The next Van Gogh

Tommy must have a very strong artistic/creative gene in him. He is very particular when he colors and always uses lots of color. What was really surprizing was while we were at our friends house, Tommy did this with his frogs. Notice anything? I didnt help him at all and Ive never gone over the colors of the rainbow with him. He had put his frogs in a line in order (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet). Some High school kids cant even do that. I was like "wow!" He turns 2 on Thursday and can already do this all on his own. What was really amazing is that while i was quietly watching him he had a red-orange frog and was about to put it at the end with the violets but then he stopped and put it next to the red. But then he stopped again, moved the red away from the orange, put the red-orange frog next to the orange, then put the red back, next to that one so that the order was red, red-orange, then orange. I know it might be just me because Im his mommy but I thought this was amazing and as an artist myself I was really proud of him for figuring this out all on his own.

Here are some cute pics. Me and Tommy making icing and Dave and Tommy after church.

Money!

Tommy loves his money! We are working on numbers and counting and he loves to put his coins in his bank while he counts. He can say "1, 2, 3, 4" and "4,5,6" and "7,8,9". We are just working on putting it all together. With my help he can go all the way up to 10! He calls the faces on the pennies Jesus. Its so cute. Here he is with his homemade Cyrstal Light piggi bank. When he finds money he will walk around the house saying "Piggy bank! Where are you?"

The Booty and Jesus

MANsacra

Only Manly men can wear makeup and pull it off. Yesterday while I was getting ready for church Tommy came into the bathroom and asked "Doing?" At the moment I was putting on my mascara. I explained the process of makup and that Mommys put it on their eyes. He watched me for a minute or two and left. A few minutes later he comes running back all proud of himself saying "eyes, eyes!" He had found a blue marker and colored his eye just like Mommy. I couldnt get it all off so he got to show his independence off at church.

Vote for Tysen!!

http://www.1043myfm.com/pages/beautifulbabycontest/index.html
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Hey everybody,

My sister entered her little boy Tyesn in a "My Beautiful Baby" Contest on 104.3 fm. If he wins he gets a 20,000 dollars of scholarship money and he gets to be in InTouch magazine. She's just interested in the money for college. So if you could help her out and vote for Tysen that would be awesome. It took me less than 45 sec. Click on the link above and vote. The voting ends the 27th which is Sunday. Then there are three more rounds and I'm pretty sure she can put him in those too. I will let you know when to vote again!Come on vote!! I mean look at the face! THANK YOU!!!

Just a little background info: Tysen underwent surgery this year for water on the brain. He has had stints put in to keep the pressure on his brain down. He is a tough little guy and is so sweet. Hes been through a lot already and a nice schoarship would be awsome.

Ok so he is contestant #23 in the T-Z category. So everyone vote vote vote for 23!!!!

Family Reunion

We just got back from our family reunion late Sunday night. We had so much fun. We all went to my inlaws house in Missouri. We went to Nauvoo, Carthage, and to the Mark Twain lake. My favorites were touring the Carthage jail and the lake. Tommy loved seeing all his cousins for the first time. He loved all the little babies and especially all the boy cousins. They taught him so many cool things like the proper way to play with action figures.

Sparkpeople.com

I love Sparkpeople.com. It is the coolest website ever. It is an online weightloss program that helps you eat healthy. It gives you adjustable meal plans with real food with the correct portion sizes. It also gives you a grocery list and recipies. For me it is awsome because I dont like to figure out what Ill be eating for the week so I can go shopping. This makes it so easy. If anyone is curious or intrested you should check it out. Its really cool. In the first two weeks I started it I lost 7 pounds.

www.sparkpeople.com

Hair Bows

http://beautifulbows.blogspot.com/

This is my friends hair bow blog. Check it out. She can custom make any color bow you want. They are really cute and a good price.

This is an example she did of a custom order for the local girl scouts.