Bossy Baby

Lately Ashton has become quite bossy. He is constantly telling everyone what to do and if they don't comply he frequently tries to pull the individual to do what he wants them to do. So now instead of Baby Bobble head, his new official title is Bossy Baby.

Travieso

Sometimes there are just words in spanish that just capture the essence of a child.  The word of the last few months is TRAVIESO.  Translated travieso means troublemaker, mischevious, boyish, playful, high sprited, naughty.  Well that is Ashton to a tee!  If
there is trouble to be made, Ashton will find it and make it.  Some of my favorites lately
include:

1.  Taking his sister's BLACK mascara right before we are going to leave the house to have their photos taken professionally and putting it in his HAIR, face, and hands!

2.  Taking the flowers out of the vase on the kitchen table and laying them off to the side, so he could pour the large vase of water into a tiny kid sized cup that was empty on the table.  Needless to say there was ALOT of water in our kitchen!

3.  No standing water of any type is safe.  The dog's water bowl, any cup left on a table, his sippy cups, the bathtub, the water that paint brushes are soaking in...etc...he will find it and dump it out...normally on the floor or all over himself!  Thank goodness it's water!  He goes through at least 2 pairs of clothes a day!

4.  On a regular basis we have to patrol the bathroom because he loves to play in the toilet, with the toothpaste, and with the hand and soap lotion by the sink!

5.  He took my make-upconcealer and used it to paint on our bedroom furniture.

Of course this is just a small sampling of his toddler antics!

In other news Ashton just celebrated his 2nd birthday!  We had a small family party for him.  In attendence were his Ms. Taylor's family, Arianna's adoptive family, and us!

Milestones

Hard to believe our lil bubba is going to be 2 years old soon.

His vocabulary is incredible!  Yesterday Olav heard his first 3 word sentence.  "Daddy go out"

Also earlier this week he spent his first night away from us at someone else's house.  We had left him once last summer for the weekend, but the babysitter came to our home.   This time he slept at Ms. Helen's house.  She said he did great!

Yesterday at the mall he was intriqued by the easter bunny.  He kept looking over the fence to catch a glipse of him.  I couldn't believe it when he wanted to go see him closer up.    Lucky for us, Bjonar, Olav's brother was video taping incognito so I have this little treasure!

These are a few of my favorite things

Daddy is Ashton's absolute favorite person in the whole wide world.  The world rises and sets on daddy!  When he falls down he only wants Daddy.  When he wake up first thing in the morning the first words he says repeatly are daddy.... daddy....  If mommy goes to pick him up....he hides in the corner of his crib and says no....daddy...If he get's left in the church nursery with his mother...he cries for daddy!!!!  Talk about a daddy's boy!

Ashton's favorite location to be is outside.  Regardless of the whether he want to be outside!!!!  And don't try to bring him inside....the only caveat was the snow...not sure he was a big fan of the  snow this year...I think it was hard from him to move around in all those snow clothes!

Blue is Ashton's lovey....Ashton is very attached to blue!  He must have blue to sleep.  Sometimes before bed or nap we have the mad search though the house looking for blue.  Blue is currently in the washing machine and you'd think we kidnapped blue permantly...Ashton is a bluthering mess!

At daycare Ashton's best buddie is Corrine.  Corrine is about 6 months older than Ashton.  She is an adorable little girl adopted from Ethiopia.  If Corrine is at Ms. Helen's Ashton is a happy camper!  As soon as they see each other they hug and dance.  If Corrine is not a Ms. Helen's, Ashton will frequently cry and throw himself down on the floor in protest.

Ashton loves the water/bath!  Anytime he can be in the water he is happy!!!!  Sometimes I even find that he has found his the water in my humidifier!

In other news Ashton has used the big boy "real" potty two times this weekend!  He is so proud of himself.  He sits on the potty and makes sounds like he is trying to poop...and of course pee comes out!  Today after he went pee pee...he said, "I BIG"  and did a happy dance.  Oh so cute!

Gonna give your mama a complex!

Okay mama is officially chopped liver....Ashton only has eyes for daddy!  The world rises and sets on daddy.  I think mama is going to be developing a complex pretty soon:)

Daddy's lil sidekick

Ashton without a doubt is a daddy's boy!  When he comes home from Ms. Helen's he calls for daddy.  When he wakes up first thing in the morning he calls for daddy.  Whenever he is in the house he is always looking for daddy!  He is so much a daddy's boy that sometimes when I got take him out of his crib (even though he is calling for daddy), he pushes me away, demanding daddy.  He loves to help his daddy with bringing the wood into the house for the woodstove.   He loves to help daddy stacking the dishes in the dishwasher.  He also loves it when daddy "rock rock-read read" to him.

In other news Ashton's nephew (our grandson) 2.5 year old Eirik has moved in with us.  Needless to say it has rocked both little boys world.

Lastly Ashton has been spending a little more time in time out nowdays due to his lil temper which has really begun to show it's true colors.  When he gets frustrated or angry he throws!!!  Nothing is immune.  It could be a book or a big truck!

Overall though he continues to be a sweet baby boy!  He is talking up a storm and Lily has even taught him so not so nice words like "sucker" and "loser".  Oh the joys of two kids!

I am so mad....I can just throw....

Normally Ashton is a pretty happy little dude.  But lately he has been showing a little bit of his angry and frustrated side.  When he gets angry and frustrated nowdays he throws things...frequently his sippy cup or his lovey blue. His hit me in the head once or twice.   I do hope this is just a phase!