21 is a Good Number of Months

Well little thing, you've made it this far. So let's enjoy this month in review.

After church, which is about a 2 minute drive from home(because your mommy? she is lazy) and I promised you that we'd see our kitty if you got into the car. You acquiesced to my request but when we walked in the front door, and you saw the kitty you pointed and said "Kitty!' like "Holy crap! I didn't know he was going to be here! This is so awesome!" which made me giggle.

But not all the days have been roses and sunshine. Camping this past weekend, you went with your grandparents on Wednesday, but I couldn't come up until Friday. When I got there, everyone wanted to tell me about what funny thing you had done, mostly about how you threw a fit and laid on the dirt or smacked your great grandma in the face. So when someone came up to me and said, "Your little girl is so cute" I finished her statement "but so evil." Unfortunately, I don't think that was where she was going with her statement, but honey, you really are evil. Last night brought 2 time outs in the period of 4 minutes. They seem to work temporarily but not long term. I guess your logic skills aren't advanced enough to know that when you do something bad you get punished. Just so you know, your grandmothers are both requesting corporal punishment for you, but I have not given in to their demands for "soft smacks on the hand" mostly because I don't think I'll be able to do that without being angry and super nanny hasn't given me the go-ahead yet.

Feeding you is insane. There is nothing that you consistently will eat that gives you any nutrients. Broccoli is still okay, but you won't eat a meals with of it. Mac'n'cheese? You need the spiral noodles and then it's only a maybe. Even cheese, you'll be loving it and 2 seconds later you're spitting it out and cursing its name. Hot dogs can find favor with you, but I haven't figured out what the trick to those are.

You are really into singing right now. If there is music you will generally sing your own words and tune with it. At church you sang your little heart out during the hymns even though your words weren't English, but it was totally cute.

We did make it to the park this month. We stayed forever! I brought a picnic lunch, but you were too interested in sliding and running and swinging to even think about eating. Not even the juice box could keep you all there for long. You do have a very short attention span, so we swing for about 3 minutes, then it's run to the slides for a few times up and down. then push the keys on the broken xylophone then, hey! swinging! and then, wait, there are slides? and so on. We both got a bit too much sun even with our sunscreen and you went down hard for your nap.

There are still good times and hard times, I guess that's life and i wouldn't trade you in for anything else. Probably not even a pony.

Love,

mama

Window Shopping for Blinds

Okay, Niki is putting together a yard sale for our mutual friend Mindy, who is having some health issues. I'm sure there aren't many people that read my site, and those who do probably already read Niki's post http://wrappedinivy.blogspot.com/2008/06/de-clutter-your-living-space-help.html but I figured if I get to one more person that's enough.

Please donate any unused/unneeded items to this sale. So start going through those garages and closets!
We are in need of items in good to fair condition such as:
Books
CD's / DVD's
Furniture items
Kitchen items such as dishes
appliances in working condition,
Clothing (especially childrens clothing)
Home decor items such as lamps, picture frames, clocks, vases, etc.
Toys
Etc. etc. etc.

Any items that fail to sell will be donated to The Road Home of Salt Lake City and Deseret Industries.

So I know that I have some crap to donate and I bet you do too! Don't be lame and let me know!

Yikes! Okay, so when I said this blog wouldn't be all about my child, I lied, since nothing else will make me motivated enough to post.
Going camping this weekend, in theory that should provide a lot of blog fodder next week, but knowing me I'll only think about blogging and then, poof, my brain will magically ignore it all. Husband is leaving next week, he'll be gone for 3 months. I've known this was coming, but since it kept getting pushed back, I could almost pretend I would never have to deal with it. Now I'm going to have to deal with being a really real single mom (without the dating) for that long. Husband has been doing good lately, picking up our daughter since I'm working extra to take Fridays off and helping with the chores. So now that he's doing well, he has to go! It's for the best, he needs to get there and get this thing done with, but he's going to miss our 7th anniversary, my birthday and our little one's birthday, not to mention the rest of the summer, which since it's finally warm, just started.
I know I have the awesome help of my family and friends and I really do appreciate all the things everyone does for our little family, but I haven't had to do this solo thing since before Hayley was born, so I don't know how well I'm going to be able to handle it. Of course I will handle it, because there's nothing else to do but keep trucking, so I will, but things have been so hard as it is right now and they are going to get just a little bit harder.
But I do have you, Internet. Thank goodness for that.
In other news, I'm totally starving. Okay, I'm not one of those kids in Africa, but holy smokes I could devour a sandwich! Or a Goat! (only in gyro form of course) Mmmm smothered in tzatziki sauce. Anyway, so camping this weekend, hope your weekend is lovely too.