Mother's day 2012

Happy Mother's day to all the mothers out there. My husband thinks this is a silly hallmark holiday but I have to say, I appreciate mother's day. I know it is the one day that I can cater to myself a little more....although never totally because what fun would that be. Who doesn't like sacrificing to make their kids happy from time to time...no sarcasm, I mean it...and if you are a parent, you know it.

Last night I was EXHAUSTED from the lack of sleep the night before, Maddie insisted she was not tired at all so I let her snuggle with me and we fell fast asleep at about 8:30. At 9:30 I woke up, put her in her bed and fell right back to sleep. I would like to say I got a wonderful nights rest...however, Blake decided to wake up at 1:30 am and it took 3 drinks (all rejected), 4 songs and several grumbles before I found out he wanted his diaper changed and got him back to sleep at 3am. 3 more hours of sleep until Blake's early wake up call at 6:30am.

Normally when I get Blake out of bed between 6-6:3, I stumble in...shush him about a zillion times while I change his diaper to keep him from waking up everyone else. This morning I stumbled in but before I could shush him, he looked at me and said "shhhhhhhh" then laughed. I couldn't help but laugh with him and just like that my mother's day started off with a smile.

It continued from there...he asked for his blanket in the bed and when we went out into the living room he covered me with it, kissed me and snuggled in for tv. The best part though was when I said "i love you" he responded with "wuv you mommy" ...I think my heart melted to the floor.

The rest of Blake's morning was spent getting into everything, he created a disaster, destroyed everything he got into and was driving me bananas...however, he broke it up with smiles, laughter, hugs and kisses....so I can't complain too much.

After Maddie and Mark woke up, I went and snuggled back into bed while they did their secret business. I hear Mark getting out the cards and asking her what she wants to write. I also hear Maddie say "today is the day you show moms that you care about them". Her other gems of the day were "mother's day is about being together as a family" (which is why she is with me now at starbucks), "let's make mommy a surprise snack of broccoli and cereal" (gag), "Mommy, I love you even when it is not mother's day", "(singing) Chasing mother's day", followed by singing "catching mother's day", "mommy how is everyone here going to know that I am your daughter and you are my mommy"...and many more that I have unfortunately already forgotten. She really makes my world.

I admit it would be nice to get out on my own on a day I know it would not be declined...but then I would miss out on all these cute things my kids do on a minute by minute basis that makes me a mother. I like spending the time with them, I love hearing the silly things they come up with and look forward to spending the rest of my life as their mother. I just hope they always want to spend the day with me.

Blake's word count 1/08/12

22-kitty
23-baby
24-bomber
25-here ya go
26-I did it
27-bow
28-Apple
29- I love you (Iwuvooh)
30-turtle
31-car
32-jet
33-kinsey
34-Cheers
35-please
36-Book
37-drink
38-bowl
39-walk
40-football
41- backpack (sounds like tackpack though)

Maddie-ism 1/8/12

Maddie: I want to wear my yellow shoes
Me: They don’t fit yet, they will probably fit you this summer
Maddie: But it is summer
Me: Really, do you want to wear your bathing suit outside today?
Maddie: yes, I do. It is warm.
Me: Then Jack Frost will blow his cold winter wind on you and you will have to get your winter coat.
Maddie: Mommy, Jack Frost won’t be there. He is not from our earth.
Me: And where is her from Maddie?
Maddie: Mommy he is from Fairytales.....and books....and sometimes TV but not the real world, not our earth.
Me: Good point, Maddie, Good point. I love you!

I LOVE THAT GIRL

Blake's word count

Blake’s word count has been growing daily...
1-mommy
2-daddy
3-sissy
4-maddie (addie)
5-crackers
6-yea
7-no
8-okay
9-more
10-eat
11-milk
12-dog
13-duck
14-ball
15-bottle
16- Grandma (gee gee)
17-this
18-hat
19-shoe
20-up
21-fish

He is an amazing little boy and I am loving watching him grow.

Maddie's first day at Preschool

Maddie has been wanting to go to school for a while now. For the past year, everytime the school bus comes into our cul de sac, she asks if she can go to school now. Well the day finally arrived (sans bus).

Today, Maddie started preschool. We toured the school a couple of weeks ago and she LOVED it. She has been talking about Ms. KA-TREE-NA (Katrina to the rest of us) ever since and telling people all about her new school. She was so excited to start school she didn't even have her normal tantrum about me washing her hair this morning (only 50% of normal tantrum).

We got ready, put on her new dress (that she picked out all by herself), put on her new bookbag (princesses of course) and headed over to Mya's for pictures and to get her nails painted. I think she truly felt like a big girl.

When we arrived at school she seemed like she might just burst at the seams she was so excited. When it was time to go in Mya took her by the hand and led her inside. Right then I ceased to exist. She was in schoolmode. I did not even get a kiss goodbye. Mya showed her where the cubbies were. Maddie's was right beside Mya's and they showed Maddie how to hang up her backpack. Then Maddie followed everyone to get in line to wash her hands. Shortly after parents were kicked out and the school day began.

When we went to get Maddie, we waited by the door while they called kids one at a time to go meet their parents. When Maddie saw us her whole face lit up as she exclaimed "mommy, daddy...I missed you" and broke into a run that only lasted a second as Ms. Pat reminded her "use your walking feet, don't run"...so instead she did this fast almost run walk.

Here are the things she told me about her day:

-I made a new friend named Katie and we threw a purple ball to each other. Katie is my friend

-Katie tried to give me a green ball but I wanted the purple ball (me: so what happened). ..Katie gave me the purple ball, she shared...she is a good sharer

-Ms Pat said Mya and I could play in the block room and we built towers together (me: did mya knock them down)...No Mya did not, I did and Mya said "Maddie that is not nice".

-We went into the coloring room and colored pictures on pink paper

-We learned to talk to the flag (Pledge of Allegiance)

-We sat on the letter rug and talked about our shapes and then we had to match up the letters.

- Ms Pat told me we had to eat snacks (Me: what did you eat)...Crackers, with cheese it was yummy.

-I got to play in doll room, I like the doll room.

-Ms Pat let us play with trains and line them up right (??no idea what that means??)

-They played a song when we were in the rooms that meant it was time to pick up our toys and no more playing


Maddie also sang me a song she learned about being nice and almost every sentence when talking about her day started with "Ms. Pat said". I know she absorbed something about being in line because when she was playing with the toy penguin and the slide she kept telling it that it had to wait in line. She kept saying "no, wait in line....wait your turn....oops you didn't get in line so you don't get a turn"

All and all she seemed to have a lot of fun and told me she can't wait to go back.

Happy 10 months From Mommy

I can not believe that you are 10 months old. When did this happen? It feels like just yesterday I was holding this tiny little baby and now I have my big trouble making little boy.

When ever you are around Maddie and I know you are up to no good...I think that you think your name is "Nothing but trouble" because we tell you that all the time. You could care less about playing with toys, your number one goal is to seek and destroy. Exploring while destroying. Although lately you have given us a run for our money, you already crawl faster than we can handle and now you have added climbing and trying to walk to the mix.

The climbing is going to drive me bananas. I remember hearing stories from Theresa about Fin climbing and thinking, what kid does that....that is scary. I mean I had calm and maybe a little scaredy cat Maddie. You get in places that scare me and then try to dive head first. You have no fear.

You have started cruising and you love to hold hands and walk...it makes you laugh. I love how tickled you get at things you can do. Yesterday while we were getting our oil changed at the dealer you realized that you could use a stool to walk across the room. You were laughing at your self the whole way.

You have also begun pointing at things you want or things you are interested in. You seem to like that now when you are hungry you can point at my boobs and I get the hint. Ha ha. Although we need to figure out how to teach you to say bottle because your nursing time is coming to an end.

You discovered feeding mommy and Maddie yesterday...you thought it was hilarious....you wanted to feed us everything. We draw the line at flowers though. Sorry kid.

I think you are going to be a talker like your sister. You do a great job repeating words. This morning we were sitting on the floor naming the letter magnents and you would point at the letter and repeat it after me (H, O and A). You say Hat, Dog, Cat, Mom, Nad (maddie), Dada, light and Hi...all on your own.

You are my mover. Yesterday at Maddie's dance class, you so wanted to join in. I help your hands and helped you dance...you were cracking up...you were also doing better than most the girls. Ha ha.

I think you have the most amazing personality. You are a one man wrecking crew, when you get mad...you get MAD...but it is so easy to make you smile, to turn your mood around...you love being happy. I love you.

Maddisms- July 7th, 2011

My favorites from today:

Maddie: why are we getting bandaids
Me: because your legs look AWFUL
Maddie: do you mean Awfully Beautiful?
Me: ha ha yes, that is EXACTLY what I mean

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The Service Manager at fannin: Is there anything else?
Maddie: I am a big girl now....I-WEAR-PANTIES
SM: HA HA good job?

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At the Salon I tell Maddie it is Alex's birthday so she RUNS over where he is sweeping up hair and screams SURPRISE. I think he might of peed his pants. Then she says "I wanted to give you a birthday surprise"

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Maddie: Mommy I have a beautiful beast named Blake

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Maddie to Alex: "At dance I did a Grand Jete, and jumped over PRETEND mud puddles

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Maddie: I was thinking....we should go to the all (mall)
Me: 'I was thinking'...you get that from your father
Maddie: yes I do

An hour later

Maddie: I want to go barefoot
Me: barefoot?
Maddie: yes, I get that from you.

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MY FAVORITE

Maddie: Mommy I love you too much (then she pulls my head into her chest and hugs me.




My favorite moment with both kids today. We are all sitting on my bed eating popcorn. Blake is actually eating it really neatly for someone who is chowing down. Then Blake decides he is going to feed us so he leans over to each of us and shoves his entire hand (popcorn and all) into our mouth laughing at himself as he does it. Maddie and I were laughing near to tears.

I love my life and my family!