Major Meltdown

I thought I would write about Trenton's major meltdown in Target today to make a few friends feel better about their past and future Target visits with their toddlers, you know who you are..
No, a child was not murdered in Target today, that was my sweet little 2yo throwing the hugest fit of his life. I attempted to leave him in the bike aisle, but that didn't seem to bother him any. I watched him from around the corner for several min and I swear I heard him mumble "thank goodness she finally left." I won't bore you with the part that happens in the middle, its basically me threatening him and me trying not to lose my composure. The story ends with me leaving my cart in the middle of target filled with my stuff with Trenton under my arm kicking and screaming as I walked completing composed and smiling out the door. I will not tell you what happend after that for legal reasons (ha) but I don't think it will be happening again. In fact, I'm pretty sure he's afraid of the word "Target" So......if anyone found a cart with a bathroom trashcan, toilet paper, and a shoe rack in the main middle aisle, that was mine and I will be back for it on my lunchbreak Mon. afternoon.
I hope this makes you feel better about your children. Mine is definately far from perfect..

Trenton the Mechanic/Model/Swimmer

Here are some random pictures from this last week. Man, the weeks sure do fly by. Trenton's new thing is making obnoxious boy noises (preferrably in restaurants) and pretending that there is a monkey in the house/on my car/under the table at restaurants. He even blames his toots on "the monkey"

I brought the carseat in yesterday to take off my cover and the original cover to wash (pretty disgusting). Trenton stayed busy trying to figure out where the straps come through and so forth. He had that thing so screwed up by the time it was time to put everything back together (I haven't been that frustrated in a while.....I wanted to throw that big thing out the window!!)

Tretnon last night in the bath...we have all seen this face before. He thinks he has to put his fingers on his face when he says "cheese" sooooo... here's what you get without the fingers...

look at that natural smile...the fingers might be better, funny boy!

Trenton and I at Swim Ranch today. He is dog paddling and jumping in and going under now. Yeah my little fishie!!

Trying to get Trenton to relax and do a back float. He eventually does. Thanks for sneaking away from work Daddy to come watch us!!

Party Weekend

Last weekend, the fam had a wedding shower/cookout for Tammy and Seth and Tyler's 1st Birthday party. My house is party central these days!

This pic is not from the party, but can't be left out. We got Trenton a helmet for when he rides his trike so that he would be used to wearing it when he starts riding a real bike (per Dr. L's instructions). He wore the helmet 24/7 for the first week he loved it so much. He even tried to wear it to bed. We let him put it in the crib with him while he slept....wierdo..

Yummy petit fours!! Rick's is the best!!

Look at that SPREAD (inside joke)

Tammy and Seth, the couple of the night!

Wow..the next day, another nice SPREAD. Curious George theme, really cute monkey cake.
Hmmmm..not so sure.
This green frosting is pretty good.
About 5 minutes later... Happy Birthday Tyler!

Dr. Visit -2y.o. check up

Well, no pic for this post.. just an update on my little monkey's stats.

Went to the NEW pediatric clinic today, absolutely beautiful I must say. Trenton got to stand on the big scale and stand like a big boy to get measured. No more undressing and squirting pee all over, boy will I miss that. He weighs 29.00 lbs and is 35.5 in. tall. Dr. makes no comment on the head so I guess it's normal. I can't believe we actually worry about the size of their head by the way.. Trenton got a Eric Carle book from Dr. Livingston (which is really hard to say for a 2 yo but it doesn't matter because Trenton calls him Dr. Jones....who I work for).

Dr. Livingston told us to double their height at 2yo and add one inch for boys and subtract one inch for girls, and thats a good guess at how tall they will be. So we sat for a sec. and thought this out and both looked at each other and made a sour face like......"what?...only 6'1''?" I always imagined him being a beast like all the trumbos (skinny beasts that is) or like my dad. They are all over 6'5''. Dr. Livingston assured us that this was just a guess and actually laughed at our semi dissappointment. He reminded us that 6'1'' is a great height for a boy and that he was sure to have many girlfriends. HA At least he will be tall enough to date the Bohannan girls. Notice I said girlSS (plural) BRAD! hehe

The shocker came at the end of the appt. when he kindly informed us that Trenton needed his HepA booster. Mom and Dad were traumatized once again with a screaming child that broke our hearts but Matt didn't look like he was going to hit the nurse this time. He's doing much better.

Okay...maybe one picture. This is the only pic of Trenton with Dr. Livingston....HMMMM..which one was he anyway? I loved him that day because he got you breathing again! Darn umbilical cords.

On the Road Again

Well, we got the itch to get out of town again....we are suffering from vacationitis. We got up early Thursday morning and headed to Silver Dollar City. Trenton had never been and we have been told that he is a good age to go. Some of my Branson expert patients informed me that he has to be 36" to ride stuff so we did our homework and measured him at a smidge under 36". About 35.6999" to be exact (JK!) They let him ride anyway! They would look at me like they were going to say no and I would quickly reply "They let him to all the other rides!!" and then they would let us on. This wasn't entirely true because I said it on our first ride, but I thought what the heck, WE WANNA RIDE RIDES! Trenton rode everything except the roller coasters and water rides (log ride and big raft ride). We had lunch and then he took a long nap in the stroller. Matt and Trenton parked in the shade by a park bench and Matt "rested up" by Trenton while I hit the big roller coasters!! I can have a blast by myself on those!! I can't wait until Trenton is big enough to ride those with me. Matt will be the bag watcher (WEENIE)

Trenton was not too fond of this character...she (really a he) was hilarious!

Trenton playing ball toss game...."everyone's a winner..winner,winner,winner" hehe
Taking a nap..I'm so glad Trenton loves his nap. Makes our lives easier! And who doesn't love looking at sleeping kids?!
From our hotel room. Our room overlooked the fountains at Branson Landing. We thought this would be fun and such a great ideal until it was fountain showtime after Trenton went to bed. He kept saying "What's that!?" Thank goodness the last show was at 10:00.