Davis Visits the Dentist

This picture pretty much sums up the entire experience...and I can't say that I blame him. I HATE going to the dentist. He was pretty calm for the first 20 minutes, was pretty into the little silver "gun" that shoots water in your mouth, and dealt with the fluoride. Flossing? Not so much.

 

He is looking at her like "Are you crazy? The dentist is the WORST."

 

The dentist said he has a great bite- shouldn't need braces. Great to know...but that he has very deep crevices in his teeth and he can't have anything sticky anymore at all. No gummi bears, no fruit roll ups, no raisins, even. Bummer.

And what has Holden been up to? Just being as sweet as ever...seriously. A little angel. Today Davis laughed in her face and she copied him. It was so cute! I haven't seen her do that before. She is pulling up on everything and starting to really assert herself more, but geez, she is such a doll. Love her.

I don't want to forget these things- so I have to write them down. Yesterday after Davis' nap, he woke up and Bennett walked in to his room. He was sort of whiny and he looked at Bennett and said "I want mommy instead." Bennett pretended to act really sad and said "You don't want me? You don't love me? You love mommy better than me?" Davis said "I love mommy best than you." So Bennett pretended to cry, and Davis quickly said "But I love you daddy. I love you."

Tonight on the way to the grocery store, out of the blue he said "I love you best than daddy mommy." I said "Oh, that's sweet honey, but we love daddy too...daddy is the BEST daddy." He smiled and said "I love daddy too."

Tonight he was so fun and he asked both Bennett and I to get in bed with him. Bennett got in his twin bed with him first and I just waited, thinking we would take turns...Davis then said "I have a scoot for you." What? I said. "I have a scoot for you, mommy..." and I could see he was pointing to the space on the bed where we had scooted over for me. Too cute.

Also, I asked him about spanish class today, on the way to school and he said "No spanish today. Just da-matic pway." (Dramatic play). Ha.

When I got home today, he squealed with excitement and she grinned from ear to ear and I thought my heart might burst. Then I kissed Bennett and I felt so incredibly lucky.

Are you a gril?

Sweet Davis is back. He has his moments, but I think/hope he is out of his funk from last week too. He has been so funny and clever lately. He asks one million questions a day and many of them are around categorizing people, things, and events. For example:

"Are you a gril, mommy?" Davis says girl like "gril" and it's about the cutest thing ever.
"Daddy, are you a boy like me?"
"Pico is a dogboy. Right?"
"Holden is a gril. Holden is a gril like mommy."

He also quantifies everything that has happened in the past as happening "last week". Today on the way to school he said "Did you get pulled over by a cop last week, mom?" I said "No I didn't..." to which he said "On the way to nanny and gampa's?" Remember, this happened months ago. He has an amazing memory. Amazing. I'm constantly impressed by it and I think it's his sharpest skill.

I tried to explain a while back that some toys are too sharp for Holden. He says "too sark" so it's awesome how he will say "Holden, that toy is too sark for you. It's too sark." And he's so clever. If he is playing with a toy that he doesn't want her to have, he claims it's too sark. Regardless of how rounded the corners may be. Ha.

Also yesterday afternoon, out of the blue, he said to me "I learned about David the King at church today. David the King. and God."

And Davis is using the toilet all the time. I let him wear underwear on Saturday. It went fine for an hour or so and then I heard an "Oh!" and I walked in to see what was going on and he said "I peed mommy..." When he does go in the potty he always says "I gonna go in the potty and get ALL the nemanems!"

Every morning he runs into our room, comes over to my side of the bed and says "Can I watch monster trucks on your cah-pooter?" And then we turn it on and we have to wait until his eyes are ready to adjust to the light. This morning he ran in and said "Can I watch monster trucks on your cah-pooter? My eyes are ready!"

So those are the random notes for this morning. I will be writing a post on D's visit to the dentist and our weekend at ACL later this week. Hope you had a good weekend.

Do you like my halloween blog design? SPPOOKKKYYY!!!

Davis, Davis, Davis

OOOHHH. Davis has just really been pushing my buttons this week. I usually say he's such a joy to be around. I can't say that this week. I am hoping this is a short phase and not a full year as I am hearing left and right that "3s are really the tough part, not 2s". We'll see.

We have been talking a lot about Halloween lately- he always wants to drive by the house with the big witch and the "Gato". Yes, Davis is learning spanish. Its' pretty awesome. He knows numbers, colors, and some words. The best is that he has a little twang in his voice in general, so he says spanish like the worst spanglish speakers out there. "I want to go see the "GOT-TOW" (gato), mommy. Green is "Bear-Day" (verde).

Anyway, this is the first year he's gotten into talking about costumes, and for the past week when I have asked him what he wants to be for halloween, he says "I want to be a Mac truck with lego stickers on it and cars in it." WOW. We have our work cut out for us.

Anyway, lets get to the wedding. Davis looked like the drunk groomsman most of the day- his shirt was always untucked, his jacket disheveled, and at one point, he was tumbling straight down the giant, rolling hills at the beautiful and sophisticated Barton Creek Resort. I was just waiting for Bennett to catch him and reveal that he had grass stains all over his shirt.

I think Davis could feel how much we were trying to wrangle him- for the rehearsal, during the day, etc. and that made him RE.FUSE. to work with us in any way. I was really worried because during the rehearsal- the pavilion was wide open and he was running around shouting like a maniac. Courtney's dad, who has a great sense of humor, looked at me at one point and said "Whose kid is that?" I just smiled and said "He's his father's son..."

I really wasn't sure if he would perform on Saturday. Bennett was the best man so he walked down early. I was a bridesmaid, so I walked down about halfway, and Davis was supposed to stay back and walk down with Courtney's nephew, just before Courtney and her dad walked down. He was supposed to hold the ring pillow...and all day he said "I don't want to hold the pillow. I'n not going to hold the pillow."

We used up all of our bribes by 5:00 p.m. and the wedding was at 6:30. He was OBSESSED with this red mac truck I gave him and wouldn't put it down. Even during picture time. He finally set it down when Courtney asked him to and took a couple pictures. He wouldn't let Davis hold him, so in most of the groomsman pictures, it's B, Erik or Zach holding him.

The best part of the day was watching our friends with Davis- especially our guy friends- just because he was with them most of the afternoon. They were so kind to him. Just really jumped in and helped out, talked to him about being cool, relaxing, lining up when they needed him to. It was heart melting.

Anyway, just before the wedding, I realized that there was no way he was going to stay back with Hunter, Courtney and her dad while I walked down to the pavilion and down the aisle. We made a last minute decision, and he and I went together. Did I mention that Davis had a blistering diaper rash that day? He did. So he insisted that I carry him.

I carried him down to the pavilion. Set him down. The doors opened. The orchestra was playing. And his little jaw dropped when he saw all the people in there. I reached for his hand, and he flung his aside. No holding hands today. As we stood there, I knew I could reach again for him and risk him screaming or just start walking. At this point, you could hear the audible gasp in seeing the tiniest boy in a tuxedo. Everyone was looking at him, smiling.

I started to walk straight. He started to veer left. He really wanted to see the orchestra. I urged him back to the middle, and luckily, he started walking. Jaw still dropped. We walked to the halfway point, me smiling nervously, him holding his little red mac truck front and center. At the midway point he stopped. And I could tell he was thinking about turning around...

And just then, all the groomsmen bent down and started to say "Davis! Come on Davis! Come here..." And he refocused and walked to the front. B leaned down to pick him up and he just looked at the crowd. It was the sweetest moment. I have to say that it meant so much how Davis and Courtney wanted him so involved. Really makes you feel great when your friends love your babies.

And then right when B put Davis down, I whisked him right back out the pavilion and he was done!
So all in all, he did what he needed to do. Will he be available for any weddings other than Nikki and Tony's? Umm, how do I say...NO! At least not until he's 4 or 5.

Hope you're having a happy Thursday.

Davis has his first dentist appointment tomorrow...I'm not saying I think a dentist visit is good payback for his behavior this week...but I mean, it IS a nice coincidence. HA.

ACL

So I think I'm out of the funk. I'm feeling better about things, I worked out at the Y, got a great night's sleep, and today to make things even more exciting, I walked into work and my boss gave me two 3 day passes to ACL! How exciting is that? We haven't bought tickets the past few years- last year we were out of town- the year before we had a one year old- and we didn't plan on buying them this year just because once you buy two tickets and then pay for a sitter- you've really racked up quite a bill...

But since they were FREE- we'll figure out a way to go. I don't even know who is playing. :)

More on Davis in the wedding tomorrow. Happy Wednesday!

Overwhelmed

I feel completely overwhelmed. With everything. You name it, I feel overwhelmed by it. I'm tired...Holden was up about 4 times on Sunday night, just to hang out, and Davis was up last night throwing up. I'm behind on work. I haven't worked out in a week. I got a bill for a so-exorbitant-i-can't-even-write-it amount from the City of Austin today (damn you, sod! don't even ask- if you heard the amount you would pass out and die. it's probably a record.)

And I feel like I am on repeat with Davis- constantly asking him to do the same things over and over- him not listening- me repeating- etc. etc. I'm literally exhausted and sick of hearing myself say:
Davis- I'm not going to ask you again.
Davis if you don't do X, you will sit in time out.
Davis, that hurts my feelings, please help me out.
Davis, I am going to count to 3, and then you better X.
Davis, whining is not going to get you anything.
Davis, please, just be nice.

So I'm going to remind myself of the things I should be overwhelmed by in a positive way. Only I get to do this...everyone else- just commiserate with me- don't tell me what I should be thankful for. Ha.

1) I have two healthy children. I would know real problems if they had health problems.

2) I have a great husband and best friend.

3) I live in A-MURR-ICA.

4) I have a nice roof over my head.

5) I work somewhere fun. I get to dress fun. We do fun things. We talk and laugh. It's just FUN.

6) A woman at the wedding came up to me and gave me probably the nicest compliment I've ever received. She said "This may sound funny...but I've got to tell you. You are the most magnetic woman in the room. Seriously. Other than the bride." HOW NICE IS THAT? I might never get another compliment like that in my life! It made me feel like a million bucks.

7) It's getting cooler outside.

8) I have God's promises. I shouldn't care about anything else.

9) I am going to the YMCA tonight to sweat it out.

10) I have great friends. Great friends.

Okay, so that is that. And that is what I am going to focus on. Thank you God. Please pull me out of my rut. I'm such a sad sack Debbie Downer these days. Maybe I'm just tired.

Peace out.

Little Miss Muffett

So the wedding weekend is over. It was beautiful, it was fun, it was tear and laughter-filled. Some of those tears were tears of joy, some were tears of frustration as Davis rolled down the hills at Barton Creek Resort in his tuxedo over and over and over...that little turkey. It's a damn good thing he looked so cute or I could have killed him!

He refused to do almost everything we asked him to do. He DID make it down the aisle, and definitely stole the show, as he carried his little red mac truck to the front of the beautiful pavilion, refusing to hold my hand, but eagerly waiting to be picked up by B once he reached the front of the ceremony.

I will tell you all about the weekend (and his performance) later- but in the meantime- here are some pics of little miss muffet and Davis. I can't think of any sweet nicknames for him right now. ;)

P.S. Holden is such a little girl- the second I put this dress on her- she began to pick up the layers so gently with her little fingers, just admiring her attire. So sweet.

P.P.S. I am so tired and in a really rotten mood today. Can't shake it. Wish I was flying to Tahiti. Alone.

Snapshots

A few pictures from this Sunday, blurry, but hopefully still enjoyable. AND...I just got a little text on my phone with a picture of Holden standing up. She pulled herself up on a suitcase. I think she's going to skip real crawling and go straight to walking. Holy cow!

Davis got a haircut in preparation for the big day. This is the before picture- but honestly the after isn't much different. I was underwhelmed with the haircut, but I guess it's better than a butcher job. 

Holden likes to be up in Davis' business when he plays. We're reaching the point where Davis is getting a little frustrated that she doesn't recognize what he is playing with.

Holden also likes to be up in my business when I'm taking pictures.

 



 

What a sweetheart.

 

 

And this is a look at Bennett's workout group, Atomic Athlete. If you click on the picture to expand it and look closely, you will see Davis and Bennett in the back left. SERIOUS BUSINESS.