a little something like this...get the pit out by jabbing it with a knife or squeezing it out into the trash can.

I love my handy dandy avocado "scrapper-outter" I just scoop all the insides out with it & put the contents in a bowl...If you don't have a avocado tool, a spoon works great.  If your avocado is on the hard side, you can cut length wise & horizontal with a knife to get the goods out easier.  

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While the avocados are the only thing in the bowl, use a fork to mash the chunks up as best as you can...

I throw in a SMALL squirt of lime juice to help it from not browning in the fridge!  If you have a lime, you can squeeze half of that in there for some good stuff!

Next, I dice up my tomatoes as small as I can...

...mix them in the bowl with the mashed up avocados.

I have learned to grade my onion...it makes a super fine juice like mixture.  This was a small onion & I used about half of it.

This next part I totally guess on...just toss a few shakes in there of each & mix it real well.  I taste test it to see if it needs more!

My final pics were too bad to even post!  Now...go to the grocery store & get yourself some stuff to make some yummy guacamole!

Random Phone Pics!

{I made these with my new Silhouette for mom!}

{I let Punkin' "color" the other day with a pen in my new agenda!}

{The kid LOVES shoes!}

{Look at those BIGGO Patterson theighs!  :P}

{Why are they so sweet when they sleep?}

{My bro & his sweet g/f}

{He came out with his baseball glove on like this the other day!}

{My first vinyl project with my Silhouette!}

{He did this to himself!}

{Loves to say the word "duck"!}

{Crazy Christmas lights!}