Ok so I just have to brag about my kids and tell you all how proud I am.
Morgans friends decided that they want to do something to help the people of Haiti after the earthquake and they asked Morgan and Logan to help.
These wonderful kids ages 3 -8 decided to sell their artwork for 5.00 each, the money they make goes directly to the AMERICAN RED CROSS HAITI. They have been painting and drawing for days, selling artwork left and right. We need more family support though. All you need to do is send a check made out to America Red Cross Haiti relief for 5.00 per artwork, and I will send you your very own piece of art by Morgan and Or Logan Botto.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Mommy Needs A Time Out"
Ok so its been a few days since my last post, but that is basically been because Logan has been making me nuts, and I really dont' want to write things that are not very nice.
Today was a hard day again, I don't understand the whining. I mean seriously, it seems to be getting worse EVERY SINGLE DAY! I think its a boy thing because I don't remember Morgan ever being this bad. Today I actually had to lock myself in my room for 30 sec with Logan pounding on my door, and Me yelling back " MOMMY NEEDS A TIME OUT" Actually the truth is Logan needs to go to preschool. You think I would have sent him a long time ago since I was a preschool teaher for 13 years Before I had kids. But #1 its soo expensive to send him, and with me not working its just not possible, and #2 99% of the schools in this area are all Christian based, and being Jewish, thats not a really good idea.
Thanks to my WONDERFUL friend Nicole, I actually got a little break today, she offered to take Logan to her house to play, AND pick up Morgan from school. She also gave me a number for a daycare that I can afford for 2 days a week. I do want to go back to work, but even tho my kids drive me mad at times, I just can't see them being raised by someone else. I feel so lucky and blessed to be able to stay home with my kids for as long as I have. YES we have had to sacrafice. We dont' take a lot of vacations, we don't drive fancy cars, BUT we do have a house, and the kids want for nothing. So the sacarafices we have made are small. I have not missed a moment of my kids lives. Now of course being a stay at home mom is NOT an easy job, sometimes you lose yourself, and may even need a xanex here and there. (oops did I say that out loud).
Today was a hard day again, I don't understand the whining. I mean seriously, it seems to be getting worse EVERY SINGLE DAY! I think its a boy thing because I don't remember Morgan ever being this bad. Today I actually had to lock myself in my room for 30 sec with Logan pounding on my door, and Me yelling back " MOMMY NEEDS A TIME OUT" Actually the truth is Logan needs to go to preschool. You think I would have sent him a long time ago since I was a preschool teaher for 13 years Before I had kids. But #1 its soo expensive to send him, and with me not working its just not possible, and #2 99% of the schools in this area are all Christian based, and being Jewish, thats not a really good idea.
Thanks to my WONDERFUL friend Nicole, I actually got a little break today, she offered to take Logan to her house to play, AND pick up Morgan from school. She also gave me a number for a daycare that I can afford for 2 days a week. I do want to go back to work, but even tho my kids drive me mad at times, I just can't see them being raised by someone else. I feel so lucky and blessed to be able to stay home with my kids for as long as I have. YES we have had to sacrafice. We dont' take a lot of vacations, we don't drive fancy cars, BUT we do have a house, and the kids want for nothing. So the sacarafices we have made are small. I have not missed a moment of my kids lives. Now of course being a stay at home mom is NOT an easy job, sometimes you lose yourself, and may even need a xanex here and there. (oops did I say that out loud).
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Princess Consuela Banana Hamock
I knew kids would fight and argue, Heck I did with my sister til we were well into our 20's. Logan and Morgan LOVE each other, it is very sweet at times. Logan will just turn to Morgan and say "I Love you Morgan" and Morgan will grunt under her breath, "I Love you too". When they get along THEY REALLY get along,but when they don't its not pretty, and mommy usually loses her mind pretty fast. I hate to admit but I am a yeller, I really want to change that but man sometimes its just so hard not too.
Last Saturday of course the kids were home all day long, we were having a pretty good day, except for the tattling. The funny thing is, usually its Morgan doing the tattling.. Then its one after the other, over the silliest things. So Finally after a few hours of tattling back and forth, I told my beautiful babes " My name is no longer Mommy" First they laughed at me, but I was very serious and said from now on my name is "Princess Consuela Banana Hammock" (Yes stole it from "Friends") So that day every time I heard "MOOOOMMMMY" I did not answer, or would remind them that I was Princess Consuela Banana Hammock" I was really hoping that this would stop the tattling, but of course I was wrong. The next day Logan and I were sitting on the couch and I told him " Remember my name is Princess Consuela Banana Hammock" He got so sad, and said " No I wanna call you mommy". That was the end of Princess Consuela Banana Hammock'
Last Saturday of course the kids were home all day long, we were having a pretty good day, except for the tattling. The funny thing is, usually its Morgan doing the tattling.. Then its one after the other, over the silliest things. So Finally after a few hours of tattling back and forth, I told my beautiful babes " My name is no longer Mommy" First they laughed at me, but I was very serious and said from now on my name is "Princess Consuela Banana Hammock" (Yes stole it from "Friends") So that day every time I heard "MOOOOMMMMY" I did not answer, or would remind them that I was Princess Consuela Banana Hammock" I was really hoping that this would stop the tattling, but of course I was wrong. The next day Logan and I were sitting on the couch and I told him " Remember my name is Princess Consuela Banana Hammock" He got so sad, and said " No I wanna call you mommy". That was the end of Princess Consuela Banana Hammock'
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Mean Mommy!
How often to you hear " Your Mean" from you child? Well I have not heard this come out of my little boys mouth until this past week, And to be very honest, I'm kinda taking it as a compliment. Does that make me mean? HA!
So here we are in the middle of January In southern California, Instead of wearing jackets and long sleeve shirts, We are in Jeans and short sleeves. I'm starting to wonder if I slept all through winter and woke up to spring, but then again if I had gotten more then 4 hours asleep I would not be this tired.
So on this Beautiful Wintery Spring day Logan and I decide to play in the front yard, playing catch then riding his bike. We get half way around the corner when Logan gets off his bike and says " mommy, I'm done I want to go home." Fine with me so I say "Ok buddy, turn your bike around so you can ride it home." And THAT is when it started, The screaming, the whining, the stomping and the crying. Trying to stay calm I tell my little man, "you need to ride your bike home" the screaming and crying continues, he's trying to drag his bike instead of riding it. I admit, thinking about it now, it is kinda of funny, and I can only imagine what the neighbors were thinking as they were peering out of their front windows to see just how badly this poor child was being beat. I'm still wondering if CPS will come knocking on my door since " mean mommy" refused to carry this bike all the way home. well this went on for several minutes and yes I ended up carrying this bike home, Logan walking beside me, through his tears saying " your mean mommy" Well, I put down his bike and looked at my cute little boy and said " Thats how you get to be a mom, First you take a mean test, and if your mean enough you pass and get to be a mom." that was the end of that conversation!
So here we are in the middle of January In southern California, Instead of wearing jackets and long sleeve shirts, We are in Jeans and short sleeves. I'm starting to wonder if I slept all through winter and woke up to spring, but then again if I had gotten more then 4 hours asleep I would not be this tired.
So on this Beautiful Wintery Spring day Logan and I decide to play in the front yard, playing catch then riding his bike. We get half way around the corner when Logan gets off his bike and says " mommy, I'm done I want to go home." Fine with me so I say "Ok buddy, turn your bike around so you can ride it home." And THAT is when it started, The screaming, the whining, the stomping and the crying. Trying to stay calm I tell my little man, "you need to ride your bike home" the screaming and crying continues, he's trying to drag his bike instead of riding it. I admit, thinking about it now, it is kinda of funny, and I can only imagine what the neighbors were thinking as they were peering out of their front windows to see just how badly this poor child was being beat. I'm still wondering if CPS will come knocking on my door since " mean mommy" refused to carry this bike all the way home. well this went on for several minutes and yes I ended up carrying this bike home, Logan walking beside me, through his tears saying " your mean mommy" Well, I put down his bike and looked at my cute little boy and said " Thats how you get to be a mom, First you take a mean test, and if your mean enough you pass and get to be a mom." that was the end of that conversation!
Friday, January 8, 2010
My toothless Sassy Six year old!
We used to talk about having one more baby, but then Logan got older and my reason for not is "what if I get another Logan" Of course I love my little boy, and think he is the cutest, funniest and sweetest little boy ever, he's just a bit hard to handle sometimes. We always said “if we could be guaranteed a girl, well…we'd be all over it. That was until last week! What happened to my sweet, perfect, nice little girl? She turned SASSY overnight! All of a sudden she is in time-outs and sent to her room 2 times a day. I swear she and Logan pulled a "Freaky Friday” on me. When I tell friends, or even teachers, that she has “not been so sweet” everyone is totally shocked, and ask “this is Morgan you’re talking about?" The answer is YES! Wow..From sweet 6 to Sassy 6 in 3.2 seconds… WOW!
Well My beautiful Sassy 6 year old Morgan Ashley was on her 3rd loose tooth, the two biggest ones right on top. I swear this tooth has been loose FOREVER! finally it is so lose (it’s pretty much hanging by a thread) so last night Miss Morgan was so emotional over this tooth, at times it was hard not to laugh, but she wanted me to pull it out. Every time I got near her mouth she'd close her mouth up, she was crying and saying " I don’t' want to have a loose tooth!"
Well, she was finally brave enough for me to pull the tooth out, but I just could NOT do it!! My mind just would not allow it. Morgan decided to let daddy do the job, and in one pull the tooth was out…the drama was over except for Morgan writing the tooth Fairy asking her for a Nintendo DS. Seriously!! What happened to 50 cents under the pillow? Well she did NOT get a DS and was happy with $3.00.
Well My beautiful Sassy 6 year old Morgan Ashley was on her 3rd loose tooth, the two biggest ones right on top. I swear this tooth has been loose FOREVER! finally it is so lose (it’s pretty much hanging by a thread) so last night Miss Morgan was so emotional over this tooth, at times it was hard not to laugh, but she wanted me to pull it out. Every time I got near her mouth she'd close her mouth up, she was crying and saying " I don’t' want to have a loose tooth!"
Well, she was finally brave enough for me to pull the tooth out, but I just could NOT do it!! My mind just would not allow it. Morgan decided to let daddy do the job, and in one pull the tooth was out…the drama was over except for Morgan writing the tooth Fairy asking her for a Nintendo DS. Seriously!! What happened to 50 cents under the pillow? Well she did NOT get a DS and was happy with $3.00.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Only Logan!
well I guess this is the perfect time to tell you about Logan. Logan Andrew came into our lives On March 22, 2006 via C section. He was a lot bigger then we expected, even tho i was HUGE. I'm only 4'11 and my tummy took over.. The doctor said I was " full of Fluid" yea right he was almost 9 lbs.
Logan Keeps us on our toes NON STOP. I'm always telling him " your sooooo lucky your cute" The other day we went to pick up Morgan from school, we usually get there pretty early so we sit in the car, I never unbuckle Logan's car seat, basically because I know him! well this time I did, and I quickly remembered WHY i don't do this. I'm sitting in the driver seat listening to the radio, when I hear " ow , ow, ow, OW MOMMY"! I turn my head and he has got his head STUCK in the car window.. Only Logan..
Logan Keeps us on our toes NON STOP. I'm always telling him " your sooooo lucky your cute" The other day we went to pick up Morgan from school, we usually get there pretty early so we sit in the car, I never unbuckle Logan's car seat, basically because I know him! well this time I did, and I quickly remembered WHY i don't do this. I'm sitting in the driver seat listening to the radio, when I hear " ow , ow, ow, OW MOMMY"! I turn my head and he has got his head STUCK in the car window.. Only Logan..
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I've been told by several people that I should start writing things down. Of course I never listened until now. I always thought " oh I'll remember that because its so funny" but life throws so many things at you all at once it is impossible to remember EVERYTHING. So I'll start now, Start by just telling a little about myself, and my family...
My Name is Jenni, or as my husband calls me Petunia. When he first called me that all I could say was " it better be the flower and not the pig". We have been Married for 8 years. Sept 2 2001, our daughter was born on May 13 2003, I was induced on my due date because my husband is in the military and had to go back to where he was stationed.. I was induced at 8 am, and had the WORST labor , and ended up with an emergency C section at 8 pm that night. And Morgan Ashley came into our world.. 3 months after she was born we along with our Cat Cody boarded a plane to Washington state to be with my husband... Have you ever flown with a Cat? well its very entertaining.. picture this.. I'm an emotional mess already since I'm leaving my family, and moving away. i have a 3 month old baby in a carrier / stroller, then i have Cody in a carry on (he was given a tranquilizer) well I have to get the baby out of the carrier so that they can scan it, on top of that i have to take the cat out of the carrier so they can scan that... well guess what the drugs did not take effect.. so the cat freaks out and jumps out of my arms running around the terminal, I'm a mess crying and ended up handing the baby to a nice lady behind me to hold while i help get the cat... Finally the cat is safe back in his carrier and we bored the plane.. Once we land the cat FINALLY falls asleep, I get off the plane looking for my husband and realize I left my phone on the plane... I was going to stop here but then as I re read what I wrote I realized i never mentioned Logan.. my feisty 3 year old son... I have A LOT to tell you about him but there is plenty of time for that ... We also have 3 dogs, 2 cats,1 bird.. I'll get into all that later too..
My Name is Jenni, or as my husband calls me Petunia. When he first called me that all I could say was " it better be the flower and not the pig". We have been Married for 8 years. Sept 2 2001, our daughter was born on May 13 2003, I was induced on my due date because my husband is in the military and had to go back to where he was stationed.. I was induced at 8 am, and had the WORST labor , and ended up with an emergency C section at 8 pm that night. And Morgan Ashley came into our world.. 3 months after she was born we along with our Cat Cody boarded a plane to Washington state to be with my husband... Have you ever flown with a Cat? well its very entertaining.. picture this.. I'm an emotional mess already since I'm leaving my family, and moving away. i have a 3 month old baby in a carrier / stroller, then i have Cody in a carry on (he was given a tranquilizer) well I have to get the baby out of the carrier so that they can scan it, on top of that i have to take the cat out of the carrier so they can scan that... well guess what the drugs did not take effect.. so the cat freaks out and jumps out of my arms running around the terminal, I'm a mess crying and ended up handing the baby to a nice lady behind me to hold while i help get the cat... Finally the cat is safe back in his carrier and we bored the plane.. Once we land the cat FINALLY falls asleep, I get off the plane looking for my husband and realize I left my phone on the plane... I was going to stop here but then as I re read what I wrote I realized i never mentioned Logan.. my feisty 3 year old son... I have A LOT to tell you about him but there is plenty of time for that ... We also have 3 dogs, 2 cats,1 bird.. I'll get into all that later too..
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