Monday, May 30, 2011
Thank You
Thank you to those who have served and those who served and paid the ultimate sacrifice so that today I could go feed the ducks with my child, have lunch with her and my husband, read and play puzzles, and play in the pool with her. Thank you for serving so that I can be free to come and go as I please and to hug and kiss my child every night without fear. God bless all our service members past, present and those no longer with us, their families.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wait on me!
When did it become the end of May? I hope everyone has a happy Memorial Day weekend. I know I am looking forward to 3 days off.
Juliet's new thing is to tell you to "wait on me". If daddy is going downstairs she will tell him, "No Daddy, Wait on me!" It is really cute and we don't know where it came from. Telling her we are leaving her is a good way to get her going, she always wants to be where we are.
She has started picking out her own barrettes in the morning. The only thing about them is they never match. This morning one was blue and one was purple. Yesterday it was orange and green. I still pick out the bow so that will match, but I will not fight her on the barrettes. I have her sit on my stool so I can fix her hair and it works so much better than having her stand where she can move around.
We are trying to get her to stop saying "Right Now", I started it, I know I did, but that is the only way she will do something when I want it done. Well, she thinks it's OK to say to us, not so little girl. Now if I tell her right now, she tells me don't say right now mommy.
We put in the movie Tangled on Saturday morning to see if she would watch it. She made it about 25 minutes before it lost her interest. I thought that was pretty good!
Don on dinosaur train says la la lu, well Juliet has started saying it too. She says it really loud too!
Juliet and mommy had water wars tonight! It started off innocently with going to check the mail, then it was so HOT we couldn't stand it. Instead of going inside to sit in front of the TV, I got out her water table. She was playing and having a blast until she realized her shirt was wet. We came in, changed into our swimmie and went back out. Well she started splashing and I told her if she splashed me I got to splash her. She had a moment of shock at the first splash and then it was on! Mommy doesn't play fair though and she ended up soaked but laughing like a loon.
June is going to be one of those insanely busy months. I never realized how much we have scheduled until I made a list for Jon so he could update his calendar. I am going to Canton with Mom and Jess next weekend. Then we have doctor's appointments, a 4D ultrasound, family pictures, VBS, etc. Plus on top of all of that we need to get going on the baby's room. It still needs to be cleaned out and painted. I am at 29 weeks today and it feels like we have so much to do to get ready for him to arrive.
Juliet's new thing is to tell you to "wait on me". If daddy is going downstairs she will tell him, "No Daddy, Wait on me!" It is really cute and we don't know where it came from. Telling her we are leaving her is a good way to get her going, she always wants to be where we are.
She has started picking out her own barrettes in the morning. The only thing about them is they never match. This morning one was blue and one was purple. Yesterday it was orange and green. I still pick out the bow so that will match, but I will not fight her on the barrettes. I have her sit on my stool so I can fix her hair and it works so much better than having her stand where she can move around.
We are trying to get her to stop saying "Right Now", I started it, I know I did, but that is the only way she will do something when I want it done. Well, she thinks it's OK to say to us, not so little girl. Now if I tell her right now, she tells me don't say right now mommy.
We put in the movie Tangled on Saturday morning to see if she would watch it. She made it about 25 minutes before it lost her interest. I thought that was pretty good!
Don on dinosaur train says la la lu, well Juliet has started saying it too. She says it really loud too!
June is going to be one of those insanely busy months. I never realized how much we have scheduled until I made a list for Jon so he could update his calendar. I am going to Canton with Mom and Jess next weekend. Then we have doctor's appointments, a 4D ultrasound, family pictures, VBS, etc. Plus on top of all of that we need to get going on the baby's room. It still needs to be cleaned out and painted. I am at 29 weeks today and it feels like we have so much to do to get ready for him to arrive.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Count
Juliet can count down from 10 when she gets to one she says blast off or yee-haw depending on the song she is singing! She is also really good at counting up to 20.
She will sing Gonna ride the dinosaur train!
She is learning our names too in case she gets lost. Now an officer would have to understand her.
Not a lot else going on, enjoying the cool weather before we get blasted with the heat. Can't play outside though because we have a swarm of bees we are trying to get rid of. STINKS because the forecast is calling for 90s from now on.
She will sing Gonna ride the dinosaur train!
She is learning our names too in case she gets lost. Now an officer would have to understand her.
Not a lot else going on, enjoying the cool weather before we get blasted with the heat. Can't play outside though because we have a swarm of bees we are trying to get rid of. STINKS because the forecast is calling for 90s from now on.
Unexpected but totally needed
Juliet saw me on the playground, grinned, said MY MOMMY, and ran to me smiling the while way. She got to me, hugged me hard and said I Love You Mommy without any prompting and kissed me on the cheek. Everything that had gone wrong that day, melted away.
Little moments are the best!
Little moments are the best!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Happy Mother's Day and so much more
Hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day!
We ended up staying home Sunday because Juliet was fighting a low grade fever and I didn’t want her in the nursery at church where she could possibly pick up something more. She and I watched *shocker* Handy Manny, had probably been 6 months of more since she watched that, made a Mother’s Day card for Mommy, and played with our new bubble machine. Daddy brought home Chipotle for lunch YUMMMM!, and we took a nap, went to Sonic for a slush and cokes, and just had a fun day at home!
Let’s see, what is HRH (her royal highness) up to these days…
She brushes her teeth twice a day. Which consists more of sucking the water out of the brush than actual brushing, but we are getting there. At least she is excited to brush and not fighting us.
Her new expression is “Wait a minute”. If she is thinking about or looking for something, excited about something, or we call her and she isn’t ready to come she will tell us “Wait a minute!”
Stools have become her favorite thing because they enable her to do everything herself, including: washing her hands, brushing her teeth, cooking food in the microwave, fixing her wawa juice and turning on and off lights. She even is creative and uses the ice chest as a stool so she can open and close the garage. I did order more light switch extenders so maybe we can quit climbing on things that like to slide out from under her.
She doesn't like that her swimmie and her leotards cover her belly button. Strange kid likes to be able to see her belly button. I can't even pull her pants or panties too high or she says don't cover up my belly button mommy and moves them down. I did buy her a 2 piece swimmie, she likes that too, but will choose her 1 piece more often.
She has gotten so good about saying her prayers. All we have to do is tell her to say her prayers.
Peek a boo is now peepee boo, and we play it over and over. She also likes to hunt eggs. I think she would hunt eggs all day long if we let her. I also got her a sprinkler to play in. She likes it as long as it is low enough where it doesn’t squirt her too much.
Potty training is going really good. She rarely has an accident when she needs to go teetee. She waves at the paper as it goes down the toilet and says bye bye teetee. Now on the other hand, she will NOT tell us when she has to go poop. I found her in the pantry the other day hiding from me. I got her to the potty in time so that was our 1 ACCIDENT FREE day!!! We were so proud of her so she got nummies as a treat!
We went to a Derby party at a friend’s house. There were a lot of adults and kids she didn’t know, but she did so good. We only had to talk about taking toys from the babies once. Then she found things to do where the babies weren’t so she didn’t have to worry about that again. She did however have another 2 year old boy to “play” with. She has so far to go before she is ready for the share toys stage...
Life around here is never dull! I am working on sorting clothes to go to the mission. Should have a full load since I know Nate will not want to wear pink!
This is week 27, only 13 more to go!
Love to all,
Laura
We ended up staying home Sunday because Juliet was fighting a low grade fever and I didn’t want her in the nursery at church where she could possibly pick up something more. She and I watched *shocker* Handy Manny, had probably been 6 months of more since she watched that, made a Mother’s Day card for Mommy, and played with our new bubble machine. Daddy brought home Chipotle for lunch YUMMMM!, and we took a nap, went to Sonic for a slush and cokes, and just had a fun day at home!
Let’s see, what is HRH (her royal highness) up to these days…
She brushes her teeth twice a day. Which consists more of sucking the water out of the brush than actual brushing, but we are getting there. At least she is excited to brush and not fighting us.
Her new expression is “Wait a minute”. If she is thinking about or looking for something, excited about something, or we call her and she isn’t ready to come she will tell us “Wait a minute!”
Stools have become her favorite thing because they enable her to do everything herself, including: washing her hands, brushing her teeth, cooking food in the microwave, fixing her wawa juice and turning on and off lights. She even is creative and uses the ice chest as a stool so she can open and close the garage. I did order more light switch extenders so maybe we can quit climbing on things that like to slide out from under her.
She doesn't like that her swimmie and her leotards cover her belly button. Strange kid likes to be able to see her belly button. I can't even pull her pants or panties too high or she says don't cover up my belly button mommy and moves them down. I did buy her a 2 piece swimmie, she likes that too, but will choose her 1 piece more often.
She has gotten so good about saying her prayers. All we have to do is tell her to say her prayers.
Peek a boo is now peepee boo, and we play it over and over. She also likes to hunt eggs. I think she would hunt eggs all day long if we let her. I also got her a sprinkler to play in. She likes it as long as it is low enough where it doesn’t squirt her too much.
Potty training is going really good. She rarely has an accident when she needs to go teetee. She waves at the paper as it goes down the toilet and says bye bye teetee. Now on the other hand, she will NOT tell us when she has to go poop. I found her in the pantry the other day hiding from me. I got her to the potty in time so that was our 1 ACCIDENT FREE day!!! We were so proud of her so she got nummies as a treat!
We went to a Derby party at a friend’s house. There were a lot of adults and kids she didn’t know, but she did so good. We only had to talk about taking toys from the babies once. Then she found things to do where the babies weren’t so she didn’t have to worry about that again. She did however have another 2 year old boy to “play” with. She has so far to go before she is ready for the share toys stage...
Life around here is never dull! I am working on sorting clothes to go to the mission. Should have a full load since I know Nate will not want to wear pink!
This is week 27, only 13 more to go!
Love to all,
Laura
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Prayers
Juliet saying her prayers!
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
Guard me Jesus through the night,
And wake me with the morning light.
Amen
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
Guard me Jesus through the night,
And wake me with the morning light.
Amen
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