So today is Sunday and I have felt crappy all day. And I don't mean emotionally. I got this knot in my stomach last night awhile after dinner and I was thinking, "what kind of knot is this? Am I hungry again? I think I'm gonna puke!" I hate throwing up with a PASSION!! I will fight it as long as I can. I'm not one of those people that can force it so they feel better. Anyways, I thankfully never did, I figured it might just be lack of sleep for the past few days. When I laid down I felt a little better. But I still had to prepare my primary lesson (did I mention Anthony and I were called to teach Sunbeams?) this morning and get ready for church and as soon as I woke up I felt sick all over again. So I'm breathing deeply and trying not to squish my stomach too much. At church I was starting to feel a little bit better and wondered if Satan was trying to keep me from church or something like that.
In my class there's this one little girl that reminds me of a porcelain doll. She has pale skin and brown curly hair and she is soooo skinny and tiny and fragile. Well I think she is new to primary cause every week she cries. Today during Sharing Time I had her sit on my lap and she did a lot better and then towards the end I was starting to feel really sick again and it didn't help matters that she was sitting on my lap. There's this other little boy and last week he did just fine, but this week he was sitting away by himself and crying and when it was time to take the kids to the classroom I told Anthony to get him. He just cried and cried and then that got the girl crying again lol. Once we got into class again they did better after a couple of minutes. And once again my feelings of sickness went away for the most part.
Class went pretty good but one thing I don't understand is parents letting their kids bring toys to primary. It's just a distraction and then they get caught up in playing with it instead of learning to sit quietly and listen. I think we let AJ bring toys to primary only a couple of times but he could play with them in Sacrament. That's just too long of a time with too many big words for them to sit still.
Anthony walked home with AJ cause he's always begging to walk to/from church. And when we got home Brock ran down the street to them so he could be with them.
Our home teachers came today for the first time, that was a nice visit. AJ wanted to play hangman (must have learned that at church) so we all agreed he could play one game of hang man. Our home teachers are both named Matt so they told AJ he could call them M&M. Well we barely made it without hanging the hangman. He only needed his nose and one of them guessed the very last letter. It was I by the way spelling Sbtrjni.....we had a great time laughing it up. They were very impressed that AJ knew how to read and spell. I laughed and said I have no idea how he's going to do this. Of course we got that answer when he would write the letters in the order that we guessed them. He was being so funny and cracking us all up. That kid loves to be the center of attention!
Earlier this week we had friends over kind of late and after they went home AJ and Brock went outside to jump while I was vacuuming. When they came in Brock let Goliath out. Lately he has been really good about coming back when we call him so we have been giving him a treat to reward him. Well by the time they told me and I could get outside he was LONG GONE! We went and got in the car and spent about 45 mins driving around looking for him with no such luck. The next day I was babysitting and didn't really get the opportunity to go looking some more. But I called the pound and they didn't have him. So after I dropped off the little guy I babysat we went driving around for another hour looking for him. I knew someone had him but they hadn't called us (our numbers are engraved on his tags) so I was trying to look between houses and through the fences I could. Well no such luck again. And by the way Anthony had driven around for awhile at like 2 am looking for him. Well I had to go to work and while I was there I got a phone call from a lady and this is what she said right after I said hello. "Do you wanna come get your dog?" I was like yeah where is he? Well she continued to rant and rave about how they found him last night so they put him in their yard so someone driving by could see him and say that's our dog. And i'm like we have looked for him several times. She said that he had put a hole in their screen door from scratching all night and I was thinking if you let him out he probably would have come home. She made me so upset acting like we didn't care about him, like we would have known where she lived and specifically went to her house to get him. I guess she has a neighbor that works for animal control and asked her to take him to work with her but she didn't. The thing that bugs me is my kids were so upset that they were going to bed without Goliath home safe and sound. And the first thing that Brock did in the morning is wake me up and tell me we needed to go and get him. It was cute but sad. Well I think I'm done for now...I think I need to take a nap.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Out of the mouths of babes
So about 2 wks ago my work started a summer wellness program. The goal is to walk 10,000 steps a day. I didn't realize how sedentary my lifestyle had become until I purchased a pedometer and used it the first day. So not only had my diet become....pretty much terrible....but I also have not been moving around very much at all. And that makes you gain weight? Weird! Well wearing this strange contraption on my waist everyday got lots of questions out of my boys, mostly just AJ since he is the talker. Brock just had fun pushing the button that would anounce my steps, over and over!
After wearing this pedometer for about 3 days AJ kept asking me, "how much weight have you lost now mom?" Or he would state, while looking at the numbers, "wow much you've lost a lot of weight today!" What a great supporter..although I finally explained to him you can't lose weight that fast and it's only counting my steps not my pounds. Then he asked me one day, "mom, how come you're belly is still jiggly?" Of course it makes you feel really great when your 5 yr old asks you something like that while patting your belly with his hand.
And that's just the start.
On another day he did it again only this time he asked how come it's not jiggly any more...strange I don't think it was really any different.
Yesterday we went to Lagoon a Beach and of course 90% of the women there are wearing bikinis. While walking through to find a place to park ourselves and our stuff he turns to me and says, "mom I just saw a girl who was hot." Assumming he was referring to her looks and being to busy to react, we kept walking. And then he clarified, "mom, I just saw a girl that was sexy." Hmmm interesting that a 5 yr old knows what sexy is..I knew much worse at his age but he still astonishes me sometimes...and guess where he learned it though...Nickelodeon!! Thankfully I am starting to get him more addicted to kbyu and pbs for thier learning cartoons and away from nasty cartoon network. Have you ever really watched those cartoons? They are strange, and they never have a moral to the story or even a lesson learned. Okay so there's a couple that aren't so bad but a few really make me think what the creators of these shows really want my small child to learn.
Last monday night was the start of Heritage Days here for Syracuse. One of the many events they have is Syracuse Idol. I was going to try out so I could overcome my fear of public singing but whad'ya know I lost my nerve. I also didn't want to feel like a fool amongst a bunch of teenagers and I'm this "old woman" wanting to win a contest! Anyways, this lady gets on to perfurme and AJ for some reason felt the need to inform me how much prettier she was than me. This, coming from a little boy, who is always telling his mama how pretty she is and what a good singer she is. Thank goodness he's 5 so I don't have to take it too personal. But I did inform him that was rude and not to tell me that again.
As for Brock (I can't blog only about one child, come on now!) he is talking a lot more lately. It seems everyday he uses another word I didn't know he knew. These are just a few....
noise
c'mon
away
loud
and basically at this point in my morning, after coming home from work, that's about all my fried brain can remember.
He is very good at letting Goliath out and Goliath has been pretty good about coming back when we call. However last night I was vacuuming when they came in and by the time I made it outside he was long gone. So off driving around we went calling and calling. It's actually very cute to hear Brock yell "Go go!" and try to whistle for him. AJ learned how to whistle now and so he's been a good helper calling for the dog. Well we didn't find him last night and then today we went driving around in the afternoon calling and calling. I kept looking at the fences between the houses wondering if someone was trying to keep him. We did finally get him back from someone calling us....she acted upset on the phone. Her first words were, "do you want to come get your dog?" Of course you crazy lady, I had no idea where he was. I dont know why she waited so long to call us but she kept telling me about how he made a hole in her door from scratching on it all night. I thought well serves you right, you should have called us last night, no matter now late, so my kids wouldn't have been so sad about thier doggy being gone. First thing Brock did this morning when he came in was say, "Go go gone?, bye-bye? c'mon mama bye-bye, get Gogo!" Now don't tell me that wasn't absolutely cute! He loves dogs and especially his own. He saw a demonstration of a cop dog doing his druggy doggy thing and he was still saying, (with arms wide open!) "hug, hug?" What a cute baby...
After wearing this pedometer for about 3 days AJ kept asking me, "how much weight have you lost now mom?" Or he would state, while looking at the numbers, "wow much you've lost a lot of weight today!" What a great supporter..although I finally explained to him you can't lose weight that fast and it's only counting my steps not my pounds. Then he asked me one day, "mom, how come you're belly is still jiggly?" Of course it makes you feel really great when your 5 yr old asks you something like that while patting your belly with his hand.
And that's just the start.
On another day he did it again only this time he asked how come it's not jiggly any more...strange I don't think it was really any different.
Yesterday we went to Lagoon a Beach and of course 90% of the women there are wearing bikinis. While walking through to find a place to park ourselves and our stuff he turns to me and says, "mom I just saw a girl who was hot." Assumming he was referring to her looks and being to busy to react, we kept walking. And then he clarified, "mom, I just saw a girl that was sexy." Hmmm interesting that a 5 yr old knows what sexy is..I knew much worse at his age but he still astonishes me sometimes...and guess where he learned it though...Nickelodeon!! Thankfully I am starting to get him more addicted to kbyu and pbs for thier learning cartoons and away from nasty cartoon network. Have you ever really watched those cartoons? They are strange, and they never have a moral to the story or even a lesson learned. Okay so there's a couple that aren't so bad but a few really make me think what the creators of these shows really want my small child to learn.
Last monday night was the start of Heritage Days here for Syracuse. One of the many events they have is Syracuse Idol. I was going to try out so I could overcome my fear of public singing but whad'ya know I lost my nerve. I also didn't want to feel like a fool amongst a bunch of teenagers and I'm this "old woman" wanting to win a contest! Anyways, this lady gets on to perfurme and AJ for some reason felt the need to inform me how much prettier she was than me. This, coming from a little boy, who is always telling his mama how pretty she is and what a good singer she is. Thank goodness he's 5 so I don't have to take it too personal. But I did inform him that was rude and not to tell me that again.
As for Brock (I can't blog only about one child, come on now!) he is talking a lot more lately. It seems everyday he uses another word I didn't know he knew. These are just a few....
noise
c'mon
away
loud
and basically at this point in my morning, after coming home from work, that's about all my fried brain can remember.
He is very good at letting Goliath out and Goliath has been pretty good about coming back when we call. However last night I was vacuuming when they came in and by the time I made it outside he was long gone. So off driving around we went calling and calling. It's actually very cute to hear Brock yell "Go go!" and try to whistle for him. AJ learned how to whistle now and so he's been a good helper calling for the dog. Well we didn't find him last night and then today we went driving around in the afternoon calling and calling. I kept looking at the fences between the houses wondering if someone was trying to keep him. We did finally get him back from someone calling us....she acted upset on the phone. Her first words were, "do you want to come get your dog?" Of course you crazy lady, I had no idea where he was. I dont know why she waited so long to call us but she kept telling me about how he made a hole in her door from scratching on it all night. I thought well serves you right, you should have called us last night, no matter now late, so my kids wouldn't have been so sad about thier doggy being gone. First thing Brock did this morning when he came in was say, "Go go gone?, bye-bye? c'mon mama bye-bye, get Gogo!" Now don't tell me that wasn't absolutely cute! He loves dogs and especially his own. He saw a demonstration of a cop dog doing his druggy doggy thing and he was still saying, (with arms wide open!) "hug, hug?" What a cute baby...
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Two wheelin'
Last year we tried and tried with AJ to get him off of training wheels but he would just get frustrated and fed up and then give up. Eventually so did we. Then this year we thought we should get a start on it at the beginning of Summer instead of at the end. Anthony went out and practiced with him the first time and he couldn't get up. Then one day I was outside so I decided to work with him on it. I think he was more excited this year because Uncle Brandon gave him a bike, it's still child size but a little bigger than the really small ones and it has shocks on it. He thinks it's so cool! So I went out and he ended up getting up a couple of times and doing okay. He got a little frustrated but I just felt we were so close I didn't want to give up just yet so I made him do it a couple more times as long as he was getting up.
Yesterday we were outside again and he wanted to practice, AND HE GOT UP!! Not only did he get up but he was doing really well right off the bat so we practiced with him starting by himself.After a lot of hard work and falling a couple of times he was doing that pretty good too. I got some great shots of the boys at work and poor little Brock just wanted to ride too.
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