I will Survive...

How any woman has survived being a mother to an almost 2 year old is astonishing to me. Tuckers favorite phrases right now are:

'Want that, want that, want that...' and

'Right NOW'

I am very patiently trying to teach him to always say 'please' and 'thank-you' which is very hard at times. He's had to spend a considerable amount of time in time-out lately; and 'sorry mama' is quickly becoming an automatic response of his when I even just look at him. This child will be the death of me, I swear.

He seriously thinks that he runs the show around here, I have to constantly remind myself that I am the one in charge here.

Good thing he's so darn cute, or I would have told him to hit the bricks a few times this week. :)

Here he is with his new friend, Will. Needless to say they had a pretty good time playing in the dirt and eating yummy Oreo Popsicles. (the combination of the two, not so good)

I walked into the living room to find Tucker seriously just chillin' on Ben while watching Barney and eating a cookie. Its a rough life.

So sometimes when I am putting Tucker down for his nap in the afternoon and it is hot, I don't put his shorts on after I change his diaper. I just let him sleep in his diaper and a shirt. I figure its a little cooler and a lot more comfortable. Well, after church on Sunday we all took a little afternoon nap. Ben woke up to Tucker yelling in his crib (while I was soundly asleep). Ben walks into Tuckers room to find that he had taken off his diaper and smeared poop all over his crib. He also took off his diaper today during his nap, luckily there was no #2, only #1. Note to self: don't let Tucker sleep in just his diaper anymore. Lets hope he doesn't learn how to take off his shorts.