Tom and Jerry

Owen has a new favorite cartoon show, Tom and Jerry. He practically falls on the floor laughing so hard at the chase scenes and the "gotchas". Oh he is so entertaining!

He now has an alarm clock in his room. I put a sticker over the minutes and told him he is allowed to get out of bed in the morning when he sees the number 7. Otherwise he's up and bouncing around anywhere between 5 to 7 in the morning. It works like a charm, he now arrives in my bed at 7 on the dot telling me that the number 7 is on his clock and thank you mommy for the clock and what are we doing today and are we going to grandma's and what are you wearing today and oh I have to go pee-pee now but I can put my undies back on all by myself because I'm three and I'll be four in May on the sixth and for my birthday I'll get a batman and oh the sun is up so its daytime and is daddy working with the bad guys and he will come home and build a fire and I'm done mommy I go pee-pee in the potty so I gotta flush and I can get my pants back on the right way and my tummy is growling so I am hungry maybe I'll have waffles today and oh there's Izzy and hi Joey is Joey awake now?

Sigh...that's pretty much the prattle I hear all day long. I love the fact that he can talk and I'm happy we can finally understand most of what he's saying, but where's the off switch?!

Joey has graduated from boring old plain rice cereal to tasty banana with oatmeal and just recently apples with oatmeal. The bananas were okay, but the apples - oh yum! His face lights up and the child SMILES when you come at him with a spoonful of apple and oatmeal! He's also turned into a little old grandpa...his nightly routine consists of eating dinner, whining until bathtime which I can usually put off until around 6:30 then get dressed (he waits to cry until I am getting ready to actually put the pj's on him) then we wants to be nursing and nodding off to sleep no later than 7 pm. I tell him he goes to bed with the chickens! Owen never wanted to sleep that early! And there is hell to pay if you put off the sleep routine! He is a little old man with his own little routine, what a great baby! Sigh...before I know it he'll be 3 years old.