I must be slow...

I haven't posted in weeks. I guess I am slow. I have been really busy the past few weeks, watching my sister's kids, working some extra little side jobs and watering some extra plants. So I have no really good pics to post, really no pics at all. So what I have been up to is just trying to relax with my kids and let them make messes (and learn to clean them up) and make mistakes. I think I try to have my hand in too much of what they do, and then I have to say NO too much. If I just let them do and be and try to teach them along the way, I dunno, it seems better that way. So, I am sick of yelling at them, and losing my temper, and am trying to find a better way. I am trying to enjoy them and every moment I have with them. I went to a funeral recently for a friend's 18 month old son. I really need to watch it and remember to enjoy being a mom. I also noticed that I am meaner to my kids than I would ever be to any kid I am ever babysitting. I know I have mine 24/7 and babysit only temporarily, but I think it's just that I have an emotional investment in how my kids turn out, or how they act in public, or how I think they should be. But part of that seems healthy and part of it seems to me like I said before, trying to control how they do everything, like eat. I think I'd rather clean up the mess than tell them to eat with spoons, or better yet, punish or yell because they use their hands. Obviously I am talking about a toddler here more than a baby, really with all this.

It's just amazing how kids tend to teach you things about yourself you never wanted to know.

Well, so let me think of some cute things they did recently.

On my birthday William climbed up into my bed and we were talking about birthdays, I asked him if he was almost 3. He said yes, I am almost 3, I am only 2, but I am getting older every day. I don't know where he got that one from, but it sure is cute.

Will still says "Helpichocker" for helicopter. It's still my favorite toddler mispronunciation. And he thinks that ring around the rosies says "talk to the posies" instead of "pockets full of posies". Sometimes I want to teach him the right way to say things and other times it's too darn cute to let him mispronounce things and sing funny songs too.

Rowen is quickly trying to learn to walk. He can now stand up in the middle of a room by himself. AAAAAGH!!!!! Here we go! He also growls (I think Will taught him this!) and says lots of cute "dada, ada, aaaaaa" sounds.

I haven't yet made it up to Albion Basin this year to see the flowers. I hoped it'd be my birthday tradition to go up there, but haven't gotten around to it. It's my goal to go next week sometime. Then I'll have lots of pics to post. :)