OBSESSED with bubble baths

It started Wednesday when Mark was home with Mattingly. Mattingly kept saying "bubble, bubble". Mark didn't want to blow bubbles in the house. Finally in the afternoon Mattingly took Mark by the hand into the bathroom and pointed to the bath saying "bubbles". (I had given him a bubble bath Sunday). So when I got home I gave him a bubble bath and now he wants one every night. And then this morning he took me by the hand and said "bath". All because I bought bubble bath on sale for $1. I guess I should have bought more!!

Not a fan

of the snow, or maybe it's the cold. Mattingly didn't want to bundle up and go outside but I made him anyway. He found his work goggles from one of his great aunts and wanted to wear those outside. We got outside and he just stood there. I plopped him in the snow and he still just stood there. I put some snow in his hands and he just stood there. Then I started throwing snow so he did. He liked that. Then he took his mittens off and wanted to walk around with the chunk of snow in his hands and bring it inside. I let him bring it inside and then when he was distracted I threw it out. Then he took a nice warm bath for awhile.

Little Man

Lately before bed Mattingly wants "up" on our bed and wants to watch TV. Bad habit started when he was sick. One night last week I stuck him up there and left the room. A few minutes later I passed by the room and he was sitting there reading magazines he found on the bed. It was the cutest thing. He kept pointing at Santa in one magazine.

Yesterday

I took a picture of myself and Mattingly before we headed off to work/school.

Random Pictures

Mattingly bringing the books from his room into the living room.

He's peeling the sticker off of the storage bin.

Jumping on mom and dad's bed is fun!

Time to do a little nail filing.

My Googs

is getting so big! He surprises me everyday with something new that he can do. Today he was pointing out shapes to me. And repeating them. Obviously not clearly but you could get the jist of the word. I couldn't believe he knew which was which. He started pointing to the animals too if you ask him where they are. I love it. He loves puzzles too! He is really good at the ones he has. Those are just the ones you put in the correct spot, not connecting them but he is starting to try to put together his train set. He'll take it apart and try to do it again.

He is back on a kick of not eating much. Or not much one day and then the next day at one meal he'll eat a lot! Still has been waking up since the beginning of Nov! Sometimes he'll wake up and drink an entire sippy. He's become a little easier to sleep with now at least. =) Papa bought a duck pillow pet for him that we saw at the mall. I thought it would help....actually Thursday morning I had to open at work and so Mattingly had to wake up early and (he managed to stay in his bed all night, of course) I found him laying on top of the soft ducky. It was so cute. I took a picture and just before he opened his eyes.

He still has his pacifier! haha Yup I'm a bad mom according to some people. I guess I will know better with the next one. Oh well. He's been off his bottle since he's been a year and there are some kids at the daycare his age who still have one so I guess there's always something....

Until next time....

Imagination

Mattingly and I and one of my friends took a trip to the Imagination Museum in Bristol on Saturday. My mother in law gave us a membership to use which gets us into a bunch of different museums so I decided to try this place out. It was overwhelming I think. He likes watching other people so he wasn't into doing too much. He liked the water table and then hair dyers holding up the ping pongs balls the best. Cousin Ella would have helped get him interested. When she visits this summer we'll have to go again! In the meantime we'll check out the other places too. =)