A few days in the past week, Truman has done this himself. I just lay his clothes out on his bed for him, and he gets himself dressed, usually he comes up looking like this (shirts, pants, underwear ALL on backwards–at least he is consistent):
But he is dressing himself, I am not going to complain! What a big boy you are my 2 year old!!!!
Cat came to visit us this weekend as well. It is always so much fun to have her in our home.
You know you have a room named after you in our home, come again, our guest room is almost always open! We love you!
literally a sponge, he is absorbing everything around him, constantly learning by watching things around him. It makes you so happy as a parent when you see your child act positively in a situation, that you know could ‘set them off’.
Today at Nursery, another little boy dumped the pitcher of water in Trumans lap, soaking him completely, instead of being angry when I asked him about it, he told me the story, then he reassured me that it was just an accident, and that the other little boy was just trying to help.
Also, Truman is becoming an avid reader, and absorbing the vocabulary from these books. I love when he talks and says things that we have read about in books!
When he gets up in the morning and after quiet time, he always bringing me up books to read to him. His favorites right now are the Maisy series, Bernstein Bears, and pirate books. He could have books read to him all day, I think. Someday we will have to try it…
Sounds like a perfect day to me…
The Evelyn’s were down for a wedding, so Mikey and Madalyn were able to come and play with us for a few hours! It was so much fun, the boys wanted to hold “baby Madalyn” and just take care of her, Madalyn was fine with it at first, but by the time I got the camera, she didn’t want to have anything to do with it! (she was happy the rest of the time!)
Having older cousins is rough on a little girl! It was fun to have a little baby around again,
and of course the boys just ran and played together, and naturally had a good time! 
Also, this weekend we went to Sunday Dinner with the Greene Fam, and of course the little Greene kids were there, so the kids ran and played and had a good time there too! Cousins are so much fun!
Here is matchy matchy Tuck and Ike–
I LOVE being so close to family, until you move away, you don’t realize the blessing of having a family close. Close enough to see and be with. Did I mention that I love our families? Love you guys, all of you!
Last month (as you can see in a previous post) our dishwasher broke. We have been washing dishes by hand, and Tucker and Truman LOVE it (Toph likes it alot too actually…) There is something about bubbles and a sink full of water that children can’t resist. Someday, when we do get a dishwasher, I think that the boys are going to miss playing in the sink, and helping me with dishes. Knowing that it won’t last forever makes this task do-able for me, but not enjoyable, but of course what mother isn’t going to enjoy having her boys happy to be standing by her side? None that I know!
(Don’t worry, we don’t usually let Tuck wash dishes like that…)
As fun as it is, I still do need a dishwasher. I am a modern woman, who misses the modern conveniences of washing dishes while I sleep at night, or even better BLOG 🙂
A conversation between Truman and Toph last night, that made me a smile–
Toph: I love you bigger than the ocean Truman?
Pause
Truman: mumble, mumble… pond
Toph: What?
Truman: I like you bigger than a duck!
Also, the night before last, Tucker was having another Night Terror (kind of like a bad,bad,nightmare), and Toph and I were asleep, and didn’t hear him tossing and turning. But Truman did, so he came out of their room, and hollered “Mom, Dad, Tucker needs some help!”
He has a sweet little heart, and I LOVE this age, when you can see it SO clearly!
Toph introduced last nights family home evening lesson about Joseph Smith by saying this…
“We are going to talk about someone special tonight,”
to which Truman responded enthusiastically, “Me!”
I’m glad he knows he is special, hopefully he can keep on remembering that especially, during those rough teenage years.
Love you Trubie!
So, my husband has been telling me for a while now, that an ESSENTIAL and IMPORTANT part of Family Home Evening (FHE), is the treats. I kind of just ‘rolled my eyes’ and said whatever to him, until I recently, gave in….
So, I have tried to step up to the challenge of better treats (instead of just rummaging thru the cupboards to see what we have), last week we had ice-cream (even though Tuck wanted to have Cheese Sandwiches), and here are the Messy, Messy, results from our talented son Truman, he learned a few great lessons.
1–The Ice Cream Container Lid, makes a great hat (we were NOT watching closely enough, and he is getter quicker by the day.)–
2–He can hold and drink from his bowl, with no hands
Now, I know why, I would rather stick to no treats, clean up is minimal 🙂
Maybe instead of no treats, I might find a less messy treat.
We’ll have to see what the next FHE treats will hold…
Again, I need to remember to put the Camera up high, out of the reach of little hands…
But look at that smile, how can than not make you smile?!?!
I usually kind of keep up with the weather, but yesterday morning, when I woke up to find like 8′ of snow outside I was SHOCKED! I had NO IDEA a storm was coming in.
Of course, once the boys saw it, they immediately wanted to get their snow clothes on and go outside, I tried to help them get outside and play in the snow as quickly as possible, but even on snow days, somethings are mandatory, like breakfast and teethbrushing.
But unfortunately, Truman was having nothing of it, and decided to take matters into his own hands. He got his jammies off, then put JUST a hat and gloves on and pronounced, “I’m ready to go outside Mama!”
Yea, I don’t think so Tru-bee 🙂
Tuck had preschool, so couldn’t stay outside and play for too long, before carpool came, so he didn’t get the full snow gear on, but he did have some fun, including pretending to be a snowplow.
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Truman and I stayed outside for almost 2 hours, shoveling the walks, and playing.
I forgot to mention, that somewhere in one of the snowdrifts, Truman lost his shoe. Yep. He walked around for quite a while without it on. I could tell by all the snow caked to his sock. There was so much there, that I didn’t realize he didn’t have a shoe on, not until he started saying “my toes is cold” did I realize, we were short a shoe. We’re going to have to wait for a sunny day to see if we can find it again!