Oct
19
Not my best pic, but I loved what they were doing. Kira is teaching Ariana ‘The Wheels on the Bus”. It was too sweet a memory not to remember. They had been fighting over my phone, Kira was playing a game and Ariana wanted to play too. So Kira (being the incredible big sister that …
Aug
22
Kira was having a hard time making to the big girl potty to poop, so we set up a system. Every time she poops in the potty, she gets a red sticker. 5 red stickers and we go to Chuck E Cheese. This is all very exciting. The other day, she came out and asked …
Aug
22
Kira, who is 2, told me today I embarrass her. (!?!?!?) We were in the mall, walking through a tunnel. No one wa around and Aria was intrigued by the echo. i was singing to her. Not terribly loud or terribly off key, just singing. Kira turns around and says “mama shush!” I was like …
Aug
22
Sweet story. Kira occasionally gets in the habit of waking up in the middle of the night. She’ll doit for a few days, maybe a week or so, and then she’ll start sleeping fine again. Well, 2 nights in a row she woke up and wanted to come sleep in our bed. And, since I …
Jun
02
I have been thinking lately, quite a bit about God and collective consciousness and thinking things into reality. I am fully realizing an idea. The thought that perhaps God equipped us with everything we would need to handle ourselves. maybe I don’t particularly believe in collective consciousness so much as the incredible power of the …
Jun
01
Potty training round 2 began today. I am feeling pretty good about, would definitely call it a success thus far. Not because she is in any way consistently using the potty, but because, unlike last time, we managed to keep things light and relatively stress free. And overall, for it being the first day, she …
May
25
The funniest thing happened: Kira wanted up on the counter. She put her cup in the Keurig coffeemaker. Then Trixie started barking, so we went outside to investigate. When we came back in I asked if she wanted her juice. She said ‘not juice, coffee!’ hahaha. Thought that was cute. The other day daddy got …
May
25
So Kira has learned to distinguish between clean Fred and dirty Fred. This would seem like a good thing, except that she has confused the concepts. Every time she picks one up, she smells it. If it is ‘dirty’, she cuddles it as usual. If it has recently been washed she says ‘Yuck, dirty’, and …
May
25
Do you ever jar days where it jut feels like too much work o be happy? I woke up this morning mad. Mad at Steve, mad at Ariana, just mad. I wanted to throw a Kira sized tantrum, fall far down on the floor and cry ‘I DON’T WANT TO!’. I don’ want to be …
May
24
I am curious, at what point do you stand up and control over your life without feeling selfish? My kids are little and my life is spinning out. I want to step back, do what I need to do, yet I feel like I am deserting them. Now, there is some part of me that …