Lil Tractor Boy

As you probably already know, Isaiah is a huge tractor fan. We've been trying to decide on how to decorate his big boy room. (I figured by 2 years old he shouldn't have to be in a nursery anymore.) However, we had this hang up because we knew he liked tractors, but we DID NOT want John Deere yellow and green on the walls. We could do other boy things like sports theme, automobiles and other modes of transportation, trains, etc. but he has this thing for tractors -- he'll see an old rusted jalopy of a tractor and get all excited, point and say "Ractor, ractor!"

Well, praise the Lord, I found a wall paper border that was all about tractors and no BRIGHT yellow and green . . . there is some so if we end up with a few John Deere items, they will fit right in.

I was able to order the border through ebay at half the price as a local big box store had it listed for (praise #2). When it came in, I decided to hold it up on the wall to see if I liked it (mind you it's on top of the nursery border with the current "unliked by me" colors). Isaiah followed me which is very normal -- you should have heard him jabbering away when he saw tractors on his wall! This picture isn't good, but it's the only one I have that shows his excitement. He had to tell Madi all about his tractors!

Here's the actual border since my camera was doing it's usual annoying thing of not focusing!

After I took the border down and rolled it up, Isaiah became very upset. He was crying and pointing at the roll, mumbling who knows what. He didn't settle down until I ripped off a section of it for him to carry around. Here he is happy with his 'ractors'.

Here he is watching TV (still holding onto his precious 'ractors').

Quite a while later, he's still talking about his tractors . . . guess I don't have to wonder if he'll like his new room. (We hope to have his room painted and the border up by his bday in June.)

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Just couldn't leave this picture out . . . this is his new facial expression when you tell him to do something and he's contemplating whether or not to obey . . . do I really have to do what she says? will she leave and forget she told me to do it? will this cute face get me out of having to obey?

PS: Does anyone have a kid that drooled constantly after they got all there teeth and molars? This one goes through 2-3 bibs a day! He's had "all" his teeth and molars for 6 months now. I think he's had less than a week of no drooling about two months ago. The pediatrician said to let her know at his next visit if he didn't stop, but what can they to do if he doesn't?!?