The Alaska Seidels: A foggy Wednesday

I should have taken a picture of the fog it was soo thick in the morning and towards the evening. You must be wondering why yall have been receiving more blog entries than in months or even years past. I’m trying to do better in updating what’s going on here in the Alaskan Seidel residence and I have a cute new (FREE Kevin) windows live writer that let’s me do all this fun fonts, adding pictures, and it then posts it to my blog without me getting on the internet and writing to my blog myself. It’s pretty fun. With Austin’s third birthday approaching I like to keep the family in the loop on his achievements and habits that he has nowadays. I need to measure him, I swear he’s taller everyday! Not even three yet (9ish more days to go) and he’s barely keeping that 4T button on his pants from popping and wears 5T/5 size shirts. My giant child! He is still not succeeding in the potty training but he’s super smart in other categories. He can successfully spell his name, spot his name on anything and anywhere. If the letters are scrambled, he can put them in the correct order. He can spell cat, dog, boy, mom, and dad. We are trying to get him to spell nana since Geri will be here in a few weeks. He knows his 7 basic colors, his shapes, his alphabet, and numbers up to 20. Since he turns 3 in the later part of September he can’t go to preschool until next year. By then who knows who he’ll know. I call him my Einstein (and he has a shirt!) because he’s very smart in the intellectual portion of life, he still hasn’t grasp the other easier items such as dressing himself, or potty training. But can’t be a genius in everything right?

For him to grasp that his third birthday is near, I made this clipboard count down for him to use. For each day down is closer to the big day! It’s not too fancy, I didn’t have much time to go crazy on it but it does the job. I added a Woody sticker so he would be interested in it. The other day he got into the party decorations. He was quite excited about the items! Kevin and I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he replied, “Cake.” So simple at his age!

This morning I took Austin to a place here called Bouncing Bears, where you can bounce your heart out! He loves this place but during the summer it gets crazy with the other crowd and on nice sunny days you would rather be outside instead of inside. So it was a nice change and he enjoyed it!

We had IHOP for dinner. Kevin and I get breakfast and Austin loves his mac and cheese. Since Great clips is practically next door we got Austin a haircut as well. He did really well and was a ham about his hair! It was pretty funny to watch him all excited about a hair cut after getting it cut. Obviously in the chair it was a different story.

We finished up the night with a big huge box my dad sent me! Thank you again dad! It had tons of old photos and I’m just in photo heaven right now admiring the history! He also added a few goodies for Austin and he went to bed with the clock. It has a light on top and he wanted to read a book in bed (read, more like look at pictures haha!). The clock helps Austin learn about time and he got him a cow that tells him about money. Very cool! There was also a GI Joe doll, ok, action figure, my bad! Heehee! And Kevin dressed him up and put the weapons and backpack on him and was like a kid in a candy store, he was just in love with this thing! It was super cute! I’m sure he’s rolling his eyes now at me but it was!