Expecting...

Not me, Buddy (of course I'm expecting him to wet the bed after such a ridiculous amount of liquid was consumed immediately prior to bed time)...

He was also expecting me to close my eyes when we were trying to take a family picture (of course he was right)...

All in all a super fantastic, played with cousins all day, day!

Mother Nature...

I believe Buddy has gotten tired of waiting around for me to make a sister for him (me too Buddy, me too). Anyway, he decided to go out and buy one instead, that's right, black market style, except our black market was really Toys R' Us. He's a great big brother, he sings to her, helps her eat....

Helps change her diaper...

Then giggles non-stop at her never ending stream of pee ( which can shoot six feet, by the way, he may have a sensitive side, but he's still all boy)...

So for now, a super fantastic, too bad we don't have a sibling to experiment with, day!

The doghouse...

Someone's been in the doghouse for a while....

Someone is still in the doghouse, but it's a lot prettier there.
In other news, while Shane is away at work, Buddy has stepped up to be quite the man of the house. Today he went around my car kicking the tires and declaring them "good" before we could go on our journey to see Despicable Me. It was fantastic by the way, but really after two night shifts in a row and sleeping only 3 hours anything not involving brain power is fantastic! Now on to something we never do, time to play with trains!
All in all a super fantastic day!

Puffer Billies...

Yesterday Buddy told me that when he grows up and is driving trains, I can ride with him everywhere and I can ride in the front with him. Parenthood certainly has it's perks! We also whipped out Shane's electric train set, now we have 6 different train sets set up between my and my parent's house. I feel slightly overwhelmed and wondering how I could have thought these "stages" would get better, not worse. Currently we are watching a train movie while playing with trains, I guess we just can't get enough (too bad there aren't trains to eat to fill up the last of our senses). This morning we picked up one of these....

Buddy was so elated walking out of the hobby shop, he's already making plans of all the other engines and cars he wants to purchase. Hopefully dad will be the sucker next time.
In other news, today I go back to work after a glorious 3 weeks off. Buddy and I have had a marvelous time hanging out together, doing nothing in particular and having a fantastic time while doing it! We didn't escape unscathed though. We did get quite a few bug bites, but thankfully Buddy is a trained professional, do not be afraid...

So all in all a super fantastic day!

Introductions....

Hi my name is Buddy...

Sometimes I break things on accident....


But I always clean up after myself...

In other exciting, or not really exciting but I'll tell you anyway, news we rode our bike to my parents house yesterday and then spent the night. This morning when we woke up we decided to take over a tree and start building a tree house. It was really hot, so hot that I decided to borrow and actually wear my mother's clothing. Just imagine what a 70 year old plumpish women would wear and then make it uglier x 10, then your somewhere in the ball park. It was bright pink and huge and with white flowers, a very matchy matchy outfit. Buddy told me I looked beautiful, now I'm wondering if taking him as my shopping partner in the past may not have been such a great idea! So we put two steps on our tree before we got worn out, so tomorrow it's back to the tree that we are planning to put in a rope walk, and a light (both Buddy's idea, the rope walk because it's cool, the light, because someone has gotten seriously afraid of the dark lately).
So for now a very super fantastic, if only my vacation would never end, day!

Death by train...

I wonder if this boy is obsessed?

Free...

(Photos by Chad Beeder)
So the saying goes, the best things in life are free, well, not exactly free, I did have to pay $35 dollars for my medical bill, so I guess the best things in life are kinda cheap?