My Sweet Boy

Trey gave me a full-on kiss on the cheek today as I was leaving to go to work. I asked him to "hug Mommy" & he said "no". He loves to say that little word these days! Then he turned his little head & kissed the air. So I said I want you to give me a kiss right here on the check & I pointed. He turned & kissed me on the cheek! More than just pressing his lips. It was SO sweet! I got spit & everything!

He is becoming quite the talker with all his new words & phrases. He informs us of all kinds of things like reciting all his boo-boos 1st thing every morning (most of them minor scratches but being a boy he has lots of little injuries!), likes to say "loud" for loud dog (there was a dog barking early this am in our subdivision which is unusual), loud TV, loud truck, etc. And he likes to assign things to people he knows by saying "Papa's truck, Nana's car, Mama's clothes, & tonight he sais "Trey's couch". He didn't want to leave his couch & his pillow (an adult, king size one that is his favorite but I won't let him sleep w/ it) tonight to go back to bed. Back is another new word as in "Paci back" meaning I want it back, "Mama back" as in give me back whatever I took from him that he wanted!

Now I just have to get him to say "I love you"! He hears it all the time from us.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you are all having a special Valentine's Day! Trey is my sweetheart & Valentine but I am going to dinner & a movie tonight with my "old" Valentine! We don't have a reservation anywhere so I told Ruben we may be eating at Wendy's!

Trey got chocolate with peanut butter in it-2 of his favorite things-for Valentine's Day & we got him a Winnie the Pooh card that says "you're a little hunny". He loves Elmo now but I still like Pooh!

Trey & I are going to the mall soon for some last minute Valentine present shopping & so he can wear his red shirt for Valentine's that he looks so cute in!

To continue the segment on Trey's latest new words & now phrases, wow how his vocabulary has grown by leaps in the last few weeks! One day this week his teachers wrote on his activity sheet that Trey was impressing his teachers with his growing vocabulary. He said "Mama's dinner" to me a couple days ago while we were eating breakfast & I told him dinner was for food but we were technically eating breakfast that time of day & he immediately tried to say breakfast. He says button for keys on the computer & for buttons on his shirt, "poo" for shampoo, bite when he wants a bite of something, eat when he wants to eat,fries is shouted loudly anytime we pull into any type of drive-thru(me trying to explain that sadly Starbucks does not serve fries does little to quieten him!) & several more I can't think of right now! We got to see Papa for lunch this week & when his Papa asked his name he said Trey right away.

He is also using hand gestures as in "I don't know" by holding his hands to his sides & turning them up. Growing up so fast!

XOXOXOXOXOXO
Happy V-Day!

Our weekend visit

One of our oldest & dearest friends visited us from home this weekend. Shannon helped set Ruben & I up on a blind date...and the rest as they say is history! She came & stayed with us when Trey was about 6 weeks old & was a tremendous help/comfort. I will probably remember more from this visit since I wasn't sleep deprived! Although I do have a nasty stomach bug that did keep me up some both nights & of course, Trey caught it. But his seems much milder than mine (fingers crossed on that one) & I'm still not over it.

We watched James Bond movies, talked, went to Whole Foods, & watched Trey develop a big crush on "Shanna". He almost immediately began trying to say her name & got pretty close. He wanted her in the room he was in & kept waving to her & saying "Hi Shanna!". Saying good-bye was hard for all of us, but probably Trey the most-he gets attached quick!

Today he asked for Shanna several times & then realized it sounded a lot like Nana so he said them all in a row: Shanna, Nana, Papa. So we called the grandparents & he delighted them by screaming their names! Quite the little ham.

Other new words: "good taste" for some applesauce he tried from Whole Foods (we found single serving, squeeze container applesauce for on the go-who knew?!), Mama's clothes, Dada's clothes, orange, Mama's orange (he noticed when I changed clothes & also points to clothes in the laundry or hanging & identifies them).

He also put on his pants today by himself except for pulling them up in the back over his butt-he can't figure that one out yet. But I was surprised at him putting them on without any coaxing while I was looking for socks. Mama was very pleased!