A day with my boy...

So this is my last week home before I take my big vacation to Mexico! We leave Saturday morning, and on Sunday night, I was already feeling like a bad parent. I started to tell myself that I was crazy for thinking that I could leave Henry for a week. A WEEK with daddy in charge. Oh boy, what kind of craziness with decend upon my clean little house while I am away? What will Henry go out into the world dressed like? Daddy has a strange habit of matching jammie tops with jeans. Don't ask! How will Henry survive without his mama? What if he gets sick, and I'm not there? Will he think I have abandoned him and write me off as dead?

Ok and people wonder why people are on mass amounts of anti-depressants. I am depressing myself just thinking about all the what ifs. But I made a promise to myself then and there that I would stop all the what ifing and just enjoy this week! That is precisely what Henry and I did today.

First it was getting out our nativity scene and playing with the Baby Jesus and his mama, daddy, and three wise man. We talked about how the wiseman brought gifts for the baby, and Henry kept bringing me each wiseman saying, "Here mama, here is a present for you!" *tear*
When that was over, Henry found daddy's cordless power tool. Then it was on....It works best when you stick your tongue out when you work the drill. Henry learned it from his daddy.

After fixing the dump truck, we decided that Lightening McQueen needed a tune up...

After everything was fixed, tuned up, and generally checked over, we took the cars out for a spin..

I even believe that my hubby was slightly impressed when I brought out coloring pages for Henry that I discovered online. We colored Mickey Mouse, Thomas the Train, and Pooh for free!!!!

I love spending this kind of time with Henry. Seeing his face light up when I start zooming a car around or offering to "go to walmart" or pizza planet with him. For such a short time in his little life, I'm going to be funny, smart, exciting, and generally his whole world, and I'm going to take full advantage of this time with my baby bubba....

A hunting we will go...

My brother and dad came to visit us after Thanksgiving this year to see Henry and of course hunt with Matt. This morning was a flurry of activity was the boys readied themselves for another exciting Matt Schulte Tour Guide adventure!

I didn't get any Thanksgiving Days pictures as I suck! But these are equally as sweet..I am dealing with a very tempermental boy as he's been spoiled all week by friends and family..so I gotta jet...enjoy!!!

Christmas what??

Over the weekend, my well intentioned mother-in-law thought it would be a good idea to take Henry to the Festival of Trees in Sioux Falls. I agreed thinking at least it's indoors and not watching Cars, Shrek, or Toy Story for the millionth time. We thought Henry would love the trees with their shiny lights and maybe even catch a glimpse of Santa Claus. Boy where we wrong...the only thing on Henry's agenda were the free balloons and running around like a wild holigan!!!! He could have cared less about the tree lights and Santa. There was a guy playing songs on his guitar and tons of other crazy toddlers running around so that's what we did at the Festival of Trees, stand with the other mothers and watch our children go crazy. Henry did manage to take a 3 hour nap afterwards though!

All things boy

Henry got to feed the baby cows tonight over at Daddy's feedlot in Iowa. He also got to ride in the tractor and lift hay bales with the payloader. Could life get any better? Oh wait, yes it could, to top off the evening, Henry got chicken nuggies and got to watch Cars on the way home.

yard work

Sunday saw the Schulte's outside accomplishing some much needed yard work. The lawn got mowed which means the leaves got bagged. All I had to do was rack the leaves that had collected in the corners of the backyard and under the trailers along the south side of the house.

I like to refer to the south side of our house as the ghetto. Since this is where Matt seems to collect trailers, pieces of boards, patio blocks, an aluminum beer keg, and other misceallenous crap. He told me that this was even beginning to both HIM...that's right folks, Matt actually thought an area of his own was cluttered...write it on your calendars!

Henry was a little helper boy assisting mom in poop cleanup and helped us throw boards into the trailer to be taken to the dump. He then found one of daddy's little drills and proceeded to "drill" holes in the boards and "fix" daddy's tires on the trailer. He is a boy through and through.

Owning your own home is a lot of work! But when it is done, it can be very rewarding. I think our house looks great!!!! Now we just need to weed the yard, empty the cutters, and blah blah blah...in reality, it's never done:) right?

On some additional notes, Henry is officially sleeping in his big boy bed. We still have his crib to take down, but mama has decided that Henry is very capable and will continue to sleep in his bed. He loves his Toy Story sheets and pillow and sleeps surrounded by llama llama, pooh bear, woody, a teddy bear, and rex, the dinosaur.

Henry is also using the potty consistently. We have a period of time everyday that is potty time and working up to longer intervals. He does well about going on the potty and really enjoys wearing big boy underwear. He will even occasional tell us that he has to go! We are taking it slow and letting him lead, but I think he's doing fabulously!!!!

Lastly, we bought a new vehicle!!!!! Finally, mama has enough room for her boys, dogs, and junk. Last week, Matt and I bought a 2007 Saturn Outlook. It's similiar to the GMA Acadia and Chevy Traverse. It is all wheel drive and gets great gas mileage, plus it's got an amazing third rown seat. We are very happy with it so far!!!

That's all for now!!! I was trying to get Henry to lay in the leaves but he was more facinated with playing with them....

5 years ago today...

I married the man who has helped make all my dreams come true. We have laughed together, fought with each other, raised two dogs together, and gave birth to our son together. Not that everday is roses and ice cream, but there is no one else I could even imagine going through this crazy thing called life with. Matt keeps me grounded when I start to fly off the handle, and I realize how much he needs and appreciates my love and support. He is so attentive and loving to his son, and I can't wait to see Henry learn all of the cool things that daddy does. So to you my dearest friend and love, Happy Anniversary!!!! Let's hope the next 5 years settle down a little bit...hahaha...

P.S. I just need to comment that I hate how skinny the girl in this picture is...then I realized it was me. Now it's 5 years and one kid later...hahaha...

Happy Halloween

Halloween this year was certainly different than last year. Henry was much more aware of what is involved in the whole process. And thankfully, he was very cooperative with the 'costume wearing' situation. My Henry bubba was Spot the Dalmation! He loves his puppies Bails and Luc, so what better way to spend an evening with your best pals then as one of them. Speaking of pals, Henry got to see his buddies Bumble Bee and Fairy Princess aka Philip and Kate!

It's not often I actually post pictures of myself on my blog, so here is one of me and my fav puppy dog!

What does a puppy say, "ruff, ruff"

If you notice in his hand, he is carrying a car! He is taking me to Pizza Planet aka Henry playset!