Sunday, October 14, 2012

One year and a half


In the past 6 months so much has happened. Tabor you have gone from a baby to a toddler and literally transformed before our eyes.

You crawled on all fours (instead of land swimming) on the day you turned 1 and today you not only walk but RUN! It's only been a short 4 months since you even took your first steps and to watch you dance and climb just amazes us.

You've been talking for a long time now but we love the new words and phrases you put together. I started writing every word you said but after about 50 I gave up. You are such a chatterbox. You love to string 2 words together and not a day goes by that you don't show us every animal sound you have learned. This is probably our favorite thing to do with you and you've been doing it for a couple of months now adding new sounds from time to time.

Your newest accomplishment (if we can call it that) is spelling your name. Granted we won't give you THAT much credit because really you are just repeating us, but in the last few days if we ask you to spell your name you say T and then wait for the rest of the letters so you can repeat them!

You can recognize a T, an O and a B. However you refuse to learn A and R. haha Your favorite letter though is T and you point it out in EVERY sign you see.

You love Nemo, Turtles, and ducks.

You cannot go to sleep without sucking on the tag of your Aden & Anais blankets. We have had to teach you not to pull it out of your crib because you will walk all over the house sucking on the tag and trip yourself.

You dance all day long. If you hear music you start dancing. If you don't hear music you go turn it on so you can dance. Your hips start moving, you clap to the beat and your right foot stomps. Sometimes you even turn in circles. We love watching you dance.

You LOVE your wooden and blow up guitar. You strum and dance and sing your own version of "Jesus loves me". You even close your eyes like our praise & worship leader at church. We love this!

You tell us Nite Nite and Amo (te amo = I love you in Spanish) every night before you go to bed.

You clasp your hands together to pray and say amen after the prayer ends. This is really sweet. You used to hold our hands but now you hold your own.

You are obsessed with pumpkins. You call them "cunkins" and you wake up every morning asking for them.


You are still a great eater. You do not like mac n cheese, pizza or any normal kid food however. You will eat sushi, salmon, rice with brussels sprouts, spinach, kale, and you love bread. Breakfast is hit or miss - you sometimes love eggs and sometimes will only take a bite. You do love starbucks pumpkin bread and Rise & Shine donut holes. Probably should never have introduced you to those!

You have started calling Papa - Daddy. We don't know where this came from.

You have 6 teeth. This makes meal time difficult still!


You call leche "caca" and we laugh every time.

I told you I was not going to turn on Baby Beethoven the other day unless you could say Beethoven and I swear you said it. Kiki heard too. We just stood there shocked. (obviously it wasn't perfect but it was clear enough)

You wear size 12-18 and some 18-24 and size 5 shoe. You are in the 30th percentile for height, weight, etc.

You say "Hi Titus" every morning and rub my belly.

You learned to climb the day we set up Titus' crib and you HAD to peak inside. You found a monkey and since then go looking for the monkey and make a monkey sound.

You can jump, run and walk backwards. You seem so coordinated and yet sometimes you fall for no reason.

You love looking for the moon every night."LUNA"


You light up a room by entering it. Your little "happy feet" tap dance and giggle melt my heart and there is never a dull moment when you are around. We love you so much little Tabor and we can't believe you will be a big brother soon. We know you will be an amazing brother! Happy 18 months little man. We love you more and more every second of every day.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Tim & Marlene in Texas

Since our schedules have been crazy busy lately and are just about to get even crazier Tim & Marlene decided to come and visit while we all had a weekend free. It actually was great timing because it fell on Marlene's birthday so we were able to all celebrate together!

Tabor and I got up early to be sure and have delicious "Cake" cupcakes ready for the birthday girl's arrival!


Marlene, Tabor & I had lunch at Bless your Heart (my favorite) and the guys surprised us. Tim came dressed as Ty INTO the restaurant! haha! We were stunned and then ran out of there!


We introduced them to the new Pie Bar. YUM! This place is so delicious!


It's a pie in a cup! Seriously it's amazing! We got Pie Bites (the small ones) and were so full afterwards! Trust us though - these are amazing!


Tabor and Tim were pie buddies!


Tabor didn't realize there was deliciousness just inches from his little feet. :-)


A Smores Pie! YUM!!!

The crew getting ready to dig in!


Tim tried to act like he was at Radio Shack but I think even he preferred the pie bar after he tasted it.

For dinner we celebrated Marlene's birthday at the Funky Door! Everyone enjoyed the yummy wine. Everyone but me :-( I can't wait to go back soon!! Overall a pretty successful birthday I think! We had so much fun!


THE funky DOOR! Get it!?


We even visited the South Plains Fair. It was Tabor AND Tim's first time at the fair! Tabor of course loved the music the best.


He cried when we made him leave his new drum set. (Tears ended as soon as he realized we were headed to see animals)


His favorite were the ducks but he loved the sheep too!


Our newspaper said the Strawberry dessert stand was one of the best. I think we tried every other food there except this one. We sampled it and it was just too rich - so we stuck to funnel cake and deep fried milky ways. ha!


Tia Leney got Tabor a guitar which he has NOT put down since. He strums and dances and sings songs. It's the cutest thing ever!


Tim had his first FUNNEL cake with us too! Can't believe it was his first time! We were happy to celebrate though! Fair food is the best!


Tabor and Ty acting silly. This is what too much friend food will do to you.


Tim buying his first funnel cake!! YUM!


We were all about enjoying fall and being as Texas as possible all weekend so we took them to the Corn Maze. Let me just say that if you haven't been it is definitely a must do!


This is what it looks like!! (see the first exit halfway through?! That's as far as I got!)


Marlene & I kept our maps out the entire time (which upset the men) but we were much much happier!


We loved these little signs though! It's good to know we would've been rescued!


Marlene SO proud to have found marker #2! ha! We girls were happy finding each marker and happy to leave halfway as well. haha


Tabor got a prize corn lollipop afterwards. He was sticky sticky but he was so happy he did not care!


We went on a Hay Ride to a pumpkin patch while the men finished the maze. Marlene & Tabor excited at the halfway mark with me so I would not go into labor and so I wouldn't be lonely! :-) We had so much fun!


Tabor in the maze wondering when he could get out of his wagon and RUN!


Tabor loves his tio Tim! (& tia Leney too!)


The Touchstone clan posing in the corn.



Tabor and his Papa in the maze


Marlene happy to have the map back!


Marker #5...I think there were 18 total. Once again Tabor just wanted to run free.


If you came across Tabor in the month of October you would know "cunkins" were all this kid could talk about. Seeing as how he LOVES balls AND the color orange...we should have seen this coming. He still asks about the "cunkins"


He also tried to feed the animals. I am glad he still has all his fingers.


Tia Leney & Tabor on the hayride. (pointing at "cunkins")


Before we left the men climbed the rock wall BAREFOOT! These guys are crazy! We smarties stayed firmly on the ground! Ok but look how hardcore they look! We were impressed!


Seriously Tim looks like he belongs on the cover of some cool adventure sports magazine!


Ty too!

Haha had to get a wedgie shot!


Tabor drove his first tractor.



AND...Tim & Marlene experienced their first dust storm. The weather was hot and beautiful and suddenly...dirt was flying and the sky was orange. ha! Welcome to Lubbock, Texas!


There's never a dull moment when we all get together. Thanks for coming to visit us. We love you more than words could ever say and we loved getting to spend time together like before. It's never long enough so we can't wait until we convince you both to retire in Texas! ;-) You do have to come back now to meet Baby Titus!

Monday, September 24, 2012

Trip to hospital

I'm 34 weeks along and have been having contractions for about a week now and the dr finally asked us to go up to the hospital. Well turns out my contractions are 2-4min apart and yet it's considered "normal". What?! How is that normal and does it mean ill experience this for the next 5 weeks?! Torture!!!

They offered me MORPHINE for my "normal" contractions. Um... No thanks. I'll stick to Tylenol.

Titus we are ready to meet you but if you could make it a little less painful that would be awesome!!!

Ty has been such an awesome helper tonight!!! ;) zzz