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!! :)