Daycare Transition Week

This past week was Wyatt's daycare transition week. Monday was his first day and he only stayed for about an hour. He cried a little but nothing over the top. Tuesday he cried and didn't stop crying for most of the two hours that he was there. Wednesday was better but he cried when I dropped him off. He did better and even played with the other kids for the three hours he was there. On Thursday he stayed half a day and had lunch at the daycare. He did a great job and they were very happy at how much he ate for lunch! He's like his Momma and we eat when offered food. Friday was the big test, the whole day! I was sending him love all day long and good thoughts and apparently it worked because he had a fantastic day. He ate all of his lunch and slept for 2 hours at naptime. He cried when I dropped him off but was done before I could even his the outside door. He's getting so big and I couldn't be happier! :)

Shaggy, no more! Haircut #6

Helping Momma make cookies!

Dinnertime is such a stressful time for Wyatt and I. He usually stands underneath my feet while I try not to knock him over or keep him from touching the hot oven while I prepare the evening meal. There are a lot of tears, screaming, and sighs that happen from 4:30-5:00pm. So when I decided to make cookies tonight I thought that there would be less screaming, tears, and sighs if he could actually stand at the counter and help me with my preparations. So here are the first photos of Wyatt helping me make chocolate chip cookies.

Momma reading the directions while Wyatt tries to measure something.

Helping Momma put the flour into the bowl.

Wyatt did a great job helping me and even stayed for more than half of the baking process. He really liked watching the mixer and seeing all of the ingredients go around in the bowl. He didn't get to help me put the cookies on the sheets but that can be next time!

Meatloaf Muffins-Fabulous!!

A friend from high school and fellow blogger Chelse put up a fabulous recipe for Meatloaf Muffins several months ago and today while I was trying to decide what to make for supper thoughts of this recipe kept coming to my mind. So I tried it and it turned out FABULOUS!! I even incorporated my best helper and he gave me a hand with the mixing. He was a pretty good helper except every time I tried to take his picture while he was mixing the meatloaf he would try to eat it. Not so good!! So I only got one shot of him helping but it's a good one.

These meatloaf muffines were a huge hit and Wyatt even ate 1 1/2 of them for supper! I would highly recommend this recipe to anyone. I made it with the onions and peppers and it was great spice for the meat, I also bought a 12oz. can of tomato juice and 1 cup didn't use the whole can so I just used it all. The meat was super moist as was the stuffing. I can't wait to try different variations of this recipe and looking for new ones.

Weekend in Chanute

This past weekend Wyatt and I made the trek to Chanute and had a couple of major firsts! This was the first time Wyatt would sleep overnight anywhere other than his own bed and we did the whole weekend without Daddy's help. The result was a success. We are both still quite tired but that's to be expected with all of the activities that we did while back visiting. We weren't just back for a visit we also had to throw Stacie her baby shower.

So our Saturday was a very busy day. First thing in the morning we went to my Grandma's house and had lunch with her and my dad! Wyatt had a blast with his Grandpa Flash and Great Gram.

My Grandma even came up with a new nickname for Wyatt; Mr. Personality Plus!! It's quite a mouthful. As you can see below he wasn't acting with the "Plus" at all times. She wanted a picture of her and Wyatt but the minute she picked him up he would wiggle the tiniest bit and she would put him down. I finally told her to just hold him because he wasn't the Hulk. I then had to remind her that she raised 3 boys and could just man-handle him to make him sit with her. This is the result!! :)

Then it was time for Wyatt's nap and Stacie's baby shower. It was at the Municple Building and there was a surprise waiting for me when I got there; no air conditioning in the room we were going to be using!! The room was 91-degrees and wasn't acceptable for anyone to be using, especially a pregnant woman and the elderly. Not to mention a friend who sweats profusely and had to bring a cardigan to wear to cover the sweat stains!! So we found another room to hold the shower and it went off without a hitch. It was great that Diana and Erin were able to come and see Stacie in all of her preggo glory! :)

Afterwards, us girls hung out for a couple of hours and Erin brought over Wyatt's birthday present for him. She got him a super cute cell phone that plays different sounds and you can record your voice for him to replay over and over and over and over...well you get the point. She also got him stacking cubes and he loves them!! He had to play with them Sunday morning before we left.

All in all it was a great weekend. A big thanks goes out to my Mom who kept Wyatt entertained and even let me sneak out of the house in the evening to visit with friends when Wyatt was asleep!! :)

Getting smart with the dump truck!

Wyatt got this dump truck for Easter and plays with it and fills it with blocks. The one thing he didn't really get into was pushing it around the house. I think this is because when he would try to push using the back of the truck the little bed would pop up and he would fall. So he got smart and decided to outsmart the truck by turning it around and pushing it! He did this pretty much all morning. Pushing the truck from the foyer into the dining room and then trying to run over Garfield with it! Garfield wasn't a fan but quickly got up to avoid the inevitable!!

Watch out, Garfield!!

Getting more teeth!

Wyatt has been very clingy the past couple of days because we have more teeth coming in. His gums are pretty swollen and you can see the little teeth underneath trying to come out. Lately his favorite activity has been sitting with Momma and just getting some love!

Daddy's New Kayak

Mike has been wanting a kayak for years now and he finally got one! Dick's was having a really good sale on their kayaks and of course when we went and saw them we didn't purchase it then because we had Mike's car and there is no way a 15 foot kayak is going to fit on top of a Hyundai Accent. I can picture it now as we travel down I-70 with this massive kayak on top of the car and it covers the entire car and sticks off of both ends. The whipping NEK winds taking our little car and slamming it all over the interstate! So Mike went back the next Monday and of course they were sold out! Who sells out of kayaks in 2 days?! But they ordered him one and he got the same great deal and a little extra. Mike finally brought home the kayak and Wyatt loved it.

Working Out

Well my workout regime has been going pretty good. So far I've lost about 5lbs. which I can't really complain about. I haven't changed my calorie intake or what I eat so this weight is just from moving my booty around for at least 20 minutes on the ellipitcal! Go me!! I'm going to start adding my ab yoga dvd that Mike got me for Christmas each day along with my workout and see if that can help get rid of the flabbiness that I have going on in my stomach! We shall see!!

Turkey

Mike went out Spring Turkey hunting in 2009 and shot a whallop of a turkey. It was such a great looking turkey that he went ahead and had a full-body mount done of the turkey. We just went and picked it up last Saturday and it turned wonderful. We couldn't be more happy with it! It's quite a large piece so we couldn't decide where to mount it. I loved it so much I told Mike we should put it up in the foyer. So now everyone can see it when they come over to the house.

 This is even the turkey's real head. Most mounts throw away the head and put a fake one on but this guy freeze dries them so you can keep the original head!

Most of the time full-body mounts stand on the ground and Mike told him that we wanted to be able to mount it on the wall, so he made this wall-mount for it.

Turkey mount in full-strut!

New Favorite Game

Wyatt has a new favorite game that he plays with his Daddy and it's called...headbutting! He thinks it is hilarious to headbut his Dad, the cat, the doorway, and even his Cozy Coupe. His favorite person to headbut though is his Dad!!

Getting ready!!

Here it comes!!

Gotcha!

This is a great game!

Needless to say Mike and Wyatt both had red spots on their heads from banging each other. And I'm pretty sure Mike would say that Wyatt "won" the matches.

Allergic

We may have found the first food that Wyatt is allergic to. We were eating lunch the other day and I gave Wyatt a little bit of ranch dressing to dip his cucumber slices in and he had gotten it all over his lips and cheeks. When I went to wipe it off it left a red mark where the dressing had been. It was super red and took about 30 minutes to go completely away. I took his plate and got rid of the rest of the ranch and then watched him carefully to see if there was any other reaction but he appeared okay and nothing unusual just the redness on his face. Who knew that someone could be allergic to ranch? Pretty weird. So we'll try ranch again but in a much smaller dose and a few months from now. We'll see!

Look what I can do!

I can stand in it!

I can sit in it!

Dad can pick me up in it!

I can smile at the camera in it!

Independence Day 2010

We were so excited that this year we could actually take Wyatt to the 4th of July parade, carnival, and car show and he would actually be interested in it. But alas, it rained, ALL DAY! So needless to say our plans changed quite a bit. Mike's mom, dad, and sisters came over for an early supper so we could go to the parade. It was raining pretty hard so we skipped the parade and went outside on the porch to shoot some smoke bombs. Mike and Matthew took the dirt bike and 4-wheeler out to go check out the happenings in Wamego. While we were shooting smoke bombs we had the parade people as they were getting done coming down our street! We saw all the floats that went by in the regular parade and even had candy thrown out to us. Score!! Here are some pics to capture a very wet Independence Day 2010.

Kimmy and Adrian

Adrian, Me, Wyatt

The Glotzbach's

Weekend with Uncle Matthew

Uncle Matthew came for the weekend and it was AWESOME! He is home for the next 4 weeks and had a wedding to attend in Kansas City so he stopped by to stay with us. He even stayed for the 4th of July. Wyatt had a blast with his Uncle Matthew and even got a present. Matthew got Wyatt a shirt that said, "If you think I'm cute you should see my Uncle!" Leave it to Matthew to find a shirt like that! :) Matthew was great with Wyatt.

"You can fit in here, too!"

They both thought the wagon was great. Wyatt loves to push it and Uncle Matthew thought the cup holders would be great to hold his beer! Double duty!

Matthew brought his jet skis and dirt bike so we could go to the lake and ride them but of course it rained the entire time! The first day Matthew got here Mike put Wyatt on the jet skis and he loved sitting on them and trying to move the handle bars. Of course, when I went to take a picture of Wyatt on them before Matthew left this is the picture I got! Tired boy.

All in all it was a great weekend and we were so glad that Matthew came to visit us. He isn't home very often and we were so happy that he could visit us!