A Few iPhone Photos

"How to Be a Ballerina" by Lainey Harris

First...you need a teacher.

Second...you need the clothes.

Third...you need to know a dance.

Last...you have a recital.

 Talent Show costume (the talent show is the first week of June)

Walker these days...he always has his four blankies - Ducky still being his favorite - as well as his Dinosaur-y and Soccer Ball-y. He adds "-y" or "-ies" to things quite often. For example, if he's wanting to complain about something, he'll say that his knee "itchies" or his ankle "hurties."

"It's terrific, Mommy." Big compliment coming from Walker! He is in his rocket ship. He was extremely specific about where the "triangles" had to go.

A Little Walker Update:

First and foremost, he cracks me up and sometimes I want to squeeze him because he is so cute. But then, the very next minute, he will make me want to pull my hair out. We just go back and forth like this all day! :)

Funny stuff that he says..

• The Nike logo is considered "super fast." If I am wearing my Nike hat, he'll ask me, "Why you wearin' your super fast hat?
• He is very, very competitive. Wants to be the fastest, hit the ball the furthest, have the most cars...you name it. He always wants to wear "fast shirts" to school. Whatever that means.
• He is completely crazy when it comes to his shoes...they have to be the "same tight." They have to be Velcroed tightly. And they must feel the same! And he does NOT like his socks to be baggy or messed up in the toe area of the shoe. A little dose of OCD, anyone? 
• He wants to be perfect. This applies to art, sports, playing with his toys. For example, he was trying to draw a heart the other evening and he just started crying. He said, "My heart is not perfect. It looks like poop." (He cried, I giggled.)
• He loves space, meteors, and meteorites. He's also been known to reference his poops as looking like "meteors in the potty." Just keeping it real, friends. :)
• Gets super excited and full of energy when he is in a good mood. He'll say "punchy punchy" when referencing anything (while in this good mood)... So he may squeeze your cheeks and say "punchy punchy punchy!" or something to that effect. So random. He just gets excited very easily...and he can get a little rough! This is a bit new for us. The "rough" part. He's always been very gentle and sweet...but that's changing. He's becoming much more physical and impulsive! That's a boy for ya. :) Just a little afraid it's going to get him into trouble! It's making his sister nuts.
• He blames things on an invisible man that apparently lives in our house. He accidentally hits Lainey and he makes messes. 
• Funny FUNNY words: 
• "fangs" (things)
• "face" (space) 
• "funge" (sponge)
• "fware" (square) *Notice we have an issue with the "s" sound and all "s" blends!*
• "confwucktion site" (construction site) 
• "machime" (machine) 
• "puh-pwise" (surprise) 
• "buhp-day" (birthday) 
• "fot" (spot) 
• "Powergade" (Powerade)
• "garola" (granola)
• "Milky Wave" (Milky Way)
• "leaf-es" (leaves)
• "gwess" (dress) 
• "gwop" (drop) *We also have an issue with the "dr" blend!*
• "baf-es" (baths)
• "defick-able" (despicable)
• "fuh-getti" or "fuh-deddy" (spaghetti)
• "fikey hay-uh" (spikey hair)
• "That's disgustin'." (That's disgusting.) *He still drops the "g" off of "-ing" on lots of words!
• "That's bowin.'" (That's boring.)
• Whenever he wants to do something that he knows I won't like, he'll say, "Don't see me." or "Don't look at me." He'll also say, "Don't look at the TV" if Sponge Bob Square Pants comes on because he knows that I don't like that show.  
• He hates having bed head and spiky hair. He wants that hair to lay down flat.
• He often confuses his timing and his prepositions and mixes up his words sometimes:
• Example: "We did that tomorrow."
• "I'm going to Academy for two weeks."
• "Put the batteries out of that car." 
• "A long (long, long, long...) day ago..."
• Walker does NOT like blood. If he hurts himself, and it bleeds, he'll cry, cry, CRY until you can "get the red off" because he is terrified of his blood and other people's blood. Might I mention that his sister is fascinated with blood. Just another example as to how they are different!
• He has anxiety about me leaving. I cannot leave him in the car ever - even if I forget something the house, and he is strapped in his car seat and ready to go, I have to unbuckle him and take him back inside with me. He always needs to know where I am and when I'll be back. Counting the seconds helps him sometimes. He just has a strange phobia about me leaving! It's maybe connected to his throwing up one time I had left him in the car (because I had left something in the house...story of my life!). He also throws up a lot...we think he has a sensitive tummy and therefore we just need to be aware of it...especially when he's antibiotics. Random throwing up will occur with no other symptoms! 
• He is a bit obsessed with time...he often asks, "How many days/hours/minutes?" And when you give him the answer, he'll ask, "How many seconds is that?" And if it doesn't match up with what he's thinking or what he wants, he cries...telling us, "That too long!" or "That's forever!"
• He makes up funny numbers. "I did it a thousand sixty seven hundred ninety three times." Or "I need a thousand amount of waters." (As in, he needs a large quantity of water...not 1,000 cups/bottles.)
• Walker has finally shown an interest in dressing himself. But he gets frustrated if it is not done perfectly.
• He has a funny laugh/cry that he does when he's nervous. Like when he's trying to do the monkey bars, or jump into the swimming pool. It's a nervous laugh/cry.
• Walker has done the monkey bars at school a few times! He gets REALLY frustrated if he can't finish the "set" of monkey bars, however!
• Once, when we crossed over the connecting bridge from Frisco to Plano, he happily announced, "Yay! we're back where we belong!" :) 
• He likes earning money for doing (simple) chores. :) Except he has zero concept of money. For example, he thinks one penny will buy a new Hot Wheels car. Not so much. And, side note... I feel that we're running out of Hot Wheels cars to buy. Remember I said that he doesn't like any other brand...just Hot Wheels. The car has to say "Hot Wheels" on the side/top of the car and on the bottom of the car. He doesn't really care for the Hot Wheels "Color Shifters" (those that change colors) and he's pretty particular about which style of car that he likes. Ha! Who would have thought I would ever say that we're running out of options of Hot Wheels cars to purchase!? Not me!! Anyway...back to what I was saying. Walker refers to coins as "monies." So usually, he will want "two monies" for doing chores. And if given the choice, he'd take two quarters over one dollar. Not telling him any different at this point! :)
• We've been sick a LOT lately. Since about February, we've been sick constantly...everyone but Ben. I've had two sinus infections, Walker has had strep throat twice, and Lainey is now on her third round of strep throat. She's had it three times within a month. Eeeek. I'm hoping that these super strong antibiotics knock it out of the park...I'm done with laundry! Both of our kids throw up and run really high fever with strep throat. NO fun. :( Anyway, Walker is awfully concerned whenever he's sick and someone else gets sick. He'll say, "Did I give you my sick? Does it [blanket, toy, whatever] have my sick on it?" ;)

Love you and all your crazy, Buddy. You are certainly one of a kind!

"The TV is too bwight!" Clearly, I need to adjust the brightness of the TV screen before Walker awakens. :)