Rocket Man

Since Roonster and I haven't been as busy lately we have to make our own fun. Lucky for Rooney Mom is selling baby/toddler toys. Rooney is playing with a new toy we received. Can you believe I had to teach him how to stomp on it? I may have shot myself in the foot with that one but he had alot of fun and he even taught himself how to put the rockets back on the launcher. I was really trying to get an action shot here to put on my BabyCrazy website and after many, many pictures I thought these were pretty cute.

Recently, Mike and I fully baby proofed Roonster's room. We did this for a few reasons (besides safety). We anticipated having to do this for that dreaded day when Rooney is a. climbing out of his crib consistently and b. when he is finally in a toddler bed. There is another reason too, which is, now we have a safe place to put Rooney for his tantrums (they have started) and also a safe place for him to play if we have to be away from him for awhile. So far it has been working great. We put a bookshelf at little boy height and a little rocking chair too. He loves it! Roon is definitely in the two's now. He has successfully climbed out of his crib twice and has stripped himself naked once. He calls Mommy & Daddy's bed "my bed" and he wants what he wants and you'll do yourself a favor if you can anticipate what that is before he thinks of it. These moments are generally more funny than irritating though and if they do become irritating we have a fully childproofed room to let him work whatever he needs out. Whew!


Finally, today is the 1st day of December and it is also the 1st snowfall of the winter (hopefully the last). We woke up to a pretty little sheet of snow. Courage and Rocco loved it. Sadly for them (good for me) it melted pretty quickly.