So Cian has this thing about his tummy talking to him lately, the other kiddoes do it too sometimes, but Cian is a daily thing. Today I fixed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch and I let them have some marshmallows to go with it. Cian absolutely LOVES marshmallows, so he was excited! He ate all his food right up and then asked for more marshmallows, I told him only 10 more (they are the little ones) and if he was still hungry he needed to eat another half of a sandwich. This is the conversation that followed:
Cian: "Mr. Tummy says he isn't hungry for more sandwich, he only wants more marshmallows, lots of marshmallows!"
Me: "I'm sorry Cian, but I said you can only have 10 more marshmallows and another half of a sandwich if you are still hungry."
Cian: "But Mommy, Mr. Tummy says ONLY more marshmallows and lots of them ONLY!"
Me: "Well (bending down to Cian's level), Mr. Tummy, I am Mommy and I said that Cian needs to eat more sandwich if he is still hungry. Too many marshmallows can make him sick and I don't want him sick, so please listen to me ok"
Cian: "Mr. Tummy says ok Mom. I will eat just 10 marshmallows and no more, ok Mommy. "
Me: "Thank you Cian, that makes me happy when you listen. Love you!" {wink}
Cian: {wink} "Love you too Mommy!"
Kids have such fun imaginations, I just love it!!!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Just another update...or so. :)
Wow, I'm a slacker with this blog any more! But, it's not such a bad thing either. I have recently become more involved in my home and cleaning it better! I have never been the best house keeper, you can ask anyone from the Rexburg area, they know how ugly my house could get. But since moving to Pocatello, I wasn't quite as bad, probably because I had more people coming to my house all the time. But I still wasn't really good either. But I desired a cleaner home and started to pray about it. I prayed so that I would not only have the desire, but the motivation to do so. This took a long while before I really did, probably because I kept putting it off and putting other less important things first. But now I wake up in the morning and I want to start cleaning right away, my desire is great for a clean home and my motivation to keep it at that is greater too! I love it!!! My home has never been cleaner and on a daily basis too! I feel pride in my home and want people to make unexpected visits now, before I cringed at the very thought. The more I clean my home and keep on top of it though, I am finding less time for the computer. But that is ok, because when I do find the time and squeeze it in, I feel that I deserve this break and don't regret being on it like before.
My husband is happier too and less stressed out. It wasn't very nice of me to have him come home and expect him to clean house, not all of it, but a good majority of it. I made excuses up all the time, but the truth was that I had no motivation, no desire, I was LAZY!!! Simple as that. I love my family and my way of showing this love is by providing them with a clean home, Chet provides us with the income. I am so happy that am able and willing to do this now. :)
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We still don't know if we are movingand we are still hoping that Chet gets the job in Oxbow, Oregon. His boss seems to think that he has really good odds, so hopefully! The one in Boise fell through, he didn't realized that the application stated that they need one year of Espresso Machine experience. He had all the other requirements, but he was declined because of that. He wrote them back and verified that that was the reason and it was.
Chet and I are actually going to take a trip to Oxbow this Saturday, I am so excited!!! My mom has been insisting that we take a look at what we are getting ourselves into. I told her that would be nice, but I really don't want to travel that far with the kiddoes, so she offered to take them. So we are going to have 2 days for just us!!!! I'm excited, but nervous too! What if I don't like what I see???? If Chet is offered the job, he cannot decline it. If he does, he will no longer be able to apply to any other position with the company and Chet really wants to stay with Idaho Power, they have been a really good company to work for. Chet was against the idea of taking the trip, but then I convinced him to think of it as a vocation just for the two of us. We get to go for a road trip, sleep in a motel, NO KIDS!!!! He decided that he liked the idea after all! lol :)
Hopefully I remember to take our camera and take lots of pictures and hopefully we will be getting a glimpse of our future home! :)
*If we move there, I am going to be looking into homeschooling, so if anyone knows anything or anyone who could help me out, that would be great!!! Thank you! :)
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Ezzy--Very excited about possibly moving. She has been a wonderful help in getting rid of stuff! We have talked to her about what might be happening and has been a really good sport about letting things go that she really doesn't need anymore. With my cleaning I have been decluttering too, down sizing everything! In Oxbow they have a home for the employees, so we are probably going to take them up on that offer at first. So I have no idea if it's a two bedroom or what, hopefully not smaller. So we are making adjustments for that, just in case. And if we don't move, then my home is just less cluttered! lol Anyhoos, back to Ezzy again. She is still very much in love with school, she is having a hard time this month because their is so many days of no school. Last week Friday was off, this week Friday again, next week Wednesday-Friday, then the following week is spring break, all week off!!! We have discovered a new blogspot, I cannot remember how, but we did. It is called a princess and her hair. It shows how to do fun things with little girls hair. So every morning we have been doing something new with her hair. Ezzy is such a little girly girl! But I have found that I really love doing her hair! It is so much fun, now if only I could learn to do my own! lol This week I learned how to make hearts with her hair, it is so fun, so if you are like me and like to do your little girls hair, you should really check this blogspot out: http://www.princesshairstyles.com/
The one thing I cannot do with her hair and wish that I could, if french braiding. I have tried several times, but my fingers get all lost and it becomes a HUGE mess. The silly thing though, I can french braid my own hair, but not hers! Crazy, I know!
Ezra also likes to wear dresses all the time! Literally! Her pants look new still and she's had them since she started school, I have to let her dress/skirts run out before she will wear pants! We go through nylons/tights like nothing else too though. Just because she dresses like a little lady, doesn't mean she acts like one! She is the first one to go digging in the dirt to collect bugs! She likes to be just as rough and tough as the boys too! At school her best friend is a girl, but the rest of the kiddoes she hangs out with are little boys. When Christmas rolled around and I helped her make little gifts for her friends, she had one girl and 5 boys on her list.
She is learning to keep her room organized now and I love it! I always compliment her when ever I see her putting things up in the right place and when she forgets, i give her a gentle reminder.
She still get sad sometimes about our latest miscarriage, but she has been able to come talk to me and ask me questions about it. I'm glad that I have a relationship with her that she feels she can talk to me about anything. She never hesitates to talk, she just does it. I pray that our relationship can always be that way.
My biggest thing with Ezzy right now is trying to get her to say "Thank you", when she is receiving a compliment. She gets them a lot and her response is, "I know". I have been working hard on this with her, that is not a very appropriate response, I want her to be polite when she gets a compliment.
The other day I asked her if she would do me a favor and she said yes, so I asked her to please stop growing and just be my little Ezzy for a few hundred years. She just laughed at me and then told me "Whatever, I want to grow up!". That little stink, why not?! I miss how little she use to be, she is getting so darn big!!! It's sad, but yet, it is exciting too.
Her lates thing, she has decided that I am no longer mom, mommy, or momma. I am now Mother, she has refered to me as this MOTHER for that last few days now, I really hope that it is just a short little phase she is going through and that I can become MOMMA again (sniff), I really miss that word coming from her!!! :(
Cian--He is still my little lover boy! He still loves to be held by me and wants me to do everything for him. We clashed so much when he was younger, I feared that he would not like me so much, or even love me as well as he does now. He and I have come to much better terms, I love him so very much and wouldn't change anything about him!
He still has some aggressive traits, but he learning to be nicer. He still is very much a leader with kids too and tries to convince them to do things his way when they try to play soemthing different. But instead of pushing/pulling them, or biting them, or hitting/kicking/pinching/slapping/ect.......he now whispers into their ears and tell them to do it that way or else. The" or elses" are not so nice though, we are now working on that. He has threatened to no be their friend, not play with them anymore, or the famous "I don't like you then!". Or he gets frustrated at them and screams! He has the loudest scream ever, so high pitched! I am proud of him though, he is not hurting the other kids like he use to. I have been trying very hard to help him be a team player, this is very exhausting work though! But will be well worth it in the end.
He has decided that he loves to sing and hum, it is so cute! He makes up his own songs though, he does not want to learn any others. His songs are usually repetitive, but has a beat to it.
He has finally decided that Iolly can be a fun person to play with, they have turned into the best of buds lately and it is so cute!!! They hold hands all the time and during rest time they like to play together now and fight me when I say no (they don't rest if I let them stay together). When they play, Cian is usually the Daddy and Iolly is the baby, no matter what they are doing. He even taught Iolly how to pretend cry, wasn't that so nice of him! :)
I fell bad sometimes, because I don't dwell on him growing up so fast like I do with Ezzy or Iolly, but I think that's because he still wants me to do so much for him. He would prefer me to dress him, brush his teeth, put his shoes on, and even feed him (yes, he still asks me too, even though I always tell him no). I hardly ever do these things though because I think that it's important for him to do them, but once in a while I will. He asks me all the time to play with him too, he likes to involve me with everything he does, very much a momma's boy and I love it!!!
Just this last few weeks he has made it through the night with no diaper on, so he graduated from that! He is so proud of himself, he is now a big boy (his words).
He is still my story teller, he tells them all the time, so I have a hard time knowing what is real and what is not. We have talks about this, maybe one day he'll finally understand. I feel bad for not being able to believe him, but he tells stories about everything and anything, even if I saw it. But lately if I stated that I saw, he goes "Oh, I forgot!". Crazy kid, love him to death though!!!
With our recent miscarriage he has become more attached to mommy again. He was doing good and going to people's house to stay the night, he even requested a couple of times. But now he hates the idea and cries if I say anything about staying the night somewhere. I've been trying to talk to him about this weekend, but he doesn't want to hear it. He now doesn't like Grandma or Grandpa, hoping that will stop him from staying the night there. He will probably cry when I leave him, and I will probably too, it breaks my heart to hear any of them cry, especially if it's for me. But Chet and I need sometime for us too and this is a a good opportunity that I don't want to miss out on. Yes, my heart will be aching for you baby boy, but I will be back to hold you!
Iolly--He is the most independent little boy ever!!!! Growing up twice as fast as the others and I hate it!!! He is my baby, can't he stay that way longer?!?! He likes to help me out with everything now, he is my little tag along. If I'm cooking, he pulls a chair up next to me and tries to help me out. If I'm doing laundry, he has to help with that. Whenever I vacuum, he grabs his toy vacuum and waits for me to finish so that he can have a turn too. There is TWO things he does not want to help me out with and that is nap time and potty training! He refuses to nap anymore, it is a huge fight lately! But I have discovered that he cooperates better at bed time if he misses his naps, so I am debating whether or not it's worth the fight. But then there are times he misses his naps and then turns into the biggest bear later on. Not sure what to do with that yet.
He has done pretty good with potty training, he poos every time in the toilet now, haven't had to clean a icky diaper in over 2 weeks now (YEAH!). But he refuses to wear big boy undies, he wears pull ups all the time and changes them when ever he has an accident in them. I have boughten several kinds of undies for him, but he has no interest in wearing them. I've even let him pick them out, but no luck. I just recently hid his pull ups and replaced them with undies. So when I told him to get dressed, he went to find his pull ups. He couldn't find them, so he raided the other kid bins (the kiddoes I watch have their own bins) and found a diaper and proceeded to put it on instead. I was like what! That's not yours! Put your undies on, but he told me no. We fought about it and I eventually won, but I had to bribe him, so did I really win????
He absolutely adores his big brother Cian! He is always trying to play with him and be just like him, they are turning into such great buddies, love it!!!
He likes to draw everyday, so I have used this for rewarding him. Funny story! I was dressing him yesterday and he points his finger at the diaper bins and says fish. When I looked at what he was pointing to, I realized that someone had drawn all over the bins. I asked him if he drew them and he said yes. He drew fish on all 6 bins! I couldn't be mad, he was so proud of what he did and just so cute!!! So I laughed and then told Chet to look at Iolly's drawings and then explained that next time he needs to use paper.
He has some severe dry skin I am still dealing with. I have a prescription for it, but I only have a couple of days left to use it. If it's not gone, we are suppose to try something else. So far, it's still the same. He's not scratching at it though, so his sores are gone. But the dry skin in still there, it is driving me nuts. Hopefully we can get rid of it sometime soon.
He still doesn't like to watch cartoons, he would prefer to watch a mommy or daddy movie. He loves start trek, superman (no cartoon version though), spider man, Mr. Kruger's Christmas (that's on of his favorites), etc. Last night when I was doing laundry he decided to change the dvd himself and put in Far and Away and laid down and watched it. He is very smart and loves to learn new things. He know how to use the dvd player, we do not encourage it, but he still tries when ever he thinks we are not paying attention. He has recently discovered how to use our remote too, he remembers what buttons to push. He's a pretty smart little guy! His other favorite thing to do is to play on the computer! He is always getting on it and opening things up on it, sometimes I don't even know what it is that he opened. lol
He's still my monkey/gymnast boy, he still tries to do flips in the house, but it has decreased thankfully!
Wow, this was suppose to be short updates, but I guess I had a lot to say about my kiddoes! Sorry if it was bore!!! :)
One more thing! lol I just over heard this conversation with my kiddoes:
Ezzy: Mother, can I play with the dinosaurs?
Cian: Ezra! That is not your Mother! That is your Mommy!
LOL Cian is right though! :)
My husband is happier too and less stressed out. It wasn't very nice of me to have him come home and expect him to clean house, not all of it, but a good majority of it. I made excuses up all the time, but the truth was that I had no motivation, no desire, I was LAZY!!! Simple as that. I love my family and my way of showing this love is by providing them with a clean home, Chet provides us with the income. I am so happy that am able and willing to do this now. :)
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We still don't know if we are movingand we are still hoping that Chet gets the job in Oxbow, Oregon. His boss seems to think that he has really good odds, so hopefully! The one in Boise fell through, he didn't realized that the application stated that they need one year of Espresso Machine experience. He had all the other requirements, but he was declined because of that. He wrote them back and verified that that was the reason and it was.
Chet and I are actually going to take a trip to Oxbow this Saturday, I am so excited!!! My mom has been insisting that we take a look at what we are getting ourselves into. I told her that would be nice, but I really don't want to travel that far with the kiddoes, so she offered to take them. So we are going to have 2 days for just us!!!! I'm excited, but nervous too! What if I don't like what I see???? If Chet is offered the job, he cannot decline it. If he does, he will no longer be able to apply to any other position with the company and Chet really wants to stay with Idaho Power, they have been a really good company to work for. Chet was against the idea of taking the trip, but then I convinced him to think of it as a vocation just for the two of us. We get to go for a road trip, sleep in a motel, NO KIDS!!!! He decided that he liked the idea after all! lol :)
Hopefully I remember to take our camera and take lots of pictures and hopefully we will be getting a glimpse of our future home! :)
*If we move there, I am going to be looking into homeschooling, so if anyone knows anything or anyone who could help me out, that would be great!!! Thank you! :)
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Ezzy--Very excited about possibly moving. She has been a wonderful help in getting rid of stuff! We have talked to her about what might be happening and has been a really good sport about letting things go that she really doesn't need anymore. With my cleaning I have been decluttering too, down sizing everything! In Oxbow they have a home for the employees, so we are probably going to take them up on that offer at first. So I have no idea if it's a two bedroom or what, hopefully not smaller. So we are making adjustments for that, just in case. And if we don't move, then my home is just less cluttered! lol Anyhoos, back to Ezzy again. She is still very much in love with school, she is having a hard time this month because their is so many days of no school. Last week Friday was off, this week Friday again, next week Wednesday-Friday, then the following week is spring break, all week off!!! We have discovered a new blogspot, I cannot remember how, but we did. It is called a princess and her hair. It shows how to do fun things with little girls hair. So every morning we have been doing something new with her hair. Ezzy is such a little girly girl! But I have found that I really love doing her hair! It is so much fun, now if only I could learn to do my own! lol This week I learned how to make hearts with her hair, it is so fun, so if you are like me and like to do your little girls hair, you should really check this blogspot out: http://www.princesshairstyles.com/
The one thing I cannot do with her hair and wish that I could, if french braiding. I have tried several times, but my fingers get all lost and it becomes a HUGE mess. The silly thing though, I can french braid my own hair, but not hers! Crazy, I know!
Ezra also likes to wear dresses all the time! Literally! Her pants look new still and she's had them since she started school, I have to let her dress/skirts run out before she will wear pants! We go through nylons/tights like nothing else too though. Just because she dresses like a little lady, doesn't mean she acts like one! She is the first one to go digging in the dirt to collect bugs! She likes to be just as rough and tough as the boys too! At school her best friend is a girl, but the rest of the kiddoes she hangs out with are little boys. When Christmas rolled around and I helped her make little gifts for her friends, she had one girl and 5 boys on her list.
She is learning to keep her room organized now and I love it! I always compliment her when ever I see her putting things up in the right place and when she forgets, i give her a gentle reminder.
She still get sad sometimes about our latest miscarriage, but she has been able to come talk to me and ask me questions about it. I'm glad that I have a relationship with her that she feels she can talk to me about anything. She never hesitates to talk, she just does it. I pray that our relationship can always be that way.
My biggest thing with Ezzy right now is trying to get her to say "Thank you", when she is receiving a compliment. She gets them a lot and her response is, "I know". I have been working hard on this with her, that is not a very appropriate response, I want her to be polite when she gets a compliment.
The other day I asked her if she would do me a favor and she said yes, so I asked her to please stop growing and just be my little Ezzy for a few hundred years. She just laughed at me and then told me "Whatever, I want to grow up!". That little stink, why not?! I miss how little she use to be, she is getting so darn big!!! It's sad, but yet, it is exciting too.
Her lates thing, she has decided that I am no longer mom, mommy, or momma. I am now Mother, she has refered to me as this MOTHER for that last few days now, I really hope that it is just a short little phase she is going through and that I can become MOMMA again (sniff), I really miss that word coming from her!!! :(
Cian--He is still my little lover boy! He still loves to be held by me and wants me to do everything for him. We clashed so much when he was younger, I feared that he would not like me so much, or even love me as well as he does now. He and I have come to much better terms, I love him so very much and wouldn't change anything about him!
He still has some aggressive traits, but he learning to be nicer. He still is very much a leader with kids too and tries to convince them to do things his way when they try to play soemthing different. But instead of pushing/pulling them, or biting them, or hitting/kicking/pinching/slapping/ect.......he now whispers into their ears and tell them to do it that way or else. The" or elses" are not so nice though, we are now working on that. He has threatened to no be their friend, not play with them anymore, or the famous "I don't like you then!". Or he gets frustrated at them and screams! He has the loudest scream ever, so high pitched! I am proud of him though, he is not hurting the other kids like he use to. I have been trying very hard to help him be a team player, this is very exhausting work though! But will be well worth it in the end.
He has decided that he loves to sing and hum, it is so cute! He makes up his own songs though, he does not want to learn any others. His songs are usually repetitive, but has a beat to it.
He has finally decided that Iolly can be a fun person to play with, they have turned into the best of buds lately and it is so cute!!! They hold hands all the time and during rest time they like to play together now and fight me when I say no (they don't rest if I let them stay together). When they play, Cian is usually the Daddy and Iolly is the baby, no matter what they are doing. He even taught Iolly how to pretend cry, wasn't that so nice of him! :)
I fell bad sometimes, because I don't dwell on him growing up so fast like I do with Ezzy or Iolly, but I think that's because he still wants me to do so much for him. He would prefer me to dress him, brush his teeth, put his shoes on, and even feed him (yes, he still asks me too, even though I always tell him no). I hardly ever do these things though because I think that it's important for him to do them, but once in a while I will. He asks me all the time to play with him too, he likes to involve me with everything he does, very much a momma's boy and I love it!!!
Just this last few weeks he has made it through the night with no diaper on, so he graduated from that! He is so proud of himself, he is now a big boy (his words).
He is still my story teller, he tells them all the time, so I have a hard time knowing what is real and what is not. We have talks about this, maybe one day he'll finally understand. I feel bad for not being able to believe him, but he tells stories about everything and anything, even if I saw it. But lately if I stated that I saw, he goes "Oh, I forgot!". Crazy kid, love him to death though!!!
With our recent miscarriage he has become more attached to mommy again. He was doing good and going to people's house to stay the night, he even requested a couple of times. But now he hates the idea and cries if I say anything about staying the night somewhere. I've been trying to talk to him about this weekend, but he doesn't want to hear it. He now doesn't like Grandma or Grandpa, hoping that will stop him from staying the night there. He will probably cry when I leave him, and I will probably too, it breaks my heart to hear any of them cry, especially if it's for me. But Chet and I need sometime for us too and this is a a good opportunity that I don't want to miss out on. Yes, my heart will be aching for you baby boy, but I will be back to hold you!
Iolly--He is the most independent little boy ever!!!! Growing up twice as fast as the others and I hate it!!! He is my baby, can't he stay that way longer?!?! He likes to help me out with everything now, he is my little tag along. If I'm cooking, he pulls a chair up next to me and tries to help me out. If I'm doing laundry, he has to help with that. Whenever I vacuum, he grabs his toy vacuum and waits for me to finish so that he can have a turn too. There is TWO things he does not want to help me out with and that is nap time and potty training! He refuses to nap anymore, it is a huge fight lately! But I have discovered that he cooperates better at bed time if he misses his naps, so I am debating whether or not it's worth the fight. But then there are times he misses his naps and then turns into the biggest bear later on. Not sure what to do with that yet.
He has done pretty good with potty training, he poos every time in the toilet now, haven't had to clean a icky diaper in over 2 weeks now (YEAH!). But he refuses to wear big boy undies, he wears pull ups all the time and changes them when ever he has an accident in them. I have boughten several kinds of undies for him, but he has no interest in wearing them. I've even let him pick them out, but no luck. I just recently hid his pull ups and replaced them with undies. So when I told him to get dressed, he went to find his pull ups. He couldn't find them, so he raided the other kid bins (the kiddoes I watch have their own bins) and found a diaper and proceeded to put it on instead. I was like what! That's not yours! Put your undies on, but he told me no. We fought about it and I eventually won, but I had to bribe him, so did I really win????
He absolutely adores his big brother Cian! He is always trying to play with him and be just like him, they are turning into such great buddies, love it!!!
He likes to draw everyday, so I have used this for rewarding him. Funny story! I was dressing him yesterday and he points his finger at the diaper bins and says fish. When I looked at what he was pointing to, I realized that someone had drawn all over the bins. I asked him if he drew them and he said yes. He drew fish on all 6 bins! I couldn't be mad, he was so proud of what he did and just so cute!!! So I laughed and then told Chet to look at Iolly's drawings and then explained that next time he needs to use paper.
He has some severe dry skin I am still dealing with. I have a prescription for it, but I only have a couple of days left to use it. If it's not gone, we are suppose to try something else. So far, it's still the same. He's not scratching at it though, so his sores are gone. But the dry skin in still there, it is driving me nuts. Hopefully we can get rid of it sometime soon.
He still doesn't like to watch cartoons, he would prefer to watch a mommy or daddy movie. He loves start trek, superman (no cartoon version though), spider man, Mr. Kruger's Christmas (that's on of his favorites), etc. Last night when I was doing laundry he decided to change the dvd himself and put in Far and Away and laid down and watched it. He is very smart and loves to learn new things. He know how to use the dvd player, we do not encourage it, but he still tries when ever he thinks we are not paying attention. He has recently discovered how to use our remote too, he remembers what buttons to push. He's a pretty smart little guy! His other favorite thing to do is to play on the computer! He is always getting on it and opening things up on it, sometimes I don't even know what it is that he opened. lol
He's still my monkey/gymnast boy, he still tries to do flips in the house, but it has decreased thankfully!
Wow, this was suppose to be short updates, but I guess I had a lot to say about my kiddoes! Sorry if it was bore!!! :)
One more thing! lol I just over heard this conversation with my kiddoes:
Ezzy: Mother, can I play with the dinosaurs?
Cian: Ezra! That is not your Mother! That is your Mommy!
LOL Cian is right though! :)
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