I'm Back
11 years ago
Not even going to post about what today is going like so far. I'm just going to say that there was NO Calgon the shower with me this morning and it should have been. Just going to have to rely on "Naptime, take me away!" today. I'm out.
Here's a glimpse at what happened at our house last weekend:
Sophie trying to go potty and Christopher was so sweet and read books to her. I so wish I had the video cam on. The conversation went kind of like this..
C - holding a truck book "Sophie can you count the trucks on this page?"
S - "Wum, shoe...."
C - "This is a mixer truck... this is...."
Sophie took clothes off and went straight to Chrisotpher's room, opened his drawers and pulled out these clothes on all by herself. I could see her from the kitchen and stopped doing dishes so I could watch her. She's so darn cute! When she came down the hall she was beaming with pride. She insists on putting her clothes on by herself. Her brother refuses to.
The kids became obsessed with trying my shoes on and would walk into the kitchen to hear the different sounds they made on the "tile" floor. They giggled and giggled more than I think I've heard in a long time. They were so silly! Of course there were a lot of shoes to put back, but they had fun. Christopher would walk out and tell me that he was trying to be like me, which I thought was very sweet. Please, no jokes about my son wearing heels (Kyle, Lisa, etc.), he thought it was funny that the shoes he had on were wobbly and made noises.
They even tried posing for me. Not sure where they'd seen this before. They said they were copying me, but I don't pose. I don't even take decent photos, much less have any clue how to "pose" for one!!
Don't you want to just chomp on those thighs???? LOVE THEM!!!!!
Christopher pulled his pant legs up to show me his boots and told me that they looked just like fireman boots. See? He has no idea it's women's shoes! To him he's a fireman! I lost it.
I have some funny videos to upload too, but need to put the kiddos down for naps. I'll do it later.The kids have said some shockingly funny things lately. Please know that you are warned if you are offended very easily.
First, Christopher needs to go to the bathroom and wants Brandon to join him. They go in there and take their places (Brandon on the step stool in front of Christopher) and is playing Brandon's iPod touch while trying to go. He has been warned numerous time that he needs to hold the iPod with two hands at all time. But this makes things a little difficult at the moment since he is trying to go to the bathroom. He asks Brandon, "Will you hold my pee pee down so I can keep playing?" Brandon told him no.
WHAT????
Last Sunday Brandon decided he wanted to head up to Montgomery for the night since he was off on Monday. We hurried to pack and get ourselves dressed. Sophie comes running to our room, trying to put her belt on at the same time, (Brandon following behind her) shouting, "Daddy, hump Mommy, Daddy hump, hump Mommy."
WHAT???
In case you have forgotten from a previous post, this is her word for "help." You can only imagine how Brandon and I looked at each other and completely lost it!!
There was one other funny thing that happened, but I can't remember what it was now. I'm sure those two are enough for now anyway.
How cute are these piggy tails?
I haven't done them in a really long time and thought I'd try again yesterday since her hair is even longer now. (If you straighten it, it will almost reach to the middle of her back! And for those of you who are worried about your own little girl, Sophie's hair was barely a curl on her neck a year ago.) I LOVE them!!!!!!!!
And how awesome is this?
Christopher came home from school the other day (Tiffany and I take turns taking/picking up the boys on Fridays) with a picture of an 18 wheeler that he said he drew. I wasn't sure whether to believe him or not, even Tiffany seemed to be unsure about it. His teacher told her he had done it, but we didn't know if she was just saying that. Well, the other day he drew another one, but it was with a yellow marker on green paper and you couldn't see it well. I could make out the lines when it was wet, but once it dried, no luck.
He drew two more on white paper and I was so surprised to see that he'd actually done it! I put them on the fridge for Brandon to see when he got home. Later that day he was outside playing with Sophie and found some sidewalk chalk. He came into the house to tell me to come see what he'd done and this is what I'd found. He pointed to the line in the middle between the two boxes and said he drew that part so it could turn easier. How cute is that??? Just two weeks ago he would just scribble as fast as he could all over whatever picture they gave him at church not caring one bit what it looked like. I'm so proud of his drawing skills and hope he keeps going!
You know those people that you see out in public and you think, "Why, I would never....!" Yup, we are now those people you would say that about. Last night my friend Joia call to see if we'd like to join her and the kids at the mall for dinner. (Tuesday night is kids eat free at Chick-fil-a and they ride the carousel for free.) We'd never been before and keep meaning to go. We immediately jumped in the car and headed on over. Brandon was going to be a while and didn't mind us abandoning him for dinner. Now, picture what we look like... no makeup, old jeans, old sweatshirt, Sophie wearing one of Christopher truck shirts that's 2 sizes too big and her hair is everywhere... I was just glad I didn't have to fix dinner so I didn't care. (We fit right in at the mall at night.)
We get there and it's crazy! People everywhere. Thankfully the kids were a little intimidated and stuck to me like glue. We get in line for food and then find Joia and get a table. Once we are finished the kids can't wait to ride the carousel. Throw food away, get our stuff together and I turn around to see both of my children lying on the mall food court floor dragging themselves along it. I almost vomited right there!!! To say I was mortified is an understatement. Joia said, "Do you need a wipe?" I was thinking that a blowtorch was needed to kill all of those germs. I yell at them to get up and off the floor, to NOT touch anything and slather hand sanitizer all over them. How gross is that?
Then we head over to get in line for the ride. I've got my two kids and Keenan with me and they were perfect little angels and waited very patiently. (So proud!) We get all the way up to the gate and are first in line for the next ride. I start asking the kids what they would like to ride on and Christopher says, "I like the orange tiger!" I told him it was his. Keenan wanted a horse and thankfully that was right next to the tiger.
The sweet lady opens the gate and two little boys behind us dart in front. One to the left, the other to the right, the same direction the tiger is in. He tries to climb up. Now, normally I would stop and help him because he's too little to do it himself. BUT he's cut in front of us AND is getting the one thing my child wants and waited very patiently for. I sternly (and gently) told him that my child was waiting to ride on the tiger and that he had cut in front of us. He thought about it for a minute, got down and walked to try to find something just as exciting. No luck. I put the kids up on their rides and look up to see that the little boy is sobbing. SOBBING!!! I made a little boy cry. He sobbed throughout the entire ride!! His mom comes up and asks him what's wrong (while the carousel is going around) and he yells, "Somebody made me get down!!", he turns around to point to the tiger and I'm just praying he doesn't point to me for the long line of parents to see who had done this to him. I see Joia, next to the boy's mom, and she makes a sad face, until I mouth that I'm the one who did it. She dies out laughing and points at me. Thankfully the boy's mom was very sweet and told him he was fine and could ride it next time.
We didn't ride it anymore. We distracted the kids by getting a free ice cream (if you don't open your kids toy you can return it for a free ice cream-- ask for the cone, you get more ice cream!) and then we parted ways. It was time to go home. I'm not sure if I will go back. We might. I'm not a fan of the mall at night anyway, the crowd is, how to I put it, a little different than the day crowd. But we had a lot of fun and it was nice to get out and do something with a friend. Thanks Joia!!
I'm totally thrown off as to what day it is. Brandon was on call all day Saturday and when he got home Sunday morning he wanted to go up to Montgomery to spend the night. I had my whole Monday morning planned out because it's the only day I don't have both kids with me, but I never do things spur of the moment like this so I agreed. We were packed (in one bag, yeah!!) and on the road in an hour.
The kids played, Sophie napped, we went shopping and had supper. Played some more, went to bed, woke up, had breakfast, played some more, went to Target, had lunch, played some more, went home. It was crazy and fun, but the change of scenery was welcome. And the extra help. Christopher has been extremely chatty lately and we tried skipping most of our naps last week as an experiment to make bed time easier. It didn't really help any. I had less patience and time to do what I needed so we will go back to napping more or strictly enforce play time in our room with a timer.
This morning Wendi watched the kids so I could sign Christopher up for preschool for next year and then I was going to run another errand but was able to squeeze in haircuts for Christopher and I, so I ran home to get the kids so we could make it. I wanted some side bangs, but don't have the hair for it. So, it's still long and straight with some layers. Boring. Oh well! Christopher got a fabulous haircut and Sophie made a new friend because she didn't want to sit still and screamed when I locked her in the stroller. An older lady at the salon who either loves kids or hates a screaming one was very kind to bring Sophie a sucker and some books. (Why I always plan haircuts when the kids are at "school.")
Tomorrow we get to watch Isaac for Wendi and we are looking forward to it. The weather has been perfectly cool and makes playing outside lots of fun. I'm looking forward to naps today and catching up on my Bible study and my book. Sorry, didn't take any photos. Crying child, gotta run!
A friend of mine from church emailed everyone to ask us to pray for her brother-in-law. He is in Afghanistan and yesterday after a routine patrol his vehicle ran over an IED. The explosion left both of his legs severely injured and he has a spinal fracture. They have spoke to him and he is being cared for, in stable condition and will be moving to Germany and so forth for further treatment.
My friend is a wonderful and gentle and sweet woman and I am so blessed to have come to know her through S.S., Bible study and MOPS. I ask that you please pray for this man and his family as they are going through this challenging time. I can only imagine how they must be feeling right now. I know they will be strong and rely on the Lord for whatever lies ahead, but that doesn't mean they need any less prayers sent up for them. There is also another mom I know through church who's husband just left for a year long deployment about a week ago. She has two children that he is home schooling right now and I know she could also use your prayers as well.
It makes me nervous for when the day comes that Brandon will have to leave us due to deployment, but that is still over a year away. But we signed up for this and it's part of our lives. It's been in the back of my mind because it seems so far off. Let's not forget to keep praying for those who are facing it now.
Here are a couple photos of the kids and what we've (they've) been doing lately.
Christopher proudly showing off his new legos we got last Saturday.
Sipping some hot cocoa on Sunday morning while watching a movie before going to church. Doesn't he look like an old man here? He was so serious about it.
The kids built this tall tower with Daddy's help and couldn't wait to knock it down.
Sophie got some new jewels for her birthday from her TN cousins. She decided to put all of her jewels on at once and walk around in her heels. It was so cute!
Showing me her two sets of earrings that she's wearing. I think it's funny her eyes are closed. She was blinking, but it looks like she's so proper or something. Her necklace, by the way, sings that "ahhh ahhh, ahhh ahhh." that Ariel does. You can hear it in the backyard while she playing in the dirt or riding the tractor. I don't think that's what a Disney princess would do, but that's what ours does! Oh, did I mention that Sophie tries to sing with it? I hope to catch it on video.
This is what the kids were doing the other night when I wrote my last post. I wish I could show you the whole room, but it's too small to take a photo in there so I had to stand in the hallway.
And if you have any suggestions as far as wall decorations, PLEASE let me know. I'm using her birthday money to fix it up, but I have no idea what to get. I want to paint her dresser white/cream and buy a mirror to put over it, but I'm horrible at decorating so I need help. It doesn't have to be thrifty, just really cute! (Caroline, I wish you were here b/c I'd pay you to do this for me! I dread it!!!)
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