Regan James 3 years old

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Regan snuggled me in bed while we waited for Kaylee to wake up. I sang to him and told him how crazy it was that he was three! CRAZY!

I soaked up our one on one time and thought about what it took to get us here. It’s so awesome how things work out. Our little man is finally thriving, and we feel so blessed to have this little guy for our own.

He said he wanted pancakes and candles. “Three candles Mom. Happy Birfday me!” He also asked where his birthday hat was….. I didn’t realize he wanted one until he asked. I ran out and bought one for him that night.

Then he wanted to have us sine so he could blow out the candles over and over. Here he is signing/saying, “Mas peas!”

I called it quits after round three. Informed him that more candle blowing would happen later.

Our Mister Man’s list of favorites at age three:

Color: Orange, orange, orange. (Same as Kaylee at this age. LOVE IT.) To be fair he also likes red, yellow, and blue.

Show: Super Why, Blues Clues, Scooby Doo, Gummie Bears (He calls them bouncy bears)

Movie: Any of the Toy Story movies and the Buzz Light year space command movie

Thing: Any of his three Linus blankets, Soccer bear beanie baby, any of his airplanes.

Toy: Swords, airplanes, Legos, trains, Mr. Potato head

Game: Starfall.com, and sadly Angry Birds

Food: Pizza, Broccoli, Bananas, tomatoes, apples, Chocolate “milk”, smoothies, pancakes. He isn’t a picky eater. AT ALL. We love this so much.

Snack: GoGO squeeze, popcorn, Welches fruit snack (will ONLY eat Welches. He is a bit of a fruit snack snob. Get’s that from his Mama…), and fruit leather.

School: This kid LOVES everything about school EXCEPT sitting still to do work sheets. Have to work on that. It amazes us at what a little sponge he is.

Funny things he says lately: “One more mas.”, “I feel turble (terrible)!” When he feels bad/sad/upset, “I don’t tink so!”, Whenever I hug him he tells me (whether or not I have said) “Love you too Mom.” The last is sweet not funny, but it’s something he does lately.

Funny things he does lately: He winds himself up to run super fast.

He likes a napkin or wash rag at the dinner table to wipe his face.

He does this funny melts your heart hard to say no to beg and plead when he REALLY wants something.

It’s a whole clasped hands in front of him big brown puppy eyed look with a “PEAS. PEAS. PEAS!” Looks something like this. But MORE.

Happy Birthday Little Buddy! Dude, you are THREE!!!

Playset. Part 1

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I found some plans online for a play set HERE. I told Jon it’s what I wanted for my Birthday this year. And Christmas. AND Mother’s Day. He said o.k.

So we went a wood shopping and loaded Josh’s truck up while he watched the kiddos for us. And then we (Jon) read and re-read the plans.

Then we (again Jon) started cutting boards. We took our time. No rush. Laid back pain in the tukis project. Not really. We did take our time, but it wasn’t too terrible getting all the cuts done and boards labeled (that was my job. Labeling.)

Then came the horrendous task of sanding this gigantic puzzle and piecing it together. And of course the painting. (again. my job.)

Jon and Josh testing out the location to make sure the swings would have enough clearance.

Jon propped up the tower frame so I could thouroghly paint the underside of the wood. Rot prevention and all. And yes we did make sure to use the super duper supposedly impervious lifetime guarantee outdoor paint for this bad boy. We will see how the AZ sun does against it.

We started running low on our blue paint and needed more. Jon was all for changing up the color. He took Regan’s little camp lamp to Home Depot and got it color matched. I love it, but as soon as we started painting I was bummed. It needed to be Orange. But alas that realization came post purchase. So red it is.

The children were very excited/anxiously waiting for us to hang the swings.

So out came the flood lights and the boys got to measuring. They needed new measurements since I got different swings than in the plans. We also flipped the whole thing to face the opposite than in the plans. I sure am glad that the boys could figure all those numbers out and make everything work. IF it was up to me we’d still be staring at the miter saw in horror. Math and I are not on good terms.

BUT the boys, they are A OK with the math. Look at that tower, A frame, and swing beam!

Next up. Safety railing for the tower, enclosing the sand box, adding a roof, and oh yes, the color ORANGE!

Zoo trip

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This trip was with out porta potty incident. Which was nice. We visited the children’s section of the zoo this trip. Which was AWESOME. I love going to the zoo. I love that Shannon is sweet to haul us with her. It’s great fun.

These two were in the stroller long enough for the threat of going back in it if they ran off to work.

The children (Shannon and I did too) thought that the cow to milk was neat-o.

My sad attempt to get a picture of my two in their adoption shirts. Regan’s says Adoption Rocks with a guitar. His is sort of hard to see in pictures. Kaylee’s is easy to see in pictures.

Kaylee is still super afraid of animals. I was way impressed with her attitude in the petting zoo. “Mom, it was a little bit scary, so I just was a little bit brave.” I was SHOCKED when she pet one of the goats without any encouragement from me. She and Jon high fived about it later when she told him all about it.

This is what happens when I want a fast cute picture with my kiddos. ZERO cooperation. Guess they are more used to me behind the camera than in front of it with them… Shannon tried. Then we gave up.