Rain today, snow yesterday.....oh man, I am so ready for summer!
When you have 5 kids and they are all stuck inside ALL WEEKEND long, you will understand what I mean! The weather man says it's supposed to be in the 70's this weekend. Nick says he won't believe it til he sees it. The week starts out looking great on their forecast, and as the days pass, the predictions start to get colder and colder until we end up in a freakin' snow storm!
I can't wait to hang outside with the kids, go swimming, just be WARM! My little man absolutely loves being outside. He would be out there all day if I let him, but until it's warmer and not so windy, I am scared to let him outside. What if he gets sick, again? Two hospital stays in 3 months is enough for this woman.
So, until then, I will just wait, and curse at the weather man like I usually do!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Is it summer yet?
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Hmmm, not sure I will but....
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Introducing....
No seriously, what is with his obsession with headbands and crowns? HAHA cute kid!
Food Glorious Food!
Oh, where do I start with this one. My beautiful blondie, my sweet darling mischevious 4 year old, Ambria. Now, that girl keeps me busy, I will tell you that much. Lately, I cannot get over her obsession with FOOD. It baffles me really. I don't remember having much of an appetite as a child to be quite honest. I mean I would come in for dinner when my mom would call me, but sometimes I would play so hard, I would forget entire meals.
When Ambria was a baby I unsuccessfully tried to get her to eat baby food. She really didn't mind the fruits, but when you tried to get her to eat any of the vegetables she would gag and cringe. So, for the first two years of her life, she basically lived on milk. I really worried that she would never develop an appetite and eat real food. I even talked numerous times to the doctor about what I could do to get her to eat.
Finally at about age 3 Ambria started eating. She was and still is a picky eater- macaroni, cereal, anything with sugar, but still very unfond of vegetables or anything healthy. Over the last year or so I have started to pay attention to her eating habits a little closer than I have in the past. At one point (a few months ago) she started asking when we were going to have meals and seemed very concerned that we might "miss" one. I really didn't notice in the begininning but she began to develop an obsession with food.
After finishing a meal she would ask what else she could have to eat. It was like she was never full. Then, I noticed her portions were twice the size at dinner then mine, or Nick's were. I thought, maybe she was going through a growth spurt, but this has been going on now for well over a year. She is a tall girl, yes, but right now she out weighs Nick's 6 year old boy by 15 pounds! She isn't what you would call fat, but she is solid, dead weight.
A few weeks ago Nick and I ran a few minutes after at work and picked up the kids late from Chrissy. When we got there Ambria was eating dinner with their family. After we got home and Nick and I were heating up something to eat, Ambria was extremely distraught that she didn't get to have dinner with us. I mentioned to her that she had just eaten a few minutes ago with Chrissy's family and she seemed upset. The next day when she got to Chrissy's house she told Chrissy "Chrissy, the next time I eat dinner at your house, could you please tell my mom that I haven't had dinner yet, so that I can eat dinner at our house too?"
If I let her, she would eat non stop the entire day. I feel bad, but a part of me feels like I have to limit what she eats or how often she eats, because if I don't, it could really get out of hand and be a bigger problem as she gets older. So now when I tell her she can't have something, or that she just ate and will have to wait, she will say "ok mom, but the next time I can eat, I should eat ______." or "maybe for dinner I can have ____ and _____". I just don't get it! What do I do?
