Trick or Treat

Fall Festival Extravaganza

Our church is having a Fall Festival (aka Halloween party, I have no idea why its called that) tonight and Mster is so beyond excited that I think she might explode in anticipation. She was all set to be a princess. She HAD to be a princess but after I procrastinated buying her a costume I soon realized that the princess costumes that were left SUCKED!!! And I refused to spend 23.50 (w/o tax) for them. Luckily, much to Msters wildest dreams, Mster found a MUST HAVE butterfly/fairy accessories. We've got wings. We've got a head band. We've got a wand and most importantly we've got face glitter. I may just have to post pictures of this.

Lster EAT

My darling little Lster turned 1 last week. A whole year old. Unfortunately I'm afraid that he won't make it to his 2nd big birthday bash. He wont eat. He's on a hunger strike unless you feed him shredded cheese. He's even refusing crackers unless he's ABSOLUTELY hungry. I'm not sure what to do. Clearly he's hungry. Clearly I can't just feed him cheese. But I guess that's what I'm going to do. Unless I get earplugs to cover up the insanely loud shreaks of holy murder if I even think about putting something other than a milk product on his tray.

Moving and Death`

We've moved. I've been sans internet for almost 2 weeks but I survived. And now, after a lovely visit from 2 burly internet guys who waved their magic cyberspace wands, I'm connected. Expect more posts. Maybe.

Mster is FASCINATED with death and killing. She's constantly talking about killing things and about death.

Mster: Mom, do you want me to die?

Mster: Where did Jesus go?
Me: He died. He's in Heaven with Heavenly Father?
Mster: How did he die?
Me: (ugh)...some bad guys killed him
Mster: Are some bad guys going to kill us?
Me: Probably not. That doesn't happen very often. We'll probably die cause we get sick. Not cold sick but old sick. When you get really old, your body gets sick and you die.
Mster: Is Aunt N* going to die soon cause she's really old?

*Aunt N just turned 50 (and not in the least bit old or sick) :)

Lster

So I realized that Lster is not getting a lot of airtime in the blog world.

Lster is a carboholic. Its all he eats and if I dare to offer him anything but bread, crackers, or noodles he will shreak at the top of his lungs no matter how hungry is until I put carbs on the tray. He will still eat' tofu and yogurt but that is it.

Lster is a tank. Thats what we call him. He's the fastest crawler I've ever seen and he just plows thru whatever he wants to get to. He can walk too if holding onto something or someone.

He LOVEs to climb. He really enjoys climbing and then shreaking yet again until somebody gets him down. I've taken the cushions off the couches to use as barriers in other parts of the living room. So, that leaves the sofa pretty low to climb up. I've also put one cushion on the floor so he can use it as a step to get down. Lster likes to climb up and yell until you move the cushion to the exact location where he wants to go down. I've been thinking about calling him your highness.

It isn't all shreaks and carbs...Lster loves to make you laugh and he loves to laugh. Hide around the corner and he is in hysterics. Throw a wash cloth on his face and he luaghs and laughs.

3 Years of Sorrow

A few months ago, Mster was standing up in the cart and fell out head first onto the hard store floor. Today the kids and I went to the store to buy mass quanities of meat for Csters bday. As we were going into the store Mster said:

"Remember when I was little and I fell on my head and cried for 3 years."

Take that you Witch!

Mster and I were playing witches this morning. Sadly, Mster couldn't find her magic wand so she kept having to borrow my pretend magic wand. Why she couldn't pretend herself up a wand I don't know. So we made up a spell to get the bad witch to go away. It goes...

"Witch...Witch...Witch (spinning your wand in big circles)...BE GONE!(pointing our wands in the witches direction)

Mster: Is the witch dead
Me: (trying not to be morbid or muster up issues of killing things) No, she just went away to another place.
Mster: Oh...let me get my sword...there now she's dead.
Me: Well, alright then.

The Circle of Life

The Circle of Life according to Mster

Caterpillars start out as an egg. Then they hatch and eat fruit, picnic food, and leaves. They then wrap themselves into a racoon (sic) where struggle to get out into a beautiful butterfly.

We need to plant the peanut butter seed, and then give it water and then it will grow and we can pick the peanut butter.

New word of the day

Mster - I just gave you a slobber kiss
Me: You just gave me a booger kiss.

Boogerkiss...just wait...10 years and I know Websters will pick it up.

Top 10 Guys

I opened my library book to find a notebook sheet of paper fall into my lap. It was titled "Top 10 Guys". There were 2 side by side lists.

1. Justin G Brady H (with hearts all around it)
2. Jonathon Jonathon
3. Cody Garrett
4. Garrett Alex C
5. Austin M Trevor
6. Alex C Justin
7. Austin C Austin M
8. Eric Austin C
9. Brady Hayden
10. Trevor Eric

There you have it.

The Pantry

Both my kids like to play in the pantry.

At any given moment one of them has probably found there way in. They both like to shut the door and have you open it. Mster requests you knock first, ask for something and then she will give it to you. Repeating often is a good thing. Lster likes to swing the door open and shut and when the door actually shuts breaks out into bursts of giggles when you open the door for him.

Sleep Trainging Update

Well...lets see.

Lster is still not sleeping well. How is this possible. After a horrible friday night wherein he decided to cry, scream or bang his crib from 12-5:30AM, I decided to go and sleep on the couch. Last night was better, but still not great but I made him stay in there until 6AM and he probably cried off and on from 3:40 till then.

He is taking much better naps. YEAH Lster for napping. Napping is good.

Perma's Birthday

Happy Birthday.

I hope your day was filled with lots of cake and Harry paraphernalia.

Sleep Training - Day 3

Lster slept only a 1/2 hour for the first 3 naps (morn, aft, morn) and then cried for 1 hour. I got him at this point and waited until the next nap time to try and put him down again. Oh he was so sad and clung to me like I had left him forever. BUT...on the 4th nap (aft) he slept 40 min, cried for 5 minutes and went back to sleep a total of 1 1/2 hours. yippee.

Today Lster slept 2 - 50 minute naps. Still not great but a whole bunch better than before.

Sorry for the boring post but I gotta write it down somewhere.

thanks mster

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Word Definition and Expoloration

Word Definition by Mster

"Dragoner" - one who takes care of dragons

And Lster found his diaper today. (the diaper he was wearing) I remember the day that Mster found her diaper although she was entertained much longer than him.

And...Lster is sleep training. Slightly frustrating times in the Burrito household. With the chaos of our lives I just haven't been able to allot a time to truly train him. But with the in-laws out of town and the Burrito family flying solo for a few days, it was time. (also the fact that I've had a 5 hour stretch of sleep maybe 2-3 times since the big guy was born). So last night he finally slept through the night. 6pm to 5am with only a few squaks in the night. No real cries. Now, if only we can get him to sleep till 6am (he used to before) and he needs to master the naps. 1/2 hour naps just aren't good enough. Oh the crying. I feel so bad for him. I'm trying to remember that I did it with Mster and how it went. I wish I would have journalled the experience.

Tofu and Recalls

1. I've always been a pretty trusting person but these days I just want to dump all the toys into the trash can and give my kids paperbags and socks to play with. Erg!!!!!

2. Lster loves tofu as much as Mster did (emphasis on 'did'). We are not a vegetarian family. And those that really know us can just stop laughing. :) In fact, we don't eat tofu ourselves but I find that it is the perfect food to give a baby who's learning to eat for themselves. Its pretty bland. Its easy to pick up. Its easy to swallow and it has protein in it. Tonight I gave some to Lster for the first time and he inhaled it. Mster picked up her piece (since she HAD to have what Lster was having), felt the squishy weirdness and didn't even try it.

3. Mster is really liking the 'funder"

Mster could be your penpal

Mster got an email from one of her friends and she thinks typing letters is cool.

If you want a letter from her drop her a note by my email.

Lster is a genius

Lster can sign 3 words

more
food
water

and today he crawled to the bathroom (door was shut), turned around to my mom who was behind him and signed "water". His sister had just had a bath and he wanted one too.

AMAZING!!!! I love communicating with a 9 month old.

Word of the Day...Thanks Mster

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