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11 years ago
Is it bad if your just turned 2 child starts yelling "moon! moon! moon!" as soon as you start a Dreamworks movie? You know, the one with the blue sky and the balloons float up the sky to where the boy is sitting in the moon? Yup, the very second it came on Sophie knew what was to come. We may be saving money by cutting out cable, but I'm thinking we aren't saving the kids brain cells by doing so.
A few weeks ago I borrowed Julie and Julia from a friend. I loved it! (Even C-dawg got into it.) Today Christopher and I watched Enchanted during nap time while I folded some laundry. It made me realize even more how much I love Amy Adams. Isn't she just adorable? She plays a fairytale princess perfectly! I have loved everything I've seen her in, these are just the most recent viewings. And she has a beautiful singing voice on top of it. (James Marsden isn't too shabby himself!) I just turned it on again for the kids to watch. Sophie missed our little matinee, so I thought I'd let her see it.
You see, Sophie loves to sing. Let me rephrase that, I really mean LOVES to sing! Last night Brandon pulled the guitar out and let the kids take turns strumming a tune. Sophie sang "ba, ba, ba, ba, ba...." the whole time she strummed. It was adorable! I got several videos of it, just need to download it. This afternoon she went and got Christopher's guitar out and started singing along with it as well. It's so cute! (Christopher just asked Sophie if she liked the movie so far. How cute! -- She replied with, "ba ba")
You'd have to be living under a rock to not know who she is or at least recognize her. I just love when someone with great talent does well. On a completely different note, I'm off to load the dishwasher and pretend my voice is as cute as hers. Don't you hate the way you sound on your own voice mail? I do. That's the only reason I'm not famous. Right? That and the absolute shaking fear I have of being on camera or in front of a crowd of 2+ people. My man just called and is on his way home. Yipee!!!
I miss cable. I miss it terribly right now! The Winter Olympics are on and they are my favorite. I am DYING because I can't watch them! I love the crazy characters that come out and compete. Have you ever noticed the difference between the summer and winter Olympians? Summer athletes are all clean cut, strict and ivy league looking. Winter athletes come out with crazy hair, rockin' out and ready to party. I may look more like a summer Olympian, but I LOVE to watch the winter ones more. Probably because I'm nothing like them. I like safe and secure with both feet on the warm ground. They are balls out. (sorry!)
Now if I could pick a sport (don't let the fact I haven't exercised in 4 years fool you) it would be speed skating. What a rush!!!! It reminds me of those roller skating parties we used to go to and the races you would have, one of the very few things as a kid I could win. (Never been much of an athlete, just lots of energy.) You go as fast as you possibly can around a loop and you just might slip and slide crashing into a wall. Call me crazy, but that sounds awesome!!!!!! Only because the walls are padded. The one thing I always think about when watching them if how close their skates are to the opponent's fingers. I think I would wear thick mesh gloves if I did it.
We've tried to find live links of the Olympics online, but haven't had any luck. So if you know where I can find it, let me know. I'll watch pretty much anything, but curling. No offense to anyone who curls, but it always makes me think I'm watching the North Dakota games.
I've never been a big Valentine's Day person. Never really saw why we had to go and buy lots of stuff and flowers and food to show someone we loved them. I thought that was what anniversaries were for. But now that I have kids I'm getting into it! Maybe it's b/c my birthday is 6 days after the overpriced holiday and so I've never told Brandon we had to celebrate V'day, we can wait until my birthday to celebrate something.
I remember as a kid my mom having a little gift for us on the counter at breakfast and making heart shaped pancakes. I loved it! Maybe that's why I was confused. Everywhere you went they made it a romantic holiday, but I was shown at home that you told everyone you love, "I love you!"
So, I got the kids a little treat and was going to make a special breakfast, but they just want the rest of the chocolate chip banana bread we made earlier this week and goldfish. I think they get it. Brandon is on call (again!) so I'm hoping that it stays sunny and the kids and I can have a fun afternoon. I'm looking forward to a great sermon at church and S.S. this morning.
Oh, and we had probably one of the best dates we've had in a long time. You know how sometimes you get out and all you can think to talk about is the kids? We talked about everything but the kids! Then did some window shopping. It was fun! Hope you have a great day!
Today was fabulous! God tells us He will never give us more than we can handle and yesterday I learned that THAT was all I could handle. We woke up this morning and everyone was happy... once we ate. There was a little fighting over who was going to sit in my lap, so I decided we just needed to eat. That worked. Who could say no to chocolate chip banana bread? Ok, so I can. Never liked the stuff, but everyone else loves it along with sweet tea and cheese straws. (that was for you Lauren!) I'm weird about my fruit. I prefer it in it's original form, not in bread or ice cream or yogurt. Just give me the real stuff and I'm a happy girl.
Ok, I'm side tracked now. (focus, girl, focus!) We had Bible study this morning and I wasn't sure if we were going to make it b/c I needed to get some groceries and Sophie's had a funny runny nose the last few days. You know the kind, it's there and then it's not. Then, wait, it's back again. All in the same day. I thought I'd try anyway and gave her a really good wipe before dropping her off. This week's lesson was exactly what I needed. Last night when Brandon got home at 9:00 I told him what the kids needed and I was going to bed. I wasn't mad at him, just way beyond the day. I had two days of study left to complete and could not have been more fitting. Isn't it funny how God works that way? I realized that when you decided to study something specific about His Word that He is going to use that as an opportunity to teach you about it really well.
The first week was great! I loved the study and felt happy b/c I was using my peaceful communication skills I'd learned. Then the next few weeks became much more challenging. I really felt tested and was not pleased with myself or the study. (probably b/c of guilt or that things weren't really clicking. i'm slow sometimes.) But after last night's catch up I really felt God was trying to nail the info into my brain the best way He knew how. Well, don't you know, it worked!
Christopher, Sophie and I were walking to the nursery and he had been very sweet (since breakfast) and I told him how much I appreciated his manners and kind words and being so helpful. I asked him if he thought yesterday was a bad day and he agreed. I then asked if he thought today was going to be a good one and he smiled saying, "yes!" My heart is actually hurting and bursting just thinking about all I (and he) learned. That's not to say we will no longer have our challenges. Geez, I'm not that slow! We'll have them the rest of our lives. But someone said something today that Beth Moore said in a video (promoting her video conference the church is having in April on insecurities). We all have insecurities, but what we don't realize is that God gives us those insecurities so that we will have to rely on Him to deal with them. The Man is brilliant I tell you! That's why HE'S God and we aren't. (hello????)
Now I'm not sure that fighting with a 3 year old has much to do with being insecure, but facing challenges like trying to reason with a 3 year old does. Everything we face that is difficult is given to us so we have to rely on Him. Wouldn't it be easier if we could just always remember that? Yeah, well, we are human after all! (ha! not the only one that's slow now, sucka!)
So, I'm going to end my little soap box and show you some delightful little things that happened this evening to round out my very good day. And here they are:
These sweet little puppies arrived on my doorstep as I was heading out to the commissary. Yippeeeee!!!!!! (Thanks Mom and Dad for the early birthday present!) They will be worn on my date this weekend... if it's not raining.
We ate these yummy puppies (with a side of bacon) for supper tonight. Thought I'd try throwing a little butter on the griddle first and it gave them a little bit of a crust. Oh so good!!
And these precious pups got to spend some much needed time with the big dog of the house. I love these three like you wouldn't believe!
Well guys, thanks for sticking with me on this lengthy post here. I'm curled up in my bed, kiddos are out and my man headed back to the office to try to finish some things up so he can come home early tomorrow. I'm off to read more in my latest book. I counted this afternoon and this is my 9th, that's right NINTH, book since the year started. I think it took me a few years to read that many before now. Ha! (Starnes, I think I'm going to join you in your little book quest you have going!) Wait, did I forget to tell you that we have a chance of snow tomorrow? Yup, never thought it would happen. And I still don't, but just to let you know how cold it is........ again! I kind of hope it doesn't b/c C-dawg will be heartbroken if it won't stick. He wants snow so bad!!! Good night everyone!
It's been a very rough day for Christopher and I today. Sophie has been cute as can be. He has been pushing buttons I don't think even God knew I had. Ok, I know that isn't true, but I really wish that He would test me so much. I don't think I can handle much more.
He has been going through a challenging phase which involves the following:
- one word commands/baby talk (looking at me and saying things like, "milk!")
- whining because he doesn't know how to put any article of clothing on. He's lying. (Sophie has been dressing herself for weeks now. You are about to see just how much!)
- strongly refusing to do anything we ask him to (whether we use a nice voice or not he either ignores us or just says, "no," or whines uncontrollably)
- throwing many fits a day b/c of anything and everything
- dumps toys all over the house and won't clean them up (I'd hide them, but I have nowhere to put them, trust me, I've thought about it!)
- I tell him not to do something and he flat out ignores me and then does it. (It's a good thing he doesn't look at me with that "what are you going to do about it?" look. Deadly.)
Now don't get me wrong, we've had a few good moments every now and then. Like last night, he temporarily figured out that when he uses a nice, polite voice that Mommy will do things with a smile and be happy. When he doesn't, Mommy is a "mean girl." (His words.) He also told me numerous times how much he loved the supper that I made and how yummy it was. He even wanted me to sit by him and was upset when I forgot. I quickly moved and things were better. ((And right now he just brought me a bag of toy groceries and said something sweet.))
This is so frustrating b/c of several reasons. He is my sweet precious little boy and has turned into this child that I want to sell at a yard sale on Saturday. I'm sure a lot of this is built up b/c Brandon has been on call the last two weekends and will be again this weekend, so the kids and I are spending entirely too much time together without him. I think the other slap in the face is that when a friend watches him they tell me how sweet and polite he was while I was gone. I finally started asking him, after a rude comment was made by him, "Is that how you would speak to Miss Wendi?" And then he would say whatever again in a much nicer and happier voice. ((And now he just took the toy food bag back and dumped it on the floor as he walked back to Sophie's room where they came from. He just looked at them like he could care less.))
I think the other reason that this is so frustrating is b/c the Bible study I'm doing is called Conversation Peace and I did great at first, but now not so much. I feel like I'm yelling all the time. And you know you are when one of you kids puts his hands over his ears half the time you are talking to him. As Wendi said on her blog today, "UGH!!!!!!!!" (her's was for different reasons than mine.)
I want to end this post with some photos of today though to be happy about the two kids that I am very blessed to have in my life. Then I'm going to see if I can get them to start cleaning up b/c as I was writing this I could hear all the baskets in Sophie's room being dumped out on her floor and they paraded around in my shoes again. Brandon and I have a date coming up on Saturday and I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing him again. We need to go out more often, but just haven't been able to due to schedule conflicts. Hope you had a good day today and that we do tomorrow! : )
(lucky dog!)
Sophie in outfit #2 taking care of her babies. We started out in a very cute running suit.
What I found when I got out of the shower. You can't see the water covering the counter. Christopher has already stripped b/c he was getting so wet. Sophie in outfit #3.
Finally, Sophie in outfit #4 (all were worn within 2 1/2 hours). The babies are awake and she uses this bin of clothes for Anne Morgan as a changing table.
After lunch I went to get the mail and the kids had valentine's from Nana, each holding a dollar. I told them we could go to the Dollar Tree and these are the items they chose:
Sophie - a "barbie" doll that lost her leg while we were waiting at the light leaving the store. She took her dress off too (which do you notice that a $1 doll has more clothing than a $20 one?) When we got home I noticed that one of her boobs is cracked too. Yup! Top to bottom. She's in serious need of some plastic surgery!
Christopher - Did I even need to bother showing you?
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.
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