My baby turns Two

Well my baby turns two today. Well I should say he turned two today. I am pretty sure he was born sometime in the morning. Sucks to be a second kid, mom doesn't remember anything about you....lol.

Well I love the little, or should I say big, boy to death. He is a flirt. You may think that I am joking, but if you have met him in the last 6 monthes, you know what I am talking about. His aim, anyone but especially women of the grandmother type. Oh but back to the big part, he is two wearing size three to four. YES he is that big. He weighs close to as much as my almost 4 year old does. Yet he is a big chicken. He loves trucks and cars.....well anything that has wheels basically. But yet to take him to a real truck or quad or anything like that that he likes to play with in toy form he freaks out. Won't touch it, won't go near it. We are anticipating that there will come a day when we can't keep him from them. Funny kid.

So what age do kids start to walk?? Average age is 12 month/one year. Well the day he turned 1 he took his first steps and hasn't looked back since. When do kids start with tantrums and attitude??? Hence the terrible twos. Well today he turned two. So far this kids goes by the day. He does everything down to the day. Yikes. I should have expected it. Thats my kid.

I love him and his birthday has been great. Zandria had a struggle with today. All the new things to try that Elias still hasn't seen and the fighting begins. But a good day none the less.







Ps Just wanted to let you know that I have decided that I am going public. I don't feel as if I am showing anything that could make my kids a target to anything bad. If you have any opinons or suggestions please feel free.

Change

Life is changing.
I don't know if I am ready.
I am used to making my schedule and keeping to it as much as I can.
I have a lot of flexibility.
This fall that all changes.
Zandria starts pre school.
I feel as if I am getting in over my head when it comes to the business that I am getting into.
It is not my schedule, it is hers and her teachers.
Yes I am a control freak.
I like to be in control.
I have been struggling with this for a while now. I want control. I want to direct my life. I want my say to be the last say.
It can't.
I am not in control.
God needs to be in control.
God is in control.
I need to let Him be in control. I need to let Him do this without me worrying and stressing.
I am a worrier.
I can make myself physically sick when I get a worry in my head and can't let it go.
I worry that I might miss a day of Zandria's pre school.
I worry that I might be late in dropping her off or picking her up.
I worry that we have put her in over her head.
I worry about any thing that can and can not be worried over.
I worry about everything that should and shouldn't be worried over.
God is in control.
I feel like I have to repeat this over and over.
It just feels like it goes in one ear and out the other and that I never really believe it.
This frustrates me.
Why can't I believe this?
Why can't I just give it all to God??
Why?
How?
Yikes!!
Change!!

Life???!!!???

Life
So interesting, so fun, so hard, so long yet so short.

A couple of weeks ago a lady got out of her vehicle on circle drive and got hit by a semi. Her life changed, Jeremy's co-workers life changed, so did Jeremy's to an extent. I knew her. No she would not be that type to do it on purpose, but I do not know for sure. All I can do it pray that she didn't. Life can be gone in an instant. Why only God knows and is in control. Only if everyone knew and believed.

Life can make people do crazy things that are not good for them. People seclude themselves. Why no one knows. They have their reasons that no one knows. All you can do is think of them and pray for them. Then life is gone once again.

So hard to understand. What to think? What to feel? What to do??

Camping with a girlie girl and a scaredy cat.

So last weekend we went to the lake. My parents and some of their friends have fifth wheel campers permanently parked up at Piperl lake. It is a small fishing lake. It rained off and on the whole weekend. We didn't have to battle the bugs as much with the rain, but yeah didn't do as much as we wanted too.

Elias didn't like the change he is a home body. Plus he is scared of pretty much anything that is new to him. Can you imagine him camping. SSSOOO Whiny. But we endured and had a good time.

Elias got a new truck before we left. He had fun with it in the rain.

My parents love to fish. They bought Zandria her first fishing rod.

Here she is practising her casting. My dad had to watch so he didn't get hit in the head, but she got ok at doing it.

Then came the real thing in the boat. She had soo much fun reeling it in. The boat was a new thing for her to, but she loved it.

Elias on the other had did NOT like the boat. Did NOT like the life jacket. The soother was given to get him to stop screaming when the boat was moving. When we weren't moving we took it off (he wasn't going off my lap if he could help it so I wasn't worried) so that my brother didn't get too ticked off. On the boat ride back he actually didn't scream he just whimpered a little. Maybe next time he won't cry at all. Not likely but we can always pray.


So Zandria and my dad gave up on her rod and moved to his. It was still the same, he casts and she reels in. Well on like the third or fourth cast the got a bit. She saw it right away and got excited, until it splashed up close to the boat.....she dropped the rod and just about jumped over the windshield. Thankfully my dad is not stupid and had a hand at all times on the rod thinking that her letting go of it was a good possibility.
This was about as close to it as we could get her and it lasted just long enough to get the picture. We did throw it back though.


Well a couple of weeks before one of the other couple met this fox. He came to find something to eat and keeps coming back. They seem to find it fun to feed him and keep him around. Here my dad is feeding him a hot dog. He would eat pretty much anything that you offered. We had fish for supper Saturday night, not ones that we caught, and he had the nerve to go up on the table to help himself. My brother got a good pic. I missed it though.



Hahaha. so this is a picture that got ruined by Elias running up wanting to pet the "puppy". Yeah I don't think soo.


They had soo much fun seeing some thing new.

This was not the only wildlife that they got to see, but this is the only one that I was quick enough with the camera. They also got to see the typical squirrels, eating and fighting over the peanuts that my parents fed them. They actually use a old fishing rod to fish for them.

We also saw a wood chuck. It was surprisingly tame and we got quite close. It was a good weekend. Would have been better without the rain and the bugs, but still good. We will go camping again, just don't know where yet, but it will be with our girlie girl and her princess fishing rod and fear of fish, and our scaredy cat who is afraid of everything new, except "puppies".

Summer.....Finally.

Sorry it has been a while. It has been really busy around here. We have finally got some nice weather in between the rain. The kids have wanted to spend alot of time outside, and people have wanted thier hair done. Sorry.

Since it has gotten nice out Elias has been able to wear his new jammies that are shorts. Well he was still awake at 9, so we went to lay him back down and found this. He thought it was soooo funny, but I wonder if he could have done it again. haha.

My kids and I have discovered that ladels and serving spoons make better and more durible then most sand shovels.

My daughter is a girl. She loves to dress it. She picked her clothes, and she knows that she can't go out with out her hat on, and it is very rare to see her in our back yard with shoes on.

Zandria's hair is frustrating to me right now. At about this time last year it annoyed me too. At that time I just cut off the stuff that bugged me and then made it look like it was on purpose. lol. This year is even more annoying. She won't keep anything in her hair that will keep her tangles in the back under control. SSSOOO I tried this. This took about an hour or a little less to do. I had the tv on so she was occupied. She loved it and asks me to do it all the time. The best part is that we can get away with leaving it in for about a week at a time.

This is the after. She liked that too.

Who said tv was bad for kids

My kids watch TV. I know that a lot of parents try to not let them at all. I think that I would go insane if I didn't let them, let alone nothing would get done in my house cause Zandria is at the stage were she does start to get bored and I would have to entertain her some how. Well I love Sesame street. I grew up watching it and I let them watch it every morning. They have changed it a bit, almost more educational. It is great and they both love it.

Well the other day we went on a long walk, the type you have the twin bike stroller along cause you know she won't walk the whole way. Jeremy found this feather as we were walking and gave it to Zandria. She took it and was quietly walking for a couple of minutes and then stopped. I asked her if she was coming. Her response was..." Mommy I have to put this back in its habitat" holding the feather up. "Umm well Zandria I don't think we can do that right now we have to keep walking." I commented in amazement back. I was walking in stunned silence while Jeremy tried to explain to her that the bird that lost it didn't need it anymore, sort of like when mommy cuts peoples hair off and throws it in the garbage. The bird just doesn't want it any more. Well we continued walking, as I said to Jeremy she is probably just repeating a word she heard, I am not sure she even knows what it means. Literally a minute after I said that she saw a bird in a tree and said this..." I have to put it back in its habitat, there is the birds nest in the tree. Can I go put it in there?" Jeremy and I just about lost it laughing in amazement. She knows exactly what it means. WOW. Jeremy explained it to her once again. This time I think she let it go.

One thing that they do on Sesame Street is they pick a "word on the street" and focus on the definition of this word and saying this word in different situations. She used another word that day, humongous. What 3 year old uses that word. It makes me laugh to just think of these big words coming out of her mouth. lol

There is a lot of TV out there that is not good for them too watch. I am very picky about what they do watch. It has to be educational or really really creative and imaginative. A couple of Zandria's favs are: Sesame street, Word World, Sid the Science kid, Martha Speaks, Rollie Pollie Ollie, Koala Brothers and of course one from when I was a kid again, Magic School Bus.

So I disagree with parents that say all TV is bad for kids. I think that my kid proved that wrong. You just have to be picky about what they watch, and not too much at a time.

I love my little girl. I think that she will be ready for school when she is 4 (birthday in December), what do you think???

Bad Mom

So I feel like a bad mom, but I did not take pics of Zandria at her first dentist appointments. Yes appointments. Her 2 year old molars have undeveloped enamel. She had one bigger cavity in one and two smaller ones and one didn't have anything yet, it just needed to be built up. Well I am not one to take her soo I wrangled my mother in law to go with her and sit with her as she got everything done. Well I must say that the combination of a good dentist, a brave little girl and me not being there with her resulted in a good experience for all. Her dentist has three kids and one her age, she new how to handle the situation. Zandria was just amazing. Yes she cried but what kid wouldn't there first time with that shining light and all those tools that make noise. Yes she even laughed I was told. Not sure whether it was funny comment that was made or the laughing gas that they administered through the "bunny nose". My point in this whole thing is that I feel like a bad mom. I couldn't and wouldn't stay with her during it all, plus I forgot to take pics for the little bit that I was there for. I do feel better at the fact that she did have a fairly positive experience. I just don't so well with things in my mouth or anyone else's mouth, especially needles.