My new lesson...

I know, I know, I still need to get to my Christmas blogging but first I wanted to share a major lesson that I have just realized I have learned. I was thinking this morning about how moms have to have an amazing memory. While most days I am incapable of having an intelligent conversation (my brain in stuck in two year old mode), I am VERY capable and required to have an amazing memory. This morning Asher looked at me and said, "Mama where my Doc?" Where is your Doc??? Let me think??? I know that any other car will not statisfy, I have to find Doc. My memory skills need to kick in. This must be a requirement in becoming a mom. In order to prevent major meltdowns, I have to remember...

1.) Doc was last left upstairs, probably in the bedroom while changing clothes.

2.)Spider man hands (his gloves) were last worn in the car and then pulled off because he realized he couldn't hold on to Doc as well if he was wearing them.

3.) Sally (another Car, if you want tell the movie "Cars" is a favorite) is in the side saddle bag of the Harley power wheel.

4.) All footballs are put in a closet downstairs and if he is looking for the black one, it's in the garage since we play with it in the front yard.

5.) Before agreeing to let him wear his Batman shirt, I have to remember whether or not it's clean, and if I remember it's dirty, I have to quickly change the subject to the Boomer Sooners, which then causes him to want to wear a Boomer shirt. I must remember the status of laundry before even walking into his closet. This could cause major meltdown.

6.) All milk cups must be accounted for at the end of the day. Remembering where they were last dropped is very important. The smell of rotten milk is disgusting.

These are just some of the many things I have to remember on a daily basis. I really think that moms are like super heroes. All we want is to protect our babies and make their life as enjoyable as possible. All this between the millions of loads of laundry...

Choo-Choo

Asher was completely obsessed with trains this Christmas. I can not count the number of times we watched Polar Express. It was by far his favorite Christmas movie this season. (Every once in a while we would throw in the Grinch but not that often.) When Asher was born, we decided that we were going to start him a train collection. We try to add different cars for birthdays, Christmas, or just special presents. But it's supposed to be something that he could keep forever, therefor it's not to play with. No fun for a little boy obsessed with trains! Adam decided that we would get the train out and put it around our Christmas tree. That lasted one day. Asher was constantly taking it off track and pushing it along. It just wasn't fair to tempt him like that so we put it up. Maybe next year!

One really fun train story this Christmas was when our small group at Church took the kids to a real Christmas train. It was an hour away from us but it super fun. Asher was pumped! Bad thing was that we had to stand in line to get on the train. That made him mad and his patience wore thin but we finally got on the train. The wait was well worth it. The train took us through the true story of Christmas. It goes from the creation of earth, to Jesus' birth, and his death on the cross. Very touching and awesome. Asher was amazed. HOWEVER, that night was the first Oklahoma ice storm so we didn't get to stay long and walk around the train station. Bummer but we will definitely be going back next year!

Pictures: Asher and Zach getting ready to go on the train, Asher and Charli - Asher throwing a fit because we have to wait in line, all the kids looking through the fence at the train

Cousins

Ok so I am going back in time. I know that I have already talked about Christmas but now I'm going all the way back to Thanksgiving. We all know that I am a terrible blogger and I am also terrible about downloading my pictures on to my computer. I have over 1000 pictures on my camera and I haven't downloaded any since Halloween. Geez!!! So I am starting over at Thanksgiving and I'm sure I'll be posting my Christmas pictures sometime in May. haha.

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun this year. Adam's sister, Lindsey, and her baby, Dagny came to visit. They stayed for 10 days. It was so much fun!! I loved having someone to hang out with all day and it was fun for me to see how Asher would interact with a baby. He was still a crazy little boy but over all, he was really good with Dagny. He did great sharing his toys with her. He really wanted to share his favorite toy, his football, but we had to keep explaining that she didn't know how to catch a football yet and that it was not good to throw it at her. That was a little scary. Asher was really sad to see her leave. He now always ask me, "Where my Dagny?" Then says, "Dagny live in Consin (Wisconsin)." It's very sweet. He loves his cousin!!

We went to my parents house for Thanksgiving and Asher was in HEAVEN!! Landry and a few OU football players came for dinner and Asher just thought they were all there to see him. One guy (HUGE guy) sat down and Asher walked right up to him, threw his blanket on his lap, and climbed on up. This big guy was shocked and not sure what to do with this little kid sitting on his lap. Pretty funny. After supper, Asher sat in the living room with all the guys and watched TV. He pulled his little chair in there and copied everything they did. He laughed when they laughed and repeated everything. Uncle Boom is a huge hero in our house.

Thanksgiving was great and I was so happy to have Lindsey and Dagny with us!

Pics: Asher and Papaw at Thanksgiving. He says Papaw is his buddy. Asher holding Dagny. He would only do it for a second then he would say, "It's hard!" and he would be done. Asher the first night checking out this new little baby. Dagny with Asher's animal that he really wanted her to hold.