I'VE MOVED!

Time out anyone?

Wyatt is growing up for sure. And he sure knows how to push my buttons.
He is getting into everything!
So the other day I just had enough and I did something drastic.
Dun dun duh... a TIME OUT!
I know that some of you might say that it is too early but Wyatt understands when I talk to him ask anyone. and when I did a time out for the first time he stayed put for his full minute and hugged me and didn’t do it again ( that day anyway.)
So it works for us.
But I am not looking forward to his trouble twos because he certainly has an attitude at one.

Christmas 2009

Even though this year was Wyatt’s 2nd Christmas it sure felt like his 1st. he was so excited to open and see his presents. He still needed me to tear a piece off to get him started but he did try to get the presents out of the paper by grabbing the present instead of taking the paper off. Lol. He also put all his toys in a circle and played with each present one of the time.
We didn’t have a lot of money this year (or any year for that matter.) so we only bought Wyatt 2 gifts and nothing for each other. but my friend Nicole called me on the day before xmas eve and told me that her uncle works for the xmas box charity and he didn’t need to give away any baby toys this year so he had tons left and that he was going to throw them away. Nicole instead told him that she could give them to me. Which she did, so Wyatt got so many different things that we had to give some to my in-laws so he wasn’t overloaded with toys. So I thank Nicole for being so giving and thoughtful.
We had tons of parties this year to go to which by the time Christmas rolled around I was kind of already sick of Christmas but my favorite part was when Cody and I took little Wy to see the lights.




It was cold that night and it was also snowing but that didn’t stop us. When we walked up to the first little house they had, Wyatt ran towards it and looked inside. And he kept doing that to each one until he was so cold he couldn’t move anymore so we held him.




Wyatt also loved going outside this year playing in the snow because it was this first year he actually notice what snow was. He would touch it and stick his foot in it. And he cried when I made him come in.





I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

my sister is going on a mission

my sister alisha is going on a mission to michigan on dec 16. so my family and I started a blog for her for friends and family if you'd like to following it... here is the address! http://mymission2michigan.blogspot.com/
ENJOY :)

SinterKlass

Pros & Cons of Hosting The Annual Traditional SinterKlass Party for MY 1st time.


Pros:

We got to have one this year because I hosted it.

It was a lot of fun

Everyone showed up mostly on time

You can’t go wrong with fondue

We had more candy for the gingerbread house than I thought we would

The SinterKlass presents where hilarious

Cons:

Started it too late so it ended really late.

Should have had some non premade gram crackers for the roofs.

Needed to make more frosting/glue before hand

Shouldn’t have gone to an interview before so then I would have had more time to set up

Should have done the SinterKlass shoes

More activities for the kids so my mom wouldn’t have been stuck down in the toy room with them

Read the history or a story about SinterKlass

Got the invites out like I wanted to instead of the old handy mass text.

Maybe had all of the gingerbread houses actually gingerbread.

Had more time to plan and actually plan instead of winging it.


This year my mom was so overfilled with activities and family things that she told me that she wasn’t going to do SinterKlass. I was so shocked because my mom is ALL about the traditions that we have and we have ALOT! And we couldn’t let this one go. So I said without hesitation that I would go ahead and take over SinterKlass for her. (This means I will EVERY year.)

I was excited to take this on but I didn’t have a lot of time to plan it. The only thing I really planed was to make gingerbread houses. Normally what we do on SinterKlass and what SinterKlass is, is well SinterKlass in one easy sentence is the Dutch Xmas. It celebrated on December 6 instead of stockings they do shoes. They leave them out with carrots in them for the horses and SinterKlass comes and leaves treats and small presents for them.

what we normally do for SinterKlass is we make a homemade ornaments have fondue have a Dutch dinner and leave our shoes out and wrap presents as the Dutch do which means that we wrap one layer leave a clue of what the gift is and do another layer etc etc etc. we turns out to be a lot of fun.

With my little twist on this tradition I am going to continue to have us make gingerbread houses I need to find something easy for the kids and I think I will start to plan and get things together in November.

But as for this year it was still a lot of fun regardless of the things I needed to do different.

the way you start a m o r n i n g is by changing a poopy diaper.

this morning wyatt woke up happy and alert at 7 am instead of the normal 5:55am so i thought wohhh... wait a min here this must mean that we will have an exellent morning right? well it was sorta wrong.

a half an hour later after he was content with playing his toys while i read a magazine he was asking me to pick him up. so of course i pick him up and something smeared on my arm i look down at it and IT WAS POOP! omg was i disgusted. i pulled his shirt up and seen that he had poop all up his back and it was now on me and on our leather couch.

gross GROSS gross. so i scream for daddy to wake up and help me to whip off the poop on his back so it wouldnt get all over the changing table. to my surprise daddy did this with out complaining.

after this the day got a little better. we continued to play with toys and went out side and played in the snow the first time.
he enjoyed it a lot. he like to touch it and stomp in it and chase the cats in it. he didnt want to go back inside but it was then time for his nap.

so we go inside get a drink say night night to bud and callie (the cats.) get mr blankey and head into his room to be rocked asleep. he fell asleep with in minutes i put him into his crib and went out to watch my shows on the wonderful mr DVR. about a half an hour later he wakes up and im like no way it is N O T time to wake up (he normally has an 1 1/2 hour nap 2 if im lucky)

so i go in there and pick him up and say wyatt it IS still nap time and start to rock him back to sleep. he was not having it at all. he scream he swormed pinched even to get me to let him down we did this for 45 mins until i broke down and let him go which he still cried and i had to go into the living room and sing his special song to calm him down. then he was clingy for hours after.

( this is him in the bathroom just before bed time. he made me take off his pants and put his shoes on what a silly boy.)

so of course he was whinny and fussy the rest of the day because he didnt get his good nap time in. he'd play for a few mins and then he wanted me to be with him.

later in the day i took him to get his hair cut at the most wonderful kids hair cut place cookiecutters. they have little cars and things they sit in and have a tv for kids to watch and a playyard its just wonderful.

so i get this coupon in my email that i needed to print out and of course my printer doesnt work so i head down to my moms to use hers and they have so much crap on there computer that it is the slowest thing in the world. so i try to print this off and their printer isnt working! by this time i am flipping out.

breanne my sister comes home and i have 5 min to get to riverdale from central ogden for his hair cut appointment. so i screamed at her to come and fix this printer. she does and i get it printed and spead to cookiecutters getting there with in 6 min which it should take 15 min. to sit there and wait 10 min for it to be our turn. which was fine cause wyatt just played on the playyard.

when it came to our turn wyatt got scared and screamed a little but the lady was so good she got him to calm down and relax.
so my little day of ups and downs ended with my baby turning into a boy with his new hair cut.

( plus he is teething again so tonight might not be so hot...)

the price to pay to be a mother is that you pee alittle when you cough... well at least i do now.

Wyatt has had a very eventful day already and its only 3 in the afternoon. First he woke up like he does every day at 5:55am how he manages to do it every day is amazing. I normally don’t care to much that he wakes up at that time but last night I couldn’t fall asleep until 3 or 4 maybe I don’t really remember I just remember coughing up a storm with this stupid cold that just won’t seem to go away.

Well after he woke up I got him to sleep a little longer while to 630 anyway and then it was time to be up and playing. Which fine I got up and we went out into the living room. This of course took only a few seconds for it to be filled with toys.
He then demanded breakfast which when he got it he refused it. That right there is a sign that tells me that today will not go the way that I want it too.

I made him eat his eggs and applesauce and drink his milk which of course made half of it be on the floor. Great... now I get to clean that up.
After the tears and me saying Wyatt you NEED to finish your breakfast. Please... I know that he is only one but I treat him like he understands what I am saying because half the time he does so when he turns into his trouble twos I know we already have me being the one in charge most of the time.

So after breakfast and me cleaning up half of breakfast of the floor he continued to play with his toys. Which I got maybe an hour out of him being fine. But then when nap time rolled around he was tired and pissed that I was making him sleep. He screams for a half an hour until he gave in. and then I went and lay down too. but it took me a few to fall asleep so when he woke up an hour later it felt like I have only slept for maybe 5 mins.

So I go in there to pick him up because he is crying which makes him cry more. Why? Who knows? He didn’t want to be picked up or put down so I got about 15 min of this going on until I decide he needs a drink for Sippy which calms him down.

He then proceeds to lose my keys. I don’t know when he took them and I still don’t know where he put them. So when I decide that we need to get out of the house I can’t seem to go anywhere without keys.

I say screw it take the spare keys and is off on my way to the park. but of course its freezing outside because it is of course FALL so we were at the park for a few minutes when I than take him to the mall to the indoor play ground where I never thought I’d go because every time I passed it on my way into work (sears) I thought these are some lazy parents sitting on the sides while their children play for hours and no one interacts with each other. But there I was sitting on the side watching Wyatt play with barley any interaction with anyone else. But for that half hour I had a little peace no whining and no screaming it was alright.

I was surprise to see how shy Wyatt was though while we were at the indoor park. It took him a few minutes to be able to play without me standing right next to him or without him turning and looking at me to see if I was still there. I guess it would be kind of scary to be in a place you have never been filled with loud annoying kids who are running everywhere and into everyone and no one tells them no! (Which is what I hate the most please can people not discipline their kids anymore?!)

so on our way home from the park he falls asleep in the car and normally he doesn’t take a second nap but I thought what the hell why not maybe it was a little selfish on my part but I think he also needed it. Because I think he is coming down with my lovely little cold so I can’t really get mad at him if he doesn’t fill well.

Sometimes I just need to vent for a second and then look back at the cute times that so far we did have today. The lovely wet snotty kisses and the giggles and him learning to crawl through the tunnels on the playground. Also him dancing in the car to his songs.

so it started bad today but I think it will end wonderful like it always does because how can u be upset with him when he cuddles and gives kisses that’s his way of telling me he loves me and of course I love him even more so sometimes it’s hard being a mom but the price you seem to only pay to be a mom is that u might pee a little when u cough but any hug from your child makes it okay that you did.