Learn the presidents with baby girl

Learning

Baby girl has been really interested in history lately. She will want to talk about Presidents and dinosaurs for ever, it seems. Then Monday night we looked at Presidents she just sat fascinated wanting to know more. We talked about all of them. She woke up first thing in the morning wanting to look at them again. She said, "mommy I know the first one he is George Washington. I said very good. Then she said "I know the second one, John Adams." I was surprised that she remembered that and said, "very good memory" then she said "the next one is Thomas Jefferson, then James Madison, then James Monroe" It knocked my socks off. Then she got sad, she couldn't remember John Quincy Adams. I told her



that was ok she didn't have to remember them all. I suggested we call daddy and tell him. She started getting really scared. I asked her what is wrong. She said she was afraid she would mess it up. She really got worked into a frenzy. So the lesson of the day was:

If you don't mess up, you can't learn.

NAKED CHILD ALERT!!!

I don't answer my door if I am not expecting you. I have a note on my door that says that. For the few people that have came to my door and called 30 seconds before they show up, they have been very surprised to see a naked 3 year old penis meeting them at the door. My neigbor got it once a few months go. Today the victom was my 3 year olds Sunday School teacher.

She came over to give me the Sunday School lesson for this weeks. She is going to be gone, and she needed my help last min. I told her I would be happy to. She was over this way and decided to stop by. I saw her face peer in the window and I recognized her profile. I opened the door and Jr pops up completely unclothed. He had taken a bath and just gotten dried off. I thought he was dressing but instead it was more interesting to see who was at the door. She said it was ok, but I could tell she was trying to look away. I felt so bad.

So be warned if you come over to my house, my kids don't mind being naked. No matter how hard I try to get them to keep clothes, they find reasons to get undressed.

x,
Rebecca

Do you ever feel like your kids are trying to drive you insane?

I ask because today I was vacuming and putting things away, and I look behind me and there is a trail of little scraps of paper all over the house. I don't know where those scraps came from, and how they made them so fast. One min there is nothing on the floor and next min, its got stuff sprinkled here and their. I think they must be working togeather to drive me insane.

The good news is Jr-ett has really done great lately to do her part in cleaning. She doesn't do a perfect job (which i don't expect her to at her age) but she does her very best. I think her natural personality is to want order and cleanliness. Meanwhile Jr loves mess. At his age to break things, push things down, tear things up is a lot of fun.

Here is a picture of them with Stitch, who is a silly charachter who likes to get in trouble. Maybe they learned to drive me insane from him ;)

x,
Rebecca

Hunter Says

This picture is of Hunter right before his 3rd birthday on the Disney Cruise.

Anyone that knows me knows that I don't call my kids names or tell them they're bad.  I say that they make bad choices. I've learned recently that I do say one thing a little too much to Hunter.

Yesterday, he walked up to me and said, "Mommy why you always say I am on your last merv?" (nerve)

Ok got to quit using that one. (shame on me)

Also today he told me that my legs were too spiky.  Gotta love the kids honesty.

x,
Rebecca

Its a fun summer!

Today we went to a movie with some of the kids friends. My baby girls friend from school, her brother, and her friend, as well as my two. They had a blast watching "Night at the Musium" They ate almost to big tubs of pop corn.

I relized that this summer is going to be a full one for us. We have swim lessons, play dates, summer session of school, bible school, music camp, vacation, so on and so forth. Its going to be full and lots of fun! What are you doing this summer?

More pics

Here are more pics. Some of the other kids moms are sharing photos.

Graduation

Yesterday my baby girl graduated from Pre-school. She is now considered a kindergartner. They had a big ceremony they walked down the isle each child by their self, then got their diplomas by themselves. They each got t-shirts that the all their friends signed. They had a reception. They made a Dvd of interviews and slide shows with/of the kids. It was so awesome.

I got choked up thinking about the first day I brought her to school. I was such a worried mother. I knew it was good for her to go, but I she was scared to be left. Now all I want is to freeze time. From now on I depend on the public schools to watch her 7 hours a day. I have to trust that God will pick the right teachers for her.

I love her in a way that I could never use words to describe. I know that schools is best for her, but there are times when I want to home school her. I want to keep her.

One thing I think about is that from the moment she was born its been my job to let her go. Every day I am teaching her how to leave me and become her own person. I feel blessed that God has blessed me to do this job. I know that I can't hold on, but it doesn't mean I don't want to.

Thanks to all of you that are apart of my life and hers. Thanks for being a good influence and showing her the love of the world.

a torn mom,
Rebecca

ps. I am trying to load the dvd so you all can see it as well as get the poem the read.

If you want to see the photo book of our disney trip, i now have them downloaded on line. Just let me know and I will email you the snapfish link.

x,
Rebecca

Standards

Before I had children, I would apologize for my house. I was afraid that people would judge me for the one or two things out of place. Now I have two children, my standards have changed. I wish my house would get as clean as I used to apologize for, even if its only once a month. I am watching a friend of mines kids today. I thought I had picked up last night, then when they came to drop off their kid this morning I looked around. My house was a pig pin. I am glad that I have friends that would not judge me for this.

The one thing I have discovered with age, is that most people live like me. Their kids toys are all over the place. Thing fall where they fall. Most people do clean up before the invite you over. I used to think everyone was neater than me. After a few times of coming over to others house when they didn't get a chance to clean up, I do feel better. Its nice to know that I am not horrible.

The question is, have you changed your standards changed? Was it time, or kids, or life? Was it for cleaning, or something else? The pic above was my room in Vegas, shows how all of us lived!

Jr-ett and Best friend from school

what are they thinking?

Ok I was hit on twice today. The one that bugged me was....

I decided to go to Braums for a yogart cone. I hadn't had one in months and it sounded good. I went after my workout so that I had worked off the calories first. I had on no make up. I was sitting in the car. A man starts waving at me. Jumping up and down from inside the place (I was in drive through) I waved back because the refection of the sun I didn't know if I knew the person or not. Then be blew me a kiss. I relized that I did not know this man. Then he starts waving his phone around and calls the girl over who was giving me my order. He wanted me to call him. Isn't that just silly. Does he really think that a woman would ever go for picking her up at a drive through? I was wearing my ring, it just seemed silly.

Jr wrote out his name today!

Yay! He was drawing and he was having me draw out each letter of his name. Then he copied what I did and was able to do every letter of his name.

x,
Rebecca

true love

My children warm my heart. I picked them up from school today and they both had gifts for me for mothers day. Jr-ett had made a flower pot and melted wax with pen cap in the middle, then made the main part of the pen look like a bouquet of flowers. It was cute. Jr painted a glass flower pot and had carnations in there.

When they saw each other after school, they both threw their arms around each other and professed their love. Jr-ett had used her treasure box stickers from school to get Jr a toy for the second time.

Then we got home and Jr cuddle me and hugged me and kissed me. Jr-ett said to me don't look over here, I have a surprise I am working on. Then she came over and said mommy I love you, look. She had cleaned up the dining room area. She said, "mommy, i knew you wanted a clean house for mothers day, so i did this for you" i told her thanks you and hugged and kissed her. I told her i would give her a sticker for her chart for cleaning without being asked. She said,"NO mommy, its because i love you, for mothers day, not for a sticker" (SOBS WITH HAPPINESS)

Two posts in one day

I have to tell you this story:

Last Friday I cut Jr's hair. It turned out pretty ok. Hubby decided that he wanted his hair cut too. Monday night I got out the clippers. He said, "I use the #3 normally" I said, "number 3 right?" "yes" so I started the clippers and shaved right down the middle of his head. He said, "no they use the number three in the back!!!!!!" I informed him that it was a little late to tell me that. Hubby now has a burr. We both laughed really hard. I told him that would teach him to ask me to do his hair next time.

YAY ME!

So Jr offically knows our address and phone number yay him!

IT WORKS IT REALLY WORKS!

Yesterday the kids and I went to Target and they wanted everything. I bought them each two things from the dollar section, and let them both pick out some underwear. I also purchased a blank poster and star stickers.

When we got home I put thier names on the poster with number 1-20 on each line. Then we sat down and dicussed some rules. When they get twenty stickers they get to pick a prize, from the things they picked at Target. They were really happy.

You can get stickers if:

1. oldest feeds dog every day.
2. Eat all veggies without complaining at dinner
3. Caught being nice to brother/sister
4. cleaning up
5. Helping mommy and daddy
6. Littlest staying in bed after going night night.
7. Helping others in need
8. keeping room clean

we can lose stickers by:
1. arguing with parents
2. yelling
3. hitting
4. for anything that mommy and daddy say you can loose them for

As soon as we got home they were falling all over eachother trying to be nice. They both went into Sunroom/playroom and started cleaning up. They both ate thier dinner and did not complain. They both went to bed fast and nicely. They woke up made beds, got ready for school, feed the dog. Came home from school got ready for dance, shared, played nicely, came home, set table helped with dinner and ate thier dinners.

Its been the nicest two days in a while!!!!!!!!!! Even if it only works for the next two days it was worth it :)

x,
Rebecca

she says

Jr-ett says, "OUCH, OUCH, MY PANTIES ARE EATING MY BOBO"

I tried not to laugh too hard because she is very sensitive to people laughing when she says things. I will tell you that she ment that her panties were rolling because she was putting them on while she was still wet. (I do the same thing and I am an adult) It seemed funny though because how many of us have our panties bite our bottoms.