Isn't it funny how we can show our try and teach our kiddos something over and over and over and it never seems like they will get it, but the minute you do something you don't want your kid to mimic they do it with no problem? Why is that?? We have been potty training Carter for a while now, he gets it (I pull down my pants and pee-pee then I get a sticker hooray!) I'm super proud, but THE KID ABSOLUTELY REFUSES TO POOP ON THE POTTY! I swear he thinks that it's going to come back up and bite him in the hiney! So anyhow that's a whole other subject...my point was he will pick up on something totally random!? Like today for instance Carter wanted to hold his sister and read her a book. As you can see from the photo below Emmy Grace had other plans, like to get the heck out of dodge! So he follows her around the entire room trying to tackle her, then randomly pulls down her diaper half way and said "shoooweeee sissy did you poop?" Then he proceeds to sniff her butt like a dog! I can tell him no throwing at your sister 500 times a day (literally this is no joke) and he doesn't listen, but yet he will sniff her butt to see if she pooped? It's mind blowing I tell ya! Now I can tell you he has seen me sniff her to see if she pooped (we all do the sniff test on our kids right?)
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It really does crack me up on the things Carter picks up on and even Emmy Grace already! Carter will tell our dogs to hush or they're going into the garage, but then he will surprise us and say or sing something we have sang or said to him once and here he goes repeating the song in it's entirety (his version). Then I will catch Emmy Grace with her tiny little hands folded as we say the blessing or when we say our prayers or I will catch her really wanting to do what her brother is not supposed to be doing like climbing a book shelf or the playhouse!
This just proves that old saying "do as I say not as I do." We as parents can say that until were blue in the face, but we all know that in reality our kids will do as they see us do! We have to set a good example for our kids and if we don't want them to do certain things we don't need to be doing them either! If we want them to know right for wrong we also need to lead by example, and show them right, then we can teach them about our wrong to help guide them to not making the same mistakes we did growing up, and as adults! We all make mistakes, but we should let our kids make their own mistakes and not sit back and watch them make ours!
~Kristin
It's been over a year since I have blogged, and before that it would just be a post here or there. When Carter was first born I loved to blog, I felt like I had a real talent for it and I would make people cry with my posts, and I felt I really reached hearts of people who read my blog! Then I started following other people's blogs and felt like I had no idea what I was talking about and my posts were so boring! I would feel inadequate, like I was supposed to be this super mommy who had all of these amazing stories of the adventures they would take with their children. I felt like my parenting was not up to par, and I needed to do anything and everything I could take on to be a "supermom." Then I had an epiphany...you ready for it?? Not sure you can handle it...here it comes...THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SUPERMOM! There are in fact super moms, but no one on this Earth can do everything! So I am here to tell you that is A-OK (with me anyway!)
As mothers we all have our super powers. Some are good at reading books to their kids with funny voices, some are great at making amazing creative lunches for their kiddies, some are great at making a trip to the backyard a fantastic adventure, but again we can't be good at everything and make every single aspect of our kids life magical! There will be magical times, but there are also absolutely terrible awful you wish this day would end times as well! Trust me I have days that I don't want to end, I want to stay in a particular moment and take a mental snapshot so I can relive that moment forever. Then I have days I want to run out the front door yelling FREE KIDS! ANY TAKERS? (Kidding not kidding). Truth is the good and the wonderful days outweigh the bad and down right ugly days!
As a stay at home mom, my favorite thing people say to me (insert sarcasm and a giant eye roll) would be "you got it made" or "you got the life" and there is this, it's such a "luxury" to stay at home. Well let me just say it is an absolute without a doubt BLESSING that I get to stay at home with my children! I am so thankful that I am able to be here with them every waking moment. Luxury HA! If you consider sweeping up crushed goldfish crackers after every meal, wiping tiny hineys and finding poop on you 10 minutes later (how did that get on my elbow?), watching animated shows all day, singing every Disney song by heart all day in your head, maybe taking a shower (I'm lucky I brushed my teeth), folding tiny clothes thinking didn't I just fold this yesterday? When you finally do take a shower it's from the kids splashing you like your in the front row at sea world in the bathtub a luxury well then yes it's a luxury. I personally think laying on a beach with someone fanning me while I sip on a tropical drink...who am I kidding a nap is a luxury after you have babies! Let's stick with blessing that is a wonderful word. I am blessed to have two amazing children that call me mommy, who are healthy and happy and I get to be with them everyday!
So here we go, lets do this! Lets start a honest blog about mommyhood and all that comes with it from precious messy kisses to the I want to pull my much needed shampooed hair out! :)
~Kristin
