Playing Catch Up!

It's been a crazy couple of weeks around the Houle house! I was accepted to nursing school for the spring '11 term and had two days of intense orientation at the school. Our garage roof, which has been threatening failure for ages, finally produced a big old hole two days before the great 2011 blizzard. We found out we were not getting a tax refund this year, but instead owe $130 to the state, so fixing the garage with anything other than a patch is out of the question for a bit. A friend lost her father two months after her mother passed. And, finally, Tim's windshield wiper mechanism went kaput on the eve of the second blizzard of the year! Gah! Anyway, here are a couple gems I've been saving for posting.

Both of these have to do with his "but why" obsession in differing, hilarious, ways!

Sebastian: Where we going?
Mama: To papa's house.
Sebastian: But why?
Mama: Because mama needs to work.
Sebastian: But why?
Mama: Because I need to make money.
Sebastian: But why?
Mama: I don't know, what do you think?
Sebastian: No! I no wanna think!




Sebastian: Fireworks!
Mama: I don't see any fireworks.
Sebastian: Yeah!
Mama: It's a little early in the year for fireworks buddy.
Sebastian: But why?
Mama: Because people don't usually do fireworks until the fourth of July.
Sebastian: But why?
Mama: Because they like to celebrate America's independence.
Sebastian: But why?
Mama: Umm, I don't know.
Sebastian: Try "because"
Mama: You mean you want me to say "because"?
Sebastian: Yes
Mama: OK, because.
Sebastian: But why?
Mama (laughing now): You crack me up!
Sebastian (laughing too): You crack me down!

Fashion Forward or Fashion Victim?

Sebastian had an un-nap today, by which I mean that I put him down for a nap and heard him playing quietly in his room for approximately 2 hours before I gave up and let him out... I did try to go in and get him to sleep a couple times and he may have dozed for all of 10 minutes, but mainly he played and since he was quiet, I figured at least he had some down time... Nonetheless, he is two and a half, so I shouldn't have been surprised to see that he had donned a new wardrobe by the time I came in to get him. Here is how I found him... He was quite proud of himself!

Shoo Fly Returns!

Last night Sebastian found a flashlight and was playing with it. When he turned it on and saw the light on the ceiling he got all excited and started shouting, "Shoo fly!!! I catch it!!!" He played with the flashlight for about 30 minutes. He was totally enamored! Here is a picture of him and one of the "shoo fly."

A Day in Our Life!

Here's how we spent the day on Saturday!

Tim had to work :( so Sebastian and I were on our own for the morning... Unfortunately, Seb decided that we should wake up at 6 am!!! So, I convinced him to chill in our bed with some milk and blueberries and a DVD while I attempted to wake up.


Then, it was time to get dressed...


... and play with some trains.


Then it was time to head out to run some errands.


Sebastian decided he wanted to get into his carseat by himself, "I do it Mama!"



Success!


First, we went to the post office and mailed out our Christmas cards... Yes, you read that right! It has been a little nutty around here since Christmas and it took a while for me to get to the post office and remember to buy the darn stamps!


Next, we went to the Salvation Army to drop of a few bags of old clothes.


And then we stopped at McDonald's for lunch. This is not exactly a postcard for our fine Michigan weather!


We got home and Sebastian ate some chicken nuggets and played with some trains, and I got thoroughly discouraged with the advanced state of yuck in the living room...


We stopped to take a photo of each other... Then I got to work cleaning!


Here are a couple views of Sebastian playing and the disaster that was my living room!


In case you're curious, we were watching Food Network!


Here is the after!!! (finished while Seb was napping)



And my reward for a job well done!


Then, the "Sebashmonster" was awakened! So, he and Daddy shared a snack!


We spent the rest of the evening playing and had leftovers for dinner, but I didn't take pics of that... Here is my favorite pic of the day!


Then it was bath time!!!!


He wasn't fond of dry off and get dressed time...



Then we read books and went to bed!


Thanks for sharing our day with us!

Sebashmonster!!!

Aunt Bee took Sebastian to see GiGi today and, evidently, on the way there he was growling and exclaiming that he was a monster. Aunt Bee said, "I thought you were Sebastian?" To which he replied, "I Sebashmonster... ARGHHH!"

Trains, Empathy, and Full Frontal Snow Belly Floppers!

This week as I was getting ready for work, I heard Sebastian playing in the hall with his trains. He was singing as he played and, unsurprisingly, his song of choice was "The Wheels on the Bus." However, he made some changes... This is what I heard:

"The wheels on the... TRAIN go round and round..." Complete with the pause for effect!



Then, on our way to work we were having a chat about why he needed to go to Grammy & Grandpa's house (Tim's parents). He is big into the "whys" lately, so here is how that one went:

Me: You are going to hang out with Grammy today!
Sebastian: But why-y? (He makes the why a two syllable word every time!)
Me: Because Mama has to go to work.
Sebastian: But why-y?
Me: Because I have to make money.
Sebastian: But why-y?
Me: So I can pay the bills.
Sebastian: But why-y? (You are probably wondering why I've let this go on so long but I always swore I would try really hard to encourage my child's curiosity, so there ya go!)
Me: Because if I didn't pay the bills the companies would not have enough money to pay their employees and people would lose their jobs and that would be sad.
Sebastian: Oh no.

Today, we had a snow day. We, like much of the US were blanketed in the beautiful, though somewhat annoying, white stuff. Sebastian and I decided to spend a bit of our morning out in the fluff. He really wanted to make a snowman, but sadly, the snow was not of snowman-making quality. He was a little upset, so I taught him how to make snow angels instead. He quite liked that and informed me that the angel, "has wings!" with great amazement! However, what he really enjoyed was standing up in a fresh patch of snow, then falling forward, face first into a drift! He thought that was the greatest part of the day! When we went inside he was really bummed, in fact he was so not going to go in at all... So, I told him he could have some snow in a bowl with his lunch! He loved it!

Here are a couple more pics!