WAY TO FAST

Time really does fly when you have kids. Well... it did before I had kids too, but to see such a drastic change of how much Josiah and Jocelyn have grown in the last 2 years, blows my mind. I try my best to constantly take photos and write down all the little stories of our day to day lives, looking back though I wish I would have done more. As a parent I really encourage everyone to take time to capture these tiny moments in life, cause you never get them back and they are gone in a flash. Seriously. Jocelyn is just about to turn two and Josiah has already learned to lie about his age (he tells everyone he's 5, so he can be old enough to go to school)

One of my favorite things: Peeking at them when they play together. I love to peek around corners or hide behind something and just watch/listen to them playing. I'm sure the fighting will be here and there, as it is now, but they love each other so much. They usually are trying to make each other laugh in some way. They dance together, sing together, ride bikes together, even save each other from the lava at the bottom of the slide. It truly warms my heart and makes me feel like a child again with them.

Yesterday, I didn't have my camera on me and I didn't want to miss the moment while I went looking for it but, they were outside playing together sitting on this "Sit-n-Spin" thing and grabbing each others cheeks and making funny faces on each other. Even through the closed door I could hear them belly laughing. They really are best friends. I hope as their relationship grows they will just become closer and closer.

Oh Josiah

Josiah is getting into this I don't care kind of attitude and I'm a bit unsure how to handle things. I told him "If you don't pick up these toy off the floor I'm going to throw them all away" Fine, he says, throw them away. So I got I huge black trash bag and loaded up all the toys that were left out on the floor, in the process of me doing this, he is sitting his bed watching me. Totally NOT caring. So I throw one last chance at him, "Please help me pick up your toys" "Just throw them away" In frustration I respond with, "Fine I'm going to call Santa and tell him not to bring you toys anymore, cause you just want to throw them away instead of take care of them." Ok fine", he says as he gets down from his bed and walks out of the room. A minute or so later he comes back with my phone, "Call Santa, tell him I don't want any more toys" All I can do is sigh, and sit there staring at my phone. This kid is TOTALLY calling my bluff. I ended up making a "quick call to Santa" and then hauled his toys off to the garage, out of sight. It's been like 2 weeks now and he has only asked for them once.

He also has been getting a lot more brave and snappy with the way he's been speaking to me. I try my best to be stern when necessary, but my kids do NOT take me seriously at all. Sometimes is hard, but other times its just what we need to lighten the moment. Typically whats happens is, either I'm yelling at them and they just laugh or they are yelling at me and I just laugh. Either way they tend to cute their way out of things even when they aren't trying.

Landa Park

Going to Landa Park is one of my FAVORITE things to do beautiful days. Great family time out of the house, and its just PLAIN FUN. Jocelyn was all over the place. She recent started getting really brave and climbing up on everything. (I even caught her ON TOP of the dinner table one day) She was having a blast running around. Josiah was doing his own thing, asking me and Chris to watch him every couple minutes. He was getting pretty brave as well, jumping around and climbing everything. After we played on the play ground, we went to find the ducks. It was awesome being able to feed them because they were very friendly and would even eat right out of your hand. Both the kids were a bit unsure about actually letting the dicks eat from their hands but they had fun throwing all the food at them. We had old bread and stale crackers for the ducks, but that wasn't enough for Jocelyn she wanted to share her graham crackers with them as well. Such a great day. 

January 17 2012

my sweet Josiah

As I've said recently finding time to blog is next to impossible, or it could just be I've been way to lazy to sit down and blog. Either way I'm bummed that I have been lacking, not because I want readers or whatever but because I haven't been documenting my kids and our life.  I'm not going to apologize but instead I will just continue to do as I please :) Cause thats what makes the most sense. If I don't have time to sit in front of the computer to take the time to blog, well then so be it.

On that note, today I have a cute story about Josiah, it just about put me in tears.

This morning, as every morning, Josiah woke up and came into my room around 8:30 to talk to me. I lay there in bed and listen to him telling me everything that pops into his little head. Well, around 9am he hears the neighbor kids playing outside. He jumps up and down and tells me he HAS to get dressed. After a few trips back and forth to his room to get dressed and Jocelyn dressed and ME dressed, we finally headed outside.

By the time we got out there the neighbor kids had gone back inside. So Josiah and Jocelyn just started doing their own thing, finding stuff to play with. The neighbor kids ended up coming back outside, and Jo got super excited. He ran to me and ask "Mom, can I please go say, what's your name? Can I go play with my kid friends?"  "Sure, go ahead", I replied.

He walked slowly toward their yard. Then he just stopped and stared. I told him "Well go already, I'll be right back, I need to lay Jocelyn down for a nap."

When I came back outside, he was still standing off to the side just watching them. Mind you, these kids are older, like 9 or 10 years old. So the first pick for  playmate probably won't be a 3 year old, and there were like 4 of them so it's not like they need another companion. As I watched they all drifted back inside. And Josiah just stood there longing for someone to play with. Let me tell ya, MY HEART WAS BREAKING.

I called him over and asked him if he would play with me. Of course he was all for it, saying "Let's play baseball!!"

So although, I'm busy as all get out with editing I need to get done. I put aside my work to play with my son. And it was a great moment. Now as I sit here typing this story he is walking around with a Optimus Prime helmet on fighting with anything and everything. And I keep catching him staring over to the neighbors house, longing to play with them. He is such a sweet boy and he really needs some friends.

October Life

So this past month has been a busy one, and this month is going to be even crazier. Shortly after moving to Seguin I started working at this adorable little craft store. I used to work at You're So Crafty about 2 or 3 years ago. I love working there, it gets my creative juices flowing :P I've also been booking a LOT of photo sessions! I mean, A LOT!! It's so awesome and encouraging. Especially when I have "regulars" lol I love developing relationships with my clients (which I think is a result of not getting a whole lot of interaction with anyone other than my kids) Any ways I love what I do, and my Awkward Eye business is EXACTLY where I want it to be. YAY!

Halloween this year one a fun one. The day started off a bit crazy, but ended great. The kids had so much fun. I was so busy pulling the wagon (Jocelyn's chariot) I couldn't really pull out my good camera while we were actually trick or treating. Josiah was so into it. He started telling people "You have any lollipops? I want a lollipop" It was too funny. Jocelyn had the treat or trick saying down. And they always said "Thank you" and "bye-bye" On the trick or treating route Jocelyn decided to dip into her candy stash and had chocolate all over her face. But I was still told by about 6 or 7 people that she was the cutest little thing they had seen for the night. 

Now that we are moving closer to the Holiday season(my favorite time of year) I will be busting out all my baking skills!!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE baking for people. I always bake a ton of cookies, pies and other treats for Chris to take to work. He has actually been telling me that people have been asking about my cookies. lol I told him tell them I don't really start my baking until November. It will just be a matter of balancing my photography stuff, mom stuff, working at the craft store, and baking my heart out. hehe

Oh and GREAT news!! My sister will be due at the end of this month!! And I will be flying up the second week in December with Jocelyn to go visit my little baby niece, Hannah Ryann.

Le sigh. Life is good. And although sometimes it feels like there is just too much, or things I can't handle, I always end up making it though. And now I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I've got to thank my husband for that. Even though we could probably kill each other at times, he is my best friend in the whole world and there is no one else that I think could handle my craziness. <3