What a week..
Pure sweetness! WHEN SHE IS ASLEEP! I have had the hardest couple of weeks with Talia. *She cut her hair.*I caught her slipping a mini bottle of hand sanitizer in her pocket at the store.
*She dropped a huge hard toy on Simone's head. (this was an accident)
*She uses the word "no" more than usual.
*She quoted the Donkey from Shrek with this line----- "I'm SEXY!"----repeated several times.--We don't even own that movie...it is from a preview. I hate previews.
*She is very impatient, and wacks me on the leg if I don't respond to her requests quickly.
*She told me in the saddest voice, "Mommy, I am not beautiful." My reaction was, "WHO TOLD YOU THAT?" Where does a four year old get that? It makes me so sad.
*She came down the stairs tonight, with her baby doll and a big smile across her face. "I changed her clothes. Will you help me wrap her up?" I thought Talia was asleep...and had been for a long time. I wrapped the baby doll, and secretly was proud of her for changing the doll's clothes by herself!
I am trying to be a good Mom. What is a good Mom supposed to do in a week like this? I mostly have talked to her. I don't think it is sinking in! =) I love her. I want her to know that more than anything other thing right now. I think that is what she needs this week.
I know what you are thinking. The answer = Yep, while I was in Utah. They only make bows that big in Utah and Texas. Isn't she darling? She just had her 1 year check up. She only weighs 15 pounds 8 ounces. I know why...she got so sick in January and lost a lot of her weight. She is just trying to catch up. I get to spend the next month trying to fatten her up before her next weigh in.
We had a crazy Wednesday. I have to leave the house show ready every time I leave. That is the most daunting task. On Wednesday morning I had primary meeting. Then Simone and Talia had doctors appointments. Talia missed all but the last 10 minutes of preschool. Yes, I took her for those 10 minutes...so I wouldn't have to hear about missing preschool. Then we got Wyatt straight off the bus, and went to the grocery store. I had no diapers, not a one. There was a showing scheduled for the house from 5-6 and another from 6:30-8:00. I would have been really irritated with that last late showing BUT it was a second showing......and we just heard that they are interested. We shall see HOW interested they are. (fingers crossed) We ate dinner at Cheeburger Cheeburger, and fortunatly it was Family Fun Night for Talia's preschool so we had somewhere to go after dinner. What a non-stop day!
Tonight we had the Sister missionaries over for dinner. I made Rosemary Chicken, roasted veggies, whole grain bread, and a yummy fruit salad. The dinner was the only good thing...oh, and Talia. She was really good. Wyatt, on the other hand, embarrassed me so badly I bawled after the missionaries left. Naughty.
How can I end on a happy note?
Cake baby! This was too much fun!
posted by Jeri at 6:24 PM
12 Comments:
OOOOHH the black and white one. Fantastic friend. I feel for your woes with your daughter. I just wrote a massive post along the same lines :) GOOD LUCK with the house!
WOW What a post. I've been wondering where you've been. :-) SO busy. I think all kids go through phases where they try on the limits to see if they are still there. Heck, the dang dog does it every so often too. I bet that there is a certain degree of spring fever in there... time to get out and go to the parks
Oh my goodness! You ARE a good mommy to give your 1-year-old a cake on a clean hardwood floor. The pictures are beautiful though!
Good luck with the house!
It makes me tired just reading about your busy days. I hate having to go from place to place like that. I sure hope you have a buyer soon so you don't have to keep that up much longer.
Simone is absolutely adorable! How much of the cake did she actually eat?
I think we have these weeks too often over here. I try to get them busy otherwise we all just start feeding off eachother.
Love the cake pictures - fantastic!
She is so cute... and ((hugs)), i have so had those kind of days in fact sometimes I swear I have those kind of months!!! In stake conference this women got up and talked about mothers... she said it isn't about being a perfect mother, it about doing the best you can. It sure made me feel better because i am far from perfect ;)
holy SHMOOLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a post Jeri!!
I just luv you...everything about you. your are the BEST!
sounds like Talia is being a very CUTE stinker....Simone has the cutest TEETH. wyatt is so cute, I bet he will NEVER say anything close to mean to a girl again...lol
you are a HOTTIE jeri...:)
and yes you deserve a shopping spree.....GOOD LUCK with your house...Im getting tired of keeping it clean......*sigh*...I hope the spring air helps yours and Mine sell!!!!!!
luv you to bits!!
i luv your posts!
((((hugzzzzzzz))))
Jeri, you sound so stressed that I want to be there and help you and stand up for you (a big brother thing maybe?) and help you not be sad.
I am sure that things will work out wonderful for you, because they ALWAYS do, and you deserve it. Don't worry, just take it as it comes, and remember you r the coolest. lol@ ur clueless part.
Mike
I forgot to mention Simone is wearing Aretha Franklin's hat from the Inaguration. LOL you saw it right? Google it - the exact hat.
Lol at Simone.
Mike--It's true! Baby Aretha!! So funny!
Jeri, you always seem to say the right things to your kids! I don't think I'm that quick on the fly. I think it would be crazy hard to keep the house show-ready every single day. You are amazing! I hope those 2nd showing people make an offer! What a week!
I love all all all these pictures. And I'm laughing at the bow. Poor little Janey still has yet to own a large bow--and she's lived in Utah for 3 weeks! What's wrong with me?
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