so talented!

Tonite was Parent's Nite at M's school. Classroom was filled with art projects, storybooks created by students, photos of kids at play. There was a dvd playing in the back room of M's class...so we stopped to take a look. It was the kids in his class each showing off a talent. For instance, one cute little boy stands before the camera and says, "My name is Samuel. I can do a summersault." then the camera pans back and you see little Samuel summersault his little heart out. Next kid says, "My name is Maya. I can hop on one foot..." You see cute little Maya jump up and down on one foot. On and on until M's cute little face pop up on the screen.

My name is M---- and i can do the shocked face!

and he does.

A true -open mouth- shocked to the core face!

Then he giggles and it fades out.

For those of you who are not familiar with this particular talent (i am figuring 99% of anyone who ever might see this blog are not familiar with what this is...) it's a face we try to get K to make at home to entertain us. "K. Let's see your shocked face..." and bam. there it is.

Funny that he thought that was a true talent!
I Love that little boy!!!!!!

mmmm cheesecake

so
is it
wrong
to
be
eating
cheese cake
and
watching
THE
BIGGEST LOSER???

:o)

baby babble

All that talk about Michael's vocabulary last week got me to thinking about the twins and their current state of speaking. They definitely blow their big brother out of the water for this age..heck, they blow a lot of 2 yrs old out of the water. So I sat down and made a list of the words they each use regularly...Just to preserve this little moment in time.

J's Words:
What's This? (said all run together-whatsthis?)
Bops (for Doodle Bops)
uh-oh
ho ho ho
kiss
Caillou
nite nite (i love how you say this-you get SO excited and say NIGH NIGH!!)
hi
stuck (so funny when you think you are stuck you just yell, "STUCK")
quack
choo choo (you say it SHA SHA)
car
beep beep
bye
cracker
cookie
more
kitty
meow
woof
hot dog
fries
stinky (you say "stiiiiiink-dede)
what? (wha??)
mama
dada
Barney
Elmo (you say MELMO)
Jo Jo
Manny (for Handy Manny)
Baby (you also call K BAY-BEEE)
grandpa (um-pa)
ball
hat
five five five (you say it like that)
low low low (there is a song with that as the chorus)
star
butterfly (you say "fly?")
my (mine)
nose

K's WORDs
what's that? (whazda?)
kitty
meow
quack quack
moo
baaa
woof woof
sssh (you put your little finger up and do the sssssh)
cracker
cookie
mama
dada (you say it for daddy, jordan and anytime the phone rings!)
shoe
ba (ball)
hat
beep
choochoo
bye (you say it like a southern belle...Bah-byeee)
uh oh
Bops
Good Girl (this was your first word!)
ho ho ho
juice
mo (more)
grandpa (buh-pa)
BASEBALL/BASKETBALL (Ba-ball!!! you say it all excitedly!)
baby

Four Years ago tonite...

I was waiting.

Waiting for my turn to hold MY baby.
Waiting for the snuggles. The smiles. The giggles and the wiggles. The mishchief and the fun.

It hadn't yet begun.

Four years ago tonite...

I went to bed thinking, "when is this kid coming out, already?"...not knowing that i would be a mom by the time i went to bed the next day.

I had no idea how much my world was about to change. How my concept of love was so limited..


Four years ago tonite.

FOUR YEARS???

holy cow.

My BABY BOY is turning FOUR tomorrow!

Brooming, Macella and the Camboose

Just a few of the things i want to remember M saying.

He was late to talk, this boy of mine. We'd sit and read him books. Point out familiar objects. Sing him songs and still only a handful of words at 18 months. Slowly he added to his vocabulary (as most kids do) and its grown now into sentences filled with words that sometimes i am surprised he even knows the meaning of. Things like "interesting" or "actually"...used appropriately!

As proud as i am for all the words that he knows, i am still in love with the few words he still mixes up or mispronounces. He says Brooming for sweeping. He calls the Acella train the Macella..and a caboose a "Camboose". He once in a while will say he is "hidening"..when we play hide and seek. (that is a favorite of mine! "mom i'm hidening. come find me"...) He calls Burger King- King Burger and Toilet paper has occasionally been called Paper Toilet. Oh, and his newest is a strange but cute one. He calls the dash in a phone number a "crumb"...555 -crumb- 1212. I have no idea where he got that word, but he is 100% sure that is what the dash is called!

This little boy is turning 4 this week! FOUR! and he's learned so many words.
But by far the best thing he says (at least to date) is when he puts his arms around me and says "i can love you if you want!"

3/28

i just looked at the calendar. it is 3/28...
2 yrs ago today was the day i found out i was having TWINS! I remember finding out i was having 2 babies AND going on immediate bedrest/home nursing care just a few mins later and how i was so scared and freaking out about having to take care of M too who was a week shy of 2 yrs old. Funny how at the time it seemed like such a huge BURDEN! ack. When i think of it now, it makes perfect sense....i was growing TWO HUMAN BEINGS and the sacrifices were small potatoes. it seemed like such a long time (2 1/2 months on midline catheter meds/in bed 24 hours a day....) but when i think of it now, seems like it flew by....and now i have my beautiful 17 month old holy terrors!

crazy!

zzzzzzzzzz

S*L*E*E*P

I just cant get my schedule to allow enough time for this hot commidity! Especially this week. From the time i got up on Friday morning (7am) until I went to bed last nite at 10p...i had only managed to get a combined ELEVEN HOURS of sleep! Between a crazy weekend at work and a sick Baby K (complete with 2 visits to the pediatrician and pharmacy waiting for various perscriptions)..and normal weekend activities SLEEP was pretty much a bust!

Tried to catch up last nite but both babies seemed to have different ideas. J was up a few times and then K was up after that. {sigh} Guess that's what you sign up for when you have kids.

Must be why God supplied the earth with COFFEE. had to make sure there was a natural supply of caffine around to keep parents functioning!


:o)