stuff my mom says

i love my mom with all my heart but can't resist making fun of her.  lately she has sent me some texts that are just hilarious. 

"hope your thanksgiving's going well.  just wanted u to know that i just found a used diaper of cashel's under your bed.  love u."

"dad and i were in walmart last evening and a fight broke out in the vegetable area."

keep 'em coming mama - they make me smile!

we just can't believe it

everyone says it. everyone says, robin, this time is going to go by so fast you'd better enjoy it.  and they're right.  we cannot believe that our boy turned 2 almost a month ago!  it makes me happy...it makes me sad.  he's 27 pounds.  i don't think i'll be able to carry him around when he's 3 and i'm going to miss that.  the baby that he was.  but i'm excited for the awesome boy he is and will be.  the one comfort is that i hear so many people say, every stage was my favorite.  it gets harder but better all at the same time.  i don't see how it could be any other way.  yea for us!  and yea for him!

so...ON cashel's birthday he had a party at school. The best part was that all of the kids were super excited about getting to go to a "party" and eat cupcakes, but no one was sure who's birthday it was.  i kept asking cashel, "who's birthday is it?" and he would say, "claire" or "ethan."  anyone of his school friends' names but never his own!

jason was home for dinner that night and we had cashel's favorite - salmon!  afterwards we had his second favorite - cupcake!  

 

the saturday after his birthday we had a playdate with two of his friends from school - brendan and charlie.  before the party nana came over and gave cashel one of his favorite toys - a lego farm - he loves it and plays with it everyday.

and i made a basketball cake!

they all had such a great time.

and...this would be one of our favorite pictures.  it says so much about how happy cashel was to have brendan at his house.

we tried to get a picture with charlie but charlie wasn't up to it.  so a couple of weeks later i snapped this shot at school.

 happy 2nd birthday baby boy!

monkeys

we don't know what it is but cashel has this thing with monkeys

he either loves this or hates them depending on his mood

when he loves them he says "monkeys!"

when he hates them he clamps on to me or jason and says "no monkey's in trees?" 
he's super afraid! 

it's arbitrary. 

it's funny. 

it's cute. 

as usual. 

drawring

so...a little out of order here but lately, cashel has been insisting that i draw.  if you know me, you know me not to be a person who can draw.  with my conceptual physics class the kids have been conditioned not to laugh at my drawings unless they want their grade to go down...just kidding...(not really)...

anyhoo....cashel is hilarious with his requests.  it started out like this:

cashel: draw a man...draw an hoop...draw a ball

lately, it has become this:

cashel:  mama...draw a tree...draw a man...a ladder...a ball...a hoop

cashel: mama...draw a baby...crying...two babies...crying...a tree...a hoop...a koala..

me:  a koala?

cashel:  no, a koala

me:  a koala?

cashel:  no, a koala?

me: a koala?

cashel:  no!  a koala?

me:  oh!  you want a gorilla!

cashel:  yea! a gorilla!

so i draw a gorilla in a tree, then it has to open the door and knock on the door and walk

he thinks i'm a cartoonist....

obviousely, i'm not...

no mom, i'm not eating dirt

seriously, i'm not eating dirt...i promise...

halloween

halloween.  i don't really know the history.  i suppose i could pretend by saying something about back in the day people trying to ward off spirits by dressing up  like spirits themselves or something like that but i don't really know and i'm too busy to wiki it.  so, anyways, cashel was the flash.  he (i) don't really know who the flash is.  i probably saw it when i was little, i know jason did, but the bottom line is this...he thought he was spiderman.  he kept saying, i'm spiderman.  ok, actually before that happened, he wanted nothing to do with his costume really.  jason got it on him once and he was super excited but then wanted it off.  i would get it on him for about a minute before he would say "off!  off!"  we thought that with his daycare he would be more amenable, and he was...for a while...here are the pictures to prove it:

cashel knows his stories at "circle time" so well, he gets very excited and runs up, front and center, to help tell the story

 then...on the day of halloween we were at nana's.  she really wanted to see him in his outfit.  here we go:

 then...on the way home from nana's, here i am thinking, oh, we'll just go home, but at 4:30, cashel starts saying, "trick or treat?"  well, i have his costume in the car and explain to him that he'll have to wear his outfit and he totally goes for it:

proud and ready...of course he has to have a ball...

he got a blue blow pop at the first house that would open the door (it was 5:15..a little early i suppose)

his latest?  looking at himself in the mirror...a prius will do

happy halloween!

get ready y'all

i'm 'bout to post lots of stuff that's been backed up in my brain and on my iphoto.  it's been a busy time since i last posted with jason working weekends (not anymore - yea!) and with grades and comments being due at school followed by cashel's birthday and thanksgiving.  oh yea, it's also that jason loves me enough to give me night to myself!  i'm so excited i can't stand it.  don't get me wrong, i love my boys, but a night to myself is just what i ordered.  thank you sweetie - i love you too!

i'll start with this juicy bit that jason called and told me about tonight.  he called and said:

robin, we were at lowe's with my mom and we talked to a black man (i don't know who talked to who really, maybe he worked there?  i don't know but the part that he's black is important)...anyhoo...robin, we were at lowe's with my mom and we talked to a black man and cashel looked up at him and said, "michael jordan."  jason says he doesn't know if the man heard him or not but that's funny!

also...as they were leaving, cashel was batting his eyes at a high school girl.  literally batting his eyes.  just like his dad - this is trouble.