As soon as I can get it loaded, my post for tonight has been filmed with a new camera I purchased for our youth group. Stay tuned.
Here ya go. If it doesn’t work here, here is the link.
Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
As soon as I can get it loaded, my post for tonight has been filmed with a new camera I purchased for our youth group. Stay tuned.
Here ya go. If it doesn’t work here, here is the link.
Scott relays this conversation him and Emma had on the phone the other day…
E: I love you
S: How much do you love me?
E: 31! How much do you love me?
S: 100!
E: Wow, you must love me a lot.
So I am was feeling awfully proud of myself today. I mean, I literally saved over $100 in groceries today. I worked, I got the kids to preschool and back. I even made dinner. So I’m standing in the kitchen making the kids’ plates for dinner to carry them into the dining room and in runs Emma from the living room. She gets on her tip toes to see onto the counter, takes one look at her plate, scrunches her face and says, "Ew, yucky."
Glad I worked so many hours for such cheap groceries and made such an effort to plan the menu and then actually cook it all for that. Welcome to motherhood, right?
Finally, Emma has made it to 40 lbs. And in the great state of South Carolina, that means she gets to use a regular seatbelt in a booster seat. And for the record, she’ll stay like that until she is at least 80 lbs or her legs fold over the edge of the seat–yes, I am a Trooper’s wife and we obey this law to these laws to the letter. Or number in this case. Scott WOULD NOT let her use the regular seatbelt until our scale said 40.0. So no more five point harness mess every single time she gets in and out of the car. It’s been almost five years coming and the way I figure it, I probably have buckled or unbuckled her at least 5,000 times if I’m being conservative. Great for me and she is SO excited about it. See that grin??
Scott put in her new booster seat last night. This morning Scott says she unbuckled herself when she got to the school parking lot but then insisted she "had to buckle up". Scott said when the teacher came to get her out, she made sure she had eye contact from her and unbuckled herself. She was so proud she had a big girl seat and could do it all herself! Aw!
Emma has always liked to take pictures with my camera. I’ve realized she’s actually progressed. It all started when she was around 2 and the pictures were all fuzzy and seem to be a result of Emma just being curious and pushing the button in her face.
This is what Yo Gabba Gabba can do to your children.
Right now one of my biggest frustrations, among several, as a parent is feeding the girls. This is frustrating on so many levels.
Do you know how hard it is to get another human being to eat when they are intent on NOT eating whatever it is you want them to eat? It is the most. frustrating. things on this earth. It is not possible to stuff food into another person and force them to eat it unless the child is about 7 months old and then you are likely to be eating the food yourself when they spit it back into your face.
I was feeling better today than yesterday yet still worn out. Pretty normal day today. Two things worthy of note though.
Scott was SO anxious to get back to work that he called his dr this morning to get his visit moved up from this Thursday to today. So at his appt at 11:45 today, he was officially released to return to work. Not even 3 weeks after his surgery. He just can not stand pushing papers in the office. Something really worthy to note though is the fact the dr mentioned that this is considered a loss and he will probably be compensated for it. Knock on wood but that could be cool.
In other somewhat noteworthy news, Scott had his first board meeting with the girls preschool. He was asked this year to be on the Board of Directors. That sounds so funny. But that’s not the news. He spoke with the preschool director and said Lexi was a ham during school pictures today. In fact, I think she said she was like a mini Ms. Hollywood. Which is fabulous. Because last year’s fall pictures, you can tell she had been crying a bit. Hopefully these will turn out really good. I just thought it was funny that someone else noticed that she seems to be coming out of her shell in front of people, especially in front of a camera and/or crowds. As I’ve said before..as long as I don’t see S e x y L e x i in neon lights one day…
Oh and on a side note, I went to the dentist this morning and no cavities, yay!