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talan has gotten sick of being stuck in the house all winter long so he decided to invite some friends over for a playdate.of course he had to have his bestest good friend, isaac, come over (with nancy, of course) and then we decided to keep it in the family and invite nancy's cousin jenny and her 2 kids, elianna and shay.as soon as his friends got here, talan decided to show them how to take out every toy from the toy basket in the living room. after that was done we decided to head downstairs for a bit.they all seemed to have a good time playing and they even ate a little lunch.after lunch was over, jenny, elianna and shay had to head home. but nancy and isaac stuck around for awhile. nancy and i sat upstairs talking while we let the boys play downstairs. i kept hearing things being dumped and knew that talan was in the middle of making one of his usual major messes.when it came time for nancy and isaac to leave i finally decided i better see what talan had done. turns out, it was probably his biggest mess to date....and that's saying something.he had taken out almost every single toy from every single crate, bin and bucket. he had even taken the cushions and pillows off of the couch and chair.you could tell he wasn't playing with any of it. he would just walk over, open a bin, dump it and walk to the next thing. so at least things were mostly kept in piles and was a little easier to clean up.later in the day jenny had written me saying she felt bad for leaving the house the way they did. i told her she had NO idea what happened after she left...so jenny, enjoy these pictures!!! this is why i don't clean up after him all day long. it happens once a day. if that.it's always so much fun trying to get a picture with a bunch of kids!
shay, elliana, talan and isaac:
it gets better. wait for it....:
talan's beautiful mess. and trust me when i say i know he did this all by himself:
today talan turned, you guessed it, 33 months old. i have been thinking A LOT lately about what a calm, easy going, happy baby talan was. the 33 month old that we have now is NOT the same baby that we brought home from the hospital.
probably the biggest "accomplishment" (for him, NOT us!!!) this month would be that he now climbs out of his crib. and not just occasionally, he does it ALL the time. many people say "uh, time for a big boy bed" thinking that we are worried he'll hurt himself. we have no such worries. this kid is a monkey and knows exactly what he is doing. after he had been climbing out for awhile and i knew it wasn't just a fluke thing, i asked him if i could see how he does it. he very gracefully would flip one leg out, flip the other leg out, hang on and then gently drop down to the ground. quite proud of himself.
one nite, weeks before new years eve, we heard talan climb out and open his door. we stayed really quiet trying to figure out what he was doing. he was just standing in the hallway not moving or making any noise. when i eventually went over to get him, he's standing there in the hallway, looks at me and says "happy new year!" i had never talked to him about new years so i have NO IDEA where he even learned that from. he always knows the most perfect, most cute thing to say or do to keep him out of trouble. he has also been known to come out and when we are telling him to go back to his crib and stay there he will say "i afraid of dark." he's not. he either heard hayden say it in the past (hayden isn't either, it's just an excuse to turn on a light or get out of bed) or he saw it on a show...i think it was a show.
he also knows how to climb back in his crib. again, many parents would be pretty worried as he takes quite the dangerous route. but again, he knows exactly what he's doing. and really, if he gets hurt i figure maybe he'll stop doing it?! so he'll run to his room, grab his rocking elephant (it's not a horse, it's a big stuffed elephant...on ROCKERS), pull it over to his crib, climb up on his back, then up to his head and then over into his crib. it's pretty impressive, actually.
talan could care less about time-outs most of the time. in fact, he will put himself in one if we even threaten that we might. there have been many times that we are down in the basement cleaning and yelling at him to start cleaning up as well since he's the one that took every single toy out. instead of cleaning he'll say "no. i go in time out." and he'll walk over to the step for a time out. we don't let that one fly since we know he's simply trying to sit out while we all clean up his mess. hayden may have had him beat in math and letters by this age, but talan really knows how to use his brain for this kind of stuff.
the other week i was changing his diaper and apparently talan didn't want this done. so as he's laying on the ground he looks at me with his super sassy face and says "i don't like you!" this one i really have no idea where he got it from. i have never heard hayden ever say that and i can't imagine what show he's watching that would say that either. so now, whenever he gets angry he'll just look at me (or anyone else for that matter) and say "i don't like you."
also when he is in a super sassy mood he'll say "don't look at me!" which comes directly from hayden. this one i know!
another new phrase he likes to throw out there is "stop copying me!" something else he has learned from hayden. so while in a store, talan says something and i repeat it, talan will then say "stop copying me!" whatever.
talan loves going to meijer and his new favorite thing is riding in the back of the cart. at meijer or anywhere really. as soon as we start walking up to the store he'll start requesting to sit in the back of the cart.
talan loves basketball and will play downstairs in the unfinished side of the basement. he throws his basketball up at the refrigerator and tries to get it to stay up there. if he does, he apparently made a basket. and then he yells for someone to get it down so he can do it all over again. he loves puzzles and has become great at putting them together. he got several for christmas and has even found an old one in hayden's room. he puts puzzles together almost every day. he loves running around the basement with his trucks, especially with hayden. they just run in circles pushing their trucks around. he loves watching funny videos on youtube of cats and dogs. he'll request "puppy, kitty!" anytime you get on a computer. he loves to go "bowling" in the basement which usually just involves him rolling a ball at things. he loves getting in the car by himself which means he has to run around the car first before getting in. this is very annoying in snow. he continues to love making as big of a mess as possible. he loves dancing and showing off to anyone that will watch him. he loves going to church and seeing his friends isaac and cobian. he loves to color while hayden is sitting at the table doing his "homework." he loves being able to play in hayden's room with hayden's toys. he loves suckers. he loves going to the bank and getting suckers. he loves chocolate. he loves being the center of attention.
talan hates cleaning up his gigantic messes but does quite well when he actually does it. he still hates sitting still, especially to eat meals. he eats much better if he's roaming. he hates having to sit in his stroller at the store. he hates bedtime, but usually goes down fairly easily...of course now he gets out of his crib several times before staying in and falling asleep. he hates being locked out of hayden's room, he hates getting any water in his face during bath time when it isn't him squirting himself directly in the face. he hates being told no. he hates being told what to do.
talan cash keeps us laughing but also keeps us pulling our hair out every single day. he is funny and smart, and sassy. loving and independent and opinionated. we love watching his facial expressions and hearing the new things he has to say. every day is an interesting day with talan around.
we love you so much baby talan! we look forward to and dread, all at the same time, what new things you will come up with next month!! happy 33 months!!!
talan cash turned 32 months today! with each month he becomes funnier as well as sassier. he continues to talk up a storm and loves to repeat anything he hears from you or the tv. and he remembers things that we have no idea how he can remember.
after only telling him once or twice, he now will tell you that his birthday is on april 9th. he probably has no idea what that even means, but he knows that's when it is. so anytime birthday talk comes up he is asking for his "april birthday cake?!" although april sounds more like aphral.
there has been a lot of christmas talk what with it being december and all, so anytime we go to a store and he sees christmas decorations he just points and says "christmas!" when we put our tree up "christmas!" instead of christmas tree.
talan has always gone through phases of waking up in the middle of the nite. even at 32 months, he still does it. it usually starts out with him being sick, so when he wakes up i typically go in to comfort him. and then in no time it's become a routine and he continues waking up crying which we then have to break again. it usually only takes about 2 nites of us ignoring him to break the cycle, but it's not an easy 2 nites. this past month he wasn't just crying, he was SCREAMING at us. "MAMA!!!" at the top of his lungs. dave went in to get him one nite and he continued screaming for me. he eventually started yelling "no dada! want mama!" and the next nite, before anyone even went in to get him, he started yelling "mama! mama! no dada, want mama!" it's good to be wanted, right?!
he has also gotten into the habit of saying he needs to go potty when he is supposed to be taking a nap. he has never actually gone on the toilet. and he usually only requests to try when he's supposed to be sleeping at nap time. i remember hayden pulling this as well and it's a fine line. do i encourage it and let him sit on the toilet in hopes of him actually one day going, or do i call his bluff and leave him to continue yelling in his crib in hopes of him actually taking a nap?! what to do. half of the time when i go in to get him he's telling me he has to "poop on the potty" however, the aroma of poop is already in the air. he hasn't quite realized that he already pooped in his diaper, opportunity missed.
i worked for about a week and a half this past month so every day talan went over to mom's house. he typically is really bad about going to sleep in a pack and play...hayden was always like this as well. i figured there would be no way he would actually take a nap there, but told mom she should put him down anyway, if anything, just to give herself a break! but apparently he slept great there every single day! he did, however, climb out of the pack and play twice. we are hoping this doesn't carry over to the crib at home!!!
the weather has gotten much cooler which means heavier jackets. i put a new jacket on talan one day and while riding in the car to mom's he kept trying to take it off as it was riding up and irritating his chin. i simply told him...no talan, that's your rockstar jacket. you look like a rockstar! and that ended it. he couldn't wait to go to mom's house and show it off to mom, jessica and justin. he still will go up to people when he is wearing it and say "rockstar jacket! i a rockstar!"
among the many things he says, i most often hear "i don't like it!" which usually just means "i don't WANT it." a phrase i am SURE he picked up from his big brother!! he can be eating something just fine but suddenly want to get down. so he'll turn on the sass and yell "i don't want it!"
his eating is so-so. it just depends on the day. he still loves almost all veggies and fruits, which is great. some days he'll eat almost nothing for lunch or dinner and other days he'll eat everything on his plate without a fight. he loves suckers and any other kind of candy, but if he's done eating, even a bribe for some candy won't get him to take another bite. if he won't eat his chicken, i can almost always get him to sit there and eat a whole plate of cucumbers, lettuce, blackberries or some other fruit or veggie.
talan is now wearing a size 3t pant and we don't even need to roll them up. however, they are usually pretty big in the waist, so if they don't have the drawstring waist they fall right off of him. many of hayden's old pants don't have that as it's a slightly newer thing so they are pretty much useless to us. he still wears many 2t shirts, but they are getting quite a bit shorter, so 3t shirts are a much better option. his feet are still giant and it is a struggle to simply get his sleeper feet over those things. it's insane.
talan loves to "play games", especially at grandma's house. playing games simply means he wants to take a game out, move the pieces around the board, put the game away and pull out another game. he has absolutely NO interest in actually sitting and learning how to play a game the correct way.
a new thing thrown into his rock and roll lifestyle has been the wahwah peddle. he will ask for songs with the wahwah peddle in it, run and grab his guitar and start tapping his foot telling us it's his "wahwah peddle."
talan continues to love music and can pick out most instruments in a song. he also is great at picking up on lyrics. he loves baba o'reilly by the who. he loves the movie toy story and watches it almost every day. he loves going to meijer. he loves running around the car once before getting into his seat. he loves playing with the corner of his blanket. he loves his binky's and sneaks them out from his crib or drawer or wherever else we might try to hide them. he loves candy and suckers. he loves going to the bank because he gets suckers. he loves playing his drums. he loves breakdancing in the living room. he loves to run around with hayden. he loves to show off his skateboard tricks in the living room. he loves to entertain people. he loves to pull dave's finger and make him fart. he loves puzzles and has really started to actually get how they go together. he loves grandpa and almost never calls him papa anymore. he loves going to grandma's house. he loves using his manners and does it all the time.
talan continues to hate sitting still. he hates having to sit for a meal. he hates breakfast and rarely eats anything but a poptart. he hates having to have his hair washed at bath time. he hates being told no. he hates being kept out of hayden's room. he hates taking naps, but usually does it anyway. he hates being put in his stroller when we go out.
talan makes our days that much more enjoyable and that much more crazy. hayden loves having him as a little brother...most days. and we love having him as our son. he's the funniest, funkiest toddler on the planet.
happy 32 months, t-money. we love you!!!
today talan turned 31 months old. he continues to be mr. personality and loves for anyone and everyone to watch him.
he continues to add new words, and new phrases, to his every day vocabulary. many times he'll say something and i'll have to ask him to repeat it as i'm thinking...surely he did not just say what i think he said. and sure enough, it turns out he did say what i thought he said.
the other day he decided that saying "check this out, mom!" is far better than "watch this!" so you can now hear him all day long saying "check this out!" "hey guys, check this out!" or some other variation.
he was standing next to me the other day and i handed him something and i got a "thanks, pal." that was one of those moments i asked him to repeat it as i could not believe that is what he actually said. he never did really repeat it, but i was pretty sure he said it. then a few days later, i helped him out of the car and i heard it again "thanks, pal." and this time he did repeat it.
talan loves to color lately. it might not hold his attention for a really long time, but he asks almost every day to color. some days he doesn't even ask. he'll search out some crayons, markers, pens, pencils...whatever he can find, and color on anything. we have had crayon on the basement carpet, the living room rug, the couches, the toy box, the train table, toys, his clothes, himself, on toys at friends houses. ANYWHERE. i have decided i need to collect all of our writing utensils and throw out anything that doesn't say "washable."
we have been talking a lot recently about birthday parties. mostly because we are starting to figure out what we are going to do for hayden's birthday party. but we also already know that talan's 3rd birthday party will be yo gabba gabba. so for about a week, talan would not shut up about his birthday. he seemed to think everyday was his birthday and he would constantly question me as to where his yo gabba cake was. or where was his yo gabba party hat. when he would finally realize that TODAY was not his yo gabba gabba birthday he would then ask "tomorrow?" i think we have moved past this, and i'm going to try not to talk birthday talk around him anymore!
he still loves being outside. he loves skateboarding, either on a real skateboard or just pretending while he's inside. he loves to ride bikes with hayden. he loves playing hide and go seek with hayden even though he's really, really bad at it. if he's supposed to hide, he jumps out right when hayden says "here i come." if he's supposed to count, he doesn't. he loves motorcycles. he loves playing with cars. he loves candy and cookies. he loves raw pasta. he loves bath time. he loves "grandpa" which he almost always calls him now instead of "papa." he loves to be the center of attention. he loves max and ruby. he loves jumping on the bed.
he hates having his hair washed while in the bath that he loves. he hates being told no. he hates sitting for meals. he hates sitting in general. he hates going to the dr. with me and will cry when i have to lay down so we can listen to the babies heartbeat.
he continues to be a generally happy toddler but is all boy and is definitely 2 1/2. he has opinions and makes them known. he gets over his tantrums pretty quickly. he'll often times put himself in a timeout if we threaten one. other times he won't stay in his time out. he makes us laugh and love more than we ever thought possible.
we love you, t-money! happy 31 months!!!
on thursday, october 8th, talan and i took a trip with some of our mops group to three cedars farm in northville.i had never even heard of it before, but one my the girls from my mops sister table had gone and said that we should plan a trip. unfortunately, not a whole lot of people from our table were able to make it, but we still did have a good size group. about 20 including the kids.we headed out and got there at around 10am and talan was able to run around their big play area where they had a stationary train, a bike track with bikes and push tractors, slides, chickens and a pretend cow that they could milk.at around 11am i had to wrestle with talan in order to get him to leave the play area so that we could head out on our hayride to the pumpkin patch. we were each able to pick a pumpkin and then we headed back for a donut and cider. all for only $6 a person!talan had a great time running through the pumpkin patch and picking up all of the pumpkins. he would pick one up, show it off, throw it down and then run to find another one. he eventually found "the one" and we headed back to the tractor so we could go get our donuts!talan had a really fun time but didn't like having to leave the play area and then he didn't want to leave the pumpkin patch. so there were a few meltdowns, but in all it was a great day.he couldn't wait for hayden to come home so that he could show him the pumpkin that he picked (and the one i picked for hayden!). hayden was bummed that he didn't get to go, but we'll try to make another trip there soon.he kept thinking that this was the pumpkin patch:
feeding the goats some hay:
he tried rolling this one to our car but it just didn't work:
headin' into the tractor shed to pick himself out a good john deere:
pushing his way past the other kids so he could ring the bell:
milkin' the cow:
he loved ringing this bell and then dancing as it rang:
sitting in the coal car:
thank goodness the farmer took his keys with him:
he made it look like he was peddling here, but he wasn't:
running out to pick his pumpkin:
he's not a fan of dirty hands:
this one:
no, this one:
nope. this is the best one:
here is the one he finally decided on and brought home with him:
everyone headed back to the tractor:
it gets better. wait for it....:
talan's beautiful mess. and trust me when i say i know he did this all by himself:
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