Honey taking care of the Boy

Here are a few of the moments I've captured of Honey taking care of the Boy.

Honey is not pictured here because he was posing the boy to look like George Washington.... I heard Honey chuckling one day and found him taking pictures like this:

I asked Honey to entertain the Boy so I could make dinner...

Playing with the Boy



Relaxing before bed....



Yep, Honey is definitely a daddy! He works hard for us every day, and still spends time with his favorite Boy... We love you Honey!

Everyday Life

Mascara Commercial on tv:
TV: How do you get such explosive lashes?
Honey: Dynamite?

Filling out the Census Form:
Honey: I'm going to put myself as #1, because I'm filling this out. The Boy gets to be #2 because he's cute. You have to be last.

During a General Conference Talk:
Speaker: Once when I was having a particularly rough time...
Ruth: Why do you think she was having a hard time?
Honey: Because she burned the toast.

I ask Honey to take a picture of me. When I get the camera to check the picture, I see this:

Playing DVD MadGab:
Honey shouts out the answer: Bury the Hatchet! Ha! I win! I win!
When Honey leaves the room, I quickly use the remote to mark that Honey got the answer wrong. He returns to the room, still chanting that he won.
Honey: I buried the hatchet! What the...?! How did I lose? I'm not going to bury THIS hatchet!

Tooths

My boy is growing up too fast.
Two weeks ago, Honey found something pokey coming up out of the Boy's bottom gum. Last week I woke up to "Hey, I think there's another one!" And now the Boy has TWO teeth on the bottom that he loves to show off!

I didn't give him permission to reach milestones like that yet...

Making the most of a Snowstorm

So at the beginning of this month, we had a random snowstorm. I actually enjoyed it, but I got to stay inside and watch it all from a cozy house. I wondered how the boy would like it, so I set him in front of the sliding glass door and saw these reactions:











That night at about 10:00, this is what our family was doing:
The boy supervised our work....
and enjoyed the task!




















The next day, Honey decided to improve his ginormous snowman.











Eventually, we were the awe of all the boys in the neighborhood with this giant creation:
He had to CLIMB to stand on it, rather than just step up a little. We estimated that it was near 12 feet tall, until the top 4 snowballs toppled within a couple of hours. I'm so glad that my Honey likes to play in the snow. Now I won't have to when the Boy gets older...! :)

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Finally on the upswing

This last week and a half has been awful. My first experience as a mommy dealing with a sick child. The boy started with a horrendous cough almost two weeks ago; that progressed into a cold and vomiting (because of how hard he coughed). I tried everything I could think of: humidifier, tylenol, suctioning his nose, calling the nurse several times for advice... I even tried being patient! We finally hit a breaking point last Wednesday when he vomited 3 times in 10 minutes, even though he had emptied his stomach. We went to the dr that night (by that time the boy was smiling again...) and he was diagnosed with a Left Ear Infection, Right Lung Bronchiolitis, and a barely positive RSV test. Gee, was that all...? So we were prescribed an antibiotic which we began administering immediately. Things got even more fun when I tried to give him his medicine--he did NOT like it one bit and vomited the pink stuff all over. (Fortunately I have figured out ways to get it into him since then, but it's always a trick.)
I don't get it--when I was little, this was my favorite medicine! If I ever got sick, I begged my mom to get me this medicine because it tasted like bubble gum. And yet, somehow I always got the nasty purple medicine. Of course, now I realize that the pink yummy stuff was only for ear infections and I was always sick with strep.
So we are now on the upswing of this yucky sickness, and I am SO GLAD! I have always had a sleep-through-the-night baby, until this week when I did a lot of waking up to a coughing baby, or a stuffy-nosed baby struggling to breathe. One night I even endured a screaming fit from midnight to 1:30--non-stop. Not fun. But despite all that, he still had some smile moments for me.

I am so glad you are feeling better little guy! Thank you Grandma Lori & Joycee for being a sounding board for me, and thank you to my sisters-in-law for playing with a sick baby so that I would stay sane!

Shopping List

This is a shopping list created by my husband.



Now the question is, can you decipher the items that he needs to buy...?