Dalton's First Sentence

Today Dalton turns 20 months. In just four months he will be TWO!!! I can't believe how quick time is going by. I feel like just yesterday we were at his one year birthday and picking up all the decorations and here we are almost starting to plan his second birthday. I tell him all the tim ok stop growing now you can stay this age forever haha. I do want him to grow up but this is one of the funnest ages ever. Dalton said his first sentence on Thursday January 14th. He has always said here you go "tere tou to" but for the first time on Thursday night he was trying to give me a cookie and he said "tere tou to mommy". It was the sweetest moment because he said his first complete sentence but also he was sharing his cookies with me:) I am so proud of him and I'm waiting to see what his next sentence is. He says pretty much every word he just doesn't put them all together yet so we'll see which ones he chooses to combine for complete sentence number 2. He also has a favorite thing right now of showing us who everyone is in pictures. He has been able to do this a while for showing us Mommy, Daddy, Nana, Papa, Gigi, Paul, Gammy, Tim, Uncle Aaron, Tyler, Hunter, Uncle Robert and Aggie. He has learned two additional people this week, Kade and Shelby. He was looking through our pictures and saw one of his Aunt Shelby and said "shelee" and then when he saw him kade and kole sitting on pop's chair he said "kade" I even wanted to make sure he knew and showed him one of Kade and Kole together because I figured that would be a little harder for him to distinguish because they look a lot alike and he still knew which one was Kade. He wasn't sure who Kole was but we're working on that. He knows little Kyelar as baby but I hope soon he will know her name is kyelar haha. Everytime I say Kyelar he says "Tywa" for his other cousin Tyler I guess he thinks I'm saying Tyler instead of Kyelar. I am so proud and he is pretty much learning something new everyday at this point. He can open all the doors now so it's very hard to keep him out of everything. He does have a temper and when he doesn't get his way he is not afraid to show it. He will usually hit the wall or scream and cry while he is yelling and scrunching his face. We are working currently on that with him. It is so easy now because he will tell you what he wants to drink either "mik" or "juice" and he will tell you what he wants to eat but his favorite is "pitta". When he wants to go to sleep he will go "night night" and lay down wherever he is. His bedroom is coming along great and he loves it. He says "lightning" so cute everytime he goes in there. He has decided out of elmo, sponge bob, diego, and lightning that he wants his birthday to be "lightning". I even made sure to ask him each one individually a second time and he shook his head no to all of them except lightning so looks like that is who his new favorite person is:) He eats on a lightning plate set that his gammy bought him for Christmas and he loves to hurry and eat up his food so he can point at him and say "lightning". He still loves to play football on the xbox 360 so much in fact that he will not go to sleep unless he is holding the madden 10 case with him like a stuffed animal. Go figure he is definitley Chantz's son hahaha. Dalton is very upset that Romo lost this past week in the playoffs but probably not as much as Daddy is. We'll still continue to watch all the teams fight it out but now we are rooting for the saints so come on New Orleans lets win this week!!!

Texans Vs. Patriots

One of my Christmas presents from Chantz was tickets to see the Patriots and the Texans play!!!
I was super excited being that the patriots are one of my favorite teams.

Even though we were playing them I really wanted the Texans to win because it meant that this would mark their first winning season and we would be there to mark history:):)

Well guess what!!!!

They did it!!! Good Job Texans. I can't describe how loud and crazy that game was and even more when the game was over and we were going down the escalator and everyone was going crazy saying "HOU-STON" "TEX-ANS". I am so excited and would have been more excited if the jets or the ravens would have lost so we could've been in the playoffs but that didn't happen:(

I'm still very proud of them and now I'm super excited because my Cowboys are coming here next year to play them and we are definitely going and bringing Dalton with us. He loves "Romo" as he answers when you ask him "who's going to win tonight". We are for sure a football family and it was awesome to be able to go to a professional game this year:):):) Thank you Chantz!!!!

This Weekend

So this last weekend we finished relandscaping our front yard. I am so excited I think it turned out beautiful. I will post pictures of the before and after so you can see what you think. We had a little trouble with our initial plan because we hit some wires while digging so we had to change it up some, but I still love the overall outcome. I am so sore and tired though from removing the grass in areas. That is an exhausting job!!! Lucky Chantz had to work so he missed out on all the hard work, darn he was so upset, not!!! After we finished the yard we took my brother Aaron and his friend Drew with us to the mall. We got Dalton his new shoes for the fall season from StrideRite. They have the best shoes for little kids. I never knew there were so many different types of shoes with different technologies before. Good thing they were there to help us because we wouldn't have known which ones to get. They are so cute on him and he loved walking around the mall afterwards holding our hands. He was stomping around everywhere and I am so thrilled that he loves them that much.

We got him a pair of tennis shoes and then a pair of nicer brown shoes to match Daddy's polo boots. We got both with velcrow because there is no way I can Dalton to sit that long to get both shoes tied right now. He got sized while we were there and he is already a 5 1/2 I remember when he was just a size 3 like a couple of months ago when we got his sandals for summer:(

I have to share a story of the shoe store because this is part of Dalton's scrapbook. We were trying on the tennis shoes and we put him down to walk on them and he of course took of running and so I made him turn around to go back inside the store. Well there was another little boy in there that was trying on his first pair of shoes and trying to balance and as he was wobbling over in Dalton's direction Dalton took off running and went straight up to the little boy and wacked him in the face. Chantz and I were so embarassed. We sat him down on the stool and told him we do not hit other little boys. The other little boy just stood there in aww and didn't know what to do. In the back of my mind it was funny, but I don't want him to learn to hit other kids so it was not funny. I don't know what got into him because Laura says he is great with the little babies at his babysitters house. He does soft to their faces (which is where we tell him soft and he gently rubs his hand on the side of your cheek) and sits and plays with them. I think he was just in one of his moods because he was running around doing his hulk face and showing his muscles and doing his new thing which is where he acts like a crab and takes his hand and pretends to pinch and roll his hand around pinching the air? The lady helping us goes oh wow he's a little character huh, ha. Yup he sure is.

The next day of course was Sunday which means Football Day. I was so happy it was opening week and my cowboys won!!!!

I am and have always been a HUGE cowboys fan. Tony Romo had a great game yesterday so hopefully that's how the rest of the season is going to be for them!!! It was a very embarassing day for the Texans, so we just mostly kept the tv on the cowboys game during that time. We are going to take Dalton to his first NFL game later in the season when it gets cooler outside so it feels like football season, ha. He went with us to Reliant Stadium two weeks ago to see my brother's high school play a game there and he loved it. At first yesterday morning it felt really cool and looked like rain but unfortunately the sun and the heat came. We bbq'd hot dogs and hamburgers and had some friends over and watched game after game after game. It was a really fun and relaxing day. Overall it was a really good weekend and we had a lot of fun we just wish it was longer like always;)

Update

So I know I haven't wrote very many posts this month but I have been super busy getting ready for school, working, training Aggie and getting ready for FOOTBALL SEASON. I know that I had to get everything done I wanted done in the house for the next six months before football started because once that happens Chantz is out for six months, ha! Our tv is already glued to NFL Network and we are always watching a preseason game, sorry Dalton not as much Sponge Bob and Diego. I love football season because that means FALL is coming!!!! All my favorite holidays are not that far off now....

Aggie is doing better. He is still biting some and chewing but for the most part he is now understanding when I get my firm "Aggie" out that means quit what you're doing. But not all the time because sometimes he just looks at you and then goes right back to doing it like "what are you going to do about it". I read that puppies aren't really "trained" until they are around 6 months so that is what I'm asking for from Santa this year:) Let Aggie wake up Christmas morning and be fully trained!!! We just bought some Apple Bitter spray to try for him to stop the chewing because he started chewing the carpet and entertainment center and those are big No Nos. I'll keep you updated on how that goes with the spray.

Work has been super busy lately which is WONDERFUL. I work for an oil company so with the current status of our economy the busier we are the better we are. Today marks my one year working with BJ and I love it!!!! I am so lucky that I am able to work for BJ. I have the best team of coworkers in my group and they are so supportive which is always a plus. School started yesterday!!! Hooray, I am so thrilled:) It is one semester closer to finishing my degree. Luckily, I seem to have great teachers and the classes that I've chose to take don't seem like they will get too overwhelming for me which is what I was afraid of. This is my first semester to go to school while having Dalton so I am a little nervous I won't be able to make time for everything but so far so good.

We keep getting more and more excited about Disney!!!! It's almost just one month away and we watch the dvd of all the parks like twice a week. I can't wait to go on vacation and be away from everything and just enjoy time with my family. We are still deciding where to stay for the first night before we get to our resort. I think it's between the nickelodeon hotel and the animal kingdom hotel. If anyone knows anything about either of these hotels please let me know so you can help us make a decision. They both look like great hotels but the decision is so tough!!!!