I have been trying hard to make this blog an interesting read lately. I have been trying to write about things that our family believes in and things that we are passionate for, as well as updating everyone on our family. I have a friend; Dionna who has been writing some amazing blog posts lately. I would like to put a plug in here for her recent post on circumcision. Take a read, it will blow you away!
On that note I bid you farewell tonight! I plan on cooking all kinds of things now that fall is upon us and I will be posting the pictures soon!
I love dressing my boys up. They have so much more clothes then I do so it is fun to get them cute outfits and go out on the town (OK, really, when have we EVER done that?) and show off the cuteness that are my boys. But, when is enough, enough? Sidney is literally swimming in clothes. He has all of his brothers hand-me-downs because we never got rid of anything, as well as other clothes that we have gotten from friends, because the boy's are slightly off in seasons. I mean seriously, I am thinking that 30+ onesies is too much. 10-15+ sleepers, probably an little excessive. 20 or so outfits, yeah that is enough. I have boxes of clothes in the basement that are waiting for him to grow into and I have loads and loads of laundry to do that is mostly Sidney's! Geez! I do think that babies need a little more clothing then the average joe would because they are always spitting up, but I think we have more then even joe does.
So if you are reading this and have cute outfits you need to get rid of, or are wanting to spend money on that adorable onesie that says "Nothing's wrong, just testing you" don't. Please! Instead think of London, poor little man has hardly any clothes, and has little to no winter clothes :-( I am not understanding why babies clothes ALWAYS fit right, but it is so hard to find good clothes for toddlers! All of the sizes are so varying. He is in size 18-24mos, and pants tend to need to be smaller because of his itty bitty waste. But, don't go crazy with getting clothes for London because they will just go down to Sidney and I cannot take all of this laundry I am having to do!!
That is all
-signed,
Seriously wondering where it all came from
Well my kiddos are waiting to turn into chickens. We exposed the boys to chicken pox the other week and now we are just waiting around for them to become chickens! That is what happens, right?
In other news, we have been busy, busy hanging out with new friends and just trying to soak up the last little bits of warm weather we can. I have really been trying to make more personal friendships instead of just hanging out at playgroups that way I have friends and London also has buddies. We plan on un-schooling London and are super excited because we are already able to do some things with him now as far as his schooling goes! Today we went to our friend's house and went on a hike. We learned about moles, and spiders. Yesterday we went to Antioch Park and went on a nature hike. We learned what poison ivy looks like, we saw turtles and talked about the difference between tortoises and turtles. We are learning about what the plants look like when the seasons are changing and even what the earth smells like through the season change! I know that London is really young still but it is just proof that you can learn from everyday encounters! We are slowly beginning to stock up on school things for him so we can have the most amazing schooling experience that he will ever want!
I think here soon we are going to try our hand at some more homemade things like baking our own bread and cookies and muffins. We really strive to be as natural as possible in our house. We do not buy anything with high fructose corn syrup we have learned that it has mercury in it and I am not sure why you would knowingly choose to feed that to your children. Although we have been finding that it is in just about EVERYTHING, including whole wheat bread and things that you would not expect it to be in. So I think we will be safer if we just bake all of that stuff ourselves! I just learned today that you can use stevia in place of sugar so I am going to try that out.
I may be posting pictures of our baking adventures soon! That reminds me, I should get the zucchini out of the freezer for zucchini bread!
I love my life. I love my husband, I love our boys. I love our laughter, our love, our consideration towards everyone's feelings no matter how ridiculous we think they may be. Bryan and I are raising our kids with unconditional love, not conditional love. We will never hit our kids, never make them feel like they cannot come to us for help with a problem. We will respect any of their choices that they make as long as they are happy. We will guide them through this earth with love and compassion, and watch them grow to be loving compassionate adults. All of this does not mean we are a quiet family. We do not yell at our kids and Bryan and I never fight, but we are just a loud family. Apparently London has felt the recent need to "fit into" the noise of the household. Remember, he cannot say to many words but he can backtalk like a rockstar.
Example:
He now says no when we offer him something he does not want, great! Now he can talk to us and tell us a little more of what he is wanting! I just wish he would say YES!
When he REALLY does not want to do something that we REALLY have to do (leave the DMV parking lot because people are coming over and we have 45 min, 30 min of which is driving, or when we have to leave our friends house because they have to go too, or when we HAVE to get into the car and go home because we just cannot stay in the grocery store parking lot)he has started to SCREAM at us. The other night Byran was at his other job and I was getting London ready for bed. I went into the bathroom and told him we needed to brush our teeth. He was screaming and freaking out so I had to close the bathroom doors and just wait until he was ready for me to brush his teeth. He stood at the door and SCREAMED through tears, GO GO GO GO, over and over again. Now, London is a very mellow guy, so this shocked me, and it made me giggle.....I giggled while he was screaming. I did not let him know that I was giggling though, I just looked up and he continued screaming at me. Then I brushed his teeth when he was ready and all was well with the world!
We do not want to punish him for having emotions, because he cannot convey them to us like we can do. So we help him cope with his feelings, comfort him through his sadness and then when all is said and done, we will have a conversation about what we were feeling when he was upset. His tantrums are few and far between and I really think that is because he feels respected and validated, but when he does have one, BOY does he!!!
Here are some pictures I finally uploaded to the computer!
Testing out to see if we can feed this to facebook...bear with me...
I am pretty darn sure that we finished unpacking our house. After a few disagreements and arguments between Bryan and I and a few cranky kiddos, I think I may be able to sit down.
I realized today that I may be a bad mom....I completely forgot to post about Sidney's surgery that he had on the 9th of this month! I am horrible.
Sidney had an inguinal hernia, which is a hernia in the groin. They went in and made a tiny incision and fixed it all up! He was also a little tongue tied so they fixed that too. We got to the hospital at 6:00 am and left at 9:30 am so it was a really fast and quick surgery. Sidney was pretty tired all that day but by the end of the day he was back to his smiley self! He didn't get any pain medication at the hospital and I only had to give him tylenol once. He is such a brave little boy. I may have been bawling like a baby and worried sick, but he was a trooper and still is.
I think that is it for now, I need to wake the toddler who is sleeping on the floor behind me and tend to the crying baby.....I told you I was a bad mother ;o)