Treyson and Pretend Baby Treyson

This is a picture of Treyson with one of Anniston's dolls "Pretend Baby Treyson"--yes, that is his actual name. She got him shortly after Treyson was born from MaMa and PaPa, and that's what she named him. Treyson was being a good little Daddy to him tonight by loving on him.

I guess he figures that since Dadoo puts him on his head, he'll put Pretend Baby Treyson on his head too! Notice the lovely black eye that the trim surrounding our staircase gave him. Staircase-1, Treyson-0. (I'm sure it's the first of many!)

Giving Pretend Baby Treyson his paci

Close-up so we can all remember how awesome his cheek and eye look just in time for pictures on Valentine's Day (although I'm sure it will be lovely shades of yellow and green by then) This happened on Tuesday evening. Jerry walks in the door. Anniston was the pantless princess running crazy, and I was rocking Treyson while he was down to the "whining" phase of his injury. I was holding him like a baby to be able to restrain his arms so he wouldn't pull off the ice pack I had (which he hated by the way). Jerry walks up close and is evaluating the situation and then says, "What on earth is that?" He was referring to the "ice pack". Well, you see I never did end up throwing out the excess breast milk packs I had frozen (no particular reason, more like forgetfulness/laziness??), so it made for the perfect ice pack. I'm pretty sure Jerry thought that was rather odd. I was actually proud of myself for thinking to use it. It was the perfect little size!

Big Sister, Little "big" brother

Anniston and Tresyon thought they were hilarious when she picked him up. She's picked him up before, but he usually just dangles like a limp noodle. Now Treyson hikes his legs up and she can carry him around for a few steps. I'm pretty impressed considering she's 40 pounds and he's 28!!

Look very carefully, or try and click on this pic to enlarge. You can see a nice black eye that Treyson has with a nice scrape to enhance it on his cheek. Treyson slid into the stairs (like the wood trim on the corner....the stairs won!)

LOTS OF SNOW PICTURES!!

We had so much fun playing in the snow. Our last big snow was when we had escaped to Ft. Smith over Dadoo's birthday weekend. Here are several pictures from that day. Enjoy!

sledding on the driveway (PawPaw R sure got a good workout!!)

Waiting with their ammunition....who will strike first? (I'm pretty sure Dadoo did)

Snow angels!

Sweet Sissy and Bubby!

I think Nanny is sensing something very big, wet, and cold about to pound her in the back side of the head!

PawPaw R. pulling the kids on the old-fashioned sled that Dadoo used to use!

"Watch out Nanny! There's a snowball about 6 inches from pelting you in the head!"

Dadoo sailing a snowball at nanny

If you look very carefully, you can see a snowball flying towards Dadoo (it's flying in the middle of the shrubs that are in front of the pool deck). Nice shot, Nanny!

"Hmmmm.....to get cold/wet, or not to get cold/wet.....that is the question"

"I feel like I can barely walk with all of these layers on, Mommy"

Nanny and Dadoo reloading for another round:

Anniston scraped some snow off the top of the hot tub and she's showing it to me:

We've definitely had our fair share of snow. I'm sick of it. How about you?

Deep Thoughts

Jerry, Anniston, and I were sitting around the kitchen table this evening eating a snack after she and Jerry got home from dance. Somehow the conversation led me into talking about not following strangers. Jerry and I talked about never walking away with a stranger, even if they seem like your friend, etc.

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So then I started setting up several scenarios. I said, "You're at the park and a really sweet person walks up and tells you to come to their car because they have a beautiful pink balloon for you. But you have to go to their car to get it. What do you do?" Automatically she answers "Yes!" So I realize she's way too kind hearted, and trusting. We go on and on with different scenarios using various luring items (cotton candy, sprite, dora fruit snacks, toys, sucker, etc). She finally got the hang of it, and was then telling us how she should run away and scream. So we definitely made progress, although it did scare her talking about not being with Mommy and Dadoo.

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So, we were about to say our prayers this evening. We were gathered around her bedside kneeling, and Anniston says, "Mommy and Dadoo: If somebody walks up to you and tells you to come to their car for some wine, what do you say?" Jerry said, "What did you say?" And then Anniston went on to repeat it. I had to turn my head because I was laughing so hard. I won't lie to you people....I love some good, fruity, blush wines. But I'm no "wine-o" by any means. Her little scenario cracked us up, and it was really sweet how serious she was. So of course we played along and said, "Yes". She said, "No Mommy, you run away and scream for your Anniston and Tresyon."

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One more funny Anniston story (some day I'll have funny Treyson stories....he just has to learn to talk first!). When Treyson was little people would tell us he's cute, how sweet, etc. and we would respond, "Yeah, we think we'll keep him." So.....Anniston and I were showering one evening, and she is into rinsing every.single.body part. So I was trying to rinse my shampoo and she frantically says, "Mommy, I really need to rinse my ears. I forgot." So I stepped out of the way and she puts her ear up to the stream of water. It was so cute, so I looked at her and said, "You are so stinkin' cute Anniston." She got done rinsing her ears, and looked at me so seriously and said, "So do you think you're going to keep me?"

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I just love the mind of a 3 year old!! So funny, and they have no clue how sweet their little comments are!

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Oh, she is such a doll! I won't post a blog about her without a picture. Here's a couple of pics from dance from a few weeks ago. I had to take them through a double sided mirror, so they didn't turn out great. I'll take my big camera some day and get better ones!

Following Mommy's footsteps?

Doesn't sound like it right now, but you never know! Anniston is singing in church next Sunday. They sent home the music with us to practice, but I really wonder how many parents have/had piano skills to be able to help their kids. Anyway, lucky for Anniston her Mommy played the piano pretty well back in the day.

So today, we were singing and playing our two songs ("We are the Church" and "Hymn of Praise"). Then Anniston wanted to switch and play while I sang. That was hilarious, so of course I had to video it. She was SO serious and really thought she was playing very well.

I have so many snow pictures to download, so this is just a sneak peek into the fun we had last weekend in Ft. Smith.

This is Anniston with PawPaw R (and he's holding Treyson)

And here's Treyson getting pulled (actually, it's the end of his ride, but you get the point!)

There will be an entire blog post with about a bazillion pictures coming soon. I'm trying to blog today while deep cleaning my closet--YUCK!

Happy Birthday Dadoo!

Jerry had his last birthday in the 20's last Sunday. We were in Ft. Smith to celebrate ( I was too chicken to stay home because I didn't want to endure having no electricity again). Jerry's mom made his favorite meal --roundsteak and mashed potatoes with gravy, and had a huge cookie cake (which was all gone by Monday!).

Happy Birthday Dadoo! We love you so much, and we hope that this year is even better than the last!

Love, Mommy, Anniston, and Treyson