Randomness.
Doing a few site updates here and there is the plan for today. I finally added a birthday ticker for Andy because I just now found one that works. Most tickers on the web only go up to the 4th or 5th birthday. But I kept searching because I didn’t like the fact that he was left out, and found the one on my site. Of course, in a month I’ll have to update it all over again, but thats ok.
I also plan on uploading some pics to the photo gallery soon. We got some cute pictures of Alex at the Frederick fair, and my grandparents sent me some wedding photos they took.
In other news, Happy half Birthday to Alex. Today he is officially 2 and 1/2 years old.
Tomorrow I will have had my ears pierced for 5 weeks. Which means that I have one more week to go, and I can take them out for the first time and hopefully wake up the next morning without the backs of my ears hurting. I’m so looking forward to that. Sleeping with earings on is a pain.
I’m reading Dr. Phil’s new book, Family First. Or at least I’m trying to read it, but its hard to find the time. So far its pretty interesting. I like the way he began the book, talking about his life and family growing up. That was pretty cool. Some things I agree with him on, other things I don’t, but its all good. Mostly I picked the book up because I love the way he is always talking to parents on his show (I find it funny), and I hoped the book would be similar to that. So far, the only thing that dissapoints me is his section on divorced/single parent families. I hate to say it, but I’m not sure he has any clue what he is talking about. I don’t know, maybe in some situations in would work, but not in situations like Teddy and I. If I applied anything that he said to my life, it would just blow up in my face. I’m just not willing to go there.
I want to get all the toys picked up by tomorrow night. The kids are having a hard time learning to pick up their toys. I can understand why, after all it isn’t nearly as fun as dumping them out. They need to be more self sufficient though, after all, I don’t want to be 30 years old and still picking up their toys. For me to still be doing that 7 years from now would be insane. I’ve been reminding both of them constantly that they need to pick up their toys, and I have also been threatening to take them away. I think this saturday morning when they are both there I will act on my threat and create a new rule that any toys and books that arn’t put away by the end of the day will be taken away. I’m sure it will take me acting on my threat a few times before they realize the toy count is dwindling, but hopefully they will get the message. If not, oh well, they just won’t have any toys. Of course, I also want them to be able to earn back those toys. So, I’m thinking something along the lines of, every time one or both of them put the toys away they get one toy back each. I don’t know, I guess that is fair. I’ll think about it some more.
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MB
September 24th, 2004 @ 8:25 pm
Hate to say it Amy, but if you plan on having another kid soon and more after that…you’ll probably be picking up toys for more than 7 years to come…lol :-D
writersblock
September 25th, 2004 @ 10:01 am
DOLE! Forgot you were having more. Looks like you will be picking up toys for a long time. Then your kids will have kids and they will come over and then you will pick up more toys.
Amy
September 25th, 2004 @ 10:23 am
Nope, I won’t be picking up toys for a long time. See, I thought about this, and realized that there isn’t any reason why Andy and Alex can’t pick up the babies toys until those kids get old enough to pick up their own. Furthermore, once the grandkids start coming, their parents or the grandkids themselves can pick up the toys.
MB
September 26th, 2004 @ 10:15 pm
Haha!!! You’re right, Andy and Alex will pick up the baby’s toys…the toys he/she wants and then…fun times. The joy of children, every parent I know with every age kid (baby to adult) is still picking up “toys” after their kids (literal or other like college, financial, relationships). I know my mom does and I couldn’t be more grateful to her. But because she’s done it for years upon years I’ll be there for when it’s finally my turn to pick up her “toys” later in life. That’s the beauty of it all. So although you probably will get to pick up toys for…well…almost ever, just know one day your kids will do the same for you and be so appreciative that you were there for them. Sorry, got philosophical on ya.