The "Sharing Feelings" Series

After reading my friend Kristen's post entitled Sharing Feelings, I was motivated to share my own! So, you have been sufficiently warned. This isn't something that I would say I do very often on a public scale, but I thought maybe it would hopefully be therapeutic.

1. I realized that I don't always allow myself to enjoy myself. If the kids are napping and I feel like watching a movie, I sometimes feel bad about that! Mostly, because of all of the other things that I have to do. I do it anyway, but that doesn't stop me from feeling a little guilty.

2. Being a stay at home mom is so interesting. Most jobs have paychecks. In my other jobs that I have had in my life, the paycheck was the big motivator. Well, I don't get a paycheck for cleaning my bathroom, or grocery shopping, or making dinner, or changing a million diapers in one day (sidenote: I really am amazed at how fast diapers can create 'diaper mountain'). So, what then is my motivation???!!! I would have to say that typically I act out of necessity, I mean the smell of those diapers is enough to motivate almost anyone! In an ideal world a mother's paycheck would be feeling appreciated. But, of course we can't always count on that. I have to admit though, a regular paycheck would be nice.
3. I have to fight with Quincey on almost every single aspect of our day. Transitions seem to be so tough on him. He is the type that you have to fight to get in the tub and than fight to get him out. I fight to get him in the car, I fight to get him out. Getting dressed, getting undressed and so on. The best tool that I found for it all was distraction, but as illustrated by my last post, he has caught onto that now, and it doesn't really work anymore. So, I have to think of some new tactics.

Okay that is a good start for now! Not nearly perfected in the art of 'tell-all', but practice makes perfect!

And here are a couple of pictures:

This is the famous Jeep that all of the boys wanted to play in. Barbie, nonetheless.

My girl is crazy for spaghetti.

That Little Stinker!!!

Quincey is the master of distraction. Today we were at a friends house and Q really wanted to sit in the drivers seat of this really cool toy jeep, and he went through all kinds of measures to try to get in the drivers seat to the point of violence. I kept trying to get Quincey interested in other things, like playing with the balls, or the sandbox, but nothing worked. Finally Quincey said to his friend, Jackson, (who was sitting in the drivers seat) "Jackson, do you want to go play with the balls with me?" And Jack agreed. So they both started to head over there. But as soon as Q saw that the coast was clear he ran back to the jeep to sit in the coveted driving position. Hmmm.... not so sure what to do with that.

Chicka Boom Boom Pow!

We've been pretty busy here! Lots of good things. I did have my birthday on Saturday, and it was a very nice day. It is so nice to be thought of by so many people. Maiya has officially started crawling. She is quite the little perfectionist. She has to have her skills perfect before she will show them off. I am still trying to get a good video of it. I do have one, but it is pretty shaky. She crawls so cute. She puts both of her hands in front of her, and than drags both of her feet behind her. I am also pleased to announce that she has not bitten me since my last post. So, I guess she learned her lesson. She can also wave hello and good bye. Her top two teeth have finally broken through, so hopefully she will calm down a bit, the last couple of weeks have been pretty rough on her.

Quincey has been a lot of fun lately... he is learning about a million words per minute. His favorite song is Boom Boom Pow by the black eyed peas. (that has nothing to do with my influence at all! lol.) And we rented Madagascar 2 once and now everything is.. 'Chicka What?' And Winnie the Pooh all of a sudden became Chicka Pooh! He cracks me up. (I have all of this in the video below.) He also got to go on top of the roof with his Uncle. He still can't stop talking about that.

We only had a '2' candle, so here is me holding up the 8 ;)

Quince on the roof

Sweet Maiya

Quincey Chatting


Maiya Crawling

Free songs

Go here and use the code BEAUTYBEAT and you can choose to download 6 songs for free from a list of about 10. I really like the songs that I downloaded! :)

And go here to download the entire Colplay live album (Left right left) for free. I love listening to them live! Happy Listening!

(sorry, the link should work now!)

Pics and Updates!

This is what I do when I am bored and craving chocolate at the same time. Too bad I bit too much off of the 'N'.

This was the Rose that I got for Mother's Day, which Quincey broke right after I got it.

This was the breakfast in bed that Geren made for me on Mother's Day, which I ate at the table.


And my pretty baby girl! Who happens to be 9 months old today!!! She is major teething right now, her top 4 teeth are all really swollen. (She has 3 bottom teeth already). And she bit me for the first time while nursing her last night! And I freaked! When that happened with Quincey, he thought it was flippin' hilarious, but poor sensitive Maiya couldn't stop crying for a long while. (But that didn't stop her from doing it again today).
She is sure trying to crawl right now, she gets herself on her knees and rocks and rocks... so maybe soon.

Special Features

Quincey loves Spider-Man. He has a Spider-Man shirt and place mat, and he likes to look at our Spider-Man DVD's. Well, he always wants to watch the disc with the picture of the Green Goblin on it, which happens to be the special features disc. When I explain this to him he gets real excited and exclaims in a gruff voice of Awe and wide eyes.... 'Special Features!' (yeah, not sure he really gets what that means...)
Well, now if someone talks about Spiderman to him, he often will say excitedly, "SPECIAL FEATURES!!!"

What a goof.

Free Potty Training Charts

For those with Potty Training in their future, I found these free Potty Training Charts that got Quincey excited today (I printed off the Cars one). I told him that it was for every time he goes to the potty and to my surprise, he ran in the bathroom and pulled down his pants and got on the potty and sat there while we looked at the pictures. He didn't go, but it was fun to see him excited about it! Normally if he hears/ sees/ smells anything about a potty he runs... so we will see! Just thought I would share in case it will help someone else too!