Taylor and the Pumpkin Decorations

Each year Taylor loves to decorate for the holidays, and every year it has been a struggle to help guide him to make his decorations look presentable. Well this year with two children I just don’t see to care because outside my house right now, right on the sidewalk leading up to the front door are three rows of pumpkins that Taylor strategically placed there. They have been there all week and have not bothered me at all. I am glad that I am finally starting to get over that obsessive compulsiveness. Below are some pictures of Taylor at work.

Finished Product:

Taylor and the Otter

Taylor’s teacher Ms. Deb is absolutely the best teacher ever. She keeps the children so entertained and they are learning so many valuable things. One thing that Ms. Deb had talked Ryan and I about is Taylor’s lack of participation during circle time. She said he get really shy and refuses to talk when the other kids are around and all looking at him. (She says that is absolutely not the case when he is one on one with either her or one of the other children. She says in setting like this sometimes she has to ask Taylor to go play in a center because he is talking so much she cannot get the things done she needs to do.) Back to the story – Ryan and I have been working really hard with Taylor and trying to do thing that will help him participate in group settings. We are really making progress because this week he brought in a pumpkin/gourd that looked like an acorn, and he talked about it during circle time. The week before he brought in a dinosaur book and talked about it and then Ms. Deb read it to the class.

Each week the children get to take home a bag of books and a stuffed animal - they call these kits book buddies. This weekend in Taylor’s book buddy was a magazine about Sea Otters. Taylor absolutely loved this magazine and loved learning about the Sea Otter. So this week for circle time he is going to give a book report over the magazine and he is also going to bring in a stuffed sea otter that his Aunt Emily gave him last year.

Another good story – the reason Emily gave Taylor the sea otter was because I had taken him to see the documentary Artic Tale. It was about the current environmental impact global warming is having on the Polar Bears and the Walruses. For some reason during the whole movie Taylor kept calling the walruses “sea otters”, and for a long time after that he refused to call them anything but a sea otter. Emily picked up on this and found him a Sea Otter lovey at the NYC Central Park Zoo. I promise I do not make my children watch documentaries but Taylor asked to go and see this Artic Tale and he loved the full two hours of it. He loved it so much we now own it on DVD. I do highly recommend it though for adults it is great movie – very eye opening.


Thank you Ms. Deb for working so hard with our little boy, and thank you Aunt Emily for the Sea Otter.

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Emma and Lucy

Attached are a few shots of the girls that I stole from Mary's Blog. At least one of us always has our camera!

And She Poops – Finally….

Well poor Ms. Emma sometimes has a hard time going to the potty and as of last night it had been three days since she had gone potty last. So yesterday I called the doctor (they are so sick of hearing from me) and she suggested a ½ teaspoon of brown sugar or Cayro Syrup mixed in a bottle, so we tried both. Well it seemed to do the trick because today she has gone potty 8 times!!! Hip Hip Horay!!! It is amazing how the little thing stress mom out.

Flowers for Mom

On Saturday I took the kids to the park to try and get out of the house while Ryan was recovering from his gunk. While we were there Taylor picked me a precious little yellow flower and told me “it was for me, and it was beautiful like me, and how much he loved me, etc.” The flower looked like the one below.



By the end of our trip to the park it was past our naptime and Taylor was cranky and he mouthed of to me one too many times. I finally said “alright we have to go now” and I started to walk to the car. To my surprise when we got to the car he handed me several of these not so pretty white weed flowers, and said “here you get the ugly flowers because you are not nice, and you are not my best friend anymore, and I am mad at you, etc.” The flower looked like the one below.



I love you little boy and we will get thru these tough times.

First Day Back To Work

Well yesterday had to have been the world’s worst day, I guess because I was simply dreading the fact that I had to come back to work the following day. But, today has not been too bad. I did tear up when I thought of Emma but I just sit back and remember that she is at a wonderful caring and nurturing place and that everyone there just absolutely adores here. Don’t get me wrong I would much rather be at home holding Emma and watching my line up of daytime TV, that I have become very accustomed to. But I do work for a wonderful company and with a wonderful group of people and they have helped make the transition much easier for me.

Emma is actually in a class of 12 kids, and I personal know 4 of the other children and their parent’s very well. Max is in there and he is one of my sorority sister’s son. Katherine Lewis (Kenneth’s sister) of course is in there. Reese Reid (Tia’s sister) is in there, and Sydney Ferguson who is our church youth directors daughter. For those of you who don’t know Kenneth and Tia are both children and very good friends that Taylor grew up with at Wee Friends.

I just keep telling myself each day will get easier. Each day will get easier. Each day will get easier.............