Happy Turkey Day!

We went to Grandpa's  house for Thanksgiving this year. Tony, Uncle Scott, J.R. and myself drove to Phoenix the night before and we went to the Coyotes hockey game. J.R. had so much fun, here's a picture of him at the game!

J.R. had fun at grandpa's house. He amused us all for 5 days straight! J.R. asked papa about the band aid on his finger. J.R. has always been fascinated with band aids. Papa said he cut his finger and J.R. told papa that he had to be VERY careful!

Here are some pictures of J.R. at papa's house.

At papa's J.R. gets to sleep with mommy and daddy sleeps on the pullout couch. My favorite time I spend with J.R. is bedtime. He is so sweet! Here's a picture of J.R. pretending to sleep. You can tell by the big smile on his face.

Funny Kid

Just a few things to post, a few funny things that I want to remember when I'm old and grey!

J.R. has been to the er twice in one week, first croup and the second time an ear infection, hopefully this Sunday we can go without an er visit. Anyway, we were coming back from the er last Sunday and he's watching his hockey dvd in the car for the millionth time and he's pointing out daddy's team the Oilers. Tony asks J.R. who's mommy's team and J.R. says she doesn't have a team and he was right! Then Tony asks J.R. who's Uncle Scott's team and he says um, I don't know. Tony told him it was Tampa Bay Lightening. A few days later we were watching the hockey network and J.R. points at the Tampa Bay Lighting hockey player in a commercial and says, that's Scott's team! We all cracked up and couldn't believe he can recognize different teams by their uniforms...

J.R. is so excited to go to a Blackhawks game in January when we're visiting in Chicago. He talks about it everyday! This kid loves, Buzz Lightyear, SpongeBob and hockey, especially the Blackhawks... that's J.R.'s team the Blackhawks! We go to school in Blackhawks attire at least once a week.

It's been a long time since my last post.

Can you believe my little guy is this small. I took this picture a few weeks ago so I'll always remember how small my big guy becomes. He fell asleep in our bed that night and got to spend the night with mommy. J.R. always says he will sleep in daddy's bed and daddy will sleep downstairs on the couch or in the other bedroom.

Here's some fun bedtime pictures. We've started flossing our teeth, that's been pretty comical. J.R. loves the picture of him with his fists out, he does this all the time. It's pretty funny!

Here are some pictures of J.R. at his school Halloween party. I volunteered that day for 3 hours at his school, the best 3 hours of my week. J.R. was Buzz Light year from Toy Story! The bottom picture is his favorite teacher he had over the summer, Miss Alexis. He loves her and I think that's his first crush! She comes to babysit sometimes and he blushes.. I've never seen him act like this only with Miss Alexis.

Here's J.R. on Halloween night. We went to our old neighborhood and hung out with Margie and Bill. J.R. had a blast... we all loved it and missed our old neighbors!

We went to a Wrangler's hockey game and Uncle Scott came with... A wonderful older woman got a puck that came over the net who sat next to me. She gave the puck to J.R. and he slept with that puck for a week. He was SO happy and celebrated all night!

Here are some fun pictures of J.R. over the last few weeks. The first picture is J.R. playing around the house. The other two were from last Friday, date night for J.R. and mommy. We went to see Puss and Boots then had french fries and ranch after the movie.

 This is just a funny thing I don't want to forget and can't resit posting. Over the weekend J.R. had a baseball game. After the game we had a birthday party for a friend and when we got home J.R. got out of the car and said, "Mama take my hat, it killed my hair." I couldn't believe my ears and asked him to repeat what he just said. He continued as he pulled up some locks of his hair, "look my hat killed my hair." J.R. is his father's son, this guy is a riot.

At 1am last night, I heard J.R. cough. I still have his video monitor going and he's almost 3 years old.. I laugh that it will be there until he moves out of our house... Anyway, he coughed and went into his room and he was wheezing and not catching his breath. I yelled at Tony we were going to the emergency room. As I walked in the ER, the nurse heard his cough, saw my stark white face and said, "Oh honey, he is fine, he has croup. This is the best thing he could have because we'll give him a shot, it will open his throat and he'll be fine." Color then returns to my face then I see Tony running into the ER with the same white face and she tells him the same thing. Thinking back I have to laugh, the doctor's and nurse's at ER's must get some crazy looking parents... Tony and I were those parents last night!

Here's a picture of J.R. taking a nap in daddy's bed with mommy this afternoon. He's recovering quickly!