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Story Time Fun

So I took Lennox to another story group today… and had a very different experience. Completely torn between embarrassment and amusement, I have yet to decide if we should go back. My beautiful exuberant 18 month old couldn’t not sit still or pay attention to save his life. He couldn’t get far enough away from me or visit with more people. We sang songs – he ran around in circles. We listened to stories illustrated on a felt board- he stood along side the board pulling things off as the nice leader man put them on. The leader guy was so nice… telling us let them (kids)run around (in my direction) This is not for sitting and listening this is for interacting and teaching you (us moms)things you can do at home. I guess he could tell my embarrassment…in a room full of children all seated quietly with their moms were Lennox & I(not seated not quiet) Then I thought about it for a minute. I’m not going to be embarrassed! I’m doing a good job… it’s not that Lennox is not well behaved- it’s that he’s not shy and very secure in himself. I made him secure enough that we can enter a room full of strangers and he can take off and not look back – happy as a clam 🙂 Sometimes it would be nice if he was just a little shy… just enough to keep him close to me in public. Or even if he stopped for a few minutes (which he only does while sleeping).

Then we went to the park afterward (it’s right next to the library). A lot of the kids and moms from story time were there. Oh fun! I got more “boy he sure is active” – with that look… that disapproving
you’re a bad mom look. Well excuse me for not having a boring, lame as#, no personality, insecure, whinny baby! Ok so that’s a little harsh..really I just say PISS OFF!!!! I’m glad my son is his own person and has enough personality for 10 people. Our lives are never boring and he’s going to be someone great one day. So I think we will go back – Lennox sure does enjoy it – and who cares what other people think. Maybe we’ll get kicked out… what a story for his baby book that would be.

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BBQ & Horse Shoes

Today was good day… we had friends over for an early celebration of Evan’s birthday (which is Wednesday). We don’t get together as much as I’d like but when we do it’s always lots of fun. It’s so weird being the only ones with kids in our group (no other kids coming any time soon). We always end up talking about Lennox and having babies – which of course I love to talk about because I don’t have much else going on right now(not sure if you girls realize how much it means to me when you are interested in the whole kid thing – makes me feel not so boring). It is just so nice to have an adult conversation… no matter what we talk about! I enjoy it immensely and didn’t realize how much I miss good conversations.

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Blahdy Blahh Blah

Rain + Dogs + Lennox + No Electricity = not a fun day 🙁 We went to target to waste some time… I like wandering these days. I look at carseats, bassinets, bouncy seats… clothes – well you know. It’s always a good brain exercise comimg up with ways to keep Lennox happy so I can concentrate on poking and prodding carseats. Today, first a his size basketball and then a big boy football…then two bags of peanut butter crackers. Oh yeah I’m a good mom keeping my kid busy with food! He was a very good boy though (well for the most part) I’m just so excited for Aidan to get here that looking at that stuff gives me something exciting to do that relates to him. It’s hard with the second pregnancy because with the first everything is exciting and there is so much planning and reading and getting ready it takes the whole nine months. The second one you’ve already read everything, have almost all the gear you need, and if your having another of the same sex then you even have the clothes. So what’s left? I keep changing things in our house…furniture set up, cleaning strange things – like taking down all our blinds and washing them in the tub. I’m lucky to have such a patient husband, because of course I can’t move furniture or get the blinds down myself. We’ve gotten to the point now that there isn’t much I can change, so I’ve become more into window shopping.

I’m torn between carseats…we have to get a new infant carseat because a cat we USED to have peed in the last one. Ok so I’m not really torn but the one I want is pretty expensive…but it’s got memory foam and feels so comfy. Is memory foam worth twice the cost of one without? I can’t really rationalize it – so no. The evenflo embrace seems like a nice compromise though. It’s cushiony yet affordable. Oh the things that take up your thoughts in motherhood. Like how I need a rocking bassinet, because it will fit perfectly next to our bed and we won’t have to kick bub out of his bed too early. I truly feel like I need it…like it’s some how going to make those first few months of infancy easier – you know since it rocks and all. Letting pregnant women make decisions is really not a good idea. We are normally very level headed and responsible people. During pregnancy that all goes out the window and something else takes over. I’m not really sure what or who…

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Hmmpp…

So washing the floor with Lennox as a helper seemed liked a fun and good idea… until he took ownership of the bucket and dumped it! Things turned from fun to really NOT FUN! Note to self, Lennox is to young to play responsibly with buckets of water – umm – duh!

On a totally unrelated note… I’m completely in love with kalahari zambezi red chai. It’s naturally caffeine free and antioxidant rich. I believe it is made by angels and sent from God 🙂 I drink it all day long – mmmm-with honey and milk. Actually red tea of any kind is wonderfully amazing. We have this new loose tea store in the mall that was put there by the devil. Everything in that store tastes, smells, and looks way too good! Evan and I got some custom mixes from there and we are hooked. Luckliy for the monkey on my back – I found the kalahari, it lives at the grocery store and is much less expensive. We could easily go bankrupt with too many visits to teavana.

Ps. I’m glad I’m not a bus driver! I would hit things a lot and probably never be on time – due to the fact that I would always be lost.

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Story Time

Lennox and I went to our first story time at the library today. It was so much fun!! You wouldn’t think 50 some odd 1 and 2 year olds in one room being read to would be fun – but it was. They were all so attentive and well behaved. Even Lennox, who I wasn’t sure would be. I was thinking with all the kids around his age he might blow a fuse. Nope he sat and listened and stood and sang songs (sorta) in between stories. It was great…strongly recommend taking kids to story time at the library. So that having gone so well and the fact that is was an amazingly beautiful day I decided to take Lennox to the park. Not just any park but the nice one we have to drive to 🙂 It’s in a nice neighborhood at the edge of a large green field, surrounded by magnolias and evergreens. It even smells like honeysuckles! On this particular day it was full of Lennox size people all just as excited to see him as he was to see them. I haven’t made any mommy friends since we’ve moved here so Lennox & I haven’t been able to do a lot of play dates. When ever we go to the park I’m always hopefull but nothing so far. Mostly because we don’t run into a lot of mommies with kids even close to Lennox’s age… or there’s a language barrier. I’m hopping we’ll make friends at the story times… I keep my fingers crossed.

We came home to the best phone call I’ve had in a long time. The hospital that did Lennox’s surgery reviewed our aplication for financial hardship and approved us. Which means we owe nothing…that’s right nothing! I almost started to cry as I thanked the nice lady on the phone. It was like winning the lottery – this would have been a dept that would take years to pay off. In minutes that dept was gone!!!