Christmas 2015

Christmas was very nice this year. Deacon opened his gifts from Santa and then Matt's family came over to our house in the morning. Deacon was able to take a nap in the afternoon and then we went to my uncles house in the evening. The next day we went to my parents house in the morning and then my Grandma's in the evening. Two days of Christmas is great! I think Deacon loved every minute of it (except for maybe his nap). I think his favorite toy this year is a dancing robot from Grandma Mecham and/or a Vtech tablet from Santa. 

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December 2015

Deacon has really enjoyed this holiday season. He loves to see the Christmas lights, trees, and decorations. He quite likes nutcrackers, bells, and candy canes, too. He even made up his own songs about them. He pretty much just sings the same word over and over, ex: candy canes, candy canes, candy candy canes.... He also likes to sing Jingle Bells. We went on the North Pole Express in Heber Valley on December 8 and Deacon enjoyed the train ride and seeing Santa. Santa gave him and Livy a bell and a candy cane. We also went to see Santa at Farmington Station on December 19. There was a big basket of candy canes next to Santa and when he asked Deacon what he would like for Christmas, Deacon said "a candy cane." Santa gave him a candy cane and he was a very happy little boy. Deacon did not like waiting in line to see Santa, but he did enjoy watching the fountain. When we got home that night, Deacon wanted to play a game where he was Santa and I was Mrs. Clause (even though he wanted to sit on my lap and tell me what he wanted for Christmas). 

Deacon is already very into Star Wars, even though he hasn't seen the movies or really knows what it's about. He likes Darth Vader and the Storm Troopers. Grandma Mecham bought him Star Wars fruit snacks and he likes to find all of the characters on the box. Yoda and R2-D2 are also fun for him. He loves robots and likes to pretend that he is a robot quite often. We had a big snow storm hit last week and Deacon has enjoyed going out in the snow with his shovel. Sadly, I don't like being in the snow, but i'll try to let him explore it somewhat. 

Heber Valley North Pole Express:

Playing in the snow:

Seeing Santa and watching the fountain:

2.5 Years Old

Stats:

Height: 38 inches - 89th %

Weight: 29 lbs - 42nd %

His phrase this week is 'mama, what do we do?' Or 'what do we do now?' He will say this at random times like when I put him in his bed last night and when he pulled Super Grandpa into the kitchen. He has such a fun personality and says such funny things. (12/21/2015)

Halloween Fun!

Deacon LOVED Halloween. He is still talking about "scary ghosts" and "scary statues." He watched the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Halloween special I think at least once a day for about 2 weeks. Deacon was a skeleton/vampire and he really enjoyed wearing his costumes. He even wore the skeleton all day one day, to bed that night, and all day the next day. Deacon and Olivia went to the truck-or-treat at my ward the Wednesday before Halloween and then went together around my neighborhood on Halloween night. He loved trick-or-treating and kept asking me if we could go to "one more house". I told him we could go to lots more. Deacon loved seeing all the decorations, lights, pumpkins, and scarecrows. He only got scared at one house that had a witch/ghost hanging by the door. Livy was a bit timid at most homes unless she saw a dog... then she just wanted to walk right in and see the dog. Below are some pictures of the kids at the truck-or-treat.

On Saturday, November 7, for some reason Deacon stuck his finger into Livy's mouth when she was eating some fruit snacks. I don't know if he was giving her one or what, but she bit down pretty hard and Deacon's finger got an infection in it. We got him some antibiotics, but he HATED drinking the liquid! He would spit all of it out and cry and we were supposed to get him to drink it twice a day for 10 days! I called the doctor and they gave us some chewables, but said that they didn't taste much better. I have been cutting the pills in half and covering them with peanut butter to get him to take them. He only spit a pill out once so far and tonight will be his last pill, yipee! His infection better not come back because I don't think I can get him to take anymore medicine. Getting kids to take medicine is hard! His finger got really red and swollen and then finally popped. His fingernail actually fell all the way off a few days ago, but overall, it is looking much better. Poor guy!

With Halloween over and Thanksgiving/Christmas on the way, Deacon is already enjoying the Christmas lights and seeing the lit Christmas trees at the stores. I'm usually a "wait until after Thanksgiving to start Christmas" kind of person, but this year I'm okay with it starting early since Deacon enjoys it so much. 

Phrases:
I think Deacon got a few of these phrases from the shows he watches. He was playing with the basketball hoop and it fell over on him. He said "It's all part of the plan," which Matt told me a character on a show says sometimes when he messes up and accidents happen. He also says "Good job everybody" sometimes. I remember him saying it once after I changed his diaper.  We were waiting in the Taco Bell drive-thru the other night and after a minute of silence Deacon said "what is going on here?" He said it in the cutest voice/tone, too.

He loves tools and always wants to "fix" everything. He also likes to have everything "talk," Lately he will hand me something, anything really, and he will get something, too and say "talk mom." His things mostly just say "hi." 

Pumpkin Train

Personally, I don't really enjoy Halloween. I don't like being scared and I don't really like to dress up, but with Deacon, it is much more fun. He really seems to like Halloween, or at least whatever he thinks it is. He loves to see all of the pumpkins, spiders, ghosts, and other Halloween decorations and watch Halloween shows. He keeps saying "let's go," meaning let's go to Halloween. It's hard for him to understand that he still has to wait a few more days. I think it's cute how much he seems to like it.

On Saturday, my mom and I took the kids to the Heber Valley Pumpkin Train. We went on a 40 minute train ride, which turned out to only be 4 miles down the track and 4 miles back, got a pumpkin cookie, and picked a pumpkin from their "Pumpkin Patch," which was just a bunch of boxes of pumpkins. Both kids seemed to enjoy themselves and have a good time. Afterwards, we took them for their first time to McDonald's for Happy Meal. They both liked playing on the play place and had fun with a little boy that Deacon kept calling "Gentle." I'm not sure what his real name was, but I know that was not correct. Deacon and the other boy kept laughing and playing together and had fun. Livy liked to climb up the play place and come back down again. 

 

 

Deacon and Daddy carved the pumpkins we got from our train ride last night: 

 

Things to Remember:
This week's phrases: "I can mom, I can," and "Oh my gosh."

Example: Deacon asked if he could have a popsicle on Monday, but I told him he had to eat his dinner first. He replied with "I can." I can mom, I can." I received the same response when I told him he couldn't have a cookie either. Apparently he thinks he can.

We were at Smith's buying some groceries on Tuesday and when Deacon saw some painted pumpkins he kept saying "oh my gosh." I had never heard him say this before and I'm not sure where he picked it up from. Matt and I don't say it very often and my parents don't either. I'm going to assume that he learned it at the babysitters... but it's not my favorite thing to have him say. 

Yesterday when Deacon woke up from his nap he was not happy. He kept crying and wouldn't say much and then laid down on the floor. After a few minutes, he had fallen asleep again on the floor so I put a blanket on him, left his door open, and went in the other room. About 15 minutes later I heard him say "where'd Mom go." I met him in the hallway and he was much happier for the rest of the night. Funny, funny boy.