Disciplining your 15 month old

Is it not the cutest thing in the world when you hear your fifteen month old baby girl awake in her crib, when she should have been sleeping an hour ago, singing the 'Head, shoulders, knees, and toes' song? Obviously in her own version, but seriously!!! How do you put on that serious 'mom' face and tell her she needs to sleep or else...when she's patting her head and making all the motions???

More of 'What our kids say'...

I picked Mason up from preschool today and began our conversation in the usual way...

Mommy: So how was your day Mason?
Mason: Great!
Mommy: What did you do?
Mason: Well Miss Kathy let me wear her firecoat. (They were learning about policemen, firemen, ect.) And, well, we learned about firehumans...
Mommy: Firehumans? OH! Firemen!
Mason: Yes mommy, firemen.

I truly believe that in my son's eyes his interpretations, his way of thinking and speaking is the RIGHT way...mommy is the one learning...

The things our kids say...

Mason: Where's Daddy? Is he in Sattle? (Seattle)
Mommy: No sweetie, he's in an airplane that's headed to Minneapolis.
Mason: What??? Minneapolis? He's getting apples there?



Mommy: Mason please go sit down at the bar if you're going to eat that.
Mason: What did you say? Did you say barn? Why do you want me to eat in a barn?

Azee's first steps!!!

I know it doesn't look like a lot of steps, but two minutes before this she took four big steps from me to the ottoman. I'm pretty sure that when we put her to bed at night, while we think she's fast asleep, she's been pacing in her crib, perfecting her movies...she looked way too calm when she walked for us! Now the fun paced life begins!!!

Head, shoulders, knees, and toes...

Mason came home singing this new song and it caught on with someone else...

Date night!

Our friend, Sara, was celebrating her 30th birthday so it was the perfect occasion to dress up a little, kiss the kiddos goodnight, and hit the town! It was a night full of sushi, laughs, and fabulous company!!! Have you ever laughed so much it actually hurt? I love when that happens!!! Sorry I don't have any pics of the night, we were too busy just relaxing and being adults. I wouldn't let Sara tell anyone the time because I knew if I heard it had been past 8pm I'd want to crawl into my pj's and go to sleep. Low and behold we did stay out until 11:45pm!!! I know! That's incredibly late!!! Thank you Sara for having a birthday and a fun one at that;) Let's do that again!!!

It's ok Mason...

"It's o.k. Mason...Mommy said this would happen. Sneaking too much candy will give you a major bellyache. But I'm hear...it's o.k. Shhhhhhh...there, there."

Once a Griz, always a Griz!!!

When life hands you lemons...

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Then add a little vodka to calm the 'ol nerves!!! Is it true what they say? Some years are crazier than others. If that's the case, I can't wait for 2010 to get here!!!
We've just had some bad luck lately! I had to bring Mason into the doctor, once again, because the antibiotics he'd been put on last week after his eardrum ruptured was not working. He was put on a stronger med in hopes to knock out the infection.
Oh and Roth left this morning at 5am to head to Kentucky. Poor guy, his only flight option was to fly out of Spokane this morning at 6:05am to San Francisco, sit there for two and a half hours, then off to Chicago, then to Kentucky. What an extremely long day for him too!
This is the part where I grab the vodka. For those who read last week's post of the smoke detectors going off for no reason...my friends, it's back! Not a peep out of them this weekend while Roth was home. It would only be appropriate that they start up a few hours AFTER Roth has left!!! Nice, real nice!
But it's not that bad! Really! When Mason's sitting in front of you singing how much he loves his mommy you tend to forget what you were so worked up about. Or when your little girl is looking at you wide-eyed and all smiles because she's trying to take that first step and carefully balancing herself! Life is good, just a litte crazy at times...I can live with that!