Happy Fathers Day, the second post

Love these two! xo

Happy Fathers Day!

to a guy who was put on this earth for if nothing else, then to be a daddy. We love you!

• "My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." -- Clarence Budington Kelland

"Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives."
-- Stephen R. Covey

"He was all questions. But small boys expect their fathers to be walking lexicons, to do two jobs at once, to give replies as they are working, whether laying stones or building models...digging up a shrub, or planting flower beds...Boys have a right to ask their fathers questions...Fathers are the powers that be, and with their power and might must shelter, guard, and hold and teach and love...All men with sons must learn to do these things...Too soon, too soon, a small son grows and leaves his father's side to test his manhood's wings. "
--Roy Z. Kemp


"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; Parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
-- Mother Teresa

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Woo, I must be on a roll....

I love the series of pictures from the Jungle, they make me smile every time I see them, they have been sitting on may desk waiting to have something done to them and Aaron saw them Yesterday and started laughing so I put them on my to do soon list and I like how it turned out. The colors are brighter in real life, not sure why it looks muted but whatever.




A few shots from Barrons first birthday party, Billy is so crazy about him and he couldn't be sweeter. Even with no nap and a cold not one bit of fussin' out of him. He Frankenstein walked over to Billy and hugged him and Shannon was really excited, she said thats the first time he has ever done that. They were holding hands on the trolley too, it really was too cute.

Three New Layouts

I have been scrapping in my sleep, that always means I am thinking about it more than just getting something done. I really had fun with these and they came together so easily! Not much new here, Billy still isn't wanting to leave the house, for fear of a potty accident maybe? I don't know. Hopefully more exciting thing over the weekend.

We Have Success....

or at least the start of it! Now Billy is really amped to use the potty and he went 10 times today, no joke! We have only had one poop accident in 3 days, he has made it every other time!

This was the toy he chose, I think he thought there were paints in it and not the cars changing colors by the water, oh well, I was really suprised he picked that and then when we got home he kept asking for the paints and it all clicked into place. This was the best of the pictures Aaron got, he looks really depressed in the ones with his new toy :(

Aaron started his new job today, it was a little quiet around here but Billy reassured me, "Domt worry, daddy needs to go to work to make money. It will be OK!" Funny little man

And an o;d picture from 2 Halloweens ago, when we got there Billy had a fever and was not his usual happy self, not even the train ride could coax a smile out of him!

Little Toot

Funny, he picked the boat with his own little nickname! He loves the boats this time, usually he looks a little bored and gets yelled at by the guy running the thing to keep drinking the water!




Look at that sweet face, this is the first time he rode the little whales and he rode this ride about 5 times.




And there's a picrure of those cute little whales! Looks like fun, huh?

And just because last post we were channeling Kimi this time we'll put in a photo where he says, "I look like Stan!" He's even rockin' his Born to be Wild New York shirt!

He's been really into 'scrapping' like me, it's be so fun to do a little bit of art and share my stickers, like a good mom! He's been into drawing lately too. His new 'thing' is drawing Diesel 10's claw, if you don't know who that is you must not have a 3 year old into trains. I'll have to take a picture of the claw or 'grabber'.

I can't believe this wasn't the first thing I wrote, Billy woke up dry, held his pee for 2 freaken' hours without an accident, and FINALLY after telling me his tummy hurt (uh, ya think, 13 hours no pottying) he leaned over, held his feet and went potty! Then he went again after nap, no accidents today! Unbelievable, now if we could just expidite this process and spend less than 1/2 our day in the bathroom. GO BILLY!

Aaron let me have a break night before starting work next week so I hope when I come home I'll here no accidents at all! After the easy release of the 'pa' I am a little suprised at the resistance, except he's a little older and realizes he has a little bit of control over himself.





OK, to end this epic post, Billy and our downstairs neighbor Yasmine together. He is so crazy about her, I love that his is so lightly touching her arm and looking up to her and she is very patient with him while trying to teach him to ride his trike, he's much more motivated with her then with us. And the final photo is one I think is so sweet of Billy with his beachy hair, oversized shirt and serious look.

PEPSI TRUCKS!

BEST. RIDE. EVER.

Channeling Kimi

The third best part of Santa Cruz, after the water and Pepsi Trucks!


Now it gets fun!

Someone needs an ice cream eating lesson!


And, lastly, this is the first picture I have seen that Billy looks like Kimi as a baby (or toddler).

Summer has officially started in the Hamilton house, our first trip to Santa Cruz!

Mothers Day, potty, and dancing!

This was on Mothers Day at the Percolation Pond in Milpitas, Billy, Aaron and I went to play with the remote control boat. It was fun but the battery only lasted 4 minutes!

I tried to get a picture of part of our hellatious journey in potty training and all I got was smiles, trust, the other 4 hours were all unhappiness. Aaron put him on the pot first thing 45 minutes and a dry diaper, put his underwear on and as Billy sat on the couch he calls out WET! This happened 4 times today no joke. He told me he would use the potty when he was my age, great.


Dancing to the Gummi Bear song, a good way to end a stressful day. I love the snapping fingers!



Look at those baby blues! What a sweet face, when I see this sweet picture it makes all the frustration worth it.


Look at that handsome guy, I love the haircut (and that he is watching Billy playing with Yasmine!)

no sleep. time to scrap

The camping one isn't crooked, I just couldn't get it straight! Billy went to Fairyland in Oakland and had a great time on the slides and running around. He really liked the stories you start with the key you buy at the front.

I finished Season 3 of Friday night lights last night, SO GOOD! I was only watching one at a time to drag it out, I didn't want to end. Lucky for me they signed a contract through 2011!

I love this kid

Today when Aaron was talking to Billy he said, "Hey, there's Fred!" and Aaron said "Freddy? He's over here." (Billy's pet worm is named Freddy) Billy says, "No, my friend Fred. He's playing with my trains." It seems he has found himself an imaginary friend!

First the funny, I asked him about Fred later in the day and he told me all about him. It seems Fred is Billy's evil alter-ego! He says poo-poo and pee-pee at Noni and Pop2's house. He trows his spaghetti on his mommys head. He throws his spaghetti in the fan. He kicks his toys over. He only eats junk food. He eats popsicles when no one sees him. There was so much more I wish I had recorded it, he told me all about him, longer then 5 minutes.

Now the sad part, he wants to go to school, I feel like I'm doing him a disservice, with no money coming in we just can't do it and I know in the long run he won't be damaged or anything but he talks about school and friends all the time now. So, even if I ChaCha'ed my A off and used all that money for school what if we have to move in a month or 3 weeks. How can I put him in the preschool I want to that is the co-op when I am under Dr's orders not to lift more then 5 pounds. Frustrating, to say the least. The best we can do is take him to the park, and no joke when we go to the park he is on the hunt for someone to play with. I think he needs the structure that school offers with everything so topsy-turvey at home.

On supernanny tonight she was "appalled' that the 3 1/2 year old slept with his parents. Oops! Anyway, I told Aaron who was listening at the time that with everything going on at home if he gets that extra comfort at night where he knows, we take a bath, we read books, we sing our good night song, we talk about our day, we cuddle together to go to sleep and that's his consistancy, what the hell. Obviously, this is my train of concience post and everything will be fine and he'll be fine and we'll be fine. Forever and ever. Amen!

San Mateo Park* and our Auntie Mil

We went back to San Mateo water park because it said it would be open this weekend, it was soooo cold and the water wasn't on AGAIN! Billy didn't mind luckily and we had a good time despite the fact that we drove 25 minutes out of our way again but that's the breaks!



We had underwear action again, he wore them for 2 hours, no accidents again but still not going on the potty. He had to poop and he ran in and told Aaron to put him in a diaper QUICK! Then after he pooped he went and sat on the toilet to "try". Small steps I guess.


After the park we went to Auntie Mil's house so Aaron could help clean out the garage and separate the treasures from the trash. Now Cynthia will help her go through the stuff in her own time. Billy loves Aunt Mil's, he loves Wilkie and Prosper, he loves Cynthia and her jellybeans and Mike and Ikes, and he loves her backyard with lots of hiding places and places to dig and "work".

We had a busy busy weekend and my neck paid the price! Tomorrow, we are going to find the Sunol train they are doing something for Memorial Day and we don't have the $75.00 to go but we want to see it go by!