Roman and his new tricycle

Roman loves his new tricycle, even if he can't exactly pedal it by himself. He's especially adorable because he tends to clap after ringing the bell.

Roman's band

Give it up for little man!

Roman on Christmas morning

Roman checking out the presents

Santa's haul







roman enjoying santa's haul

Mama playing like a kid again

Visiting Encanto Park

Enchanted Island at Encanto Park does a hoiday themed weekend every year where they bring in snow, they decorate the train and surprisingly it's not crowded on Sunday mmorning. Last weekend, I took the boys and Romanwas able to go tubing down a snow slope, ride the choo choo to his hearts delight and rode amusement park rides fearlessly and all by himself. Poor kid, he played so hard, by the time we were exiting the freeway he was zombified-
No, for all of those of you who are bound to ask, we did not see Santa this year. Mostly he didn't seem interested- believe me Roman had the opportunity early one morning to have Santa all to himself and showed no interest in the guy with the red suit. Also, he might have been freaked out, and that's just not worth spending 30+ min in line. Maybe next year if he shows more interest.

Roman on the steam roller

Quite often Roman gets preferential treatment. Here's a great example of all of us going out to see the construction at Oma and Opa's. Roman is fascinated with contstruction vehicles, and the gentlemen working on the street gave Roman not only a front row seat, but their seat and drove him up and down a good patch of road

Here are some pics from it

Roman playing Rock Band with daddy

So I believe that my child is gifted, here's my best example, he picked up drumsticks for the very first time and this was the result

Roman's choo choo

After much prodding and his apparent love for trains, Mommy broke down and got hin his very own train. To my surprise, daddy and Roman played for 2hrs non stop. Here you can see Roman adding to the tunnel

Roman practicing his reading

Trimming the Tree with Roman

Roman had lots of fun being a big boy this year and helping to decorate the tree and play under the mistletoe. He's had as much fun removing ornaments as he did trying to figure out how to put them on the tree.

His favorite was putting candy canes on- seeing as how they were the easiest. But from stretching out bundled lights, untangling garland to ornaments and listening to holiday music, he is loving every minute of the season.

baking with nana

Roman loves making holiday treats with nana, adding ingredients and stirring and mixing. He also likes the eating part

movie phone 3

SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH

more daddy phone films

Digging in the dirt

Movies found on daddy's phone

Say Hi Roman

Reading with Oma

Oma is also a fan of children's books and was delighted that Roman took it upon himself to cozy up in her lap and share a story

Fishing thru Daddy's phone

We were going thru Dave's collection of photos on his phone so...in no particular order or age- get ready to smile

Thanksgiving in NC- Part 1

We made the trek out to NC for Thanksgiving- we normally go around Christmas, but mom keeps booking weddings.

Anyway, it was the BEST trip evr! Roman was well behaved and everyone left happier than they arrived. We spent time visiting Oma and Opa, where Roman got to read stores, play blocks and ride on a steam roller- by himself (video and pics to come)

Thanksgiving morning we visited with Roman's God Parents, Geoff and Celyn at Marcine's house, where Roman inhaled Marcine's apple pancakes and made everyone say "aww". Thanksgiving was spent with Gram, Grandpa Charlie, the Bernards, Johnsons, Trimmers, and lots of others. Roman was able to run around with his cousins, show off his reading and phonetic skills, give lots of hugs and be in TONS of photos. We missed meeting Abigail- James and Lauren's baby, but we understand them not wanting to travel with a new baby.

Then on our last day in town we visited Sarah, ate yummy mexican food, played at the park and ran around the RDU meeting all kinds of other toddlers.

All in all a wonderful travel and holiday experience.

Roman learning to read

While I realize this is by memorization- he does this sort of thing with about a dozen books now. He will also point out strings of letters and their phonetic sounds.

My kid is amazing

Roman Loves Lucy

Roman does an amazing job caring for his Lucy dog. He goes for walks with her, plays fetch, tug of war (against our wishes) rubs her belly, pets her.

Now he's added giving Lucy her dental chews every other day- this is a big task for a little boy and he's always beaming with pride when he gives her the chew. He runs to the window to watch her out side and he chants "chew chew chew"

This morning Roman decided Lucy needed to be cleaned up, so he took a wet wipe and was wiping her face and paws. As you can see from the video, Lucy thought Roman could use a little cleaning up himself

Footy pj's

I have an obsession with my son's cutie booty- we have lots of great pics of it, and the plumber butt is just too funny. So when he hopped off the potty the other morning and had his footy pj's around his ankles I was hard pressed not to snap a quick pic.

I know he'll be overwhelmed with embarrasment one day- but that's what external hard drives are for. He doesn't have to know it ever existed.
Besides- it really is just a cutie booty

I Love Being a Boy

We spent Halloween in Sedona eating yummy food, playing down town and exploring prior to mommy's photo safari. I love Sedona Red Dirt

Mommy and Daddy renewed their vows

I got to be a part of it too!

I had a special outfit that I didn't want to take off at all. I got to play with Duvianna and run around with nana and tata and eat mommy's yummy cheesecake.

To see how handsome and grown up I looked check out this link

http://picasaweb.google.com/jacquelyn.l.phillips/Renewal#

Yikes...time to catch up

For those of you keeping track, I'm not so great at the blogging thing- hey I just now uncovered enough of my desk I can see my toes (it's glass top :))

So for the Roman fanatics out there here goes...

New Words: Bus, Oma, Opa, Giraffe, zoo, class, ta ta, please, thank you, your welcome, toy, NO

Favorite Foods: butternut squash, peas, spinach, honeycrisp apples, fish, cereal with milk

Favorite Books: Oh the Places you'll go, The Littlest Pilgrim, Guess How Much I Love You

I love to eat

This would be Roman after mooching daddy's lunch. Roman has mastered not being hungry or not wanting what he has because yours is always better

Cheers- the boys toasting with apple juice

Scouting in Sedona

Mommy is doing a photo shoot in Sedona at Cathedral Rock and wanted to go scouting before the big shoot.

Roman loved playing in red dirt, being walked by lucy, playing with big fall leaves and riding on daddy's shoulders.

He slept within minutes of reaching the freeway :)

Amazes us every day

Roman is growing leaps and bounds. He is always surprising us with new words and skills both mental and physical.

In his mommy and me class he's Miss Emily's favorite, always helpful, excited and eager to participate. He runs towards his class and sees his new friends giggleing and saying "oh cool"

At naptime, we read "Guess how much I love you" when little nut brownhair gets a kiss from big nutbrown hair, I always get a kiss, and when big nutbrown hair whispers, Roman whispers too.

He gives Lucy her dental chews every other day

Identifies letters- he espcially loves vowels, everywhere you see words printed.

On his special big boy computer, he can identify half of the letters of the alphabet and make their phonetic sounds.

He routinely helps with laundry, putting away dishes, swiffering, checking the mail.

Every morning, he has to sit with daddy and have his bowl of cereal just like dad, while they watch highlights on cnn

He wants to be just like daddy!

He's also daring like daddy, climbing up onto kitchen chairs, counters and reaching lightswitches and the tops of our dressers.

A day in the life of me (19 mo)

6:15 run into mom and dad's room and shout "HI" run to whomever decides to not greet me and repeat loudly "HI"

6:20 run into kitchen saying "juice" while pointing to the sippy cups

6:30 have 2 or 3 items delivered for my breakfast, snack on dad's cereal instead while watching bits of cnn and msnbc

7-9:30 play, read, get dressed, feed the dog, have a diaper change after sitting on the potty (usually no luck) read the same book 2 more times

9:30 cry and block the door because I don't want daddy to leave, go outside with mom and wave bye to dad while watering the flowers

9:45-10:30 play blocks, another diaper change, chase the dog, pull on mom to get her from checking her email, play with blackberry while mom finishes up quick email

10:30-11:30 light snack with a few minutes of cartoons, help mom unload dishwasher, diaper change and get ready for nap

11:30-1 zonked out with mom, I like it when she naps with me because she rubs my back and sings to me

1:30-2 LUNCHTIME

2-4 run errands or help mom pick up the house, or go to the playground

4-5:30 a small snack, maybe a book or a game of picaboo thru the house

5:30-6:30 daddy's home and I help make dinner- tonight I put lettuce on the salad plates, eat a yummy dinner

6:30-7 go for a walk

7-7:30 play with daddy

7:30-7:45 splash splash bathtime, I love making big splashes and getting daddy all wet

7:45-8 clean up all my toys in the great room

8- mommy recites "Oh the places you'll go" by Dr. Seuss I get lots of hugs and kisses and fall asleep

So many words

Colors: Blue, purple, red

Commands: yes, no- uh oh, more, go

Animal sounds: woof, quack, hisss, who who, moo

General: truck, that guy, look, move, high chair, duck, dog, this, up, book, kiss, hug, yum, nana, tata, mom, mama, dad, dada, goose

Mommy and me at the zoo water park

Hey, look pics of mommy on one of our outings too!