Last Saturday, our AWESOME sister-in-law, Melody, took family pictures for us. She must have worked so hard this week to have them all done and ready for us today. Since she blogged about it, I'll just send you on over to her to see!
Enjoy!
http://merriemelody.blogspot.com/2012/06/photoshoot-with-rob-and-carlie.html
p.s. Thanks Melody!
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Father's Day celebrations!
Sunday was, of course, Father's Day! And since we have a Father in our house, we celebrated!
Robby chose to have Hamburgers and Hot Dogs (Which he cooked over the fire himself... shucks, didn't capture that on film)
In the morning we made him breakfast and gave him his gift. A SUPER DAD freezer mug (with A&W of course) and a whole bag of Black Licorice flavored Salt Water Taffey, his FAVORITE! (my absolute NOT favorite... it is a special occasion when I buy him black licorice anything... and still kiss him. So he took it to work to enjoy!)
We love you Robby with all our hearts! Hope you enjoyed your day! You are the BEST Daddy the boys could ever have!
Robby chose to have Hamburgers and Hot Dogs (Which he cooked over the fire himself... shucks, didn't capture that on film)
In the morning we made him breakfast and gave him his gift. A SUPER DAD freezer mug (with A&W of course) and a whole bag of Black Licorice flavored Salt Water Taffey, his FAVORITE! (my absolute NOT favorite... it is a special occasion when I buy him black licorice anything... and still kiss him. So he took it to work to enjoy!)
We love you Robby with all our hearts! Hope you enjoyed your day! You are the BEST Daddy the boys could ever have!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Budding cameraman
Timothy is our little photographer.
Anytime the camera is out, he asks to take some pictures.
Some are pretty good... others are just a click of the button as he's on the go, but it is fun to see it! t is actually pretty hilarious to hear his running commentary of what he's trying to capture!
p.s. thanks Katie for suggesting ipiccy. I'm still figuring it all out, but it looks like it is going to be fun!
Anytime the camera is out, he asks to take some pictures.
p.s. thanks Katie for suggesting ipiccy. I'm still figuring it all out, but it looks like it is going to be fun!
Thursday, June 14, 2012
sneek peek
I have a post in the works.
p.s. anybody know how to make the cool "collage" pictures so I can compress the amount of space this post is going to take?
Worst Mom of the Year award goes to...
ME.
I officially went overboard and snapped. I can't belive I am actually documeting this, but here goes.
Timothy has been really difficult lately, especially when it comes to decisions. He flip flops back and forth like no other. It gets really frustating. But worse is when he asks for something, so I get it for him and he just stands there. So I ask, do you want this? yes or no? He just stands there silent. So I say, well that means no, and I walk away. Then he whines, No I want it... etc and the cycle continues.
It is the absolute worst when he is tired and it is PAST bedtime and he goes on like this forever.
So tonight, he was actually pretty good for the one story that I told him I'd read and didn't push the issue for more than that (it was way past bedtime... normally we do 2-3 stories). Anyway, he had been eating a cracker during the story, so just before I left I (BIG MISTAKE) asked him if he wanted a drink before I turned off the light... to wash down the cracker. Cue silent treatment. This went on for about 5x of me leaving, him coming out to ask for water, me trying to give it to him, no answer or attemp to take the water, me leavign again, etc. Finally I bribed him to take the water by offering him his bouncy ball that he got today (another BIG MISTAKE). Well that started a whole new batch of "take the ball", no response, me leaving, "No I want my ball" etc. We finally got him to take the ball after a few "losing it" episodes (he threw the ball or dropped it and couldn't find it).
AND, it came back to " I want a drink of water". RE-RUN, except I threatened to dump the water on his head of he wouldn't drink it. I withheld myself for the first 2 more senarios, then I cracked. He wouldn't take the water, so I splashed it right in his face.
(Cue music for worst mom award acceptance walk of shame)
Needless to say he freaked, cried, etc. I dried him off with a towel, then got daddy (as per his request and to my relief). Only to hear him so , No I want mommy to change my shirt. I came back and helped get him in a dry shirt. As I was getting up to leave he says in his sweet little voice, "well mommy, you don't dump water on people's heads", (I think I told him this exact same thing earlier today when he dumped a cup of water on Spencer's head.) to which I snidely replied, "well you don't ask for things you don't want." and left the room. CUE GUILT.
Robby came out a few minutes later saying that Timothy really wanted me to sing him some songs goodnight ( and even MORE guilt) and he wouldn't drop it. SO Robby made the best deal ever with him. He said, "Timothy, I'll make you a deal. If you go to sleep, I'll get mommy to come sing you a song." Timothy's reply?, "ok".
After stewing this incident over in my head and feeling TERRIBLE, I went into Timothy's quiet room, kissed his head, told him I was sorry for splashing water in his face. In his sleepy voice ( I think he was already asleep) he asked for a song, So I sang "I am a Child of God" and cried (righly so) as I sang the words "...has given me an earthly home with Parents kind and dear.."
Hopefully he won't remember tomorrow, but if he does I think I need to apologize again and make a special effort to be a better, more loving and patient mommy.
I officially went overboard and snapped. I can't belive I am actually documeting this, but here goes.
Timothy has been really difficult lately, especially when it comes to decisions. He flip flops back and forth like no other. It gets really frustating. But worse is when he asks for something, so I get it for him and he just stands there. So I ask, do you want this? yes or no? He just stands there silent. So I say, well that means no, and I walk away. Then he whines, No I want it... etc and the cycle continues.
It is the absolute worst when he is tired and it is PAST bedtime and he goes on like this forever.
So tonight, he was actually pretty good for the one story that I told him I'd read and didn't push the issue for more than that (it was way past bedtime... normally we do 2-3 stories). Anyway, he had been eating a cracker during the story, so just before I left I (BIG MISTAKE) asked him if he wanted a drink before I turned off the light... to wash down the cracker. Cue silent treatment. This went on for about 5x of me leaving, him coming out to ask for water, me trying to give it to him, no answer or attemp to take the water, me leavign again, etc. Finally I bribed him to take the water by offering him his bouncy ball that he got today (another BIG MISTAKE). Well that started a whole new batch of "take the ball", no response, me leaving, "No I want my ball" etc. We finally got him to take the ball after a few "losing it" episodes (he threw the ball or dropped it and couldn't find it).
AND, it came back to " I want a drink of water". RE-RUN, except I threatened to dump the water on his head of he wouldn't drink it. I withheld myself for the first 2 more senarios, then I cracked. He wouldn't take the water, so I splashed it right in his face.
(Cue music for worst mom award acceptance walk of shame)
Needless to say he freaked, cried, etc. I dried him off with a towel, then got daddy (as per his request and to my relief). Only to hear him so , No I want mommy to change my shirt. I came back and helped get him in a dry shirt. As I was getting up to leave he says in his sweet little voice, "well mommy, you don't dump water on people's heads", (I think I told him this exact same thing earlier today when he dumped a cup of water on Spencer's head.) to which I snidely replied, "well you don't ask for things you don't want." and left the room. CUE GUILT.
Robby came out a few minutes later saying that Timothy really wanted me to sing him some songs goodnight ( and even MORE guilt) and he wouldn't drop it. SO Robby made the best deal ever with him. He said, "Timothy, I'll make you a deal. If you go to sleep, I'll get mommy to come sing you a song." Timothy's reply?, "ok".
After stewing this incident over in my head and feeling TERRIBLE, I went into Timothy's quiet room, kissed his head, told him I was sorry for splashing water in his face. In his sleepy voice ( I think he was already asleep) he asked for a song, So I sang "I am a Child of God" and cried (righly so) as I sang the words "...has given me an earthly home with Parents kind and dear.."
Hopefully he won't remember tomorrow, but if he does I think I need to apologize again and make a special effort to be a better, more loving and patient mommy.
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