Party Time Pretend

Wyatt has been pretending a lot lately and today he decided to be a chef/doctor. He was cooking up such a storm that he had to invite guests to his party and set up everything himself. He even made sure that everyone had a seat to sit on. Remember party planning is all in the details!

Everyone is ready to eat!

Cooking with his oven mitts.

Family Game Night

Wyatt has been learning how to play games lately and we are trying to instill a family game night. The first game we have tried with Wyatt is Don't Spill the Beans. It's fairly easy to understand and Wyatt loves to be the one to set it up. He is getting better at sharing the beans and knowing that he can't go unless it's his turn. The only thing we can't quite get him used to is the fact that you DON'T want the beans. He thinks you win if you have the most beans and loves to be the one to spill the beans. I just love that he's learning and willing to play games with his mom and dad because I'm sure this will be short lived as he gets older. :)

Daddy's turn.

Wyatt's turn. The only problem is that he usually adds more than one bean at a time.

It's tipping!

Dad spilled the beans!

Color Match Game-Home made

I saw this game on Pinterest and had to try it for myself. You can see the original here. It was very easy to make these games and I would do it again in an instant. I plan on adding more colors to the game. The great thing is that the games are portable so this would be great for a car trip or the mall.

A way for Wyatt to check to see if he matched them correctly.

The only thing I still need to do is laminate the color boards that the clips go onto. Wyatt was running around the house with the green one and it's already bent up pretty good. We tried playing the green one and he's just not there yet developmentally for it. He knows they are all green and should go with the green but the shades aren't that important to him. So this just may be match each color together regardless of shade. Either way it's a great cheap/free game that was made with love!

"The worms are sleeping."-Wyatt

That is what Wyatt told me as I snapped this picture! While I was cooking dinner Wyatt had brought in his plastic fishing worms and proceeding to put them in my toaster. When I asked him why he did that he said it was because they were sleeping. I think the reason was kids like to put small things in small spaces. But we'll go with Wyatt's reason for the sake of the story. :)

He took three plastic fishing worms and put them each into their own bed slot in the toaster.

After I got a screw driver and shook the toaster upside-down for several minutes they all re-emerged unharmed and ready for a new adventure. I told Wyatt that maybe they would enjoy a nice bowl instead of the toaster next time.

After the bowl idea he thought he could make them into food and decided to get a spatula to help the preparation process. Gotta love this kid! :)

Lace and Trace

In the April Scholastic book order I found Wyatt a set of Lace and Trace cards. I knew he would like the cards because they were spring animals and loves animals. But I was interested if he would like the whole concept of lacing the holes in the card with string. So far he is really enjoying them and has gotten concept pretty well. He likes to watch me lace one up and then help me unlace it. He even started to put the string in the holes to lace it himself. So far he's only gotten it in one string and hasn't gotten the whole in one hole and out the other concept but it's getting there.

Trying really hard to get the string through the hole.

So happy!! :)

Little Golfer

Mike has joined a golf team at work and has been practicing in the backyard with his new clubs since it's been nice lately and Wyatt has been completely infatuated with the clubs and balls since seeing Mike with his. So when we were at Wal-Mart last weekend we got Wyatt his own set of golf clubs and needless to say it's been the best $5.00 we've spent in a long time. He absolutely loves them. Well he really loves the bag on wheels the most and pushing that around but he's getting the hang of it.

Coming over to show me his swing.

You can even hit a car with the club, dual purpose!

Pushing his bag around!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss' birthday and in the Glotzbach household we celebrated not just one day but all week long! Wyatt's school did a multitude of different activities and coloring sheets that were Dr. Seuss related and of course at home his favorite series of books are Dr. Seuss. He has just gotten into the Cat in the Hat  but has always loved Hop on Pop, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and Go Dog Go.



Wyatt wearing his Cat in the Hat hat, he made at school.

Mike reading The Cat in the Hat to Wyatt. His favorite part is when the fish is telling the Cat to quit doing those naughty things. That's why his finger is up because he's telling the Cat "No, No, No!" .

He likes the part at the end when the mom comes home to the kids.

Here he is reading his adapted version of the Fish book. It has these really cool fish on top that he likes to count and move back and forth.

His favorite picture is the fish that has a little star on him.

Since Wyatt was on such a Seuss kick I decided to open up his Dr. Seuss matching game that he got for Christmas. He can match cards and thought this would be even better since it was Seuss! So we got busy punching out the cards.

Here he is helping me. He only punched out one whole card and I did the rest and that was the end of that. We didn't even actually get to play the game because he went onto bigger and better things.

Best Buds

Wyatt has a best bud and his name is Garfield! They spend a lot of time together. I'm sure not always to Garfield's delight. This past weekend Wyatt found a new hobby and it incorporated his two loves; cars and Garfield.

Stacking cars on a sleeping Garfield until he rolled over and they fell off!

That looks like a good idea. We should both take a nap! :)

20-months old

Wyatt is now 20-months old and he has been growing so much in the last couple of months it is crazy!

We have hit some new milestones, such as talking! He is jabbering up a storm. He has added these words to his vocabulary: blue, green, cheese, tractor, truck, one, two, three, poppa, and milk. I'm sure there are others but these are the ones that stick out to me right now. He can pretty much "say" anything you say by mimicking it back to you but double syllables and words that begin with "r" and "l" are a little tricky.

He is weighing in at a whopping 23 pounds! We never thought we would see the day that he would reach 20 let alone 23 pounds. His favorite foods are: cereal, chicken nuggets, green beans, pizza, meatloaf muffins, macaroni, tropical fruit cups, grapes, applesauce, crackers, and yogurt. He will pretty much try anything we are eating but that doesn't always means he will like it. Although he is a pretty big fan of being fed by anyone but him.

Wyatt is also a big fan of the following activities: playing with play-doh, racing cars, drawing, running, reading, and tumbling!

He also has 13 teeth now. The two teeth that he has been working on since Thanksgiving have finally broken through!!! :)

Wyatt is also going on ear infection #3, in a row. He is taking a stronger medicine now and we will be following that up with starting a regimin of Clariten allergy meds to help with the blockage in his sinus passages. Fingers crossed that the allergy meds are what we need for no more ear infections!

Here's a pic of Wyatt riding his dinosaur rocker after his bath tonight!

Yep, he's naked!

Can you guess what it is?

I didn't think it was possible but Mike successfully wrapped a basketball! Wyatt got a basketball goal from his Grandma Anna for Christmas last weekend and it came with a plastic basketball but Mike wanted to get him a small real basketball to try to shoot. He said he was going to wrap it and I said "Good Luck!" but he proved me wrong!

Late Birthday Present

Well...it's here! Wyatt's birthday present from Uncle Matthew has finally arrived! Yes, I know it's December but Matthew ordered this present in March and they have been on back order until NOW. So it's more like an early Christmas present now.

Know what it is?

It's tall.

And wide enough to climb on the box it came in.

Matthew got Wyatt an OSET electric mini dirt bike. I had to convince him last Christmas to wait and get him this as a birthday present since he'll be a lot closer to walking by that point. Well since it's been on back order there's an even better chance he'll be riding it sooner than if he had gotten it in May.

Trying to help dad put it together.

See, I can help.

Putting the handle bars on.

Completed bike!

Happy boy!

He can reach the pedals. All we need to get is a helmet and training wheels.

Thank you, Uncle Matthew!! See you in a couple of weeks. :)



Something old is now something NEW!

While Wyatt and I were in Chanute for Thanksgiving, Mike had to stay behind to work, he got some of his old toys for Wyatt to play with when we return. Mike brought home his wooden box set of cars and trucks that were HANDMADE for him by his Uncle Doug. This set is at least 20 years old and it's great that Mike wanted to share something that he loved so much as a kid with his own son. Wyatt loves the cars and trucks and wants to play with them all of the time. Here are some pictures of him and Mike playing with their cars and trucks tonight!

Daddy watching Wyatt play!

Which one should I pick?

He loves the compartments and putting the trucks in different ones.

Loading up the flatbed trailer.

Trying to get a picture with Momma but it was a no-go!

Button Art

I got Wyatt this set of Button Art from the HoneyBee Scholastic book order and I'm in L-O-V-E!! He had so much fun playing with his new creative art project. It has large buttons that fit into a hole board that you put a picture on. Wyatt has done a good job of matching the colors and putting the buttons in the correct spot but has enjoyed just playing with the buttons for fun.

This one goes here!

It's a fishy!!

He loved the big buttons.

Hi Momma!!

On another note: The audiologist called and we have an appointment set up for Monday after noon. We'll see how it goes. I have no idea how the appointment is going to go or what we are going to do. Mike will be going with us to the appointment, so that will be nice. More info on Monday!