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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
James' Jail Cell
I have come to realize you have to be smarter than your children. Within the last few weeks when I would put James down for his nap, instead of walking into a sleeping child, I would walk into a tornado. He would slide out the drawers on the changing table, take out ALL the clothes and scatter them all over the floor and then use the empty drawers to get up on the changing table part. (Yes, this whole unit is bolted to the wall.) Then, he would get into the diaper changing supplies - his favorite being the BABY POWDER and then dump it ALL OVER the clothes on his floor and of course the carpet!
I have now become smarter than him and stripped his room of anything that he could turn into a mess.
Notice no diaper changing supplies up by the wipes warmer and NO drawers!
Of course, this might be his new nap area! Notice the baby powder smeared on the back wall of the changing table behind his head. How did he get that there last week? That was behind the drawers?!
All his clothes now live in his closet. Notice how Mom is smart and put a child saftey thing on the handle so he can't get into the closet?
Notice the hooks on the wall? There used to be a cute quilt hanging there but instead of fighting putting it BACK UP after every nap, I am just leaving it down! One less thing now on my list!
The bed...nothing on it but Barney and Tad.
So yes, it is basically like a jail cell - a bed and toilet (diapers). Other than that, there is NOTHING and I won't have a big mess to clean up every day after the nap! I am so glad my smart neighbor suggested for me to GET A BRAIN and become smarter than him!!!
I have now become smarter than him and stripped his room of anything that he could turn into a mess.
Notice no diaper changing supplies up by the wipes warmer and NO drawers!
Of course, this might be his new nap area! Notice the baby powder smeared on the back wall of the changing table behind his head. How did he get that there last week? That was behind the drawers?!
All his clothes now live in his closet. Notice how Mom is smart and put a child saftey thing on the handle so he can't get into the closet?
Notice the hooks on the wall? There used to be a cute quilt hanging there but instead of fighting putting it BACK UP after every nap, I am just leaving it down! One less thing now on my list!
The bed...nothing on it but Barney and Tad.So yes, it is basically like a jail cell - a bed and toilet (diapers). Other than that, there is NOTHING and I won't have a big mess to clean up every day after the nap! I am so glad my smart neighbor suggested for me to GET A BRAIN and become smarter than him!!!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Snow Days and Lost Teeth
Rachel & James in the bath! Bubbles and good times! Notice Rachel's missing tooth! Jason pulled it out with the needle nose pliers. Gross!
I went to card group - where we make 30 handmade cards and then trade then trade them with 30 other gals. I came home at 9:30 pm thinking that Jason would have the kids in bed....their own not ours!!!
James' first experience with snow. We got him dressed and then took him outside. He just stood there, got cold and then wanted to come inside!
Here is a close up of the missing tooth!
Here is the puppy....there went the puppy. She is probably 60 lbs and there is NO way I could even attempt to pick her up! She is already bigger than Sammi was when she was full grown!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Pregnant and SICK!!!
Here is Rachel at her first soccer game of the season. This year they have a goalie so the coach rotated the girls in the goal. Rachel had the opportunity to be in goal and she liked it!! I hate things flying at my face so I know she doesn't get this from me!Here are the other updates....
I am 14.5 weeks pregnant and have been SICK, SICK and more SICK. This pregnancy has been worse than any others and to top it off, the only things that settle my stomach are greasy foods and Coke. I am PRAYING that I start feeling better soon so I can get back to eating healthy so I don't gain 100 lbs!
My foot from the snowmobile accident still had been hurting so I had a specialist look at it a few weeks ago and he said the solutions are surgery or months in the boot again. I am going for the less invasive route an figure this boot will be on until December at the earliest. At least it doesn't hurt when I walk on it, it just hurts when I touch it.
Rachel is LOVING tumbling and was just moved into the intermediate class at Clay's tumbling. she can do a back walkover and can go down in a back bend and then stand back up again....wow those stomach muscles! School is going well for her and she loves to jump rope.
James is.....???? I don't know the right words to use for him. He is tooooo smart. He watches everything I do - how to turn on the car and knows the where the keys go and that the gear shift should move - how to pull up and down the blinds and that the cord is the key so he pushes his scooter, stool or whatever might get him high enough to reach the cord.....the list goes on and on. The most recent discovery was the water that comes out of the door of the fridge. He can put a cup up to the lever, get water in the cup and then either dump the water on the floor or back in the drawer where he got the cup. Since our fridge doesn't have a lock for the water/ice, we have turned the water off to the fridge until he stops this MADNESS. The only problem is that he is not doing all of this to be mischievous or naughty, he is just learning. And his smile is too cute and his personality is so sweet. I am realizing how different boys and girls truly are. (Rachel hopes this new baby is a girl so we don't have another wild boy!)
Jason is working hard, hard hard. The business is ever changing and they are going to be filming a TV commercial in the upcoming months. Since there are more building permits being pulled than before, there is a ton of business out there and they are busy trying to get more new accounts.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Delayed Posting
If you notice the last post was about the puppy...well I don't believe in animal cruelty but if I did...this "puppy" would not be alive anymore! Ha Ha! We have begun puppy training class but it never goes as quickly as you would like. The older Sadie gets, the more she looks like Sammi and it gives me bitter sweet feelings. I hope that she will be as well behaved as Sammi but it also makes me sad that she is gone.
As for the kids...I realize that I take so many more pictures of James than Rachel because he is always doing crazy things that I want on camera. Sweet Rachel just does what she is supposed to which makes blackmail pictures to use on a wedding video for her are almost impossible to take these days!
We had Rachel's Clytie Adams ballet performance 2 weeks ago and she was in this cute little silver outfit. I will attach later! She is having fun going to summer camps and every morning she wants to know which friend can play or who's house she is going to go to! The problem is she doesn't quite get that you don't call a friend's house and ask if you can play there!
OHHHH....big news! Rachel lost her first tooth 3 weeks ago. We had MANY crying episodes that she and one other girl in her kindergarten class were the ONLY KIDS ON THE PLANET who hadn't lost any teeth yet. Then when the front one on the bottom became lose, she only wiggled it a bit. We got in the car after swimming lessons and she said matter-a- factly, "My tooth is really loose. I think I am going to pull it out." Then she reached in and ripped it out. I almost threw up! I was the type that would wiggle my tooth until it was hanging by a thread and fell out. I NEVER had what it took to pull it out. Then that night, we put it in the little tooth fairy pillow that we had already had for months in anticipation for that day! In the morning, she found a dollar in the pillow. The next few days when she showed people the hole in her mouth, they all would ask what the tooth fairy left. She would say, "I only got a dollar!" ONLY...!!!!Of course every adults response was that they only got a nickle or a quarter! It was funny!
Also, Rachel has changed from North Davis Gymnastics to Clay's Tumbling. In 3 weeks (3 times going to class) she can do a 1 handed cartwheel and round off perfectly, has almost nailed her back walkover and is close to being able to pull herself up from a front walkover. It is amazing how with appropriate instruction, how quick she has picked up on all of that. After 1 year at North Davis, all she could do was a cartwheel! She may be our little tumbler!!! We aren't sure if she will be our little ballerina because at her age all they do is skip around and jump in circles!!!
As for James, his vocabulary is advancing daily. His language is changing from Chinese to English! He obviously says Mom, Mommy, Dad, Daddy and ChaeChul (Rachel)! Then he has been saying no, out (when he wants out of the high chair), don't (when you are doing something he doesn't like), dink for drink, shoe and every time you said we are going bye bye he says, "shoe" and goes into his room to grab shoes. He also says outside, bye bye, car, carseat, good girl - to the dog, tantu for thank you, bless you when you sneeze, nummy for yummy, cereal for anything you put in a bowl for him, ni nite for goodnight, sleep when he wants to go to sleep, uh oh when he drops anything, NO said in loud volumes, baby which he says when you lay him down to change his diaper because he wants you to give him the picture of him as a baby for him to look at, eye and then he pokes you in the eye, boo for peek a boo, book, bite when he wants a bit of whatever you are eating, gama for grandma, papa for grandma, and I will have to add more as I remember them!
Also, every time he toots...he puts his arm in the air and pulls it down like he is pulling a train horn and says, "toot toot" really loud. It is quite the crowd pleaser! Of course, his Dad (I say his Dad, not my husband because I don't like to claim him on this one!) is the one that taught him this little stunt! Somehow the "toot toot" has now also adapted to every time he burps too?!
James NEVER stops moving. I am chasing him constantly. Within two seconds he is up on the table dancing or stomping or is sitting up on the kitchen counter. A few weeks ago Ryan and Christie were here and all the sudden we noticed James wasn't behind us. He had gone into my office, climbed up on the chair and was SITTING on the wireless keyboard in front of my laptop and had the phone up to his ear! I don't think Rachel learned how to climb on anything until last week! She was and still is so calm and easily entertained where James has a 20 second attention span and is always moving!
My birthday was on July 1 - the big 34 and Jason and I went to the movies. We saw Get Smart and had a good laugh. Then on the 3rd we went to Alicia's (Jason's sister's house) to swim and celebrate my birthday with his family. On the 4th we went to the Bees Baseball game with my his family and my Dad. My Mom has been sick with Bronchitis for over a week running fevers and has been in bed since last Saturday when they got home from their Alaska Cruise.
I have started doing rehabs in Saginaw with some business partners and Jason is still trucking along with the cabinet/carpet company. They broke last year's sales in the end of May! They are doing phenomenal, it just takes a while to dig out of the whole you create when building that large of a company. Last week they bought a $40K water filtration system that they had to get or the EPA could shut them down. They use a lot of water cutting the granite and the water needs to be cleaned before it is dumped?? I don't know all the details, it just has to be done!
It has been tough financially for our family to make this all work and it has taken some fenangling to make it happen but the things I am noticing are that everyone in my immediate family and remote family are all healthy. Everyone around me has illness plaguing their children, parents or has a rocky marriage and we don't have any of that! If we could chose our trials, I would take financial all day long over many of the others that are out there. I know on any given days Jason would say I am his trial or vice versa but overall, we are very happy and blessed with wonderful children. We love where we live, we love seeing his business continuing to grow and make money on a daily basis and couldn't ask for a lot more! (Except for the money tree to start growing in the back yard or the concrete in our driveway to stop sinking!!!)
As for the kids...I realize that I take so many more pictures of James than Rachel because he is always doing crazy things that I want on camera. Sweet Rachel just does what she is supposed to which makes blackmail pictures to use on a wedding video for her are almost impossible to take these days!
We had Rachel's Clytie Adams ballet performance 2 weeks ago and she was in this cute little silver outfit. I will attach later! She is having fun going to summer camps and every morning she wants to know which friend can play or who's house she is going to go to! The problem is she doesn't quite get that you don't call a friend's house and ask if you can play there!
OHHHH....big news! Rachel lost her first tooth 3 weeks ago. We had MANY crying episodes that she and one other girl in her kindergarten class were the ONLY KIDS ON THE PLANET who hadn't lost any teeth yet. Then when the front one on the bottom became lose, she only wiggled it a bit. We got in the car after swimming lessons and she said matter-a- factly, "My tooth is really loose. I think I am going to pull it out." Then she reached in and ripped it out. I almost threw up! I was the type that would wiggle my tooth until it was hanging by a thread and fell out. I NEVER had what it took to pull it out. Then that night, we put it in the little tooth fairy pillow that we had already had for months in anticipation for that day! In the morning, she found a dollar in the pillow. The next few days when she showed people the hole in her mouth, they all would ask what the tooth fairy left. She would say, "I only got a dollar!" ONLY...!!!!Of course every adults response was that they only got a nickle or a quarter! It was funny!
Also, Rachel has changed from North Davis Gymnastics to Clay's Tumbling. In 3 weeks (3 times going to class) she can do a 1 handed cartwheel and round off perfectly, has almost nailed her back walkover and is close to being able to pull herself up from a front walkover. It is amazing how with appropriate instruction, how quick she has picked up on all of that. After 1 year at North Davis, all she could do was a cartwheel! She may be our little tumbler!!! We aren't sure if she will be our little ballerina because at her age all they do is skip around and jump in circles!!!
As for James, his vocabulary is advancing daily. His language is changing from Chinese to English! He obviously says Mom, Mommy, Dad, Daddy and ChaeChul (Rachel)! Then he has been saying no, out (when he wants out of the high chair), don't (when you are doing something he doesn't like), dink for drink, shoe and every time you said we are going bye bye he says, "shoe" and goes into his room to grab shoes. He also says outside, bye bye, car, carseat, good girl - to the dog, tantu for thank you, bless you when you sneeze, nummy for yummy, cereal for anything you put in a bowl for him, ni nite for goodnight, sleep when he wants to go to sleep, uh oh when he drops anything, NO said in loud volumes, baby which he says when you lay him down to change his diaper because he wants you to give him the picture of him as a baby for him to look at, eye and then he pokes you in the eye, boo for peek a boo, book, bite when he wants a bit of whatever you are eating, gama for grandma, papa for grandma, and I will have to add more as I remember them!
Also, every time he toots...he puts his arm in the air and pulls it down like he is pulling a train horn and says, "toot toot" really loud. It is quite the crowd pleaser! Of course, his Dad (I say his Dad, not my husband because I don't like to claim him on this one!) is the one that taught him this little stunt! Somehow the "toot toot" has now also adapted to every time he burps too?!
James NEVER stops moving. I am chasing him constantly. Within two seconds he is up on the table dancing or stomping or is sitting up on the kitchen counter. A few weeks ago Ryan and Christie were here and all the sudden we noticed James wasn't behind us. He had gone into my office, climbed up on the chair and was SITTING on the wireless keyboard in front of my laptop and had the phone up to his ear! I don't think Rachel learned how to climb on anything until last week! She was and still is so calm and easily entertained where James has a 20 second attention span and is always moving!
My birthday was on July 1 - the big 34 and Jason and I went to the movies. We saw Get Smart and had a good laugh. Then on the 3rd we went to Alicia's (Jason's sister's house) to swim and celebrate my birthday with his family. On the 4th we went to the Bees Baseball game with my his family and my Dad. My Mom has been sick with Bronchitis for over a week running fevers and has been in bed since last Saturday when they got home from their Alaska Cruise.
I have started doing rehabs in Saginaw with some business partners and Jason is still trucking along with the cabinet/carpet company. They broke last year's sales in the end of May! They are doing phenomenal, it just takes a while to dig out of the whole you create when building that large of a company. Last week they bought a $40K water filtration system that they had to get or the EPA could shut them down. They use a lot of water cutting the granite and the water needs to be cleaned before it is dumped?? I don't know all the details, it just has to be done!
It has been tough financially for our family to make this all work and it has taken some fenangling to make it happen but the things I am noticing are that everyone in my immediate family and remote family are all healthy. Everyone around me has illness plaguing their children, parents or has a rocky marriage and we don't have any of that! If we could chose our trials, I would take financial all day long over many of the others that are out there. I know on any given days Jason would say I am his trial or vice versa but overall, we are very happy and blessed with wonderful children. We love where we live, we love seeing his business continuing to grow and make money on a daily basis and couldn't ask for a lot more! (Except for the money tree to start growing in the back yard or the concrete in our driveway to stop sinking!!!)
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