The boy in the bubble...

Remember the bubble i am looking for? The one for hunter. Weeelllll, this says it all.

Doing laundry one night hunter comes into the bedroom, grabs my headphones, puts them around his neck like a stethoscope, and proceeds to check daddy's heart.

Did I mention that HE"S 2-1/2!

 This along with the fact that he is now asking to go see his pediatrician EVERYDAY tells me i'm not exaggerating in my thought process. The bubble is a must. Please see below...

Need i say more?

...The positive side in me says "maybe he just decided that he's going to be a doctor"...the other side of me is laughing hysterically saying...."Where is the friggin bubble!!"

Iphone meet Stinson's.....Stinson's....meet Apple

So the Stinson family (excluding hunter,... come on now..not in this household) are officially apart of the other 90% of the world and have iphones! ( some will be happy and some will say...NO!!...SHEEP!!) hahaha, Suck it up.

i just have to say...it's been less than 24 hours and,...these phones ROCK. We are now so PRO APPLE even if its just for the mere convenience it provides!! ( not only cuz its apple, jeeeeesh ...it actually DOES stuff too!)

Thad was at drill this last weekend and it was like we were able to keep contact the whole time playing games and etc...can't wait to do facetime!! (no perverts, thats NOT something dirty but i'm sure they have an app for that too.)

It is SO nice for thad and I to manage all of our email accounts on a phone rather than having to remember a login. We have 6 between the 2 of us and yes they are all necessary. (2 work ones each and then a personal 1 each)

We are such nerds though. We will actually sit at night with the TV on but we will both be on our phones either playing a game with each other or learning a new function that these things can do. I'm hoping one day i will wake up to find that my phone has folded all the laundry, cleaned the house, changed hunters diaper, and ya know... a pedicure would be nice...Kindly, get on that Apple...

What is SO funny though is how quickly kids pick up on these things. Hunter is already using his finger to touch the screen knowing he can make it do something. He keeps saying "touch, touch, touch," until we let him play with the screen a little. (I put it on notepad and he types blurbs...he thinks that is the Cats meow..)

Daddy took him for a haircut (trim) this morning and i hear it was a complete meltdown until daddy came to the rescue with his iphone and played the magic mouse for him....ya know, as in the one with big black years that is 100 yrs old and only looks better as he ages.....Mickey...the one and only......

Yes, yes we know we can't soothe him with TV all the time but for the times we can.....AMEN.

While we are still trying to figure out everything they can do, we have been pretty impressed by the little we know. (thank goodness for everyone that has had these a million years and are baby stepping us along the way!..thaaaaaaankkk you!!!!)

Ok, so i will stop with the Apple promo here and just end with...these phones are waaaaaay smarter than i ever hope to be. If anyone knows which app can make breakfast for the family in the morning let me know!

2 cents from hunter

It's no secret that EVENTUALLY we want another baby. Well occasionally we talk about it. We were joking around the other day, (yes joking)... and were saying that hunter needed a sibling to help us out with his "only child syndrome".

 i laughed and looked at hunter saying, "Hunter, do you want a brother or sister?" he responds "YAAAAA!" i smiled/laughed and said "oh REALLY...well, tell your daddy," (again NO, not yet and thad is standing right beside me).

Hunter runs up to daddy and says, "Daddy! I want a horsey!"...it maybe too late.

i have NO idea where he gets that he is such a rockstar...

sincerely,

the crazy first time parents...

T-Rex and Donald Duck

So I woke up and realized that my "our house is clean, I can just pick up" blinders fell off in my sleep. (Someone should really invent locks for these things.)

What I saw before me will haunt our grandchildren for years. Imagine a black and white 60's horror film. The one where the music is loud, pulsing, dramatic, and just before you hear the Dum Dum Duuuuuummmmm, the starring lady puts both hands on her face and Screams in Terror!!.... Yep, that would about sum up how it all went down.

Needless to say I quickly turned into crazy, yellow glove cleaning "everything must be bleached and cleaned with Qtips or its not really clean" mom mode.

So it begins.

Lucky daddy was at work where it was safe, far away from crazy cleaning mom. Hunter, well he was home with me. Good thing he can charm a rattlesnake with his smile. I would find his hidden treasures everywhere i turned, the good, the bad, and the smelly.

Cleaning the house was like maneuvering an obstacle course. The mad lib of words that came out of my mouth would go a little something like this, "HUNTER, WHAT IS THIS?.... WHEN DID YOU DO THIS?....REALLY, ...SERIOUSLY, DID YOU REALLY??" see for yourself..

I enter into evidence item #1. Here is an example of how hunter is getting creative with his silverware. He has literally reinvented the wheel...on our console.

Apparently these are now not only used as accessories with plates but also as a north arrow....pointing the way to cartoons....

I enter into evidence item #2. The pink pig in a teapot...

No clever pun here...a pink pig in a teapot speaks for itself...

and it could go on like this forever but i'm still building my case. He's a sneaky one so it takes time. I figure i have a good 18 years to compile evidence...then the judge...aka daddy....can sentence him to a lifetime of holidays at home......FOREVER...(key 60's horror film music) ...Dum Dum Duuuuuuuuuuummmmm

Now of course the still sane side of me realizes that he is only 2-1/2 and there is NO way he could possibly know the rhyme or reason to all of his actions yet, let alone remember them (he'll get my manual of instructions at 3) but sometimes crazy mom needs to just get it out but holy moly he was ready for me. This boy came packin and was ready for every shot i had.. and then some!...(makes a momma proud...)

Before i could even get out "Hunter," he would come barreling through the house, arms outstretched as far as they could go and he would happily yell with the biggest, toothiest smile he could muster, "Moooommma hug!" and he would lock both arms around my neck, tiny legs around my waist, and then he would start saying "Muah! Muah! Muah!!!" (the sound for kisses)...and smoosh his face into my cheek. You can still see the impression of his face in my cheek! (photos forthcoming..................................just kidding)

It would appear I'm dealing with a professional. He may have his own book out right now.."how to get one passed mummy..." If you see it let me know...i need all the help i can get.

So we continue throughout the day,... mommy's mad lib here and hunter's "muah! muah! momma muah! muah! there...boy does he think he can work it or what?!

Well ,apparently he can because somehow he  managed to get me to make some cupcakes during the madness (which hunter sees cupcakes and says PARTY!!... no hunter not party! ..ok well maybe a cleaning one!..)

So after we licked, i mean scooped, the bowl clean,  I finally decide its safe to take off the yellow hazmat suits and enjoy a cupcake with our son. As the chocolate digests and begins to calm my frazzled nerves, i look at hunter, kiss him on the cupcake smelling cheek and say "sorry for being grumpy.". He looks at me confused and i say, "sorry i roared at you"..he smiles,  laughs, and says "dinosaur roar!!" with both hands springing at me.

...yep...thats me alright...the dino that roared!!

as i put him to bed that evening, I started making my way back through the house to collect the trail of toys that had started to accumulate again and I came across something he had done that just made me think and laugh.... i think he was trying to tell me something...i have got to get a copy of his book~

mommy... the dino that roars...and hunter, our little baby duck..

 now i will forever see this picture and think to myself what the cleaning house days will now be labeled in our home...


They will be the days of Trex...and donald duck.

2 cents from Hunter

Hunter is eating at the table and I see him drop food on the floor. In the "I'm stunned and can't believe what I'm seeing mom tone", I ask him "! Hunter, What are you doing? Are you throwing food on the ground!?" Still looking at his plate and cool as a cucumber he responds, "Nope, I feeding the dog dog".

I guess our family dogdog found a new best friend and dad and i are chopped liver. 

(haha, no this is not a mistype, he actually says dog dog pronounced as 2 syllables. dogdog.)

It's me again Sugar, are you there? Happy 4th of July!

It is safe to say that after a superb holiday weekend, we the Stinson’s now need to detox from….sugar. White sugar, brown sugar..alllllllll types of sugar but it was tasteful coma-inducing  fun while it lasted!

Hunter is still on recovery mode from pneumonia so we stayed mainly indoors for this holiday. To make up for not being able to have some fun in the sun, we came up with indoor festivities to keep us busy like baking and played with some hunter safe poppers and confetti poppers last night.

We could’ve opened a small 4^th of July café this weekend with treats but hunter got to help stir, dip and have fun so it was all good and an added bonus, we were never short on goodies.

Below are some of the goodies we made. We had marshmallow dipped strawberries, cupcake ice cream cones, 4^th of July shaped French toast, and hot dog bottle rockets! (You’re supposed to stripe the hot dog bottle rockets with mustard and ketchup, however hunter is on a self proclaimed strict NO sauce policy right now..eh whattya do)

Here is hunter being SUCH a good helper!

Marshmallow dipped strawberries...these didn't last long at all...they had a cotton candy texture with the marshmallow and blue sugar..yummo

Then there were cupcakes......whiiich looked like ice cream cones. My mom used to make these for us when we were little. This was my first time making them for hunter!

ok, so then came breakfast the next morning. (remember i said small 4th of July cafe...seriously) So we had patriotic french toast!

mommy ate the negatives..i decided it was half the fat..

and then for dinner came the grand finale...hot dog bottle rockets! 

We took him to the carousel for rides and all I kept thinking with each ride, circle after spinning circle was “please don’t throw up, ...pleasse for the love of almighty, hunter don't throw up!”

waiting our turn at the carousel pointing to the horses! he blends in with the railing!

Notice these are different horses. (no, i did not post the same picture 100 times...like i said, circle after circle, please hunter don't throw up!)

I have noticed that i can catch a picture of hunter finally looking at the camera if i'm quick (like we're talking mad ninja skills quick here) but i CAN NEVER quite get us in a picture together. Here is my evidence.. his poor scrapbook is not lookin good for mommy! lol

i gave up but its ok, daddy got some in later that day...

Then we just let him stretch his legs and walk around..

hunter is strutting his stuff...

pushing the stroller...

and of course riding the escalator..didn't you know that is an entirely different ride!

going up!

coming back down!

After dinner we went outside and played with our poppers, confetti poppers, and American flag paper airplanes. We made Slushy Butter Beer to drink in the heat. (Inspired by Harry Potter’s butterscotch cream soda). It is SO good IF you like sweets. It is rich, decadent, but delicious! We had to make hunter stop and breathe when he first tried it! all you heard was Gulp, gulp, gulp… I asked him if he wanted more butter beer and he replied “beer!” I immediately thought to myself “oooooh no, this poor kid can’t go around asking for beer!” so I then switch tactics, being the super tricky mom that I am, and said “hunter, do you want more butterscotch?” to which my much more clever child responds “Scotch!”……..Dang it ..

I am now trying to think of something he can say that won’t get him kicked out of daycare and us behind bars…just kidding, remember people it is only butterscotch and cream soda we are talking about here.

And last but not least here are some photos of our outdoor fun last night. We had so much fun together, too bad the holiday had to end…I love family time. We hope your 4th was as pleasant! We are sending our love from Texas!

mom and dad at the end of the day! Phew..



look hard! you can see the confetti popping out!

and to top the day off we let him swing a minute and climb the wall. He hasn't got to play on this in weeks...

See ya next time!