Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Just DANCE -
Okay, I haven't posted in a long while, haven't felt inspired or haven't remembered to do so... besides that -
I have decided to take this small moment to tell the one person who reads this blog - ME - to remember to .. Just Dance - yes, like the lady GaGa song - da da doo doo, just dance.
So much a part of my memory is music - at least the triggor points. I feel my memories through music. I hear a song that takes me back to a time in my life and I feel for a brief second, that time again - when Natalie was born - the season premier of Greys Anatomy was just about to air so all I heard was The Frey - how to save a life - now, when I hear that song, I feel that feeling again, that feeling of just having my first child - When Sylvia was born COMPLETELY different song - it was Jesse Mcartny - the G-V song .. anyways, I didn't realize just how important the music memories were to me until the other day when I was driving down the road listening to some Reba and her song "you lie" came on - holy crap I was 12 again - My dad used to put that song on loud as can be and we would all whail (I think me more than anyone else) trying to hit those high notes... You LIEEEEEEEE, you don't want to hurt me .. so you LIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - Driving down the road I grinned from ear to ear and you know what I did ... I tried yet again, 17 years later to hit that high note - gave myself a headache and a smile all at the same time - I decided then and there that I was going to make music memories and plenty of other wacky memories for my kids too ... sooooo, in 17 years when Natalie is driving down the road she is going hear .. just dance...da da doo doo - and she is going to grin from ear to ear and start to dance -
Happy memories are important - cause your child to grin from ear to ear when they get older - ; ) and every day along the way -
I have decided to take this small moment to tell the one person who reads this blog - ME - to remember to .. Just Dance - yes, like the lady GaGa song - da da doo doo, just dance.
So much a part of my memory is music - at least the triggor points. I feel my memories through music. I hear a song that takes me back to a time in my life and I feel for a brief second, that time again - when Natalie was born - the season premier of Greys Anatomy was just about to air so all I heard was The Frey - how to save a life - now, when I hear that song, I feel that feeling again, that feeling of just having my first child - When Sylvia was born COMPLETELY different song - it was Jesse Mcartny - the G-V song .. anyways, I didn't realize just how important the music memories were to me until the other day when I was driving down the road listening to some Reba and her song "you lie" came on - holy crap I was 12 again - My dad used to put that song on loud as can be and we would all whail (I think me more than anyone else) trying to hit those high notes... You LIEEEEEEEE, you don't want to hurt me .. so you LIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - Driving down the road I grinned from ear to ear and you know what I did ... I tried yet again, 17 years later to hit that high note - gave myself a headache and a smile all at the same time - I decided then and there that I was going to make music memories and plenty of other wacky memories for my kids too ... sooooo, in 17 years when Natalie is driving down the road she is going hear .. just dance...da da doo doo - and she is going to grin from ear to ear and start to dance -
Happy memories are important - cause your child to grin from ear to ear when they get older - ; ) and every day along the way -
Friday, May 1, 2009
Little hams
Natalie is making us dinner -
Natalie dressed herself - she has on three shirts (the one on the right way she didn't do) the pants she did - the socks, she got help -
Monday, March 30, 2009
My Girls -
Here is Natalie at 6 Months - in the "pink dress"
Here is Sylvia at 8 months in the "pink dress" I forgot the hat - which upsets me because it is right in that room off to the corner - i will do it all again once the dress is clean again - soooo, next month : )Super Fast weekend...
This weekend flew by -when someone asks me "did you have a good weekend" I seriously had to stop and think. Honestly Natalie was a complete bear! From the very second I picked her up at daycare on Friday she was having issues. Attention issues. You would think I never gave this girl the time of day the way she was acting. BAD BAD BAD EVIL EVIL EVIL
I put ABSOLUTELY NO RED JUICE on her sheet at her new daycare. There are two shifts there and I think the second "younger" shift keeps forgeting about the Red40 - ugh.. anyways, back to the weekend. Sylvia is an angel. Sweetest thing ever - teething for sure - I would be super surprised if when I get her from daycare tonight she doesn't have at least one of those top ones poking through. Thank goodness for pictures because when I look back at them - I will take Natalies fits anyday because all in all it was a good weekend - minus the fighting and yelling, screaming and me wanting to leap off of a bridge -
Here are some pictures.. lets see... a Sweeney Weekend -
Planting plants in the house ??
Daddy and Nattie - two very sloppy people - planting tomato plants in the house - dirt in the house!!!!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Its too hard to tell ...
Sometimes its so hard to know when you are making the right decision regarding your children... its so hard to know when that "one more cookie" was pushing it too far -
hard to know when something is considered "spoiling" or just plain "loving" your child.
In this current economy - my husband and I have been hurting, I'm not selling planes, he's not building houses - its just, not the way it used to be. When we had our second daughter Sylvia we freaked out about money - and we weren't even broke yet - we freaked out about finances, and about the girls getting sick - we pulled Natalie from her daycare and took her and Sylvia to an in-home daycare - all was going well, it really was - so we thought - we were distracted by holidays, bad weather, and sickness .... but we just came to realize that so much was being overlooked - the girls were still getting sick - the girls were still costing money - only now ... one girl is 8 months old and is just now starting to sit up, and the other is 2+ and she thinks she is 8. She picked up so many bad habits from the older kids that I was listening to my 2 year old tell me off, tell me what she wanted to do, what she wasn't going to do and to get out of her face, I'm running away, she watched too much t.v. - she needs structure. As for Sylvia , in no way am I blaming a home daycare for my child's inability to sit up - I just cant' help but think that since they see my child 5 more hours a week than I do, that maybe they could spend a little extra time with her - after all, the times that they get to see my girls are the best times - the DAYTIME ! Long story short - my children had become dollar signs not only in my daycare providers eyes but ours as well - I mean, afterall we get what we pay for right? soooo, we pull them and put them back into the more expensive daycare, where I can monitor them with a webcam - where they have structure, where they bring me home artwork - teaching them things - ... now... its too hard to tell now if this is all worth the economic strain this is going to put on our family. We are already about to lose the house - if my re-mod loan doesn't pull through then - us spending more money on this daycare in every way guarantees we will lose the house... but in my mind - we take the hit now while the children are young and still impressionable and mold them into Great Children - not children that grew up in a Great House, with Great clothes .. but children with Great minds -
I just feel the need to vent about this situation - to justify it, if you will -
I am not horrible with money (at least not like I used to be) I am not glutton for punishment, I don't want to lose my first house - I just want to vent and to let it be known... as much as I don't want to lose my first house, I don't want to lose my first children too - I really truly believe that 5 years down the road - all will have fixed itself and me spending a butt load on daycare will be for the good ... right? right? I mean, .... could I find what I am looking for in the larger daycare in a smaller one? hmmm?
hard to know when something is considered "spoiling" or just plain "loving" your child.
In this current economy - my husband and I have been hurting, I'm not selling planes, he's not building houses - its just, not the way it used to be. When we had our second daughter Sylvia we freaked out about money - and we weren't even broke yet - we freaked out about finances, and about the girls getting sick - we pulled Natalie from her daycare and took her and Sylvia to an in-home daycare - all was going well, it really was - so we thought - we were distracted by holidays, bad weather, and sickness .... but we just came to realize that so much was being overlooked - the girls were still getting sick - the girls were still costing money - only now ... one girl is 8 months old and is just now starting to sit up, and the other is 2+ and she thinks she is 8. She picked up so many bad habits from the older kids that I was listening to my 2 year old tell me off, tell me what she wanted to do, what she wasn't going to do and to get out of her face, I'm running away, she watched too much t.v. - she needs structure. As for Sylvia , in no way am I blaming a home daycare for my child's inability to sit up - I just cant' help but think that since they see my child 5 more hours a week than I do, that maybe they could spend a little extra time with her - after all, the times that they get to see my girls are the best times - the DAYTIME ! Long story short - my children had become dollar signs not only in my daycare providers eyes but ours as well - I mean, afterall we get what we pay for right? soooo, we pull them and put them back into the more expensive daycare, where I can monitor them with a webcam - where they have structure, where they bring me home artwork - teaching them things - ... now... its too hard to tell now if this is all worth the economic strain this is going to put on our family. We are already about to lose the house - if my re-mod loan doesn't pull through then - us spending more money on this daycare in every way guarantees we will lose the house... but in my mind - we take the hit now while the children are young and still impressionable and mold them into Great Children - not children that grew up in a Great House, with Great clothes .. but children with Great minds -
I just feel the need to vent about this situation - to justify it, if you will -
I am not horrible with money (at least not like I used to be) I am not glutton for punishment, I don't want to lose my first house - I just want to vent and to let it be known... as much as I don't want to lose my first house, I don't want to lose my first children too - I really truly believe that 5 years down the road - all will have fixed itself and me spending a butt load on daycare will be for the good ... right? right? I mean, .... could I find what I am looking for in the larger daycare in a smaller one? hmmm?
Thursday, March 5, 2009
My Babies This Morning
Natalie is showing off her bracelet she got for being such a good sport this past week - she has been pretty darn sick and all in all has been handleing it very well!! Momma was proud!
Again, with the classic goofball face!
Random Pix of my babies
What a classic goof ball face of Sylvia
She looks so old in this picture
BIG 'OL BABIES
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This past weekend at the Aquatic Center -
We met my family and went swimming at the Aquatic Center in Warrneton
Sylvia BIG FAN!
Here is the crew - I don't swim, but after last Sunday I am considering purchasing a bathing suit because its just not the same sitting out watching your girls swim - not too mention I think Stephen would like the help
Adult and baby swim - Natalie coming up from behind
Monday, February 23, 2009
Nattie and Daddy Cookie Time
Natalie and Stephen have been making cookies together once every other month or so for about a year now.
For Christmas Uncle Dustin got Natalie an apron - its perfect....
Except it could maybe use a back -I see your hiney, so nice and shiney.....
A Weekend in Photos - of the girls -
Natalie Yummy Cookie - She is going through a stage where we have to see everything she is eating and she wants to see everything we are eating too. Makes for a fun dinner -
Sylvia is becoming so much more of a baby - day by day -
Natalie loves her Dora table in her playroom. She eats there, she plays there, she watches t.v. there
Such a pretty girl. The teething is causing a slight rash on her chin. Still damn cute!
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