when did it happen...

When did my little baby turn into a "boy"?

Man it seems these days he's so Big!
-big for learning to put on his own clothes
-big for taking a bath most of the time alone
-big for getting his own juice box and holder
-big for getting his own cereal out of the cabinet
and
-big for wanting to use one of the following words in every sentence...poo poo, bobo, hiney, poop, toot, pee pee, tee tee...etc!

Why is it that ALL boys, and men for that fact, find it SOOO amusing to use these words? I mean give hubs an opportunity to hear a fart noise in a movie or see a poop scene and he goes crazy with laughter. Dear Lord help me!
So now my "little man" seems to enjoy this male silliness. Is it a male bonding experience for son and father to sit and giggle at such things? Like two little school girls talking about a crush they have. Giggle...smile...giggle...whisper...tee hee hee!
He's even to the point of tooting on you and laughing and has even gone as far as deliberately running to you or sitting on you JUST to toot on you. And being only 4(well almost), I can only look to the future and cringe.

On a much much brighter note, I have more photos to share. Want to see them? Thought so. The first set is of Hunt and I hanging up a window view bird house and small feeder. Hunt received this bird house from Santa. It's made of all wood except the back side of it. The back side is made from a plexiglass/clear plastic material and has suction cups. You suction it to a window and because of the clear material at the back, you can see inside it from the inside of a house window. We put it on Hunt's bedroom window in hopes that by spring we will have a little bird family to spy on. We hung the small feeder on the crepe myrtle tree outside the window...to entice birdies to come around there. We'll see how it works. We've purchased a few bird books that stay in a nature book basket under our nature table. We may just need to scan through them to identify our little bird neighbors.






Oh and I don't think I've posted photos of our nature table yet either, so here are some of those. I lifted this idea from a blog I love to read. I set up this old sewing table in the family room and we've been adding to it ever since. You can find, shells, feathers, a walnut shell, rocks, sticks, pine cones, acorns, leaves, sponge and daddy even contributed with a turkey feather and a set of deer antlers. Way to go Dad! We also pained a few pictures to set on the table as well. And I had to add a little log house I had. The table is such a good thing to have. When love to be outside and sometimes we like to bring a little nature in with us. I'm sure it will be an ever changing set up due to season changes and such, but it serves as a reminder of all the beauty nature brings us. A constant work in progress.
Under the nature table is a basket with nature books. Book about birds, bugs, the woods, rivers, spring and seasons, animals and plants. Hunt loves looking through these books all the time.






I can't wait until Spring! I know it's still a ways off, but oh how much I miss it. It's my favorite season, especially here in Texas. Summer probably would be my favorite if it weren't so hot here sometimes. I recently found a pick your own farm close enough to our home to go often...like every week or so. We went over a year ago to a strawberry farm and picked strawberries. YUMMY!!!!! I LOVED it! Hunt enjoyed it to. We went with friends Kel and Ken and stayed in the Hill Country that weekend. Oh how I dream of living out in the Hill Country! (But that's another post all itself...in fact I've written about a trip there in a back post- titled "Our Favorite Place". I know I'm rambling on now...
Anyway, this farm is about 25-30 minutes away and they have strawberries, blackberries, garlic, onion, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes. Hubs was the one that mentioned it to me. He's driven by it a time or two and told me where it was. So now I'm just im-patiently waiting for the crops to kick in and produce. I guess it will be like the other pick your own farms and charge you by the weight of the produce you pick. To get to pick your own and have the produce fresh...what more could you ask for??? I guess for other veggies and fruit that I'll want I'll just have to make may way(like I always do) to the farmers markets. I'm even contemplating starting a very small garden here at home. Not sure how Zoe will do with it though. When I was a kid we had a garden or I guess I should say two gardens. One towards the back of the house and the other on the side lot. We grew peppers, onions,radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, beans, okra(tons and tons). All of these grew very well and we had more than enough for us and more than enough to share with neighbors and friends. We also tried out luck with potatoes, cantaloupe, and watermelon, but these didn't turn out so well.
Thought you guys might like to see some photos of the pick your own strawberries. Fun times!!! Also sent through some bluebonnet photos from that weekend as well. It was a fantastic year for them. Unfortunately last year was not, so no photos.















And yes more Christmas time photos to...I've decided to try to do a slide show of them. I tried this on yesterday's post with some Stock Show parade photos and it worked ok...as long as you logged into blogger and my blog, but if you get the blog updates automatically through your email for some reason it doesn't come through.


Thanks for reading!

Good day!

Hope everyone here in North Texas is trying to stay warm. It's rainy and cold. And we're due for a Winter Storm of freezing rain so they say. Oh joy! At least there is no where I have to be. Poor hubs has work, and will be out in it.

So how was everyone's weekend? Ours was great! Saturday we went to the Fort Worth Stock Show with Kel and Ken. We stayed somewhat warm, it wasn't too bad. We made our way through the cattle, swine and poultry barns to visit some livestock. Hunt enjoyed seeing all the animals. We got to take a peak at cattle, pigs, chickens, sheep, llamas, horses and rabbits that kids were showing. Then we made our way to the kiddie barn area where we saw more of these animals(in baby form) along with turkeys, donkeys, duckies, and other foul. We also made it through the exhibit room where you can purchase all sorts of western things from clothing to furniture to jewelry or even toys and ranch stuff. Our tour through these areas was a quick run because a certain little someone...ahem(Hunt) was whining most of the time. I'm sure he was getting a wee bit tired of walking and with no nap either...well, what do you expect...right? All in all we enjoyed it. It made me wish more than ever we were away from the city. I'd love more animals! We'd love more animals!
Hunt was skeptical, but eventually petted a llama. I didn't schelp my camera along on this outing, but now wish I had.
I did snap some photos at home before and after we went.
Hunt with his "towboy" hat on.

Hunt and daddy ready for the Stock Show.

Hunt trying on daddy's boots after we got back.

Still need some growing to do Hunt! But not too fast!

These boots were made for walking, and that's just what they did! Hunt's, mama's and daddy's boots. We were all tired after we made it back home.

Daddy was all tuckered out. How did he get away with using Hunt's coveted blanket??? Just luck!

Hunt was too busy to notice daddy using his blanket...riding boots is a rough and tough job!
After the Stock Show we meet up with more friends at Razoos for dinner. It was great to see everyone and to have them all together was fabulous! The last time was at the lake house during the summer. We really need to do it more often.

Here is a slide show I put together from photos of the Stock Show Parade from the previous weekend.



This Sunday we spent the day at home. We watched some music videos and did alot of dancing. Then afterwards we made our way outside to enjoy the nice weather. We played with Zoe and swung on our horse tire swing.
Here are a few photos of the tire swing that I haven't posted yet. Hunt LOVES it so much! Thanks Santa! He giggles and screams with delight. I love seeing him have such a good time on such a simple thing as a tire swing. I think if given the chance he would swing all day long.

Hunt sitting in the tree waiting for the swing to be ready.





Ok, I'm trying to catch up. STILL more to come from Christmas and up to now.

Stay warm and dry...

Hello again! I'm back with more photos...
It seems that I will never get them all posted, or at least part of my huge photo upload posted.

This first set was Christmas gift exchange with dear friends Kel and Ken. We didn't make the exchange by Christmas, but who cares when you've got good friends around. We spent part of the day at the boat show and then dinner. Afterwards we came back to our house and had our little belated Christmas.

Kel and Ken just hanging out.

Hunt and Kel. Hunt checking out the picture frame note center that I made her.

Here's Kel with the scarf I made. It kinda matches mine that I posted about in a previous post.

Hunt and mama! My sweetie pie!

Hunt playing with one of his gifts. A Diego dino tower.

And Hunt opening more presents.

Even though Christmas seemed rushed this year, it was still a nice time. Just look at this cutie! I swear I could just eat him up! I managed to get him to wear a scarf.


We have a tradition on Christmas Eve that Hunt or any other kiddos we may have someday, can open one gift. In the gift is new Christmas pjs and a small toy or goodie. Hunter got some red and brown puppy dog pjs and a car.


Christmas Eve was also spent partly at my cousins house where we did my families gift exchange. Just a few of those pics...


Hunt and part of cousin Isabella.

Every year the Keller Early Childhood PTA group that I'm in has a Christmas party. Everyone gets together and enjoys some snacks and crafts and usually we have a visitor wearing a red suit...a jolly man with a white beard. This year was no different. The kids got to make Christmas lists and later show Santa the lists. Since all the children are ages infant to 5 years the lists consisted of cut out pictures of toys glued to a sheet of holiday paper. We also took part on a cookie exchange. Anyone who wished to participate in the exchange simply brought 3 dozen homemade cookies. We then set them out and everyone got to go around and pick up a few of each one. All in all the party was good. The kids enjoyed seeing each other and of course seeing Santa.

Here is a photo of the cookies that we made for the exchange. Sugar cookies with royal icing.

Hunt cutting out toys for his list to Santa.

Hunt showing his list to some of his pals.

Santa arrived and stopped by our table to have a little chat.

Here's Hunt discussing his list of "wants" to Santa.

Hunt, Santa and Mrs. Claus

Hunt opens up a book gift from Santa. His good friend Jeffery looks on.

Hunt and Jeffery running and playing something. I'm not sure what they were trying to be.

Hunt and some friends playing/running and being loud. 2 minutes later everyone's fun came to an end as we told them all to stop the running and yelling.

Look at the yummy cookies we got from the cookie exchange.

Gotta go. More soon!