My Favorite Box

So, Nicole really wanted to help us pack this morning.  She took it upon herself to pack up Kyle's toys that were lying around the house and his room (funny how she picked HIS toys to put away, instead of HERS...)

Rusty carried this into the kitchen to show me.  

Melted my heart.  I actually thought that I just might have to save this tag of tape when all is said and done.  But I'm really trying to break the generational sin of my family - packrat-itis - so maybe this picture will have to do. 

Back to more boxes-

cv

Time

Me:  Nicole, what time does the clock say it is?

Nicole: ummm...nine, two polka dots, zero, one.   =)

Don't you just love how the world looks through the eyes of children???  That one line conversation has brought a smile to my face over and over today.

cv

Oh yeah-

The haircut was, as expected, a disaster.  And I laughed through a lot of it!  Even the part where he was sitting my lap as I tried to hold him down (he's VERY strong) and his little hairs that they were shaving off landed in my mouth.  Forget the stylish haircut, we had to go straight for the shaved head.  Which kinda made it even funnier.  Imagine the host saying, "and moms, here's what you do when your child doesn't like to get their hair cut.  Have dad hold them pinned on his lap and just shave it!"  

If I get any video of it I'll put it on here.  Has to be good for a few laughs.  His dad doesn't care for the shaved head.  I think he's still pretty darn cute.

Here's to getting more than 6 hours of sleep tonight-

cv

Baby G!

I'm so excited!  

I spent much of the day yesterday thinking of my sister, and the growing baby boy in her tummy.  I'm so excited for her!  She's one of those people that was born to be a mother - the ones that are SO gentle, and SO loving, and SO tender, and SO compassionate.  The kind that you wish you could rent and have parent your kids some days so they turn out ok.  That little boy has NO idea how lucky he really is, but I intend to let him know and plan to remind him of it every time he acts up.  

I'm sure you'll hear more about my sister on here later- she's one of my heroes.  And I can't wait to meet this sweet little guy that's already stealing my heart.  I mean, he's part of my family - so he's going to be pretty amazing!  

Here's to a good Thursday - 

cv

Sneaky, sneaky...

So I've started sneaking vegetables and protein powder into my kids food.  Mostly to get my youngest to eat them at all - if he had it his way, a daily diet would consist of carbs, fruit, and soy milk.  My 3 year old is doing so much better at eating what I give her - at least a bite of it - but veggies are tricky.  

I mean, she ate fish last night.  Herself.  And asked for more.  

After I got up off the floor, I gave her more and made a big deal out of it.  She told me that she could see her muscles getting stronger while she ate it.  I wholeheartedly agreed.  

I started with a recipe for zucchini muffins.  So far, my son has eaten two of them, and that's more green vegetables than he's had in the last 6 months actually make it down his esophagus.  And stay there.  I made a batch like the recipe called for, but it still had a decent amount of oil and brown sugar in there, so I did another one with applesauce instead of most of the oil, less B sugar, and some protein powder.  They are almost as good!  

I'm thinking of picking up one of those books that has a bunch of recipes for sneaking veggies into food.  If you've had success with any of these, please let me know.

Now I'm off to take my son for a haircut.  He hates them when I do them, so we'll see how this goes.  It's an 'example' video for moms on how to cut their child's hair themselves to save money.  I'm thinking it might end up being more of a outtakes reel - "Cutting your own kids hair when your kid doesn't think it's as great of an idea as you do".

We shall see...

cv