Barf Man!

Asher has really started talking now and I love it! He has stopped saying "shoo-wee" and "yucky" when something is gross. He now says "Barf Man!" It's great! I think it's sooo cute. So funny story... Here's a little background. As most of you know, Asher's eating habits kill me!! He is very picky and usually way too busy to even stop for food. Dinner time is major stress to me. Every bite is a negotiation. "One more bite of chicken and you can have a chip." "Three more bites of green beans and we can go outside and play." At breakfast, he knows that he has to finish all his pancakes before he can get out of his highchair. SO... he will shove the last three bites into his mouth at once which makes him throw up. Throw up is no longer a big deal at our house. The kid has the most delicate gag reflex ever! Everything makes him throw up! We yell at him constantly, "One at a time or you'll choke!" Now he know what choking is. Choking means throw up. So on to my story... The other day we were driving in the car and he was eating yogurt covered raisins. (I know they are gross but like I said he is a picky eater and so I try new things constantly.) He was eating them just fine but all of the sudden he decided he didnt like them anymore. He started coughing and I was watching him out of my rear view mirror and he spit out like five chewed up raisins. Holding the chewed up raisins out to me he said, "Oh I choke!!!! Barf Man!!! Mama hoed (hold) it!!!! So now "barf man" is used anytime something is yucky. Anytime he has a dirty diaper he comes up to me and says, "I poo-poo! Barf Man!!" The other day he stepped on a piece of pancake with his barefoot and dramatically fell to the floor and yelled, "Barf Man!!!!" and picked the pancake off his foot. (He also realized that he smushed it into the carpet and said, "Uh-oh Sorry Mom!" What a sweet boy!)

OU/Texas weekend

This weekend we went to Dallas for the OU/Texas game. It was crazy! Dallas suddenly flooded with fans from each school. People were wearing their OU or Texas shirts on Thursday. Two days before the game! We went to the mall and every store was putting their red clothes beside their orange clothes. Even the underwear, reds beside the orange. We went to a resturant Friday night and in the middle of dinner, a man stands up and starts yelling "Boomer!" and every Sooner fan in the resturant yelled back "Sooner!". Then the Longhorns started in yelling "Texas!" and I'm not sure what the Texas response is to that because all I can ever hear is "Sucks!" when someone yells out "Texas!" This was only the beginning. The game, of course, was even crazier. The atmosphere in the stadium was something I have never experienced before. It was so loud and crazy that Asher started crying as soon as we walked in. My ears were ringing from everyone yelling. Poor Asher was so excited to go watch "Boom play football" but I he was too overwhelmed to even pay attention to Landry. All he wanted us to do was put our hands over his ears. This lasted for the first half of the game but towards the ends he started cheering. He wore himself out and slept for the last quarter. Now as for Adam and I, as I have said before, we are not huge OU fans since we graduated from Tech but we support Landry. However, we have a new outlook on OU football after this game. We wore our Crimson and yelled right along with all the other Sooners. We were disappointed that OU lost but we are so excited to go back next year. The experience was amazing!

Pictures: Asher was happy as long as he could wear Adam's hat (which in turn caused Adam to get really sunburned!), This is how we ended the game, Asher on the bus to the game. He kept calling the bus a "mo-home" (motorhome), This is the smile he gives everytime you tell him to smile for the camera. He closes his eyes. It's very annoying!, This was the best picture I could get of Landry, This is a picture of the line that seperates Sooners from Longhorns, Asher looks annoyed but at least we arent having to cover his ears.

the rodeo

Well first of all, I'm really sad because I dont have any pictures. We got to the fair early and took Asher to the petting zoo. I got out my camera and of course, it's dead. SO no pictures but we had a lot of fun. Asher loved the petting zoo. He didn't pet all of the animals because it was really crowded in there but he did pet the goats and sheep. Before we got to the fair, he kept asking if he could see a "pid - oink-oink" so we made it a point to find a "pid" for him. Lucky for us there was a mommy pig with a bunch of little piglets running around. They were so cute and they made Asher very excited. After the petting zoo, we headed over to the rodeo with our friends Denver and Sarah. It was awesome! Asher is fasicinated with horses. He calls them "neigh-neighs" so he tought all the cowboys were really cool riding the horses. I think his favorite part though was the bull riding. He cheered for every rider. He would clap really fast and yell "Oh Yeah!" for everyone. Adam and I were really excited because Pat Green was playing after the rodeo. We havent seen him in forever so we really wanted to make the concert. BUT the rodeo ended around 9 and Asher was getting really sleepy. We started laughing because we realized that we were going to be those parents who would force their two year old to stay up so that they could see a Pat Green concert. We decided that we didnt want to do that. I guess our college days are over anyways! It was a fun night and Asher even slept till 8:30 the next morning.

Confusing!

This is a little bit of what football season feels like at our house. Adam and I both graduated from Texas Tech. While we may not be die hards, we definitely support our school. But here's the problem. My brother plays football for OU. We told Landry (my brother) that we would pull for OU as long as he stept foot on that field. So OU football is the only thing Asher knows. He knows how to do the "O00000....Uuuuu" with the hand signals and he also knows that when someone yells "Boomer" he yells back "Sooner". He only has OU shirts, pants, etc. It is very cute though. He call Landry "Uncle Boom". Any time football is on TV, it doesnt matter who it is, Asher always says "Yeah Boom!" and anytime he sees a football he says "Boom throw football." So needless to say so much for Texas Tech. But Adam and I are still working with him. We are teaching him to "get his guns up". But I think as far as football goes, Asher's heart will bleed crimson and white!