Tired of it.

I'm really tired of Dru putting stuff up his nose. Found a wood chip up his nose yesterday morning. It had to have been from the day before while he was playing outside. About ten minutes ago he put another wood chip in his nose and the day care called. They want me to take him to the Doc or the ER. No. I don't want to. I'm on hold with the Doc now and we'll see if it needs to to be extracted.

In the mean time I am not happy with him. At all. Tired of the crap up his nose.


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Update: Took him to the doc and they couldn't find anything up there. It cost $15 and it took gas to get all the way to the north side of town. It was a terrible day. And someday when Dru makes me upset I'm going to call his girlfriend and tell her all about that day!

The boy just didn't want to sleep!

I attempted to put Dru down for a nap around 11 and he wasn't having it. I tried again a couple hours later and I thought it was a success. I heard him giggle and babble a couple times, but for the most part I thought he had slept a least a little. When it came time to get him up.... I was knocked off my feet.

He had pulled his diaper off. I walked in to see him bottomless and poo was everywhere. I screamed. I'm surprised the neighbors didn't come by and see if everything was okay. Thank God they didn't.

I took Dru straight to the bath immediately and I also brushed his teeth. Yep, I am pretty sure he ate his own poo. Because of that I called the Doc. The nurse first told me I wasn't a terrible mother for letting this happen. I was happy to hear that. She said he might throw up, but he hasn't. So, we're good.

I just can't believe this happened. I will never ever put him down in a diaper alone. He's wearing pants for the rest of his life to sleep!

Oh, Dru.

It can scare the crap out of even a seasoned mother. It can make a mom jump to her feet in milliseconds. It's the sound that strikes fear in a mother's heart. Complete silence. What is the child doing in the other room? What are they eating?!

Yesterday we cleaned Dru's room to a T. It was safe as could be in there. So, we let him play alone for a while. We heard him hitting his cars together and pressing buttons to those awesome noisy toys that actual moms never buy... Even for other people's kids. That's when it happened. Complete silence. I went to go figure out what could be going on in there so quietly. This is what I came across. Crazy kid.


Yep, that's the third step to his organizer. He pushed all the toys off the first three steps to it so that he could climb to the top.

Tissue, please.

Dru found a tissue box while we were all turned away.

Here's the story.


Dru finds box of tissues and it's never-ending ability to spit out tissues on demand.


Dru thinks this fun will never stop!


Until mommy decides to stop being a camera-man and go back to being a mommy. (BTW his facial expression in this picture... He looks just like his dad!)


Mommy takes the box of tissues.


The fit is officially upon us!

It is time for an intervention.

One of my favorite TV shows is How I Met Your Mother. In it they have silly interventions where they step in when someone is overusing a phrase or a harmless hobby.

Dru's hobby is putting stuff up his nose. His Doctor told us to just not laugh or pay any attention to him while he's doing it. I don't think it's working. We mentioned it to his daycare and they started laughing and shared a little story with us. I guess he has to be watched really carefully even when he's outside. They said sometimes when all the other kids are playing he'll take the opportunity to put wood chips up his nose! Oh NO! My kid's gonna be the one eating the glue in kindergarten isn't he? Haha I'm just kidding. But in case I'm not... We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

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I got this horsie for Dru while I was still pregnant. I don't think I even knew I was having a boy yet. I can recall looking down at my barely-there-belly hiding underneath my Pizza Hut uniform and asking the guy holding the garage sale how old his kids were when they started using it.


He doesn't really rock on it yet. He's just gets on and off of it.


Oh yeah, and he also takes the handle out and puts it back in. Goofy kid.

Dru is walking Part II

Yay!

Dru is officially walking!

Yep! Before, he would take a couple of steps and then drop to his knees and crawl wherever he was trying to go. Today was his buddy, Marek's first birthday. We met a bunch of new people. They asked normal baby questions like when was Dru born, how far apart in age are he and Marek... And is he walking. I was like, 'no he's not really walking..." THEN he walked from the living room to the kitchen! He didn't stop there either. Zach's sister, Nina, and her boyfriend we're playing with him and getting him to walk to and from each other. I was so proud.


Ashley and Marek.


After the party was my step sister's baby shower. On the way over to my dad's house I prayed that he would walk for them too. And, he did! My sister was proud of him too. Oh, it has been a long time coming. He's 15 months and two days old. I have been ready for this for a while.

Oh yeah, we're doing a little better with the stuff-up-his-nose thing. He still attempts to put a lot of things that will never fit up there. When I catch him trying to put a piece of chicken in there... I just laugh at him. Then, when he realizes it won't fit he just puts his fingers up his nose.