Mondays with Crosby

At 11:24 am, Crosby Fox turned 2 years and 5 weeks old!!! It was another CrAzY week weather wise. On Wednesday, I was outside during nap time creating a man made of snow...
"with an aluminum pipe and a canteloupe nose and two eyes made out of "glapes"(as Crosby would say)..."
I was so excited for him to wake up. I just knew he would love his pint sized Frosty...

And he did for all of 10 seconds...

Then he realized just how cold it was outside...
Totally out of focus. But, totally cute...
"Cooooooooold!!!" Kinda out of focus too. But so cute...
Meanwhile, these two good for nothin's were as toasty as could be, sitting in front of the heat dish...
Seriously??
Later on that evening, Crosby sat in the floor working on his puzzles. LOVES puzzles and has all of the new ones from Christmas pretty well mastered! I was in the kitchen and heard him talking in the background. I wasn't really hearing what he was saying, initially. Then I tuned it and it sounded like this..." Lay bug!!! Lay bug!!!" He came running over to me with his bulldozer in hand whining, "Lay Bug!!" He grabbed my hand and took me to his puzzle. It all made sense...
He couldn't put his bulldozer in the right spot because a "Lady Bug" was in it!!! Not sure where it came from but he thought it was pretty neat!

Crosby has started showing off lots of new tricks. One of the newest....

"Crawby sleep!"

"Crawby tired!!"
I mean, does he not LOOK like he is "tired" and "asleep" in these pictures??? ;-)
When you have stick, straight hair like me and the Cros, winter can be rough on the do. All he had to do was get in and out of the Cozy Coupe a few times and his hair went WILD. I don't know that this is a trick, but my goodness this boy has MAJOR static electricity in that head of his...
He had now clue that his hair was sticking up all over his head...
He just thought I was taking his picture for no good reason...
Posing without knowing...
Wow!!! He gets it honest. Blake and I both had the same fine hair when we were his age...
I just have to remember to ground myself before picking him up so neither of us get a jolt!

All of a sudden, Tennessee warmed up on Friday and Saturday. It was soooo nice to see the sun and feel it's warmth once again. Blake was off this weekend so we decided to take it outdoors. We spent Saturday morning at the Nashville Zoo. BEAUTIFUL DAY. PEFECT weather! Too bad I went off and left my camera at home. Crosby had his first experience in the actual playground area. We didn't even touch the padded mat area. He is too big for all of that apparently...:(

Sunday was a lazy day. We all came home and took naps after church. It was lovely. Crosby woke up and spent a little time cuddled up with Daddy watching random YouTube videos. The lighting was sweet so I had to take a few pictures of my best boys...

How sweet are these... Pretty precious, those two!

We had a playdate planned for this morning that fell through. Good thing because Blake needed us to bring Nugget to the clinic. I decided it would be the perfect time for a Snip Its visit. Crosby had other ideas. Snip Its not included! He has never resisted in the past so I was a little caught off guard. We coaxed him with a toy tractor and TWO suckers. She started snipping away. And snipped some more. And some more. AND SOME MORE. Needless to say, it was a little more than I had in mind. Crosby officially looks 12. He wasn't happy about it either...

"Look at my bangs, Mom!?!?"Actually, he didn't care about his hair. He was just mad that we had to leave Daddy behind at the clinic!

I had to save the sweetest trick for last. Crosby has started to sing the songs he loves!! Melt my heart, will you?!? He went from not singing at all, to singing well over half of the words from all of his songs overnight. And the ones he sings. Oh my. See...

Jesus Loves Me (aka "Baby Jesus") He requests this one every night before bed. Followed by Deep and Wide...

Twinkle, Twinkle

That brain of his sure is a BIG sponge!!! We might need to work on his key a little! Haven't heard that octave change business until tonight. It made for a good laugh anyway!

Mondays with Crosby

At 11:24 am, Crosby Fox turned 2 years and 4 weeks old!!! It was another week filled with snow. Again. Man, are we are ready for Spring around this house! I wanted to avoid going out in the cold. But the image above melted me. So we stepped out the door for a few minutes...

And he was pretty excited about it!!!

He was thrilled to be out in the white stuff. Even if it was just from the porch...

There was good reasoning for that...

We weren't exactly dressed to play in the snow! House shoes don't quite do the trick. But at least his footsies were nice and toasty! I thought he looked pretty adorable in his sweater and cords...
There you have it. The real reason I let him go outside. It was all about trying to get a cute picture of him, in his cute sweater, with the snow as the backdrop.
All was going pretty well and then I looked around and saw a 4 year old staring back at me...
Not so fond of him looking all big boy!!! So we will just move right along to the sweet thing trying to catch a few flakes...
At least I got a few pictures for today...

I would have been up a creek otherwise. We haven't pulled the camera out since! And can you tell I played with my toy? I love having Lightroom 3 but it sure can suck me in for hours! Still working on his birthday and Christmas... Maybe next year they will be ready to post!

Mondays with Crosby

At 11:24 am, Crosby Fox turned 2 years and 3 weeks old!!! Sort of. The third week of his 2nd year had been rather dull as far as pictures go. I didn't pick up the camera one time this week. And to think, we had a ton of snow. Perfect picture opportunity, right? Yea. Too bad Crosby's mom is already over the snow and didn't feel like layering up just to be out in it for 30 minutes max. We just looked at the snow from the window. Does that make me the most "bah humbug" of a mom ever?? Don't answer that.

What is it about January? It happened this time last year. It seem like all motivation is gone. I get through Christmas and birthday and just stop. The house is a wreck. I am behind on posting Christmas and birthday pictures. At least 3 times a week I have big plans to get on the computer and catch up. Instead, Jodi Picoult and a nice nap call my name and I give in. The cleaning and organizing and catching up can wait until tomorrow. What is one more day? I really annoy myself some times! Maybe I can get it in gear...tomorrow...

I managed to pull the ole Canon out of the bag at dinner time. Somebody was in rare form. I couldn't get him to cooperate for one second...He just wanted to be silly...

Yes, he was still sporting bed head on the left side (our right). When we have nothing on the agenda all day, we stay in PJ's until the last second! And don't worry with our hair. Let me assure you mine looks MUCH worse. At least we got dressed to go to Kroger for 15 minutes...

He was just happy we left the house for a few minutes at least. We needed a few things to make spaghetti...

Spaghetti and silly aren't a great mix... When you are wearing a white shirt anyway!

So I had to get stern when he started taking noodles out of his mouth. Silly quickly moved to...

Sad!!

He was working REALLY hard to muster up tears...

"Oh, here they come. Keep it up and one will fall!"

"If I squeeze my cheek it will fall. Come on...There we go. It fell!!!"

Soooo sad...But my, my!! How quickly the tears fade... Sad disappears...

And silly creeps back up on him!!!

Yea. He got over it!

Maybe it had something to do with the ice cream?!?

I forgot we had it in the freezer. Left over from his birthday party. The one I have yet to post about...sigh...

He saw them stacked up, remembered EXACTLY what it was and requested some for dinner.

I compromised and said how about AFTER dinner!!! He went for it!

Speaking of sad. We had a few sad nights this week. Something hit Crosby Tuesday night and had us all in a tizzy for a few days. Crosby has always been a good sleeper. At least since he was 4 months old anyway. But for some reason, he DID NOT want to go to bed Tuesday night. We did our normal routine...bath, brush teeth, put on PJs, read books while rocking, say prayers and off to bed. However, as soon as I started to get up from the chair on Tuesday, he went nuts! Death grip on my arms. Stiff legs. Sobbing "Mommy, Daddy, rock!!! Mommy, Daddy, rock!!!" Over and over again. Totally thrown off guard, I got him out of bed and rocked him a bit longer. But as I started to get up, same response. Sooooo unlike him. He NEVER protests over getting in bed. So, I rocked him again. Same reaction. Then Blake gave it a try. Nope. He wasn't having that either. So we let him come down and watch Biggest Loser with us for a little while hoping he would get tired. Tried to put him down again. Total meltdown. What in the world was going on with our child??? It was awful. Finally Blake got in bed and let Crosby lie down with him. I gave it a little time before attempting to put him to bed. Seeing how it was 10:00pm at that point, he it was waaaay past bedtime. Walked him into his room and he had another complete meltdown. I had no idea what to do at that point. Was he scared? Was he totally playing us? I finally had to get tough with him, which was no fun for either of us. However, it did the trick, he let out one last sob as I shut the door and then there was complete silence. Of course, I had to go back in there a little while later to make sure all was well. And it was. Too bad it happened Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Luckily each night was a little better than the one before. Last night and tonight, he was more like himself. Shew! Thank goodness because it was wearing my heart out to see him act that way. Interestingly enough, sweet Miss Margaret was doing the same thing this week. I wonder if they planned it at school on Tuesday or something? I wouldn't put it past them. After all, he can do this...

Of course, he read the book in 30 seconds when I wasn't recording him! And he most definitely knows all of their names by heart. He is not at all confused at which one is the ambulance! Mr. Silly appears when the camera comes out. At least Mr. Silly does the deep voice! So sweet that this has been his favorite book since he was tee tiny. He even said his first word, "truck", while looking at this book. Obviously, we've read it a few times!! :)