Growing up

Febuary 16th, 2009

Tonight I’m thinking about my little girl.  My angel.  My little, teenie, weenie, cutie pie, honey bunch.  She’s growing up too fast.  She started crawling only about a month ago.  Then she pulled herself up to standing not two days after crawling.  We thought it was cute at the time.

Since then she hasn’t been pulling up that often. Only about once or twice a day maybe.  I don’t think she was really ready for it.  She would only end up on her two wobbling legs when she was trying to reach something and mostly, accidently ended upright. Kinda like falling up.

Now today she’s figured out how to easily pop up at will.  I was sitting in front of her on the floor and she was sitting facing me.  She put her hands on my legs, just a couple inches from the floor, and stood up.  All the way up without using my hands as leverage or balance.  Then she stood there for about 15 seconds, working her little waist, hips, and arms, before she lost her balance. She looked at me with such a look of pride.  She was so happy with herself and my heart exploded with pride too.  Then I realized OMG!!!!  NOOOOO!  TOO FAST!!

I’ve just gotten used to her crawling around.  And she’s so cute how she “stomps” her hands when she’s upset that we’ve left the room and she has to follow us by herself. We didn’t take her with us automatically and in her mind that’s abandonment.  I’m not ready for her to stomp her feet.  NOT YET!  Since that moment today she’s been on a mission to pull up on everything she sees that is higher than an inch off the ground.  Then she gets stuck.  She doesn’t know what to do or how to get down from her upright position.  Only a couple times has she landed on her butt.  Then the look she gets is of pure disgust.

So instead of taking a chance on bruising her ego, and her tooshie, she will just scream until I rescue her.  She has me trained on so many other things, this one was easy.  Let out a pitiful whine and Mama will come to her and replace her on her butt. Then she stands right up again.  She seems to like the standing up part but not the standing still part.  (That’s ok sweet darling, just keep getting stuck because that means you still need me…for now) She tried to stand up in the bath tub tonight.  Of course I was right there to plop her back down with a splash.  She thought that was kinda funny and tried again but then got mad at me when I told her “no”.  She’s very aware that the sound of the word “no” means that she has to quit doing something she’s not ready to quit doing.  I’m afraid to say it but she’s as head strong as her Mama.

That’s who I put to bed tonight in her little yellow and pink footie pj’s.  My little girl.  8-3/4 months young and growing up way too quickly.  Maybe I can tell her “no” and she’ll listen.  Probably not.

Grand Avenue

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Ok, so I may not have been on a true vacation. You know. Digging my toes into warm sand. Disolving into a trashy beach romance novel that makes my husband blush when I read the cover page to him.  Drinking fu fu drinks with umbrella’s.  But in many ways I’d like to imagine my computer baby was. And now I’m finding it hard to dig my heals in and get back to work. I’m stuck in the electronic muck.

The Buckets

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Gee, I can’t wait!  But knowing EJ she will turn herself into a dog.  I think she thinks she is one. She keeps trying to eat things off the floor by getting down on all fours and licking the tiles.  ARRRGGGG!  and  EWWWWW!

Pickles

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For you dad!  You never did look good in pink.  *wink*

B.C.

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Hey, I’d consider jumping too if I was genetically designed to not be able to wipe my own butt and then being forced to smell it with my large olfactory senses… Just sayin’….

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HaPPy WeeKEnD EvERyONe!

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After the last few days dealing with the Twitter and Facebook hacking I’m sure this hits home with many of you.

Dog eat Doug

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Man’s best friend for a reason.  What? Did you think they really liked us?  We dip them in flea baths and make them poop outside in the rain.  They just want the easy access viddles! That’s why I’m a cat lover. At least my cat is honest about her distain for me.

Dog eat Doug

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Hmmm, toilet fish anyone? OK, even I can admit that that’s just… ewww!

The Buckets

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And we now know why Mom’s are geniuses!

Prickly City

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Amen! And if that didn’t make you snort then check this post I wrote a few months ago. (Beware, don’t drink any liquids when reading or you will risk shooting snot rockets onto your computer screens.)

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HaPPy WeeKEnD EvERyONe!

1. Watermelon is my favorite summertime snack because I find it fun to spit seeds at everything to see if they will stick.  My husband, my favorite target, is not a very big fan of watermelon.  Hmmm, I wonder why?

2. My favorite John Hughes movies is Weird Science. I can watch it over and over and never get tired. I simply love the ending with the giant popcorn scene! Also because I start gagging when I have to sit through 2 hours of Molly Ringwalds “fake angry” look in many of his other movies.

3. My daughter’s head, feet, arms, little button nose… is something I love to touch.

4. The full moon made me go into labor!  Beware of full moons! The are full of werewolves and pregnant women howling!

5. My husband is downstairs making a really nice smelling breakfast and I’m not there to help him eat it right now.

6. When daylight fades so do I.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to fading with the daylight, tomorrow my plans include trying to catch a John Hughes flick, even a Molly movie will do, and Sunday, I want to go to the pool and spit some watermelon seeds at my husband!

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A couple weeks ago I received and offer and request to review Piggy Paints, a non-toxic, kid-friendly nail polish.  When I saw this request I’ll admit to giving off a little giggle “tee hee”.  Ever since EJ arrived on this planet (I’m still not certain that I actually gave birth to her sometimes)and I got a look at those cute little toes, I’ve been going on and on about how much I wanted to paint them.  But my dear hubby had different ideas and told me he didn’t want me to.  He was worried about the toxins and everything bad that comes in a bottle of pretty paint.  And who can blame him? Regular nail polishes smell like everything from death to formaldehyde, which is close to death.  But when this offer came along to try out Piggy Paints I let him take a look at their website and his steal trap mind was opened… and changed.

Piggy Paints is advertised to be as safe as mud. This put me at ease because even if it went on her feet she would still find a way to shove it in her mouth. It’s non-toxic, odor-less, water-based, and hypo-allergenic.  It’s ingredients are a combination of things you find on this planet and are not made up of chemicals that will eat holes in you.  After reading about how safe Piggy Paints is I knew that if my daughter decided to stick her freshly painted toe in her mouth she would be fine.  And to top off how great the polish is they also have polish remover that is non-toxic too!  I will forever be tossing out my nasty removers and will be keeping Piggy Paints polish remover on my shelves.

Another thing I really liked about the Piggy Paints website is how they give you great ideas as to how to accomplish painting those wee little wiggling toes. And how, when they get older, letting them paint their own toes can help with everything from their fine motor skills to color recognition.  So not only was my daughter going to end up with the even cuter toes she was going to learn something!

A few days after I accepted the offer to review Piggy Paints I received this little package in the mail filled with recycled peanuts and a beautiful bottle of purple sparkly polish. There was also a bottle of their polish-remover.  The first thing I did was take a sniff of course and… nothing.  No nasty sinus burning smell. Really! Nothing! I can’t tell you how reassuring that was.  So after careful planning and some references to their website again for some last minute hints as to how I would accomplish painting my dear daughters toes I set forth.  I put her in her highchair with her favorite snack and proceeded to umm… paint.  Let me elaborate on my “umm”.  I painted the chair, my fingers, the bottoms of her feet, and yes I did manage to paint her toenails too.  I know this sounds messy but something else I found I really liked about this product was how easy it wiped off of the areas that it got smudged on to while trying to paint the toes of my wiggling one year old.  The directions say to apply 2-3 thin coats but 1 was all I could manage before she started behaving like I was trying to chop her toes off with a purple laser beam.  But I did it!  And one coat was plenty to turn my dear darling EJ’s toes pretty sparkling purple.   My first attempt is admittedly a little sloppy but hay…she’s a one year old.  You try to paint a one year olds toes and see what happens.

Over all I’m very happy with this product and VERY excited about the safety of it.  I love knowing that the extra paint that got on her skin isn’t going to leach bad toxins into her body.  I love being able to paint her little toes regardless how messy we got. I love that now we have matching toes because I did mine too.  What? Did you think I wouldn’t?  So this moms opinion of Piggy Paints is a solid 5 stars.

Piggy Paints polish retails for $9.99 and the Piggy Paints polish remover for $10.50.  Not bad when you consider the safety of it all. There are also some great little gift packages you can purchase for various prices. They also offer FREE shipping on all orders over $25 to anywhere in the world.  With my review they have also allowed me to offer my readers a 15% discount on anything on their website including sale items.  Just use the code JOY15L.  But hurry, they are only letting me offer this till September 15th, 2009.

Have fun polishing to little toes!  I did!

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Life Lesson # 3

Never get into a fight with a tennis skirt if you’re not tall enough to wear it.

“UGG!”

“ARGGG!”

“IT’S GOT MY HEAD!!!”

“WHEW!”
(That’s the leg hole she finally managed to wiggle her head out of.)

The look of pride on her face shows clearly that she feels she “won” her battle.

And then I felt proud too. (heart: thump, thump, thump!)

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I am a housewife (and SAHM).  With real housewife duties. I must clean using real products and not just blow the dust off the surfaces. I must actually change the sheets on the beds and not just spray them with Fabreeze. (I love Fabreeze) I must clean the toilets unless I want sewer rats in my bathrooms.  And finally, I must do laundry unless I want my child to be naked and my husband is forced to wear swim trunks for underwear.

This is a promise I am making to myself.  If I accomplish all of my goals I will not only be the most amazing housewife on Earth but will also deserve a HUGE scoop of ice cream at the end of the day.  In a clean bowl!!!

Speed Bump

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I always say babies speak in their own language.  They are all born smart little creatures!  I wonder what happens between birth and adulthood that makes us forget the little things like remembering to use spell check before you hit the publish button?  OH WAIT! I know, we have smart babies and they suck the brains out of our bodies rendering us pod people. No one wrote about that one in any baby book.

Dog eat Doug

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It’s not?!!?  I am now sad and must go eat some red dye #40 and kill some brain cells to compensate and make myself feel better.

B.C.

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Ah ha!  That must be what also happens to adult life forms, along with having babies, that makes us nincompoops.

Rudy Park

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Ah yes! I could do this everyday!  It’s my husband that gets me in trouble.  ”Honey, have you seen this one?….”  It’s almost as brain sucking as childbirth and puberty.

Dog eat Doug

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Childbirth, puberty, AND diaper pail fumes!  That can be as toxic as being locked in a closet with a case of spray paint.

Dog eat Doug

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Told you babies were smarter than adults. We spend all our time trying to clean, clean, clean.  Clean ourselves, our living spaces, our kids.  If we just all give in to nature and enjoy the dirt a little bit I think the world would be a much better place…. Just leave me my deoderant and toothbrush… cuz… ya know! We wouldn’t want to offend ourselves and have furry teeth. OH, and I’ll need my razor too. Just because the hair can get itchy and who can enjoy nature if your itchy. And while we’re at it I might as well keep that really great smelling body wash that I bought last week. Its supposed to relax my soul.  I can enjoy being natural better if I’m more relaxed. And don’t forget the shampoo and conditioner!

WHEW! This gettin’ back to nature thing is a bitch!

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Since yesterday I got a little snarky and maudlin I was really excited about today’s very important topic. Today’s post will focus only on the POSITIVES in my life!

What! Wait! Why is she flipping gears like this??? PMS???  No my friends, just a little bit of POSITIVE inspiration.

When a wonderful blogger named Jen from Dust Bunny Hostage posted this idea last week I immediately put it on my calender.  Her beautiful daughter had and epiphany one day! We focus too much on the negatives in life.  Thus is human nature I suppose. But as a young fresh mind reminded us all that day, we need to take time out of our frustrating daily lives to focus on the POSITIVES.  She told her mother that when she became President in 2032 she would instate a national POSITIVE Day.  Her likewise brilliant mother thought, why wait? So here we find ourselves today July 31, 2009 and it’s a great day to share our POSITIVE feelings with each other and be POSITIVE about each other feelings.  I’m loving starting my day off with this kind of sharing.

To start, I’m POSITIVELY thrilled and in love with my wonderful, generous husband. Even when I’m hormonal and feeling in the dumps he always tries his hardest to make my life better. Even if it’s just a big bear hug that he gives me, the day I met him is the day I added true meaning to my life. And I am also POSITIVELY privileged that he does care to ask me what I’m writing about and that he supports me fully. (yesterday’s post) And as he reads this I truly want him to know how much I love him.

I’m also POSITIVELY amazed and blessed and also head over heals in love with my beautiful daughter.  I never knew life could be so fulfilling until she came along into mine. Everyday, with every smile she shares with me she reminds me of why I exist. With every butterfly kiss she gives me she makes my heart grow.  Everyday I look forward to sharing with her the POSITIVES of the world and, just like Jen’s daughter did, I look forward to her teaching me what true POSITIVITY is.

Whew! After unloading those ULTIMATE POSITIVE feelings I feel rather silly about going on about how I feel POSITIVELY blessed to be able to play tennis and that my body still allows me to do this.  I feel POSITIVELY blessed that I have a solid roof over my head and a soft bed to sleep in.  I feel POSITIVELY blessed that I woke up today so I could enjoy this day of POSITIVITY!  Ok, maybe that’s not so silly.

Come on everybody! Let’s go shake our neighbor’s hand and say hi! Let’s be nice to the check out clerk at the grocery store, can you imagine all the NEGATIVE people they encounter everyday? Let’s give them a break.  There are so many other people we encounter everyday, even if we don’t leave our homes, and there are so many ways we can spread this feeling of POSITIVITY with the world. We just have to try a bit harder. Not too hard.  Ahhh, there we go, that’s just right!

If you would like to join the POSITIVITY glee club and tell us all what you are thankful for and what makes your glass half full go over and visit Jen’s little corner of the bloggosphere and learn more.  It’s a true POSITIVE experience!

The most heart wrenching one of all, and where I try my hardest not to get huffy, is when Hubby asks me what I’m writing about. Bless him, I know he’s just trying to be interested in what I’m doing but until I have officially hit the spell check and read what I wrote five times and/or hit the publish button then I really don’t want anyone to hear or read or know what I’m writing. What I’ve written is still in my private thoughts until I hit publish and make them public.

When I give up on working around Hubby then EJ will find me and she thinks its terribly amusing to try to type with Mommy.  When I’ve tried to get some work done with her around almost everything ends up looking caeAVC…LIKE.AgrfaWDwa thisaDAS.   Then there is the constant unplugging and plugging in of my power cord.  My computer doesn’t like it at all and will protest this invasion by slowing waaaay dooown so when I hit a key nothing happens. Then I re-type that key and nothing happens, again. Then it catches up and we have tttthiiisss.