Attempts at beating the summer heat!!!!

Two weeks ago we took trystan up to Mt. Charleston to go hiking, trying to get out of the lovely 116 degree weather. Poor kid is going stir crazy locked up in the house, but it is way to hot to be outside. We decided a short little hike preferably to water would be best since we have never gone hiking with the little man before. Trystan was not into it. Mikie packed him the whole way. He had no desire to get down and walk or explore, but once we got to the top he was excited. Thank goodness there was a waterfall that had water running. He had a blast playing in the cold water. Stopping for a water BreakTrystan has become rather good at being a human water fountainRefusing to sit with mommy (suddenly he has this huge fear of us leaving him, daddy especially)Life is good I have daddy so we may proceedWawa.... Thank goodness for the little thingsBoys and throwing rocks, I'm not sure I will ever understand it, but the smiles are so worth it. (sorry the kid refused to look at the camera)This little dip in the log was fun to play in....and drink out of (gross)Cute little bum and short little legsStill refusing to sit with mommyCounting to one and gooooooooWatching two girls climb up by the water fallDaddy and buddySo Tired on the way homeI took trystan to the secret garden habitat at the mirage this morning. Thought he might like the dolphins and tigers. This is his new thing though in public be it at the gracery store, target, wherever, to just go sit on the floor or the ground, usually he full on lays down, today he just sat down on the concrete and said "hot" and got up!Standing in front of the Dolphin tankThe white tiger that charged the other white tiger, it was cool to watch them fight and trystan loved it when they growled, sorry not fast enough with the camera to catch the fight.Tiger trying to cool offOh the Dolphin pool. In a split second Trystan managed to grab his sippie cup out of his bag take a big drink, run and throw his sippie cup into the dolphins pool!!!!! Ahhhhhh I was not fast enough to see it coming nor could I stop it. One of the employees saw the whole thing and did not look very happy jumping the wall to retrieve the cup before the dolphins got it. can you say embaressed mommy;) Trysatn of coarse responded by saying ohhhhh and laughing out loud while pointing to the cup that had gone over the ledge around the pool where the trainers stand and acutally into the pool part of the tank itself. All I have to say is thank goodness it floats!!!!

The kid has an arm, cause the cup made it over the wall right to where those two dolphins are perched!!!! (good times)

Up Mom!

So my absolutely adorable handsome little man has quite the temper as I have pointed out before. But lately he has become rather aggressive when he gets upset! The first thing he does when he gets mad is goes into the living room and finds something to throw. I have debated about what I should do, and decided that the punishment needed to fit the crime. So when a toy gets thrown in anger, the toy gets taken away! Pretty simple right. We did this for a couple of weeks then I began to wonder if maybe Trystan was a little to young to grasp the concept of I was naughty with that toy so now its mommy's and I don't get to play with it. A couple of nights ago Trystan got really upset because Mikie and I told him no more movies for the night (the kid loves to watch movies) so he promptly walked over to "chuck" his talking dump truck picked it up and chucked it across the room. I instantly snapped Trystan's name, he walked over to his truck picked it up and carried it to the wash room (this is where all of the toys have gone that I have taken away) and said up mom and handed me the truck he had thrown!!!!