This weekend I loved…
Watching Livie eat ice cream. A simple thing, yes. But she loves her ice cream and there’s something about her face when she’s eating it that gets me every time. And after our whole hospital ordeal…well I appreciate anything that makes her smile a little more than before.
Watching my girls play together. Lately it’s hit or miss with them but I spotted them out back talking and I didn’t want to interrupt the moment so I shot these through my kitchen window.
Watching Livie’s newly perfected hobby: hanging off the chairs in the living room. I’ve told her 100 times that she’s going to fall and get hurt and all her obstinate “NO!”‘s have paid off. She’s mastered it and now I don’t worry about her doing it…that much.
Seeing her excitement when one of my best friends from Ohio, Auntie Mo, sends her a new tutu and bow. She still has it on today, 24 hours later.
Instagram break!
Today I’m loving a boring, mundane, perfect day at home.
Still in love with her profile and her serious face, by the way. Actually, I’m just in love with her face. Period.
Progress has been made on the planning her party front too. The theme has been picked (Repunzel/Tangled) and the shirt I’m having made for her will be ready tomorrow. The rest is on a big to do list in my phone and slowly I’ll tackle it this week. Have a good week.
It’s Livie’s last one to be 2. We are gonna soak it up!
Monday random
Before I start the random photo awesomeness that was our weekend I have to point out that all day today I’ve been saying to myself “It’s been 1 week since the hospital. 1 week since I was told my baby needed surgery. 1 week since that nightmare.” I can’t help it. I’m always thinking in “it’s been 1 week…it’s been 1 month..it’s been 3 years since…” time frames. It’s programmed in me. I hate it and yet I do it with good times and bad. Anyway, it’s been 1 week since last Monday which was the worst day we’ve had in 7 years.
Also, we cleaned out our garage all day Saturday. It took 7 hours but I can now park my car in there which is pretty much amazing considering we could barely walk through it before. Side note: I hate cleaning garages. I also think my husband is a bit of a hoarder. I told him I was going to say that about him from now on and I’m pretty sure he rolled his eyes at me and shot me “that” look. Needless to say, it took all day and when we were done it felt awesome.
So the girls kept each other occupied while we took on that task and every now and then I’d take a break to take pictures of them. Hannah did her usual dodge the camera move when she could and sadly Livie usually follows suit. I couldn’t help but follow her around though in hopes of getting good pictures of her because after the whole ordeal last week I just want a million pictures of her smiling and happy…the way she usually is.
It’s like she knew…and she delivered.
We went to a birthday party yesterday and the goody bags had bubbles in them. My girls are freaks for bubbles. I try not to buy them often because we have to go outside and we get all sticky and there’s usually a giant mess. I need to get over that though because when they’re blowing bubbles they’re so happy.
A couple pics I had to pull out from my Instagram collage because they’re fab.
My Casetagram case has finally arrived after a LONG 4 week wait. I love it. It’s awesome and I get to look at the people I love the most all day. Can’t beat it.
Y’all know I am a freak over coffee mugs. I like them oversized and with lips on them instead of a flat edge on top. I currently only have a couple mugs like this and only 1 I really use. I saw these today while grocery shopping and I had to buy them. Now I have 3 mugs I love and tomorrow morning I’ll have some decisions to make over which one I should use. Trust me. That IS a tough choice.
Instagram awesomeness:
The weekend was great and came through the way I needed it to. Thinking this week may be more of the same.
Smile
I can hardly believe it’s Friday finally after the week started for us. Livie perked up the second we got home and has been on an upward spiral since then. It’s made me the happiest I’ve been in a long time. Seeing your kids sick is awful enough but seeing them hooked up to IVs and their scared eyes begging you to take them away from it all is the worst. Seeing her happy and playing is what makes me happiest today.
She smiled once when we were at the hospital and at that moment I thought to myself that I kind of take for granted how often my girls smile and how much I miss it when I don’t see it.
It’s my daily fuel. I need to see them smile. I hate to see them sad. Her smile with sunlight behind it…very appropriate for how much happiness is radiating from her right now.
I showed her the Xray and showed her the coin and I asked her if she remembered eating a coin at Nana’s house. Her reply? “I puked.”
Clearly she remembers it all and connected the dots. I’m hopeful that she won’t ever do it again.
A mini Instagram holla:
I’m @becks_b on IG if you want to follow me!
Last Friday I said that I knew the weekend was going to be great. Turns out it sucked majorly. Today I will say it again because this time I KNOW it will be.
A truly happy Friday. Sending some of ours to you.
The good in trying times
Today is a focus on the good day for me because about 30 minutes ago The Man and I got into yet another argument with Hannah that ended in us sending her to her room and me saying that about 80% of what comes out of her mouth makes me angry. She’s in a horrible pre-pubescent stage right now and it’s all I can do to not pull my hair out…or hers. So to focus on the good of her this weekend I have to think about how cute she is when she’s happy and playing with her friends.
I’m grateful that we have a little girl next door for her to play with. When she’s not grounded from playing, that is. 2011 was a trying year with her and I see that 2012 will be too. Actually, probably until about 2018 or so we’re doomed to fight with a teenage girl. I’m sure Livie will be following close behind. I always wished we’d be close unlike my mom and I were but I’m starting to see that we’ll bicker with her through her teen years like most moms have to with their teenage daughters. I dread it because I miss our days…the days Livie and I still get to have. Makes me cherish these days with Liv a LOT because if she gets a major attitude like Hannah…well I’ll be mourning these days much like I am with Hannah. I rarely talk about how hard it’s been with her but it has been and well…there ya go.
But this kid? She loves her days with me and tells me now about 5 times a day that she loves me. Melts my heart and gives me hope that soon Hannah will come around and be the sweet kid she used to be.
She’s most happy when she’s eating. Go figure. With every bite she takes I kid you not, she dances a little dance and sometimes claps. It’s the cutest thing and I’ll miss it when she grows out of it. She expresses what we all feel when we eat…HAPPINESS!
When your friends come over and play with your kids while you cook…swoon.
Steak on a kabob on the grill…double swoon.
Instagram holla!!!
This week I’m determined to find the good in Hannah even when she’s mouthing off to me and I will cherish the good with Livie before it maybe disappears. Hoping and praying it doesn’t though. Raising kids is hard, y’all. I STILL sometimes feel like I’m not grown up enough to do this mom thing. Other times though, there’s this…
I’m doing something right along the way. Have a good week!
Pre-weekend quicky
It’s FRIDAY! Working or not, Fridays are awesome. Ya gotta admit it. My Fridays are usually pretty low key but today I’ve got a lot going on so just a quick before the weekend post for y’all.
She’s turned into a little mama. She took care of her baby all day. She fed her and held her and changed her diaper. I ignored the fact that she scolded her baby for not using the potty but she herself refuses to use it. We’ll be revisiting potty training next month closer to her 3rd birthday. Sidenote: THIRD BIRTHDAY!?!?! I went through my whole pregnancy on this blog and posted her newborn pictures here. Y’all have watched her grow up. This is insanity.
Anyway, yes a sweet little mama even if she does scold her baby.
An Instagram holla:
Have a good, happy, fabulous weekend!
Rainy day post
I had plans of Starbucks this morning with the girls in the family and a couple friends and a late morning grocery store trip and then maybe a quick nap with Livie.
It’s pouring rain outside so we DID make Starbucks but the store will have to wait. I figured it’d be a good time to catch up on some editing and get a blog post up for y’all. Yes, all 5 of you.
After my last post I decided to make a concious effort to pick up my camera more this weekend…to take more pictures like I used to. Whether I’m home with my girls or not all day, I still find myself scrolling through pictures on my phone of them. I love pictures and I wouldn’t have had to move 1000 pictures from my phone to Flickr if I didn’t. It’s time to get back to that me, even if I have to think about it more now than I had to before.
When I get shots like this I get happy because it’s not every day that your baby just stands there perfectly in the sunlight at just the right angle.
It’s my usually boring, mundane life that I love the most. It’s the life I craved…days like this where it’s rainy and I don’t have to leave the house but instead can edit photos and laugh at my silly girl.
Guess who’s crawling now?
Nannying this tiny man has been such a fun reminder of when my girls were this little…with Livie it seems like it was just yesterday.
It’s been unseasonably warm here the past few weeks. It’ll get chilly for a couple days and the temps go right back into the mid to upper 70s. That’s warm for January but I’m not complaining. I hate the cold and snow. I’ll take sun and shorts any day over that. So will my girls.
Especially when they can play outside all day and take ice cream breaks without needing a jacket.
And now something I kind of bit off of Kelle Hampton’s blog. I love sharing my Instagram photos. Y’all know this. I’ve been posting them on my blog for a year now. I’m kind of a freak though for uniformity and it bugged the crap out of me that the IG pictures were square and grainy looking while my camera pictures were rectangle and clear. Kelle starting putting her IG pictures in a collage and after months of seeing her do this every week I decided that I needed to do that too. She only does it once a week but I’m an Instagram fanatic so I’ll be doing it every post.
You’re welcome. And Kelle, thanks for the idea. You know you inspire me, woman. Also, a sidenote to the pic of me with the jersey on, the Texans had their first ever play off game and they WON it!!!! Enthusiastic, happy Texan fan = me. YAY!
Something else awesome about Instagram- you can now make phone cases for your iPhone with the pictures you take on there. I have this one coming to me and I can’t wait til it gets here! Casetagram.com. Check it.
Just heard another rumble of thunder in the distance. Livie just had me put on Toy Story 3 for the 100th time…and I’m gonna watch it with her under a blanket.
Happy Monday.
Thinking, not doing…yet.
My weekend started like this…
A surprise Taylor Swift concert for Hannah.
My weekend ended like this…
With my girls coloring together. Hannah’s idea. My babies. Loved it.
Yesterday afternoon The Man’s mom reminded me that this is the last weekend we have at home before Thanksgiving. We’ll be traveling to Ohio again as it’s become our yearly Thanksgiving tradition. This is the 3rd annual 22 hour drive that is somewhat traumatizing and yet worth it once we’re there with our family. I said all that to say that since this is the last weekend before Thanksgiving it means that it’s Christmas decorating time. I’ve done this the past 2 years before we went to Ohio and it’s the most awesome thing to come home from an exhausting trip to a beautiful, decorated Christmas tree. Y’all know me and the holidays. But with decorating comes organized chaos so I’m choosing to spend this week relaxing and pulling a bare minimum week because from Saturday on, we’ll be busy until New Year.
That is not an exaggeration.
Sidenote: Hannah turns 9 next month. NINE.
Moving along…
I have Baby E 2 to 3 days a week. Livie was jealous of him for like the first week but since then? She’s all about “the baby”. If he drops his toy, she’s right there picking it up for him. If he cries even a little Livie’s all “MAMA! Baby’s crying!!!!” I remember when Livie was just born, Hannah thought she was a better mom to her than I was and constantly told me if Livie even made a peep. Livie? She’s the same way with this baby. While we’re done having kids, it’s nice to see that if we did ever have another one, she’d be a sweet big sister.
Lots of planning going on in my head about our drive to Ohio, Thanksgiving spent up there, Hannah’s birthday, and of course Christmas. Going to spend the week thinking and not doing…yet.
Thanksgiving is in 2 weeks and this one can’t stop talking about turkeys.
She’s a smart girl.
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