mia's experiment

I did a experiment with  my mom! it was very fun! I got a bottle and a balloon. 

It was only me and mom!  I learned that no matter how much you blow the balloon, it won't blow up in the bottle.      

Winter Fun

Enjoying some home made hot chocolate after a nice play in the snow

He  may not have gotten the hot chocolate, but he didn't have to miss out on the fun strawberry decoration

Questioning my ability to make sound decisions as he watches Mia and Naomi play more in the snow.  He was not very happy with me.

What a little stud!  (He sort of looks like BJ to me in this picture)

My angel making a snow angel

The happy duet sharing a grilled cheese

Divine Respite

Last week was so horrible I was considering committing myself to an institute.  Lennon was miserable constantly.  He was also getting four teeth all at once and he seems to have inherited my lack of pain tolerance, so that could definitely been a factor.  Regardless of the reason, it was a very very tough week for both of us.  Yesterday wasn't quite so bad, but the last two or three hours of the day were pretty miserable.  Imagine me trying to make a delicious, healthy dinner for my family that I love while a fanatical screaming 18 month old pulls at my legs wailing "mamaaaa, mamaaaaaa."  It tends to take the fun out of preparing a meal.  Fast forward to today.  Despite having been awoken at 5 30 by Mia's stupid school to tell us something we already knew (that today was a half day, they had also called to tell us last night and they actually called at 5 20 and 5 30 and I never was able to fall back to sleep) the morning started off pretty well.  Lennon woke just before 6 and as I went in to nurse him I strangely didn't feel tired as I usually do.  He got up in a great mood which is pretty unusual.  He came out into the living room and started playing with toys and smiling and just being super sweet.  He was great all through breakfast and getting ready and getting out the door to drop Mia at school and Shelby at the train.  However, upon arrival at Mia's school we noticed something was amiss.  Aside from us there was only a car or two in front of the school in contrast to the typical zoo of hurried parents rushing their kids out of the car in the freezing weather.  I then rechecked my phone and found yet another message from the school letting us know school had been cancelled due to the snow storm.  I guess that call came when I was in Lennon's room this morning.  So we dropped Shelby off and headed over to The Brill home.  We had such a lovely morning.  Hot tea, warm banana bread, good conversation.  Mia, Naomi and Jonny put on a little show complete with costumes and scene changes.  Lennon toddled about playing with dolls and vacuums and pots, consumed an inordinant amount of currants, some crackers with rosemary and a little bit of apple juice which he then poured the rest of onto the floor.  All this while staying in a positively wonderful mood.  He was like a normal child.  Wandering from room to room discovering new things to play with.  Checking out the hampster and the fish.  He had a really good time and didn't have a single meltdown.  Not even close.  It was so awesome.  A much needed break from the hystrionicity ( I realize that is not really a word) of the past several days.  I see little strides of progress in his mood every so often and it's a real comfort.  He is such a sweet and funny boy when he isn't miserable.  He's now napping and Mia stayed at The Brills for a little longer so I am going to nap while he naps.  Oh Joy!

Unintended Sleep Deprivation

I am a mean mean mommy who kept her poor sleepy baby up and running errands so long this morning that when we arrived home at 10:30, about half an hour to an hour before his regular nap time, I sat him down at the top of the stairs and he literally crawled down the hall to his blankie, asked for a paci and was practically begging me to put him to bed.  I tried convincing him to eat some lunch first, although it was kind of early, but he sweetly refused.  He is now asleep and I guess as long as he takes a good nap that will be it for the day.  I think if he sleeps less than two hours though, I will try again for an afternoon nap around 3.  I forgot that although he slept until about 7 this morning, which is pretty decent for him, he was up until 10 last night because we were out buying our car.  YEA!  Oh yeah, we have a new (new to us, not actually new)  car.  It is almost exactly the same, only silver and 3 years younger.  We got a really good deal and are super excited.  They are replacing the radio/cd player cause it wasn't working, but we should have it sometime tomorrow or the next day.  I will post pics once we have the car in our possession.

me and dad going to get ice cream.

me and dad went to get ice cream.  I got chocolate and dad got lemon .

I loved it.

my dads card

my  dad made a card. he drew  him . I was connected to him.

it was to my family. I loved it. from mia

Mia's Time Line

Mia's first project for school was to make a time line of her life up to this point and choose one important event for each year.  She did it all on her own outside of a little help making the straight line with a ruler.  She was extremely motivated and had it finished days before it was due with no nagging from me.  She even got on the computer and chose which pictures she wanted to use.  We were super proud of her and wanted to share her presentation with you.  Enjoy!