Kyra: Mommy, you have wrinkles in your hair.
Me: Wrinkles? Where?
Kyra: See? All those white things? You have wrinkles in your hair.
23 hours ago
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
This is What You Get When...
You take the kids putt putt golfing with a couple of friends,
and at the end of the game Jeremy and Kyra pick out the prizes.
At least she makes a pretty darn cute pirate.
and at the end of the game Jeremy and Kyra pick out the prizes.
At least she makes a pretty darn cute pirate.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Sweet Cheeks
If you ever want to know how Lydia got those fat, chipmunk cheeks,
Its not like we feed her anything out of the ordinary.
She consumes all the same kind of foods any other 6 month old would munch on.
But her cheeks?
They still look like we stuffed them with marshmallows or the fluffiest white cake you've ever laid eyes on.
Don't you just want to devour her? I sure do.
Looking at those cheeks makes some people have the overwhelming urge to pinch them. For me, it makes me want to go back for seconds at the dessert table.
Maybe that's why I haven't lost the baby weight, yet?
Its not like we feed her anything out of the ordinary.
She consumes all the same kind of foods any other 6 month old would munch on.
But her cheeks?
They still look like we stuffed them with marshmallows or the fluffiest white cake you've ever laid eyes on.
Don't you just want to devour her? I sure do.Looking at those cheeks makes some people have the overwhelming urge to pinch them. For me, it makes me want to go back for seconds at the dessert table.
Maybe that's why I haven't lost the baby weight, yet?
Thursday, July 09, 2009
As Luck Would Have It
Both girls are not under my feet at this very minute.
Lydia is peacefully asleep in her crib while Kyra is peacefully listening to her nursery rhyme book/cd in her own room.
This leaves me with an unknown amount of time by myself and, well, I'm just not sure what to do with myself.
It's not that often anymore that Kyra actually goes down for a nap. Something that seems to have changed almost overnight. While I'm glad to give up the fighting over when and where she will go to sleep, some days, though fewer and fewer, we still end up fighting by the evening over Kyra's attitude or frank unpleasantness. I've started to implement "quiet time". A thing of which I've held off as long as possible. But here we are. And it's working for us much better then the last 18,000 times we tried it before. And for that, I will not complain.
As luck would have it, I had a free moment to sit and blog.
As luck would have it, I had a free moment to gather my thoughts.
As luck would have it, I have managed to keep my sanity despite one child leaving a nap behind and another child leaving colic behind.
As luck would have it... I'm a happy Mommy. And I still wouldn't mind adding one more babe to the chaos.
Wounder what Jer's take on THAT would be!
Lydia is peacefully asleep in her crib while Kyra is peacefully listening to her nursery rhyme book/cd in her own room.
This leaves me with an unknown amount of time by myself and, well, I'm just not sure what to do with myself.
It's not that often anymore that Kyra actually goes down for a nap. Something that seems to have changed almost overnight. While I'm glad to give up the fighting over when and where she will go to sleep, some days, though fewer and fewer, we still end up fighting by the evening over Kyra's attitude or frank unpleasantness. I've started to implement "quiet time". A thing of which I've held off as long as possible. But here we are. And it's working for us much better then the last 18,000 times we tried it before. And for that, I will not complain.
As luck would have it, I had a free moment to sit and blog.
As luck would have it, I had a free moment to gather my thoughts.
As luck would have it, I have managed to keep my sanity despite one child leaving a nap behind and another child leaving colic behind.
As luck would have it... I'm a happy Mommy. And I still wouldn't mind adding one more babe to the chaos.
Wounder what Jer's take on THAT would be!
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Life...
It gets in the way of blogging some times.
Sunshine and reasonable temperatures drag us outside. Though the scattered showers pop on through every day.
Husband had his first day back to work in what seemed like ages on the 4th. There is nothing more distracting in life then having Jeremy home. He's like this planet for which our entire family orbits around when he's here. We follow him from room to room, each seeking our own attention. Guess that's what happens when he's not always home. Though, this "vacation" was brought on by sickness. A sickness where he was actually sick, but, yet, I couldn't stop poking fun and mocking his patheticness all over the house. Some days it's the only way to get my jollies.
School. A few posts ago, I mentioned picking up some school books for Kyra at Target. Well, the next day, we started home schooling. Kyra was and still is beyond thrilled to start school every day. We started out working for only 15 to 20 minutes at a time. But as the days wear on, Kyra shouts MORE! MORE! because she wants to do another page of this or start on that book. I never knew school could be so fun. I hated my school days, but maybe, Kyra will have a much brighter outlook on school then I did.
Lydia. She's now crawling. Like, on all fours all the time. Each day getting faster and faster. And not only is she crawling, she can now sit for a time on her own. She's trying desperately to put herself in that position but isn't quite there yes. She's also eating solid foods, now. We had to start giving her actual pieces of sliced peaches, whole strawberries and bites of banana to get her to this point. We went with the whole, if it's in her hand she'll stick it in her mouth, technique. Before then she refused to eat anything that didn't come through a bottle. It's worked wonderfully!
And, lastly, Lydie Kate turned 6 months last week and I think I nearly lost it. How can it be 6 months already? I remember when Kyra turned 6 months it seemed like an eternity had passed by. For Lydia? I can still recount the vivid details of her day to day existence, like it all just happened last week.
Life. It's busy even when it's slow.
Sunshine and reasonable temperatures drag us outside. Though the scattered showers pop on through every day.
Husband had his first day back to work in what seemed like ages on the 4th. There is nothing more distracting in life then having Jeremy home. He's like this planet for which our entire family orbits around when he's here. We follow him from room to room, each seeking our own attention. Guess that's what happens when he's not always home. Though, this "vacation" was brought on by sickness. A sickness where he was actually sick, but, yet, I couldn't stop poking fun and mocking his patheticness all over the house. Some days it's the only way to get my jollies.
School. A few posts ago, I mentioned picking up some school books for Kyra at Target. Well, the next day, we started home schooling. Kyra was and still is beyond thrilled to start school every day. We started out working for only 15 to 20 minutes at a time. But as the days wear on, Kyra shouts MORE! MORE! because she wants to do another page of this or start on that book. I never knew school could be so fun. I hated my school days, but maybe, Kyra will have a much brighter outlook on school then I did.
Lydia. She's now crawling. Like, on all fours all the time. Each day getting faster and faster. And not only is she crawling, she can now sit for a time on her own. She's trying desperately to put herself in that position but isn't quite there yes. She's also eating solid foods, now. We had to start giving her actual pieces of sliced peaches, whole strawberries and bites of banana to get her to this point. We went with the whole, if it's in her hand she'll stick it in her mouth, technique. Before then she refused to eat anything that didn't come through a bottle. It's worked wonderfully!
And, lastly, Lydie Kate turned 6 months last week and I think I nearly lost it. How can it be 6 months already? I remember when Kyra turned 6 months it seemed like an eternity had passed by. For Lydia? I can still recount the vivid details of her day to day existence, like it all just happened last week.
Life. It's busy even when it's slow.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Can't Talk...
It stopped raining Sunday and the sun started to shine on Monday. Do you get that? It has been BRIGHT and BEAUTIFUL for a record 4 days! That's the better part of a WEEK! And we have been outside EVERY SINGLE DAY. And there has been LITTLE TO NO TELEVISION viewed. And I'm only on the computer long enough to HARVEST MY CROPS. And thus have totally blew the whole I'LL SHOW YOU MY REAL LIFE CROPS because I'm too busy weeding them versus talking about them.
Not to mention Jer has come down with the FLU and is currently on his DEATH BED. Though, he seems to somehow still be alive. He was actually AWAKE and INTERACTING with us for the better part of today. Progress, no?
AND! Just to let you all know, the whole cry it out thing with Lydia has taken an unexpected turn. While she "sleeps through the night" now, with no problems, she also now sees the hours of 5 and 6 in the morning to be her waking hours. Most of the time I can give her a bottle and change her butt simultaneously while she's still lying in her crib. And when she's finished eating I snatch the bottle and dirty diaper and run like mad out of her room hoping she doesn't notice. She plays for for a bit and usually, but not always, goes back to sleep after some time. Though that leaves me wide awake in the process.
Kyra's new thing to learn is how to stay her little ass in bed when she gets up in the morning and to quit waking up the entire house. We'll see how that goes.
Until then, here's a picture of one of the green pepper plants:
Not to mention Jer has come down with the FLU and is currently on his DEATH BED. Though, he seems to somehow still be alive. He was actually AWAKE and INTERACTING with us for the better part of today. Progress, no?
AND! Just to let you all know, the whole cry it out thing with Lydia has taken an unexpected turn. While she "sleeps through the night" now, with no problems, she also now sees the hours of 5 and 6 in the morning to be her waking hours. Most of the time I can give her a bottle and change her butt simultaneously while she's still lying in her crib. And when she's finished eating I snatch the bottle and dirty diaper and run like mad out of her room hoping she doesn't notice. She plays for for a bit and usually, but not always, goes back to sleep after some time. Though that leaves me wide awake in the process.
Kyra's new thing to learn is how to stay her little ass in bed when she gets up in the morning and to quit waking up the entire house. We'll see how that goes.
Until then, here's a picture of one of the green pepper plants:
I even went out IN THE RAIN to get this picture last Friday. Just for YOU. I had the best of intentions, things just went south with Kyra for a few days before the sun made every thing better. And now it's going to start raining again for another week. That guarantees I'll be back to my old, yakking about nothing important, self.
Don't get too excited, now.
Friday, June 19, 2009
5 Questions, 5 Answers
Today we're playing 5 Questions with Erica of The Four Apostles.
1). You find out you've just won an award for "Most Dramatic Actress" (yay you!). What was the movie and what was your role?
It would certainly be for my portrayal of MOMMY IS PSYCHO WHEN SHE DOESN'T GET HER 8 HOURS OF SLEEP. That's right, 8. Jer? The navy has done a WONDERFUL job at teaching him that he can survive and help pull a family back together on a mere 3 hours of rest. Me? I need 8 or else the drama will be fierce. And not to mention I'd be completely useless.
2). How do you really envision a battle between Superman and Batman going down?
Um, wow, that's a hard one. I'm envisioning this to be a battle of Who's the Better Dresser? Being that Superman wears his underwear on the outside of his tights, um, I'd have to go with Batman wins. I mean, he has the big muscle-y protective contraption strapped around his chest and a butler. There's nothing more fashionable then fake muscles and your very own butler.
3). If I was to say, "Alicia at age 15", what would you say to that?
I'd wear that sparkly mousse with such style and class I'd make ALL the bitches wanna be me! Or I'd beat the crap out of that delicate flower of a neighbor girl and take my hair spray back. Depends on what mood I'm in at the time, I guess.
5). What is your favourite jungle animal?
Hippos. Think about it. They get to lounge in the water ALL. DAY. Ah. Makes me jealous. How'd they get so damn lucky in the lounging around department?
*****
Tomorrow we'll take a look at my real life garden, per Chick With Sticks request. She is, apparenly, shocked that I'd cheat on FarmTown with my own, non virtual, garden.
1). You find out you've just won an award for "Most Dramatic Actress" (yay you!). What was the movie and what was your role?
It would certainly be for my portrayal of MOMMY IS PSYCHO WHEN SHE DOESN'T GET HER 8 HOURS OF SLEEP. That's right, 8. Jer? The navy has done a WONDERFUL job at teaching him that he can survive and help pull a family back together on a mere 3 hours of rest. Me? I need 8 or else the drama will be fierce. And not to mention I'd be completely useless.
2). How do you really envision a battle between Superman and Batman going down?
Um, wow, that's a hard one. I'm envisioning this to be a battle of Who's the Better Dresser? Being that Superman wears his underwear on the outside of his tights, um, I'd have to go with Batman wins. I mean, he has the big muscle-y protective contraption strapped around his chest and a butler. There's nothing more fashionable then fake muscles and your very own butler.
3). If I was to say, "Alicia at age 15", what would you say to that?
Wouldn't do it again in a million years. Even if you paid me a ba-jillion dollars. I choose to forget as much as possible between the ages of 13-19. Those years, well, they sucked. And not JUST because I was a dramatic teenager. They sucked that bad.
4). It's the Big Dance and your hairspray isn't your regular hairspray at all, but instead your bitchy, self absorbed neighbour girl has swapped it out with sparkly mousse! What EVER do you do?!I'd wear that sparkly mousse with such style and class I'd make ALL the bitches wanna be me! Or I'd beat the crap out of that delicate flower of a neighbor girl and take my hair spray back. Depends on what mood I'm in at the time, I guess.
5). What is your favourite jungle animal?
Hippos. Think about it. They get to lounge in the water ALL. DAY. Ah. Makes me jealous. How'd they get so damn lucky in the lounging around department?
*****
Tomorrow we'll take a look at my real life garden, per Chick With Sticks request. She is, apparenly, shocked that I'd cheat on FarmTown with my own, non virtual, garden.
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