06/5/12

I Remember When

(then)

It has been awhile. I know. But today I started thinking about writing again, today I looked at my two miracles and realized that this last year has been so big for us and I have so many I remember whens going through my head. Like:

I remember when I was up all night because Little Man insisted on sleeping right next to me or screaming, now while he loves to cuddle he will not fall asleep next to me any more (and he is no longer a momma’s boy either, it is all about Daddy).

I remember when the two of you would talk in your own little language and just laugh and giggle all day while no one could understand a word the two of you said! Now finally Daddy and I get to hear the amazing stories you have in your heads and the little inside jokes you have with each other! You may not always see us smiling but we love being observers to your world!

I remember not only Little Princess’ first year of gymnastics but the last year of dance and how every class I would ask did she do anything and every time I was told nope maybe next time. We prayed you would dance for your recital and for the first time ever you did and I cried, big happy tears. Today you went back to the gymnastics class you have been begging for and did most everything for your teacher, you even talked to her loud enough even i could hear your answers, something you are still working on with your preschool teacher.

I remember so much about your time with us. So many people have told me just wait you will want to go back. I am not sure I do, while I loved that time with each of you, I am loving more watching what you are becoming, the little man and little woman you will be someday.

I am trying to savor what each day brings instead of hope to go back or wish to move forward. I hope one day when we talk about what I remember I remember all the fun and laughter and never say I wish we could go back! And thank you both for the adventure we continue to be on! I love you more than life!

(now)

01/30/12

All grown up

If you are friends with me on Facebook you likely already know about this, but today my baby made her first decision about her hair, she asked to get it cut short some time ago and well this mom in love with braids and pigtails said in no uncertain terms NO. I thought about it though, I let her decide what she does with it every day and every day she requests to wear it down, I had to beg to get her to wear it up. So I started thinking, it is just hair it can grow back. So this morning she and I talked about it and decision was made to cut it. I may cut Aaron’s hair and Little Man’s hair but do not touch mine or Little Princess’s save the occasional bang trim, which I am going to leave up to the professionals as well from now on!

I cried as long strands of hair fell to the floor but smiled in joy as she had her first blow dry and realized this might be good for her hair when I saw how think it was now! When we got home I took some pictures because well she asked and I rarely tell her no. And tried out her bows just in her hair and with head bands! She LOVES her new do, I on the other hand am still getting used to it. And the best line came from Little Man the first time he saw her after her hair cut “Where did sissy go?”

What do you think of my big girl?

01/9/12

The Faith of a Child

If you recall from my last post we moved in December and I am not ashamed to say I still have more boxes in the garage than I thought I would at this point BUT it is fun finding things I forgot I had!

I may or may not have mentioned a small book hoarding issue Aaron and I have and have been working on. One way we have been trying to work on it is he has a nook and I have my iPad and iPhone with nook and kindle apps. And it has helped, I even started getting my magazines on my nook app and LOVE it, I get to keep them all AND not have to figure out where I will store them Anyway the only way we will buy an actual book now is if it is not digital yet, which is most of my history books though that is getting better OR it is a cook book, yes I still have that collection and yes it is growing! The only other way we get books is from friend or family, they will hand them to one of us and say you would like this and well we will read it most of the time, if we remember where we put it.

Anyway my MIL gave me a book and said read this when you get a chance but for once I want it back when you are done because I want to pass it on. This is not typically how my MIL gives me books, just so you don’t think she is some sort of Indian giver, but this book was special, to her at least. So I tucked the book into a bag I had brought along to her house and promptly forgot about it. For months I carried it around with my crocheting unknowingly. When I unpacked the crocheting bag in my new office/craft room/sewing room, I found the still untouched book and put it on my nightstand where it sat for still another month.

Two nights ago I could not sleep (I know anyone who knows me is not shocked) and I picked the book up and promptly stayed up until 3 am reading it. All of it. And then stayed up another hour thinking about that book and how so much of it was staying with me on so many levels. The title of the book is Heaven is for Real and it is by a pastor named Todd Burpo. The book is about the almost death of his then 3 year old son and how his son visited Heaven for “3 minutes” in the words of Colton Burpo.

Anyway, Colton’s experience was one that held me in awe. mostly because the way he says Jesus looks is EXACTLY how I have always pictured Jesus. The fact that if this book is tire and you should know I think it is, then God/Jesus answers our prayers even when we are angry and yelling them at him, as evidenced by the fact that Colton is still alive.

But the part of this book that still has me in its grip is the fact that Colton had the faith of a child, and it showed. He just believed things and watched them happen. Anyway all I could think about was my unwavering faith that our first adoption would be of twins, not just any twins boy/girl twins and the boy would be older. I had faith when I was almost laughed out of the first meeting with a social worker; our country of choice closed and the country we switched to had almost no twins leaving the country, especially boy/girl twins; and the fact if it was gong to happen the twins had to be born already by the time we switched countries. I knew some how some way that is what was meant to be, I never wavered, even though the social worker thought I did. I was in my 30s, not a child anymore. And there were times I screamed at God, yelled at Him during that process for numerous reasons, but I didn’t waver.

I didn’t walk away from this book with some sort of better understanding of heaven though some of what he said makes me want to go myself to talk to my grandma just one more time. I walked away from this book questioning my faith on some level. My faith, the same faith that brought me the two most precious gifts EVER, the faith that made Aaron and I God’s Plan B for them (His Plan A was their birth family), has not been that solid since the day we took custody. Matter of fact it has gone so far down hill that I am searching for fragments of that faith now to cling to as we move forward, make different plans, and ask God for more blessings.

I am making my final and most lasting goal for this year to have the faith of a child. If I see none of my other goals through this one I want to see through. My verse for this year is Matthew 18:4 “Whoever will humble himself therefore and become like this little child trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving, humble is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” My goal is to come back to all that in my walk with God, it may take time but I am sure I will get there again. And if you would like to read this book, it is a very easy quick read, let me know I will get you a copy if you cannot get your own. I will be giving my MIL her copy back to pass on

The picture at the top of the page was taken by me, but is of the child of a good friend. It worked so perfectly for this post I asked for and received permission to post here I love the image of a child praying!

Do you have a verse for your life this year if so please share in the comments??

01/1/12

Welcome 2012

(I never got a chance to send our 2011 Christmas Cards, I thought I would share the card with everyone here so all their fun was not in vain!)

Happy New Year!!! I am not sure I have ever been so happy to see a year gone as I am 2011. It will not take much for 2012 to be a better year but I am going to make a few goals to help me along this year! I figure the best way to make me try to reach them is to make them public. So here we go…

1. Last year a blogger I admire did 365 Love Letters to her daughter. I want to do the same for BOTH my children this year only because it is leap year it will be 366 Love Letters. This is a challenge for me in a few ways. The rules I am giving myself is the pictures for that week have to be taken that week, so that while I do not have to pick my camera up every day I do then have to pick it up at least once a week. Also, the pictures do not have to be of the kids, they can be of anything as long as a quote or saying or lesson I can give the kids for their life can be added. Also, while I want one set for Little Man and one set for Little Princess if the picture and/or saying works for both of them then I can use the same for both. I will not be posting these on this blog, but on my photography business blog. (Heart & Seoul Photography in case you missed out on that announcement)

2. I miss documenting the crazy things that Little Man and Little Princess do that make me laugh. I want to start blogging here more so my plan is to review my Facebook posts every Sunday from the Sunday through Saturday prior Nd write a post based on what I wrote there. I am sure until I get used to writing again these will be my only posts, but as I get more used to it again I will post more often.

3. I need a new me. I would love to have a trash the dress photography shoot in the snow since I was married on a beach but I cannot fit in my wedding dress anymore. I would love to not only fit in my wedding dress before the last snow fall this year BUT by the end of the year have the dress fall off me even when it is 100% zipped up. I am not so concerned with losing weight, as in watching the numbers fall off the scale but I would like a new dress size AND to see my blood pressure reading be high no longer (even though they tell me at the doctor’s office they would have high blood pressure as well if they had twins hehe I am pretty sure that has nothing to do with my high blood pressure.) I think I am going to try Weight Watchers points program so that if I don’t have to give anything up per say but I have to decide how important it is to me to be able to eat it. But I also need a program that encourages me to eat breakfast and excercise, so I am going to check out a few different programs.

4. Date night….yes after 3 years of one a year I think Aaron and I need one date night or afternoon a month. We found an amazing mommy of a friend of Little Man and Little Princess that I am happy to pay to have her watch the kids once a month so Aaron and I can have more time for us even if all we do if take a walk, or go shopping for gifts. It is time to focus on us again and this seems the perfect way and worth every penny! I am going to try to get the date on the books for every month in the next few weeks!

5. Lastly, I want to have more fun and stay positive this year. Last year went down hill very fast between Little Princess’ leg break and the issues with the house we lived in. In December we moved to a new house (almost literally….our old house was built in 1898 and the house we live in now was built in 2006). I pray that we are all happy and healthy this year and that good things continue to happen for us! But I want to see the good in everything even if it takes me a little longer to see it!

I hope that you had a great new year and that your goals for 2012 are what you need for you If you are still reading thank you!

07/23/11

Protected: Failing

07/16/11

52 Weeks of Me ~ Week 2

I have to laugh as I try to incorporate this 52 weeks of me into my life along with my journey to find me and well what I want to do with my life, or not do.

3 years ago almost now when I started staying home with Little Man and Little Princess, it took me 6 months to not tell people “I’m an attorney” when they asked what I did for a living. As I progressed to “I stay home with my kids.” (Which gets the same interesting looks I am an attorney used to get me), I started out explaining that I have a law degree just that I choose to stay home with my children. Yes, it was a very long answer to the question, but I answered it! Now, I laugh as many of my new friends get quite the shock when after weeks of knowing me or sometimes even months, I say “I used to be a lawyer.” (sometimes as big as the shock some of my friends had when I went from attorney to SAHM)

About 3 months ago I started a list of 40 things I want to do before I turn 40 (just over 3 years away now), I am finding things on that list like try owning my own photography business for at least 6 months, open a boutique where I can sell the things I make that will not fit my children and get one piece of my writing published (the real stuff not the word dumps I put on here); I wonder if I will ever say “I am a lawyer” again, the reality is that I am still a lawyer and will always be a lawyer but it may be years before I put it to good use again or maybe never. I went to law school to prove I could do it, I practiced law in areas I hated to pay the bills, and now I am doing what I should have done in high school and college, trying to find something I love that I can also make money at, or hope to make money at! Don’t get me wrong, there were parts of being a lawyer I loved, like that rush of arguing my case before a judge and or jury or both or even better yet winning my case. And I loved mediation when I tried my hand at that briefly, I need to see if that is an option once the kids start school (provided I am not homeschooling).

I have learned though that what I make money doing does not define me, I define me. That said I do want to love what I do and have fun at it, even if it only pays for the kids activities!

Do you love what you do? What defines you?

07/8/11

52 Weeks of Me Challenge: Week 1

Recently, I decided that I wanted to start reading blogs again and went back to my google reader. I found so much of a back log that I was not sure where to start. It took a week but I managed to read each post I wanted to as well as favorite a few to come back to later for crafty ideas or adoption fundraising or just because I flat out loved the post! I found one post that I LOVED on one of my parenting multiples blogs! The author of that post wrote:

It was the beginning of November 2010 and I was sweeping my kitchen floor, trying to figure out what to do with the next year of my life. My twins were 6 months old and my son was 3. Going back to work was not an option, but I needed something else to do, besides just being a mom. I needed a project, a social outlet, something.

And I was I get that, so what did you do about it? She started a challenge called 52 weeks of Me Challenge, where she pledged to do something each week that made her feel more like her and less like a mom for that amount of time! Immediately, I was like how do I join in this challenge this sounds like something I need to do and decided I would start today and post every Friday about what I had done for me that week. I figure this way I am guaranteed some time for me AND some time to post on this blog! I do like writing here and want to come back, including telling more about the kids and some great adoption things I have heard!

This week for me I bought something I had been wanting for a VERY long time, a ruffler foot for my sewing machine. What is that you ask? Well it is a special foot for the sewing machine that makes the gathers in a skirt, shirt etc soooooooooo much easier. I had no idea how much easier until I tried it out. Little Princess has a skirt pattern that she LOVES and I am happy to make it but it takes me a day to make it with all of the gathering involved. I had a Princess Tiana skirt cut out of this pattern and sitting next to my sewing machine for a few months dreading the gathering involved and the two days of sewing and pin pricks to my fingers. This was the PERFECT opportunity to try the ruffler foot, seriously even with a few stops and starts 2.5 hours later I had this skirt:

No pin pricks and no hours of gathering. I still have a few things to figure out with the ruffler foot but it is my new favorite thing to sew for Little Princess with! YEAH!!!! Up next a bustle skirt I am designing and my very first petticoat!!! I am excited I have had the petticoat material for over a year and now I can make it with just a few cuts and some sewing with the gathering foot! I promise to post pictures soon!

I am sooooooo excited about next weeks post! (This post was to go up July 8th and I forgot…sorry guys!)

04/21/11

Unanswered Prayers

You have all heard that song with the line, sometimes we thank God for unanswered prayers, well I am today! In case you missed it Little Man and Little Princess did not get into the “dream” preschool. At first I was devastated, but then in less than a few hours, I found our real dream preschool. See I have wanted to home school for some time, I have taken quite a bit of flack for that from some but if you know me that will do nothing but push me more towards the goal of home schooling. The first “dream” preschool was a magnet school and the kids would have been there through high school with a prayer of any further children also attending that preschool. Looking back I am not sure what makes that school so great…I just thought it was.

The second dream school, it is a co-op school. Only for preschool ~ ages 3,4 and 5 (due to birthdates being late in the year). The parents are ALL hands on, the teachers are hands on (which visit a few preschools and you will see what I mean here), class size is only 10 kids at the moment if even and so much more. You have never heard of a co-op preschool? Neither had I, but the minute I saw co-op I thought this might be more my speed. I called the school and talked to one of the parents (co-op parents help out to keep costs low) and the director for well over an hour. I explained my situation and what I was looking for and received an invitation to come and attend class, bring the kids and my husband and see how it works! We made an appointment to talk and then stay for class as long as we like for today!

So today I went to see what it was like, actually we all went. An even though we were late it was amazing! EXACTLY what we were looking for! Pros:

(1) I get to help with class as much as I like and if there is a time the kids need me there no one will say anything and I can stay with them ~ we discussed that I would not sign up for a shift for a few weeks (each family has to volunteer to help one class a month for our specific class ~ Aaron is just as excited about this as I am) and for the first week I will sit in the office where I can hear and kinda see but the kids cannot see me, if necessary I am then available BUT we are giving them an opportunity to get used to class without me before I start showing up and if necessary I am RIGHT there.

(2) The class is every afternoon Monday through Thursday and then every other Friday the whole school meets and you are welcome to join or not join in as you see fit.

(3) this is a child run preschool, no they are not running wild and free, but they are not required to sit and color for example for 40 minutes if that is not what they want to do. Today we painted, made a craft, played Connect 4 and Sequence for Kids, played in the sand box, played cars and animals and played in the make believe dr’s office (this changes every month so next month it could be a pizza parlor or a post office) this was all before circle time, when we sat and sang songs, read a book and learned about months and days of the week in english and spanish. We also had a recycling theme today so a story and then a lesson about what trash does to the water around us was in order. See the children are not required to sit and do anything, there were some on computers etc… I can say that while they were not required to they wanted to do all of the things the teacher had out and she made sure even my kids visited every station to play and learn! The parent helper was just like the teacher and he (yes it was a dad) had all the same values everyone else did! ANd postive reinforcement and as close to zero negative as possible, no is used but there is so much more acknowledging the positive than anything else!

(4) If we find it necessary for the kids to not go to kindergarten next year, they will not, they will stay here and keep learning and go to preschool next year instead of kindergarten. And the kids are taken at the level they are ~ so Little Man does not be made to feel bad since he cannot name all of his letters and Little Princess can still work on her reading and neither are made to feel like they are better or worse than anyone in the class! A plus for me as I want them to know that it is ok that they learn different and can be at different places in their learning. This was very important to me!

(5) The kids LOVED it. I actually was not in the room very much was getting a tour, seeing the 3s room, and talking to the other parents there and not once did I hear MAMA (but daddy was still in the room though since they were split up he was not with both of them). Little Man was sooooo upset when we had to leave, he had made some new friends and wanted to go outside and play with them but we needed to go (Little Princess would have had to sit it out and I didn’t want that.) Little Man is still talking about school and cannot wait to go back. Which we will do one more time after Little Princess is fully walking!

(6) Most of these families then go on to home school, well probably closer to half or at least they let the child make the decision (which is my plan…if they are set on school we will find one we like and enter them there)

There are a million other things I loved but those are the majors! I cannot believe I stumbled across this school! The cons are so similr to may other public schools (this is not a public school) but there are fundraisers and such (which I did expect) and the worst con is the location of the school but they stay safe and in our town the location they are in is really not HORRIBLE it could be a lot worse. Everyone who comes in contact with the kids has a TB test and is fingerprinted etc But I am so happy for unanswered prayers right now because if not for the unanswered prayer this would have never happened!

04/11/11

A new sense of normal

Seven and a half weeks ago I thought today would never come, three weeks ago I started to wonder how they were going to get the cast off safely (I was worried about my daughter here people…she did not need another injury on top of the one she already has) and last night I was so excited for today I could not sleep.

I am not sure what I expected but the first stop for the day was cast removal for Little Princess. I started to plan for today the minute the Dr. said I could schedule the appointment. We bought Tangled ~ the combo pack ~ so we would have a digital copy for the iPad (if you know anyone with a 3D TV and bluray player let me know we have Tangled in 3D now); I started trying to think about things she would like to do without the cast such as shopping and swimming as well as a very long bubble bath and I planned some outfits from her pile of fabric and patterns (yes she fabric shops and yes she knows which patterns she likes and does not, she tells me what to make with the fabric….she keeps it real people). So yeah this day had me obsessed, even though I had no clue what to expect really.

By 8 am we were on the road, off to see the Dr. We reminded Little Princess of all the things we had been talking about for a few weeks and prayed for the best and expected the worst. By the time our name was called and we were taken to the cast removal room, I was probably just as nervous as Little Princess was. iPad in tow and preparing to watch Tangled while we had the cast removed the nurse said this will take some time and it works like a jig saw puzzle. As soon as the tool used to cut through the cast started Little Princess cried a little but not a lot (she was not able to see much the iPad was in her way (yes I planned that). The nurse kept telling her how good she was and that she was acting MUCH better than some of the 5th grade boys she had removed this cast from recently (which made me laugh). Quite a few cuts later but about a quarter of the tears I expected later, we finally got the cast off, in pieces as the nurse said. I had brought washcloths (I knew we had one VERY bad diaper blowout and was worried I didn’t get it all ~ have been for weeks) we cleaned her up which was not as easy as I expected but we had done well no sores! The nurse had warned me she would cry in xray and be sore for a few days from 7 weeks of inactivity. We got her dressed in her new dress and TWO socks and TWO shoes (never thought two socks and two shoes would excite me so much)! Xray down and then met with the Dr who said no physical therapy unless she is not back to normal in 4 weeks! The only downside is no trampoline for 1 year…yep I have to keep my little jumper off the trampoline for a year, wish me luck!

After we left the Dr’s office, she requested to go shopping so we did. Didn’t buy much but we had fun! Grabbed lunch and ate in the car on the way to the Africa Zoo as they call the zoo in the same town as the Dr. This time I remembered the camera! That is where all the pictures in this post came from! Two cute things happened at the zoo! First we saw some baby red river hogs and Little Man was obsessed, the pictures are in the slide show, but he went up to the glass and they came to the glass to play with him. It was cute, he kept talking to them and almost didn’t want to leave them. It was beyond adorable!

Secondly, this zoo has a petting zoo. The petting zoo has some horned goats (the kids are not allowed in with them) but they were beating their horns against the gate and each other. Little Princess thought the process of them rearing up and then butting the fence and each other was beyond funny which made Aaron laugh! I took some picture of that! I have two favorites of them and even though Aaron looks a little evil in one I still like them!

We then drove back to our town, did a little shopping there and at that point the kids were requesting swimming. So we went to the gym and went swimming! Little Princess even voluntarily moved her left leg (the formerly broken one) in the pool! We were in the pool forever (as in we were prunes when we got out) and they were MAD when we said we really needed to go! I promised more swimming in the future (we are getting a pool pass for our town as well for the summer)…I mean I do have to keep jumper girl off the trampoline right?

By 7:30 they were exhausted and ready for bed! I am exhausted as well but did I mention recently that I am working as an independent contractor for a company that helps people with their taxes or I should say their program does and I work from home in the wee hours of the morning, as if this week is not crazy enough it is tax deadline week and so I am working more than usual (one week from tomorrow life will FINALLY be back to normal or so we hope…)

Today was great! I am so excited to be 7 days from what was normal and even more excited that my baby is back to her normal weight!!!!! Did you hear my screams of glee today

04/7/11

Do As I Say and Not As I Do

As a parent that is not how I really want to parent, I would like to set the right example and have my children learn from that example. I want to show them how to be the bigger person, how to turn the other cheek, forgive those who have wronged you, act politely in public…you know not only the big things but the little ones. But I am not perfect, far from it, and sometimes it feels like I am teaching by saying “do as I say and not as I do.”

This morning I realized that was the case as we asked Little Princess for the 20th time in 2 minutes to use her inside voice. See I have a very loud voice that carries very easily and I forget that much of the time, I also have a tendency to yell if I am not feeling heard (or at least raise my already loud voice). Since her break we have been in two what are not bad sized rooms but they feel small now. But imagine her screaming in these small rooms and my frustration level rising and so me getting louder and well you have a situation where she now believes it is ok to raise her voice whenever she likes. Not good, and I am sure that will not be liked by her preschool teacher or anyone else for that matter.

This morning as my no caffeine for the last two days headache peaked and she was screaming about another item she wanted to her Dad, I realized that I caused this. OT OH ~ my first thought was do as I say not as I do and I cringed. Even though I wanted her Dad to deal with it, I knew who needed to talk to her. I picked her up and took her to the talking chair as she calls it when we are not rocking, sat down with her and resolved to keep my voice even and well more towards an inside level.

I apologized to her for not following my own rules about inside voices, but that she and I must work together to use our inside voices inside. I know this will be hard for both of us, but she LOVES to do what I am doing and watches my every move so it is my goal to use only my inside voice for now. I know that may be harder for me than it sounds but going to give it a shot.

I hope this is the hardest do as I say and not as I do lesson I have to realize in my parenting journey but somehow I think that will not be the case. I am a parent after all and as I mentioned earlier I am not perfect so hopefully I make it some time at least!

Do you have a moment where you realized you may have been telling your child do as I say and not as I do that you didn’t realize for ahwile?

They are sharing quite nicely here and playing together! They are playing much more nicely than my brother and I did ~ fortunately they cannot see how my brother and I behaved as children Oh yeah and the iPad I won, is now more or less their iPad I get to see it when they are sleeping or it is dead as a doornail! (They do follow the one rule we have for it though they must work on letters and numbers on it before they play games…)

04/3/11

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03/8/11

Cherishing Each Day

Where does the time go? Why does every day end and I look at my to do list and find it not even having a thing crossed off of it?

Today I looked back over the last two years, I remember the day two years ago so well for a million reasons. I remember how there was no sleep the night before and no naps when I needed them. We were headed for our first family pictures, we had only been a family for 5 short months. No one had napped and we were all running on the best shortest fuse possible, but it worked. We got some cute family pictures like this one:

And we got devastating news…spent a portion of the following week away from home. I remember thinking at the time if I can make it through this I can make it through ANYTHING. Little Princess was not sleeping through the night, neither were walking yet (though Little Man would soon and Little Princess well as with everything else in her time and her time only) and I was still so upset that I was now a stay at home mom and not balancing everything perfectly (Yes I lived in some sort of strange dream world…)

Today, I looked over those last two years and the things we learned (1) Little Princess is smart as a whip and will never be forced to do anything ~ every thing must happen when she is ready (2) Little Man is the sweetest most loving little boy who has decided he has already learned too much in his short life so he will learn again when he is ready (3) No one sleeps through the night still, I am praying for my first full nights sleep when they are 20 or leave for college (4) they are still the cutest things known to man and I love them unconditionally.

The things I thought would never happen two years ago not only happened but now are tiny little blips. They both walk, they both talk though one much more than the other, they only wake up once a night now usually (something I used to pray for), Little Princess does not hate me nor Little Man his dad and each is his/her own little person. The things I worry about today like if they will be potty trained by the start of preschool, whether or not to separate them in their preschool classes, when their legs will be long enough to ride all of their pedal toys and if they will survive the teenage years will be blips in time before I know it, heck even the seven weeks of this crazy cast will be a blip before I know and a cute story to tell when she is 20 and finally sleeping through the night!

So I will try to savor the quiet time each day, the time in the rocking chair at midnight and all of the days playing cars and princesses because tomorrow they could move on, no longer asking for hugs and kisses but telling me Mom NO when I try and no longer wanting me to make all her clothes or wanting me to watch them learn the latest thing at gymnastics. I am trying to only wish for things that are necessary like potty training and let the rest come in time as I know it will always seem to come too quickly. And in May I will be updating those family pictures

Recent pictures:

(hamming it up )

Yep a book and a dvd and no sign of the cast (I tried to take a few of her and the cast and well I will not be sharing her screaming pictures Modest thing she is! )

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