Never Trust A Silent Toddler

My Husband and I were tiredly cooking dinner together, while our toddler was in his room playing with his toys. We could hear him and checked on him often, so we were not worried about what he was doing. It had been a long day for all of us and we were dreaming of sleep more then anything. Finally the last of the ingredients were being cut for the casserole when all of a sudden I froze. “Jarod, do you hear that?”

He looks a little confused and shakes his head no. “The child has gone silent.” I whisper in horror.

A matching expression of “Uh oh!” appears on his face.

I give him the knife to finish cutting the food and say I will go check on the boy. I mean how much trouble could he get into, he had only been silent for maybe a minute and we had just checked on him not very long ago, he had been happily engrossed in his toys.

I quietly sneak to the hallway, only to be met by said boy coming my direction, he sees me and raises his arms to be picked up, the whole time excitedly telling me about something I can’t understand. I pick him up, all smiles, listening to his happy chatter, just to realize he is soaked…. not the I peed through my diaper soaked, but the my shirt is soaked and I didn’t have a cup with me kind. I set him on the couch to take his shirt of, suddenly feeling that build up of dread again. I leave the munchkin with Jarod explaining that I had to go investigate.

So off to the hallway once more, the closer I get to the truth the scarier it is, Finally, with lead feet I stop outside the door to the only place that water could have come from…..

As I stared at the bathroom toilet, I realized my fears had come true…

My darling toddler had found the toilet water….

In that one quiet minute of silence and peace, he had taken the full role of toilet paper and emptied it into the toilet, he had then soaked the rest of the role and placed it neatly on my bathroom counter, all the while soaking the floor with so. much. water. Did I mention, he had only been silent for about a minute?

The moral of this story? never trust a quiet two year old!

He then very sweetly, very generously helped Jarod and I clean up the mess….

 

 

The Mad Hatter tea Party Pictures:

Here are some of my favorites from the Mad Hatter Tea Party, with a little edit twist. 🙂

For more pictures and some about the party check out this really neat blog post, it is definitely worth the read! 🙂

http://www.audrasilva.com/a-mad-hatter-tea-party-yes-please/

Crazy July

Wow.

What a month.

I feel like I hit this month running and haven’t stopped yet.

This month started with a bang, literally. We were gearing up for the next week, but didn’t forget to stop and enjoy the fireworks with family!

It was a mildly crazy day, but not to bad. The fireworks from what we could see were beautiful, unfortunately we were blocked by a rather large tree, so we only saw some of the real big ones. However little munchkin was enthralled the entire time and that was good enough for me.

After that was my husband and I’s four year anniversary on July 7th.

(A Small letter to my husband)

Dear Jarod,

We have laughed, we have cried, we have fought and we have grown together.

Not every moment was easy and not every one hard, but each one has been cherished.  I cannot imagine what my life would be like without you in it and I don’t want to even try, because you make each day better. You have been there to give me a hug when I get into one of my super stressed, pull out my hair moods and made me laugh when my pregnancy hormones kick in and made me cry. You are a wonderful father to our growing little family and an amazing husband to me. I love you so much and thank God for giving me you. ^_^

                                                        Love (Brat) Wifey.  😉

(And now, back to the post at hand..)

We had a wonderful dinner date with our sweet little boy in tow for our anniversary.

(Was a little to sudden for a babysitter this year, but no less of a good date.)

After that we spent the next day packing and preparing to wave Jarod off for his trip out to his brothers wedding.

We went to sleep early and woke up even earlier… we got up at 4:45 a.m, left at 5:45 so we could drop little munchkin off at Grandma’s, then drove over an hour to the airport. After waving off Jarod, I got to spend a wonderful morning having breakfast then hanging out with my amazing friend and her adorable little boy while I waited for my cousin’s plane to arrive!

After getting my cousin from the airport we drove back to my mom’s house to await the arrival of my grandmother who also came to visit.

  

It was so wonderful to catch up with them, I hadn’t seen either in over two years! Our week started with chatting and playing games ect.

On July 12th, my little baby boy turned two!

Still not sure how that happened.. I mean one second he was a baby and the next?!

We picked up Jarod from the airport that day and little munchkin was so happy to see him, he spent the rest of the day making sure Jarod payed sole attention to him ( I think he missed him or something 😉 lol)

Over the course of the next few days, we spent spent enjoyed our time with company while helping my sister move to her new place. We had a very fun and exhausting week.

We said our goodbyes to my Grandma and cousin on the 15th, I think I can speak for all of us when I say, we miss you both so much and can’t wait for another visit!!!

The 16th was the love of my life’s birthday and also the birthday party for both him and our little one.

We had a wonderful surprise that day too, our dear friends from Montana came out to see us for the party!!

The party went really well (after a rocky start with the birthday boy being grumpy and needing a nap)

Then we had dinner and got to catch up with some pretty awesome people. ^_^

After that we had a few days of rest, then the Mad hatter party, which was crazy fun!

(Pictures pending at the moment)

And to bring this post to a close, Jarod and I get to start the process for looking for an actual house next week, we are super excited to find our home. ^_^