I a Artist

Chase story to share.....on Mother's Day, Chase comes into the bedroom and had a cup filled with dry beans and a plastic knife from his kitchen toys. As he dips his knife in the beans, he says "mama, I paint you" and begins to use his knife like a paint brush and "paint me". He asks what color I want my nose, hair, mouth, etc and some colors he has and others he is "all out of". He says "mama, I a artist, I paint people". I tell him that he needs to paint Daddy too....he goes to find him.....comes back with a frown on his face and says "daddy said I not have paint, I have beans". So I tell him to "you tell daddy we are just pretending"...he smiles and says okay!

How does he know what an artist is and what they do...such a smart cookie.

Easter, choo choo trains and Mother's Day

Less than a month since my last post...I consider that a success!! What's happened since then?? Lots of fun stuff. Easter was lots of fun this year with coloring and hiding eggs and Chase had a good time finding them too!! He got a fun dinosaur basket and some arts and crafts fun stuff, shovel and rake for his garden and a lunch box that he kept asking for...filled with M&M's. Of course, the Easter Bunny visited Nana's and Gamma and Papaw's houses too...so he loved it!!

Finding the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid.

The sweet boys at Big Grandma's house. We enjoyed a yummy Easter dinner and some fun family time. The weather did not cooperate though, but the boys had us hiding eggs about 15 times...and loved every minute of it. Then they had to hide the eggs and let the other one find them! Below they are closing their eyes and counting while we hid the eggs.

The weekend following Easter, I had a staff retreat and was in Branson for three days. I got back home and spent some much needed time with my baby boy. The next morning, Chase and I went to Towne Grill for breakfast (to give Dad some much needed downtime!). We were going especially for the pancakes and then he gets there and sees Trix cereal and decides he wants that....until I get my pancakes, eggs and bacon and then he precedes to eat half of my breakfast too. What a ham....err...bacon! :) Then we decided to go down and watch for trains. He still loves, loves, loves trains. We did mostly watching and waiting but at the last minute a freight train was coming our way. It stopped up track for a minute and when it started again, he got so excited cause it was going slow enough that he could wave at the conductor (or ductor, as he says) and the conductor waved back at him. He got such a kick out of that...then he didn't want to leave!!

Whenever we have a nice evening, of course he wants to be outside playing..digging in dirt.....shoveling rocks.....drawing with sidewalk chalk....and more. Here he is showing off his gardening skills!

Piggy back rides...love that smile of his.

Picking flowers for mama

Jabbering nonstop....always got a millions questions to ask, things to say...he never stops!!

And his serious side!

Mother's Day was a nice sunny day this year. Started off with Chase getting up and going to get my presents...as he walked down the hall, he turned around and said...don't peek mama! He made me three lovely pictures, Daddy gave me a sweet note and then he and Chase cleaned out my car for me. It was great...I didn't ask for anything and I will take Chase's artwork and a sweet handwritten note any day over a Hallmark card. Oh...I ordered a few scrapbook supplies too....thanks Famous :)

We spent some time at Nana and KK's in the morning and had some fun outside taking pictures.

I have not had three year pictures taken for Chase...guess I ought to get around to that..oops!

My sweet boy.....love being his mama so much!

April fun

April already...the year is just breezing by....crazy stuff! We haven't been up to much, just enjoying the pretty days outside and having fun playing. Chase is constantly wanting to be outside and loves playing ball, digging in the garden, shoveling rocks and sand and more. He also loves to turn on the radio in our room and dance. The other day, he turned it on and started in dancing and he says "Mom, check out my dance moves"! He was too cute bopping around and kept turning around and sticking out his butt...have to get this on video for sure!

The other day we were out playing with our first bubbles for the season. He had a great time chasing them and trying to pop them. Crazy how fascinating bubbles are to kids!!

Picking flowers for mama! Such a sweetie!

We have been visiting parks and playing too. This one always has to be on the go. He wakes up on the weekends and his first question is "where are we going today"! Loves to be out and about for sure. We took a trip to Memorial Park and he loved playing with the other kids.

Look at my big "tick" mom!

A couple of weekends ago, we went to Stephen's Lake in Columbia. I have wanted to go but never have. Looking forward to the summer as they have a swimming beach and a sprayground that looks like lots of fun. It was definitely warm enough to jump in some water that day....Chase has some rosey cheeks, but that didn't stop him from playing and he was not happy when we had to leave. We walked around the park, had a picnic, threw rocks in the lake and played in the huge "sandbox" area. We didn't know about the sandbox, so we weren't prepared with a bucket and shovel...but improvised with spoons and bowls from our picnic...he was happy with that!! Really neat place!!

What's this mom???

Picnic time

After having some fun at the park with all the sand, we had to make a trip to the Dollar Tree to find a pail and shovel. Of course, we have to go to the toy aisle too. After 45 minutes trying to decide, he picks this styrofoam plane.....best $1 I ever spent...I ought to get a few more. He just loves flying it and chasing it too!

Chatterbox telling me a long winded story....so like his mother!

Did NOT want to go inside

Yesterday, we decided to color some easter eggs. He loved it and was very good at it too...not messy at all. He really wants to eat the eggs though and doesn't want to wait for the Easter Bunny to hide them!

Ta-Da....looks at that craftmanship!

Chase had been watching Dino Dan and Dan had dino gear to go hunt dinosaurs. Chase caming running in and said "Mom, I need dino gear". So we found a hat, backpack, butterfly net (notice the dinosaur in it!) and he had tongs too...but not in this picture. He played forever hunting dinosaurs and he had daddy helping too. Daddy was wearing a cape...but he wouldn't allow a picture of that!! :)

The other night, our electricity went out and was out for about 30 minutes when we decided to take a ride and see what happened (found out later a transformer blew in the neighborhood). As we were getting ready to go, Chase asked where we were going and I told him we were going to go for a ride and try to figure out what happened to make the electricity go out and he says "Mom, it's a mystery". Where does he get these things???

Last night, I had gone to check on him in bed and he usually stirs when he hears me. He lifted his head, still asleep and says "hugs and kisses" so I lean down and puts his arms around me and gives me so love. He is so darn cute and sweet sometimes....good thing cause it helps make up for the times he is a little turd!!

Final picture from this morning. He loves to play and watch himself in this big mirror in the hall. He loved the picture of the two Chases....thank goodness there is only one!!

Hello blogland...notice it has only been a couple weeks since I last updated? I do try to keep up to date!! Not a lot going on lately...which is really just fine by me. So much rush and traveling recently, plus going to Chicago at the end of March and Branson at the end of April for work....I need some time to just catch up!

Mr Man is up to his usual antics....always keepin' us smiling and laughing for sure. He is in a pretending stage right now and he takes it to the full extent. He likes to mimic his favorite characters and so we are always hearing:

Mom, you be Wendy and I be Bob (Bob the Builder) or.....

Mom, you be Izzy, I be Jake and Daddy be Cubby (Jake and the Neverland Pirates) or...

Mom, you be Millie and I be Geo (Team Umizoomi) and the list goes on. Usually he gets the gender right...but the other night he says...Mom, you be the daddy and I be the Mommy....but I quickly replied back...how 'bout you be the Daddy and I be the Mommy...he says...okay Mom! He has quite the imagination for sure.

He was playing with his bike the other night and rolled off into the grass and he says "oh no, I (s)tuck in the mud...now my tire is all muddy". We're like....no it's not.....his response..."I just b-tending mom!". Then he says...now I got to go to the bicycle car wash!!

He also is SO NOT afraid of strangers right now...in fact, quite the opposite. He wants to talk their ear off....no matter where we go...the other day, we were at Sonic and I had to roll down the back window so he could talk to the Sonic girl. He goes on and on and although I completely understand him...I don't think they do....they just nod and say "uh-huh". Probably doesn't help that he goes a mile a minute.

This past Sunday was just beautiful...although spring and mid-March mean pure torture for me when it comes to allergies. You would think I would remember to start preparing by taking Zyrtec or something, but every year, it seems what worked the year before doesn't work anymore. So I am pretty sure I have a sinus infection on top of it all. Anyway after the rainy day Saturday, we got out for a while on Sunday and went to the playground down the street from our house and had dinner at Mom and Dad's.

Love that expression!

Always so serious!!

My good luck charm! (from St Patty's Day)

Splashing in the water left over from Saturday

I'm 3!