Future Fisherman/paddleboarder

As many of you know, our family (and I include all of us, Tristan too) has started up a Paddleboard company, check out our website at http://www.boteboard.com/.  Paddleboarding a great family activity, and I cant wait til it warms up to get Tristan out on the water.  He loved it last summer...and Im sure by the end of this summer he wiill want his very own!  He is an independent little thing, and if it wasnt for the size of the paddleboard, I could see it now... Little Monster going for a paddle by himself when no one is looking (the 30 lbs might be a little issue...but considering he carries around a 10 lb medicine ball...i could see him pushing one of these into the water with ease.  Below are some pictures from the store the other day...Corey probably shouldnt have shown him to stand on this in the store...because now he wants to go "fish" all the time...

SO its been a while...

and in an effort to keep my sanity, Im going to give this blog a go again (and I also want to be able to read back on some of Tristan's adventures (and I want to share his adventures, b/c they deserve to be shared), because Im sure I will forget a little or maybe a lot as time goes by)...by keeping my sanity..i mean not that I am really losing my sanity....I just think that it might help me see the light of things when I have a troll that runs around the house and GETS INTO EVERYTHING!!!!

Little Monster (how fitting this name turned out to be) has done a lot in the last 6 months and I would be typing all night if I tried to put all of that into this post, so Im just going to jump ahead to now. 
He is a bundle of energy that never stops moving, if you turn  your eye for a second he is into things that you never thought that he could possibly be into.  Like....

1.  He fixed himself a cup of coffee the other day, by fix, I mean he climbed onto the counter top, into the cabinet and grabbed the entire jumbo thing of coffee (I am a coffee drinker, and I only buy the largest possible containers of coffee)...reached over to the next cabinet and grabbed himself a mug....filled his mug with grinded coffee....and I find him enjoying this on the counter

2.  He has somehow fit about 6 rolls of toiletpaper into a toilet, and then wondered why it wasnt flushing (but thankfully to his fascination of flushing toilets, i was able to convert this to an almost fully potty trained 2 year old!!!!!, more on that later )

3.  He has served Einstein about 20 lbs of food at one time, meaning he filled and overfilled einsteins bowl...then sat and enjoyed it with him...Tristan LOVES kibbles and bits

4.  He has sharpied his entire bathroom, the floors of our bedroom and bathroom, and im sure other places that I have not yet found.

5.  He has gone down for a "nap" by mysterioulsly and quitely ended up in the laundry room along with an entire bottle of car wash on the floor (this was about a month ago, but I was reminded of it when I finally

really cleaned it up today)

Tristan also has a ton of personality, and TALKS alot, and loves loves loves loves loves his "juuu---ce"...he would literally drink a gallon of juice in a day if you let him...we got a new fridge about a month ago...that has an ice maker and water dispenser (how did we live with out this for soooo long??? oh and this fridge actually works ...or old one would freeze half the things in the fridge, unfreeze and refreeze things in teh freezer, and it didnt have door shelves, it was pretty much worthless)...anyways we convinced Tristan that the fridge has MAGIC JUICE (really just water) and we now put an drop of juice in with the MAGIC JUICE....so now Tristan drinks....ma--gic Juuuice, peas (please).

Potty Training.....welll we kind of eased into this...we were able to make him "aware" of going to the bathroom last summer...becauase the child lived in his bathing suit...and lets be honest, those swim diapers do nothing but make a gigantic mess really, and in all they are worthless..( he did where them at swim lessons and when we have swam in pools)...so since he was virtually naked all summer he became "aware"...I had heard that you needed a few days to completly devote to potty training...so I waited until Christmas time because he had 2 weeks out of daycare/preschool and we went full force (but since we had family in town most of this time, it wasnt was easy as I would have wanted it to be)...and my 16 year old little brother thought it was gross that i let him run around without pants and was following him with a potty (and you may too) but it progressed to working...so once the fam left, i was able to really focus on it with him, and within a few days he had got it.  Also many thanks to his teacher at school for helping out...she had no problem with having to change his clothes a few times, and as of today he has been an accident free man at school the last 2 weeks...and pretty much an accident free man at home too...we still wear a nightime pull up to bed...b/c i am just going to wait til i think he can make it to the potty by himself in the morning...and he will probably need to chill on the magic juice before bed before we make the leap to "undee ware" at night.

Even though Tristan can be an absolute pill at times...like when you just finish cleaning, mopping, and obsessivly scrubbing the baseboards and doors with lysol...and he follows and spills an entire jug of juice onto the floor that he was trying to get out of the fridge all over the floor...and then carries an apple and drops it everywhere and puts the stickiness onto the walls, and einstein follows and licks the apple goodness...which then his dog hair gets stuck into...you get the picture.....Tristan is the most loving little man...he hugs and kisses and squeezes and says I love you and "hold me peas" and asks for kisses when he gets hurt...and then after you kiss him...he says all better....and even though sometimes I want to pretend to be asleep when I hear " mommy...mom...mommmiiieee..mommy...mom" I really am lucky to have such a fun loving, crazy, curious little man as my side kick each and every day...