Thursday, July 27, 2006

Say Cheese!!

Well it has been a fun couple of days. Last night M went swimming with the neighbor girl which is sometimes so relaxing for me so I can just spend time with Little L. She used to smile real fast for the camera before she turned one, but now everytime I get out the camera she walks to me instead of staying still. Finally last night though I said "Say Cheese" and she looked at me smiled and said "Cheese". I was blown away. I did it one more time and she repeated it. Of course I say it now and she just smiles. Just as to say..you know I can do it I'm not a circus animal. :)

When M got home I made some popcorn and we watched "Ever After". One of May's favorites is "Pride & Prejudice". I fear with these movie though I will turn her into a romantic just like me. But her all time favorite ones right now are "Walking With Dinosaurs" and "Dragon's World". They were both shown on animal planet and are really good. After watching dragon's a million times the dinosaur one is real interesting. It amazes me how she soaks it all in. I mean when I was a kid I remember liking dinosaurs and knowing a few, but she just knows so much more than I, but I like it because I am learning right along with her. In school the kids were asked what they want to be when they grow and M said she wants to be a paleontologist. May all her dreams be that big!

Today L was a handful. With her teething she just has been off schedule with her sleep and such. She woke up and after breakfast I thought it would be fun to paint. May always enjoys it. L handed me the paintbrush and I asked her if she wanted me to put it in the water and she said "yep." and then when she passed it to me she crossed her arms on the table and started tapping with one of her hands. Just like she was patiently waiting...I could not believe it! I had some finger paints and thought L might enjoy it. Oh she did alright!! She got a big goop on her fingers and ate it. I told her no and then she grabbed another bit and back in the mouth it went so that was enough of painting for one day. She can be so strange sometimes. She for awhile would gnaw on sidewalk chalk. She has not been doing it anymore thank goodness. Later in the day I went into the bathroom and closed the door and I heard her talking to me through the door which even though it was babble I'm sure it was something to the affect of "How dare you shut the door and not let me in!" When I opened the door she just opened her arms wide and continued to babble at me very strongly and I don't think it was anything nice from what her eyebrows were telling me. She is one of a kindl. So she of course fell asleep late in the day so I thought I should wake her up so she would get to bed on time tonight so of course she was not happy when she woke up, but she finally seemed happy this evening and even went to bed on time. It probably helped that my friend Leslie was up here. Another person never hurts. M went swimming again and seems to be getting more daring so I am happy about that. Hopefully next summer we will get her into swimming lessons.

On to other news............My best friend, her husband, and daughter are going to be moving to a mere 3 hours from where we are and I couldn't be anymore happier for them!!! Also I am so excited to know we will have more opportunities to see each other and have our girls play together. I hope all goes well for them !!!

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Ride On Lone Ranger....actually WAIT!

So yesterday my dad invited the girls and I over because he knew that when my husband would get home from working he would need to sleep so we went over and played. It was such a nice day. M asked grandpa for a tractor ride...which she does almost everytime, but grandpa tried to convince her otherwise. It's so funny when I can tell she is really putting those puppy dog eyes to work. Still he resisted her powers, but oddly he walked up to the shed. He comes back with the lawn mower and M asked what he was doing. I told her that maybe he was going to give her a ride. He pulled up and told her to get on and then he got the mower going and let her drive it ON HER OWN! I hope you can sense the screaming that was going on in my head at this point....WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY?? She was going slow, but still I'm thinking she's going to run into a tree or something and hurt herself and destroy the mower at the same time. She did real well. Then she decided she was going to cross the driveway and started heading to the barn bridge. My dad and I are watching her and I said I hope she doesn't think she's going to go up the hill, because either she's going to drive right into the barn or go off the side of the hill. My dad just looks at me and says "Nah" and then a few seconds go by as we watch and her direction doesn't change and he says "well maybe..." It looks like if she goes up any further she will go off the edge if she doesn't pay attention so I'm screaming and my dad is screaming which she doesn't hear and then we starting running to catch up with her and as soon as I caught up with her she just turns it around and comes back down the hill and just smiles at me and waves since she didn't know why I was running after her to begin with. So for at least 5 or 8 more times that she went to the hill I walked right by her to make sure she would just make a loop and come back. My dad was as calm as can be so am I just too paranoid? do I not trust my 6 year old on a lawn mower? !! (absolutely not!) She drove for about an hour and in the last ten minutes by dad directs her around the house and to the field and then M speeds it up and is going too fast for my thoughts and I'm thinking oh she really is going to hit something, but no she didn't. In fact grandpa had taught her how to slow it down and so after a few minutes she slowed it down a bit. Then I thought it was time to go home. It was so nervewrecking yet I was proud of her...... but I am thinking I am not going to let her do it again anytime soon! (How will I survive years 15 and 16??)

Friday, July 21, 2006

In Moments Like These

So today wasn't full of anything exciting, but those seem to be the best days. The girls and I got up and went through our usual routine. After supper though I made some brownies and we turned on the stereo. M has always loved Proud Mary. I think she likes the hand motions I made for it, but I see that when I did it tonight L was right there dancing along. She has been a dancer since I can remember. So while the brownies were baking we all were dancing and singing and falling down. I love when the girls crawl on me. When the brownies were done we all just cuddled up on the couch and ate the brownies. We all shared a fork and dug in. We were just giggling and L had chocolate all around her mouth. I just found myself watching us, but like watching us from outside trying to soak it all in. Trying to remember the moment and saying to M that this was what it was all about. And she says "Yeah it's all about family." I love these moments.

Before my husband left for work tonight he said "You know we should have another one." I was very surprised since he thought two was enough. So we have a plan in mind for when we might have another one, but plans often change. For if we had followed our original plan I would have had three kids by now and number 4 next year. So whatever happens, happens, but I am excited about the future.

I love you always

I love it right now because L will come up and just lay her head on my shoulder. Just like I'm the best thing in the world. How can anyone not love that?

So far so good

Well before our adventure to Kansas M was pull up free. Of course with me be nervous while we were on the trip about any accidents I made her wear the pull ups during that time. Now we have been home for a bit over a week and we have had one accident. We have a plastic sheet on the bed for things like that so things aren't so distressing. Right now M has been up later since it's been summer so I think part of the success is that she is up long enough without and liquids and is able to "empty" before bed. The true test will be when she starts back to school and has to go to bed earlier. She is such a sound sleeper that she just doesn't wake up. She has a cousin who is the same way. My brother and his wife would just go in at night to wake her up at the same time every night and make her try and eventually she was waking around that time on her own and going. So we aren't out of it, but well in the right direction. I look at L and think it's going to go so much easier and faster with her. Even from yesterday just seeing how much she follows big sister.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Off to the city

Well I know it's been a long time since I've written. Our trip went well and we were so glad we went. Two days after we returned we found out that my husband's grandmother was taken to the hospital. She was found unconscious by a neighbor who keeps in close contact with her. Apparently Grandma S had been working outside all day and seems she got dehydrated plus with all the pain meds she is taking for her hip and leg may have gone awry with her being in the sun. She is currently awake and able to hold down food. It looks like she may be going into the nursing home for awhile just so she isn't pushing herself. We hope she is healed and home soon!!

Today I tooks the girls up to the cities to see my brother and sister-in-law's new house. They've been there since January, but I haven't gotten up there yet which is really sad since it's only a couple of hours away. I am not used to driving in the cities and am not a fan of doing it, but I firgured I have the summer off and that I should get up there! The drive up went well. Not a lot of traffic. I have driven in Seattle,Denver,Kansas City, but the cities is the worst. I almost got rear ended twice. One person had to drive off onto the shoulder to avoid hitting me and another person swerved into another lane. You really do need to keep your eyes open. I was happy to be home. It was a good trip though. My niece is growing up so fast, but that always seems the case when a baby comes along. My nephew who was born March 9th weighs 1 pound less than my daughter who is a year older. He is a good eater!! Absolutely adorable they both are. Big cousin L and M play real well together and my little L was always close following them wherever they went. It was so cute to watch my L because she was IN LOVE with little boy cousin L.T.. The minute he woke up from his nap she was right there wanting to touch and hug. Just so excited to see him! I don't know if it's because she has a baby doll she plays with or what, but seeing that I find myself thinking maybe it's not too early to have another one, but I don't think L would quite understand sharing at this point when it comes to Mama. But I think she will be a good big sister like M though....down the road.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Accident free zone

Just wanted to announce that M has renounced pull ups and has been accident free for 5 nights. She had a garbage can in her room strictly for the disposal of them and once I started to have her empty the can and change bags she seemed more willing to want to stop wearing them. The last time she brought down the bag she looked at me and she said "Mom that is disgusting!"

So my plan worked.

A little motivation never hurt anyone. :)

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Breaking and entering

So one day last week M asked if she could go play at Grace's house. I said she could run over there and knock on the door and see if anyone was home and if so she could play. I specifically said if no one is there just come on home. Well about 10 minutes later she came back all upset and I asked her what was going on. She told me no one answered the door so she went inside to see. I was like "What do you mean you went inside??" She told me she went around back into the garage and in the house. I asked her why she did this and she said because she thought maybe they were sleeping. I am standing there fuming and thanking God no one was in the house. So I relax a bit and I tell her that she is to never go in someone's house if they're not home. Then I look at her and notice one of her hair clippies is gone. I asked her what happened to it and she tells me she left it on the table. When I asked her why she did this she tells me because she wanted Grace to know she was there. sigh! So then I am trying to figure out what to do. Do I quick have her run back over and have her break into the house yet again and pray they don't pull into the driveway at the same time or do I just call. So I call and leave a ridiculous message and then hang up. Turns out they have been on vacation for the last week and so I probably could have had M run over there, but after I left the message I was thinking she can't run over there now because when they here the message they would be expecting the hair clippie and if it wasn't there than OYE! The neighbor lady thought it was hysterical so that's all that matters to me. :)

Random

So here is a quick cute thing. One night over at my dad's someone called and left a message for him. He went to check the machine and M and I were outside. Well when he came outside he said well that was Mr.b calling to shoot the breeze. Too which M said "Why is he shooting bees?" and I said no he said shooting the breeze and she said "Well why would someone shoot that....it's not doing anything it's just blowing."

So here I sit...

So here I sit in the dark, 1:30 in the morning and am unable to sleep. Seems a recent habit of mine, but at least tonight I started a new book so that occupied some time. Plus it's good. I always am afraid of buying books because you just never know and I really have to like a book to get through it. I hate to try and force myself through it.

It has been a hectic few days here. We got and e-mail yesterday morning, from my husband's aunt saying his grandma had been brought to the hospital because she was having severe pain. Turns out she needs a hip joint replacement. A few years ago she had some real bad knee problems she could hardly walk and so she went to the nearest major hospital which is 6 hours from the little town she lives in and she had surgery on one of her legs. If i remember right they were going to put a metal rod in from the knee down and well the doctor who performed the surgery forgot to put part of the knee back in causing severe infection and destruction of the leg and she eventually had it amputated. (The doctor has since disappeared) She has had a prosthetic leg since then and was fitted to get a new one because the old one was just not working right and well while waiting for that there had been added pressure of her being on the good leg more and that was the side the hip joint was on. They don't want to perform surgery until her new leg is in but for now we heard today she is at home and doing alright. So yesterday we thought we weren't going to go, but now it seems we will. We know she wants us to come but we just want to make sure we are not too much for her right now, but I think we'll head off and play it by ear. She is a dear sweet woman who has been through a lot. She had 5 children and has buried 3. Her faith is everything to her and her strength is amazing. We are excited to see her.

In other news. We had M's birthday party today. She did real well. I think she only asked 3 times if it was time for the party yet. We grilled and visited with here aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. It was real nice. Hot, but we are used to that. She was really blessed with all the things she got. It was a good day. Tonight I just stood in the doorway watching her sleep. I haven't done that for awhile and I just can't imagine that one day she will grow up and not live her anymore. That I won't be able to sneak in for those late night glances. So I think I will try to take advantage of that more often. I used to be able to see her baby face while she slept, but I don't see it so much anymore. She is becoming a little girl. She right now thinks we should move to grandpa's and run a farm. She said that she and I can be the lady farmers and grandpa will be the boy farmer. :) She is such a great kid and I am so lucky.