Happy Star Wars Day!

What??? Happy Star Wars Day???

Yes... May the 4th be with you.

Ha!Ha!Ha!

A picture update

I hope everyone had a great Easter. Again, I have failed at this blogging thing...I am providing all two or three of you that actually still have faith in my blog and visit it occasionally the opportunity to view multiple pictures, in no particular order, to get you up to speed on the Fall House. Again, I promise to try harder to make this a regular thing. What has happened since I last blogged? Lots! I made a cute little quilt for my sister's new baby girl (coming in June). Work is still work. One of Tommy's favorite activities in the world is to help Mommy or Daddy recycle. He is hilarious. Whatever he is doing, if he sees one of us rinsing a plastic bottle or taking apart a box, he stops what he is doing and says" Mamma! (or daddy) Cycle?" Then, he runs over to me (or Daddy) and grabs whatever the object is, and heads to the garage, where he puts the object to be recycle in the proper bin (with mommy or daddy telling him which bin it goes in). Then, he comes inside for a bragging session, he walks over to the parent who did not help out and says"Daddy, I cycled!! I cycled!!" Then, we tell him good job, and he moves on with his day. The other morning, he cracked me up with this. Daddy already went to work and I had a milk jug that needed recycling. He helped, but then came inside and could not find anyone to brag to, so he walked over to the dog (who was eating breakfast) and said "Dash, I cycled! I cyled!" I laughed so hard!! Anyhow, you did not come to read my ramblings, you came to see pictures of the cutie, so here they are...

Tommy loves "Forts"
This is one of his favorite forts to build with help, and then hide and "read". Outside is the best!!, and when you are not outside, you are thinking about outside...Hats? Hats are awesome! By the way, when Thomas pumps his fist in the air and says "Awesome!" I can not contain my smile, it is hilarious. He started doing this about a month or so ago, and it still has not gotten old, but I digress... here is the awesome hat picture...
I just can not believe how big he is getting, he loves eating on his own, sitting at the real table, and coloring...That's all for now. By the way, tonight I made some delicious PB and Choc. cupcakes. Both of my dudes LOVED them.

Cardboard

Daddy got something in the mail today. Tommy did not care what it was. The important thing is that it came in a box.

Hi

Hello! Life in the Fall house has been okie dokie lately. . Yes, I did say "okie dokie". I am bringing the phrase back. Along with "yepper pepper". But, I digress...working like crazy, but glad to have jobs. Tommy is growing like a weed. He is getting too smart for his own good. Matt has been painting. I can't wait to post some pictures of all of the painting the hubby has been doing. It is turning out soooooooooo nice! That will come soon enough, we are getting close to finished and by "we", I really mean "he", I am not the painter in the house. I shovel driveways and play with the kid, those are my main household duties. :) Anyhow, here are some pics and videos of the kid...enjoy!!

Smiling for the camera...he is so interested in the camera now.

Showing you his monkey, his favorite stuffed toy by far. I do not know why. He has just decided it needs to be with him everywhere.

Sitting with Daddy and the monkey, getting ready to read.

Going nuh-night...with the monkey.

Now for those of you who wanted me to post more videos, here are a couple of the cutie. The first one is him being indecisive. He never seems to be able to make up his mind...



The next is him splashing in the tub, a bit camera shy though, usually it is much more...wet...Anyhow, I always sing him this song about the rain, he loves it...
"The rains came down and the floods came up (3 times), and the house on the rock stood firm. The rains came down ant the floods came up (3 times), and the house on the sand went SPLAT!"
When I sing "the rains came down", I just shake my fingers from above his head, down to the water. When I sing "the floods came up" I splash water from the tub into his face...he loves this...Both times I say house, put my fingers together and make a little"house", and of course when I say "Splat" I splash the water...then he splashes a lot of water...I am telling you...he is a crazy splasher...


The next video is him introducing you to his favorite animal



Tickling the monkey...

4 YEARS!

No, I am not referring in the title to how long it has been since I have last posted, I am simply referring to the fact that it has been 4 glorious years today that Matthew and I have been a blissfully married couple :) Anyhow...We have been up to lots, I have included a video of Tommy for those of you who are excited about seeing the little guy. He is talking like crazy. His list of vocab grows every day. Just because I am so proud, I am going to attempt to list as many of his words here: Mommy, Daddy, Tommy, Dash, Bop (grandpa Fall), Nana (Grandma Ferguson), Chloe, Nolan, Mia, Christa, Pat, Chico, hi, bye, stop, off, down, blue, guy, sit down, all done, up, baby, Taggie, na-night, kiss, thank you, please, pizza, fruit, apple, juice, milk, one, two (demonstrated in video), again, yes, yeah, no,blow, hot, cold, get down, shoes, socks, feet, hand, hair, belly, eyes, ears, nose, mine, you, bed, snack, tub, peek-a-boo. That is all I can come up with now, but essentially, he repeats anything. It is so darn cute. I have got to get video of him "reading". He loves to sit down with a book and blabber.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Hello all! We have been busy! I think that it will start to calm down a bit now... We just took the tree down today, which always makes Matt a bit sad, Christmas is by far his favorite holiday. So this is what we did (see pictures of it all below). Tommy learned a new game, we call it "sock monsters". Basically he puts socks, or mittens, or whatever he can find on his hands and pretends to attack someone. He growls and makes his "scary" face. It is hard not to laugh, but if you act flambointly scard, he cracks up. Then he does it again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again and again. We woke up at our house Christmas morning, where Santa brought me a Wii, Matt some gloves, and a sled for Tommy. We then packed up to go see Matt's grandparents in Chesaning for visiting an a fabulous dinner. Tommy got a haircut from Uncle Terry during the Christmas party, and we got to visit with a lot of extended family. Tommy's new haircut looks so good!! We then traveled to Saginaw for a brief overnight stay at my parent's house, where we got to see Tommy's cousins, which he always loves. The day after Christmas we went to Matt's parent's Saginaw townhouse for Christmas with his sister and brother-in-law and the rest of Tommy's cousins. We had dinner there, then went back to my parents house to spend the night. We then did my Grandma Fergie's Christmas party the next day, and got to see a lot of family. We left Grandma's house to travel up to Matt's parents house in Traverse City, where we spent about 5 days. It was so refreshing and fun up there. Matt and I got to play a lot of cards, and Tommy loved the bath tub, and all of the attention from Grandma and Grandpa. We all ate very well!! Then we had to leave, not that we wanted to, but I had to work on Friday, and we came back to the house. Here we have stayed, and set up a new kick butt recycling shelf in the garage. Happy New Year!

I know

So, I am a bad blogger. Here is a quick update, since it has been over a month since I have updated you (I say "you" as if anyone is still following this blog...)

We did Halloween...

...Daddy took us to Cabelas, Tommy loved the fish tank...

...and then Mommy and Daddy had a great "adult" get away to Traverse City...

...and then there was Thanksgiving (Tommy has a new little cousin, how cute)...




...and a little bit of family time at the bowling alley (we were inspired by wii, but it is much harder in real life)...



...so, I will try to be better, we'll see how it goes. For those of you who do not know, Tommy is a walking, climbing, new word saying machine. He knows where his nose and ears are, he loves help out with anything around the house. He is constantly trying to figure out the world around him. We love our little dude. Matt still has a job, although it is a scary time to be a slave to the auto industry. I still love my job. I hope that I will not disappoint you all with my lack of blogging, I just look at a computer all day at work, and it is hard to get on one when I get home. I promise to try though. By the way, if anyone is interested in a good whole chicken recipe, I cooked a great one tonight. Let me know.