Babies Are Not Food

But if they are not food, then why do people do silly things like this? Have you heard of #babymugging? 

I believe I saw it on the Today Show or something.  It's so silly.  But OF COURSE I had to do it too.  This was just my first try.  I'm sure there will be more.  

 Also, if babies are not food, then why do they turn into such delicious baby burritos??? HA!

 I'll eat you up, I love you so.  :-)

It's Already Time for Another Haircut?

Tommy's hair and nails seem to grow incredibly fast.  Every time I turn around, we need to do something about one of those two things.

 We went to visit Steph at the Hairman, of course, to keep things trim and neat. Tommy sat in the chair All By Himself this time.  He's getting so big!!!

 Then we spent the next half an hour playing at the shop.

Tommy loved the "helmet chairs" and hopping on and off them.  

 After the hair cut, we lunched at Chickfila.  Yum yum! There were like 15 church buses full of kids when we went.  Tommy was a big hit with the teens.  They loved him!

Wanna see Steph's magic?? Look at the 'Before' mop! WOW! What an improvement from Shaggy to Sharp!

Weird Things

The Thornburgs are no stranger to weirdness.  Here are some fine examples... 

 When Dada is away, we like to have picnics in the living room for dinner.  Shh, don't tell Dada!

 Apparently Tommy is a vegetarian with two whole servings of veggies for dinner.  Or maybe he just ate everything else and thought the veggies were just for playing.

 We like to move the chairs to our driveway so we can watch the traffic go by like hillbillies.  Tommy looks like he has a chaw in his mouth.  HA! Such billies.

 Tommy doesn't like to smile for pictures anymore.  He likes to hide his face or look mad.  But I can still get him to smile occasionally by either asking him to say "Roast Beef" (I don't understand why it makes him laugh either) or calling him a poop-head.  Can't wait to hear from daycare on that one!

Finally, his favorite new weird thing is taking his sock off in bed and putting it on his hand during the night.  Just one sock on one hand.  He's done it a few times.  No idea why he started doing it.  Maybe he has a cold hand?  I don't know but it cracks me up.

Adventures in Eating, Part Infinity

Olive Garden has a super nice allergy menu so when our power was out randomly during the week, we decided it was time to visit.  

Father and son pose time.

 I still can't believe he let us put the bib on him.  He hasn't let us put a bib on him since he was a baby.

All the pastas are good to go for Tommy so we chose shells and meat sauce.   It was an excellent choice. So much easier to eat than the typical long noodles.

For once we actually had a pleasant dining experience with a toddler.  Tommy loved his meal and it was just loud enough that his "inside voice" didn't bother the neighbors.  Hooray for da Garden!

Random Pics of the Week

 Shark Boy! Keeping teeth clean all over the world!!

 Yes, this is a chair on top of a couch with a sippy cup inside of a regular cup.  It's like a M.C. Escher picture, amirite?? Ok maybe not.  But still strange anyway.

Lunch time for these two crazy boys.  Too cute!

These have been your random pictures of the week. Hope you enjoyed!

Adventures in Eating Part 2398429729

Let me preface this by saying, it's ALWAYS an adventure when eating at a restaurant with Tommy with his milk, egg and peanut allergies.  But we found a new restaurant that's near us that has an allergy menu.  Whoo hoo! It's TGI Fridays.  I read online that they have an allergy menu available inside so I went in and asked to see it.  I looked through every single damn menu item to see what Tommy could have.  He could have TWO things in the entire restaurant.  Spaghetti from the kid's menu and a half rack of ribs.  YAY! It's something! So we decided to eat there.  Tommy loved the "flair" on the walls.

 Once he got bored with the crayons and the kids menu, he asked to use my phone to take pictures.  I'm not kidding when I say the kid took 30 pictures... of himself.  Mostly just his forehead.  Maybe it's bad that the iPhone 5 has a way faster shutter. :) (Heehee, look at that little smirk smile.  Cute.)

Then he wanted me to take pictures of him.  I took a few but the flash is out of control bright.  None of those turned out.  

 Then the spaghetti came.  Holy moly, it was a complete and total MESS. But he LOVED it.  He also loved the fresh fruit.  YUM.

Awww, little spaghetti man. Such a cutie pie.

So now our restaurant list for Tommy (places that have allergy menus) is:
TGI Fridays
McAlisters
Burger King
Firehouse Subs
Chipotle
Chick-fil-a 

Places we haven't been to yet that do have menus:
Red Lobster
Ruby Tuesdays (this menu sucks because it's separated by allergen. What if someone has more than one? Too much work. Plus we don't have one here.)
Culvers

I just found this link to tons of restaurants links.  Looks like we have lots more to try! Sweet! Can't wait!

Bears Jammies

Tommy got Bears Jammies from Aunt Cait for Christmas.  Today he picked them out to wear for a lazy Sunday.

I asked if I could take his picture in his jammies and he expressed his displeasure.  

 For a long time.  But OMG, look at that little Bear tail.  Ridiculous!

 He eventually gave up on throwing fits when I would try to take his picture.  He grabbed some snacks out of the cabinet and chilled on the couch.

 You caught me! Yes I caught you scarfing down snacks, little stink pot.

When we tried to put him down for a nap today, we took his hood off and laid him down.  Andrew left the room and Tommy threw a fit.  Andrew went back in and Tommy was sitting on the end of his bed. He had found his hood and put it back on his head.  He REALLY must like these jammies!

Kevin?

This is Tommy at dinner the other night.  He looks like he's wearing an applesauce tie!

With his hair while making that face, he also looks like Kevin the bird from the movie Up.

I would have posted a picture of just Kevin but then I found this gif and I couldn't resist.  ;)

21 Months: Look at Him, He's Talking

Tommy is 1.75 years old. Actually a little older but I'm just now getting this posted.  It is crazy how much he has changed in 3 months.  It feels like he learns 10 new words every day.  He is definitely in the repeating stage.  ANYthing we say, he is going to repeat it.  We have to be very careful what we say around him, that's for sure.  

He has become pretty particular about his clothes and shoes.  If we want him to wear something that he has previously thrown a fit about wearing in the past, we have to, as my mom says, "Distract and Attack."  :-)

He's starting to be a little pickier about what he eats.  That is not allowed, Mr. Tommy T.  Your food list cannot get any shorter!

He is obsessed with all kinds of vehicles right now.  Trucks and Cars! He LOVES Mater and McQueen from the Cars movies.  Mater is by far his favorite.

He's starting to look really old.  He's losing his baby look little by little.  It's crazy how fast it's happening! He's going to be 2 soon!! AAHHH!

We've added pretty much every soy product back into his diet (which includes the ever-awesome OREOS).  He's handling it like a champ! One food allergy down, only three more to go (milk, eggs, peanuts)!

He is LOVING daycare right now.  He doesn't even care when we drop him off anymore.  He's like "Smell ya later, Fools!" after he gives his goodbye hug.

They do all kinds of fun activities every day (for example painting with a Q-tip in the picture above).  They're learning colors right now but Tommy is such a genius (Watch out, here comes the Brag about my child moment), he already knows all his colors! I just found out yesterday that he also knows all his shapes (He even knows oval, are you kidding me?).  He has trouble saying square but it doesn't matter because whatever he does, I'm still going to think he's a genius. :-)

He loves his classmates.  This is a super cute class picture that Tommy's teacher sent us.  In order from L-R, Layla, Owen, Tommy and Landon.  Or in Tommy's words, "Waywa, Owen, and Nannan."  Poor Layla, she's the only girl in a class full of boys (and she is the only one enjoying the class pic).   I think they're getting another girl classmate in October.

We also got this picture from Tommy's teacher (who I just found out graduated a year before me in high school.  I thought she looked familiar!) and she included this message in her email... 

I asked them to go get a book and sit on rug. When I turned around from putting papers away they all were sitting like this! So cute! Thank you so much for letting me teach your child...I love them all!

How sweet is that! 

Tommy's new fave thing is singing.  He is constantly asking us to sing or singing himself.  This video is from when we were shopping at Lowes today.  He was singing Old MacDonald. 


I love how by the end he kinda was like, "Yeah I'm pretty much done singing for your little video, Ma."
His other favorite songs are Baby Beluga, Baby Bumble Bee, the Hot Dog song from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and his ABC's.  He will sing his ABC's before falling asleep.  Now they're not perfect.  He needs a lot of help/encouragement. We supply a letter every few letters.  But it sounds a lot like....
"A, B, C,D, Effzhee, Achay, J, K, Enenenno, P, Koo, Arresss, Teeyou, Teeyou, Double... Ess, Y, Zshee" and then he kind of says a bunch of random sounds that he thinks is the "Now I Know My" part and then he yells "YAY!"  He is hilarious.

Happy 1.75 years old to my amazing little dude.

A Friday Night at Steak 'n Shake

You ready to hear about one of the most exciting Friday nights EVER?? Well then you should probably go read someone else's blog because it really wasn't THAT exciting.  But it was fun. The T-burgs went to the grocery and then stopped at Steak n Shake for dinner. Why was this exciting? Because Steak n Shake has an allergy menu!! Whee! 

 They also have cool kids stuff.  They set down this little cardboard car, a Steak n Shake hat, a kid's menu and crayons.  Nice work, Steak n Shake!

Tommy Hawk was not a big fan of the hat.  As soon as I put it on, he would rip it off.  

 This was actually the best picture I got of him with that dang hat on.  Hilarious.

We made the mistake of choosing the booster seat over the high chair.  Bad move, dudes.  Once you have the freedom and movement of the booster seat, you never go back. We tried to put him in a high chair later and he screamed like we were trying to stuff him in a cat carrier.  Everyone in the restaurant was looking so we conceded and put him back in that terrible wobbly booster seat (after he got some QT with dada).

 Tommy is actually yelling "WINNING" Charlie Sheen style here.  :-) He is a boy that knows how to get what he wants!

 So what do we order for the boy with the food allergies? Steakburger Minis and Fries! (No cheese of course)  With lots o' ketchup!! (Isn't that the coolest little cardboard car?)

 He liked it.  He's not used to fast food so he didn't eat much of it.  (I'm surprised he didn't ask for broccoli and prunes.)

 Annddd that's what his plate looked like when we left.  Darn.  It's still cool to be able to take him out to eat and not have to bring his food.  But I checked Steak n Shake's website today (to link the allergy menu) and guess who eats free on Saturdays and Sundays?? Crap! One day too early.  Oh well.  Now we know. Better go back today. HA!

Say "Without CHEESE!"  Get it?  Instead of Say 'Cheese'? What?  No?  Ok whatever, I tried.  Shut it. :)

My Weekend with Tommy T

Andrew was out of town last weekend so I got some major quality time with my little Tommy Hawk.  

 On Friday night, Katie, Harper, Tommy and I went to the mall and went to dinner. After Tommy sufficiently terrorized the mall, we ate at Chili's.  It was truly Tommy's first date.  Cutest thing ever.  He was stoked!

 Looks like he needs some liquid courage while Harper's not looking.

 After dinner, Tommy spent some time lounging around the house naked.  It's the way he prefers it these days.

 The next morning, Tommy was missing dada.  He spent some time in his office chair thinking about him. :)

 Then we went outside to play... without pants.

 Somewhere in that clump of dirt, Tommy was giving me his first ever flower.  A smashed up dandelion.  Awww.

 Tommy looked especially cute enjoying lunch.

 Then of course it was naked time again.

 Tommy got to enjoy sweet corn on the cob fresh from the field for the first time.  He loved it! Even without the butter! :)

 Where do you eat sweet corn? On the floor of course!

 We sent Andrew several pictures over the weekend.  This was one of them.  This one just cracked me up.

 Then we had to send one of that classic smile.

Thanks for a super fun weekend, Thomasaurus!