My loves and dislikes

This is going to be a pretty random post unless I go off on a tangent…which could happen! 

Here are a few of my loves here lately:

• I LOVE shopping at Family Dollar!  Why?  Because it’s clean…it’s quiet…they have the essentials…I can run in quickly…it’s on the way home…THERE are tons of reasons!  If only they had fruit and vegetables, I would never go to Walmart! 
• I LOVE Campbell’s little backwards wave!  I also love that we have been working on signing “all done”…so far, he uses his bye-bye signal using both hands when I say “all done, all done?”  Trigger used signing a lot and I LOVED it…my cousins use it too!
• I LOVE that I am putting my phone and computer down and starting to spend more quality time with my boys!!  Now, I still have it more than I should..baby steps!!
• I LOVE how Campbell is starting to use things for the purpose that they are intended…here are some examples 1. He will pick up a brush and start brushing his hair. 2. He picks up phones and holds them to his ear. 3. He will go to the play kitchen and get a spoon and a pot and “stir”.

• I LOVE (I’m being sarcastic here) how when I bring out the camera, this is what I get from the two boys…I’m glad to see that they are on the same page: not cooperating with their momma! 
• I LOVE my IPAD…it has been a lifesaver with all of these dr appts.  I have tons of educational game apps on it…and if we are desperate (like when waiting for 2 hours to see the dr.), I have several tv (pirates, diego, mickey, max and ruby, etc.) episodes on there that he can watch!  It really has been so awesome because I can only entertain him by reading books for so long AND I don’t want him roaming around the dr office, touching everything.
• I LOVE my new sonic discovery….LEMON BERRY SLUSHES!!!  I used to get a lemon slush but I got the lemon berry one day and fell in LOVE…it is sooooooooo yummy!!!  So glad I didn’t know about those when I was pregnant!
• I LOVE nursing my baby boy!  I’m not sure when I will give it up…especially our nighttime feeding.  I LOVE, LOVE it!!!!!!!!  I’m also kind of obsessed with Medela!  I am still pumping morning and night…I should probably get over my fear of my milk supply drying up.  And, I should also start freezing the 18 ounces that I pump every day.  I’m just lazy and COVER YOUR EARS, have been pouring it out!  I thought Dr. Slusher was going to fall out of her seat when I told her that!  I do use it for straw (sippy) cups and rice cereal….but other than that, I’ve just been pouring it out since the beginning of February.  I do have to say that we already have a freezer and a half of milk that I’m not sure will ever get used.  I would like Campbell to get breastmilk just as long as Trigger did (15-18 months). 
• I LOVE how Campbell just adores Trigger!!!!!  and how Trigger tolerates Campbell! 
• I LOVE Matt’s new truck.  I never thought we would own a Ford…But it is so nice!  I won’t be changing over though because I like Tahoe/Suburbans too much! 
• I LOVE hearing Trigger pray.  I don’t get to do our nighttime routine with him often because I’m usually nursing Campbell.  However, a month or so ago, I was putting Trigger down and we said our prayers.  I only prompted him by saying, “let’s pray”.  He bowed his head and said, “Lord, thank you momma, campbell, momma.”  This is how his prayers usually start…he somehow always forgets Matt.  He continued “thank you dresser, thank you froggy (his piggy bank that’s shaped like a frog), thank you lamp, thank you monitor, thank you bed, thank you closet, thank you my clothes…”.  He went on for a few more things.  It just made my heart smile!!!!!
• I LOVE days when Liz/Zizzy can bring Sydney over to play.  It’s just so fun to watch Trigger and Sydney play AND fight! (below:  Trigger, Sydney, Zizzy, and Campbell eating lunch in the playset.) 
• I LOVE that busy season is ALMOST over…I am seeing the light…and I am thankful!   Matt has done a great job of making time for us…(below: is a pictureof us eating a picnic lunch one Sunday. the second one is of Campbell eating his first finger food…puffs.)
• I LOVE that Easter is AFTER busy season this year…doesn’t happen very often but I’m glad that Matt will be able to participate in ALL Easter activities!
• I LOVE that even though my boys have had ear infections and kept a upper resp virus all winter, that they are HEALTHY boys and have no serious problems or illnesses!

 

Here are a few things that I do NOT love:

• I do NOT love that the Easter bunny is going to be coming in less than a month…he will fill the boys baskets (which by the way, the Easter bunny is soooo not bought stuff for that yet) AND he is also going to come get our Trigger’s pacis….This is bothering me for two reasons:  1. the obvious one, he depends on his paci to sleep…no paci=no sleep…I hope he can figure out a way to soothe himself to sleep without it.  He’s NEVER slept without it!  NEVER!!!!!  2. this is the last paci in our house.  Campbell doesn’t have one…it will be the last little babyhood thing left…well, except for the fact that he is still wearing diapers ;)
• I do NOT love telling this sweet baby “no” but we have to all the time…and even popped his hand quite a few times.  He’s a mischievous little monkey!   I’m a little worried though because the other day, Campbell kept playing with this electrical outlet (which is covered now). He knows better because he will look at you and then make a beeline over there and then look back at you before he starts touching and SMILE!  I will tell him “no, no” and it’s like he’s daring me…he’ll just stare and smile.  Then, this particular day, I walked over and popped his hand…not real hard but probably harder than we did Trigger’s at this age and GUESS WHAT HE DID?!?!  He started laughing…like ALL OUT BELLY LAUGHING.  He would then proceed with touching it again, I would say, “no” and pop his hands and the laughter would start!  It was rather humorous….seriously though?!?!  Does God really think I need two defiant children?  I’m hoping that was just a fluke! 

• I do NOT love that I seem to never have it together…I can’t remember anything these days…and I certainly can’t get anything done!  The house is always a wreck, the dishes are always piled high, the dirty laundry is always covering the floor OR the clean laundry is covering the couch, and toys are always EVERYWHERE!!!!
• I do NOT love that my children are growing up so fast! 
• I do NOT love administering  (or really any medicine) nose spray to Trigger twice a day.  It’s NOT easy…and he does NOT love it!
• I do NOT love my obsession with cadbury eggs, thin mints, dark choc cookies, or anything else sweet….AND, my body is not loving it either.  I am ALSO NOT loving the c-section tummy.  I can’t seem to get my nice tummy back…It’s true about the cutting muscle thing.  It’s a lot harder to get my stomach back to normal.  OR MAYBE it’s the way I keep shoveling food into my mouth OR maybe it’s the lack of exercise!
• I do NOT love the late hours that my husband has to work during busy season!  It worries me!!!!
• I do NOT love Trigger’s sassiness or his disregard for anything I have to say….I also do NOT like that finger being pointed at me while he is telling me that he is NOT doing what I tell him to do.  I also do NOT love that he has to go to the corner or get spankings so often.  I do NOT love how I have used some harsher tones when disciplining him.  I have got to work on patience. 
• I do NOT love that I am not consistent with a quiet time reading God’s word and praying.  I have got to make that a daily priority!!!!!! 
• I do NOT love that over the last month or two (with ear infections), Campbell has stopped using his left hand fingers (which were his middle two….and not his serious fingers).  Now, he sucks on his right hand fingers (pointer and middle fingers) and holds/plays with his left ear with his hand.  It makes me sad.  I kind of liked when he sucked on those middle two left fingers.  :(
• I do NOT like that Trigger does NOT like for me to take pictures of him anymore…that would be why I have so many pictures of Campbell!!
• I do NOT like that as soon as I finished refinishing our desk and matt bought a gigantic monitor and I finally found my photo editing cd and installed it so I could edit pictures on the HD screen, that our computer crashed…AND, Matt doesn’t have the time to deal with it.
• I do NOT like that I just pumped while holding my electrical cord together….seriously, I did!!!  That cord has been toted so many places that it has frayed wires coming out of it in every direction…VERY unsafe!!!!!!  When I turned on my pump and it wouldn’t come on, I almost had a full blown panic attack.  Matt just told me that when I’m done pumping, I needed to give it to Life Choices.  WHAT?!?!  I know that’s the right thing to do but seriously, that pump and I have spent hours upon hours together over the last three years!!!!!  I will be sad day to put it to rest!  He did say that IF (that’s a big IF in his mind) we had another child, we would just buy another pump….maybe, just maybe!!!

I know I keep stalling with these kinds of posts but I really am going to get back on track with blogging soon!  btw, forgive me if there are typos…I don’t  have the energy to go back and read.