I do it!

Lately it seems Boston's favorite words are "I do it". The independence thing can be frustrating. He says it with everything. We have to let Boston try first and then he'll get mad because sometimes he can't do it and then we have to help him, but still make him feel like he's doing it on his own. He's a very stubborn and independent 2 year old. We definitely don't mind that he likes to brush his teeth on his own. He does it every night. We told Boston there are monsters in his mouth and he needs to brush them out. To let us know he's ready to brush his teeth Boston points to his mouth and says "monsters". He'll open his mouth to have us look while he's brushing to have us check and see if they are still there. After he's done it for a while (it's more him chewing on the tooth brush then brushing) we ask him if we can check and we tell him we can still see some and he'll give either mom or dad the tooth brush to get them out. That's the only way we can get Boston to brush his teeth. What ever works right.

When Boston wakes up from his nap he is so cuddly.

Boston definitely loves his daddy.

Cody's parents just re-did their kitchen, bathroom, and living room. It has all turned out so nice. They got new carpet in their living room so they gave us their old carpet so we can put it downstairs. Our basement in unfinished so this weekend we layed out the carpet so that it covers up the concrete and we'll have a place to relax and Boston has a nice play area. Boston LOVES it. We are down their a lot hanging out and playing. We used up half of our basement and the other half we have all our boxes and storage stuff.

This is Boston's half. He's got lots of toys to play with but his favorite is his basketball hoop.

This is the other half where we like to hang out and relax.

Boston is such a big boy.

Boston is showing you that he is 2.

Boston is pretty good at basketball. He loves to dunk.

Life's Crazy

We have all been so busy lately. Cody is back in school and just loving it. Some days are definitely better then others, but overall it's been good. He's teaching full-time and still working at Utah Fabrications two nights a week. Lately they've been trying to get him to work for them full-time and not teach. Cody loves it at Utah Fab but teaching is definitely his passion. Denise is busy working at Waves part-time and still loves it. She's currently working on building her clientele back up since we've moved back to Tooele. So anyone looking for a stylist let her know!

We've all been attending the THS football games. Cody's helping on the sidelines doing the chains to mark the yards and Denise and Boston are up in the stands cheering on the team. Grandma Diane goes to the games with us also because Grandpa Rich is still the athletic director so he's down on the field. Cody is really excited to start wrestling season to start in November. He can't wait to coach the Buff's.

Cody and Denise started playing co-ed softball again at Deseret Peak. We sure have a lot of fun. Our season will go until the end of October. Boston loves coming to the games to watch mom and dad play. He likes to cheer for us and embarrass his Uncle Chad by yelling "Josh" as loud as he can till Chad acknowledges him. Chad's friends like to call him Josh now.

We are finally getting Boston to go bed at night without us in the room. It works most nights but some nights he starts stalling and says he needs a drink of milk, pooh bear needs milk, he'll climb up on the changing table and say he went pee, and sometimes he'll just want mom. It gets very frustrating but we know it's just part of being a kid.

We're still trying to potty train Boston... not working so well. He just doesn't care, unless it's at night and it's time to go to bed then all of a sudden he's ready to go to the potty. If anyone has any suggestions on how to potty train a 2 year old please share.

Lately we've been trying to get Boston into the habit of saying his prayers at night with mom and dad and praying before he eats. It is so dang cute! We've even got him to say the prayers. I know it's silly, but last night when he was going to bed we asked him if he was ready to say his prayer and he said yes. Boston ran over to his bed and knelt down and folded his arms and bowed his head and waited for us so we could say them. It took everything I had not to start crying. It was just the most sweetest thing. Even when Cody was helping him say the prayer I was fighting it back not to cry. Then to top it off Boston was laying in his bed ready to go to sleep and Cody was singing "I am a Child of God" to him and Boston would sing what words he knew with Cody. I know I'm a baby, but it was just so precious. I just had to share that with everyone because I just thought it was so sweet.

The Big 2

Boston had so much fun celebrating is 2nd birthday. Lots of his family members came to enjoy the day and spoil him. A few of the things he was given was a bike, helmet and pads, scooter, basketball hoop, books, clothes and shoes, Red Sox bean bag, tent, ball pit, and tons of toys. Once he got the basketball hoop it was hard to pull him away to open the rest of his presents. That's all he wanted to do. Boston LOVES playing "dunk" as he calls it which is okay for now but when he gets older we hope he'd rather wrestle. Wrestling and Basketball is in the same season so he can't do both. It took us a few days after his birthday party to get everything put away and since then he has been playing with everything.

On his actual birthday we took him to Carl's Jr. so that he can have dinner and play in the play area. He had tons of fun. He's still pretty small so he can't climb up through it on his own. Denise had to climb through everything to get Boston to go down the slide. Their is definately a reason you should only be 4 ft to play in it. Boston loved it and he decided that he wanted to climb to the top on his own so he went crawling up through the slide. Once he got to the top he thought he was pretty cool and was really excited. Boston wasn't too happy though when he couldn't figure out how to get down. We kept trying to talk him toward the slide to go down but he was a little scared, so we sent up a couple of kids that were playing in there also to help Boston get down. He was so cute. Here's a few pictures of Boston and his family enjoying his special day.

Boston has been talking SO much better. He is putting a couple words together to communicate. It has been so great! Their is one word though that he just can't say no matter how hard we practice. Boston no longer has an Uncle Chad.... he has an Uncle Josh. Every time Boston calls Chad he says Josh. It is so funny to all of us but not to Chad. At our softball game we were all out in the field and Chad was pitching. Boston was watching the game with grandma and grandpa and he saw Chad so he started yelling "Josh" as loud as he could till Chad finally acknowledged him. Now Chad's friends call him Josh too.

As I mentioned above Boston got a new bike with a helmet and pads for his birthday. He LOVES wearing his helmet and pads whenever we are outside even if he's not riding his bike or scooter. He looks adorable. He's still learning how to ride his bike but he's trying.