big boy undies

Behold, a true man. Pollard Henig is now sporting big boy undies and guess who is proud with a capital P....HE IS! And so is his Mama. What you see here is buzz light year however the themes of the undies range from woody and buzz, to Nemo, to robots and trucks. You get the drift. A few 

pee clean ups here and there but otherwise I'm so proud of the big brother. 

In other news I come to you this evening from my handy dandy iPad. BPH, senior purchased me this bad boy for Christmas. Can you say love affair...

More to come as I figure out what in the world i'm doing with this thing. Meanwhile i will be propped up here in bed on my heating pad like the 80 year old that I am.

3 Year old Pollard!!!

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY POLLARD!!!!



Pollard Henig turned 3 years old on January 3rd....I still can't believe it!

We celebrated at Dede and Big John's house and then with a backyard Outer Space/Rocketship throwdown.

GOOD TIMES!

And here you have his 2 most favorite gifts EVER.  A talking storm trooper helmet from Mommy and Daddy and a "real" shotgun from Barnes and Emmie.  Anything can really be a helmet to Pollard (a box, a bucket...Penn...you name it. The obsession grows more and more every day), so this talking helmet was a massive hit. 

We blasted off in our backyard with a little par-tay including Pollard's new astronaut inflatable bounce-house.  Here are a few of my fave pics from that sunny afternoon.

 Pollard's 2 best friends, Chappell and Barnes playing in the playhouse :)

The birthday boy in his space outfit (thanks Sissy!) on the swings.

Blowing out the candles on his cupcake cake!

 All of P's buds chowing down on cupcakes and popcorn in the backyard...SO MUCH FUN!

 Me and Peanut Butter hanging out in the sunshine. This baby is just an absolute DREAM of a child.

 Our attempt at a picture of the brothers in their matching outfits. As a mother you dream of dressing your kids alike and sitting them on a green grassy patch while they for the camera  hugging each other.  The truth of it is, you're lucky if they'll sit on a tacky Auburn blanket eating 2 suckers at once and looking at you like you have 2 heads.

And here is P serving popcorn from the popcorn  machine.  I had so much fun with that thing, and since popcorn is his favorite food, it was a shoe-in!

The party was a hit, and i'll leave you with my 2 favorite pictures from our week long celebration...

Happy Birthday to the best little boy I could ever ask for! You are sweet, funny, caring, sensitive, hilarious, extremely smart, spunky and LOADS of fun to be around. I can't imagine a better YOU! WE LOVE YOU, BUD!!!

Picnik

No not that kind of Picnic, I said Picnik.

Although doesn't an actual picnic sound so nice? I wish I could take my well behaved children to a park with a basket full of PBJ and cheetos and act like Penn wouldn't crawl up a tree and bust a lip and Pollard would dart over to the first inanimate object he sees and act like it's a rocket ship and try to blast off.

I digress. I love Picnik, a free photo editing tool that's part of Google. I have no time for anything except for eat, sleep, feed children, work. However one of my New Years Resolutions is to come back to the Henig Herd. So hopefully you'll be hearing from us more regularly.

For now I show you a picture of my Peanut Butter on his daddy's lap, in something Picnik did to him. Doesn't he look dreamy and kind of old school-ish? I love his baby-man boobs and little fat feet. I know you do too.

I would like to think...

That this was the most handsome 2.75 year old to grace the doors of First Baptist Church this morning.

It's true, he actually is THAT skinny. That's what happens when you survive solely on peanut butter and jelly Uncrustables, Gogurt, and cheese hot dogs.

"Should I go on this diet?" I wonder to myself quiet often...

But doesn't he look a DREAM in his Christmas outfit? I bravely went where I had not gone before and ordered this from one of those facebook bid thingies like 5 Little Monkeys or Smockadot or something to that effect. Anywhoodles, 3 days later this little pearl showed up for a fraction of the cost it would be retail and I was ever-so-ever-so happy.

Friday afternoon we met my goddaughter Mary Clark and Pollard's Fairy Godmother, Meghan at the McWane Center in Birmingham.

Here is P squishing his face in the biggest face squisher ever. You remember those things you could put your hand in and it would show through on the other side? Let's not talk about germs people, it was all just in good fun and I sanitized his nostrils when we were done.

 And here are these 2 pals just hanging out at mission control by one of the fun exhibits.

 Mary Clark loved seeing what little Penn was up to. You can't tell really in this picture but they're twinkies in their outfits. LOVE.

 And here are the RASCALS, crawling out of the Santa Express. How cute is my goddaughter, people???

 And, in the culmination of his life thus far, Pollard got to hug a real live rocket ship.  What a happy day.

 I will leave you with this naked baby and his Daddy. This was BEFORE he tried to pull up on the entertainment center tonight and busted his top gum completely open and was gushing blood for 20 minutes.

CHEERS!

Attempts at family photos

THIS is a stick up.

I just had to start with that. My nephew Johnny (4.5yrs) came over to play tonight and when I came home from yoga this is what I found.  A complete bank robbery, Pampers Pull Up style.

And next I give you Mr. Sitter Upper Who Crawls at the Speed of Light and Pulls Up on Everything.

This is a long title but he wears it well. Could someone PLEASE for the love, remind this child he is not even close to 9 months old??? Aren't these tricks for like 10 and 11 month olds??  I love the 2nd picture because it shows his Snuffalufagus snaggle tooth. Yes, the other tooth finally popped through, but here for a while it's been pretty side splitting hilarious that the cutest baby on the face of the planet has a snaggle tooth.

Next up we have the LOVES of my life. Pollard's hair continues to just get fluffier, and longer, and wavier and sticky-upier. It's so great.  This morning was so cute, Pollard was just loving his little heart out on his little bro. 

And here we have our attempts at Christmas card pictures. The good news is, we did this in under 30 minutes. The bad news is we used NONE of the 87 pictures we took.  These were really the front runners but in the first one, poor Angel Penn is in the bright light, and not looking, but Pollard's face is so darn good.

And in this one Pollard's face is so awkward and it was all we could do to get him to take his hands off his crotch for 2 seconds, but we still got the tongue out.

Couldn't do either, so I went with one from Penn's dedication.  I'll scan her in for the next post.

Fun things about the boys...

Penn at 8 months:

1) 3.5 teeth

2) Down to 2 naps a day...hallelujah!

3) Still gets pretty constipated from time to time (TMI?)
4) Has the best laugh EVER!

5) Find him standing completely up in his crib, changing the song on the mobile, laughing to himself

6) Obsessed with his big brother

7) Loves it when you sing Twinkle Twinkle

Pollard at 2.75 years:

1) Is so obsessed with outer space and rocket ships that it has become a full on job to blast off every day, 18 times/day

2) Can be so sweet to Penn. Just the other day he said "You're the best, Penn!" and then later on that day said "I'm so glad you're here, Penn..."

3) Can be so terrorizing to Penn. Found him trying to sit on the baby, smother the baby, you name it.

4) Says anything and everything including "Santa's gonna bring me a jumpy, Mom. What do you fink about dat?" (I think that sounds pricey, son)

5) For the longest time has thought that Santa Claus was called Christmas. He saw a stuffed Santa, nelt down to hug it and said "I wuv you, Christmas"

6) LOVES the city of Huntsville, even though we've never been. Britton goes there for work so he thinks it must be cool. The other day he and Britton were playing pretend like they were injured and Britton said "What should we do?!?" and Pollard replied "Call Ronnie! In Huntsbille!" Whaaaa?

Ladies...

Strike a pose.

I'm available!

This is 20.8 lbs of lovin'.

I'm an aries. I like pureed squash and I enjoy a good paci.

I'm not taken yet, just FYI.

Good night from the the big brother...

Penn's Dedication and Halloween

Behold the wee one, a vision in white if I do say so.  This past Sunday was Penn's very special day at our church, he was dedicated! Growing up Methodist it's been hard for me to grasp the fact that as a Baptist I don't baptize my babies.  But seeing as I loooooove our church, and our pastor does a beautiful job of explaning why we don't baptize until the younggun decides themselves, it makes it easier for me.  This gown you see above was hand made (and I do mean every last stitch, people) by Britton's Aunt Judy. She is the best kind of Aunt as she's not really your Aunt, she's just your Mom's best friend that acts as such.  Gift bearing, hand stitching, passing down heirlooms for your children to use...that kind. She has been so gracious as to let all of us use this for our babes and this picture does it no justice.  Thank you, Aunt Judy!

The above is our best attempt at a family picture. Who loves Pollard's new smile as much as I do?? That kid is side splitting hilarious.

The day would never have been complete without Mimi and Papa, and DeDe and Big John! Is it just me or are our parents rather good-looking? Thanks be to LITTLE BABY JESUS for my Mom's cooking skills, or else we would have had nothing for brunch.  She only whipped up 4 casseroles, 2 pitchers of Prosecco Mimosas, a whole crystal bowl full-o-fruit, set the table, took down the table and cleaned the dishes. Oh, and got up with my coughing baby all night.  Thank goodness she drinks coffee. 

And lo and behold we have our astronaut.  FUNNIEST.THING.EVER.  That is a NASA certified suit and talking helmet you see, and if you were in spittin' distance, you were trying on the helmet, and you WERE blasting off to outer space.

Daddy took our space explorer door to door while Penn snoozed in the Baby Bjorn.

Another attempt at a family picture when the monkey woke up.

Looks like that cocktail may have helped Britton survive the hayride.  Pollard totally geeked at getting on and off the hayride and going door to door, it was serious fun to watch.

 And here are a few other cute pictures from the weekend for your viewing pleasure.  Ahhhh. What a great few days.

 A few other notes about life:
1) At random times Pollard will walk up to me and say "If you do that again, you're gettin a spankin and you're goin to TIME OUT!".  Ok then...loud and clear.
2) Penn still has his 2 bottom teeth and I'm still obsessed with his tiny cuteness. I don't want him to grow.
3) I have re-done my dining room, painted a few things around this house of ours, and about have each room furnished for now.  Schuyler's baby shower is only 2 weeks away so I'm getting prepped and ready.
4) Pollard said to Penn "Thanks for coming to my house, Penn! I sure am proud of you!"
5) Penn can reach up and steal Pollard's paci right out of his mouth and stick it in his.  I love how mad it makes Pollard!
6) Pollard is potty training himself and mighty well I might add. We're about a month in and he's in straight pull ups during the day. He does a great job but is entirely too obsessed with watching the poop hit the water. 
7) Pollards best girl friend Chappell just moved in right across the street.  The dream has come true!

Have a great rest of your week and weekend!