Cyndi's Corner

Good Grief

2007-11-29T13:00:00.000-06:00

I really need to update my user-pic over here. Ava looks SOOO small!

I was clearing out some thing sin my Photobucket account yesterday. I found a bunch of videos I had made when Ava was about 6 months old! That seems SO long ago. Even hearing Johanna's voice on the videos, she sounds so different now.

These children are certainly growing up so fast. Lost teeth, language explosions.

How do they keep getting older while I stay the same age? ;)

This, I want to know. :)

11-11 - 11:11am

2007-11-11T11:11:00.000-06:00

I just noticed that's it's 11/11 and I'm writing this at 11:11am. LOL

I always notice weird times like that. I'll just happen to glance at the clock and it'll be 4:44pm or 10:10am, or 2:22pm. That one is a favorite, since Johanna was born at 2:22pm. :)

WHY I notice the odd times, is beyond me. Maybe it's just because they are more noticeable. LOL

Hope everyones Sunday is going well. The Hubster is off taking pictures. I should be clenaing something, or maybe taking down our H'ween decorations. LOL I've been too sick to take them down, and I'm better now, plus it's nice out, so I really should. LOL

I've been busy playing Webkinz and d/l-ing the beta version of YIM. Hopefully this version will solve my YIM issues. More often than not, I've had to use the web version. I can send messages on the old, regular version just find, but I don't always receive them. Then everyone thinks I'm being a snob and ignoring them. LOL

I've also got all caught up on Facebook, and successfully Mass Poked everyone, so I think I'm good with my online activities after this post is done. :)

They girls are busy playing "summertime". Well, I'm not sure what Ava is doing, J's trying to get her to go along with her ideas, but Ava's not to reliable. LOL So far, J's set up a beach, making summer pics and now wants a "summer snack" so I guess I should go work on that for her. :)

Have a Summery Day! ;)

Photo Hunters

2007-11-10T07:31:00.001-06:00

Today's Theme is "Flexible". I'm posting this picture for a couple of reasons. Not only is she physically flexible... and don't you wish you still had the same flexibility today, you did as a child? But also, she was and still is my "go with the flow" kid. :) As long as she's with us, she's up for anything (most of the time anyway) . As a baby, I didn't need to worry about her schedule. She was happy to be with her Momma, and would just fall asleep wherever. LOL

Grrrrr

2007-11-10T07:11:00.000-06:00

Blogger has been taking fooooorever to publish my posts. So now watch, this one will fly right through! LOL

My antibiotics are slowly kicking in and I've been feeling more like myself every day. The Hubster on the other hand... after 3 days of staying home from work, I suggested he go to the Dr. too. :) He's now got some antibiotics too. :)

Johanna has a long weekend. We had a fun day at the mall yesterday. She got a haircut and a new Webkinz, I also bargained with her. She could get the Webkinz, if I got to yank out her VERY lose tooth. So she now has now front teeth! :)

She's been running around singing "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!" LOL

I told her her classmates will think they have a new studen tin class when she returns to school on Tues. LOL

It's a Miracle!

2007-11-05T13:12:00.000-06:00

Wow, Look who's actually posting??

ME!

LOL

I apparently really suck at keeping up here, don't I?

I think I got a little too addicted to Facebook. :-P Between that and household, uhhh, "duties" and my boards and email, I don't seem to get over to the ole blog too much. :(

Not to mention I'm now a Webkinz addict. LOL

Things here are going pretty well. I'm just getting over a fun old chest cold. The Hubster seems to have it now. Lucky him.

Johanna's turned 6, lost 1 of her front teeth, and the other one is about ready to fall out. Actually, it won't surprise me if she comes home today w/o it. LOL Her teacher yanked out her first one. She was afraid J was going to swallow it. I tried to yank out the other one for her yesterday, but she wasn't going to let me. I think she wants her teacher to do it again. LOL

She's loving Kindergarten! It's just amazing to me what they learn in K these days.... I remember going 1/2 day and having a nap time and snack time and story time. Johanna is READING.

So umm, there goes the days of spelling out stuff we don't want her to know! Dammit. :-P

Ava's 21 months old now! She's back to being interested in the potty, and she's talkign up a storm. I probably hear a new word from her every other day! It's fun that I can have little conversations with her now!

Of course my having the chest cold has made that a bit challenging. I lost my voice completely one day and I still don't quite sound like myself.

We we're getting ready to go to the grocery store this am, and I told her to go find her socks. She had her shoes, but needed socks.

She comes back, hands me a piece of double bubble (from TOT-ing) and says "Suck". I look at her and I say. OK. A) that is gum and not a sucker, and B) I said SOCK not Sucker! LOL

So, Yeah... LOL It's Monday here!

Hope you've all been doing OK out there in blog-land, and I'm really sorry I stink at updating! :)

Photo Hunters

2007-08-25T07:17:00.000-05:00

This weeks' theme is "Happy"! I thought this was a good shot from Monday. Happy to be home and report about her very first day at school! She had a blast, and was Happy to go back for day 2 (and 3 and 4 and 5!)! LOL

Wordless Wednesday

2007-07-25T07:34:00.001-05:00

Is it bad...

2007-07-25T07:27:00.000-05:00

that I was really excited this morning, to be able to look out my windows? The past few days, you can't see out in the mornings. The dew point has been SO high here, that they are all fogged up on the outside. Not a good sign.

This morning however, the dew point is a mere 68. I'll take it!

Could be worse. Those of you out there in other areas of the state are having really hot, 100+ weather. So I'll take my 90's and deal. LOL

We've been busy. We girls' started up swimming lessons this week. We also have company arriving this weekend. I need to work on finding the guest room again. It seems we get it all cleaned out for guests, and then they guests leave, and it goes back to being a catch-all room again. UGH.

Hope everyone is staying cool! I'm off to go work on my WW pic.

Photo Hunters

2007-07-20T20:50:00.000-05:00

This weeks' theme is "Tiny".

In honor of Monday being Ava's 18 month birthday (can you believe) it? I thought I'd post a newborn pic of her. She was just a week old here. She was SO tiny to us. J was born weighing 9lbs 7oz. Ava was 6lbs 10 oz.

Not to mention she seems SO tiny here, compared to how she looks now. :)

DONE

2007-07-20T20:12:00.000-05:00

Done Done Done

D-O-N-E Done

Done Diddy Done Diddy Done Done Done

Someone hand this Momma her time card, she wants to clock out!

It wasn't even really that horrible of a day, really. Maybe it's cause it's Friday. I had to run some errands. I didn't feel like going but I went. Ava slept through two of them. Ten minutes into our Sams Club errand, I started having some intestinal distress. That was fun with J blabbing on an old cell phone to her imaginary friend, while Ava tried to stuff TP between my bottom and the toilet all while flushing for me.

Someone tell me one day I'll actually get to potty in peace, please? lol

So I'm hot, tired and not feeling well and Ava's being a toddler, and J's whining about playing Webkinz and I just want Ava to take a nap, but she won't.

The hubster comes home, and I look at him and I'm like.. I'm done. I want to be done being Mommy today. He said "Good luck with that" LOL

So after supper I'm feeling similar to how I felt in Sams Club today, only the minute I sit on the potty, Ava starts pointing to it, blabbing about "Elmo" (we have a Sesame Street soft potty seat thing) and saying "sit sit sit".

Yay.

She wants to sit on the potty, and she wants to do it NOW. So I take her to the other bathroom and set her up there, only she doesn't want me to leave and she's busy taking paper off the roll and stuffing it in the potty while saying "poo poo poo poo".

At this point I really need to get back on the potty.

So I grab her and the big potty chair and we head back into the master bathroom.

Things seems to be going pretty well at this point, I'm thinking. I'm where I need to be, she pushes her chair to where she wants it to be... she backs up, and sits down. We're good!

Nope, she's getting up...

She's walking into the shower.

She's now standing, naked from the waist down, in the shower, pee streaming down between her legs, saying "uh oh, poo poo, uh oh".

Greeeaaat.

here's a simple multiple choice question for you...

Your Toddler is standing in the shower, peeing, saying "uh oh, poo poo, uh oh".... what does she do next?

A.) Bend over and play in it, rubbing it all around the shower floor with both hands, while exclaiming "oh-oh"?

B.) Stomp in the puddle with both feet?

C.) Bend down and lick said puddle?

D.) All of the above.

All this while I'm stuck where I'm at, yelling for the hubster who can't hear me because he's down here, tv on, a/c running.

THAT led to shower #2 of the day.

Showering is a whole 'nother circus act. Involving a certain toddler getting in and out multiple times, playing peek-a-boo with the curtain while soaking the floor of the bathroom, and coming into the shower, wearing her towel.

So yeah, someone clock me out, I am D-O-N-E!

No 'poo for me!

2007-07-20T15:30:00.000-05:00

Ok, confession time.

I haven't used shampoo in almost 2 weeks.

It's kinda cool, actually.

It's also really amazing what 1C of water + 2 TB of apple cider vinegar will do for ones hair!!

I came really close to giving up shampoo a couple years ago. The hubster thought I was crazy back then. (he still does too, but he's not saying anything this time LOL)

I was reading about it being better for curly hair if you DON'T shampoo. Plus the girls' hair looks fine and they barely use shampoo. I practically had to tie Johanna down to get shampoo on her head once a week. :-P

So yay, no more struggles in that area.

Anyone else 'poo free??

Anyone up for a "No 'Poo" challenge? Think about it. :)

Wordless Wednesday

2007-07-18T07:40:00.000-05:00

Diaper Covers

2007-07-16T11:53:00.001-05:00

Anyone know where I can find some Elmo diaper covers or maybe even an AIO?

We used pampers on vacation, and Ava was really digging having Elmo on her tush. LOL I checke don ebay last weeken and didn't find anything (tho I won an auction for a Dora one... LOL)

eye, eye, eye

2007-07-16T08:38:00.001-05:00

eye teeth.

UGH.

Someone mentioned not too long ago that when their baby cut their eye teeth, it was MUCH worse than when they cut their molars.

Worse than molars, I think? NO WAY.

Yeah, famous last thoughts...

So if you see a disheveled woman, with 2 kids, walking around like a zombie with a caribou cooler in hand, mumbling something about teeth and sleep and nursing babies, that'd be me.

I'm

2007-07-10T17:31:00.000-05:00

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

We got home a couple days ago, but I've been busy doing all that post-vacation stuff one needs to do. Laundry, grocery shopping, catching up on internet life, etc. LOL

I'll be

2007-06-29T09:31:00.000-05:00

seein' ya!

We're heading off on vacation!

Hope everyone has a Happy 4th!

Don't stand so close....

2007-06-27T18:39:00.000-05:00

to me.....

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Who can forget the Synchronicity album? I remember sitting in my room, after school, working on my homework like a good girl, and cranking up the radio whenever "Every Breathe You Take" came on!

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Wordless Wednesday

2007-06-27T07:08:00.000-05:00

Memories

2007-06-27T06:53:00.000-05:00

I've been reminded of something this week. It's been a HUGE wake-up call too. I've been reminded of what daily life is like with a VERY busy 17 nth old. LOL Holy cats! Ava's always been busy. She finally realized she could go down the steps in the house. She's been able to crawl down steps for a while now. I think it's because we mostly would carry her up and down here at the house, that she didn't realize she had that option here until this past week.

It's now ALL she wants to do. If I dare close the door down here so I can try to get something done, she has a complete fit. Full on screaming and all that. yay. If this keeps up, I may be drinking heavily by the time she's 2.5. LOL

It's interesting, having a toddler and an older child. Ava wants to do everything her big sister does. So I think that makes her 10x braver than Johanna was, which is scary. lol

We've been doing some "Spring Cleaning" around here. It's been good, but stressful, since like I said, trying to do anything with Ava awake is near impossible. LOL

Today I have to run errands. I'm looking forward to getting out of the house. I really don't do the 90+ degrees and humid thing very well! It's been like that for a good 4 days maybe. ick. So it was good weather for me to be cleaning... inside... with the a/c. lol

Wordless Wednesday

2007-06-20T18:30:00.001-05:00

Photo Hunters

2007-06-16T11:44:00.000-05:00

This weeks theme is Hair.

I love this pic, and love all the fly away hair. Her long hair drove The Hubster nuts. He'd get waay too many pick of it flying in her face. LOL

My Dogs are driving me to Drink!

2007-06-15T07:11:00.000-05:00

So last night... the dogs are out in the yard. Ava was boobin' and half asleep. The Hubster was, uhhhh .... otherwise occupied. ;) They were out in the yard for a bit, not too long. At one point Buddy barked and I yelled at him to "Be Quiet" from our bedroom. lol

So Hubster is available before I am, and goes to let the dogs in. Only, he only finds Buddy out there. He's like, did you let Dottie out too? I told him I was pretty sure I had. He can't find her. I asked if her looked under the deck. Yep, he did. She wasn't there. Now, keep in mind we have a 6ft cedar fence with padlocks on the gates. There's no where for her to go.

By this point, Ava's asleep in the bed and I'm out on the deck. I'm looking around, when in the faaaar corner I see there is some chewed up fence and a small hole.

I'm like, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... look over there! Little Miss Houdini chewed a hole in the bottom of t he fence and got out!!

He found her across the street in the neighbors yard, but UGH!

At least it was before 5pm, so I was able to call the fence place and get on the schedule for them to come out and replace the boards. Bah.

Oh and keep poor Buddy in your thoughts today. He's off in a bit for the ole' sinpperoo surgery. :-P

Momma's got a brand new

2007-06-13T13:09:00.000-05:00

DELL!

I got an email from them the other week about a 3 day sale. I was very subtle and C&P'd the whole thing in an IM to the Hubster! hehehehehe. The hubster, sick of me whining about my ancient system, told me to "go for it". My New baby arrived yesterday!!

YAY! well, except that I need to get a converter cable for my wonderful split keyboard. I'm currently using this teeny tiny thing that came with the system, and it's a challenge, for sure!

Certainly makes me realize that while I may like the concept of a laptop, I'd probably hate one! I need a full, comfortable keyboard!

I also need to transfer my mail program over here too. I left the pics and stuff on there, cause our plan is to get a desk and set up my old system with games and things for J to use.

I sent out a WANTED on on Freecycle, but haven't found anyone with a desk to give away yet, so I may need to suck it up and buy one. If you know of any good sales on (cheap) computer desks that would work for a 5yo, please let me know. :)

I need to work on cleaning the whole computer area now too. My desk looks like it was hit by a bomb.

Oh and I thought CPU's were supposed to be getting SMALLER? This is bigger than my 5 year old Gateway... sheesh! Owell. I can now have two different browsers open at the same time, and my comp doesn't come to a screeching halt. So, I'm a very happy Momma!

Wordpress Users Look Here!

2007-06-13T12:36:00.000-05:00

For those of you out there using Wordpress, you need to go visit Eves' new blog. It's called Wordpress Reworked.

Eve is a fellow Postie, not to mention a great web designer! Her site is fairly new, but she has great things in the works. She'll be offering Wordpress theme customization, which includes wordpress blog designs, templates, redesigns and custom headers, just for starters.

If you have been thinking about a new look for your Wordpress blog, you should go and see what Eve has to offer!

She's also holding a drawing this afternoon for a FREE redesign, so hurry on up and get on over there so you can get your name put in the hat!

Wordless Wednesday

2007-06-13T08:26:00.000-05:00