Bumps and His Shoes

My friend L's mom was nice enough to pick up a pair of Stride-Rites for bumps while they were 11.00 at the store she works at. For those who don't know, I paid $50 for bumps other pair of Stride-Rites that he has. They came in today. After bath time and putting on his diaper, bumps ran to the box, took the shoes out, and brought them to me saying "shoes." He climbed up in my lap wanting the shoes on. So I put them on and he ran around the house with just his diaper and his new shoes. He is too freaking cute sometimes!

Updated Bumps Pics

Helping daddy tighten the legs on the table after taking the Christmas tree down
Playing around with his baby einstein stickers . He didn't take those off for a good hour. Wearing princess Faith's jacket on his head. Don't even ask. . .

Playing around at Gymboree
Discovering that there are shelves he can climb on in our closet. The shoes no longer stay where they are supposed to be.

It always figures. . .

Why is it as soon as M leaves to do something, bumps always ends up having something wrong? He has been super cranky today, so I took him into the bedroom to play for awhile (he likes to jump on the bed.) I laid him down and finally got a good look at his mouth. He has 3, yes 3, teeth coming in. And the rest of his mouth is really swollen too. So best case scenerio, he is getting everything at once. Lord, I am hoping that is what is happening.

On a wonderful note, he gave me a heart attack tonight. He found a red cup in his toy box and took off towards our bedroom with it. I stopped watching him because I knew there was nothing he could get into. WRONG. Evidently he veered into the bathroom when I wasn't looking because he came back with the cup full and up to his mouth. Now there is only one place back there that harbors water and that is all I am going to say. Man, I am such a bad parent. . .

Not much from here

There hasn't been much going on this weekend. M, bumps, and I went out to eat on Friday night downtown. Bumps was a pain in the behiney the whole freaking time. Our friend L and G and their son, L (7 months), went with us. L made bumps look like a holy terror. He just whined and whined the whole time. And the thing that set him off was the fact that I got a mixed drink and he wanted some of us. For some reason, I think feeding my child some of my huckleberry margarita isn't exactly the route I need to go. When we got home, he turned into a little angel. Go figure. Isn't that how it always works.

Saturday and Sunday we just chilled. We figured out that bumps seems to have a bunch of new teeth coming in. He won't even let you touch his gums. Poor guy. He really doesn't want to eat much either. So now we are back to the stable diet of teething tablets and Motrin. We spent the day watching football and we predicted who would go to the Super Bowl! Yeah for us! Now we plan on riding the "bus" into Detroit this year!!!

Yeah for Bumps!!!

BUMPS PEE-PEED IN THE BIG BOY POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!! After bathtime tonight we put him on his potty that attaches to the big boy potty to see if he would pee or not. This is a nighttime ritual for us now. He sat on it for a long time and threw the ball back and forth to us. He gave us the sign for all done, so we took him off the potty and we could tell that he still needed to go. So M took his dirty diapers to the bathroom and I put him back on the potty and low and behold, he went potty. I actually scared him because I started cheering and clapping for him. Man we love our bumps!!!

Night Night

Grandma B on the phone. . ."night night bumps"

Bumps "night night. . .night NIGHT. . .NIGHT NIGHT"

This is the first time he has ever said it. . .

Gymboree

We finally took bumps to Gymboree for the first time and he LOVED it! He was so into the playtime and climbing all over everything. So naturally we had to sign him up. Yet another reason not to have another one for awhile. . .we can do really fun things that we can only afford with one!

Bitter

Ok, so I am a wee-bit bitter tonight. My team lost to the most God-awful school in the universe. I mean, why would you even attend the University of Missouri? What freaking losers (except tonight.) All Moody had to do is make a free throw, just one freaking free throw and the whole thing would have been done and over. And my poor dad, sitting there surrounding with people that have no brains. Geez, it must have sucked. And yes, I have had a beer tonight, one and only one, but I have had a beer. Time to go and drown my sorrows some more. . .

Stupid Freaking Cellphone

I mean seriously, how many times a week can I lose the stupid thing? Let's see, we are on #3 right now. Two of the times I have had to have Mark find it for me and I found it once. What am I going to do when he leaves next week!!!! I am so screwed. If you want to reach me, call the house cause Lord knows I won't be able to find my phone. . .

Bowling Goddess

My score: 133

M's score: 92

Enough said. . .

Head Banger

M and I have been slightly concered lately because bumps has started banging his head whenever he gets mad or frustrated at us. We are talking full out banging as hard as he can on the floor or, in one instance, a bookcase. Then he starts crying because the banging hurts him. M and I have no answers for this and, quite frankly, it freaks us the frick out. It is so hard to see your child laying on the floor banging the heck out of his head. We don't want to encourage it by giving him attention, so we let him do it. Well, I was telling my friend M about it tonight and she was nice enough to find an article about it. Here is an excerpt from it:

Curiously, the one large study of this habit in 525 healthy children found head-bangers to be measurably advanced compared to their peers (Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Aug 1977). If anything, then, head-banging in healthy children is a sign of increased intelligence.
http://www.drgreene.com/21_578.html

SWEEEEET!!!!!!!! We are raising the next Doogie. Thank you Dad, Mom, and the Berthot side for your above average intelligance cause Lord knows it skipped over me!!!!

WOO-HOO!!!!!!!

All we have to say is F YOU ALL YOU TEXAS HATERS!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Bringing the trophy back to the Big 12!!!!!!!!!!!! Take that ESPN and USC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hook Em' Horns!!!!!!!

Well, we are less than 24 hours away from the big national championship game tomorrow night! All M and I have to say is GO TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! We aren't even Texas fans (BIG time KU fans) but we want to see them smoke USC. I am so tired of all the hype. Granted, USC is an amazing team and they deserve everything that is being said about them, but seriously, to think that they actually could beat the 10 top college teams of all time??? That ESPN thing was beyond stupid. M and I just sat there and laughed at it and really enjoyed listening to the guys saying everynight "I am going to take USC over ......" There is no way they would beat Miami or the Huskers in their prime. We all know that. And you can't truely know that unless they play and that isn't going to happen.

And who watched the game tonight? Wowie wow wow is all I can say. I am amazed that Joe Pat didn't just keel over and die on the field. What an amazing game. Those kickers, geez, think they are going to be getting drafted anytime soon? Ok, done with the sports for the night, but I will be sporting my orange tomorrow night. . .

Look at me. . .

He just gives us more gray hairs by the day. . .

Ever Wonder What Kyrgyzstan Looks Like?

M calls this the "Red Sea." The landscape drastically changes from mountains to a desert. It almost looks like an ocean.


On the bottom left is the 2nd tallest dam in the world. It is in Tajekastan.



The hottest man alive is on the far right



Tien Shan mountains. They are around 23,000 ft. It looks like you can touch them!

Kyrgyzstan-Click here to learn more about the country

Happy New Year

What a new years! We had some of our neighbors over for food, fun, and drink. Bumps went out cold by 8:30 and somehow slept through everything! M enjoyed his eggnog shake that he decided to come up with (with about 5 shots of rum in it) and so did our friend, B, who is deploying tomorrow. The guys went next door to M's to check out his new x-box 360 and came back with half of a bottle of Gentleman Jack gone. . .and that should tell you how the rest of the night was. Faith the pug put M and J's rotties in their place. It was by far the funniest moment of the night. We all went out before midnight to smoke some cubans and ring in the new year. And some how, K and B's 9 month old R made it through the night with a smile and some sleep. As for me, I had forgotten how fun it is to watch a bunch of drunk people make asses of themselves. I was loving every minute of it. I drank enough to get a buzz and then decided I was done for the night. Once the boys started talking about skiing and snowboarding today, I figured someone better be healthy enough to drive. Unfortunatly no one was awake to carry out the plan this morning. Oh well. We hope that everyone had a wonderful New Year's!!!

Sleep Problem GONE!!!!!

We finally figured out the problem with bumps. As we were getting out of the car at Costco the other day, we noticed something in his mouth. A NEW TOOTH!!!!!! Finally!!! He still only has 4-almost 5 now. He isn't going to be toothless for the rest of his life!!! YEAH!!! They say the longer it takes for them to come in, the better they are going to be. Lord I hope that is true because I was SO not blessed with a good mouth of teeth.