Christmas Morning 2011

Austin's Preschool Christmas Program 2011

Austin's visit with Santa

Here's Austin with Santa. It's hard to believe this is his 3rd Christmas.

He didn't cry this year, but he was definitely a little leery of Santa. I told him that Santa was handing out candy canes and he said "Oh, candy canes? Okay."

Halloween 2011

Baby Guidos

Pauly D

Maxx was the official door bell ringer/door knocker - and if you don't answer fast he's just going to keep ringing the door bell and knocking until you answer.

And if you still don't answer, he's just going to let himself in.

Austin got pretty excited when he realized this lady was giving out suckers!

"Cab's here!"

This picture cracks me up.

We got asked if they were rappers a couple times- guess you gotta be careful with painting your kids face with bronzer...

"No, they're guidos. Dressing them up as black people? That would be racist."

Austin videos

Mommy Paint

Austin and I were sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch today. He goes "Mommy paint table?" I said, "Yeah, I painted the table. And I painted the cabinets and the walls." He points at the wall beside him "Mommy paint that wall?" I said "Yeah." Then he pointed at the ceiling, "Mommy paint sky?" "No, I didn't paint the ceiling."

Now he's trying to put himself into a shoebox. He said "Help me, Mommy." Such a goofball.

Pumpkin Patch Day

Austin's pre-school had their Pumpkin Patch Day yesterday. The kids dressed up and had a parade for the parents. As you can tell from the pictures, the kids were extremely thrilled to be wearing costumes. Austin had a good time, though. He got to pick a pumpkin out of the pumpkin patch and go for a hay ride.

Fall 2011

I've been doing a terrible job of keeping up with Austin's blog. And I don't keep a baby book for him, so I'm afraid I'll forget about things. Austin started going to preschool in September. He started out just going Monday and Wednesday, but I started a shop on Etsy, so he's going Monday- Thursday from 9am-1pm so I can work. I go between being in the red and being in the black weekly. Hopefully I'll be in the black and stay in the black soon.

Austin loves going to school, though. When I drop him off he goes right into his classroom and gets to work playing. He's a good little sharer and seems to do really well playing with the other kids. They get to play on the playground every day (weather permitting) and he does arts and crafts. He has already made me a few treasures. My favorite was "Night Creatures", which was an owl, bat and raccoon which Austin had scribbled over with a black crayon. I saw it and laughed and said "Nice coloring job." My favorite thing about him going to school (besides being able to get things done) is that he surprises me with new words. I was putting his jacket on him the other day and he said "Zip it, Mommy." I didn't know he knew the word "zip".

Austin is a sweet little boy who loves giving his mommy hugs and kisses. He is happy most of the time and still loves getting to hang out with his grandparents and aunts and uncles. He talks in caveman sentences "I eat pop-pop!" "Where Daddy go?" "I did it!". His favorite thing to say is "I did it!" He's totally obsessed with bikes. Rachel got him a little plastic two wheel bike that he just pushes with his feet. He can play on that thing all day long. He likes to ride it backwards down the driveway, which freaks Mommy out. He likes watching cartoons now. His favorite is Curious George. Every morning he says "I wanna see ooh-ooh". He also likes Elmo and Barney, too.

We are working on potty training. This morning he actually asked to sit on the potty and he went pee-pee. He likes to pee off the back deck like a little redneck baby. He calls Aunt Jennifer "Fe-Fe", Rachel is "Re-Re", Bryce is "Bebe" or "Bice", my mom is "Gimmie", both his grandpa's are "pop-pop" and Kennen's mom is "Nana".

His favorite things are bikes, trains, cars, sitting in cars, dogs, cats, horses, riding horses, riding dogs, watching bike stunts and crashes on Youtube, playing with Cade next door, playing with Maxx, going to Chick-fil-a to play on the playground, popsicles, Curious George, his grandparents, his aunts and uncles, his tunnel, trucks, and asking "What's that?" Oh, and asking if we're going to "Hobby Wobby".

Austin Bieber

Austin went into my closet, pulled these high heels out, and went and hid in my bathroom.