He’s such a mess…
I think Kellar has to be one of the funnest kids around, there is not a day that goes by that he doesn’t make me laugh or bring a smile to my face! I know that it’s only going to get more entertaining around my house the older he gets, I hate it that he’s getting older but watching him grow up and listening to him talk just cracks me up. Our latest game and where on earth he got it from beats me is he’ll get in my lap and have me lay him down backwards off the couch, he’ll put his hands and feet straight up in the air and say “can you help me please”, his voice is so sweet I could just eat him up but after the 100th time of flipping him off the couch I’m like the only thing I can help you with is finding a new game! He knows *back and forth* and what it is, he was stepping forward and then stepping backwards and said “mommy back and forth” and I said you are going back and forth aren’t you. His speech is coming along so great and I love waiting to hear the next new thing he’s going to say. He is now into counting things like buttons on your shirt or pieces of candy, he does get off on where he is but at least he has the idea of it. We need practice on drawing straight lines and circles, he knows that a circle goes round and round and can do his hands in the air round and round but getting it on paper is not happening as of yet. The latest stunt that the little stinker has pulled is locking me out of the house. I had opened the back door and walked maybe 8 steps to the dog dish, turned around and went to open the door and it was locked. I said Kellar can you unlock the door for mommy, he said “yes hold me mommy” I waited and could hear him moving the lock on the door knob and I said Kellar do the other lock and after a few seconds he realized I wasn’t getting in he started screaming and crying. I am steadily trying to get him to turn the deadbolt lock to unlock it and the more I talk the more hysterical he gets, by now I am freaking out. I am locked out of my house, Joey is at work and my son is in the house. I can’t get out of my back yard because it’s fenced in and there are locks on our gates that are locked. I have no choice but to start hollering and hoping and praying that my grandparents may hear me. I keep trying to talk to Kellar through the door, he’s crying so bad that he’s coughing and gagging which only makes me more sicker to my stomach. I then hear my memaw and papaws dog barking so I know that they’ve let him out so I’m listening to Kellar and I walk over to the fence and start hollering and waiting to see if they heard me, I didn’t think they did so I’m still talking to Kellar and again it’s only making him more upset. I start hollering for my memaw and papaw again, finally I think I see someone walking around by their house, it’s dark outside and I’m still hollering and hoping when my papaw starts towards the house. I told him what had happened and asked if they still had a key to the house, he wasn’t sure but ran home to see and I went back to try and tell Kellar I would be in there to hold him in a second, that’s all he kept saying was “hold me mommy, mommy hold me please” but it was his cry, his cry was heartbreaking! Thank goodness they had a key, I opened the door and he ran to me and I picked him up and he just hung onto me crying and wouldn’t let go. It broke my heart that he was so upset! I learned a lesson for sure last night…
3 little pigs Kellar style..
I am forever trying to remember nursery rhymes to say to Kellar in hopes that he’ll find one he likes and that he’ll eventually go around repeating. I have done Humpty Dumpty and he could care less about him falling off the wall and all that goes along with it, I have tried Little Miss Muffett though that’s not my favorite because I despise spiders. I have tried singing songs like Row Row Row Your Boat and he’s interested for about a nanosecond and then he’s trying to mess up my rowing motion, he does like the Itsy Bitsy Spider ( again ewwww why all the songs about spiders ) and will try so hard to make his fingers walk up in the air like the spider, pretty funny to watch. I had just about decided that Kellar just wasn’t going to get into the whole nursery rhyme/singing kiddie songs thing when tonight while putting him in his car seat I touched his chin and thought about the 3 little pigs, though all I could remember was not by the hair on my chinny chin chin, then the huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down came to mind. So I said ” I’ll huff, and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down” and I made a blowing sound, yea yea I know I have left out lots and lots of the story but it worked. I think I said it maybe 2 times, got in the car fastened up and I heard him say “puff puff and I’ll huff blow you house down” and the he proceeds to blow the house down and just giggles. It was hilarious, Joey and I could not quit laughing then that got Kellar tickled and he’d get lost where he was and he had it all messed up by the time we got home but regardless he was loving the fact that mommy and daddy were laughing so hard we were in tears. I love my kiddo! Kellar took him Memaw some flowers last night, she’s doing much better and hopefully will be released from the hospital within the next few days…
He’s just special…
I of course think my son is beyond adorable but I am amazed at total strangers that go out of their way to play with Kellar or tell him how cute he is. I feel without a doubt people are drawn to Kellar because he is special, he is a miracle and I know that there is a reason that Kellar is still here with us today and that reason I feel is because people can see first hand with their own eyes what prayer can do! People will come from across a restraunt and talk to him, they’ll come up to us in the mall and play with him and the majority of them will make a comment about how happy of a little fella he is or how he is such a adorable little boy and they couldn’t keep from watching him. Some people would probably be weirded out to think that strangers have been watching their child, but I’m not. I love to tell people about my son and how great I think he really is! Today we carried my memaw Page to the dr and at one point I thought the receptionist was going to have Kellar back behind the desk with her, he was hammin it up for her big time. He found a book and put it up at the window and told me “pay for it mommy”, I started laughing and asked him if he had any money and he looked at me and walked over and got my wallet out of my purse, I thought she was going to fall off her stool laughing at him. This older man came through to get some bloodwork and he wanted Kellar to talk to him so bad, little did he know if he had given him another minute or so he would have been grabbing him by the finger and walking him all over the clinic. This man went in and did his bloodwork and came back out and he stopped and got his wallet out, Kellar was standing there looking up at him and the man got $1 out of his pocket and said “you’re a handsome handsome fella, maybe this will buy you a sodie pop” and he grinned and patted Kellar on the head. Kellar hugged his leg and quickly stuck the money down the front of his pants, he was so funny he’d check to make sure it was still there every minute or so. I wondered if this man was someones papaw, I hope Kellar showing him some attention made his day the way it makes mine to see that people enjoy watching Kellar love life. We did end up having to put my memaw in the hospital, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers!
Potty train…
Kellar has a love for trains, his gramby got him a train table for Christmas and he plays with it non-stop. Joey decided to start getting him some Thomas the Train stuff here and there and luckily they’ll roll on the train table tracks too. Kellar has heard me talking to others about “potty training” him, so guess what he now calls his train? Yep a potty train. Joey and I at first were like what is he talking about, he keeps saying potty train and pointing up on top of our book case so I went over and sure enough his Thomas train was up there, I personally think it’s cute beyond words! I may have to start bribing with him with his potty trains to get him to use the potty more often, this is going to be a long process I’m afraid. I bought him the cool alert pull ups, ha it doesn’t phase him! I love just sitting and watching him, I often wonder what thoughts are running through his mind, he has some of the funniest expressions when he’s sitting watching tv. I’ve got to cut this short he’s trying to pull the faucet off of his kitchen sink and telling me “mom I need help, I need help” so I better intervene before my little muscle man rips the sink off.