Christmas Challenge: Day 12

Day 12: Your favorite Christmas song.

It's hard to pick just one so I'll list several of my favorites:

~ Carol of the Bells
~ Jingle Bells
~ Any Trans-Siberian Orchestra music (especially Christmas Canon Rock - adore it!)
~ It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (because it is, duh!)
~ Silver Bells

I love all Christmas music! I'm one of those people - ya'know the ones who start listening to Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving and don't stop until New Year's Day. Heck, I've been known to bust out the Christmas music in June!!


I am especially loving Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer this year ... S & I sing it together :)

Lessons from the ST.

Times when S always tells me he loves me:

When he is eating
When I am wiping his bum.

I adore him.

Slay Me With Cuteness

Ok, ok I don't wear jewelry that much, but I adore jewelry. Love necklaces, as I said ... don't wear them that often. With these? I'd wear them everyday. Everyday.

Recently I entered a giveaway for some jewelry or a gift certificate. It required going to Turtle Love Co. to look at the jewelry offered. Along the way I feel in love with this necklace:

Adore it! So cute! Little! Makes me think of S! What's not to love?!

That spurred my memory of another necklace I've been dying to have for quite awhile now.
This baby:

O.M.G. I die. Adorable! Cuddly and oh so sweet. I need it.

So I started looking through the MaryMaryHandmade shop and I see more adorable necklaces...

(makes me think of Mandy - she loves narhwals and everytime I see one I think of her. .... this would look super cute on her - not that she isn't super cute to begin with ... she is. ... oh boy quite talking kiki, you sound like a superfan)

oh the platypus ... I just want to name him Flutter, feed him, and pinch and kiss his little cheeks!
& now I want a platypus to play with.


 

(photo credits - click on any picture to go to photo source)

Lessons from the ST.

Was it last week or the week before? I'm not sure, but I had the best conversation with S.

We were sitting in the kitchen. I was feeding T. S didn't want a snack (yeahhh), but he wanted to sit in his chair next to me.
He's adorable and so sweet when he wants to be with me. He just looks up at me and says "Kiki, I love you." & I melt and tell him I love him.


But that's not the best part... I was in between giving T bites of her cereal and I glanced at S just in time to see his finger in his nose. "Oh, no S!" I exclaimed and glanced back at T. She was still gumming her cereal.
So, I returned my attentions to S in time to see his finger in his mouth... the same finger that had been in his nose. Ew!

"S! Were you eating your boogers? Don't do that!"
S replies very indignantly, "I wasn't eating it, I was tasting it!"

I about fell out of my chair. No exaggeration here. Seriously, I had no idea how to respond to that!! It was hilarious!
So I replied, "Well, don't taste them either" all the while chuckling and I'm sure he could tell. So much for getting my point across!
I just sat and laughed while T ate the rest of her cereal.

This kid is amazing.

Lessons from the ST.

So I'm a little behind on the posting. What's new? :)


Monday was a great day - everyday with S & T is a great day.

Learned a few more things:
~ With two active little ones I'm less of an entertainer and more of a referee. As in: "No, leave her blocks alone." "No, T don't put S's shark in your mouth." "Come back here!" "No hitting." "No, she didn't mean to take your shark away.... she's little and doesn't understand."
~ It's still a little crushing when a 3 year old points out a pimple. It is a little endearing though. "Kiki, you have a boo-boo like me." ... S said ... pointing to my face ... while I try to explain why he just had a timeout. Sometimes I'm sure he knows just how to change the topic. 
~ It takes a long time to convince a 3 year old anything. A. Long. Time.

&
~ Poop is still fun :)

Lessons from the ST.

Today S taught me that stingrays eat bumblebees. & no amount of coaxing will get a child to eat vegetables. Even the prize of a hot dog.

It was a good day!

Also learned that fussy babies are still adorable babies.


Bisous, Kiki

So I need to get back into this...

Here goes!

Today I babysat - love them!
Hired the wedding photographer.
& had dinner and watched a tv show with the love of my life.

Happy 8 Years Josh! I can't wait to marry you.
109 days to go!

Bisous, Kiki

Lessons from the ST.

I've decided to start a new ... "series."

Lessons from S & T. It's a play on words ... S&T ... ST. ... St. .... Saint ... get it? lol

Every single time I watch them I learn something new. It may be huge or it may just be a little something.
Some of the lessons I've learned:

Babies stop crying eventually. While T is a marvelous baby there was one time she was very cranky (hey happens to every baby! & me too). She wouldn't stop crying. I was so sad I couldn't fix her problems for her. But then? She just stopped. I guess she just needed to let it all out! But I realized ... even when it's bad all babies stop crying eventually. She really didn't cry for long, but it was enough for me to learn the lesson.

Also here's a good lesson: When the older brother is way too quiet in the living room while you are rocking younger sister to sleep in the bedroom he may or may not have gotten into the Easter chocolate candy. Then he will come into the bedroom... grin at you with chocolate ALL over his mouth ... it will be the most innocent grin & you can't help but laugh! & that will wake up baby sister. Sigh. ... She will go back to sleep though.
---- & while I was rocking her again I told S "You sit down right there right now." His reply? The most sheepish look & quiet little "I'm in trouble huh?" Oh my heart sank. & I wanted to roll on the floor laughing at the same time. It is one of my favorite memories with him! ♥

So today's lesson - Babies make everything better. Even when you are having an all around good day - it will get better when you rock her to sleep, feed her, watch her discover new things, and spend quality time talking. T is so much fun & I adore her. & she and her brother make my days better. Even the great ones get better when I see them!! & of course they cure my bad days too.

Next Thursday I'm due to sit again... more lessons then!


Bisous, Kiki

A Glimpse

On Thursday I got a great surprise - G asked me to watch S and T!! It was great fun! :)
I watch T a few times a week and then S once a week, but not usually together. The change was so much fun. I loved watching them both. It was a great Joy. (hehe) :)

Fast forward to today. I got a little glimpse into my future. I was gathering up clothes to put in the washer. I grabbed my pants I wore on Thursday and thought "need to wash those... spit-up and boogers on them."
Made me laugh to myself. ... I could see myself a few years in the future saying the same thing... about my own kids' spit-up and boogers :)

My Attempt at Art

All these were taken at The T's while watching my favorite little boy romp around in the yard - a.k.a. his favorite thing to do :)

The End.

It's the end of Birthday Week 2010.

It started out great.... It ended great (S time!!) ... but parts of it were sucky.

Oh well.





51 weeks to go until Birthday Week 2011.

My life is amazing

Birthday Week is off to a great start.
Sometimes the best things in life are not material...

except these are kind of material, but you get what I mean!

Happy Birthday card from S (thank you! I love you!). .... you can see he wrote his initials "S.T." at the bottom ... right, G? or! maybe he was signing for T too??
(I'm convinced that's what it is... & now every time I look at it I see "S.T.")

and this from Josh. He's amazing. I love my "card!"

 Isn't he sweet??? He had this up as a surprise for me when I came home from staying with S.

It's a great Birthday Week!

Call me Krickle ... or Kricka (if you are yelling for me!)

I got to see my favorite 2 people today: S & T.

G needed to finish up some grading and runs some errands so I stayed with Mr. S today. :) Oh my... he is perfection rolled up into a loveable package that is always running around in a whirlwind.

He doesn't stop until he falls asleep ... and today was no exception.

He's 2 now and loves imaginative play. Today we were lions chasing each other. We played with Rex and Pokey (his dinos) and with the pig and bear (odd friendship, but hey it works!). I chased him back and forth through the house. We played with his train set, and finally, we read books :)

S had chicken and carrots for lunch, and he fell asleep while eating them. It was adorable. I took pictures (of course!) and he just looks so sweet.

He was exhausted! He didn't even wake up when I changed his diaper and his pants.

It really was the best way to start off my Christmas Break. S always makes me happy... it never fails. I always leave there completely happy.

Oh I got to see T ... she is perfection, too. So beautiful.


I love those little ones. So incredibly much.

Oh! I almost forgot ... the title. S has finally decided to call me by name. I now go by Krickle ... or Kricka if you are yelling at me as S so often does. "Kricka sit down!!" "Kricka come mere!!" ... and of course, I oblige him.

She's Here ... the newest love of my life

T has arrived!! 

I'm so excited and can't wait to meet her!!! I'm sure she's adorable just like her older brother!!

I can't wait to hold her and play with her! & kiss her little cheeks!

YAY!

Oh and she arrived on her Daddy's birthday... what a present!

Also, I went overboard on the "!s" ... but this deserves it!

Planning...

... is something I really love to do.

Unfortunately Josh doesn't much like to and I am stuck planning on my own.

Thanks to a very (very!) long nap by S yesterday I was able to plan out my entire 2010 school year. Ahhh! I love the feeling of a plan!

Spring 2010

• EDSS 4553 - Foundations and Mentoring in Social Studies
  
• EDSS 4563 - Teaching Secondary Social Studies
  
• SOC 3533 - The System of Criminal Justice
  
• SOC 3543 - Sociology of Deviance
• HIST 2223 - British Empire

May Intersession?

• SOC Elective - possibly Crime Scene Processing
  

Summer 2010

• Study for LSAT!

September 2010 - LSAT!

Fall 2010

• American HIST Elective
• P SC 2603 - Governments Around the World
  
• MUNM 3113 - World Music
  
• SOC
  
• SOC Elective?

Ahhhh isn't it beautiful??

Now back to S because really I'd just rather talk about him! He took a 3 hour ... 3 hour ... nap yesterday while I watched him. He woke up so incredilby happy and pretty much smiled and giggled the rest of the time I was there. We played in the tall grass out back, he handed me handfuls of dirt (thank you S!), he jumped and crawled and had the best time (and I did too!)

Of course, I had a wonderful time just watching him :) I really do enjoy staying with him...

::sigh:: that's the part of my plan I really don't like ... the part where I graduate and have to leave him :(

I wish I could come up with creative titles

It's going to be a long, exhaustive day.

Butttt! I get to see my favorite little boy and my mommy and sister!!

I am way too excited.

I have no idea how I am going to get this paper written and study for my test though.
::sigh:: I hate being a procrastinator. Hate. It.

My "Job" is Awesome

Urza (whom I am thinking of renaming) has always argued with me that my job of taking care of S is not a "job" ... because apparently if you love what you do then you are not working.

Now, I love that little guy so very much, but sometimes taking care of a kid IS WORK!

(Ir)Regardless(haha) of if you love them or not.
Anyone who says taking care of kids isn't work,... well they haven't actually taken care of kids before.

So yesterday I stayed with S and we had an amazing time eating apples & bunny crackers, dancing to music, building with blocks, playing with trains, and drawing.

I asked S to draw me a particular picture and this is what he drew me:


Now that drawing is of a particular animal and I want to give you a chance to guess what it is before I tell you.
What do you think it is??




It is ....
A horse :)



All that to say that my "job" is awesome.
Purely and fantastically awesome.

Project 52 - Week 2

Setting: Thursday afternoon - playing with S after his nap

We were playing and coloring. I started to draw shapes and had S name them for me (he's good at it!)

So I drew a rectangle...

Me: What is that S?

S: reckangle

Me: Good Job!!.... can you draw a rectangle?

S drew this (right under my square and rectangle)



Me: Wow S! Good job... you are so smart!

S: ..... I know!

:meltintoapuddlebecauseofuttercuteness:

I have a feeling that a lot of Project 52 will be about S.

Project 52 - Week 1

I have a friend on facebook that is posting a picture from her life every day for a year - it is her Project 365 - she got it from another friend.
I'd love to do that, but unfortunately I don't have the time to post a picture every single day.

So here's what I am going to do instead:
Project 52!! One picture a week. It will be posted on Sundays and be about the previous week.

Here's Week 1!




S recently had a birthday and he got an awesome train set from his Grandmama and Pops. So when I watched him last Thursday he was sleeping when I got there and I decided to put homework on hold.
I designed this track and put the little people out. I had a lot of fun playing with the train ... (::embarrassed face::)
I never had a train set as a child ... so I had to play with his.
Once S got up we played with it together and had a blast!!
Thank you to Grandmama and Pops for the awesome present for S ;)

2

S turned two today and I cried (only a little).

I'm more attached to that little boy that I ever thought I'd be! I guess watching him since he was 3 weeks old does that though. He's adorable and has changed so much in 2 years (obvs). I'm quite simply in love with him... :)
oh and you should hear the conversations we have :) hehe it's amazing!

His mom and dad had a little party for him tonight and I was invited (thank you!). We had vanilla cupcakes with chocolate icing (yummy!) and the best juice (which I am going out to buy tomorrow).

S got quite a few new (educational) toys from his mom, a bike seat from his dad, a train set, clothes, and a tiger from his grandparents ... and books from me. I'm the boring one eh? No, not really - S LOVES books. ... no, not just LOVES, but LOVES books and I got him a book of animals ... oh yeah! JACKPOT!