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I have never done an I Love Faces post but I thought this one would be fun. I entered the kids pouting.
We were at the fair last summer and Thomas had reached his stroller limits. As you can tell by the look on his face this was not a happy moment. I am not sure if I would call this pouting or all out fit. I don’t have any one big thing to blog on today but there have been many things going on this past week.
Luke is on Spring break this week, the worst part is next week I will be taking a week of vacation because Thomas’s sitter is going on vacation. Talk about bad timing!!! I will still make the most of Luke’s time off this week and my time off next week.
Luke has been coming home with school papers that just blow me away. When I was in kindergarten we learned our ABC’s, he is doing simple math, reading and writing and it is just so neat to see his excitement over school. He has a fabulous teacher and I feel this really helps him love school and learning.
We started our indoor plants for the garden over the weekend. We are a little late in getting started with this so hopefully we are not too late. We started 72 tomato plants and 72 bell pepper plants, a variety of different types of both. We love tomato’s and peppers in my house but if these all do well, we are probably going to be really sick of both by the end of the summer. I am so excited to get my garden started. A couple months from now I will probably be really sick of all the effort it is going to take to keep up. I know me… so be ready.
Thomas slept all night long for the past two nights. I don’t know what is different but I will take it. I am excited and telling the world. Yet I know I shouldn’t be because I am sure this is a random event, a nice little tease to let me know exactly what I am missing out on. LOL….
I don’t think I am ever going to break this child from the bottle. He is obsessed… if he sees one sitting in the fridge the fit begins until he wins and has that bottle. I know I am the grown up and he is the child but you should see that battle he wages for that bottle. In all seriousness, I need to crack down on this because this has got to come to an end soon. I need to video tape the excitement that he exudes when he knows he is going to get a bottle. His obsession is scary!!!
His vocabulary is taking off like a rocket these days. I am blown away at the new words he is adding daily. Here are just a few…
- nack (snack) as we point to the cabinet where food is kept
- baa baa (aka bottle) this is not one I like. Just because before everything was eewice (juice). He figured out when he said juice he got juice in a cup so he mastered the baa baa quickly.
- Ouwn… (down)
- Watch… we have to watch everything these days. When he is playing with big brothers race track we always have to watch.
- Bye Bye dada…. I love this because he is putting words together. We say this every morning when daddy leaves for work.
I have many more and everyday here lately he is surprising me with something new.
Thomas also loves his big brothers guitar. He walks around the house bopping back and forth like he is playing music. I would love to catch this on video. I swear I need a hidden camera running 24/7 in my house. It is the only way I am going to get anything on tape. As soon as either child sees a camera it is over, the cute acts come to an end.
Aloha Friday # 25
My question this week:
When your children were little what did you love most about that time and what about that time do you not miss?
I asked this question today because last night at 3:00 in the morning I am sitting up cuddling my 16 month old. I just hold and rock him and enjoy every moment of it even when I am exhausted. I enjoy it because I know this time will end before I know it. I like to just look down at his peaceful little face and snuggle him next to me and wish that moment would last forever. Now the part I really wish was over, the not sleeping all night long. He is just to old to be getting up every night still. I guess in some ways this is a contradiction because I love that time in the night but I am ready for him to sleep all night which will bring and end to our time at night.
This was Spring of 2006. We had just bought a new dog bed for one of the dogs. Luke wasn't sharing and put it on top of our bed and went to sleep. It was a really cute moment!!! I love catching stuff like this on camera.
I have been going through a real personal struggle these days. For a little over a year now I have been teaching the Sunday school class at my church for the 3rd and 4th grade kids. It was one of those things I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do but I agreed to because no one else would step up to teach. Do I think I am a good teacher… not at all. It is one of those things I prepare my less each week from the teacher’s book and my class never goes as I hope. I always have ideas but some how they never turn out as planned with the kids. Some weeks I have just one kid and other weeks I will have two or three kids. When I just have one kid at a time I have a great class but I can’t do half of my activities because it requires multiple kids. All of the kids are really great kids but when you put them all together they do become troublesome and I loss control of my class. They are at that I am going to do as I like age and I just don’t do well with controlling them.
Since October we have been doing a video series and we have been combining classes. All the kids from k thru 4th are in one class right now and there are three of us teaching it. Since it has been combined I have taken a step back and started going back to the adult Sunday school class. I feel like I am a Christian that is really in need of growth and the adult Sunday school class has always been one of those places where I find that growth and feel like I am being challenged. I noticed after I started teaching I started to have a disconnect with my growth as a Christian. It was hard for me because I felt like I was in a rout. The past couple months I have really started to feel like I am connecting again and the need and desire for growth has returned.
I have now been told we are going to go back to our own individual classes here soon. This would mean I have to go back to teaching. This is something I really do not want to do. This is why I struggle, I am supposed to be a servant to the Lord and do my part as his servant. I am not really actively involved in my church and teaching has been one of the ways that I contribute to the church as a member. If I give up teaching I would not be contributing as I should. If I keep teaching I am really afraid that my disconnect will return and I will start struggling all over again. I really could use any advice that any of you could share with me. I feel like if I stop teaching I am doing it for my own selfish reasons but I also feel like if I don’t stop teaching I am not going to grow with the Lord as I should.
