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Playing Outside with Uncle Landon

Monday, March 8, 2010,

Landon is here visiting this week and Deacon is having a ball with him. Deacon stayed with Landon while we went to small group last night and even though I tried to give Landon tips, but he didn't want any. Nonetheless, when we got home, Deacon had been bathed and put to bed!

Today we soaked up the beautiful weather.

We played outside and once again Deacon had lots of fun playing with Uncle Landon.

One way to this boys heart is to let him play with your cell phone.

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Recipes

Monday, March 8, 2010,

I am terrible at keeping all of my recipes together so I decided to make a recipe blog to keep them all together and to share some of my favorites with friends and family, you can check it out here.

I am always asked for the recipe for these soft chocolate chip cookies so that is why I started with that recipe. I also started with that one because it is wrote on a little notecard and I know that I am going lose it one day.

I am always looking for new recipes so if you have a one that you would like to share please do.

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Our Typical Day

Sunday, March 7, 2010,

I am getting some great ideas here from mothers who are sharing what their "typical day" is like.

We usually don't have the same schedule everyday but this is the kinda what it looks like:

Deacon wakes up around 6:30 - 7:00. I give him a cup of milk and put him in bed with me. Sometimes he goes back to sleep, sometimes we just lay in bed and watch cartoons until we he is ready to get up.
We eat breakfast which is usually yogurt and oatmeal, pancakes or muffins.
After breakfast we get ready for the day. I usually try to have some type of "activity" for us to do in the mornings. This helps him to hold off on napping until after lunch. Some of our activities have or will include; story time, play dates, tubes at Rock Creek and the zoo.
Deacon usually wants to eat around 11:00 to 11:30 and then is down for a nap for 2-3 hours. I use this time to work, do chores, make phone calls and have computer time. When Deacon is around we cannot even open a computer with out him thinking he needs to use it, the same thing applies to the phone.
Once he wakes up we have play time and recently have been playing outside and going for a walk.
Then it is time to make dinner. At this time Deacon gets to watch one of his favorite shows, either Word World or Super Why. When that doesn't distract him long enough for me to make dinner he plays in the cabinets in the kitchen.
After dinner we have family play time, then it is bath time about 7:15 and he is in bed around 8.

My main goal is to make sue he doesn't get bored with me! I am constantly looking for things for us to do. If you have any advice I would love to hear it.

I usually have 1 day during the week to be at home all day to get everything caught up. There is a lot of stuff that I can't do when Deacon is awake, but somethings he likes to help with like laundry and vacuuming.

That is what a typical day in our lives look like. I love it!

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Day with Stella

Saturday, March 6, 2010,

Yesterday Bryan had a meeting in NWA so Deacon and I decided that we would tag along. We ended up making the last minute decision to go up Thursday night and spend the night with the Yazwinski's.

Yesterday morning when Deacon woke up he was a little unsure of Stella. It didn't take him long to get over that once he remembered all the toys he had seen the night before. However, we did have a few sharing issue in the beginning.

But by the end of the day Stella was sharing her sacred Bunny with Deacon and he was sharing his snacks and they were best friends.

We went to the park yesterday morning and I tried to get a picture of them together, but that was nearly impossible since they were having so much fun.

Deacon loved this park. He loved sliding down the big slides

and running like crazy in the open area.

They even loved giving each other hi-fives

and knucks!

After the park we met up with Bryan for lunch at one of my favorite places that Little Rock doesn't have...Steak N Shake. After lunch Deacon was out in no time. So, while we packed up we let him sleep.

Once we got in the car he was wide awake almost the whole way home.

We had a great visit with the Yazwinski's and hope to see them again soon!

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Hanging Out

Thursday, March 4, 2010,

Today we didn't get out of the house much. We pretty much just hung out, did some laundry and got ready for Uncle Landon's visit.

Today was the first day that Deacon was really interested in playing with his GeoTracks that he got for Christmas. When I went to grab the camera to get a picture of it he didn't want anything to do with them. So, when I told him to go play with them so I could take his picture he decided to just have a little posing session.