In nursery today I pulled out the play dough. It looks like somebody made it. Good thing, because of all the kids - MINE wanted to eat it. Yep, not really interested in molding it and building those motor skills. Just wanted to put it in his mouth. *sigh* At least I brought his Sippy cup today. Score 1 for mom. He didn't spill water with crumbs from his snack all down the front of his shirt and tie today. I think my lesson went pretty well. It was "Heavenly Father and Jesus love you." I shared the story about Jesus and the children. We pointed at pictures of things that Heavenly Father has given us because he loves us. I played "I feel my savior's love" on my tablet while they listened. I thought it went pretty well by 2 yr old standards.
I gave Ammon a haircut this afternoon after dinner. He had about 1 1/2 inches cut off the top. I've been meaning to cut it for a couple of months now, but he doesn't really like getting his hair cut and he's a bit wiggly. So it's taken a while to work up the energy to do it. He did pretty well as long as Veggie tales were playing.
My kiddo is usually pretty happy. However he does one thing that I just don't get. After cleaning him up from his haircut and combing his hair, he reached up and high fived my face and tried again to grab my glasses. I told him no and not to do that, but he just kept slapping me in the face. Finally, I lightly slapped him in the face to show him how it feels (okay- not even close to how hard he slapped me, but you'd think it was worse). He bawled after that like I did him the greatest injustice. What about my face?? Ouch! He didn't learn his lesson though, because later during FHE, he high fived Lily and Gavin in the face too. Where is that coming from??
He also likes to throw his pacifier under his crib. Then he wakes up and cries because he doesn't have it. I've learned that when it's not in the crib, it's under the crib. And sure enough - there it is! Fun game, huh? Just wait until we start weaning him off of that thing. Don't know who will be worse off - him or me!!
On another note - Friday was a snow day and school was cancelled. It was helpful for me to get some extra stuff done around the house, but really, they could have done a late start. By 11am, the roads were fine and I was grocery shopping. That's when school would have started for us. Oh well. Too late. Now we've lost a vacation day in February. Boo. It looks like Tuesday may bring more of the same. Hopefully school won't be cancelled again. It's getting to be ridiculous. The kids don't think so. . . Gavin and Lily spent most of the day outside playing with the little bit of icy snow on the trampoline. They were happy until it all melted away. Brrr. . . The irony is that on Monday of last week, the kids were on the same trampoline with the sprinklers going underneath because it was so "hot". Texas weather- huh?
Saturday, we took Lily's girl scout troop to see a UT women's basketball game. I talked with one of the moms the whole time and the girls' favorite part was cheering with the UT cheerleader.
I guess they had a good time. UT won by a 3 point margin. 66-63.
Jessica was busy this weekend too. Last week she sang with her PG13 choir for a MLK event for the city of Round Rock. This past weekend, she had another field trip to the Microsoft store with the Imagination Station program she is in. She says they did a filming project and made a robot. She was complimented because her group actually had a storyline instead of just being silly during their filming part. She is going to be sad when she has to give back the Chrome book at the end of the month. This past six weeks, she earned straight A's and the Principal's Award for being such a great student. It's nice for others to see what her mom has known all along. This week she and I were invited to attend the YW New Beginnings since she will be entering YW this year. It dawned on me that she will likely be attending girl's camp this summer. Wow. Can't believe YW is almost upon us. My little girl is definitely growing up.
Gavin and Lily finally finished up Ragtime. I'm glad it's over. It was fun and a good experience, but I'm exhausted from it and so were they. Every so often they ask me if they can go to a rehearsal or see their friends that they made during the show. I'm kind of glad to get back to normal routine for a while, but they miss it already even if their part was a small one.
My kids definitely keep me busy. During the show, I wondered at trying to fit in anything for me while I'm busy running them from place to place and supporting them in their growth and development. I'm not sure if there is any more time to spare for me. I don't even have time to think of goals for me that don't have something to do with my kids. I've had an ongoing debate in my head for the past few weeks on whether or not I mind. I'm still on the fence. Seeing my kids happy and achieving their goals gives me some satisfaction, but I wonder if there will ever be time for me again? The next 20 years seem like they'll be full of more of the same, so hmmm. TBA on that. Right now - there just isn't enough time in the day, week, month to think about it. Well, until next time.
