Super Garrett!

So fast he can only be seen as a blur! So intelligent he's been outsmarting his parents since birth! So brave he makes Chuck Norris look like a chump. It's SUPER GARRETT! He made himself into a super hero with baby sunglasses that wrap around his head and a blanket for a cape. We love this little kid!

Why is my foot warm and wet?

I was about to put away the newly folded laundry when Isaac begins to whine. So I start nursing Isaac and figure I'll just put the clothes away after I'm done. Well...while I'm nursing Isaac, Garrett takes off his diaper and proceeds to pee all over the floor...and my foot. So I put Isaac down for a nap in his crib and put Garrett in the bath and I wash my foot. While cleaning the pee off of the carpet, I hear Isaac crying and then a "THUD"...and the crying got louder. Isaac, our seven month old, climbed out of his crib and flew face first onto the floor. While I'm caring for Isaac, who is in shock after his first flying lesson and screamin' his head off, Garrett gets out of the bath , comes over and pees on me AGAIN. I calm Isaac and put him on the floor away from the urine so he can crawl around, which is what he prefers. While I'm cleaning up the pee AGAIN, Garrett tries to share his cup of Chocolate Milk with Isaac. Isaac pours the entire cup of chocolate milk on the floor. So after I've cleaned up the pee AND the chocolate milk off the carpet, I see that all of the newly folded laundry is now scattered and of course, unfolded, all over the floor.
All before 10am.
Actually, that all happened within an hour.
While I've taken the last 5 minutes to type this I'm sure my kids have turned our apartment into somewhere between a petting zoo and a Walm*rt dumpster....with the smells to match.
I may not make it out of here alive.
To any one who wants kids but has not been "blessed" enough to have them, I just thought I'd let ya know, you're really not missin' out on much.
I also thought of titling this "I should invest in Resolve"
Now more than ever I want a SpotBot. So badly.

Garrett's words

Every time we get into the car:
Garrett: Yay! Zoo! Going to zoo! Yay! Thanks Mom!
Me: No, Garrett, we're not going to the zoo today. Sorry buddy, we have to _______.

After a few days of this I felt guilty and really did consider going to the zoo but we've always had other things to do so the conversation changed to:
Garrett: Yay! Zoo! Going to zoo! Thanks mom!
Me: Sorry Garrett, maybe tomorrow.

Later that day:
Me: Garrett will you help pick up your toys?
Garrett: Sorry Mom, maybe tomorrow.

This morning:
Garrett: Mom, bread? Please? (he signs please)
Me: Sure. (I hand him a piece of bread. He takes it AND the rest of the loaf and puts the loaf away in the cabinet where it belongs)
Me: Thanks Garrett! I love you!
Garrett: Welcome Mom! I love bread!

Zoo with Two.

"AHHHH! WE'RE AT THE ZOO!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!"

That's our squirrel bait climbin' on a hippo at the zoo.

Garrett loved playing on the hippos with the other kids at the zoo and thought one little boy was hysterical, he had him laughing pretty hard.

This is one of Garrett's current favorite animals, we have 3 plastic dollar store ones at home that he is constantly carrying around.

Isaac and Garrett both behaved really well while they were there at the Zoo with me.

Isaac is six months old now and has the best smile!

And this right here is Bert. He's 35, territorial and loves apples. He's also the reason we had to attend the zoo.

We were there for hippo snack time and Garrett LOVED watching the zoo keeper toss apples into Berts mouth. He wanted to spend all day with the hippos. ALL Day. Thanks Bert, it was a fun 6 hours.

Sleeping Rebellion

We send him to bed...

But he won't stay in it.

We find the lights turned on.

Sometimes we find his head even on the pillow... but he's still not in bed...

Sometimes we find him in his beanbag chair too.
But atleast we always find him asleep.

Garrett's 2nd Birthday

The Zoo: Toddler in his natural Habitat

OH NO! That ox bit off Garrett's hand!
j/k, His shirt was a little big on him. The Denver Zoo doesn't actually have man eating oxen.

They do have some pretty huge bears though. These black bears looked cute and cuddley. It's funny that the exhibits where the most men were happened to be the ones with the bears. I think they were all standing around the grizzly's imagining how to hunt one.

Garret got his first taste of Cotton Candy and he wasn't too sure about it at first but it grew on him. Thanks for sharing, Uncle Ben!

Grandma Tracy took Garrett on a train ride around the zoo! What a dream come true! ANIMALS AND TRAINS!

Aunt Jennah and Garrett pondering how to return to their own kind...the monkeys.

Brad threatening Garrett that he'll throw him in the cage too if Garrett didn't stop running off!

Uncle Ben helped Garrett ride the non-man eating ox.

Garrett loves elephants and loves pretending to be one as well. He was mesmerized by them.

Grandpa Ted, Uncle Ben, Aunt Jennah, Garrett and Brad

Isaac stayed warm and snuggley in his old man sweater. He looks like Mr. Rogers dressed him.

Garrett loved all the attention from Grandma and lead her all over the zoo. He really enjoyed having some one else to boss around.