Dear Babies,
You both love yogurt. You will eat any flavor at any time. So it should not be a surprise that Noah tried to mooch some of Layla's yogurt. The real surprise should be that she actually shared.
Love,
Mommy
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Nono and the Walker
Dear Noah,
I've tried not to do it. I didn't want to be that kind of parent. But I can't help it. It's just too hard to not compare you with LB.
I find myself looking at your pictures and then her pictures from when she was the same age. I stare at them looking at every tiny detail. Daddy showed me that I can select several pictures then click my space bar and the pictures will pop up. Then I can flip back and forth from picture to picture using the track pad. It's slightly obsessive.
I've compared milestones too - rolling over, crawling, sleeping through the night, eating solid food. LB has you beat in some areas and you have her beat in others.
Who will win the walking contest?? That is yet to be decided. LB was using the walker pretty regularly at 10 months, but you've only recently started to use it at almost 12 months. Point to Layla. She started walking at 15 months. Time to get to it.
Love,
Mommy
I've tried not to do it. I didn't want to be that kind of parent. But I can't help it. It's just too hard to not compare you with LB.
I find myself looking at your pictures and then her pictures from when she was the same age. I stare at them looking at every tiny detail. Daddy showed me that I can select several pictures then click my space bar and the pictures will pop up. Then I can flip back and forth from picture to picture using the track pad. It's slightly obsessive.
I've compared milestones too - rolling over, crawling, sleeping through the night, eating solid food. LB has you beat in some areas and you have her beat in others.
Who will win the walking contest?? That is yet to be decided. LB was using the walker pretty regularly at 10 months, but you've only recently started to use it at almost 12 months. Point to Layla. She started walking at 15 months. Time to get to it.
Love,
Mommy
Friday, July 27, 2012
Mommy's School
Dear Kiddos,
I think the week before teachers return to school should be called "Take Your Children to Work Week". You'd think that the 5 days before kids show up would be enough time to set-up a classroom, but that thinking is beyond wrong. Way beyond wrong. Pre-planning week is usually filled with meetings, professional development, registration, chatting, and lunches out because we never get to do that. Therefore teachers usually go to school ahead of time to have everything ready to go. And they usually bring their kids. It's "Take Your Children to Work Week". Someone should really make that official.
Our TYCWW started on Monday. In the 3 hours we were in "Mommy's Boom" I was able to place all the furniture around the room. We are always told, nah, nagged, to not drag the furniture on the freshly polished floors. We are told to wait for a custodian to come by with a dolly. In my 8, now 9, years of teaching, I've never seen a custodian with a dolly or seen a teacher wait. Teachers drag the furniture. I did it and I'll do it again next year. Those floors are going to get messed up anyway. Deal with it.
Tuesday was mainly unpacking. My room has wooden lockers and I stuffed each and every locker with teacher junk at the end of school last year. Again, we stayed at school for about 3 hours.
You both were exceptionally good. I made sure to have plenty of snacks and I let you play with my classroom things. It's amazing how pencil cups and chairs and things like that can entertain two small children. The only problem happened on Tuesday. I was talking with another teacher when I heard Layla cry out, "Pip-pops wet"! Layla had an accident.
I let you skip school on Wednesday to go play with your friends at the splash park. I can't believe I let you cut class on TYCWW! I should feel ashamed. :)
On Thursday you got the day off again to stay with Omi and Poppi! Skipping twice in one week?! Shameful. . . . but I went to school and got so much done. My companion that day was my hot glue gun. That's another thing we are nagged about - don't use hot glue on the walls. I don't care. I do it anyway. It's really the only thing that let's you stick stuff to concrete walls without it peeling off before Labor Day.
We went back to school on Friday. We didn't stay long since I had only had a few things to do. But I did remember to take my camera. I had to capture TYCWW! I love how excited Nono was to sit in the chairs and how LB played peek-a-boo in the lockers.
Love,
Mommy
I think the week before teachers return to school should be called "Take Your Children to Work Week". You'd think that the 5 days before kids show up would be enough time to set-up a classroom, but that thinking is beyond wrong. Way beyond wrong. Pre-planning week is usually filled with meetings, professional development, registration, chatting, and lunches out because we never get to do that. Therefore teachers usually go to school ahead of time to have everything ready to go. And they usually bring their kids. It's "Take Your Children to Work Week". Someone should really make that official.
Our TYCWW started on Monday. In the 3 hours we were in "Mommy's Boom" I was able to place all the furniture around the room. We are always told, nah, nagged, to not drag the furniture on the freshly polished floors. We are told to wait for a custodian to come by with a dolly. In my 8, now 9, years of teaching, I've never seen a custodian with a dolly or seen a teacher wait. Teachers drag the furniture. I did it and I'll do it again next year. Those floors are going to get messed up anyway. Deal with it.
Tuesday was mainly unpacking. My room has wooden lockers and I stuffed each and every locker with teacher junk at the end of school last year. Again, we stayed at school for about 3 hours.
You both were exceptionally good. I made sure to have plenty of snacks and I let you play with my classroom things. It's amazing how pencil cups and chairs and things like that can entertain two small children. The only problem happened on Tuesday. I was talking with another teacher when I heard Layla cry out, "Pip-pops wet"! Layla had an accident.
I let you skip school on Wednesday to go play with your friends at the splash park. I can't believe I let you cut class on TYCWW! I should feel ashamed. :)
On Thursday you got the day off again to stay with Omi and Poppi! Skipping twice in one week?! Shameful. . . . but I went to school and got so much done. My companion that day was my hot glue gun. That's another thing we are nagged about - don't use hot glue on the walls. I don't care. I do it anyway. It's really the only thing that let's you stick stuff to concrete walls without it peeling off before Labor Day.
We went back to school on Friday. We didn't stay long since I had only had a few things to do. But I did remember to take my camera. I had to capture TYCWW! I love how excited Nono was to sit in the chairs and how LB played peek-a-boo in the lockers.
Love,
Mommy
Thursday, June 28, 2012
First Day of Gymnastics
Dear Layla,
For as long as I've known Daddy, he has always said that his kids will not play soccer. He thinks it's boring. I think it's adorable to watch a bunch of 6 year olds chase the ball like a swarm of mosquitos. At that point, it's not really soccer anyway. I say that my kids can play anything they want.
Today you started gymnastics. You didn't have a choice in the matter, but I think you liked it. One day when you are old enough you will tell us what activities you want to participate in, but for now you will just do what we want to watch you do.
And I will always choose the stuff that looks adorable.
Love,
Mommy
For as long as I've known Daddy, he has always said that his kids will not play soccer. He thinks it's boring. I think it's adorable to watch a bunch of 6 year olds chase the ball like a swarm of mosquitos. At that point, it's not really soccer anyway. I say that my kids can play anything they want.
Today you started gymnastics. You didn't have a choice in the matter, but I think you liked it. One day when you are old enough you will tell us what activities you want to participate in, but for now you will just do what we want to watch you do.
And I will always choose the stuff that looks adorable.
Love,
Mommy
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Panties
Dear Layla,
One of my goals for this summer is to get you potty trained. We've been really working on it for a few days now. I say, "really working on it" because you've used the potty for months now, but you haven't really mastered things yet. Most of the time you have just a little accident in your Pull-Up and then finish peeing on the potty. Is that too much detail?! Oh well.
I'm hoping that your new panties will help do the trick. They have princesses on them! What little girl doesn't just love princesses? And to be really real, I'm sure that there are plenty of boys that like princesses too.
Love,
Mommy
One of my goals for this summer is to get you potty trained. We've been really working on it for a few days now. I say, "really working on it" because you've used the potty for months now, but you haven't really mastered things yet. Most of the time you have just a little accident in your Pull-Up and then finish peeing on the potty. Is that too much detail?! Oh well.
I'm hoping that your new panties will help do the trick. They have princesses on them! What little girl doesn't just love princesses? And to be really real, I'm sure that there are plenty of boys that like princesses too.
Love,
Mommy
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Folding Sheets
Dear Layla,
It took me years to learn how to fold a fitted sheet. Learning how to tuck one corner into the other, then all the corners into one, and folding everything into a neat square is ridiculous. When I was first learning how to do it, I would skip the whole corner tucking dumbness and go straight to the folding step and hope Ya-Ya wouldn't notice. :)
Now I can fold laundry without having to cheat. Do I think it's a super fun chore? No. Do I think you think folding laundry is super fun? Yes. Yes, I do.
You actually love folding laundry. You take whatever it is that you are folding, roll it into a ball and applaud yourself. You often yell, "I do it" when I try to fix it.
Hmmmm, rolling laundry into a ball kinda sounds like cheating. I guess great minds think alike.
Love,
Mommy
It took me years to learn how to fold a fitted sheet. Learning how to tuck one corner into the other, then all the corners into one, and folding everything into a neat square is ridiculous. When I was first learning how to do it, I would skip the whole corner tucking dumbness and go straight to the folding step and hope Ya-Ya wouldn't notice. :)
Now I can fold laundry without having to cheat. Do I think it's a super fun chore? No. Do I think you think folding laundry is super fun? Yes. Yes, I do.
You actually love folding laundry. You take whatever it is that you are folding, roll it into a ball and applaud yourself. You often yell, "I do it" when I try to fix it.
Hmmmm, rolling laundry into a ball kinda sounds like cheating. I guess great minds think alike.
Love,
Mommy
Curtains
Dear Layla,
It's still surprising to me the everyday, ordinary things that you use as toys. Well, on second-thought, I think I should rephrase. I'm still surprised that I get surprised when you use everyday, ordinary things as toys.
(Author's note: I wrote, rewrote, read and reread that last sentence at least seven times.)
This summer I decided to take on the project of painting all the trim in the house. It's a looooonnnnnng project. It takes a while to prep, paint, and put the room back together when there are two little kiddos in the house. Last night I stayed up until 3:00 in the morning to paint the living room. I knew I needed to do it all in one night because there are NO WAY that I would be able to do any painting while you and Noah were awake and nap time would not give me enough time to do anything productive. When I went to bed, I left all the furniture and toys in the middle of the room.
You thought having the living room is disarray was wonderful. You especially loved running behind the couches while yelling at the top of your lungs. You also loved playing with the curtains. You must have done this curtain thing for ten minutes, but I only managed to video the last few times because I couldn't find my camera in time. I missed all the times that you made Noah laugh and your sly smile where you know that you are doing something naughty.
Love,
Mommy
It's still surprising to me the everyday, ordinary things that you use as toys. Well, on second-thought, I think I should rephrase. I'm still surprised that I get surprised when you use everyday, ordinary things as toys.
(Author's note: I wrote, rewrote, read and reread that last sentence at least seven times.)
This summer I decided to take on the project of painting all the trim in the house. It's a looooonnnnnng project. It takes a while to prep, paint, and put the room back together when there are two little kiddos in the house. Last night I stayed up until 3:00 in the morning to paint the living room. I knew I needed to do it all in one night because there are NO WAY that I would be able to do any painting while you and Noah were awake and nap time would not give me enough time to do anything productive. When I went to bed, I left all the furniture and toys in the middle of the room.
You thought having the living room is disarray was wonderful. You especially loved running behind the couches while yelling at the top of your lungs. You also loved playing with the curtains. You must have done this curtain thing for ten minutes, but I only managed to video the last few times because I couldn't find my camera in time. I missed all the times that you made Noah laugh and your sly smile where you know that you are doing something naughty.
Love,
Mommy
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