Cute and Graduation

Timothy was sitting down for breakfast and we were chatting. He was naming his relatives and things and I asked him "do you know you are cute?" And he said "yes!" Then about a half hour later I told him, "you are very cute." And he said, "uh-huh." I just thought that was kinda funny.

Allan graduated yesterday! What a happy day that was! He has worked so hard over the last couple of years to make it a reality. He's been attending school year-round and taking a lot of credits (this last semester he pulled off 22) to get it done. He's been staying up hours past when I fall asleep to get all of his homework done. And now he's made it! I am so proud of him. Graduation day is always the culmination of that hard work. Allan's parents came to town with Grandma Smith and took us to a light lunch. Then we dropped Timothy off with Jennifer Twyman. We were so thankful she was willing to look after him because that made it so we could enjoy the event and get all of the video and pictures we wanted without trying to keep him entertained. We found Allan in the crowd and he found us, which was cool. At the end he threw his hat and Allan's dad took us out to El Corral for dinner. It was a yummy dinner! The whole day was a lot of fun and full of excitement. We are thrilled that soon we will be able to move on to the next phase of our life when Allan starts his job with Sears Holding Corp. We feel that we have been significantly blessed all along the way as our needs have always been met and we've always been sustained.

Saying Prayers

Timothy said his first prayer this morning! It's amazing what an exciting moment that is. :o) We have been asking him for weeks if he wants to say the prayer and he never does. It's the typical repeat-after-me toddler prayer, but oh so cute! He finally decided it was time this morning when we were blessing his breakfast. He repeated nearly every single word and I was ecstatic! Yay for cute little toddler prayers.

Letter "W"

Today was our letter "W" playgroup. We finger painted watermelon's with the letter W and played in the water afterwards. We ate wheat thins, whale crackers, nilla waffers, orange wedges, and gummi worms! Good times with the playgroup.
We took Timothy to the dentist this morning. We were very relieved to find out that the marks that have been on his two front teeth since they grew in are not cavities! His teeth just grew in with a defect, possibly caused by all of the antibiotics they gave me while I was in labor with him. He did well at the dentist and was much better for her than he ever is for us when we try to brush his teeth at home. We endure kicking and crying most of the time when we try to brush his teeth and it's a two-person job now that he's so big too. He got a goody bay from the dentist that has a toothbrush, water bottle, some flouride free toothpaste samples, floss pick samples, and berry flavored floss. Plus he got a sticker. Yay for good pediatric dentists!

Reading at 21 months?

Timothy can officially read his first sightword. How on Earth, you might ask, can you tell that a toddler can actually read a word? Well, we were as suprised as anyone who might be reading this. We have a book we made for Timothy that has pictures of most of his relatives. It has the name of the person on a big white piece of paper and then below that it has a picture of the person. It starts with himself, which hillariously, when you ask him who he's looking at... he says "you." Because we always say "who is that? It's you isn't it?" So we're trying to teach him to call himself Timothy instead of "you" when he reads that book. Kinda funny.
The next pictures are of us (mommy and daddy). Then Jake and Chayse the dogs. After that, there is a page that says "poppy" but no picture because we have not yet printed a picture for my dad. Following that page are several more blank pages for Grammy, Grandma, Grandpa, Glenn, Jenn, Travis, Ashley, and Ava because we have not yet printed pictures for them either. Yesterday, when Allan was reading this book to him and he got to the page that said "poppy," he said "poppy!" We thought he must just have the order of the book memorized and knew that after Chayse was poppy. But, later on during the same day, Allan flipped straight to the page that said "poppy" but had no picture of poppy and he said "poppy." Our only conclusion from this experience is that Timothy can recognize the word and knows that it says poppy, thus making it his first sightword.

Funny moment in time

This morning I opened the door so we could go out to the car. Timothy of course was quite excited about this. Every kid likes going outside. I went and put all the stuff in the car while he waited on the curb like he usually does. Then, when I went to go get him, he ran off laughing and smiling. He said "funny!" And I snatched him up and said "oh you think you're funny do you?" He smiled back at me and assertively replied "yes" while nodding his head. He's quite the character.

Those Melt Your Heart Moments

Timothy's vocabulary has been growing a lot lately. It's really enjoyable to communicate with him now. He says two and three word sentences and is quite a laugh sometimes.
But, tonight was one of those melt your heart moments. We said our family prayers and he was good through them and said "Amen" appropriately. I love it when that happends. :o) Then, we read or stories and he finished lots of my sentences in his books because he has some of them memorized. Then, he kissed and hugged his teddy bear and turned off his light. I layed him in his crib and tucked him in as I always do. And, he said "thanks" so sweetly it just melted my heart. I love that little boy! We are so lucky to have him and have so much fun watching him grow.

On another note. Tuesday was playgroup and we did the letter "M" this week for Mother's Day. We ate mangos, melon, muffins, and marshmallows. We colored our letter M's and Mother's Day cards. Then, we played at the splash pad. It was a good time!