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How hilarious is this? The Flores Family loves to play dress up any chance we get. This picture was taken on Friday at the football game! Notice his awesome shirt too "My Mom is Outta your League"! Love it!

“Fall” into fun

Fall is my favorite season. I love playing outside in the cooler weather! I love the wind and I love that Trenton shares my love for fall! We spend endless hours outside every evening. Gene decided to let Trenton ride his tractor on the Level 2 speed and ever since we cannot seem to get him off of it! I also love fall because of all of the holidays. Halloween is one of my favorite. We all love to get dressed up so it makes for  fun family holiday! We have not been doing much other than playing outside, but here are some photo’s to enjoy!

Taking a break from all his fast driving!

  Trenton enjoying a snack in his fort so that he doesn’t have to share it with Slugger!Relaxing on the deck! Trenton, Slugger and Daddy watching football from the deck! This is how much we love the weather!!!

Those of you that know me don’t get excited. Those are mashed potatoes not cookies or cake! Ha!

AND Halloween is such a fun holiday. We decided to let Trenton choose his costume this year. He is such a big boy now and loves Spider Man! So I got him the costume and now he won’t take it off. It is hilarious. He rides his tractor, tries to go to the store in it (lot’s of bribing to make sure this doesn’t happen) and practically sleeps in it!

Shooting his spider web! I’ll save you!

So precious!   Mommy & Daddy even got into the spirit! We were invited to a Halloween Party at a good friends house and so we decided to go as pirates! Lots of spandex!

If this were a contest Gretchen definitely would have won!  (Gene & Jake) These two men love their wives dearly!Girls just wanna have fun! Boys, boys, boys!

We had so much fun at the Williamson’s party. Everyone really got into the spirit of things and its so much fun to surround yourself with people who don’t take themselves to serious! Once the costumes go on sale for T’s age I plan to buy them all so he can have an awesome dress up chest!

Gone Fishing

   I have been trying to find different ways for Trenton to spend his time while learning something at the same time. I saw that a few of my friends play Candy Land with their 2 year olds and our good friend happened to have given Trenton that game for his Birthday so I tried it out. Ok, my little boy only wanted to have the little people fight and build forts out of the cards. Soooo, I decided to get something a little more exciting. We bought Trenton the Gone Fishing game! I have never seen him have so much fun! The object of the game, for those of you who have never played, is to get the plastic fishing pole into the mouth of the fish while it opens and closes and spins in a circle. It is great for eye hand coordination which I am proud to admit my son has plenty of! He beat me every time!

Concentrating very hard to catch a Orange one!

The fish spin really fast toward the end, this is usually when he stops the game and reloads all the fish he caught!    I got one! Mommy & Daddy got in on the action, but of course no one ever takes a picture of Mommy! On Fridays Trenton and I go to the kolache place by his school and enjoy breakfast together! It is a sweet little tradition we started a couple of weeks ago and I really enjoy it. The pictures are horrible, but enjoy anyways!

YUMM-O “Kachy”

AND now performing from his kitchen table, I am proud to present Trenton Flores singing “Happy Birthday to You” completely out of tune and very loud!

Next Top Chef

Every Sunday we make a big family breakfast. Gene and I have been doing this since we pretty much met. Now that we have Trenton is it even more fun because he loves to help. His job is to mix the eggs. He definitely has a skill for scrambling eggs! It is pretty cool to see how much he is growing up and really is becoming such a big helper.

Look Mom, I “scwamble eggies”  He is very serious about his scrambling.  I show you!

Next to being the Egg Scrambling Master of the Universe he has decided to branch out and his now making muffins. Any muffin of your choice: “corner” (Corn Bread) Muffins, “Blue” (blue berry) Muffins, “Appi Cinn” (apple cinnamon) Muffins. Maybe he has a career as a Chef!   Tonight I made a delicious crock pot chicken so we had plenty of time for muffins.

Ummm…Not picking nose while stirring, are you?

Scoop and pour!

And something completely opposite of making food would be that Trenton and I have been battling a wicked stomach bug for the last few days! I finally caved and took T to the doctor yesterday only to find it was viral! Of course, why can’t they state the obvious over the phone and save me a co-pay?!? Well with that being said it got us out of quarantine for while. Once the dr announced we were not contagious we decided to head to Barnes N Noble to play with the train! I love free fun stuff to fill time!

Choo Choo! I am amazed how long he played with this train set and he has one at home?!? Look at all those books! I wish T had a library that big!All is well around our house. We have been having a lot of issues with T’s bed time since the transition to his big bed. Day #2 of Bed Time Boot Camp was a success! 

Two and a Half perfect years

Trenton you are officially 2 1/2 years old! You have grown and learned so much over the last couple of years. You can always bring a smile to my face and warm my heart with your smile. At 2 1/2 you can:

• Count to 10 in English & Spanish
• Sing ABC’s (through G the T through Z)
• Recite the book Brown Bear
• Can identify all of your colors (red is sometime yellow and vice versa)
• Identify all animals and the sound they make
• You know all of your shapes
• Catch a baseball with and without a glove
• Hit a baseball when we throw it to you
• Punt a football (really any ball)
• Potty all by yourself (working on #2)
• LOVE Playhouse Disney and Nick Jr –and you can identify every character (you probably watch too much TV)
• Watch Kung Fu Panda, Madasagascar 2 and Land Before Time 2 about 100 times a weekend
• Put your shoes, pants and shirt on all by yourself
• You love to color
• Playdough RULES YOUR WORLD on a rainy day
• Drive your John Deer tractor with total control
• Learned to blame friends
• You have such a big imagination
• Pretend like you are a lion at any minute
• Favorite toys Magnadoodle, Cars and Trains
• Favorite breakfast is waffels (you call them faffles)
• Favorite snack is Granola bar or yogurt
• Favorite dinner hotdogs and strawberries
• Happy Birthday is currently your favorite song
• Tumble Bus is your favorite part of the week at school
• You sleep in a big boy bed and usually make it the whole night
• Feed Slugger every morning and every afternoon
• Still carry a blanky
• Cuddle with Mommy every night

Trenton-ISMS

• When I tell you to stop doing something you reply with “I’m not sure Mommy”
• Daddy taught you to say “I’m a mexicano” and you repeat it all the time
• When Mommy says “Stop whining, please” you tell her “No be rude Mommy”
• Anytime you have a boo-boo you tell me “Jacob did it”
• You are very bossy – you tell us “Stay there, I be back”
• When I ask you who did it you say “Tenton did it”
• Every morning on the way to school you ask me “We go Bwady’s house” “We go G’s house” “No school Mommy, I go to Bwady’s”
• Ask almost every 5 minutes “I get cheeseburger Mommy?”
• Call Mosquitoes “Skeeta Bugs”
• Insist on everyone in our house eats a “icesicle” (popsicle) every night

No toys necessary to keep you happy! You love to click cups together at the football games!  You think it’s hilarious to empty your toy box and jump off of it onto your bed! You are 100% boy! You love to eat “Nola bar” and wear your “packpack” to school! Showing off your cute backpack!  I have decided this year to let Trenton pick out his own Halloween costume. I feared he would pick Dora because he LOVES her, but instead he picked Spider Man!

I guess the cute and fuzzy days are over!

  And what morning wouldn’t be complete with out your accessories. You love to wear Mommy’s necklaces and bracelets. It’s ok for now (as long as Dad doesn’t see you)You are growing so fast and learning so much. I hope you always kiss & hug me (even if your friends are around), tell me you love me and never feel embarrassed by me! I know these are all wishful thinking, but you are my sweet boy and I am so blessed to be your Mommy!

Monkey See Monkey Do!

This weekend I got a good taste of what it would be like to have back to back kids! I also got to see the HUGE difference between little boys and girls. My brother in law and I took the kids to the Clearbrook game on Friday. It was so funny when around the 3rd quarter he asked if we could leave!! This is my life: Football field chasing a child! You mean they actually play a sport at those things!?! Well Saturday I guess the men needed a break from all their hard work parenting (ha! that’s funny) so they went golfing and I had the monkey’s. Well I quickly learned that a 1 year old needs a lot more attention than my 2 year old. 1 year olds do not watch movies, they do not listen and they do not understand climbing on things and falling will hurt! With that being said Trenton did a great job of showing her how to climb on everything keeping Raelynn busy! They played and played and of course did not nap (those are over rated anyways). It was nice to watch Trenton show her how to play choo-choo or tell her NO when she was in his way of climbing on everything ! He is going to make an awesome big brother in a few years!!

Look how pretty this little Angel is!

Girls: Cry when little boys run into them with dump trucks

Boys: Laugh when they do it

Trenton showing Rae-rae how to put the trains together (notice the big boy bed behind him!)

This is what happens when you walk away to throw a load of laundry in….I did not get the picture of the chair on top of her for fear her Dad would never let me watch her again! 

Ok Rae-rae you climb up here and lift this up and Mommy gets very mad!This move had her laughing over and over! Don’t they look guilty?After being together all day Trenton accomplished teaching her how to climb up there! Her Dad was not impressed!Classic move in our house…over the couch, into the window, roll down couch….REPEATLook at T’s face. He is none impressed that his Mommy is holding someone else. It was pretty funny because the two of them were so jealous of one another! The boys got home and I made a break for it. Haircut, trip to Target and grocery shopping have never felt so good! I had a great time, but learned a lot. Girls cry over everything. Its hard to tell them to “shake it off” without feeling awful. BUT I would do it again. To see how well Raelynn and Trenton played together made it worth it!!!