Tripping Over Cobblestone

And In the Class he melted melted melted…

September 7, 2008 – 11:07 am

Kindergarten has been great. My little thing 1 is just dying to get there everyday. He is a young five and will only be five here in a couple of months. I was nervous about putting him in with him being so little. He really had a rough day yesterday.

All the little ones lined up and got ready to leave as they waved goodbye to the teacher. I couldn’t see Thing 1. He was still in the class room. The teacher’s aid was there and was trying to calm down my son. Then after the last child was sent to the loving arms of his parents she signaled me to follow her. She said, they were partnered off for a dance they were learning. He had gotten to excited and too silly. (Very typical Thing 1- or any boy lol) Then when they tried to calm him down by switching parners (the teacher became his partner)  he flipped.There are two class mascots and they get to go home every Friday and Monday. It went home with someone else, and so he flipped even more!

    Luckily for him -and them- it was fifteen minutes before they were all going home. I am praying this isn’t a habit. I am supposed to "help" in his class on Wed. of next week. I am starting to have flashbacks of when I was in the Primary with him and how he struggled to do what he was supposed to while I was present. I am pretty sure he’ll be fine, but my stomach is all tied in knots for him.

This I totally saw in my mind’s eye happening. I was just amazed that it happened this late in the game. We’ll see how this next week plays out.

 

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Mixed emotions. School Starts today.

August 29, 2008 – 6:57 am

    This day is hard. I am conflicted between excitement for Thing 1 and selfish feelings of loss. I miss him and his sister. They are both in school today. I have the Fish still with me. I want to spend some good quality time with just him. We are going to have some fun.

    Thing 1 was so thrilled to be there in his class. Sitting on his number he picked out. I am really amazed at how much I stressed about this day for him. I am tickled he is so totally pumped. His teacher is so nice and man it was so hard for him to hear his name as soon as he walked into the class. It will take him sometime to get into the "routine" but I think we’ll have it down in the next couple of weeks. He is so adorable! He has slept three nights with out his Binki. I am so proud and yet my heart is aching for the newborn, toddler, and little man stage he has now graduated from.

   His little smile says everything! You are growing up Thing 1 and I love to be apart of watching you become this amazing little person!

 

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Finally a picture promise I follow through on!

July 23, 2008 – 8:17 am

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Part three….

April 25, 2008 – 9:43 am

    There are a couple of things that my children saw that had never been seen before "to them"

 One was snow. That is a new concept. They kept looking out side and saying "lOOOK it’s Christmas TOWN!"

So I had to let them go play in the fun five inches or so that they got that week.

Here is our Cally version of FROSTY.

He looks pretty warm and physically impaired! But he is ours!

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Art Time Bliss

February 28, 2008 – 6:11 pm

Some of this….

 

Mixed with this (Red contact paper sticky side out Masking taped to the wall)

    Usually at our house we are looking for ways to get messy. I found a cool website that helps mix things up around here without the true mess of everything.

 You get this….

 

It was extreamly fun times.

The site I found this one at is www.familyfun.com 

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Shhhhh I got it!!

January 8, 2008 – 6:57 pm

    In my car as I type is the book….Eclipse. Why is it in my car and not in my hand? Well i like prolong things as much as I can to savor the momment. First off the author is not planning to put out the fourth book until May of this year. I read Hp 7 way too early. Thus I think I have learned my lesson. Right?? No… I am probably going to be finished here in like three days. LOL But I did make it hard on myself to wait. I had to go to the Public Library here in town. I love the library but not with three of my spawn in toe. That I knew would be a gauntlet type adventure in it self. Beside the fact the library is a generally quiet place and the Things and Fish detest those type of settings.

    They hate them because since they were old enough to talk there has been one volume level……

Here this is what I am talking about… 

I swear the sugar cereal has been completely removed from the diet. 

But like I said it is a pretty good deterant from going places that are supposed to be quiet. I guess we won’t be visiting any newborn babies or elderly folks any time soon.  

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Bunk Beds and Schedules

December 31, 2007 – 1:40 pm

    Did I mention we put the Things in bunk beds? Thing one is getting to be a big man around here. His age still can be expressed on one hand yet he is getting all growed up.(Just making those english majors cringe)

   He and his sister have both been on strike. A nap strike these past few weeks. Which has been intresting to say the least. We do more stuff but there is definately limits in the afternoon. The other night I was cooking dinner around 5:30 and I walked into the living room to find Thing1 asleep on the couch. I was baking cookies and put them on wax paper. Made it smoke a bit. Ok a little more than a bit. All of the sudden I experienced really loud alarms. They were going off in unison. Accompanied by two babies that were scared into a chorus of screaming. Thing 1 ….. didn’t even budge. No twitching no reaction.

   I am going to have to scale the bunk bed and fire fighter style rescue that kid, if there is a fire in the middle of the night.
 

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Thing 1 and his favorite Color

December 22, 2007 – 6:58 pm

    I just have to remember these just the way he says them.

JD: Here you go, now drink your juice.

Thing 1: NO I don’t want Juice! I want milk!

JD: Just drink the juice first.

Thing 1: NO Purple is NOT my color!

 

His favorite color is….. Green. 

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Today

December 13, 2007 – 7:41 pm

    Today I am finding….

    Little socks, finger prints, and smudges of unknown substances. I see little pants wadded into a heap forming two perfect circles where their little legs left them. Small treasures inserted carefully into the VCR opening. Shoes separated and haphazardly scattered. Bath tubs that are littered with toys. Kitchen rugs sprinkled with "Rich Chocolatey Ovaltine" so they can fill up the flat bed of the tractor with "DiRT". I see hersey kisses wrappers along side fishy crackers that have been ground into the carpet. One giant green bulb suringe, perfect for sucking out the noses of sick kids. I see the stack of diapers that have yet to be taken to the back porch for morning removal. Small doodles of things they want for Christmas on their letters to Santa.

   Today I am hearing…..

     "Stop Talking back there! Mommy is lost and she needs to think!" Me (driving in the car)

     "Oh no If you are lost Mom that means I am lost too!! OH NOOOO! Don’t go the wrong way anymore OK?" Thing 1
 

    "Mom, Santa has a strange voice. He says, "HO HO HO!" Thing 1 (In his deepest Santa-esk voice)

    "You just gotta stop kissin me Mom you’re givin me the Hiccups" Thing 1 (For him Mom Kisses means you’ll get the hiccups. Thanks Higgley Town heros, for that one!)

    "ABC DEFG HI JK TUV Now I know My BBCs Next Time won’t you sing with MEEEE!" Thing 2

    Giggling finally from the Fish! He has been so bogged down with the winter plague he has lost all his little funny personality.

   The other day I ran dead into a wall of reality. Just a small fleeting thought passed through my mind. "This is temporary." I won’t be doing this everyday?? This changes. Instantly I started sucking in those precious little hugs with tiny arms that only reach to my shoulder blades. Or the ones that squeeze the ever living love out of your neck. I want those everyday! Like I get them now. So now it is different, the focus, I mean. Now I am not staying up late to just remind myself what silence sounds like. I am resting so I can hear what my children’s cries, laughs, and conversations are like. Instead of reading my books I am listening to the kids read me their books. Sucking down every last bit of them while they are this little. And hopefully recording all the funny things they

     Who knows the answer to "Mom just can’t I stay awake all night?" Maybe a resounding "You go right ahead!"

 

 
 

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Obsession

November 26, 2007 – 11:01 am

    I am a Pen, organizer, journal, paper goods….Freak. Thing 1 his obsession is Trains. Sleeping trains,  plays, and works on trains. I am trying to bring other aspects of trains into his line of site. He can tolerate trucks but there is nothing like Trains. He will watch anything with a train in it. His eyes light up and his voice goes up 4 octaves when he even sees track. Christmas is easy. Polar Express. Christmas trains. GEO Trax. And all things trains.

    He just pulled all the drawers out of his dresser and lined them all up and is calling it his bedroom train. HELP. He is so sick with this Crupe/chest cold. He has been avoiding naps and going to bed to play trains.

    La-La not so easy. She likes things but not to the extent that Thing 1. This year’s challenge is her gift.   
 

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The Things

September 15, 2007 – 10:25 am

Some days are easy. Some days are hard. Everyday is full.

 I walked to the mail box with Thing 1 and on the way back in he said.

"Mom, I love being in this world. It is such a nice sunny day."  

That cancelled out the Urine, desitin, and one enitre bottle of lotion in the carpet day. Funny how the small things tend to make the big difference.  

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The things….

May 25, 2007 – 12:36 pm

Too much fun will post about stuff later….

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One thousand words comming right up…

May 21, 2007 – 7:29 pm

It could very well be that we are having too much fun with the computer. But I will be the first to tell you I LOVE IT!!

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Potty Training Burn Out

January 17, 2007 – 11:38 am

    I am not sure when enough is enough. We have been trying to get out of the pull-up during naptime. Cause he just waits to do all the business until that pull-up goes on. How ever he is no master of the wake up and run to the potty.

    We have been working for about …… 6 months and now it is such a chore to get him to go. He is too busy playing, running, jumping, and other things to be bothered by a trip to the potty. We have tried the bribes and they are going downhill fast.

   So this week ….. It is naked time. Yep I figure that is when he runs to the toilet the best is when he is naked. He won’t sit in the back room grunting cause he knows what is gonna happen. He won’t have the problem of taking off any undies that are just too complicated with that elastic band, and those cartoons on them.

   If you have any other suggestions for a first timer (for the past 6-7 months) I would love to know what ya got!

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Small chats with toddlers.

December 31, 2006 – 12:43 pm

    Ok I am so excited for this post. Cause it means somewhere I did write it down.

The Dethrowning of Thing 2

We are all sitting around the dinner table eating. Thing 2 is eating out of a bowl that Thing 1 wants. So he is pushing her out of her seat.

    I told him to get his bowl and sit in the seat next to or across from her. He proceeds to pat the seats of the other two offered chairs. Turning up his nose at the first chair he states,

    " No Mom that is too HARD!" 

    He proceeds with care to the next chair and quickly rejects the second chair and says,

   "No Mom this one is too SOFT!"

   Then he goes over to the chair his sister is in and says, "This one mom is AHHHH JUST RIGHT!"

One more thing….

   My small boy loves to avert bedtime. Stories, Books, more prayers, something to eat, drink, toys, monsters, more stories, are all the "postponers" he likes to use so he can put off going to bed. One night he was at the top of his game. And when he had exhausted all of the excuses he pulled out a new one….

"Mom do you want to Talk? Let’s just talk."

Backfire and Empathy

    I could be called a control freak. But in this case I would like just a little control back. For the last week I have had a sinus infection. Sneezing, coughin’, and blowing my nose, all sent my legs pinched together running for the nearest toilet.

   My Band who is normally a sensitive and kind person when others are suffering, would laugh and taunt me while I ran.

   One evening I was running and the Band started to laugh and taunt. Behind me I heard little thing 1 hollering "What happened? What happened?" My Band quickly informed him that "Mommy peed her pants."

   He looked at me as I sat and emptied my bladder. And then in his best Mother imitating voice he said, "Oh, Dat’s awe wite, Mom dat is OK."

   You see my potty training model has been "No stress and no Humiliation tactics". The model title has been a montra for me mostly. When he has an accident I say. "Oh ok we can try again in the potty next time" all the while I am thinking "oh man that is more laundry, he just peed in the carseat, that is more laundry, he just peed the bed , that is more laundry". Durring the Christmas break he has been neglecting to go to the pot at all. And he strips himself down and says "MOM, I peed in my pants. But It’s ok mom, it is easy to go in my pants. That’s all right!"

    My no worries attitude has officially come back to bite me. Now we are trying shooting cereal in the toilet approach. More fun, more times to go on the potty. It is working but, he still prefers playtime instead of pee time.
 

    Between the two of us the pile of underpants is huge every night. 

Body parts that are HUSH HUSH.

    I was getting into the shower and noticed I had forgotten my towel. Running to get one I was stopped by Thing 1 who had a question. 

    "Mom, is that your bo*bies?" (Pointing to the extra round belly of mine)

    "No that is Mommy’s tummy, there is a baby in there"

   "These are the bo*bies."

     He looked thoughtful and said, "Oh you have two bo*bies? those are big, those are too much bo*bies!"

(My sentiments exactly) I have gone from negative A to a full sized D cup. And I haven’t started breastfeeding yet. I don’t even know what comes after D. I am really pretty nervous about nursing bras. For someone that didn’t need a training bra until sophmore year in High School this is completely foriegn soil to me.

Don’t we all

    Instead of saying "hold me" Thing 2 in her small little voice says "hope, hope!" I guess it is a combo of hold and up. So today I heard her say to her dad who was napping. "hope, hope, hope!" then exasperated says. "I need HOPE!"
 

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Some reasons for Speech Therapy.

December 19, 2006 – 8:44 am

Thing 1’s phrase = Mommy Translation

"I want my pus*y" = I want my Percy

"Wes Go Hump" = Let’s go jump!

"Wes Pay wizz Dina-whores" = Let’s play with Dinasours

 

Oh and there are so many more. Dina-whores is like my nephew’s "Star Wars" which became "Star whores", in their home.  

 

 

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Update PHEW!

November 18, 2006 – 10:24 am

    Ok so I waltz into the exam room with both sweet things. Then I start sweating and wondering if I just left would there really be any consequences. And then finally I gave in. Our Pediatrician looks at Thing 1 and starts firing off some questions. At the end of the round he explains that his auditory processing looks good and that Thing 1 is really understanding and analyzing the questions. He says that he has good eye contact and everything looks good. What doesn’t look good is the speech. He does need help. The sooner he said the better.

    I now get to go into the fantastic world of small town politics to (as the doctor put it) "fight" for the therapy he needs.There are great facilities available if he was younger. DOH! * So off to the school district I go. I probably won’t have any problems cause I am so good at keeping on top of things like this and "follow-up". YEAH RIGHT. We will see how the plot thickens by the begining of next week.

  * If I could do it all over…. yeah I would have taken him in at two and checked it out more fully. 

    So the initial outcome is better than expected. I did have reason to be concerned and yet didn’t need to be concerned about the scarry word Autism. I do feel for those mothers though now more than forty eight hours ago!

 

 

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Today is a big day.

November 17, 2006 – 8:00 am

    I am scared out of my mind to go to the Peditrician today. First off the kids have been sick. Thing 2 has a cold that last Thursday came with a fever. The next day I took her in and she was sent home with the classic remedy of Motrin and Dymatap. Oh I feel so dumb going in there and thinking that there is something seriously wrong with her, only to find I need to give her more over the counter meds. So now there is no doctor’s appointments that will be made to the tune of "fever" runny nose, severe conjestion. It has to include vomiting, fever, and green stuff flying everywhere possible. Thing 1 has the immune system I could only dream of. So the major concerns are always thing 2 in the sick department.

    The appointment  today is not about colds, coughs, or sniffles. Today it is about speech delay. Thing 1’s speech delay to be exact. He is talking up a storm lately, but I can’t understand him most of the time and I have to repeat what he is saying. It is so frustrating for him and me. I am the only one who can really translate for the little one. He has really struggled with making himself clear. I know he has so much to say and can’t get it out right. Thing 1 just turned three. That is right three and I would say that in the past 5 months he has just started two and three word sentences. However in the past three months he has gotten down the "I", "mine", "me","you", and "yours" thing down. He can’t say his own name he uses mostly "me".

    I am afraid that I am gonna set my self up for the "virus" sinario. He just needs some over the counter medicine. "Just take some time and see how he does." And I am even more afraid that there maybe a problem, and something else could be playing apart of the speech delay. I don’t know if I am ready to handle either outcome. 

    He has been a handful, and I gave up weaning the binki at night (AkA the "bane of my existence".) We have been potty training and he has really done a fantastic job. I am still leary to leave him at pre-school with no diaper, but everywhere else he seems to do just fine. He is ultra proud when he keeps them dry. And not too upset when he has an accident either. It really has been a nice change of pace.   

    
 

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There are some days that start off RIGHT.

November 8, 2006 – 7:18 pm

    So I am laying in bed and can hear the pitter patter of my son and the stirrings of my daughter. I roll over and pat my husband’s back.

    "Let’s say prayers", I was enthused to hear the response more than anything.

    "Do you want me to say it?", says the voice from between the pillows.

    "Sure," my distinct tone of delight was clear.

    "Ok……Dear Heavenly Connecticut……..Mummble…Thank thee for… Connecticut.

I finally figured how to include this tid bit into the bloggy!

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Potty adventures

October 24, 2006 – 8:48 am

    Today we have had the first stand and pee moment. I am shocked how fast these little babies grow up. No more diapers for Thing 1. —-Well we’ll see.— I just can’t believe that I am here in this stage already. Thing 2 loves the potty. I don’t convert that into "I am ready" but it does mean she can practice.

    Thing 1 has been behaving good the past two weeks thanks to my friend’s new trick. Bribery. We went to Wal-mart and bought a nice little glass jar. Then we bought some rocks. They are really polished glass. They look like gum drops. For every good act we put a rock in the jar. For every naughty moment, we pull a rock out. Then we said if he can fill the jar full we get to go to the train museum. He has been golden. All I have to say is "Do I need to pull a rock out?'’ And the tiny hands that are clentching the entire box of "Sugar Smacks" in the ready-to-poor-all-over-the-floor- position, suddenly freeze and slowly turn to put the box back in it’s proper place. I know, Scarry like Halloween huh? So our first week I figured that he would have this thing figured out and wouldn’t care if I was taking rock out or putting them in. Only we are on week three!! He is working so hard to work his way to that train museum. We almost have it. I can’t wait to go and see all the trains!

   
 

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The Pumpkin Patch

October 13, 2006 – 3:59 pm

     I am pretty sure I don’t know who had more fun. Thing 1 who’s favorite things are trains and tractors. We were thrilled to ride both.

    We got Pumpkins off the vine, ate carmel apples, and saw farm animals including piglets. We couldn’t have had a better day.

     Here were some highlights……
 

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Out Please!! and Help ME

July 7, 2006 – 6:43 pm

   

    The cable guy, the next door neighbor(who barely speaks english), microwave repair man, the nephew, and any one who randomly drops by at Noon and 9:00pm is bound to hear from Thing 1’s bedroom a sad little boy who has never liked going to bed, beg and plead to be let out of his room so he doesn’t have to go to bed.

    Right now it is 9:08 and for three solid minutes he has been utilizing the newest phrase of pitiful yelling….."Help ME!! Help me!! OUT Please!!" Last night he was up until 11pm. Yelling "Way DOWN MOM!" Way down DaD!!" His gentle way of telling us to "Lay down" as he pats his pillow.

    Why 11pm you ask? I caved in every ten minutes and entered the room. Three times I had him asleep either in my arms or by my side. As soon as I moved he was up telling me to lay down. How many times do I watch "Super Nanny" and want to reach through the telly and stangle the person who lets their little ones rule the bedtime scene? Last night I kicked myself as I finally hit the pillow around 12:30am.

    No longer am I cowering. Tonight I take back my bedtime!! No one tells me when and where to lay down!! 

    **It is now 9:14pm and there is no sounds coming from the room. I think he is trying to pick the lock. Little does he know that there is a strategically-placed-plastic-device, known as a child proof door handle, implemented to torture small innocent children. MOOOHHAAAA!! It is all fun and games until he figures that his little body weight is the only necessary tool needed to escape. Then we are in trouble.

    Ever since he was little he has been a fighter when bedtime is near. We had tried everything, rocking (hated it!! He’s no snuggle bug), patting the back in his crib(hollered until his face went blueish), singing (sent him into crying fits), finally we would lay him down next to us and tell him a story, then tell him what a good boy he was and say goodnight. At which he would holler and protest for about ten minutes and conk out.

    Then the move. Oh where did the routine go? Where did the nice goodnights go? I could be we just haven’t unpacked that box yet. No I have let somethings go, slide, slack if you will.

** 9:36pm and there is no sounds, no picking, no rustling. He is out!! FINALLY!! OH yes!!
 

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Could there be a different method??

June 10, 2006 – 12:06 pm

       Weaning children off of anything is difficult. Binki’s are my plague.  I am trying many methods of binki removal. None seem to work better than distraciton.

       The day time binki habit is over. Find enough fun things to do and you have no problem with the binki. The night time wean is a different scene altogether. The past couple of days have been rough.

       We tried the BINKI Fairy story to help wean Thing 1 off a binki. (Super Nanny Idea). The Idea of giving the binkis are great until the bed time without binki occurs.
then the following conversation comences:

Thing1: BINKI!BINKI!

JD: We put all the binkis for the binki fairy to get. She is giving them to the babies!

thing 1: No No babies get binkis!! ME binki!! BINKI!!

JD: They are all gone! They are going with the Binki Fairy!!

Thing 1: NOOOOOOO! BINKI.

Mind you this was at 10:00 pm and he normally keals over at 8:30-9pm.

         He was over the fun and looking to just go to sleep. Long story short. 10:30 rolled around and Thing 1 was snuggled quietly with his blanket and Binki, sleeping soundly. 

  This may be the hardest part of being a mom thus far for me. And we are going through a "I like to bite my sister" phase. Yeah, pretty sure binki weaning stinks!!

     The idea of cutting up the binkis made me so sad. I can’t imagine what it would do to him. After we get settled and the normal routine is back in place we’ll try a new methodology.

The LIE: "I lost all the binkis"

     I predict an acute, sharp, stabbing pain to be felt in my heart, and a look from Thing 1 that says…

With-all-do-respect-Mom-get-in-that-car-and-bye-me-a-new-one.

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“Anyone?…….Anyone?”

May 11, 2006 – 4:47 am

   This is not how we get out of going to church!! I swear I had nothing to do with it.

He does this to make Thing2 and I laugh histerically in the car.

 

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

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