Diesel got to hang out in a library!
For a Throwback Thursday on Instagram, I posted this photo of Sutton when he was a baby. I have this photo printed as a 16x20 hanging on a wall in his room.
Sutton's cousin Breegan came to hang out with us one night. We watched a movie and ate carrot cake.
We went over to our friends' Ryan and Melinda's house to watch the Superbowl. Here's Melinda and Val and I taking photos instead of watching the game. :)
Val's about to pop any second (she's due with their first baby Monday!) and so we decided she needed a KissCam photo.
Sutton wrote his first on-purpose letter the night of the Superbowl (February 3)! Here it is. He said it was an M, though the orientation it was to him would've been a W. He's been writing a lot of squiggly letters lately and then calling out "It's a M!!" or "It's a S!" I'm not sure if he accidentally makes an M or S shaped squiggle and then recognizes it, or if he actually has control over what he's drawing. :)
One day we were working on playing alone. The down side of being/having an only child is that Mommy is the only one to play with, and he's used to having ALL of my attention ALL of the time. Learn independence, Child!
That same day, I told him to go play outside and left the sliding door to the back open. He took a basket of cars out into the sun room. Close enough.
Just an Instagram photo from the same day I took
those 2 year 7ish month photos.
Playing in his cousins' fort. Peeeeeeeek!
Adam cooked us this chicken/onion/sweet potato medley the other night. I ate leftovers for lunch for a couple days afterwards. It was so good. I love sweet potatoes.
Okay, do you see this dessert?? 1,780 calories. I kid you not. I didn't know this til I ate over a third of it at Applebee's with my boys one evening. I did TWO workouts that day and barely broke even on calories. So dumb.
Sutton and I went on a walk one afternoon and it was a bit too chilly so it ended up being a short walk. Giraffey kept us company.
Me and my best buddy.
Last Friday, we went to go see cousin Bailey play basketball. Her freshman season is almost over and we hadn't seen her play yet. She's a rockstar!
The cousins after the game.
I saw this photo online and it made me want to cry.
They were just talking to each other on their phones one night.
Sometimes we all watch movies together in our bed. This is my view. I'm a lucky lady.
We ate at Pei Wei recently, and Sutton saw me put my napkin on my lap so he had to do the same.
I also took him to dinner at Cinnamon's Deli one evening when it was just the two of us. He always tells me "No salad! I don't wike salad!" (lettuce) on his sandwich.
One of my Instagram friends started posting these photos of her and her friends that she'd made on an app called imadeface. So I downloaded it and made an Adam:
And a Gina:
My parents got a new car and brought it over Sunday evening to show us. Sutton was IN LOVE. He had to sit here on my dad's lap for about 15 minutes "driving." Any time I asked him if he was ready to go inside, he'd say "Not yet." He pressed all the buttons and ran into a cow. A pretend cow. He kept telling us he needed keys to start it and we told him we didn't have them. So then when we finally convinced him to go inside, he ran and found an old set of our house keys and went back outside and tried to use them on Papa's car.
I've recently gotten into
Jamberry. It's kinda frivolous but fun.
I made some sweet potato, spinach, banana, oatmeal, vanilla, chocolate chip cookies that you cook like pancakes one day this week. Sutton downed 1.5 of them, but was afterwards uninterested in eating any more. I'm TRYING to get this kid off his diet of mac n cheese and chicken. He needs veggies! I liked them a lot though!
Cute boy in a bath.
A week or so after he wrote his first M, then he wrote his first S!
We started a new small group last summer and made some good friends, but with Adam getting his masters degree and a few other things going on in our lives, we just weren't able to give it our all, so we stopped meeting at the beginning of this year. Earlier this week, the gals and I met up at Chic-fil-a for lunch. Here's Hudson and Sutton taking a break from the play place to eat lunch.
Baby Hunter sacked out on his mama Shae's shoulder. Oh, how that brings back memories.
Sutton got a cow hat while we were there, and he kept yelling "MOO!" and trying to scare me on the way home.
One evening, he was playing in the kitchen drawers and found these candles from Adam's birthday back in November. He insisted on lighting them and singing Happy Birthday to each of us, including himself.
Dipping grapes in Ranch...?
Sutton had his first "real" hot dog this week! He's eaten them cut up on his tray before, but never in a bun like this.
Wednesday night, Daddy was working late, so we went to Barnes & Noble to pass the time. He played with the train table there for a long time and made a little blonde girl friend. He keeps referring to Barnes & Noble, and it's always different. BarnNo. Bar-a-Nono. Barn-na-Nodo.
Sutton's cousin Aubrynn won this fleece blanket at her school and decided that it would be perfect for Sutton. So she very generously gave it to him. He loves it. He carries it everywhere and even sleeps with it. Here, he's calling it his baby and patting it.
(Poor guy got a scrape on his face while at the auto parts store when an oil filter box fell on him.)
My high school BFFs at our graduation party back in 2003. I posted this for a Throwback Thursday.
Sutton made me a Valentine at school this week. It's hanging on our fridge.
After his school on Thursday where they did Valentine's and played so hard, he couldn't keep his eyes open on the way home. His nap started in the car that day. :)
On Valentine's Day, Adam banished me to the basement while he made dinner. Once it was ready, he told me to come upstairs and have my camera ready. This is what I saw:
My two handsome men dressed in ties and dinner on the table, including Dr Pepper and chocolate. YUM. After dinner, we introduced Sutton to the movie Cars, and then after his bedtime, we watched a movie of our own. Low key, but nice.
Yesterday, I tried to sneak cauliflower into Sutton's mac n cheese. It was a no go, how in the world did he pick out those tiny pieces?!
I gave him some Conversation Hearts, but he was more interested in building towers than eating them.
Then we played trains a little bit. :)
