Time Out & Toy Story

Had a good busy day of visiting teaching, Porter got to play with one of his best buddies Nate, cleaning the house and laundry, errands, shopping, dinner, and took my little son to Jumpin' Jacks. He is getting to love that place more and more. He better live it up 'cause in 2 months our play there will cease when he will no longer be free! This is him there tonight on the little carousel. They also have those race car video games and he likes to sit in those and pretend to drive. All those fun inflatable things and he will sit in the race car thing or now this carousel--silly kid is missing the point of the place.
Had to go to Home Depot to return something and as soon as we got there Porter ran in so fast and so excited. Guess he knew we were in "man's land". He ran down the aisles and waved at people (who didn't notice...for shame) and ran to this lawn mower and enjoyed the pretend drive.
This book is from Aunt Stacey and quite fitting for this month. We have been watching the Toy Story movies (1 & 2) to get ready for the third. I can't wait to see it; I have heard nothing but good things.
Aaron bought this Woody 9 years ago! We were dating and wanted to do a Disney room for our future kids (not anymore). Porter got sick Friday (which cancelled some camping plans) and we decided to give him a special toy: Woody!!! He loves it. Now Woody is among the bed time line up: Teddy, blankie, binki, monkey...and Woody. When we say prayers at night Porter has to get them all to fold their arms before he does. SO CUTE!!! Woody also gets to sleep in the crib with the gang. Sunday in sacrament meeting Porter had Teddy and folded his arms for prayer.

Porter is really starting to repeat new words every day and now says "up" when he wants to be picked up instead of grunting with arms stretched out. He is also doing very good at brushing his teeth before bed and helping me get him dressed or undressed (putting his arms or legs through or getting them out). He is also getting fairly proficient at drinking from a cup without getting himself all wet, but we still mainly do sippy cups. Porter is still loving to wear mine and Aaron's shoes around the house and his favorite types of books are the "first word" books that have pages of named objects. He loves to point out the things he knows like trains, cars, dogs, cats, socks, airplanes, etc. What a treasure this little boy is; Aaron and I are enjoying him so much. Here's a big piece of Bergquist news: Thursday before last (6/17) Porter had his first time out!!! I repeatedly told him to leave the dog water/food alone but he didn't and ended up dumping and spilling it all over. I took him to a corner of the laundry room and held him in the corner for about half a minute. He just turned around and sat down; cling to Mommy, turn around; sit down; beg for Mommy hug, turn around and sit down...you get it. So it starts: discipline!