Binky or Thumb?

So as you might remember, we took Dallin's binky away back in June, but he is still not over his sucking impulse. He has been taking Katie's binkies when we visit over at my mom's house. Just this last week he has started to suck his thumb all the time. My mom and cousin Jessie both think it might be because he see little Carley sucking her thumb. Who knows. So here is my question to you.....do I let him keep sucking his thumb and hope he out grows it or do I let him have his binky back at nights and nap time so that he don't develop a thumb sucking habit? I guess my fear is that he will be like my brother, who sucked his fingers till he was 12 and had to stop in order to get braces to fix his poor teeth. At least he stopped before his mission. :)

Ophthalmologist Visit. Try Saying That 3 Times Fast.

So remember this picture and this picture? Well, Dallin's pediatrician wanted us to go see an ophthalmologist. Dallin had his appointment today. It turns out that it isn't that his right eye is wandering, but rather that his left eye won't raise up like it is suppose to. It focuses straight fine, as well as downward, like when you are reading. It just doesn't want to look upwards or away. We are suppose to look for "patterns" for the next four months. "Patterns" are things like if he is tilting his head a lot when watching TV, or his lid starts to droop, or the eye begins to turn inward towards his nose, or when we notice it happening and how often and what he is doing. The Doc said it is probably nothing life altering, but there is a rare disease that can affect kids that has this symptom. That is way we are going back in 4 months. He wants to keep an eye on his vision (OK, I realize that is a bad pun). The Doc didn't seem too worried about it, so I'm not either. So if any of you every need to see a good ophthalmologist, let me know. He was great and very patient with Dallin. It's hard to check a 2 year old's eyes.

Dal's B-day...Finally

I know, his birthday was the 9th and I'm a bit slow. :) Here are just a few pictures from his 2nd birthday. We had a party and invited our families and some close friends. He had a great time. I thought we would never get through opening all the presents. He wanted to stop and play with every single one before opening the next. And he was spoiled, so he had about 15 gifts to open. It took forever, but he had a blast. And Bryn, Sky, and Dal helped decorate the cupcakes. Russ even helped with Elmo's fur.



When Dallin was helping with the cupcakes and when no one was looking, he started to lick the frosting off one of them. We figured it was his birthday, so we let him have one before the party.

Good Clean Fun.....Mostly

We had a good Halloween. On Tuesday we had a ward Halloween Carnival. Dallin had his costume on for about 5 minutes. Luckily Randy, a friend in the ward, we able to snap a quick picture. His daughter Maddi wanted to be in the picture too and Dallin would have none of that, hence I had to be in the picture. Dallin was Yoda. Maddi was an orange Tinker Bell. I thought it was pretty creative of her mommy. :)
Halloween night Dallin kept the costume on. I think he must have thought it was a winter coat and hat, because we stopped off at my grandma's house and the moment we went in the house he tried to rip it off. We practiced saying "trick or treat" but every time someone opened the door, Dallin just stared at them blankly. He did always say "Thank You." And boy, did he have fun the the Light Saber Grandma Tana had.

Now for the not so clean part. On Sunday morning I bathed Dallin. I wrapped him up in his towel, set him in the front room with Daddy, and went to get a diaper and clothes. A minute later I hear Russ yelling "Nicole!" I guess Dallin squatted in the middle of the floor and pooped. Yes, pooped right on my carpet! On purpose! He then told Russ, "I pooped on it." The whole time I was cleaning up, Dallin kept saying "I sorry Mommy." It was all I could do not to laugh. He felt bad. Can't wait till potty training because I'm sure there will many, many more accidents. (can you hear the sarcasm?)

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the Day Farms pumpkin patch again this year. Dallin had fun. He waved bye to the pumpkin patch when we left and talk the whole way home about the monsters that jumped out at us.

Russ got to clean out all the the pumpkins. What a good sport.

Dallin tried to help. By then he started to put the yucky back into the pumpkins after Russ pulled it out. :)

Also, here is an online contest...Click here to sign up. They are giving away a year supply of groceries. Someone has to win. Maybe it will be you. :)

Random Stuff

Just another crazy eye picture. One day I will get a picture of the really crazy eye.

And yes, that is a binky. Dallin had a bit of a rough time at my mom's. It was as if once he started to cry, he got so worked up that he couldn't stop. I thought he was asking for his blanket, but Ashley thought he was saying Katie. We finally figured it out. He was saying, "Katie binky. Katie binky." So we gave in. Nothing else would get him to stop. I think he was just so exhausted for some reason. Wasn't it nice of Katie to share. :)

They Repeat Everything

So today Dallin and Russ where playing the guitar. (OK, Russ was playing one and Dallin was just strumming at the other one) I had the camera out and was recording it. Dallin wanted to see the recording. I was showing to him, but because Russ was still playing the guitar, we couldn't hear the sound. Dallin turns to Russ and says, "Stop that, Honey." I guess I get after Russ too often. Or maybe it is just that Russ teases me too much. He needs to be told to stop that often.:)