Thoughts i thought

Life seems to go by so quickly.

One minute your five years old and creating chalk pictures all over the driveway and

the next minute your an adult watching your child drawing the pictures.

There are a lot of things I've learned through life.

Maybe not always the way i wanted to have to learn the lessons,

but the lessons i have learned all the same.

One thing that is particularly sticking with me lately is taking every moment of every day to

appreciate and cherish all the small things. 

Because, truly...

If you can't how are you to really appreciate the big things?

Today, while Emma was napping, i planted some flowers out in front of our house. This coming July will be one whole year that we have owned our house. I feel truly blessed.

I'm so thankful to have a place that i can call home and not only that but i can put hard work into.

I can get out there and get dirty and do what I'd like with it and make it my own.

It feels good to be able to take a step back and say.."I did that".

I can't wait until the flowers bloom.

There is one flower tho at this house that has been growing for 16 months now!

She is growing and becoming more and more beautiful with each rising sun.

She has become quite a little lady too.

She always says please and thank you without me having to ask her to.

She doesn't complain about bed time. Actually i think she likes the big girl bed.

But every day, the more she grows, I'm finding myself growing more torn by the situation.

I love seeing who she is growing into. I love listening to her rambles, even if i can understand all of her language yet...

but at the same time, i want to just go find the biggest bolder i can and stick it on her head.

My baby is growing up too quickly. And there is nothing i can do about it.

She is such a good little girl. 

She's turning into her own little person.

She has decided that she hates fruit but LOVES veggies.

She would prefer veggies for every meal over anything else.

She loves reading me books now. She gets frustrated if i try to read and she was wanting to.

She has started to try dressing herself and putting on shoes. Usually with no luck but i give an A for effort.

She loves bracelets. I never wear them so idk where so got the love from them. But i love that she is who she is.

I hope the world does not change that as she gets older and i hope i can teach her

to love who she is for who she is and not for what anyone else tells her to be.

I love that she knows what she likes and she knows what she doesn't. 

I can't believe that little bundle of joy is now a little lady. 

Where does time go?

What the HELL are you thinking?

So, I guess i'm in a ranting mood. I've been looking up dresses for my daughter to wear for Easter.... And then i decided to look up toddler shoes to match. Some of what i found is sickening to say the least and made me decide to do some more research.

Within the gobs of choices to choose from in TODDLER sized shoes... many shoes such as these...

appeared before my eyes. Are you kidding me. So then i started looking through things to see if this is what is really happening.... Is the new thing to try to make our kids grow up before their time?
This is what i found....


I found there is a show called toddlers and tiaras. From what i've seen it's been around for a while. The parents happily primp and prime their little babies to look like...

A child should have all right to be a child. A child should not be worrying about make up. A child should be only worried that by the end of the day their clothes are filthy and they are wore out for that truly is the only way to know a child had fun. Are we really ok with stealing the innocence from our babies, stealing the fun years? Why do we want them to grow up so quickly?


So i began to dig deeper. The deeper i dug... the more disgusted i became.


Here is a picture of some CHILDREN'S Halloween costumes...

If that isn't disturbing enough.... How about these swimsuits made for children...

I dont want my child thinking she has to be barely covered to swim. Idk maybe i'm the only one with this anger towards all this. 


How about this article....


http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/117972/mom_forces_botox_bikini_waxes


About a mother making her child have botox and wax treatments to be able to "ensure" the child is a "superstar" when she grows up?


How about in my opinion you will be creating a mental unstable child...
Have you seen "superstars" lately?


Charlie Sheen may think he's "winning" but i happen to disagree big time. He's slowly killing himself and trying to promote it as though it's cool... or as he calls it.... "Winning".


So many stars out there getting caught up with drugs, the wrong people, crime. You really want to prep your child for that?


The closest my child will be to playing dress up.... is

when i find her dressing up in my clothes.

And i will always continue to prompt and promote her to have as much kid fun as humanly possible. Especially if it means.... Being coated with fun....

 

And yes i will let her have her crazy bed head and walk around with pj pants on her head because really.... a 1yr olds pj pants work best when placed there.

A Mother's Motions: Maybe the world really IS coming to the end. I hav...

A Mother's Motions: Maybe the world really IS coming to the end. I hav...: "So, Compared to my husbands usual-ness.....He is being beyond heaven to me.Number on when we woke up sat... i was being.. well ... lets say..."

Maybe the world really IS coming to the end. I have PROOF!!!

So, Compared to my husbands usual-ness.....He is being beyond heaven to me.

Number on when we woke up sat... i was being.. well ... lets say... to put it nicely... a witch. I had a headache from hell and wasn't in the mood. If he looked at me and i didnt want him to... he heard it.

Well ne ways then i was like "i want you to take emma and leave because i just want a few mins".I just needed some peace and quiet.

At first he was like "why would i take her with me if i have you hear to watch her?"But then he got the death stare from me. And he knew if he didnt wanna be castrated he had better just go along with it.

So, he went with Emma, i got about 20 min to myself.. he came back with my fav....

PECAN PIE

(the fatties pie) he knows its my fav but he hates it so we never buy it. And he got stuff to make recess smoothies ( i think its dawning the time i shall start leakin from my twat because ive been craving sweets like no body;s mother.)

Well then last night was the first NIGHT in emma's toddler bed. He slept through everything which means i on turn ended up with only 3 hrs sleep.

So today he was like i'll be back later. Take a nap. He took emma .. i got a nice hot shower (i woke up feelin like id been hit by a mac truck) and got in an almost 2 1/2 hr nap. Ohhh it felt so goood.

And to top it off... He's running two cities away right now to get me some chipotle. I loooove me some chipotle.

Idk where the "not usually this caring" husband i had ... went... but he can stay gone. I'm loving this change.

Having a baby... changes well.. almost everything

Although I'm not a fan of calling it out, It's true. And I'm not too cowardly to admit it.

My boobs aren't quite as high, my hips a a bit wider, and i streach marks to remind me of the bowling ball i carried out in front of me. My hip now tend to pop outta place from time to time and Although i've lost the weight i still have a pooch where my belly is. I have circles under my eyes and i def. don't have the energy level that i used to.

But... for all the things that i don't have (or have extra of) I'd never trade it for my daughter. She's was well worth it all.

One thing i wouldn't mind though... Is if my child would set her internal alarm clock back to at least 8 am. Here for the past month or so she wakes up at 6:30am....Yawnnnn

I even let her stay up until 10 pm the other night hoping i could get a day of a little extra sleep...

Nope... like clock work she was up, 6:30... right on the dot.

This sat. I am switching her crib to the toddler bed conversion. My MIL thinks i'm being dumb about it and that i should trap her in her crib for as long as possible...

the thing is ... i don't give a dern what my MIL thinks.

My opinion is that she is getting closer and closer to her terrible two tantrums..(if it gets worse than it is now.. im in for it) and i don't want to fight those and switching beds, all at the same time. Also, i feel very secure that she can safely get up and down from things. So, My plan of attack is to switch it over first thing sat. morning....That way, after breakfast, she can have plenty of time learning to get up and down from it.

This is what it looks like as a crib..

 

And this...

Is what it looks like as the toddler bed. I like that it has rails at both ends because she never sleeps the same way from night to night. 

These are the sheets we bought for it..

we also have a backyardagains set but i looove this one because it matches her room....
This is her room, well right after we had moved into the house, so excuse the mess..

and she loooves animals, so that works for me.

I think she will love it. She LOVES doing big people things. I also already have a potty for her. People think i'm crazy for that too. Yea, right now she can't "know" to go but she loves sitting on it when i go to the bathroom... So it's a learning process. And if it's teaching her then i'm willing to do it.

I can't wait until summer. I have a little water child. Were gonna get this really neat sprinkler thing i found that looks something like..

 and were gonna hopefully get a pool like this where there's room we can get in with her but not all that deep. Just something fun.

But what i'm most excited about is...

although that one is 2k... we found one at our local costco that is half that and basically the same thing so with our plans we should be able to have it here and set up within the next month and a half!! which means she has a great majority of the good weather season to enjoy it!! Sooo excited. I'm sure she is going to love it.

Well, it is time for me to hop in the shower.

Happy momma days readers!