If It's Not One Mess ... It's Another!

Mess Number One:

This morning I was woken up by the sounds of of little "clanks" and the sound of various things being tossed around. "What in the world is that?" I thought to myself. Just as I was coming out of my bedroom Jay comes running out of the front room - with bright pink hands and saying "Mess, mommy! Mess!" and pointing into the front room. Sure enough, there WAS a mess ... of all my cake decorating supplies that WERE in my "Cake Caboodle" but were now all over the front room. And to top it all off ... Jay had gotten the bright pink and bright green food coloring out, and dropped dropletts of them onto the only rug we have in the entire house. Forget the tile we have the first floor! Thats too easy to clean up! Our nice rug, along with Jays hands, the bottom of one foot, the front of his pajamas and one cheek bone, were now smeared with either pink, green or the mixture of the two all over the place! :-| 

Mess Number Two:

Shortly after the first mess was finally cleaned up, I was in the kitchen cleaning up the breakfast mess when Jay walked into the kitchen asking me to read him a book. I looked down at him and he is pant-less - again. (I swear, this boy would be naked all day long if I let him! He LOVES to be in nothing but his underwear!) So I'm looking at my little boy, who honestly just looks so sweet, smiling up at me waiting for me to answer him, when I realize he has this ... sheen on his legs and kind of in his hair. "Thhaaaats not right" I think to myself. I leaned down and took a little sniff, and what did he smell like? Oh yes, baby oil! Awesome right? "Jaaaay, what have you been up to?" I asked him. "Nothing mommy" is his reply. "Jayden Lawrence, what have you been doing? Have you been good or naughty?" He looks up to me with those big beautiful brown eyes and says "Naughty mommy, naughty". I grab his hand and he leads me up the stairs to his room where there is a BIG puddle of baby oil almost in the center of the room ... with little foot prints that lead to his bed ... and baby oil all over his sheets. Yeah, that mess took quite a few paper towels to clean up!

Mess Number Three:

I had seriously just come down the stairs from cleaning up mess number two and was walking from the bathroom to the front room when I hear the sound of lightly running water coming from upstairs. The only thing ... I KNEW the bathroom door upstairs was locked. Taking the stairs by two I run up to stairs and turn the corner to find Jay standing, with his undies around his feet, peeing into the tiny, table size grill that is sitting on the floor in the hallway. I yelled "Jayden" and he looks at me, realizing he is caught in the act and runs off into his room! Yet another mess to clean up!

Mess Number Four & Five:

I ask Jay probably 50 times a day if he needs to go potty. Usually the answer is yes, but occasionally the answer is no. And when its no, its followed by 2 more questions of "are you sure?". This series of questions happened again today ... and you would think I would've learned my lesson by now to follow my gut instincts and just taken him to the bathroom, but no, I didn't. :-\ So what happens? Yup, he peed in his undies onto the floor, too preoccupied playing with his toys to remember to go potty in the toilet. So I go and get a few paper towels and the 409 out of the kitchen to clean up the potty mess he just made ... when i hear in the kitchen "squirt squirt" noises. I peek around the corner and find my oh-so-helpful 2 year old boy squirting Windex on the floor. I ask him "Jayden! What do you think you're doing!?" and his reply? "clean mess, mommy" as he continues to clean the floor (which really wasn't messy to begin with) with a paper towel and Windex and a cute little smile on his face. 

If its not one mess, its another!! Needless to say, maybe we should buy stock in paper towels! They come in handy for ALL kinds of messes!

Shake That Thing!!

As you probably already know, Jay LOVES to dance. Get any song on the tv/radio/iPod that has a good beat to it and you will find Jay dancing :) We were watching "Country Strong" and Gwenyth Paltrow performs a song called "Shake That Thing" in the movie and Jay LOVED it. He even asked me a couple time to play it over and over, lol. This is one of the times he danced to it. Every time I watch this it makes me giggle :D

Pretty dang cute right? lol.

On a side note: Jays potty training is going EXCELLENT! I'm SO stoked about it! He is going pee in the "big boy potty" every time he needs to go pee now. He's even started telling me when he needs to go! The only exception is pooping in the potty - we're still working on that. But from what I've heard thats pretty typical so I try to keep my frustration of cleaning poopy underwear to a minimum hehe :) We no longer have a baby boy - we have a BIG BOY!! :D

Potty Training and Race Cars

Potty Training

Today is potty training day! Jay is equipped with his "big boy undies" - Thomas the Train, Super Heros and Spiderman undies - and he is so happy with those. He got to pick them out himself at the BX

He is DEFINITELY ready to be potty trained. He is ALWAYS taking off his diaper, especially if its poopy. Just the other day I found him at the top of the stairs with no diaper on and his diaper sitting next to him ... and poop smeared on the floor from where he was sitting in several different places :-/ This little boy definitely does NOT like to have a poopy diaper!

Today we have so far gone through 2 pairs of underwear and hes only been out of diapers for 3 hours. Hopefully this potty training thing will go better by the end of the day we'll be at least mostly potty trained!

Race Cars

Jay is in LOVE with Lightening McQueen and the movie "Cars". He is constantly playing with his cars and pointing at the exhaust on them and saying "vroom vroom!" and crashing his cars together.

The other day he was trying to tell Brandon "race car!" while looking directly at him. Brandon looked at me and said "What is he saying!?" I couldnt help but bust out laughing - because his "race car!" sounded like "retard!" and he was saying it over and over again at Brandon.

This Is How We Pray

Jayden is very good at reminding Brandon and I to pray. Especially at meals (sometimes its even a few minutes into the meal and he wont continue to eat until we've prayed, lol) and when its time for bed in the evening. There are times when he stops what hes doing and says "Mom, prayer" for absolutely no reason at all. I think its very sweet and cute to see my little man wanting to pray :) He also has a list of people and things he wants to pray for on a daily basis. Very cute.

The other day, Jay and I were sitting at the table about to have lunch and he did his "Mom, prayer". So I folded my hands and started with "Dear Heavenly Father" when Jay said "Mom!". I looked at him and he was looking at my hands. Now, usually I fold my hands so my fingers are intertwined but that day, for some odd reason, I had folded my hands so that my fingers on my right hand were on top of my pointer finger on my left and this obviously had Jay very upset, lol. With a slight scowl, he leaned over, grabbed my hands and fixed them to how I typically fold them, leaned back in his seat, folded his arms, bowed his head and then said "ok, pray".

I seriously laughed for a good 30 seconds or so. I thought that was one of the cutest things Jay has said/done. I think its funny how matter-of-fact he is about how we pray. :) It truly brings a smile to my face, and I wouldnt have it any other way!

What A Mess!!

Jay has been having a hard time going to bed lately. Not exactly sure why, but he has. We put him in bed at 8pm every night and lately, he's been getting out of bed and playing in  his room until 9 or 9:30. Usually, as long as he stays in his room we dont mind too much. He usually crawls into his bed and falls asleep when he sees fit ;) 

Last night, before I went to bed I went to check on him, like I do every night. Last night I walked into a room that did NOT look like it did when put him into bed! It was a disaster! It looked like a tornado went through the room! All the contents from the cupbard and the drawer in Jay's dresser (plus a few things from a box of clothes that are to big for him still) were scattered all over the floor!

 
I sighed, shook my head and thought to myself "dang it kid!" and took the picture - all with a smile on my face. :) And yes - he will be the one picking up the mess! 

As I'm walking out the door, I noticed a little puddle on the ground. "Oh no" was the first thought that came to my mind. I walked over to Jay's bed, pulled Jay's blanket down and you know what I saw?? I little bare butt! That little stinker had taken off his pants and diaper (again!) and had piddeled on the floor - a couple times! 

After picking up his puddles, getting a new diaper on him and putting his PJ pants back on, I'm walking out the door and I hear this little voice, "mommy?". I turn around just as I'm about to shut the door and I see my little BamBam blow me a kiss :) I blowed a kiss back, told him I loved him and I hear a little "Love you" back as hes falling back asleep.

Oh the joys of being a mommy! Wouldn't trade it all for anything ... most of the time ;) :) haha.

Lets Try This Again

So shall we try this again??

I know it's been a while (ok, a year and a half-ish) since I last updated this ... but I've decided to keep updating again. The stories or posts (whatever you would like to call them) may not all be very long, perhaps just a paragraph or so, but I figure that's better then nothing! So I will try, every couple of days, to put something on here that Jay does. Cuz we all know that Jay is a crazy and does something outrageous almost every day! haha. And I figured with all our family and friends all being half way around the world now, you all might appreciate it :)