Guess which...........

Pudgie has been swimming for about two summers now. He gets lazy and likes to leave his life jacket on but for the most part, he has been able to jump in the pool without it, swim the length of the pool twice and go back and forth on his own, for about two years. The only problem was, he hated swimming under water. He had no problem jumping in and going under, but actually swimming with the goggles on and going to the bottom was not among his favorite things to do, until now. I am not sure why the big bit him, but he decided he wanted to get rocks off the bottom of the pool like his sister and brother the other day... so I happily oblidged the little man. And man oh man did he go and go and go. I had to help push him down a few times just so that he could see that it was ok to get those feet over his head... but now he is doing flips and summer saults and everything that his brother and sister do...... and of course... he is scaring me to death when he just sits under water now!!! We end almost every night with late swims.... which tire these little munchies out.

The only draw back to the new love of swimming.... Pudgie loves for Mommy to swim with him, under water... and well, I hate green hair. Since he is having so much fun... I guess the green will grow on me!!

His day...

Today was all about the littlest guy in our house. He tends to get the shaft when it comes to doing the things he wants to. Most things seem to revolve around his older brother and football these days. Then it seems that Binky gets the remainder of the attention.

Daddy and I decided it was time to spend a day just hangin with Pudgieman. He couldn't have been happier!!!!! How to Train Your Dragon in 3-D, McDonalds for lunch and then naptime, followed by the ice cream truck, was what little boys dream of, I guess!!!!

Poor Pudgie...

This afternoon I thought I was having a conversation with Pudgie from the kitchen sink. I kept asking him if he was ok with his "big" cup of soup and could not figure out why he would not answer me.....unbeknownst to me, the whole time, this is what he was doing..... Poor sweets is not feeling so hot today.

~Awww A Pubbie~

Alas, my sweet little Pudgie has finally started talking...without the help of speech therapy...that is an altogether different book I could write....not a good one either. He is saying his A B C'S, talking in 5 word sentences and finally taking the fear out of my head.

Somehow, Pudgie has gotten it into his head that all little kids his size or smaller are called, "PUBBIE." He says Pudgie all the time, but when he refers to himself or other little babies at the gym or a store, suddenly it's, "Mommy, Mom, MaaaaaaaaM....awwwwh a Pubbie." He wants to snuggle and cuddle and just love on them.

In the last three days he has found a favorite Pubbie. A doll. Yes, Pudgie loves dolls. Not just any doll. A special doll. He has absolutely fallen in love with a little green ogre baby that he got in his Hummer at Christmas. It almost scares me. He puts him in a shopping cart, carries him around like a car carrier, wraps him in blankets, makes me put a diaper on him and tells me his Pubbie smells like a cow when he needs a diaper change. Pudgie also tells me he smells like a cow when he needs his changed as well.

For the past two nights he has been sleeping with Pubbie. Tonight I could not share the bed anymore. So Pubbie helped Pudgie catch some Z's. Someday he will get me for this!

Thursday's...

On Thursday's, workouts wait until the evening for me.... Right now
I should be...
finishing cleaning out my kitchen cabinets
vacuuming
painting the dining room wall I started
sorting laundry
folding laundry
putting laundry baskets in rooms
dusting
throwing away piles of garbage we have amassed
doing dishes
washing floors
cleaning the backyard
cleaning the front yard

Instead, I am watching....

So everything else can wait!!

Does this shoe make me look PHAT?

I DON'T KNOW YOU...

WHY WOULD I SMILE FOR YOU?

BESIDES THE FACT THAT I CAN'T GET ONE DECENT FAMILY PHOTO OF ALL 5 OF US TO SAVE MY LIFE.. NOW I GET A GOOD LOOK AT HOW BIG MY 8 YEAR OLD JAXI REALLY IS NEXT TO ME. I KNEW HE WAS BIG, BUT DANG....NO WONDER I USE COUPONS FOR GROCERIES!!