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".