Sunday, January 22, 2012

Project 52.4. Sticky...and some Mustang love


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This weekend, I took the kids up to see my parents. We have a semi-annual tradition of taking the kids up for a Cal Poly game (football in the Fall, basketball in the Spring). The kids had a BLAST, as they always do.

Bodie discovered a superhuman love for Musty, the Cal Poly mascot (a mustang horse). I mean, he could.not.get.enough of him. Kept running up to him to hug him and then would run back to me and then run back to Musty 5 seconds later. At one point, he ran straight into Musty's arms and just hugged him for at least 30 seconds straight. It was adorable.  Well, I mean, we thought it was adorable. Musty may or may not have been trying to make a hasty exit post-game just to get away from Bodie...
Sierra got her share of Mustang love as well, from the Cal Poly cheerleaders. She looked so cute in her Cal Poly cheerleading outfit and the cheerleaders were so sweet, stopping to talk to her. She was in 7th Heaven for sure!
(Isn't she SO cute?!?)

The kids did great all weekend, and probably the most wonderful part is how much Bodie warmed up to my parents. Although he sees them a lot, they sadly fall into the 99.999999% of the world's population known only to Bodie as "not mommy" and attempts to hold him or snuggle him are generally met with disdain and screaming like's on fire. He had started to warm up to my mom when she was in town in November and watched the kids for 2 days while I was at a seminar - but he never willingly went to her when I was in the room and therefore an option. But this weekend, not only did he let my mom hold him, he even let her read him books...
and even let my dad read books...
...if you don't think this is a big deal, trust me, it is. To put it in perspective, the last time he was willing to sit in my dad's lap without screaming like he was on fire, he looked like this...
(October 2010 - 9 months old!)

And he let my dad hold him on the way to Burnardoz (the world's BEST ice cream in the whole world, by the way - it opened up the summer I was born and has always been one of my most favorite places - and also where the pic in this week's Project 52 came from)...
And finally, I just had to include this pic of Bodie - this kids eyelashes and lips are to.die.for. God sure knew what he was doing when he made Bodie - he had to make him extra cute so we'd put up with his extra feistiness! But I tell ya, we're gonna be in trouble with this one... 


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1 comment:

  1. My boys are def not into the icky sticky stuff....thank God. I watched a little guy a few times for a friend of mine that is into that and OMG have I ever had my eyes opened up to that world. Makes me want to scream and run in the opposite direction. LOL!!!

    Glad that Bodie is finally warming up to others. Little stinker. It's about time that boy gives you a break....every once in a while at least. Ha!

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