Child Model

I know you're probably thinking, "Really? Another post all about how cute she think's her kid is?!" You'd be wrong though because this isn't about McKay...it's actually my mom! When I was in Ohio last fall I went through hundreds of old pictures and scanned around 200. I was just looking through them tonight and came across this one.

Isn't it great? I feel like it's a picture that you could see in a Parenting magazine for some cute clothes store. I love the pants with suspenders look for girls and it's just an added bonus that it's my mom! You could've been a model, Mom!

Love this boy

Last night Sean told me that I needed to update our blog. That's not something he says often, so I knew I needed to do it today. There really isn't anything special to post, so I just took a few pictures of the little man playing.

Isn't he so nice to let me get in his face to take pictures?

Super close...

Last week we ordered McKay this Potty book.

It's actually really funny!

Right after I got done taking these pictures, I sat down to put them on my computer. Then I heard McKay say "potty" and I heard him go into the bathroom and lift up the toilet seat. So, of course, I had to hurry and grab my camera!

The little kid in the book had his shirt off.

It's clean-ish enough...

Looks like now we need to buy a little potty for Kayo!

Be Mine

This year for Valentine's Day I decided to get McKay a balloon instead of candy. I could say it's because I'm a good mother and don't want to give my two year old a bunch of sugar, but let's be honest, I wanted the candy all for myself.

That day Sean and I went to the grocery store with McKay to get the balloon. They had a stand set up, since apparently buying balloons for Valentine's Day isn't an original idea. When we walked up to the stand the girl working there looked at McKay and said, "Does he want a balloon with little planes on it?" Sure. Sounded good for me. So I was a little surprised to find they were flames instead. Sean and I both looked at each other and said, "Did you think she said 'planes' too?" I didn't think too much of it since McKay really didn't mind. He just wanted that balloon.

Then I started to think how it must look as we walked through the store with our little boy carrying his "You're Hot" balloon. Just a little bit inappropriate!

P.S. This picture was taken half a second before Kayo ran up and hit it out of my hand.

I do love my little Valentine. In the next picture I told him to make his mean face. My kid has some real modeling / acting potential don't you think?

Just in case anyone was wondering I was showered with love on Valentine's Day. That's definitely a perk of being a 1st grade teacher. I got lots of candy and little cards. One little boy even wrote me a note that said something like "To my love. I love you so so so so so so much." I did give his mom a call and told her how sweet and funny I thought it was. Six year olds love notes never get old!

here and there

After six years of a bulky TV we decided to upgrade to the newest technology. It's so nice and big. That being said, our older, small TV never bothered me though. There were just a few things that Sean wanted to do (like streaming stuff off the internet) that we couldn't do with the older one. Here's McKay sitting inside his toy box, watching TV, while his pants are falling off. He's all boy.

Next, I'm going to do TWO of my blogging pet peeves (I know, right!?). I'm posting another picture of food AND I'm going to brag about my husband - but I refuse to refer to him as an annoying name such as "hubby, hubs, husband." I just can't stand that. Anyways so Sean is currently making homemade fried chicken. Like Oklahoma style and everything. He even got a whole chicken yesterday and had to slice that thing apart. It was really gross, but not gross enough that I'm not going to eat it. I'm at least thankful that we could buy the chicken at the store and didn't have to kill it ourself. My dad was telling me today about how he used to watch his grandparents cut the heads off a chicken and then they'd watch the thing run around for another few minutes. blah!

ANYWAYS to go along with our fried chicken, Sean's also making homemade biscuits and gravy. He made a practice round last night. I think I ate half that batch. Sean really is my favorite cook.

Finally, I've gotten some comments on how McKay never seems to wear pants (haha Kim!). He wears pants for around 90% of the day, but then I take them off when he eats dinner and just leave them off. Here's the reason why...this kid gets messy when he eats! Bibs only cover his shirt so this way his pants don't get dirty. Smart move, Mom!

Demanding

There are times that I'm very computer illiterate. Now is one. I tried to upload this video of McKay from last night, but I couldn't get it to work. So I put it on youtube instead. Click HERE to watch my crazy child.

My Cooking!

It's a big deal when something that I cook turns out to be successful. Now that Sean's back teaching Drivers Ed, he doesn't get home until six-ish three nights a week, which means that I need to cook at least two of those nights (Jimmy John's is great for the third!). Last Friday I cooked mini-meatloaf and they were super yummy! It's basically you're normal recipe for meatloaf (I added some broccoli), but you only need to cook them for 35 minutes. They were such a hit that I'm making them again this week...plus I'm not very good at cooking much else so there weren't too many options. If you have an easy fool-proof recipe {that even I can't mess up} I'd love a copy.

P.S. I really don't like it when people post pictures of food on blogs. I mean, if you're not offering it to me right now, don't tease me! So please excuse me while I do one of my own pet peeves.

P.P.S. You know I had to post just one picture of my favorite snot-nosed boy!

Elf Shoes

Today I had a first grader tell me that my boots looked like elf shoes. She didn't seem to mean it in a bad way, but really, how is that a good thing? I do love my mini boots (AKA elf shoes) but they aren't super comfortable. Today was Parent-Teacher Conference so I wore them anyways.

Last weekend I tried a new hairdo that I found on Pinterest. Sean said it was "interesting" which means he didn't like it. I had a cold that day so I only left the house to go to the dollar store so I felt it was a safe place to try out an interesting style. Had to snap a pic with my little man! {Hello 5-head!}