You’ve heard the TV called the Boob Tube. I’m thinking of renaming it the Uro-Tube. Here’s why: Sydney has recently potty trained (WOO HOO!). We were eating dinner the other night and she had already been excused. We heard her go into her room and then we heard the scraping sound as she moved her [Read More]
Redemption!
A while back I posted a story about Sydney playing with her baby dolls and saying, “I can’t play with you right now. I have to go to work!” Well, after this weekend I feel much better about that. Sydney brought two baby dolls to Will’s baseball game to keep herself entertained. On the sidelines [Read More]
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Yup, you guessed it. Still more about poop!
There are at least a couple instances in this story where I should have made different, need I say better, decisions in my role as mother. Sydney was a bit feisty last night about going to bed. I rocked her a few minutes and put her in her crib, but I wasn’t going to spend [Read More]
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Bad mom
Last week we were lucky enough to spend time in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Fun! The day we left, though, I felt like God judged me for being a bad mom. Our plane was not until 5 pm at night on Wednesday. I decided to take Wednesday off and get stuff done around [Read More]
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Time to play, time to work
I overheard Sydney talking to one of her baby dolls the other day and it almost broke my heart! She often talks to her dolls the way her Dad or I talk to her. “It’s okay” she’ll say as she rocks them or “Go night-night.” Things like that. Well this time I heard her say [Read More]
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Do as I say, not as I do
Here are 2 examples of “Do as I say, not as I do!” First, I got up from the couch to get something and when I returned Will had stretched out on the whole couch. “Move,” I said. “No” he replied. “Excuse me?” “You didn’t say ‘Please move’”. Busted! My second example is a guest [Read More]
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Still more about poop…
Will and Chad were in the basement playing floor hockey. It sounded like they were having a good time. Suddenly, Will raced upstairs because he wanted to wear his Michigan hockey jersey. “I want a jersey, too”, said Sydney. So I told her to go tell her Dad. She plodded downstairs and I overheard the [Read More]
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Oops, I did it again!
Just back from Disneyworld and we had a grand time! One of the rites of passage at Disney is dining at a character meal. We chose breakfast with Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Alice in Wonderland and Mary Poppins, mostly because this was the meal offered at our hotel so it was easy to do. You [Read More]
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Dancing Queen
Recently I was hanging out with my two-year-old, Sydney. It was one morning when Will was off at kindergarten. I happened to have the TV on and was flipping through channels. This was a liberating moment for me. With four of us in the house, I rarely get to watch anything of my own choosing. [Read More]
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The Green Bottle
Picture a group of 2-year-olds sitting in a circle listening to their teacher read a story. The book is one of those board books about colors. On each page there are everyday objects like mittens or balls and everything is the same color. The teacher points to the objects and asks the toddlers what they [Read More]