Boys with Long Hair

I was watching ET (entertainment tonight) and saw a picture of Celine Dion and her 6 yr old son. I promise you if they hadn't mentioned that he was a boy, you would have thought he was a girl. His hair must be mid back length. Why oh why would a parent allow their sons to grow out their hair like a girls? No wonder we have people walking around with sexual identy problems. I would never allow Edward to grow his hair out like that. I am not as much appalled by boys who have long in your face hair that is shoulder length. I believe in keeping it nice and neat when it comes to boys (a little spike is okay). Yes, I do find it just as appalling when mom's cut their girls hair into short page boys and so forth, causing them to look like boys. I am understand though when it is for a medical reason or due to something like lice, those are issues that have to be dealt with as delicately as possible.

What to do??

I have an issues, that I am not sure how to deal with. Right now it is okay but here in a few weeks we might be back to the same issues. Let me explain. Edward started going to Children's Church and Sunday School at mid-April. There are 2 teachers (they alternate weeks) for his class (4 and 5 yr olds), one of them seems to have issues either with Edward or what little kids say in general, I am not 100% sure which yet. She has been leave for 2 weeks but should be back in about 2 to 3 weeks. The first week she had Edward in her class, she came to the door as soon as she saw us. She quite huffily and rudely, announced to us that we need to "Talk to our son". We asked why, she said because Edward said that a Tuba sounded like a Fart. For crying out loud he is a little boy and pretty much all little boys would say something like that. 2 weeks after that, she meets us again at the door, and tells us that Edward said that He wanted a baby brother or sister, that mommy was trying to get one in her tummy. She acted like this was offensive. She acted like he was talking out right about sex, he is a little boy, he doesn't even know what sex is. I told her that he was a little boy and didn't know what that meant, all he wants is a sibling. I forgot at the time because I was so upset that I had told Edward (who has been bugging me endlessly lately) that he needed to ask God for a sibling if he wanted one, that he wanted to pray about it. So, I am thinking that this topic of discussion came up when prayer requests were asked for. I went to the other teacher, but I still dread when this teacher comes back. What would you do in this situation? I would love any suggestions.

Mommy, Can We Chase the Ice Cream Man?

Today, I was out mowing the lawn. I was doing the lawn by the carport/garage first. Edward was riding his bike on the driveway area. He heard the music of the ice cream man. He came over to me, so I stopped mowing. He said "Mommy, Can We Chase the Ice Cream Man?". I told him that I didn't have any cash, he said you do to, in the car (we keep change in there from when we are given it back from buying something). So I told him if the Ice Cream Man was out front when we were up there for me to mow the front lawn, I would buy him an ice cream. He took this to mean that we were going to chase the Ice Cream man. He grabbed his bike and started running down the back alley with me following pushing the mower with me. Needless to say I was about half of the way done with the front yard before we saw the Ice Cream Man's Van. He was about 2 streets down from ours (we could see him). Edward went to the road (I was with him) and was waving him down, screaming "STOP HERE ICE CREAM MAN!!" It took everything I had not to bust up laughing right there in the street. Guess we will be seeing a lot of the ice cream man this summer since Edward seems to be able to hone in on the music that the Ice Cream Man plays, even in the house.

Such a little Gentleman!

Yesterday Edward and I went to the post office while we were doing errands. He saw some women with their arms full, and he went and held the door open for them. He was very polite and so sweet. I was so proud of my son in that very moment, I know that we are raising him well.

Backwards Underwear

This morning, I noticed that Edward had his underwear on backwards. I told them that the hole in the underwear needed to be in the front. Well he turned them around, and show me that the hole was in the front with pulling his penis out. I told him that that was exactly what the whole in the underwear was for, so that he didn't have to pull down his underwear to go pee. He said no, that he goes pee like this. He pulled his penis out over the top of his underwear, I said that that was okay too but they put in hole in the underwear so that you could do it that way too. I thought that this was the end of the conversation. NO!!! I picked up the phone to call Kirk to see what he wanted for dinner and when he might be home from his trip, Edward takes the phone from me. He doesn't say hi daddy, not I miss you.....just goes right into telling Kirk that He pees like this (showing daddy who is not even in the room, let alone the state but on the other end of the phone) and he doesn't want to use the hole to pee, he wont put his penis in the hole. Kirk has no clue what Edward is talking about other than peeing and something to do with a hole. I can't help myself, I am cracking up the whole time. Picturing what Kirk is thinking in his mind about this subject that Edward is being very adament about with him. Edward hands me back the phone, not good-bye daddy, not I will see you soon, just stops talking about peeing and the hole and hands the phone back to me. I asked Kirk if he had any idea what that was all about. Kirk said peeing in holes? I laughed and told him, well sorta. I explained the whole thing and then he understood. That child!!

Mother's Day 2007

I hope that your Mother's Day was a joyous one. I was able to spend this Mother's Day with my own mother. We got her a new Digital Camera. It was great to be able to bless her with something that she wanted. The Digital Camera that she was using was slow responding after you clicked and the pictures were dark even with the flash. She needed a new, more up to date one. She helped Edward to make some presents for me. They painted a ceramic bird house, made me a sun catcher and a purse that I can hang around my neck when I go places like the zoo or the park and don't want to lug my purse with me but still need to have my id, credit cards, cash and or passes with me. Very cute and will be very useful. Kirk also took Edward to our local Rec center to make Mother's Day Gifts for me. He painted me a hand towel, lamented hand prints, a card, and a picture frame. I also received a pink bowling ball and a bowling bag (as per my request). I also got roses, a card and a balloon. It was a great day for me. Now it is time for me to get things done for Edward to give to Kirk on Father's Day. We will do that the week right before Father's Day. We are going to make him a t-shirt that Says: Property of my Kid...it will have Edward's hand prints on the front and footprints on the back. We also got him another T-shirt about Dad's and a leather travel dual, foldable picture frame for him to use when he travels. Still need to find a few more things for Kirk plus something special from me for him, after all he is the love of my life and the father of my child....I want him to know that I think he is an awesome Daddy and that I appreciate all he does for Edward.

Nana Comes to Visit

My mom (aka...NANA to Edward) came to visit us for 2 weeks from May 3rd to May 16th. She got to experience our busy daily lives. She was able to enjoy 1 bowling league session with Edward (he bowled a 73 and a 77 that week with his New 8lb Toy Story Bowling Ball...he broke the 6lb ball he got in Feb....he is doing awesome with the 8lb ball...thought it might be to heavy for him but he handles it quite well). She also got to go to his Bowling Awards Ceremony the following Friday with us. He received another trophy, which is now proudly displayed in his bedroom. She also got to see his participate in 2 games of blastball. She also was able to go to 2 of his Kindermusik classes with us. He had one of his 3 birthday parties on the 11th with his Kindermusik pals, so she was there to help out with that. She was also here for his other 2 parties. More on his parties in a later blog post. I hope that she had fun. She helped him to make a couple neat Mother's Day Presents for me. More about Mother's Day in another blog post. LOL!! We of course also enjoyed going to Yoder (a local Amish community) together and we went and saw Georgia Rules together. I personally loved the movie thought it was a good flick. We also visited and she helped me get some things caught up around here...which was a thankful help to me. I already miss her. We plan to go see her in March for her birthday, it had dawned on me that Edward and I haven't ever spent her birthday with her. I thought he would enjoy that.

I Promise

I know I haven't posted in a while. I have so much to share. I promise in the next few days to get my blog up to date. I have to share all about Edward's Birthday, My mom's visit, My upcoming Girls weekend trip with one of my "sisters at heart" (God has blessed me with two of them and I love them both....I wish I could have a special day like this with my other "sister at heart"....maybe some day soon we will be able too). I have a ton of things to blog about, please bear with me while I get caught up on my posts. I appreciate your patience and that you read my blog. God Bless!!!

So many Books so little time

I had to laugh this morning.....I took a book with me to read while Edward was at Preschool Gym Games and wouldn't you know it as I was walking in the door I remembered I already had a book out in the car that I was reading (It's my car book, I leave it in there to have to read when I am somewhere where I need to have a book to read to kill some time). So here I am starting a whole new book. Plus I have 5 books in the house that I have started reading at some point in the last few months but haven't finished. Oie Vey! I need some quiet reading time.

BlastBall

Edward just finished Blastball (these are pictures from his one and only practice). They had 4 games altogether....Every Monday for a Month. The name of his team was The Bears and they work Green (this color) t-shirts to their games that said Blastball on them. It was a great introduction to T-ball. Next year he will still be young enough to play Blastball, so we will sign him up for that again. He seemed to enjoy himself greatly and learned a lot of valuable lessons about Sportsmanship, Teamwork and Sharing. Being an only child, who is homeschooled we felt that these were very important lessons for him to learn. You could tell that he was the only child on the team without siblings, because he was the one out in the field laying in the grass throwing a screaming fit because someone else caught the ball. His Nana got to come and see him play 2 of his 4 games. Of course both daddy and mommy were there to cheer him on at all his games and his practice. We have a ton more pictures. I just haven't uploaded them to my computer yet because it desperately needs to be reloaded. For those of you who aren't familiar with what Blastball is, the children hit the ball off of a tee. The ball is soft (like a nerf ball) and so is the bat. The children only run to 1st base and when they jump on it, it honks. There is no score left and the games only were 45 minutes long. If you hadn't played all four innings by then, that was okay. The game was still over. Great for little ones and to see if they even like the sport. They also have Munchkin Tennis through our rec center but Edward is fully booked both set of sessions with that, so we will not be able to do that this year. Maybe next year. We just want to give him the opportunity to try all sports, even though neither Kirk or I are sporty people. We don't want our dislikes and likes to flow over on Edward, we want him to decide for himself....after all he is his own person. We try very hard to take this attitude towards everything from food to activities. Of course there are a few activities that because of being homeschooled that we do feel aren't optional choices....we do them as a part of his curriculum.

Thomas and Friends Live

We took Edward to see Thomas and Friends Live last night. We loved the show, it was like seeing a show on Broadway. It was very musical. Edward was enthralled with it the entire time. The only down side was you weren't suppose to take pictures (I plus a lot of other parents) snuck a few pictures. I understand no pictures but at least set up away to the children to be able to commemorate seeing the show with something. They didn't even have programs. A chance to take a picture with Thomas or something would have been nice and so many parents wouldn't have been sneaking pictures of the show. If you know anything about Thomas the Tank Engine, you know that there is a ton of different engines on the Island of Sodor. At this show the only characters were Percy and Diesel, that is besides Thomas himself, Sir Topham Hat, and a handful of "Islanders...i.e. townspeople."

Grateful

I guess I am being sentimental since Edwards 4th birthday is drawing near, but I keep going back to what was going on at this time 4 years ago as we were eagerly awaiting his arrival. He is such a blessing and sometimes I still think wow someone is really calling me Mommy. God is just so great. Being a mommy is such a wonderful adventure, you never know what the morning will bring when you have a child in your life. I know that not all children are blessed to mommies through the natural way, sometimes God blesses mommies with children in very special ways through adoption, foster care, and as a step parent. I don't care how you come to be blessed to be a parent, just take everyday like it is a new adventure. Not all days will be perfect but trust me...the food covered hugs, wet kisses and sugary sweet I Love Yous will make up for all the bad plus more. Enjoy your children while they are small because it will make all the difference to them when they are adults.

Send In The Clowns

We took Edward to his first Circus (Shrine Circus) today. He absolutely loved it. He adored the clowns. We had a blast.

Our "Blizzard" Pictures

We recieved about 3 inches of snow in our "Blizzard" yesterday. The weather was strange though. It rained in the morning, by about 3 pmish it was snowing but I wouldn't call what was coming down snowflakes, more like snowglobs (they were globs of snow at least the size of a nickle)...during the same time it was also raining and thundering. Totally weird. I don't ever recall this happening before. Funny things all this is melted by 6pm today.

These pictures were taken at 6:48pm CST. The one of just the tree is the Red Bud that was just blooming a week ago. Weird to see it all covered in snow.

Paging Dr. Edward

Edward was pretending yesterday to be an astronaut (we had bought him a space suit last year at the fair from the local Cosmosphere), he wore the costume all afternoon, we had to convince him to take it off for bed last night (note that was night 5 in a row of sleeping in his own bed in his own room). About 20 minutes ago Edward came up to me with his doctor stuff. He informed me that I have a broken tummy ache. I proceeded to ask him all kinds of questions like where did he get his PHD at (he informed me at Burger King), if I needed to have a surgery, how long I had to keep my bandage on (the rest of my days he said). He said he was putting me to bed for all days. What an imagination.

Why would they do that??

If you remember a few weeks ago when we were having our playroom floors re-done, the hot water heater in the basement sprung a leak. The thing was 30 plus years old, so that was no big shock to us. However I forgot to share the fact that they actually built the walls of the little utility room in the basement around the hot water heater and furnace. Kirk had to tear down a portion of the wall to get to the stupid thing. We ended up trading out the 30 gallon one for a 50 gallon one. Now I have a basement with a 3 foot section of the utility wall totally missing. Not even sure how we will be able to replace it, since Kirk had to take a saw to the supporting braces that run along the wall to be able to get the hot water heater to remove it. Why would you build a wall around something that will eventually have to be replaced, that can malfunction or have a variety of other issues. Got to love the quirks of older homes.

Weather

It has been cold and rainy all day to day. Still expecting a few inches of snow fall, starting either sometime very late tonight or early in the morning tomorrow. They postponed Kirk's Company Picnic at the Zoo tomorrow until better weather. Hope that better weather will be soon...even though the rain is good for our newly seeded yard. Kirk just called and told me not to take Edward to bowling league tonight because it is raining and sleeting so hard that there is little to no visibility. Better to be safe than sorry, right?

Edwards Day

WOW! Edward was an eating machine today. He just doesn't seem to be able to satisfy his hunger. He must be going through a growing spurt....he needs to go through one. He has been hyper today, almost out of control at points. I asked him in Kindermusik class this morning to turn down his hyper-activity level just a smidge, he looked right at me and told me the dial was stuck. LOL!!! Where does he get this stuff? We have bowling tonight, hopefully he will be able to get some of this energy used. I think part of it is the weather that and daddy had to be out of town overnight last night....he tends to push things a little bit more with me when Daddy isn't here. I think it is because he misses his daddy so much during the day, that he looks forward to daddy coming home after work and when he doesn't for some reason it really seems to effect Edwards mood. Daddy will be home tonight but tired (had a very long day yesterday), so Edward might not get that Daddy attention he is craving until tomorrow after Daddy has had a chance to rest.

Evicted!!!

As some of you know we have been pretty much co-sleeping with Edward since he was born. I had had him in his own bed around 18 months, but after Kirk had his accident he brought Edward back into our bed because he could only sleep if his family was close by. Well Edward has pretty much been in our bed ever since. When we moved to this house and got him a Thomas The Tank Engine Toddler Bed, he slept in it for almost a month...then bounced right back into our bed. No matter what amount of bribing, types of encouragement and incentives that were given he refused to go back to sleeping in his own bed on a regular basis. I finally put my foot down and this past Monday evicted him from our bed. I have made it very clear to him that he was getting to be a big boy and big boys sleep in their own beds. We have started a new routine with him....he gets to come to our room before lights out and we read him a couple of stories, then I put him in his room in his bed. I turn on his lullabye music (unfortuantly his Lighting McQueen CD Radio doesnt have continous play on it) and let it play while I lay in his bed with him until he falls asleep. He has slept all through the night in his own bed the last few nights. We praise him in the morning for sleeping in his own bed and tell him what a big boy he is. Now it is not like if he were sick or got scared from a nightmare or something that we wouldn't allow him to sleep with us one or two nights but he needs to be sleeping in his own bed on a regular basis from now on. I will also be quiting slowly using a technique I saw on SuperNanny, laying in his bed with him to get him to sleep. I will work on that with him after his birthday, once Nana goes home. He should be comfortable and use to by then with sleeping in his own bed.

Another Edward Funny

Kirk took Edward to see Meet the Robinson's this past Saturday while I hid Easter Eggs and put together Easter Baskets. I guess there was a preview of a new movie coming out soon about Under Dog (an old cartoon some of us old foogies might remember from when we were kids). Anyway, Edward gets home....puts a leash on Storm, taking her outside....telling her to "Come On Super Dog!" Well he did this every day until yesterday. Yesterday he puts the leash on her and says "Come On Pyscho Dog!". I said to him "What did you just call her Edward?" He says, smiling at me "Pyscho Dog". I asked him "Where did you hear that at Edward?" He says to me, smiling again "You, Mommy!" Kids!!!

A Blizzard A Coming?????

Oie Vey! They are reporting on the news that we might be getting ANOTHER Cold Front this weekend.........the one that just hit Colorado....... (Kirks Spring Company Picnic is this Saturday at the Zoo....guess we will be bundling up) and might be getting another dump of snow. All I have to say is that this is going to be a very interesting spring. Wonder if that will further delay getting our yard reseeded and the landscapers out to do up the rest of the yard, if so at this rate we might get it done around the 4th of July. ;-)

What He Should Have Worn for Easter

Due to extremely abnormal freezing temps on Easter, Edward was unable to wear the outfit that I had bought him for Easter (seen below in the pictures), he had to wear Jeans with a short sleeve yellow (with blue and white stripes) polo shirt, and a coat to church for Easter morning. Crazy weather!!!

Finding the Easter Baskets

Look what the Easter Bunny left for me and Daddy!!!!! Cool!

Egg Hunt

Unfortunatly it was way to cold outside for us to take Edward to the Easter Egg hunt on Friday night, due mainly to the fact that they (the rec center) still choose to hold it outside in the freezy cold. So we took the eggs that we dyed Friday night and I filled 18 plastic ones, hid them while Kirk and Edward were gone to a movie. When they got home Edward went into the playroom and hunted the eggs. He had fun, but I still feel that bad that he wasn't able to go to an actual egg hunt. Didn't want to risk him getting ill from the freezing temps. I did have to laugh though, everytime he came across a plastic egg, he had to open it up to see what was inside before he would go on to hunt for another egg. All the candy is put up now and he has to go through me to get some. Trying to limit sugar and junk intake.

PTL!!! He is RISEN, indeed He is!!!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays because I get to contemplate how our Lord and Savior loved us so much that He choose to come to Earth and die on a Cross for my sins, your sins, the sins of generations past and for all those yet to come. That is the ultimate in love. I can't even begin to understand what it was like to do something so compassionate for those whom you knew might turn against you. I don't know how people can even begin to believe in there being no God, it is just beyond me. I look around me every day and see God's beauty, love and compassion for humanity and I can't see how some can choose to turn a blind eye to what is so obvious. I am sickened how this country that was founded by Christians has forgotten its true heritage (and reason for being) and how now even the word Easter Bunny is offensive. I remember when I was in school it was Easter Break and Christmas Break not Spring Break and Winter Break. How you were able to have a Christmas concert at school and sing songs like Holy Night and Away in the Manger. Since when did a Christmas tree become a Holiday tree? I don't mind that others choose different religions, that is their choice, God did give us the freedom of choice....however this country was founded by Christians so that they could have their Christian faith and values, so not to be ruled by others on how to believe or worship God (not Buddha or any other type of "God"), so why should we have to change our laws to accommodate others...they don't change their laws for Christians or people of other faiths. We have become to lenient as a Country. I wish more Christians would take a stand, so we can take back our country and return it to how those who founded it dreamt it to be for future generations. I am so amazed by God every day and thankful that he choose to love me in spite of my human imperfections and ways. PTL! That He is RISEN!!! Happy Easter. PTL that my father is the King of King and I am a princess. I can't wait to go home to Him.