Am I enabling my son's addictions?

This picture captures Rebecca COMPLETELY!

Food all over her face and having a ball.

My Cuties!

Mr. Hayden Potter

Isn't he an adorable boy!

Easter! She LOVES candy!

These pictures have nothing to do with my writing, but I still wanted to share.

So, Hayden is a funny boy. He is totally addicted to the binky - let me rephrase that, he is totally addicted to Rebecca's binky. We tried to be good parents by weaning him off the binky but it was too late. Rebecca was born a week after he got off the binky, and with all that temptation around he didn't last long. For the last 18 months he's been secretly pulling Rebecca's binky out of her mouth and sucking it. A lot of times we'll find him hiding in a corner getting his fix. It actually is quite funny and a little scary to see the look on his face as he's getting a little bit of the binky. He is an addict. So, another little habit of his that we've noticed since Rebecca was born is that he'll sit next to her as he's drinking from his sippy cup and stroke her head or play with her hair. He also does that when he steals her binky, at least until we catch him, then we take it away. Thinking about it now, he probably started doing it to soothe her and comfort her after he stole her binky, and now it just comes second nature to him.

Well, last week while Rebecca was taking a nap and Hayden was playing trains with cartoons playing quietly I decided to abandon all housekeeping (not that this is anything too unusual) and enjoy a good book. I got comfortable on the couch and started to read and before long Hayden was sitting behind me playing with my hair. Having my hair played with is like heaven to me! It doesn't get much better than that. I was totally enjoying this when I turned slightly and saw that Hayden had found a binky of Rebecca's and was sucking on it while playing with my hair. So here came the big inner debate. Would I be the responsible parent that takes the binky from her 3 year old, since we have been working on it for 1/2 his life, and save ourselves from hefty bills from the orthodontist in the future, or do I turn a blind eye and totally enjoy this moment. I guess my addiction is as bad as Hayden's because to an addict you don't want to think about the future. I did the irrisponsible thing of turning the blind eye. He got to suck on that binky for a whole 45 minutes, knowing if he drew attention to himself the binky would be gone. I loved it.

I do think he's started to catch on to my addiction though. He's come up to me a couple times since then with something suspicous hiding in his hand, and asks if I want him to play with my hair. I can't resist. It is a win/win situation for both of us.

Archie's gotta win!

I might just have to do something I've never done before. I might be calling in to vote for David Archuletta. Just watched the show and he was AWESOME! I wouldn't be bummed if Cook won, but even with his weird, breathy speaking voice, he was great.
Sarah

Welcome to my world!

So, I'm attempting to join the technically savvy world and start a blog. No guarantees about how fun or exciting it will be, but I'm going to try. I have to give credit to Amy Creer for getting me started on the whole "blog" thing. I absolutely love reading her entries, they are hillarious. Maybe I'm hoping I'll suddenly become just as funny if I start a blog. At least I will try to find the humor in my sometimes monotonous life.
I am looking at this as a way to actually keep up on a journal, since the last time I wrote in mine was a few weeks after Rebecca was born, 18 months ago. I used to be such an avid journal writer and wrote every day through middle school and high school until I went through and reread a bunch of my entries and realized that my life wasn't that exciting to justify writing every day. Hopefully this blog will be a little more exciting than my middle school entries of detailed descriptions of how my "crush" turned his head and looked at me as I passed him in the hall.
I guess there really are no rules to this, so hopefully you may find it at least a little entertaining to see my world through my eyes every once in a while.

So here is one of those peeks into our world. (Jerry is probably going to hate me writing this and sharing all our oddities.) We watched Back to the Future about a month ago, and since then we have decided we want to go on a family vacation back to the 1980's. Call us Uncle Ricco if you want. "Have you ever wanted to just go back in time?" Wouldn't it be fun to go see yourself 20 years ago. I figured the best way to run into my childhood self would be to hang out on Wasatch Drive during night games. However, I'm sure the 10 year old me would notice some strange, umm beautiful 31 year old watching and have a story made up about her being some kidnapper watching us play night games. No, I guess the best way that I'd be able to talk to my 10 year old self would be to work in the gift shop at the hospital. I went there several times a week to buy the penny candy with money I had taken from Mary's bank in her closet. Anyway, on with our "vacation to the 80's" Right after "Back to the Future" we caught an episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" on TV. Jerry and I were hooked. What sweet memories of Willis, Arnold and his black goldfish. So we decided to rent some 80's TV shows from Netflix. (Yes, we know we are corny) I think we are the first people that have ordered "Punky Brewster" season 1, and "Family Ties." So last night we decided to continue our vacation to 1984 and watch some episodes of "Punky Brewster." We could only handle so much though. I believe my vacation ended last night and I decided to return to 2008. (I have to admit, I did wish we could have seen some commercials from the 80's that would have made the vacation that much better.) So I'm happy to be home with my lap top computer, cell phone, and tv/Dvd player that has a remote without a cord that has to connect to the dvd player. The problem is, I don't think my family is ready to come home with me. With Indiana Jones coming out this week, Jerry has been watching the first three movies, so he's still stuck in the 80's, not to mention he found a Neil Diamond station on his radio. All Neil Diamond, all the time. And this morning Hayden was begging to watch "Punky Brewster" What have we done???