prayers and patience

For the longest time I have been praying for more patience in dealing with Rebecca's 2 year old behavior/tantrums/talking back/ attitude. But it hit me. If I pray for patience - I'll be given situations to develop that patience. So now, I'm changing my prayers. I'm just praying that she'll stop behaving badly. There we go. I'm fine without learning patience:)

Cinderella Stories

So, Rebecca is going through a MAJOR princess stage, namely Cinderella. I LOVE it! It has made it so much easier to wash and do her hair, because she wants to have pretty hair like Cinderella. And she HAS to wear a dress every day. (Yesterday it was 2 dresses, one on top of the other) After she gets dressed in her dress she says, "Mom, Cinderella goes like this," and she does a huge spin to fluff the dress. She has also noticed that Cinderella stands on her tippy toes. (I hadn't even noticed that, but it's true, she even runs on her tippy toes.) So Rebecca tries to do that.
Well, on Hayden's first day of Preschool we went in and met the teachers. The teacher's assistant asked Rebecca her name and she said, "My name is Cinderella." (Accompanied by a spin.) It was cute. I have since found out that she's told at least 4 other people that her name is Cinderella. I love my little Cinderella.

Preschool

Hayden started preschool this week with Mrs. York. He has been looking forward to this day for so long. It is so fun seeing my little baby grow up and to see how smart he is. He loves learning new things, and I know he's going to have a great year there.

I didn't know if he'd be nervous and cling to me when I dropped him off, because he can be shy in new situations. No, he was perfectly fine and just seemed so grown up. Yesterday was his first day with homework. It's silly how excited we both were that he had homework.

Rebecca is taking a little class called Rhyme 'N Time there as well. She was so jealous that Hayden was going to school, but was so excited that she'd be able to go to "school." (even if it is just a little class.) Her first day was today and she loved it. So fun.

Blind Melon Anyone?

Just some fun little movies

Here are just a few fun movies of my funny kids. (This is probably one of those posts that is more fun for me than anyone viewing my blog, but it's my blog and you are FORCED to look at what I think is cute, so Enjoy!)


The first movie is of Sydney showing of her crawling.
In this second one we put the tv in the kids' room over the weekend and haven't gotten around to taking it out yet. Hayden loves watching ANY movie in his room, just because it's exciting when it's in his room. He decided to do my "Biggest Loser" workout video. He's actually pretty good. He took it so seriously, even took a couple breaks because he was "working so hard" as he put it.
Then the third movie is just a little clip of my kids playing in their messy room. They're just cute so I wanted to put it on.

The Perfect Plan

We had such a fun Labor Day weekend together as a family. It's always nice having Jerry home, and Hayden was so excited that we got him for an extra day last weekend. He was bummed that Jerry had to go back to work on Tuesday. So after thinking a little bit he devised the best plan of how to lure Jerry home.

Hayden: Mom, I know how we can get dad to stay home all week and not go to work.
Me: Oh really, how?
Hayden (in his most enticing voice) PIE!

I had to have him call Jerry to try to tempt him. Jerry did say it almost worked, he almost came home for a piece of this yummy pie that he and Hayden had picked out together while shopping on Saturday. (Of course I didn't make it) Honestly though, wouldn't it be pretty tempting for you too, especially if it's a choice between this and work?!

7 Months Already?!

Can you believe my little baby is already 7 months??!! That has really flown, and she is growing up so fast. She thinks that she is just as big as the other kids. She started crawling a couple weeks ago and she loves the freedom it gives her. Now she's discovered the stairs. Yesterday I actually let her do the whole flight of stairs. Probably a mistake because now she won't stay away from the stairs. Here is her first big trip on the stairs documented for all time.

Starting her journey

"I'm still going mom, you can't stop me"

Made it half way!

Here's Rebecca to cheer her on.

Made it to the top!!
Way to go my big girl!