Mommin' It Up!

August 10, 2008

Weekly Winners, August 3-9

Wow, the first week of August is over! Ka-ra-zy!! This week’s shots were taken on our outing to a local splash park. For more on that VERY eventful outing, please check out my post TOMORROW! It’s practically an E! True Hollywood Story on our trip to the splash park. But anyway, here are the pleasant parts of the visit!

It was a beautiful day!

Sophie was enthralled with the water spraying from on high!

And up from the ground:

Joshua preferred drier pursuits

I love these two shots of both of my kids taking a little breather:

That’s all I have for this week! Don’t forget to check back tomorrow to read about the real “excitement” we had at the splash park. For more great Weekly Winners, head over to Sarcastic Mom and say hey to Lotus!

August 4, 2008

Hey Mom! I was Saving that for Later!

Yesterday roundabout 8 a.m. when I changed my daughter’s overnight diaper, I got a little surprise, and it wasn’t of the poopy variety. She had been playing outside just before bed and was up late so I just put her to bed in what she had on, which was a one-piece romper thingie that snapped at the crotch. When I unfastened the snaps, out rolled a big ol’ ROCK! This rock, in fact:

It’s kind of hard to tell from the photo, but it’s about an inch long and maybe 1/2 an inch wide. And probably real comfortable to have up in your hoo-hah when you’re trying to sleep all night!

A few hours later, I laid her down to change her diaper after lunch and this time when I unfastened her snaps, six or seven CHEERIOS (which she had eaten for breakfast) fell out! Sheesh! Did I give birth to a human or a squirrel? Is it time to store up for winter, Soph? Are you worried I’m gonna stop feeding you? (Note: this is not likely since I’ve been breastfeeding you for TWENTY FREAKIN’ MONTHS!!)

Ah, my crazy daughter. She’s like Napoleon Dynamite puttin’ tater tots in his pants pocket. (Hey Sophie, give me your tots!) I guess ya never know when a Cheerios craving is going to hit! Better safe than sorry. That’s the Sophie way!

July 30, 2008July 30, 2008

She Really DOES Eat Like a Bird

Recently I have had trouble getting Sophie to eat. (Hmm, yes, and before you ask, she is STILL nursing. Somebody…HELP…ME!) Rather than say, put her food in her mouth and chew it, she prefers to launch it from her tray into various parts of the house. Thanks to this favorite past time of hers, I had to buy ant traps yesterday. She throws it in places I don’t even find it until much later! So, lately I’ve been repeating the expression, “She eats like a bird” an awful lot. (One of my other favorites is “She eats barely enough to stay alive.”)

Yesterday the kids were playing on the porch and I was out there with them, but talking on the phone with my sister-in-law Elizabeth. We were happily chatting along when I looked up at Sophie and could see she had something in her mouth. “Uh-oh! Soph’s got something in her mouth.” I said to Elizabeth. I ran over to Sophie and dug out the foreign object amidst much indignant protesting.

It was a dead beetle.

“It’s a dead bug!” I exclaimed into the phone, while trying not to VOMIT.

“Ewww!” said Elizabeth.

“What What??” said my nephew upon hearing his mom’s disgust.

“Sophie had a dead bug in her mouth!” she told my nephew James.

“GROSS!” James howled.

“Tell Sophie it’s pretty impressive when a 9-year-old-boy is grossed out,” Elizabeth said back to me.

Yeah. Well. You can’t faze the Soph.

At least it wasn’t a worm. I’m pretty sure birds eat bugs though.