Mother's of Wisdom
I have been having a couple of frustrating days with Riley. It seems that all we have done is argue. Today I was trying to clean-up the clutter in my house. When I asked Riley to help he refused. Which is a normal response, but I could just feel a argument coming on again. Luckily I was on the phone with my mom at the time. She told me to try and hide something in a toy or under it, and have Riley try and find it while he was helping me clean-up. It worked like a charm. He was excited to try and find the dime that I hide under the toys. He actually asked if we could do it again tomorrow by the time we were done.
I am so grateful to have a mother there to guide me along my stumbles as a mother.
Love you mom.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Abbie's Birthday
My Little Two Year Old
Well we celebrated Abbie's Birthday on Saturday. She is two years old now. Usually you hear parents say I can't believe my baby is two now. I actually was about to say that, but than realized that is not true. I have almost called Abbie two a couple of times over the past few months. She just tries to be such a big girl that sometimes I forget she isn't. At the same time she differently has hit what most people term the "terrible twos." Which in some cases is true, but it is also the wonderful twos as well, because they learn so much and start to do all these amazing new things. Needless to say I love my little two year old.
We didn't do to much on Abbie's birthday, because I was sick. I got a cold that wasn't to bad except for the fact that it zapped me of my energy. I just wanted to sleep. So, for her birthday, we opened a few gifts in the morning.
Then for dinner we took Abbie to McDonalds to eat. She is always asking to go to Mcdonalds. We let both kids choice a toy. They usually have to share or take turns. I thought she would love to have the little barbie dolls they had for the girls, but no she had to have a car. No matter what I try she just love boy toys more. After we ate, the kids went outside and played on the playground, sliding their cars down the slide.
This is a video of Abbie reading her sticker book she got for her birthday. If you look closely you will also see Riley pretend playing in the back ground. He actually does this a lot.
We than went home and had cake and ice cream and opened the rest of her gifts. Out of all of her gifts, Abbie's favorite was the care bears I bought to put on her cake.
Well we celebrated Abbie's Birthday on Saturday. She is two years old now. Usually you hear parents say I can't believe my baby is two now. I actually was about to say that, but than realized that is not true. I have almost called Abbie two a couple of times over the past few months. She just tries to be such a big girl that sometimes I forget she isn't. At the same time she differently has hit what most people term the "terrible twos." Which in some cases is true, but it is also the wonderful twos as well, because they learn so much and start to do all these amazing new things. Needless to say I love my little two year old.
We didn't do to much on Abbie's birthday, because I was sick. I got a cold that wasn't to bad except for the fact that it zapped me of my energy. I just wanted to sleep. So, for her birthday, we opened a few gifts in the morning.
Then for dinner we took Abbie to McDonalds to eat. She is always asking to go to Mcdonalds. We let both kids choice a toy. They usually have to share or take turns. I thought she would love to have the little barbie dolls they had for the girls, but no she had to have a car. No matter what I try she just love boy toys more. After we ate, the kids went outside and played on the playground, sliding their cars down the slide.
This is a video of Abbie reading her sticker book she got for her birthday. If you look closely you will also see Riley pretend playing in the back ground. He actually does this a lot.
We than went home and had cake and ice cream and opened the rest of her gifts. Out of all of her gifts, Abbie's favorite was the care bears I bought to put on her cake.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tagges
Okay so I guess I have been tagged a couple of times, so here we go with the first one.
Picture Tagged!
by Janita
1. Go to your pictures
2. Upload 4th picture from 4th folder
3. Post
This is a picture of Terry and Riley feeding bread to a Llama. This was when we went on vacation with Terry's parents the summer of 2005. We were staying in a vacation home in Sequim, Wa. They have a farm near Sequim that is home to retired animals. Some of the animals include bears, Buffalo, elk, etc. Anyways, you can go for a drive around the park and feed some of the animals bread. In some places you drive with the animals right next to your car. We drove right through some buffalo. In these places you are suppose to leave you windows up and not feed the animals. There was this car in front of us who didn't listen to the warning and the animals were swarming all over them. If you ever have the chance to go there, it is a great experience, and Riley loved it. Here is there web page for those who want to know more http://www.olygamefarm.com/
Here is the second tag
1. Things I love about my husband: He is the most giving person I know (he always puts every one's needs ahead of his own), his smile, his eyes, that he is smart, I could keep going with this one so I will stop there.
2. Movies I could watch more than once: Any Jane Austin movie, Calamity Jane with Doris Day in it.
3. TV shows I watch: Dancing with the Stars, Biggest Loser, Smallville, Samantha Who, Stargate Atlantis, Life and Knight Rider. These are the shows I watch when I get a chance or I am not reading a book.
4. Places I have been: New York City, Washington DC, California, Baltimore, Philadelphia.
5. Places I would like to go: Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Italy
6. People who email me regularly. Michelle, Julie, Beverly
7. Things I look forward to in the next year: Buying a new vehicle, Terry finishing his Bachelors, possibly having a new baby.
8. People I tag: Kristine, Ashley, Tina
Picture Tagged!
by Janita
1. Go to your pictures
2. Upload 4th picture from 4th folder
3. Post
This is a picture of Terry and Riley feeding bread to a Llama. This was when we went on vacation with Terry's parents the summer of 2005. We were staying in a vacation home in Sequim, Wa. They have a farm near Sequim that is home to retired animals. Some of the animals include bears, Buffalo, elk, etc. Anyways, you can go for a drive around the park and feed some of the animals bread. In some places you drive with the animals right next to your car. We drove right through some buffalo. In these places you are suppose to leave you windows up and not feed the animals. There was this car in front of us who didn't listen to the warning and the animals were swarming all over them. If you ever have the chance to go there, it is a great experience, and Riley loved it. Here is there web page for those who want to know more http://www.olygamefarm.com/
Here is the second tag
1. Things I love about my husband: He is the most giving person I know (he always puts every one's needs ahead of his own), his smile, his eyes, that he is smart, I could keep going with this one so I will stop there.
2. Movies I could watch more than once: Any Jane Austin movie, Calamity Jane with Doris Day in it.
3. TV shows I watch: Dancing with the Stars, Biggest Loser, Smallville, Samantha Who, Stargate Atlantis, Life and Knight Rider. These are the shows I watch when I get a chance or I am not reading a book.
4. Places I have been: New York City, Washington DC, California, Baltimore, Philadelphia.
5. Places I would like to go: Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Italy
6. People who email me regularly. Michelle, Julie, Beverly
7. Things I look forward to in the next year: Buying a new vehicle, Terry finishing his Bachelors, possibly having a new baby.
8. People I tag: Kristine, Ashley, Tina
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Fall/Apples
Okay, when I started this blog I thought I would be great at keeping it updated. As most of you can see that has not been the case. My life seems to have been a little hectic lately. Which is probably the case with most of you.
I know a couple of people have asked what my birthday was like. I have been meaning to put an update about it on the blog, so here it is.
I had a wonderful birthday. It started out with Riley insisting I go back to bed so he could make me breakfast in bed. He also insisted that Terry help him make me a birthday cake. He wanted to give me my birthday presents right away as well, but Terry had to go to work. Terry told Riley they would give them to me when he got home. Riley wasn't very happy with this, so he spent part of the day looking around the house for my presents. Unfortunately he couldn't find them because Terry had them hidden in his car. Terry worked all morning trying to get Abbie to say, "Happy Birthday Mommy." He was unsuccessful with his attempts while he was home. Right after he left for work Abbie came running into the room and yelled, Happy Birthday Mommy. It was so cute. Later Terry took me out for dinner and when I got home we had cake and opened presents.
Riley has been watching a lot of Caillou. In one of the epasiodes Caillou does a magic show, so Riley wanted to do one as well. This is him dressing in up as a magician. He used his Batman Pjs becuase it has a cape, and this is the best hat we had for him to use.
Since Riley had a hat on Abbie had to have one as well.
We went apple picking last weekend. Riley has been begging to go. The kids had a blast. Now I need to figure out what I am going to do with all of the Apples we picked.
I know a couple of people have asked what my birthday was like. I have been meaning to put an update about it on the blog, so here it is.
I had a wonderful birthday. It started out with Riley insisting I go back to bed so he could make me breakfast in bed. He also insisted that Terry help him make me a birthday cake. He wanted to give me my birthday presents right away as well, but Terry had to go to work. Terry told Riley they would give them to me when he got home. Riley wasn't very happy with this, so he spent part of the day looking around the house for my presents. Unfortunately he couldn't find them because Terry had them hidden in his car. Terry worked all morning trying to get Abbie to say, "Happy Birthday Mommy." He was unsuccessful with his attempts while he was home. Right after he left for work Abbie came running into the room and yelled, Happy Birthday Mommy. It was so cute. Later Terry took me out for dinner and when I got home we had cake and opened presents.
Riley has been watching a lot of Caillou. In one of the epasiodes Caillou does a magic show, so Riley wanted to do one as well. This is him dressing in up as a magician. He used his Batman Pjs becuase it has a cape, and this is the best hat we had for him to use.
Since Riley had a hat on Abbie had to have one as well.
We went apple picking last weekend. Riley has been begging to go. The kids had a blast. Now I need to figure out what I am going to do with all of the Apples we picked.
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