Tell me how

I can get a good pic of my kids together. I too pictures the other day to try to make a Christmas card. I dressed them in their Christmas outfits, set up a backdrop, and called them in. Well, it was all down hill from there. I then moved them in front of the tree, still nothing if not worse. I ended up getting frustrated and giving up. A while later while Wy was in nothing but a diaper, I put his tie on him loosely and got two pics, one of which was the best for the day. Out of 22 pics I got 3 that were OK. So, I used them to make this card. They could be worse I guess.

One more today

If you had told me the things that I would be excited about as a mom 10 years ago, I would have thought you were crazy. But let me just warn you moms to be out there, you will be very excited about strange things as your child grows. Let me tell you our most recent joy.

Yesterday Wy came home from school, where he stays dry the whole time, and successfully peed in the potty 2 times. We put on his “big boy” pants (underwear), and he stayed dry in those. Here is the kicker though! He POOPED in the potty!!!!!!!!!!! We  could not have made a bigger deal out of it. We called anyone we could think of so that he could tell them he pooped in the potty, and I even wrote a not to his teacher. LEt me tell you how thrilled she must be to open the notebook today and be hit with a letter about poop, but oh well lol.

So not only do you get excited about first smiles, and steps, you also get ecstatic about the first poop. So, moms-to-be, don’t say you weren’t forwarned.

Sleep?

  I have tried to tell my kids that we aren’t allowed to get up in the morning before the sun, but it just insn’t working. They insist on waking each other and me up at the butt crack of dawn. It would be ok if I had just a quarter of the energy that they do at that hour, or if they would let me rest on the couch. Oh no, they insist on having breakfast and their cups at that ungodly hour! Coffee has become my best friend, and that is sad.