He Does Pay Attention!

So on Monday I learned that Dallin does pay attention in nursery. Russ, Dallin, and I were having Family Home Evening. I was talking about faith. Usually when I ask questions, Dallin just sits there while Russ answers them all. This was not the case on Monday. I asked, "What do we know about Jesus Christ?" All of a sudden Dallin piped up and said "Jesus loves me." Come to find out the lesson on Sunday in nursery was about that. Way to go nursery leaders! The kids really do listen from time to time.

Lazy Sunday Evenings

Dallin wanted to join in on the lazy Sunday evening activities at my parents house. He was totally unaware of what was going on around him. They must have been some good comics.

ABC

So, I try not to be one of those moms who thinks their children are just the most bright, well behaved, and all around perfect kids. As a matter of fact, I probably tend to be the opposite of that, but I just had to show off Dallin just a little. He only turned two last month (Nov. 9), but for some reason he is fascinated with letters. He doesn't know any numbers, only gets the color pink correct consistently, but he does know most of his letters. And no, it's not because I am this great mother who does flash cards with him to teach him (Grandma Tana bough his the cards). I think it is because I let him play on the computer too much with me at a website called starfall. Whatever the reason, he knows them now. The problem is that he hates performing for the camera, so the video isn't the best. Sorry if this is one of those really braggy posts (is braggy a word?), but thanks for bearing with me.

I did have a couple more videos (I can only get a minute long video with my camera), but blogger won't let me upload them. I guess you'll only have a sit through one. :)

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?)