Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Ava's first story
"You are never going to believe this! Once there was nothing, no world, no grass, no dirt, no trees, NO people (I thought she was starting to tell me the creation story they teach at her school). Then, Mommy, there were 15 vampires walking around biting people & tearing up stuff (boy was i wrong about that creation story), then 15 trolls were flying around when 15 monsters came stomping in. They walked on only dirt"....at this point she lost me, I was staring at her in wonderment; wondering where the heck she got all that, yet proud of her creative, sick mind. :)
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Cousins Rock
All the cousins (minus Sam-- he boycotts cameras) came for Ava's Spring Concert...
PS....that's the back of Sam's head on the left. GOTCHA BUDDY
Four cousins get to spend the night together, and this is the point when the house finally became quiet... some chaos, some drama, lots of giggling, a few tears, a few 'just dance 4' competitions, egg hunt practice runs, high heels clicking around, singing, dancing, eating, jumping on the beds, "Cecca!!! Do Mamma Odie!!!", a few inappropriate things to make little kids laugh, & then it was quiet. i liked the loud, but cuddled in the quiet, on the floor, until all were fast asleep...but not before one kindly asked me, "why are you staying in here?" (Yamro, never afraid to speak her mind) :-)
PS....that's the back of Sam's head on the left. GOTCHA BUDDY
Sunday, February 24, 2013
february funnies
hide and seek is more of a smelling game for ava. when she looks for you, her consistent remark is, "i can't see you, but i can smell you!!" huh!!??!! i start smelling myself while in hiding, then giggle so loud she finds me. i obviously had a complex, until she started doing it to other family members. whew! i'm not the only stinky one.
i asked her to please explain...
mom smells like perfume...REALLY!!! :-)
dad smells like the bathroom...funny, but it's his morning "getting ready" products she is referring to
nonno smells like stinky work...he has always smelled like a man who works with his hands
nonna smells like dinner...of course, right? my mom is the cooking queen
baba smells like the basement...this is certainly because baba always takes ava to get cookies there
deda smells like chickens...he did teach ava the importance of feeding chickens fresh picked grass
my dad and i both agree, kids have the best abilities in all senses. too bad we lose so much as we get older.
my favorite funny this time around, is from the other morning after we had a snow storm come through. she was, of course, in bed with me in the morning when she woke up. she looked at me super excited, and i was waiting for the "no school!!!" or "i love you so much mommy, thanks for letting me sleep in your bed, AGAIN!!", but instead she blurts out, "IT'S PAY DAY!!!!"
Yes, that's right, pay day.
We started a small chore list for her to earn money, and it didn't take her long to figure out how fun money is. You may recall, from a previous post, our ban from going shopping. She had obviously reached a point in her young life that meant it was time to teach her about money. She has worked hard at saving her money, and even bought her first toy (a barbie of course!), donated food to the animal shelter, and deposited enough money in the bank to earn two free dollars from the bank. She is quite proud of her money, and now, unfortunately, but hilariously, every time she does a chore she quietly says, "i’m really earning my money now."
that’s my girl. she keeps us laughing and adds such a sparkle to our days.
i asked her to please explain...
mom smells like perfume...REALLY!!! :-)
dad smells like the bathroom...funny, but it's his morning "getting ready" products she is referring to
nonno smells like stinky work...he has always smelled like a man who works with his hands
nonna smells like dinner...of course, right? my mom is the cooking queen
baba smells like the basement...this is certainly because baba always takes ava to get cookies there
deda smells like chickens...he did teach ava the importance of feeding chickens fresh picked grass
my dad and i both agree, kids have the best abilities in all senses. too bad we lose so much as we get older.
my favorite funny this time around, is from the other morning after we had a snow storm come through. she was, of course, in bed with me in the morning when she woke up. she looked at me super excited, and i was waiting for the "no school!!!" or "i love you so much mommy, thanks for letting me sleep in your bed, AGAIN!!", but instead she blurts out, "IT'S PAY DAY!!!!"
Yes, that's right, pay day.
We started a small chore list for her to earn money, and it didn't take her long to figure out how fun money is. You may recall, from a previous post, our ban from going shopping. She had obviously reached a point in her young life that meant it was time to teach her about money. She has worked hard at saving her money, and even bought her first toy (a barbie of course!), donated food to the animal shelter, and deposited enough money in the bank to earn two free dollars from the bank. She is quite proud of her money, and now, unfortunately, but hilariously, every time she does a chore she quietly says, "i’m really earning my money now."
that’s my girl. she keeps us laughing and adds such a sparkle to our days.
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| what's better than throwing a huge snowball at mom while she's trying to take a cute picture |
Monday, January 28, 2013
stuff to not forget
she gives light kisses on the cheek to wake me up (at 3am--{sigh}) before asking to sleep in our bed
she gives accurate directions in the dark on how to get home
she rhymes duck with fuck
"mommy, i meant to tell you this...sometimes at bedtime, when i put my hand out, it's to cool it off, not for you to hold." toddler honesty can't be beat.
ava told me for the first time after school she didn't miss me. then tried so hard not to cry when i took her to school today (her 'trying not to cry' is something i wish i could bottle up---the wet eyes, the red nose, the biting of the lip, the "nothing is wrong", she stands a little bit taller and holds her head high, but still needs me to hug her really tight and remind her how i will miss her and how i think she is the bravest little girl i know. her school friends seems to snap her back to happiness and mom is left feeling a tug at her heart--she needs me, but she is also starting that slow walk away from me)
a made up song--"the heart of the spirit goes to the presents" (clearly this was close to christmas)
she also shivered with excitement christmas morning after yelling, "SANTA!!!!" while scrambling out of bed faster than ever.
"i'm excavating the sand in the water to find destiny rocks."
ava wrapped a fake present for her friend hayden..."i'm teasing him, like daddy always teases me." (the sooner she learns the art of teasing, the sooner she can show her dad up)
"I spy something beautiful," Hayden
"Ava," said me, of course
"Yes," Hayden
Ava just stared at him
"BAM!" = Damn...Mom has since stopped saying damn
ava farts in her sleep and politely whispers "excuse me" ...sometimes we succeed at parenting when we least expect it.
there was excessive fear of the dark and night terrors. it was a hard few months that have seemed to come to an end. night terrors are scary for mom and dad, kids seem to never remember them. we have since learned to touch lightly in comfort, whisper something sweet, lots of "i love you'", and lots of "it's ok, go back to sleep now". never try to wake them and never yell at them to knock it off (i learned that one the hard way).
mom freaks out after the 100th time at the store with a toddler who cries every time she didn't get something. mom makes toddler give away six bags of toys (that is not a typo, it was six). our current record (after a short ban from going together to any store) is 3 out of 4 have ended in no crying. i believe i just taught my first lesson.
some days i rock as a mom, while other days, i am the worst ever. i am finding this is a common theme amongst every single parent in the world, along with the "mom guilt we all carry around like a load of bricks. whether we play for five minutes, five hours, or none, we are never good enough for ourselves" (thank you kind sister, who continued to remind me ... "you play and do more than sooo many mom's...you should feel really good about that and not worry about the times you really suck, those sucky days pale in comparison").
both of my sister's support through my mommy adventures have also brought me to a new feeling I said would never happen...it might be time to give ava a companion for life. the poor thing must not be left to grow up and deal with an aging mom and dad on her own...that is another funny blog post i could write about.
Monday, October 15, 2012
A walk around camp djordjevich...
After going through my photos, I discovered I didn't have a picture of the chickens...camp djordjevich without the chickens {gasp} at least you can hear them here...
a tree and me...
The tree I climbed when I was 9...
The tree I climbed when I was 14...
(at least, that's my story).
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Wednesday...
A typical day starts around 8:30am with a sweet face giving me hugs and kisses good morning, along with a favorite toy picked for the day, and a rainbow blankie dragging behind. It's a happy moment every time!
30 seconds later...."Okay, Mommy, let's play a game"...and so it begins, with a rhyming game.
"MOM!! You forgot to put the lid back on the glue stick last night!"
(said with a lot of sassiness to a mother who purposely left the lid off the glue stick, which I did not use, to teach a lesson)
"Mom, when I push this (imaginary) button, you have to talk like everyone from Madagascar. But, I promise you, you don't have to do it hundred times." I have done it 100 times, and shoot, I'm pretty good.
"Mom, watch this!" (some crazy dance move)
"Mom, watch this!" (spinning excessively in circles)
"Mom, watch this!" (making spit bubbles while spinning)
I'm pretty sure I watch 1 million things a day.
"Ugh, I’m getting tired of cleaning up this stuff...((sigh))!" (picking up papers she threw on the floor)
(insert more moaning and sighing as she completed the clean up)
Anytime she wanted me to go with her she would say in a sing song-y way..."follow me, kloop kloop (horse sound)...follow me, kloop kloop...repeat 100 times..." I am now doing the same thing.
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Interruption number 500 there.
"I don't want to go to the post office"...insert more sighing
"Can you please tie a leash around my kitty (toy kitty, of course)"..She proceeded to drag said kitty through the post office and Target. It came home looking more like a black dust ball and before I even realized it, the leashed kitty was drug through my house...ugh! Someone remind me to wash, yes wash, my house and remind me to stop saying ugh! Ava does it now, and it's so annoying. ;-)
We then spent the next two hours playing at the park and going for a hike through a dry creek bed in the woods. It was 56 degrees, with a perfect October blue sky, and a fantastic way to end out our day full of ((sighs)). :-) Tomorrow we will do who knows what, but I hope it will be as great as Wednesday.
30 seconds later...."Okay, Mommy, let's play a game"...and so it begins, with a rhyming game.
"MOM!! You forgot to put the lid back on the glue stick last night!"
(said with a lot of sassiness to a mother who purposely left the lid off the glue stick, which I did not use, to teach a lesson)
"Mom, when I push this (imaginary) button, you have to talk like everyone from Madagascar. But, I promise you, you don't have to do it hundred times." I have done it 100 times, and shoot, I'm pretty good.
"Mom, watch this!" (some crazy dance move)
"Mom, watch this!" (spinning excessively in circles)
"Mom, watch this!" (making spit bubbles while spinning)
I'm pretty sure I watch 1 million things a day.
"Ugh, I’m getting tired of cleaning up this stuff...((sigh))!" (picking up papers she threw on the floor)
(insert more moaning and sighing as she completed the clean up)
Anytime she wanted me to go with her she would say in a sing song-y way..."follow me, kloop kloop (horse sound)...follow me, kloop kloop...repeat 100 times..." I am now doing the same thing.
jiuy76rrrttttrrrrrravadjordjevichbhhdft457566ryfygg65445yvgfggdffgt5555555555555555
guhygyttrevnhfdfgggggggggggggggggggrddttrttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt666666666666666666666tt
yyutyuyyyytyyty56432178iloveyou
Interruption number 500 there.
"I don't want to go to the post office"...insert more sighing
"Can you please tie a leash around my kitty (toy kitty, of course)"..She proceeded to drag said kitty through the post office and Target. It came home looking more like a black dust ball and before I even realized it, the leashed kitty was drug through my house...ugh! Someone remind me to wash, yes wash, my house and remind me to stop saying ugh! Ava does it now, and it's so annoying. ;-)
We then spent the next two hours playing at the park and going for a hike through a dry creek bed in the woods. It was 56 degrees, with a perfect October blue sky, and a fantastic way to end out our day full of ((sighs)). :-) Tomorrow we will do who knows what, but I hope it will be as great as Wednesday.
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