What I Love About You

What I love about TuckMan:

• Slobbery kisses followed by "Uv You, Mama!"
• The way he politely answers "No, Tank You!" when asked if he needs to potty or wants to go to bed.
• The way he wants me to sit in the rocking chair so I can throw the football to him.
• His singing while strumming on his guitar (and sometimes while he pounds on his drums).
• His prayers. Today we went to McDonald's and this was his prayer: "Dear Jesus, Tank you for my cheeseburber, juice-some-more, and my french fries. They're hot! Amen."
• The way a kiss and telling him "all better" can heal many hurts. He even paused to kiss my tummy yesterday when I told him I was feeling well.
• The bottomless pit that he is! That kid can consume some major food!
• His happiness! There are very few instances throughout the day where Tucker is not grinning ear to ear!

I love that kid!

Will be around more

Yesterday, Miss Addeline gave us a little scare. I woke up with a lot of pressure and began to have contractions later in the morning, so off to the hospital we went. Praise God she is still inside baking. It turns out I'm carrying her really low putting lots of pressure on my lower muscles. I also got a lecture from the doctor that I was doint too much. So now I have to wear a stomach belt for support and stay off my feet as much as possible for the next 10 weeks. So I will be blogging a lot more!

Here is a rundown of our latest activities:

• Tucker started his new school yesterday and loved it. He kept telling his teacher throughout the day that he was going to tell his mama that he had fun. Sometimes I wish he'd shed a tear when I leave him!
• Monday we went to watch Uncle Zack coach his basketball team with Gigi, Gramps, and Pa. Tuck had a blast being spoiled by all!
• Last Thursday, we met Hudson and his parents for a playdate at an indoor playplace called The PlayZone. It was so neat, and it really wore the little guys out.

We are pottytraining and it's going pretty well. Tucker still wears a diaper when we leave the house, but he does really well while we're home. I guess we'll master it while we're spending all this time at home!

Moving on up at the Holidays

We found out in the middle of Tucker's surgery that Matt had been offered a job at Deaconess Hospital. We took a few days to pray about it, and in the end couldn't turn down 40 hours a week and more money an hour.

So...we put our house on the market, put offers on two houses in OKC before finally finding "the one", and began the process of moving. Matt ended up having to start in OKC two weeks before we could close on a house, so it's been a little crazy.

Being a single mom +being pregnant + packing + missing Matt + keeping our house clean to show + having to throw many of our Christmas traditions aside due to the craziness = NOT FUN!

We close on our house in OKC tomorrow and are going to start staying there so that we can be together with the bare essentials until we have time to have an official moving day.

Since this is the first Christmas that Tucker has officially been old enough to know what is going, on it's been hard to have to push aside lots of our traditions. We have been to see Santa as well as see the lights and inflatables in Muskogee, but I'm really hoping that the lack of furniture, TV, etc. in the new house will provide us lots of free time next week to cram as much Christmas down our throats as I can!

Our week in review

It's been a beautiful week...

Last Friday, we hosted a fifth quarter at the church. Though I took Tucker's p.j.'s, he insisted on staying up until the kids left (at midnight). I wonder if it was the large amount of orange pop that he consumed? We found him later that night wearing one mitten as he slept...who knows?

Saturday, we spent the morning at the church setting up for the church carnival before heading home for an afternoon nap. We then go dressed up in our cowboy get-up for some trick-or-treating. We stopped by Tucker's best buddy, Hudson's house before heading to the church.

At the carnival, Tucker loved the petting zoo, where he got to pet and hold a 2-day-old goat as well as the football throw. He came home exhausted and with a bag FULL of candy.

The weather for the rest of the week has been beautiful! We've taken full advantage of it and visited a few of the playgrounds around town.

Tucker has always been scared of the closed in slide at the McDonald's playground, but on Thursday after some bribing with a "dodder" (dollar) from his daddy he went down the slide. Now he can't be stopped. It is the best way to wear him out before a nap though!

Tuck's scheduled for surgery Tuesday at noon. This means no food or milk after midnight Monday...this should be interesting!

Big boy and his baby sister!

A lot has happened since my last post. Tucker turned TWO! Where have the past two years gone? I don't know if it's pregnancy hormones or what, but it makes me want to cry thinking that he is growing up so quickly.

Now that Tucker's Two:

-He's in the 30th percentile in height and the 50th in weight.

-He talks ALL the time and never forgets anything!

-He loves any sports and would prefer to watch sports over cartoons.

-He loves to eat! His favorite foods are spaghetti, anything that you can dip, fruit snacks, and most of all "cheeseburbers". He's not a picky eater at all!

-He recently moved into the big bedroom and got a new big boy baseball bed from Nan and Pa for his birthday.

-He is a morning person usually waking around 6:45.

-He has many friends but loves his buddy Hudson (Hutton) and his cousin Sambo the most!

We celebrated in grand fashion with a birthday party held at our church. I'll post about it in a separate post.

For his actual birthday, we traveled to Tulsa for the evening. We went and played games (got ripped) off at Chucke Cheese's before heading to Ted's for supper. The waiters and waitresses sang to Tucker, but he wasn't a big fan of it.

Last Thursday, we made the trek to Pryor to let Matt's friend from school do an ultrasound to find that we are having a baby girl! Tucker has been telling us this whole pregnancy that he is having a baby "sista" and that he's naming her Tucker Eidson...well one of his wishes is coming true!

Deer

We live smack in the middle of "Deer Hunting Paradise". I think my husband is the only man in the county without a hunting license. I even know that bow season starts today! I bet neither of my sisters knows that!

Tuesday, we traveled to Ada for my OB check-up. The baby is still growing and doing great. After eating some beans and cornbread with my parents, we started the boring drive home. Since Tucker had spent the afternoon at Pa's office, he hadn't napped. He didn't even make it to the highway before he was OUT!

I was enjoying my peaceful, quiet ride home when out of nowhere a deer slams into my car bouncing off and slamming into my driver's side door. I screamed and pulled over on the shoulder where my shaking hands called Matt and my parents. I looked back to check on Tucker to find that he had slept through the whole ordeal! Then much to my disbelief, I saw the deer trot off the road. Tough animal!

I was almost to Atwood, OK so I continued on into town to look for a safe place to park until my parents and Matt could get to us. My choices were a gas station that was closed or the post office. I chose the post office where Tuck continued to snooze until my parents arrived.

So we're down to one vehicle while my car gets fixed. It had some damage of the front end and to the driver's side door. Thankfully, we're all safe and sound and driving around in daddy's Titan. I dare a deer to run out if front of me in that beast!

Tattletale

Tucker's latest milestone...tattling! It's about to make me crazy. As a teacher, tattling was always one of my biggest pet peaves. I implemented a "5 B" rule in my class. My students could only tattle if it was blood, barf, bathroom, bad guy, or bad word. Now my soon-to-be 2-year-old has become a major tattler.

Today we met our friends Danna and Hudson at McDonalds for a lunch/play date. After the boys went NUTS over the sports decorations, we moved our party to the playplace. We endured much screaming of "Touchdown Sooners", "Down, Set, Hut", etc. In the playplace, my son spent the majority of his time tattling on his friend. He came to tell Danna that Hudson (who was standing 5 feet away) hit him on the cheek. I told him that Hudson did not hit him, so off he went. Then when getting told not to open the door, he blamed it on Hudson who was on the other side of the room. We're a little young for the 5 B's so I may just have to hang a big ear on the wall for him to tattle to similar to my daycare employment days!