"One Little Heartbeat at a Time"

This is a song we sang this week at church. Its a beautiful song that I think every parent needs to hear, especially mothers, mothers who know what it means to be a mom.

"One Little Heartbeat at a Time"
by Steven Curtis Chapman

You're up all night with a screaming baby
You run all day at the speed of life
And every day you feel a little bit less
Like the beautiful woman you are

So you fall into bed when you run out of hours
And you wonder if anything worth doing got done
Oh, maybe you just don't know
Or maybe you've forgotten
You, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time

Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time

With every "I know you can do it"
Every tear that you kiss away
So many little things that seem to go unnoticed
They're just like the drops of rain over time
They become a river

And you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time

You're beautiful
You're beautiful

How you're changing the world
You're changing the world
You, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
Oh, I believe that you
You are changing the world
One little heartbeat

At a timeAnd you're changing the world

"Really important stuff my kids have taught me"

Don't giggle before you swallow your milk

"Really important stuff my kids have tought me"

You always spill juice on your Sunday clothes

A free day

A free day is what Matt has called today. We had a funeral we attended this morning of a very wonderful friend of the family. So Matt took the whole day off. We were done with all the events around 1, so we decided to head over to Chuck E. Cheese to use the rest of our tokens from the last time Lauren, the boys and I went.

Despite this morning, we had a wonderful day. We had a luncheon with everyone from the funeral. It was really nice to see everyone again and to catch up. And after Chuck E. Cheese we slowly made our way home, we stopped for some (expensive) ice cream and at a few yard sales. It was a wonderful afternoon.

We started Chuck E. Cheese by getting Ryan a special cup....I have no idea why, it was $3.06, just for this stupid cup. That is all we spent there so I guess thats not so bad.

Daddy and Ryan loved to play skee-ball. Ryan would take daddy's skee balls and throw them half way up the lane next to him, or just throw them as far as he could, or drop them all on the floor...what ever was more fun watching mommy and daddy chase them.

Oh boy we thought we hit the jackpot, we found a Barney ride...oh wow so much fun we are going to have with Barney. Well things are not always like you think they are going to be...#1 rule once you have a child. Ryan was deathly afraid of Barney, he wanted nothing to do with him, he was afraid of his big lovable purple friend. As they day went on he did warm up to him, and did give him a kiss before we left, but would never sit by him. Like I learned from a book today "Really important stuff my kids have taught me", 'sometimes its smarter to be scared, then not to be scared at all'.

Just some random girl Ryan decided to help win tickets for...how kind, always wanting to lend a helping hand.

Mommy and Ryan playing whack a mole. I did whack Ryan's hand from time to time, he was just to slow, we had to whack em'.

He loved this, he played on this while I played Deal or No Deal and lost my butt off. It kept him very busy while mommy played.

Ryan soon saw how we were putting coins in the machines, then this became a game all with in itself, that boy knows how to spend money just like his mommy and daddy. Then when we (Matt) would win tickets he just thought it was the greatest thing to continue to rip off the tickets versus letting them stay all on one strand. Matt even won a one hundred ticket jackpot. Which is really awesome for us since we have stunk at games since we had a baby and we want to win him stuff.

This is just a cute little video! He ran over there and started dancing. And of course I stopped taping just in time to miss the cutest part. He ran away and then stopped and waved at Chuck E. Cheese and his rock n' roll band then took off again. It was so stinkin' cute!

training time

I know its early to start potty training, but I figured why not let him get used to the idea. He sees me go potty all the time, its just the two of us at home so I have to keep the door open and he just chooses to keep me company.

So now our morning routine will get up...go potty...and brush our teeth. That will also be our bedtime routine. Brush teeth...go potty...take a bath...then go to bed. I have no idea how well this will work, but we are going to try it.

The only things we are adding is potty and teeth at the sink. We are going to start brushing at the sink so he can spit. We have always done it at the changing station while I am changing his diaper. I brush first then he takes over. He has always loved brushing his teeth. The toothpaste he is still using he can swallow. So we will finish this tube continue practice spitting then buy the big boy toothpaste. He did really good at spitting for the first time this morning, now it just sprayed out versus a nice spit like we do, but I didn't even know he was capable of spitting. Its probably something his father or uncles have taught him. He even rinsed his brush like mommy.

I am so very proud of him for becoming a big boy, buy it brings a tear to my eye.

I have been a bad blogger!

It has been sometime last week since I have actually blogged. For some reason I just don't have the time lately. Thing have just been crazy with family stuff. Plus I really don't have any interesting stories.

I still need to blog about last week at church...

I did go the movies with a friend on Friday night, we saw Night at Rodenthe. It was horrible. It might have been 1 to many glasses of wine. But I was following the story just fine, and it just did not grab us. If they would have put an extra half hour on it and make us feel it then it could have been MUCH better. I was very disappointed...

Saturday, we went to a friends new house and helped them paint. It was very nice, we were able to get away for an afternoon with our Ry and it was nice to be with all adults.

Saturday night we FINALLY watched this movie, Black Book about WWII, my dad has been hounding us to watch. And I will admit it was good, actually really good.

Sunday, Matt and I went to the mall all by ourselves, he had to get a suit and we did a little shopping. That was really nice as well.

Then there is Ryan! BARNEY BARNEY BARNEY! I just don't know the obsession with him, I think alot of it is the music and dancing, he really likes the Wiggles too. He has been caring around the Wiggles DVD case every where. He has been trowing more fits lately as well. Yesterday when we were leaving the church he was screaming on the way to the car...you know the fake screaming because he is not getting his way. So, Matt and I decided to fake scream and cry with him. And it worked he stopped immediately and looked at us like we were crazy. Now if we could only do this in public or the grocery store and not have people look at us like we were horribly mean to our children, that would be great.

That has been our life in a nut shell for the past week. Hopefully I will have time to post more this week. I do need to do Part 3 of parenting as well. My notes are sitting right here just waiting to be typed. I won't have as much down time here for awhile though. My brother is going to come live with us...I am totally excited about the free babysitter. But we have to get the 3rd bedroom cleaned out and set up before he moves in. Which will be me working by myself.

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