LUCKY STRIKERS

Well its that time of year again...bowling season. This will be our 4th season. We will be doing this from labor day till Easter! The four of us, (Matt, Jason, Loni, and I) are on a winter bowling league, we are...THE LUCKY STRIKERS!!!

Sure I complain from year to year, well week to week about bowling and going all the way to Highland every Sunday night, but in reality I do love it. Not so much bowling, I think you have to be good at it to like it and I am definitely not. I have had the same average every year, well it might have went up by a few pins...but no higher than 117...and that is for 4 years. But I love hanging out with our friends, it is our time to do our weekly update with each other. Its just a really cool thing to share with such good friends. Plus when we are like 50, we can say we have been bowling together for 25 years now...has it been that long!?!

This is a picture of our table...it has looked the same every night for 4 years...minus the ashtrays now that there is no smoking in doors...imagine what our table looked like with ashtrays...WOW. We definitely have the busiest and messiest table there.

We used to have uniform shirts, we no longer wear those. But this is an older pic of us when we first started...we all look so different!

Gettin' Jiggy with it

All you moms out there now how things can get a little weird around the house, especially when you are home all day...just you and the kiddos. You just do some weird silly things, just to get a laugh...this is what its all about!!! ENJOY!!!

We went over to my parents on Sunday to have a Labor Day BBQ with friends and family. It was a very nice relaxing day spent laughing and eating. We gave Ryan a strawberry smoothie popsicle, and to say the least he loved it!

After the popsicle it was time to get cleaned up, once again water is brought into the picture. He loves to be sprayed with my parents hose. Here is a little video Matt took with his phone.

marker mania

This is how our morning started. Ryan and I went downstairs to hang out so daddy could sleep in for a bit. It started so innocent, just a little spilt milk on the lap...no biggie.

Then he got so excited he found his new chalk. Screams all around for everyone!

Markers were found shortly after this. I knew he had them, but ofcourse he was being good so I was on the computer no longer paying attention, and this is what I found when I turned around. I told him we had to stop and put them up, because daddy saw all this he would think I was not watching him.

This is his new Elmo book he got, that he loves, it talks to him and he can find Elmo and baby fishey all the time (no it is not Dorothy some other random fish)

It was then time to go back upstairs and say good morning to daddy!!!

We did go swimming that afternoon just a wimb, which was nice I life is so scheduled any more!

random videos

These are just some videos I took of Ry today, of course when you pull out the camera he does nothing. Right before I took the itsy bitsy spider video, he did the whole song, with all the correct moves. So this is the best I could get, its still cute but just watching him do this to the whole song all by himself is so cute and sweet. That is the innocent sweet child that I am used to.

The other video we were just bored in his room.

I love my baby!

Okay so my last post was all true, but it has been killing me leaving it like that. I feel like I am talking bad about my baby behind his back, and he so does not deserve that. He is a wonderful child, I just need to gain more patience with him. I am just not used to any of that. I always pictured all of this going like a sweet fairytale. Yes, God has gifted us with some of that, but our life is still real, real things happen to us, things people don't talk about. Maybe for the fear society will think they don't have the perfect child in the perfect life.

I am told everything we are going through is normal, and I am just not used to it. (thanks alot Kath, you have really helped me out again, what would I do with out ya!)

The new approach

I am trying this new approach with my 'boy'. My wonderful angel has turned into someone I don't recognize. He was always the best one in a crowd, people would come out of their way to tell us how good he is. And I think I took it all to my head and for granted. My baby is still wonderful overall, he is very content in what he is doing and always has been.

Well...these past few weeks life has been different. When they say they are just testing you...they ain't kiddin'! He now screams high pitch in a restaurant, "cries" till he thinks he is going to get his way. He goes from room to room doing what he has been told not to do, and that is the only thing he does in there, I do think it is to get my attention. This boy gets so much of me now, he has to learn mommy has to get stuff done.

I am a very stubborn and bull headed, I always have been. And for you that know me really well, I can have a bit of an attitude, especially if I don't get my way. Well as you all know Ryan looks like Matt, and we are now learning he gets his personality from me. And this is horrible. My stubbornness is helping me with not giving in to him, but he is the same way.

So, this is my new approach...he is now a 'boy' not a baby anymore and I have to treat him like one. I have to make him part of decision making and we need to compromise on things as a team. Yes yes I know this all sounds crazy, but I am having a real problem with this. I tried it today, we communicated all day, and it actually helped. When I made eggs and toast this morning while he was in his highchair eating his blackberries I explained everything step by step, which really helped when his blackberries ran out and he started to scream. He started to pay attention to me and what I was saying. So day one is done, we will see what the future brings.

If anyone has any suggestions, I am taking all!!!