Pence - you the man

4 years ago today I busted capillaries in my neck and eyes - doing what you say? Pushing out an 8lb 14oz baby cow, oh I mean boy. I have since forgiven him for his big head. Highlights of him as a baby are he was really quiet and not really aggressive (his cousin used to beat him up all the time). He slept well, and of course ate well (he is a guzman :)). To be honest I tend to block out baby things - but I do remember he was very cute and still is.
Today Spencer is so beautiful (that's right I said it - I call my boys beautiful all the time) and little - he just turned 4 and can now wear 3T pants. The neighborhood kids treat him like a baby. The girls carry him around and if he does something wrong they say "he is just little"... nice. He has a serious potty mouth which he really enjoys having. He likes to say things like butt, fart, stinky, poop etc.. In my presence he tries to control himself - so to get around the "mean mom" he says things like he would say a bad word. For instance - "you are a door" or "you are a wall" - making any word he wants into a bad word just with tone (I really can't explain it). He is very stubborn and can have some serious tantrums - both qualities which can be traced back to his parents. I am stubborn and had awesome monster tantrums when I was little, and Khuong is more stubborn than I am and had tantrums. Poor us for having kids like us. I have to write the truth because this is my journal writing. In a stubborn/tantrum episode he might say something like "I want cheerios" - but we are out - so I tell him we don't have any. response - "I want cheerios!" - we still don't have any. response "I WANT CHEERIOS!!" so on and so forth. It usually ends after he has thrown himself on the floor, and he just kind of works it out.
Now for the good stuff - did i tell you that he is precious. He is really attached to me and not really anyone else. Good for me, bad for anyone else. He gives spontaneous hugs and lots of them. If I get him when he is in the kissing mood he will give me tons and tons of kisses(he has the cutest lips). We will even play kissing games where we try to kiss each others noses, but you have to try and avoid the kiss. He puts his little hands on my face to seize the nose. He loves to sit on my lap or just to be with me. He won't even let me take a shower unless he can sit in the bathroom on the stool while I shower (that will soon probably have to be cut off). He says cute things - the other day I was caulking the baseboard in the bathroom and as he watched me he said "what are you doing with that frosting mom?" He loves CANDY - maybe too much!! He likes to jump off everything. When he was 18 months we were at a park - to make a long story short he jumped off a play structure that was probably 8 feet in the air (I was under him telling him to back up). When he did jump I barely caught him by his leg and neck - the other moms almost had a heart attack. Needless to say I got Jacob and we went home. I am not really good at this but Pence rocks and he really is amazing - I am blessed to have him and Jacob in my life. Today he is the MAN!!