Big Vocab!

Jake & Dempsey are sitting, snuggling as Demps winds down for the night (naps are problematic). Jake was going through our Apple TV to find a movie and Dempsey said "Hey, recognize". Jake says, "You recognize that?" Dempsey says, "Yep."

It's fun to have Dempsey all to ourselves after Sawyer goes to sleep. We get to hear just his voice and watch him use his imagination. It really is harder to SEE and HEAR WHO Dempsey is when Sawyer is around.

Lord,
Thank you so much for Dempsey. He is beautiful and challenging. Smart and stubborn. Head strong and snuggly. We are so grateful for this pint sized paradox. Please give us the tooks to parent him as he needs.
Amen

Dogfight

Dempsey is wicked good at a Wii game called Sports Resort. There is a collection of areial challenged, one of which is called Dogfight.

That stinker has mad skills at it honestly, for me, takes the fun out of playing against him.

Anyway, we all (my folks, Jake, myself) talk about whether or not Dempsey is/ was on his "A" game. This image is a text conversation between me and my dad:

Cologne

I am tickled that Dempsey is more dedicated to the wearing of cologne than the person I bought it for (his father).

Dempsey is so dedicated that he scaled the toilet, mounted the counter, opened the medicine cabinet, brought down the cologne, doing all those hurdles in reverse, and came to me beaming with pride.

After I applied it I sent him to "put it back where [he] found it". He did.

He also came back with his band-aids. He likes them because one box is a minion design and the other is Planes, with Dusty and El Chu.

I sent him to put those back as well. He obeyed.

Such a monkey!

Evidence

This proves there has been a 3 year old in my bed. New meaning to bed bugs.

Dizzy ABCs

What a fun last little bit of time spent with Dempsey tonight before bed! He was wound up because I was tickling him and messing with him. I would make a sound that resembles suspense or anticipation then declare a body part of his and tickle it. He would giggle that infectious toddler giggle and I'd start giggling too. We did that for a short while and distracted Daddy and Sawyer's reading of a new book.

When Jake took Sawyer to do bed time Dempsey was still in need of unwinding. He was interested in making "circles" in our living room- aka spinning.

So, while he made circles I said the ABCs aloud. At first he was saying them with me but after a few times he was just concentrating on spinning. It was awesome. I wish I had had my phone handy to record this but it was not close by and I didn't want to stop this session of fun with my Dempsey.

When he would finish spinning as I finished the alphabet, I would spread my arms wide and he would run the width of our living room into them and we'd laugh and kiss. Then it would all repeat again.

Heavenly! Just heavenly.

On A Walk

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Dempsey asked to go for a walk. I said yes. It was quite warm but not too, too bad. He lead us on a journey of lefts.

Sometimes I forget how easy just one child is. Precious time with my baby who is only a toddler according to clothing sizes. In all other respects he's a little BOY. So capable. Smart. Thankfully he's still a love bug too. 

Conductor

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Dempsey's potential costume for Sawyer's birthday party today.