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October 28 Busted!!!Yesterday, I was having a "low mother moment." My main thought was "Man, I sure don't get paid enough for this job." I was somewhat laughing at myself for such an absurd comment...being that I don't get paid at all to be a mother...but really I was just wallowing in all the circumstantial crud happening around me. I attempted to take a mental break by walking in to my room to see if I had any emails or to go to the bathroom or something....just 2 minutes please where I don't have to take care of "mommy stuff"....and in walks Tyler....singing....What was he singing.....the VeggieTales (R) song from Madame Blueberry...."A thankful heart is a happy heart. I'm glad for what I have. That's an easy place to start...." October 24 So True!
October 23 There's only one October...October 20 The Many Faces of BethOctober 16 Ba-Nana Banana Hey!(That is a "song" that I would sing for Tyler some times when he was much smaller and I was in the middle of pealing his banana.)
Lots and lots of Bananas!!!! About a year ago, Tyler set a household record of eating 8 bananas in one day....the next day he ate 6. (with no adverse reactions in the diaper department.
(Pic of Tyler at about 10mo. trying to chew on a banana with the skin still ON!)
October 13 Cleaning House!!!Nathan and I shipped the kids off to Grandma and Grandpa's house all day today so that we could clean (9a-5p of cleaning). I was dreading it every moment that I anticipated the process starting....you see....I am a major packrat and I am learning to let go of more stuff. Because, let's face it....it really is just stuff and most likely JUNK! Nathan is the level headed one in this scenerio and he totally helped me keep focus and prioritize. Storage bins were purchased. Furniture was moved out/around. Clothes were pitched/donated. A rental container for stuff was rented (we are slowly considering a move so if staging has to be done for "strategy" then our stuff has to go somewhere). We are not even close to half way done...so many nooks and crannies have not been touched and Nathan can't get his car in the garage at the moment....but OOOOO EEEeee, you can see some major progress! (I kinda wish I had some before and after pics but really the before shots could be quite embarassing)
After the kids had a ball playing like crazy with the grandparents and taking some huge naps, we brought them home. What was Tyler's reaction (Beth went straight to bed)?
"We cleaned up."
"Yes, son. We cleaned up. Does it look nice in here?"
"Where's all the stuff?"
He then walks over to a small red box (that he hasn't seen for a while and I keep notes and cards from Nathan in) and says, "Is it in here?"
Needless to say I find this all very humorous and interesting...like a rocking chair would fit in a 12inx10inx4in box. In the end, he realized that his basketball hoop from the living room now fits in his room so that is all that he seems to care about at the moment.
All I care about at the moment is that I and We made it through. I did it without giving up. We did it without any real fueding or tension....we were pretty calm the whole day. And now, I and We feel so relaxed and free with all the new found space/air in our house. So, knowing that we need to do more on the next free weekend is somewhat exciting to look forward to. Weird! October 08 Usin' Your CraniumTyler discovered our game:Cranium. Of course he wanted to play the game but it is really and adult game so we took parts and pieces of it and made our own game....mostly matching the "guys" to the board and talking about all the pictures on the board. Two amazing things happened as Tyler was trying to process all this information against what his young noggin already knew and I will share it here-
1) A very early comment he made, when I tried to point out the pictures of the brains and expain that they are on the inside of his head, was that "feet in the shoes, in the Dr. Seuss book of ABC's"....what does that have to do with anything!?!?!?! Well what he really meant was Oh, the Places You'll Go, by Dr. Seuss. We went and tracked down the book, he turned to the 2nd page of writing, pointed and said "there is the brains in shoes." All I could do is laugh and examine the page with amazement....it says "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. ..." Yep, he knew it. There is a picture of a guy walking around streets so I don't think he gets it all but he sure has stuff memorized and can pull information from what seems like nowhere.
2) After that we were back to playing and attempting to draw/scribble pictures. I asked him to "draw Beth" just to see what he would do. Rather than draw anything, he stated that Beth is pink and Tyler is blue. Ok, maybe a little social condtioning here with clothes and all but I decided to probe him more....Mommy is silver and Daddy is red. Really!?!? My theory is that silver is a reference to my jewelry (which is gold) and red is because Daddy has a favorite red IU t-shirt that he wears frequently.
I am not sure that any of us will know trully what was behind the comments and thoughts but Tyler is capable of some BIG thoughts. And really, the two kids in my house never cease to amaze me. October 03 She's a movin'We have a "mover" and a "shaker" in our house.....BETH! October 01 What is the meaning behind "Funkyhammer"?I am asked that question quite often and it is usually accompianied by some giggles. So, since this is still is a relatively new website under the "Funkyhammer" umbrella...I figured that I could type the story once here and sort of cut down on the number of questions. So....(DRUM ROLL PLEASE)....Here it is (Beware it is not as glamorous as you might think):
One day, my senior year of college, two friends of mine and I were walking down the hall to a meeting (or the computer lab...exact detail is a little foggy now, but I can picture the hallway). We were discussing how there was this one sister group of ours on campus where a high percentage of the guys had nicknames and maybe even a few girls. So we were contemplating how really there were no guys in our group with nicknames. (The great quandries of life)
PS-I know that there are many spelling errors in this entry because I used words that I don't usually spell very often and I can't find the spell check in this program....I think that maybe I should start doing rough drafts in Word(R) and then cut and paste to this....at least then I will know where the spell check is. |
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