Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Getting a 2 Year Old in the Car
As you know Logan is my 3rd child...so I'm a seasoned veteran in the toddler parenting department, right? I don't think anybody can truly be a seasoned veteran when it comes to kids. Darn those kids...such individuals. Logan seems to be doing the terrible 2 thing more than my other kids did.
As my kids and I get ready in the morning, there is typically some type of issue. It is just never easy to get all 4 of us ready for the day and out of the house. Lately Logan has been the 1 causing the waves in our morning routine.
His new thing has been as we exit the house to load into the car, he stands in the doorway and says, Carry me! Logan has gotten to the size that I don't really carry him anymore. (He is only 2 pounds lighter than his 4 year old sister.)
Usually my morning is so rushed that I give in, lug him to the car and avoid the catastrophe. Well today I was not working (I got to go see Charlotte's Web with Jacob's class), so I was not in as much of a rush.
Therefore today was the day that Logan and I battled it out. I set him outside the door and closed up the house and headed to the car. Logan stood by the door crying and yelling. I encouraged him to follow. The stubborn boy stood by the door. I climbed into the car and started it. I was in the car along with my 2 oldest children. I was watching Logan and he was literally jumping up and down to emphasize his anger (I think the high schoolers walking to school may have been staring at us). I got out of the car and encouraged Logan to join us in the car. He responded with an emphatic, No!
This was going to be harder than I thought. I got back into the car. Jacob encouraged me to begin driving; he was convinced Logan would follow. I climbed back out, asking Logan to join us. And amazingly my stubborn 2 year old ran over to the car!
I love my Logan, even if he has turned into a stubborn 2 year old!
As my kids and I get ready in the morning, there is typically some type of issue. It is just never easy to get all 4 of us ready for the day and out of the house. Lately Logan has been the 1 causing the waves in our morning routine.
His new thing has been as we exit the house to load into the car, he stands in the doorway and says, Carry me! Logan has gotten to the size that I don't really carry him anymore. (He is only 2 pounds lighter than his 4 year old sister.)
Usually my morning is so rushed that I give in, lug him to the car and avoid the catastrophe. Well today I was not working (I got to go see Charlotte's Web with Jacob's class), so I was not in as much of a rush.
Therefore today was the day that Logan and I battled it out. I set him outside the door and closed up the house and headed to the car. Logan stood by the door crying and yelling. I encouraged him to follow. The stubborn boy stood by the door. I climbed into the car and started it. I was in the car along with my 2 oldest children. I was watching Logan and he was literally jumping up and down to emphasize his anger (I think the high schoolers walking to school may have been staring at us). I got out of the car and encouraged Logan to join us in the car. He responded with an emphatic, No!
This was going to be harder than I thought. I got back into the car. Jacob encouraged me to begin driving; he was convinced Logan would follow. I climbed back out, asking Logan to join us. And amazingly my stubborn 2 year old ran over to the car!
I love my Logan, even if he has turned into a stubborn 2 year old!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Concert with Jacob and Coloring with Ally
A few week ago I won tickets to go and see the Brad Paisley concert in Portland, as well as hotel vouchers. I thought this would be a fun outing for Jacob and me. So Friday Jacob and I hit the road and headed to Portland to see the show.
Our hotel parking lot was a big hill and Jacob loved running down this hill. It is so hard to get a good picture of Jacob. I think this picture of him running is one of the best that I got during our time together...
After we checked in at our hotel and rested for a few minutes, we decided to head out. I knew we had a bit of a drive to get to the concert and I thought for sure we would find a restaurant on the way, as well as an ATM. Suddenly, much quicker than I expected, we were upon the Rose Garden and I did not have cash to park and Jacob was complaining that he was hungry.
I pulled into the parking area and said pathetically...Any chance I can pay to park with a debit card? I knew it was stupid. But the nice lady let me park near her booth and go up what felt like a very large staircase to an ATM. She acted like I would just see an ATM at the top. No such luck. Jacob and I wandered around for awhile and did finally stumble upon an ATM. We were then able to go back and park the car. I tried to emphasize to my hungry son that we were on an adventure.
We were able to eat once we were in the Rose Garden. We were both happy and excited to see the show. We found our seats and took some pictures...as I said before getting a decent picture of Jacob is near impossible...
It looks like I am torturing him in this picture...
The first performer was someone that I hadn't heard of, so the excitement level was not too high. At this point Jacob was looking tired. I don't understand this because there have been times when Jacob asked if he could stay up late during a weekend night to watch movies. I usually fall asleep before him on these nights. So then Dierks Bentley came out and I think Jacob would have fell asleep then, but there were quite a few screaming girls behind us. A couple very loud girls right behind us. Jacob gave them a number of looks that made me believe he thought they were crazy.
Then when Brad Paisley came out, Jacob was asleep within about 5 minutes. I guess running up and down the hill at the hotel wore him out. I considered leaving because Jacob was sleeping, but it was a very good show, so I sat and enjoyed it and Jacob slept (further proving my belief that he could sleep through the house falling down around him).
I think he had fun even though he missed the main event. And I know I had fun and was glad to have him along.
Ally was slightly jealous of this outing. So when I came home yesterday, I had my montly Stampin' Up workshop to attend and then it was Ally time. She knew she wanted to go out for smoothies. I told her we should do dinner first. Her first idea was McDonalds. I said not McDonalds. So then she said Burger King. I said how about Mexican food. She said no. We were stuck. She finally came up with Izzys. So off we went for the buffet at Izzys.
We then had to kill some time because we were full and we couldn't get smoothies right away. So we were wandering around the store and decided to get new coloring books, so we could go home and color pictures for each other. We went through the Dutch Brothers drive thru and got strawberry smoothies and headed home to color and watch American Idol.
Ally and I took pictures too. She has a better camera smile than Jacob does.
Mad Faces
Just the 2 of us
(And my new hair-do; I love it Mom!)
I am lucky to get to have so much fun with my kids. I should have taken some pictures with Logan too. I will have to do that soon. Each of my kids have such fun personalities!
Our hotel parking lot was a big hill and Jacob loved running down this hill. It is so hard to get a good picture of Jacob. I think this picture of him running is one of the best that I got during our time together...
After we checked in at our hotel and rested for a few minutes, we decided to head out. I knew we had a bit of a drive to get to the concert and I thought for sure we would find a restaurant on the way, as well as an ATM. Suddenly, much quicker than I expected, we were upon the Rose Garden and I did not have cash to park and Jacob was complaining that he was hungry.I pulled into the parking area and said pathetically...Any chance I can pay to park with a debit card? I knew it was stupid. But the nice lady let me park near her booth and go up what felt like a very large staircase to an ATM. She acted like I would just see an ATM at the top. No such luck. Jacob and I wandered around for awhile and did finally stumble upon an ATM. We were then able to go back and park the car. I tried to emphasize to my hungry son that we were on an adventure.
We were able to eat once we were in the Rose Garden. We were both happy and excited to see the show. We found our seats and took some pictures...as I said before getting a decent picture of Jacob is near impossible...
It looks like I am torturing him in this picture...
The first performer was someone that I hadn't heard of, so the excitement level was not too high. At this point Jacob was looking tired. I don't understand this because there have been times when Jacob asked if he could stay up late during a weekend night to watch movies. I usually fall asleep before him on these nights. So then Dierks Bentley came out and I think Jacob would have fell asleep then, but there were quite a few screaming girls behind us. A couple very loud girls right behind us. Jacob gave them a number of looks that made me believe he thought they were crazy.Then when Brad Paisley came out, Jacob was asleep within about 5 minutes. I guess running up and down the hill at the hotel wore him out. I considered leaving because Jacob was sleeping, but it was a very good show, so I sat and enjoyed it and Jacob slept (further proving my belief that he could sleep through the house falling down around him).
I think he had fun even though he missed the main event. And I know I had fun and was glad to have him along.
Ally was slightly jealous of this outing. So when I came home yesterday, I had my montly Stampin' Up workshop to attend and then it was Ally time. She knew she wanted to go out for smoothies. I told her we should do dinner first. Her first idea was McDonalds. I said not McDonalds. So then she said Burger King. I said how about Mexican food. She said no. We were stuck. She finally came up with Izzys. So off we went for the buffet at Izzys.
We then had to kill some time because we were full and we couldn't get smoothies right away. So we were wandering around the store and decided to get new coloring books, so we could go home and color pictures for each other. We went through the Dutch Brothers drive thru and got strawberry smoothies and headed home to color and watch American Idol.
Ally and I took pictures too. She has a better camera smile than Jacob does.
Silly Faces
Mad Faces
Just the 2 of us
(And my new hair-do; I love it Mom!)
I am lucky to get to have so much fun with my kids. I should have taken some pictures with Logan too. I will have to do that soon. Each of my kids have such fun personalities!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thankful Thursday
I have been working to try to appreciate the things that I have. Sometimes I spend too much time dwelling on what is wrong, rather than all the things in my life that are right. Here are some of the things that I am thankful for:
- Logan is learning to talk and really becoming a little man. This means I am even thankful when he constantly tells me no and even throws himself on the floor.
- Ally is always so full of emotion. This means that I am even thankful when she cries for 20 minutes and says that she can't stop.
- Jacob is working hard to improve his schoolwork, even on reading, which isn't his favorite. This means I am even thankful when he doesn't want me to say I love you when I drop him off at school.
- I love my warm blanket and Grey's Anatomy, so I am going to go watch my show!
- But first, I have to say I'm thankful that each of my children says I love you to me so many times (even Jacob, just not in front of people at school).
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Beaver in Training...
This morning Ally chose orange and yellow hair ties for me to fix her up. I was quite proud; she looked pretty cute.
Suddenly Jacob walked up to me, somewhat accusingly, Why did you put a yellow hair thing on Ally? Why not, I asked him. Because that's a Duck (University of Oregon) color!
Suddenly Jacob walked up to me, somewhat accusingly, Why did you put a yellow hair thing on Ally? Why not, I asked him. Because that's a Duck (University of Oregon) color!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
A Few Pictures of Our Evening...
Ally was making brownies for us
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I was chasing Logan with the camera.JPG)
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We all had to taste some brownie batter...
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Now I've promised Jacob and Ally that we could play a game of Trouble after Logan goes to bed. So they have eagerly been telling me that their baby brother seems very tired
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Too Much Sharing!
My children are sharing the one thing every mom wishes they wouldnt...their germs. They have been passing the germs from one to another to another and then back again. Today I cried after I received the dreaded call that Ally had gotten sick.
The irony is none of my kids have gotten really bad sick. It's just a yucky stomach thing that won't go away. But today I left work 2 hours early and discovered Ally was not "acting" sick at all. It made me feel a twinge of irritation. I actually thought (for a second), if I am going to miss work these kids need to be really sick.
So for a second of my day, I was actually irritated that my daughter was not laying miserably ill, waiting for me to care for her. When I think about it, I cannot believe how ridiculous I can become.
In the grand scheme of things, this is such a tiny problem. Ally and Logan are going to spend the day with their dad tomorrow, so I don't even have to miss work.
I just have to think (and even write) it out, at times. Then I remember that I am so lucky to have the 3 kids I have, even when they are sharing too much!
The irony is none of my kids have gotten really bad sick. It's just a yucky stomach thing that won't go away. But today I left work 2 hours early and discovered Ally was not "acting" sick at all. It made me feel a twinge of irritation. I actually thought (for a second), if I am going to miss work these kids need to be really sick.
So for a second of my day, I was actually irritated that my daughter was not laying miserably ill, waiting for me to care for her. When I think about it, I cannot believe how ridiculous I can become.
In the grand scheme of things, this is such a tiny problem. Ally and Logan are going to spend the day with their dad tomorrow, so I don't even have to miss work.
I just have to think (and even write) it out, at times. Then I remember that I am so lucky to have the 3 kids I have, even when they are sharing too much!
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