Shower Time!

Allan has become obsessed with taking a shower with me. Just me saying the words “mommy’s gonna go take a shower” gets him all excited. He’ll run to my bathroom and start to try and take off his clothes. If I even try to get in the shower with him in the room and not let him in, it’s then end of Allan’s world. He freaks out and bangs on the shower door. Then he’ll throw himself on the floor and try to rip his clothes off. If I even try to tell Kirk that I’m going to take a shower, I have to whisper it and make sure Allan has no clue of where I’m going.

When he does get to come in the shower with me, he thinks he’s so cool. He’ll slip and fall, but it never fazes him. He gets right back up and plays under the shower head. Of course jibber jabbing the entire time. He has more fun in the shower these days than in his own bathtub (and that tub has a bubble machine).

He thinks it's so fun to lay on his belly and play in the little bit of water that stays on the floor of the shower.

For those of you still making the hair comments --

See?!?! he has hair!!

Allan thinks the water coming out of the shower head (or when he sees sprinklers) that it's bubbles.

Cleaning the glass with soap.

Thanks, Allan.

Memorial Weekend 2009

Sunday Allan and I drove down to the bay house, or as I like to call it - the bay yard (thanks Ike). This was really Allan's first time to play down there. He was too little last year to go swimming in the water, so he just swam in Mimi and Papa's pool. Allan has been to the bay house before, but he'll never remember it. All he'll know now is a large lot we have right on the water. (Thanks again, Ike.) But our family made the best out of it. Ike didn't get to put a damper on our Memorial weekend. We still got to hang out with family, eat yummy BBQ, and the kids got to wear off some energy in the bay.

Thanks to Uncle Dorian, Allan got to play in a little pool instead of going in the water with the bigger kids. He thought he was big stuff playing in the water with some of Mimi's plastic dishes.

Ryan came to join Allan in the pool with a big splash. Ryan jumped right on in. Allan watched with amazement. Allan's been trying his hardest to jump, but he just can't seem to get his feet off the ground yet. Allan and Ryan had fun in the pool.

You'd be surprised at how entertaining a bottle of sun block can be to a 19 month old.

Then the rain starting coming. Luckily Mimi and Papa had their trailer parked at the bay yard. We ran in and took for cover. Allan's cousin Kennedy took charge in watching Allan. She followed him all over the trailer. She'd pick him up, put him down where she thought he needed to be and she'd carry him from one spot to the next. Allan didn't seem to mind one bit.

Papa taught Allan how to climb and stand on the table.

Thanks Papa.

The rain finally stopped, so back outside we went.

Allan is telling something to Kennedy that is very important.

Cousin Ryan drying off.

Leave it to the boy to find a beer can...

...or two.

His daddy must be proud.

19 Months Today!!

My baby is getting too big too fast. He's 19 months today and becoming more and more a little boy. He's got the greatest little personality.

He's my most favorite!

I Fought The Ladder...

...and the ladder won.

We were at the gym yesterday when I got paged to come to the daycare center. Allan was climbing up the ladder and must have lost his balanced and fell and bumped his lip. It was bleeding a little, but he didn't cry one bit. He saw a basket ball and was distracted. The lip was forgotten. It was swollen bad this morning, but you never heard Allan complain.