Last Night:



"Nice hat Winni!"



"Mommy, I go to Afghanistan and get Daddy, ok??"

We are now at day 7 of Trae crying himself to sleep. I think I'm just about worn out!! He falls asleep, then realizes he is standing and cries. After 2 hours every night, I end up going in and laying him down because he is trying to sleep standing up!! Oh the joys!! I'm open to new ideas.....

The other night I found Winni playing with her building blocks. She had never done this before and I was very proud of her. She built a little square and put it on wheels. She kept saying, "I did it, I did it!" The next morning when she was playing with it again she knocked over some of the blocks and they fell. She was so concerned about those blocks. She asked them if they were ok?? Then she said, "You want to go see your mommy?" I'm not sure who the mommy is, but apparently all is well with the block family.

The decline of a Kindergartener's standards

As I was working in the garden today, Hunter from across the street was entertaining Winni and keeping her out of the street. I found a really big snail crawling toward my garden and I showed it to Hunter. He thought it was pretty cool so he took it to show to his grandma. He thought she would enjoy having it in her garden. Of course she was against that and let him know. He got very offended and told her that snails are apart of life and we should let them live. He had a pretty good argument and kept telling his grandma that she should let them live in her garden. Well, at the time she was blowtorching the weeds on her sidewalk and decided to have a little fun with him. She cooked that snail, and apparently Hunter forgot his pro-life for snails fight. He then came over to me and said, "Hey, if you find anymore snails, let me know and my grandma will burn them!"

Winni is always trying, and succeeding, at stealing Trae's bottles from him. I then have to get it from her and return it to him. I was cleaning out the car from the days travels and Winni was helping me. She found a bottle with a little bit of formula left and thought she had found a special treat for herself. When I found her she had the most disgusted look and her face as she pulled the 2 day old bottle from her lips. She noticed me watching her and said, "Ewe mommy, spicy!!" Hopefully we've learned not to take Trae's bottles anymoore, but I doubt it.

My Randomly Typical Day

My little boy is growing up! While in the child care center at the gym today, Trae decided he doesn't like being with the babies. So, at 10 months old, he joined the 1 yr olds! As we were driving home from the gym this afternoon, Winni said, "Mom, I had a fun day! Did you have a fun day?" I told her that I had had a fun day. We played, we went grocery shopping, we cleaned the house, we made cookies, went for a walk. It had been a pretty fun day! I thought this question was innocent enough, and very thoughtful of her. Little did I know what she had planned for me.....After dinner I put the kids in the tub. Trae doesn't last very long in the tub so I got him out and got his jammies on. We were waiting for Winni to get done playing in the tub when she realized that when she toots it makes bubbles. She thought this was the greatest and she was doing everything she could to keep tooting. Trae and I left the bathroom for one tiny minute and when we came back, yep you guessed, she said, "Ewe Mommy, poopy in my tubby!" And right there in her hot little hand was a little poop. So I told her it was time to get out and I noticed more poop. I thought she knew that toots lead to poop, but I guess this was the place to test that theory! (However, I'm sure glad I didn't take the extra time to scrub down the tub before putting them in it tonight!) Then it was bedtime, and of course she didn't want to go. I finally gave in and let her lay on my bed because I was on the phone with Walter's dad, Walt! (My life is a dang Walter circus!! :) And I love it!) She got out of bed and came to me. She showed me her hands and it turns out she had gotten into my lotion and covered herself....and my bed! She had quite the productive day! I can't wait til tomorrow. We are getting her 2 yr old pictures done! Who cares if her birthday was in January, I'll just put her in some warm clothes for her picture. It's not like she's grown any!!

Today, of course while the sacrament was being passed, Winni decided that would be a good time to pray outloud! She said, "Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for this day. Thank you for Cody" (a little boy in nursery with her) She said some other things, too, but I couldn't understand her very well. It was so cute, but once she realized people were starting to turn and look at her, she quickly got shy and really quiet!