Boys just being boys

Remy has really always been a Momma's boy. He is with me all day and thus is a little needy for his Mommy. I definitely love every minute of it, I love how he wants me to cuddle him and hold him and read books to him. However, lately he has been a Daddy's boy. He wants to be following his Daddy around from the moment he comes home. When Shaun gets home the first thing he does is change into some shorts and he can never find his sandals. Remy has picked up on this and will follow Shaun down the hall and than wonder around the house saying "where shoes? where shoes?" It is so cute because he wants to hold Shaun's hand all of the time so they wonder around looking for shoes together. Than they usually go outside to do yard work or work on the motorcycle. Remy loves to help Shaun and will find various tools to play with while Shaun is outside. He also loves to help mow the lawn.

Chappy and Remy have come up with yet another game. Just when I think that they will not come up with another crazy game they certainly do. Remy loves to get his goldfish crackers and throw them down the stairs for Chappy. I caught them in action in this picture. Chappy consequently has gotten very fat from this game.

All of this Daddy "Man time" has been wearing on Remy. He loves to get my screw driver and try to "fix" his animal farm or various other objects around the house. Now, it is not broken but he will switch the button to off, fiddle around with the screw driver for a while and than turn the switch back on very proud of his ability to fix it. Very smart this boy.

One of my favorite stories that just brought a tear to my eye because A: I was laughing so hard, and B: it just shows how quickly they start to put things together and my little baby is turning into a little boy. Shaun has been out of town this week and our grass is becoming somewhat of a forest. The fear of losing Chappy and Remy in the deep grass caused me to do something that I never do, Mow the lawn. I thought to myself, I will take Remy with me, he will love this. We went out and got onto the lawn mower. I turned the key and sure enough the wah, wah, wah, the battery was dead. Remy turned around and looked at me, said something and than proceeded to try to turn the key and push nobs himself. I mean heaven forbid, Mommy doesn't know how to do this and Remy certainly knows how since he does it so often with Shaun. I said, "Remy it is broken" and turned the key again. He looked up at me with a very serious face, said something again and climbed down from the lawn mower. He ran over to Shaun's motorcycle and grabbed a screw driver. He ran back to the lawn mower and started trying to use the screw driver to fix the key and knobs and things. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. He was so sure that he just knew what to do and he was going to save the day for Mommy since I didn't know what to do. Oh my sweet boy is just growing up so fast!!

This past weekend we went to Spud days in Shelley. I went years ago with my roommates in college but haven't been since. My mom, me, Remy, Ivy and Andy all went. Unfortunately we didn't make it in time to get a free potato. My nurse said that there were 7000 potatoes that were made and they were gone in 30 minutes. It was to bad, but luckily for us many of the food booths from the state fair were also at this festivity. It was so crowded though. I ate a Doug Burger and another funnel cake. Yes, I love funnel cakes. Below you can see Remy at the fish pond. He was confused at first but than was excited to get a little prize. All in all it was a really fun day.

Poor little Chappy!! I recently took him for his yearly check up and shots. As I had mentioned before he is a little over weight from all of the food that Remy feeds him. The vet and I had to have a little heart to heart about how Chappy needs to lose 5 pounds. 5 Pounds and he only weighs 22 to start with!!! But we have a plan to help him get back to a healthy weight. He also had to have a little "procedure". It was nothing major and no, it did not involve doggy lipo-suction. He had a little growth on his manly part and it needed to be removed. It was nothing serious but it was just gross and obnoxious for him so we removed. Chappy is sad though because today he got home and he has to wear the dog funnel head collar. Remy thinks it is the funniest thing he has ever seen. Every time he sees Chappy he just starts laughing hysterically. It didn't help that Chappy was still drugged and kept running into things. Remy also thinks it is hilarious to grab the sides of the funnel and squish them together so Chappy's head is stuck inside. Poor Chappy, he just can't catch a break. Hopefully tomorrow is better for Chappy.

The State Fair 2010

I love the State Fair every year. For me it brings back memories of old. I did 4-H as a kid and loved every minute of it. I did horse and rabbit 4-H and competed at the state fair each year. Some of my favorite memories are showing my pony Rosy, and horse Tiggy when I got older. When I was young I never got to compete in halter (leading your horse around in a pattern) classes with Rosy because every year I would faint at the county fair and wouldn't qualify for the state fair, however we always competed in the riding classes. It was always a close contest between Shannon (one of my favorite 4-H friends!!) and I, but we definately represented our county well and would win every year. Tiggy was a wonderful horse but when he and I were in our halter class at the state fair I remember the judge coming around to give us a final pass over and Tiggy grabbed the clip board right out of her hand and started waving it around in the air. Naughty naughty horse but I think she thought it was funny and we ended up winning. I also loved showing my rabbits. I do have toot my own horn and say that I did win State grand champion rabbit showman a few times. What can I say, no one can throw a rabbit around like I can. ;-) One of my favorite rabbit showing experiences was when I was showing my rabbit Sammy. She was a mini rex which have incredibly soft velvety fur. Rabbits are somewhat disposable pets because they die like flies if they get hot or stressed out. Anyway, luckily she didn't die however she did get so stressed out that all of her hair fell out during the class. Not just molting and a few clumps fell out but all of the hair on her back, BALD!!! It was like I just grabbed hold and pulled off her toupee, I have never seen anything like it. She still had her hair on the sides so she looked like a funny old man. The judge didn't really know what to say about it but we still came out alright.

I just knew that Remy would love the fair. I have always loved animals and Remy shares this with me. As I have mentioned before all animals are puppies to Remy but he is starting to be able to remember the sounds that they make. We went to the fair with Shaun's Mom and Dad and it was so fun. Remy pretty much laughed this crazy laugh the whole time. He just couldn't believe all of the animals. His favorites were definately the cows and rabbits. Someone had their rabbit out and so graciously was letting kids pet it. Remy just about passed out with joy when he got to pet the rabbit. Remy also loved loved loved the food. I have always got the same things for years so of course I stuck with the plan and ate my funnel cake and gyro. Remy loved the funnel cake and sharing Daddy's rasberry lemonade.

You can see his greedy look in this picture thinking, Why do we need a picture, keep feeding me funnel cake.

Remy got so hyped up with all of the funnel cake, navajo taco, rasberry lemonade he was bouncing in his stroller and laughing constantly. Silly boy. He was so good.

Remy and Shaun have been really working outside a lot and having all sorts of fun.

Remy has enjoyed helping Shaun dig out grass around all of the trees and his very favorite is mowing the lawn.

One Night I was getting ready to put Remy in bed and Shaun was outside working on the trees and he came in and was like, Becky!!! Get Remy!!! hurry!!! I didn't know what was going on but much to my surprise he had caught a little toad in our yard. He said it just started hopping around and had been hiding by our tree. Remy thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen to watch that little toad hopping around. We got a little cage from my Mom and I went and bought toady some little crickets. He was really cute and we kept him over night but I felt bad for him because he seemed to not like being in the house. He just was scooting farther and farther in his grass and wasn't eating the crickets so I let him go. Remy was sad that he had to go but I think he will get over it. Besides, I'm not really one for slimy pets. I am much better with pets with fur. Maybe a rabbit...