Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Growing so FAST!


Its official. Our baby girl is now a Bum Genius user. She went from newborn onsies to 3 month clothes in a matter of MINUTES!
As much as we want our baby girl to grow to that talkative, run around toddler that we know she is going to be, we are loving the stage that she is at now. She has now replaced her blank stares with focusing and following objects, cooing at Mommy after feedings (I belive that its her way of saying "thank you"), and is usually awake more than she is asleep.
We have to say, we are proud of our little daughter. She is sleeping through the night...6-7 hours! She is AMAZING! :)
When Grammie comes over, she has Sam work hard on her tummy time. (Mommy is not so good at doing that with her yet...) Sam can handle it for about 5 minutes! Pretty good!!!
Our baby is growing faster than we would like, but we are loving every minute of it!!!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Eye Opener...

I was busy making my lunch today when I heard the dog across the alley barking.  Not unusual. (the dog is annoying...)  Then she started barking furiously.  When I looked out the window there was a little girl, no older than 8, on her bike FLICKING the dog off.  Really?  You're going to flick a dog off?  Really?  You're 8 years old!!!  Who taught that to you and why does your MOTHER think its ok that you know something like that??? 
 Obviously this dog does not like you by her property.  Please leave.  So she started to ride away on her bike.  She must have decided that she wasn't done with the dog and got off her bike and started yelling at the dog.  Ok, that I understand.  And the dog stopped barking (for a second).  I don't know what the girl said, but that dog is obnoxious.  ALWAYS barking.  Then she walked away.  The dog didn't stop.  So she proceeded to go back to the house and she STARTED CLIMBING THE FENCE.  
I step in.  I open our door.  Finnegan charges for the fence (he HAS to know why that dog is barking so much).  I tell the little girl that she needs to get off and continue to ride her bike.  She doesn't live there and that is not her dog.  She needs to move on.  She does. And she watches me the whole time.  

Its scary what kids know now.  I don't think I knew what "flicking off" was.  My middle finger was just the tallest finger when I was 8.  It had no meaning.  
I'm pretty aware what kids know.  I have worked with them since I was 15.  I'm not dumb.  They're not dumb.  But its still an eye opener everytime.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Being a mother is a very busy job.  The day flies by and you don't even realize that its dinner time because the last time you looked at the clock, it was lunch time. (and whoops, between feedings and diaper changes and naps, you forgot to eat!)  There are many days that the word, Mom, is not even in my vocabulary because I don't realize that I am one.

Then there is a day like today.  I am extremely exhausted because Greg and I are not getting to bed on time.  Feeding Sam is a blur.  But then she falls asleep on me.  I look down as she is snoring away on my stomach and think, "gosh, I'm the luckiest Mom alive".  Because I am.  With a little touch from Greg and me, God has made a beautiful little girl that I can proudly say is my daughter.  And what's even better, I can proudly say I'm her Mom.  :)