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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!!!

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Pity Party

Lately I hate the playground. I wish there was a playground only for little ones…kids under 3. Although I’m sure if there was people would bring big kids there anyway. You can tell alot about how a child is being raised by the way they treat other children especially younger ones. We’ve encountered a lot of bad bad children lately and it makes me sad. Not only for them but for Lennox. He doesn’t understand and only wants to play and be included. It breaks my heart when older kids are mean to him. He is such a loving fun kid. I’ve even tried explaining to the older kids that he isn’t trying to mess up their games he just looks up to them and wants to be a big boy like them. Doesn’t work though 🙁 There is play group of sorts at the library we are going to start going to ..it’s only his age group. I’m hoping that will be more fun.

I think my hormones are messing around again. I’ve been so up and down with no middle ground. One minute the world is wonderful and my life couldn’t be better. Then the next I’m so depressed I just sit and cry for no reason. Being pregnant, a mom, and a wife is hard enough… I could do with out the daily hormone rollercoasters

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Beautiful Moment

I just experienced one of the most beautiful moments of my life.

I put Lennox down to sleep around 8 and he woke up around 10 (which rarely happens these days) Usually if he wakes up we wait a bit and let him put himself back to sleep. This time I didn’t hesitate to get up and check on him. His room was stinky. I picked him up and poor thing was stinky to. So I decided to change him in the dark. As soon as I got his diaper off I could smell the stomach acid – diaper rash 🙁 I called to Evan to bring in the diaper rash cream. As soon as Lennox saw him – his arms flew up. All cleaned up Evan picked him up and I stood up to kiss his head when he reached out and pulled me close and held my shoulder. I stood there for a moment then moved to leave. He freaked out. So back I came and again he reached out, pulled me close. So I put one arm around him and one around Evan and pressed my check to his head. There in the dark the three of us stood swaying as Evan hummed along with ocean sounds crashing softly around us. It really felt like a family and that Lennox understood what that meant. I’m overwhelmed with love for he and Evan as I go to sleep tonight. What a good day!

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Attention All Pregnant Women

While complaining about my growing belly… my husband says “Just be happy babies don’t grow in your butt” Can you imagine if that was where we grew babies…one in each cheek! Esh- No Thank You.