Patriots

We have been looking forward to watching the Patriots game all week. At the beginning of the game Eric Charles started right out by yelling at the tv. This video was taken at the beginning of the game before things went horribly wrong:

Great Gram

Today we went to visit my gramma on a whim. We walked into the house and I told Eric to go see Great Gram. He went running down the hall, knowing exactly where she was and ran into the room to surprise her while I stayed in the hallway for a second to hear her surprise. He bounded into the room. At first he got shocked to see her but that he started goofing around and rolling around on the floor and being silly and of course giving his great gram hugs and kisses! Of course I left my camera in the car but I did take some pictures with my phone. Eric was so interested in having gramma read him stories and do puzzles and only flipped out for a minute because he wanted her to play on the floor with him and she can't. He adjusted and brought the puzzle to her instead! He was very sad to leave her house and he didn't say "I love you" to my gramma before we left but the whole time we walked to the car he was yelling, "I love you gamma!" Too bad she couldn't hear him!
Eric kept bringing pictures of Dylan and Ryan to gramma for her to see. You can't see in this picture but the picture he is showing gramma is one of her and my Pepe. I wish he could have met Pepe. He would have loved him!

snuggling

Auntie Heather

A few weeks ago we went and visited my friend Heather in CT. Of course I got down there and the batteries were dead in my camera. Thank goodness Heather is the paparazzi and takes thousands of pictures when we visit each other. Here are just a few of the good ones from our visit (Thanks Hee Hee for emailing them to me!).

Eric was having a whole lot of fun jumping around on Heather's bed and giving Heather a heart attack when he would come to close to the edge. It wouldn't be the first bed he fell off of!





Luckily for Eric Heather still had her Christmas decorations up which he was very excited about


Even though we don't see Heather often enough he remembered who she was and ran and gave her a big hug when we got there. He wanted her to hold him or hold his hand a lot.

Love, love love this one!

We went out to lunch at Chilis. Eric LOVES corn on the cob!

A little bit of coloring while he waits

Eric and mama!

fun in the snow

This is going to make me sound like a hick but one of my favorite things about snow days is staying in our jammies all day and after nap time, heading out to play in the snow and then jumping in the truck and driving around on a snow adventure. I feel like we are invincable in that truck. I couldn't believe when Eric drove it out of the parking space that was barely shoveled in front of it and it just went right over the snow in front of it like nothing. That thing is a machine! The only scary part is that Eric sometimes likes to turn the anti-slip off to fishtail through parking lots. Not enough to be dangerous but just enough for me to have a heart attack. The little guy, of course, loves it.
We like to put this kid to work at an early age :)



Where is my car?? The good news is my car made it around the parking lot with no problems courtesy of my new tires.


He's saying, "cheeeeesh!"


You missed a spot buddy!

Time to clean the truck!

Right before I took this picture a big gust of wind came and blew all this snow in front of me..

there, much better!

So our adventure in the truck today was a trip to walmart where we intended to try to get the little guy some better mittens and a little shovel, neither of which walmart had. Then we of course decided we should go to Harrys for dinner after I said I wanted to cut back on Harrys for the new year. But I didn't have pizza! The little guy ate 3 pieces of pizza, some of my ziti, and some of my bread. He loooooves Harrys. He was skipping around Harrys saying, "Yahhh pizza!" If Harrys ever made a commercial or put out an ad I think he should be there spokeskiddo!

This is not going well

Night #2 of Eric sleeping in a bed didn't go horribly bad. He finally fell asleep at 10:15 and slept in his bed all night and woke up at 8am. The problem is that I can't just let him sleep in every day because he's up so late.
So when night #3 came I was determined to get him to sleep earlier knowing that I had to get him to daycare by 8:30 because I have my internship at 9am. He took a nice bath in the hopes of calming him. At 7:30 I brought him into his room to read books and rock. We did this until 8:10 because I wanted to make sure he was really relaxed. Then we put him to bed and left the room. He was all over his room again. Although he did spend more time hanging in his bed... playing with his flashlight, looking at a photo album, etc etc. I went in several times to get him to go to bed. I thought I had him relaxed at 9 but that was not the case. At 10:15 I started leaping for joy when I saw him at least lying down in his bed. So I went to check him around 10:40 assuming that he was definitely asleep. No such luck. So I rubbed his back until I saw his eyes close and he was definitely asleep... right? Wrong. I don't know how it happened, I didn't hear a thud. But when I went to check on him he was sleeping on the floor. So I put him back in his bed. At 3:15am I heard a thud and him crying; he was on the floor again. This morning Eric checked in on him before and claimed that he was on his bed. When I went in to check on him this is where I found him (picture is a little dark):


I worry that he has my sleeping habits. When I was younger I had the worst times falling asleep until I graduated from college and got a job that tired me out. I would sometimes sleep on my floor or anywhere that would get me to fall asleep.
What I am thinking when I think about these last three nights is, Who's dumb idea was this anyway????

growing up

The new year seems to have brought us a much more grown up Eric Charles! Lately he's been telling us when he's pooping and he's been sitting on the potty now and then. We've been talking about when we will put him in a regular bed. We wanted to just put him in a twin bed instead of going to a toddler bed. However, his crib is a convertible crib. So yesterday I asked big Eric how to convert the crib and he just took it upon himself to do it. So I guess it was time to give this sleeping in a bed a try on a whim! We went out to dinner last night and didn't get home until after 9pm. Eric was still wide awake so we knew it was going to be a challenge to get him to stay in his bed. We put him in his bed and as Daddy told him "You have a lot of responsibility now kid." So he left his bed a few times when we first put him down. He was running around his room and then would leave his room so we put him back in his bed and explained to him again that he needed to stay in his bed. Finally he was so tired that he just fell asleep. It took until about 10:45 that night but he did it. And that is where he stayed. And at 8am he came running in our room yelling, "hi!". It was awesome! I have been waiting for the day when I don't have to go in his room and get him when he wakes up! After that we all got out of bed and he then wanted to sit on the potty. And he did and keeping with our reinforcement he got to eat a hershey kiss at 8am for sitting on the potty. We can't believe how fast he's growing up. Once he gets used to his toddler bed we'll switch him to a twin bed so he has more room and it's more like a bed. I can't wait. It'll be so cute!

Finally asleep

Check out all the padding we put on the floor in case he fell out!

He really likes to "fix" his new bed. When Daddy was pulling it apart he was right behind him with his tools. Right when he went to play this morning this was the first thing he did.

I give up

I am still trying to upload videos from Christmas and it is not working. So I'm uploading them to snapfish and emailing them to people. However, I do not have everyone's email addresses so if you read this and want to see all the Christmas videos email me your email and I'll send them your way. Sarahep81@yahoo.com