Mama Dani's Musings: 2011

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Monday, January 9, 2012

Kids Say: 2011

I love looking back on my "Kid Say" posts but I realized I didn't make nearly enough of them last year. Before starting this year's, I thought I'd go back and remember some of what Sean and Maddy said last year. Thankfully, I posted a lot on Facebook. Here are some of my statuses through out 2011:

Jan. 4th
Maddy refuses to try to say the new daycare child's name. Instead, she calls her "friend". ♥

Feb 10th
Today Sean tells me "My grandparents know everything."

Feb. 17th
Sean told Maddy that he was going to fix her doll stroller and "it be new, no time!" lol

Feb. 22nd
Sean says "Bracky" is president, he lives in the White House and works in the Oval. ♥

March 1st
Maddy just growled at me "I love you" ♥

April 6th
Sean: "T-rex have giant feet! But they can't stomp on people!!"

April 26th
Sean- "I don't like hearts. I like circles, even squares and even rectangles but I don't like hearts."

April 28th
I told Maddy that there's a baby in my belly and she says "little baby! Open it!!!" LOL

May 3rd
Sean- "Mama! A bird at the bird feeder!! I love animals...but we can't eat fish." Why not? "There's a big fish on the house!" ??????

May 16th
I'm talking to hubby and Maddy gets between us "No mama, I nursey you!" lol

May 21st
The puppies are being loud so Sean says "Maybe we should put them back in Keme's belly. They weren't loud in there!"

May 31st
Sean do you have a girlfriend? "no. I only have 1 money. I can't paid em. I have a crane truck!"

June 23rd
Sean falls. Maddy-"You ok!?" Sean-"Yea" Maddy-"Hurray! He ok!!" ♥

July 1st
I'm laughing at Sean right now. He's talking to Annabelle (dog), trying to convince her to snort. lol

Aug. 8th
I love Maddy's made up words. Most recently we've heard "fudderfly" and "yummy-licious".

Aug. 20th
I just told Sean that he was smart and he said "And sweet too!!"

Aug. 23rd
Maddy's sitting with dad talking about Barney. Dad says "does he sing - I love you, you love me, let's get together and climb a tree?" Maddy said "no. Let's try again" LOL

Aug. 26th
Sean saw the radar picture of Irene on the TV so I was telling him and Maddy about the storm and Maddy tells me "We need a rocket ship!"

Sept. 8th
Sean just told me "Mama, I think I want a baby brother." I told him "We'll have to wait and see. It may be a baby sister." To which he said "I think I already have one." lol :)

Sept. 17th
Maddy didn't make it the whole class today and boy does she know how to tug at my heart strings. She came out crying and saying "I dance. I cry. I want you." :(

Sept. 19th
When Maddy sneezes she tells me her nose needs to be blessed. ♥

Sept. 24th
Mommyhood at it's finest: Maddy crawls in my lap "I love you! You make me so happy!!" ♥

Oct. 14th
Sean is doing circles in the livingroom and tells me "mama..I'm not going to fall and bonk my head again this time. I'm going slow and am being carefull."

Nov. 4th
Sean- "The big walking hot dog made the mess in the kitchen." ???

Nov. 11th
My 4 year old wants to spend his birthday money at the "workshop" (Lowes).

Nov. 18th
I love when the kids randomly come to hug/kiss my belly and talk to Jellybean. I also love how Jellybean actually responds to them. ♥

Nov. 21st
Tonight Maddy told my belly "I love you baby brother and sister!" She seems to think I have 2 babies in there..not to mention the one she thinks is in her belly. Someone's going to be disappointed...

Nov. 26th
We finished getting the tree up today. The rest of the decorations are going up tomorrow. Sean says the tree's up so tomorrow can be Christmas Eve. lol

Dec. 3rd
Maddy heard that I'm going to the chiropractor this morning. Now she's trying to say she needs to go b/c her back hurts. lol

Dec. 19th
Sean is so sweet. The kids are going to give each other gifts this year. I thought it would be nice if they made the gifts and suggested a bracelet for Sean to make. He said yes but he also wants to make a necklace and a jewelry box to put them in. :)

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Good bye 2011, Hello 2012

At the beginning of a new year I like to take a look back at the previous year. Here's a look back on 2011:

We celebrated Maddy's 2nd birthday.
We found out we were expecting #3!
Keme had puppies.
We evacuated because of hurricane Irene.
Maddy tried out dance class but ultimately decided not this year.
Sean had his first (and hopefully only) trip to the ER.
Richard and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary.
We celebrated Sean's 4th birthday.
We may finally have answers on Sean's small size.
I had ups and downs with the daycare business but am ending the year on a good note.
Last but definitely not least, we welcomed little miss Emily Noelle into our family on December 29, 2011....birth story to come.

I also attempted Project 52. I did pretty good right up until the end (only missed 2 weeks).
Here's most of 2011 in pictures:

I'm really looking forward to 2012. Here's what I would like to accomplish:

Work on living on a budget better.
Build our savings.
More quality time with Richard.
More quality time as a family.
Cloth diaper Emily...no falling back onto disposables like we did with Sean and Maddy.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Project 52: Week 52

For some reason, I didn't believe this little boy when he said he didn't like his new little sister...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Project 52: Weeks 46-49

I'm way behind on this so I'm going to just play catch up in one post. So here's weeks 46-49:

This is the look I got from Maddy when I told her about Thanksgiving dinner...the girl loves food!

Decorating the Christmas tree:

A confused butterfly emerged quite late. Since his wings were still wet, he couldn't fly, so I took the opportunity and took his picture in our Christmas tree.

We had a couple more confused butterflies so we now have 3 house butterflies...scratch than, we now have 5! I'll have to get another picture.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Project 52: Week 45

Legos!! Sean loved playing with Legos before but he got a few kits for his birthday and is in love with putting them together. The first one he put together was Lightning McQueen and was rated for 5-12 year olds. He put it together all by himself!! Later I found him with the instructions taking it apart and putting it back together.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Project 52: Week 44

Playdates are great for wearing out kids:

Sean's birthday was Tuesday. Lately, Alphie is all he's been talking about.
We have a happy little boy on our hands:

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Project 52: Weeks 41-43

Week 41: Visit to the pumpkin patch:

Week 42: Our mutt, finally calming down some.

Week 43: Maddy enjoying her lollipop.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Project 52: Week 40

We've been preparing the kids for the idea of a new little baby brother or sister pretty much since the beginning of my pregnancy. Thanks to a great idea from a friend, they are already playing with Jellybean. Around this time, they say a baby can start seeing light. So, Sean and Maddy have started using their flash lights on my belly to see if Jellybean can see it. Sean is so cute "Baby, can you see it? Wake up baby!" He also likes kissing my belly and talking to Jellybean. Then yesterday, he had his head on my belly and was singing to Jellybean when he got a big kick in the head. He jumped up pretty fast and his face was priceless!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Project 52: Week 39

I love this one of Maddy. She rarely lets me put her hair up.

I found Sean like this the other day. He told me "Your floor will be super duper shiny!"

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Project 52: Week 38

Big brother reading to little sister **swoon**

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Project 52: Week 37

I've been working on updating and improving my daycare website lately. One thing I added was a section introducing our pets. It was then that I realized I didn't have any recent pictures of Annabelle, our miniature dachshund. I had to fix that! Photographing animals is just as difficult as photographing kids! Here's how it went:

I told her to sit...

Sticking out the tongue? Really!?

Add a look...

Finally! Was it really that hard to cooperate!?

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Project 52: Week 36

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Project 52: Week 35

I had to take my project 52 pictures this morning b/c I realized that all the pictures I took recently are pictures I want to use for my post on Irene. So...here are my little ones with their bed head.