Life As We Know It

*Lah Yoo! Lah Yooo! Lah Yoo!!*

Porter said this to me today as we were leaving Target.  I was picking him up, and while doing that I said "I love you!" and he says "Lah yoo".  I've been waiting FOREVER to hear that from him. AWWW!

And he's been saying it all day.  I had a session this evening and when I got back he was so excited and ran around saying "Lah yooo Lah yooo Lah yoooo!"  At first I didn't know what he was saying but Ryan cleared that up for me haha!  Its just tooo cute.

Some pics from today:

Porter and I chowed on some ice cream and played outside this afternoon.  P had vanilla ice cream and I topped it off with pineapple, mango and papaya.  He loved it!

And then this.... Obviously when you're a toddler, when your hands are full, your mouth counts for an additional limb to carry more toys.

And then this.... Porter is now my sidekick for scooping dog logs.  When I do this chore, he always walks around the yard and finds "Ewwws" for me.  He'll stand by them, point and say "Ewww mama!  Ewww!"  Well, tonight I got kind of wrapped up in cleaning up the 5million piles and when I turned to see what he was doing, this is what I saw....

Yes, that's our grill brush.  No, that is not a pile of dog poop.  He's just "pretending" ok? 

Smile today.

I found this on Rachel Absher's blog...

Best thing ever

Well, for at least today that is.

We had a pillow fight with Porter tonight, and oh my word was it hilarious!  Ryan started out by tossing a pillow at him while I was changing his diaper, and informed me that they were having pillow fights earlier (while I was away at sessions).  So, Porter hopped up and ran after Ryan with the couch pillow and threw it at him (ok, so he tried to throw it at him... it only moved about 4 inches HAHA!).  Ryan totally played into it and jerked back, sound effects and all, as if he'd been hit with a whopper of a pillow. 

And so it began.

For about a half our, the three of us played on the living room floor, whacking each other with pillows (alright, alright.... Ryan and I whacking Porter with pillows, and Porter "thinking" he was whacking us).  We were busting up so hard, our stomachs hurt. Porter got SO into it... he started doing sound effects, and he'd throw a pillow at me and jump back and say "WoooahhHH!!!  Uhhhh!!!" with this huge "I got ya!" surprised look on his face.  He was laughing so hard he could barely stand up in between pillow whomps. 

Good times.  Good times.

I am so thankful that I had time to spend with him today.  Originally I had 3 sessions scheduled, but luckily my 5:30 had to reschedule and I was done for the day around 2pm.  We spent our afternoon just hanging out, and then Porter and I met Maria at Maggie Moos for ice cream (Porter sat in a chair like a big boy, no high chair! And he ate his very own cup of Peach Ice Cream.  He loved it!), and then Maria joined us for a stroll through JoAnn Fabrics just for fun.