“Mom, I need to crap”.  Ahhh, such an accomplishment to finally get a three year old to understand potty training but teaching #2 or the poop seems to be a daunting task.  So for now, ‘taking a crap’ will have to do.

And did I mention that throwing everything he can in the toilets is one of his favorite hobbies.  Lovely isn’t it?  Not to mention the constant dinosaur growling ALL.THE.TIME.

Despite his tiny terror ways, he melts my heart.  His frowning face, saying “You make me sad”, when I have to get on to him just turns me into fluff.  His 5 minute morning cuddles and the hands on hip poses make it all worth it.

You cannot get that boy around any kind of horse, bull, cow, anything or else he puts on a show!  Within just a few minutes, the bronc ridin’ cowpoke was yeehawin’ around the store like he was competing for a truckload of toys or something!

I wish I had a video camera at the time, but since I switched purses, I didn’t. It was the cutest thing ever, facial expressions and all.  A couple walked in during his performance and said, “Wow, I didn’t know we’d get to see a rodeo!”

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We went to a ranch rodeo Saturday, shopped, ate at Logan’s and then went home. Sunday, we had family over which was a highlight to my weekend. Getting to see my nephew and his girlfriend, who have a strong, beautiful baby girl who now weighs 4lbs.  Wish I could have held her but she’s still in the hospital.  We ate and then bought flowers to put at the grave of my husband’s mother.  After that, we sat outside and enjoyed the day watching little man play and the sprinkler going back and forth.

I would love to hear your weekend was regardless of whether or not you have a mother’s day story;)

There are two categories: 3mths – 2 years and 2 years to 6 years. Clearly little man would be in the 2-6yr category and I have every intention on entering his photo and I hope you do the same. You never know right??

I’ve browsed a bunch of the photos and there are some cute kids now!  I would hate to be the judges!  I haven’t decided which photo to submit yet but here’s one I took this weekend.  Little man was filthy, his  hat got all wet and lost it’s crease and this photo reflects a moment of sweetness before his attempt at a tantrum.

Let me know if you enter guys!  And good luck to those of you do give it a go!

I have a terrible memory but I truly don’t recall ever having a swing set or even a little swing for that matter, I could be wrong though and I’m sure my mom will call to set me straight if that’s the case.  What I do remember is having “how many huge ice cubes can you swallow” contest with my brother and playing in a laundry basket.  What?  It was fun stuff, then….and the ice, well….we were dorks obviously.  One of the cool things we did do, was climb this old tree and pretend it was our club house.  We made do with what we had and it worked.  Can you imagine how cool our clubhouse would have been with one of these swing sets?? GAH!

Now imagine being an only child.  No, little man isn’t an only child but he is 10yrs younger than his older brother which means he doesn’t have anyone to play with.  I mean come on, they’re teenagers and the last thing they want to do is play toddler games.

We have a nice home now on a ranch that we plan to be at for a long time.  It would be nice to have this in our backyard for our little man so that he’s not roaming about where the rattlesnakes are.  It will be even cooler to have all the family over and see all the nieces and nephews playing together with little man!  What a way to bring everyone together huh:)

So if you’re wondering why the heck I’m writing this, it’s because I’m entering myself into Dad’s Blogs giveaway.  I rarely do this and 100% don’t think I’ll win but why not try right?  It only took 10 minutes to write and could potentially make my little man very happy for a very long time!

Good luck to anyone who enters.  I hope that someone deserving wins because it’s an awesome prize!

Could this be part of Monday’s recipe?

Anna’s Flower

Cold, wet, and happy:)

Fire in the Sky

These are my weekly photos that I’m submitting to Sarcastic Mom’s “Weekly Winners” meme.  Join in and share some of your favorite weekly photos!

I gave him his first buzz a couple of weeks ago.  I love it because I don’t have to fiddle with all that hair and, besides, it’s much cooler for summer time.  I’ve never given any of my kiddos a buzz at this early of an age but I thought he needed it instead of that mop head he was growing.

Since almost all the pictures I show you of little man are with his hat, I thought I’d share this one of him without it;)   And yes, I still had to post one of him with it too:)