The other day when I was in Burger King having the conversation with Austin (see previous post) I told myself to file it away in the "blog later" folder of my brain. Now, according to only me, I am officially a blogger, saving tidbits of my life to share with all of my devoted readers (or just my mom!) If only my Mommy Brain didn't make me forget what I wanted to blog about when I actually sit down to blog it!!!
Cherene
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
My Little Austin
As I sat eating lunch at Burger King with Austin today (Aidan was at camp at the library), I decided to work on spelling words and stuff like that. We were going through three letter words and sounding them out together. Then I asked him to count for me and do the ABC's. It was a good chance for me to see how much he knew without his brother around giving him all the answers. I know I am biased, but Austin is wicked smart. So much so that it's almost a bit creepy. I realize that most of it he picked up when listening to us work with Aidan during the school year. But seriously, where did that kid come from?
Anyways, I digress. I decided to ask Austin where he lived, just to see if he knew the name of our city. He looks right at me and answers "at Earth." I laughed and said "yup, you're right!" Before I could ask him where he learned that, he told me at church yesterday his teacher told him about everyone living on earth. He then proceeded to list everyone he knows who lives on earth, including anyone in Burger King at the moment. It was pretty cute! Then I asked him who made the earth and he told me "God." I was so proud! I told him we live in Temperance, and at first he wanted to disagree, insisting we live "at Earth." But then later on when I was laying him down for a nap and I asked him again "where do we live?" He responded by telling me "we live in Temperance and then at Earth." So funny.
Cherene
Anyways, I digress. I decided to ask Austin where he lived, just to see if he knew the name of our city. He looks right at me and answers "at Earth." I laughed and said "yup, you're right!" Before I could ask him where he learned that, he told me at church yesterday his teacher told him about everyone living on earth. He then proceeded to list everyone he knows who lives on earth, including anyone in Burger King at the moment. It was pretty cute! Then I asked him who made the earth and he told me "God." I was so proud! I told him we live in Temperance, and at first he wanted to disagree, insisting we live "at Earth." But then later on when I was laying him down for a nap and I asked him again "where do we live?" He responded by telling me "we live in Temperance and then at Earth." So funny.
Cherene
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Life...Crazy But Good
So life for us is pretty crazy right now. With the church still in transition and starting to look for a new Senior Minister finally, it seems like it would settle down a little. But not so. It just seems to get busier. But it's good stuff, so that I am thankful for. We are forging some really great friendships with people in our new church, and I am also very thankful for that. I have been missing our friends from up north a lot lately, so it's been nice getting to know families here and finally feeling like we can be ourselves around them (without fear that they will run in the opposite direction screaming and crying!)
Aidan ended up doing fairly well in T-Ball this summer. He still had some major focusing problems, but for the most part he did great. He had really fantastic coaches, so that helped. They were very patient and encouraging with him, while at the same time being stern when they needed to, but not mean. He hits the ball really well when he tries, but he will not run seriously for the life of him! He is always trying to make people laugh! If he keeps playing ball, we are going to have to work on that!
I can't believe July is almost gone. This summer is flying by (didn't I already say that in June?) It's already time to buy school supplies, wow! I'll have to write about school supplies in another post. My sister-in-law and I have this weird love of buying school supplies. It's not normal. But I'll save that discussion for another day!
Cherene
Aidan ended up doing fairly well in T-Ball this summer. He still had some major focusing problems, but for the most part he did great. He had really fantastic coaches, so that helped. They were very patient and encouraging with him, while at the same time being stern when they needed to, but not mean. He hits the ball really well when he tries, but he will not run seriously for the life of him! He is always trying to make people laugh! If he keeps playing ball, we are going to have to work on that!
I can't believe July is almost gone. This summer is flying by (didn't I already say that in June?) It's already time to buy school supplies, wow! I'll have to write about school supplies in another post. My sister-in-law and I have this weird love of buying school supplies. It's not normal. But I'll save that discussion for another day!
Cherene
Monday, July 14, 2008
The Challenge of Slowing Down
I need to slow down. Not really for my own benefit, but for my kids' sake. I often say that my children seem to do everything in slow motion. Everything takes twice as long as is should because they are so slow! And Chuck and I constantly find ourselves rushing them along.
The weird thing is, I tend to move slowly at certain times also. And it drives Chuck absolutely crazy. So I guess they come by it naturally. I enjoy taking my time shopping, and it's difficult for me to make decisions at times. This also drives Chuck bonkers! My kids are the same way, and it makes me want to pull my hair out!!!
Lately, I have been trying to mentally slow myself down when I get the urge to hurry them up. It is such a challenge! For instance, the other day I took the boys to the mall while Chuck was out of town. It went fairly well, and we were there forever! We spent 20 minutes in Bath & Body Works smelling practically every bottle of lotion. Normally, I would get what I wanted and get out, but I decided to go with the flow and let them smell to their little hearts' content. And instead of a fight to get them out the door, we happily left when we were done smelling (and nobody gave us dirty looks on the way out!) I let them take their time looking at toys, and making a choice about which snack to buy. But man, did they take forever! On top of that, Aidan wanted my opinion on how to spend his hard-earned garage sale $5, but even when I gave it to him, he still couldn't decide. But we left the Disney store in one piece and very content with our purchases. It was actually quite amazing!
My kids just do things slowly. They get in the van slowly, they eat slowly, they brush their teeth slowly. They transition from one activity to another VERY slowly, they get dressed slowly, and they come slowly when we call them. And we rush them to eat, rush them to get dressed, rush them to get going or we're going to be late (that happens A LOT!), and say their name twenty times (getting louder each time of course) to get them to come to us.
I am trying to slow down. I want to enjoy all the little moments I am missing by rushing them. If nothing comes of this challenge but me calming down and not stressing so much, I will be happy with that. I can't seem to change their turtle personalities, so I might as well embrace it! After, Chuck hasn't been able to hurry me in a store after 10 years. He just avoids shopping with me whenever possible. Since I can't avoid my kids, I might as well enjoy their perspective on life. They tend to notice the little things that I don't. Thank you God for my Pokey Petes!
Cherene
The weird thing is, I tend to move slowly at certain times also. And it drives Chuck absolutely crazy. So I guess they come by it naturally. I enjoy taking my time shopping, and it's difficult for me to make decisions at times. This also drives Chuck bonkers! My kids are the same way, and it makes me want to pull my hair out!!!
Lately, I have been trying to mentally slow myself down when I get the urge to hurry them up. It is such a challenge! For instance, the other day I took the boys to the mall while Chuck was out of town. It went fairly well, and we were there forever! We spent 20 minutes in Bath & Body Works smelling practically every bottle of lotion. Normally, I would get what I wanted and get out, but I decided to go with the flow and let them smell to their little hearts' content. And instead of a fight to get them out the door, we happily left when we were done smelling (and nobody gave us dirty looks on the way out!) I let them take their time looking at toys, and making a choice about which snack to buy. But man, did they take forever! On top of that, Aidan wanted my opinion on how to spend his hard-earned garage sale $5, but even when I gave it to him, he still couldn't decide. But we left the Disney store in one piece and very content with our purchases. It was actually quite amazing!
My kids just do things slowly. They get in the van slowly, they eat slowly, they brush their teeth slowly. They transition from one activity to another VERY slowly, they get dressed slowly, and they come slowly when we call them. And we rush them to eat, rush them to get dressed, rush them to get going or we're going to be late (that happens A LOT!), and say their name twenty times (getting louder each time of course) to get them to come to us.
I am trying to slow down. I want to enjoy all the little moments I am missing by rushing them. If nothing comes of this challenge but me calming down and not stressing so much, I will be happy with that. I can't seem to change their turtle personalities, so I might as well embrace it! After, Chuck hasn't been able to hurry me in a store after 10 years. He just avoids shopping with me whenever possible. Since I can't avoid my kids, I might as well enjoy their perspective on life. They tend to notice the little things that I don't. Thank you God for my Pokey Petes!
Cherene
Thursday, July 10, 2008
A Teaching Moment
Austin was reading his birthday card from Papa Chuck and Marcie (which must stay in the van by his seat for him to look at whenever he chooses) yesterday. Aidan then informed Austin that "Papa" is his first name and "Chuck" is his last name. It made me giggle, especially since he was so serious when he said it. Aidan then proceeded to read the card to Austin. And that in turn sent Austin into a screaming fit because according to him the card says something completely different (and it's always the same!) and no one may tell him anything else. This in turn causes Aidan to stress out because he knows what it says for real, and gosh darn it, he will not let it go. Like it's his role in life to make sure Austin knows what the card really says. Welcome to my world! I tell Aidan every time just to go with it, but that is so not his personality. Ahhh, I love 'em!
Cherene
Cherene
Monday, July 7, 2008
Our Little Ladies' Man
Aidan sat next to a girl on the bench tonight for T-Ball (waiting for his turn to bat). We were sitting behind the bench, so we could hear everything he was saying. He touched the girl's necklace and said "that's a pretty necklace." Then he added (very smoothly I may add) "you're pretty." I'll give him one thing, he sure does know how to work it! Two weeks ago he was at a wedding and spent half the night holding hands with another little girl and dancing. It was a proud moment for Chuck! Of course, Austin spent the same amount of time fighting to dance with the same girl and then pouting cause he couldn't cut it. It was precious.
Cherene
Cherene
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