Austin

So I decided that the first set of my blogs is going to be about my kids.  They will each get their own post and I will do them on different days.  I don't want to half ass the last one because I'm tired of writing.  lol   I'm going to go oldest to youngest to make it easier and this little piece will be at the beginning of each one in case you come in reading on one of the other kids names first.  :)

Oh and we are on to Austin, the baby of the family and he lives up to that reputation.  Austin gets away with way too much just by the smile on his face or the words that half make sense that come out of his mouth.  Without intending to he became the center of all of our worlds.  It wasn't because we like him better, even with the kids he became the center.  My mom once pointed it out when we were on a trip where he was asleep and the moment he woke up ALL of us surrounded him in his stroller making sure he was waking up in a good mood.  lol  We didn't do it on purpose, it just happened.  I try hard to not "baby" him as much anymore.  I figure all the boys got their baby time and Austin deserved his too, now he needs to not get away with everything because boy does he have an attitude.

Austin is by far my most violent so far.  He isn't always mean violent.  I have never seen or heard of him pinching, hitting, screaming or yelling at other children.  We go to a play center with lots of other little kids and he has come to me saying a kid took something or saying "hey I had that" but never violently.  With his brothers however he scratches, pinches, stomps and yells for things like "I tried to talk and he not listen"  I blame us all for him thinking this is okay.  When he was little we said "oh he's little" when he got older I said "that's not okay" and his brothers thought he was so cute and would say "it's okay".  Now that he's older we all hate it.  lol  I can't blame him too much because his brothers are rough with him so he is gonna be rough at a younger age.

Austin cries very easily.  It's getting better but if you tell him no he cries, if you say "that was mean" he cries.  And honestly it is the cutest cry face I have ever seen.  And maybe it's because he's mine but I actually find it funny and like when he makes the cry face.  I do not make him do it on purpose but it's hilarious.  Because he is such the love bug sweetheart when he's being good, it is so hard to punish him and I think he knows this.  He gets away with way too much with his dad but I hold my ground and just last night he went to bed before everyone else and said to me "please don't leave me" when I left the room.  Not screaming crying tantrum, just a whimper "please don't leave me".  He knows how to work it.  lol 

Austin is also such a sweetheart.  He isn't a hard kid.  Even with all the brother fighting, which they all do, he loves his brothers and his sister.  He gives so many hugs and kisses and smiles most of the time.  He sleeps with us all the time now just like Christopher did at this age.  We learned with Christopher there isn't much point in fighting it, it ends on it's own.  lol  He loves his TV shows and loves to sing the songs.  He loves to play the copying game right now even when nobody else wants too.  lol  He loves to sit and play the Ipod and just be in my lap all morning.  :)

Austin is my sweet, spoiled, loving, funny cutie pie.  He is gonna be the biggest handful and we all had a hand in it.  I love that all of my kids have different personalities and I look forward to the "big kid" Austin becomes.  :)