Friday, April 24, 2009
Giving it a try!
So I got suckered into this myself now too. I put up the ad sense bar just for fun. I figured, what the heck? I'll try it! My hubby has this program he wrote wootSnoop and anytime somebody clicks on the ad's on his site it gives him a little bit of money. Every now and then I'll see a check come in the mail to him from Google. Not sure how much it is for, probably not much. But I figured, hey! I can do this too! Nothing wrong with getting some cash for free right? We'll see....
Sand Sand Everywhere!!!
Its spring time in the Moxley household! As soon as the 80 degree weather comes I am ready for summer! Last week I found a great deal on Craigslist for a Step 2 sandbox, got it for $20! At first my husband thought it was just another frivolous purchase of mine, but I think I may have persuaded him differently when I showed him how much they sell for at Toys R Us! It was in great condition and even came with some toys! I set it up on the deck and now all I need is to get a pool out there and I will have my own little private beach! Oh wait.... was this supposed to be for my daughter? Well, thats who I said it was for atleast, but secretly, I wanted it just so I could dig my feet into the nice cool, crystal white sand! Curt jokingly stated that I'll probably lay a beach towel in it and lay out in it, but honestly I thought that was a pretty good idea! You see, I am an East coast girl at heart, I grew up on beaches practically my whole childhood. Newport, Narragansett, Duxberry, Wilmington just to name a few. You can take the girl away from the beaches, but you can't take the beaches away from the girl!! Sorry babe!
Ok, so back to the subject, Kara on the other hand, was not so fond of the sand. She will not allow me to take her shoes off in the sandbox, and will only sit on the edge or the outside. Slowly but surely though, I think she'll warm up to it. I will see to it any way! Especially in time for a week long trip out to the beaches of NC this August!!!
On another spring time note, last night was Ladies Night at the local gardening store here in town. I went along with some of the fellow moms from the YUM's group and had a blast! It was so relaxing getting to walk around with out a screaming toddler just looking at all the different kinds of flowers and plants. I picked some out and with the help of one of the very lovely workers there planted them and was assured they were "hardy" flowers! Hopefully I can keep them alive until Memorial Day atleast! Here's a little look at my creation:
Monday, April 6, 2009
Its Potty Time!
Thats right, I bought it this weekend, a training potty! A lot of Kara's little friends have started the process of potty training, so I figured it was time for me to get on it. Kara was very excited when she saw the potty and couldn't wait for me to open it, but then when I attempted to remove her pants to sit on it, she freaked out! She'll sit on it with her clothes on momentarily, but her attention span is about the size of her pinky finger right now.
I know this is going to be WAY more traumatic for me than it is for her. But like they say, no kid ends up going to prom, or walking down graduation aisle with a diaper on, so I just need to chill!!!
The key word here is patience... something I was forced to learn when I had a child, but now that is going to be maximized to the 10th degree!
Wish me luck fellow mummys!
Monsters VS. Aliens
Kara had her first movie theater experience yesterday! We had been talking about doing this with her for a while, since Curt and I are such avid movie goers, we could not wait until our daughter was old enough to attend with us! So, yesterday being the snowy, cold dreary day it was in the middle of April, we decided it was a perfect day to go!
I have to give her props, the kid did good, sitting there for 2 hours, and if they didn't have 30 minutes of previews in the beginning, I think she would have made it through the whole movie. We probably could have gotten through the whole movie, but me being the self-conscious person I am didn't want to "disturb" the other youngsters in the theater.
And I do have to admit, I spent most of the movie admiring her profile staring up at the huge screen chowing down on popcorn. So cute, just a miniature version of her father and I.
So overall, I'd say it was a movie success! It also made me feel a lot more confident about the $100 tickets we just purchased for the Sesame Street Live show next month. I'm positive she'll sit through that, because she is in LOVE w/Sesame Street! Watch out Elmo, here we come!!!!
Now, I wonder if we could take her to "Adventureland" next weekend? (the movie that is). Ha.... I think we'll hold off on that one.
I have to give her props, the kid did good, sitting there for 2 hours, and if they didn't have 30 minutes of previews in the beginning, I think she would have made it through the whole movie. We probably could have gotten through the whole movie, but me being the self-conscious person I am didn't want to "disturb" the other youngsters in the theater.
And I do have to admit, I spent most of the movie admiring her profile staring up at the huge screen chowing down on popcorn. So cute, just a miniature version of her father and I.
So overall, I'd say it was a movie success! It also made me feel a lot more confident about the $100 tickets we just purchased for the Sesame Street Live show next month. I'm positive she'll sit through that, because she is in LOVE w/Sesame Street! Watch out Elmo, here we come!!!!
Now, I wonder if we could take her to "Adventureland" next weekend? (the movie that is). Ha.... I think we'll hold off on that one.
Monday, March 30, 2009
"It's So Hard To Say Goodbye...."
..... To your momma! My mom visited from North Carolina this past weekend for my birthday. She spent 4 days with us and they were 4 of the best days I've had in a long time! She and I went to Prairie Meadows to play her favorite penny slots, we didn't win, but didn't lose much either. I just love watching how excited she gets over those loud clinking machines. We watched a couple movies, ate a TON and of course did plenty of shopping. I could never get sick of spending time with my mom. She's the type of mom who was always more like a friend than "one of those moms." She is definitely one of my most favorite people.
So of course Kara got her fill of grandma while she was here. And now that Kara is beginning to speak more words I thought it was proper to give my mom her own "name" to Kara, so we decided on "Nana." Figuring that might be easy enough for Kara to catch on to. I have a problem with calling both sets of grandmothers the same name, especially when one of them in particular reigns on a much higher level of true "grandmother-hood." Kara was nothing short of spoiled over the weekend. She scored some new books, new clothes and plenty of yummy treats, one in particular being our families special waffle recipes.... mmmmmmm good!
Needless to say, it was a painful goodbye today. Kara doesn't quite understand the importance of it all yet. But it just rips my heart out to know that she will not get to experience that special bond with a grandparent in her everyday life. Harder because there are grandparents that live one town over and they barely bother to see her. (But thats a whole other post!)
Rather, these special times will be few and far between. But at least she will experience it I suppose.
Anyway, here is a picture of Kara and Nana saying goodbye to each other, and another of the 3 of us. (Or at least most of us!)
So of course Kara got her fill of grandma while she was here. And now that Kara is beginning to speak more words I thought it was proper to give my mom her own "name" to Kara, so we decided on "Nana." Figuring that might be easy enough for Kara to catch on to. I have a problem with calling both sets of grandmothers the same name, especially when one of them in particular reigns on a much higher level of true "grandmother-hood." Kara was nothing short of spoiled over the weekend. She scored some new books, new clothes and plenty of yummy treats, one in particular being our families special waffle recipes.... mmmmmmm good!
Needless to say, it was a painful goodbye today. Kara doesn't quite understand the importance of it all yet. But it just rips my heart out to know that she will not get to experience that special bond with a grandparent in her everyday life. Harder because there are grandparents that live one town over and they barely bother to see her. (But thats a whole other post!)
Rather, these special times will be few and far between. But at least she will experience it I suppose.
Anyway, here is a picture of Kara and Nana saying goodbye to each other, and another of the 3 of us. (Or at least most of us!)
Friday, February 20, 2009
Valentines Tradition
This post may be a little late, but better late than never right? I've decided to make it a yearly tradition now to take a picture of Kara with candy every year at Valentines time. Her first Valentines day I took a picture of her in her high chair with a bag of (unopened) Hershey's Kisses. (She was only 5 months at the time!). This year, I decided to be a little more brave and give her a big heart shaped sucker. She absolutely LOVED it! I am going to take pictures to document each year. I can not believe how much she changed in just a year! It is bittersweet. I love watching her grow, but when I look back at what she was like just a year ago it makes me want to just hold that little baby in my arms again!!! aahhhhhhhhh......... motherhood!
The Nightmare of the Mall Play Center
Ok, so you are probably thinking that I am going to complain about the big kids that are too old to be in the play centers at the malls, trampling over the little kids innocently playing.... right?
But no, I am going to tell you about a very scary incident that shows what happens to those kids whose parents are NOT watching them. Hopefully anyone who witnessed this will keep a better eye on THEIR children next time they are at one of these places.
So, its Friday night and my cousin Anne and I decide to take the little ones to the mall for some supper and a little play time. We get to the play center and its ca-ray-zee as usual. But what else is new right? So we decide to let them play for a little bit anyway. I watched as Kara was pushed out of the way several times trying to get down the slide. I observed as these two bigger girls continued to run in front of her and rough house around. I watched one of their moms text away on her cell phone and the other mother was outside of the play center watching for a little bit then doing who knows what. The father of one of the girls sat there and watched his younger child. After a couple minutes I decided I'd let Kara play with the "sicky germs" long enough. I picked her up and headed over to Anne. Anne then tells me about this creepy guy in a leather coat and no teeth who had been sitting in the play area just watching the kids. She wondered which kid was his and then got totally freaked out when he stood up and just walked away, no child in tow. At that moment we looked at each other and decided it was time to leave. Not even 2 minutes later as we are strapping the wee ones in their strollers we hear a mothers desperate cry out to her daughter. "Katelyn? Katelyn!!!??" And then the other mother is calling out for her daughter too. They were gone. The father is explaining what his daughter was wearing to one of the mall employees. And in a matter of seconds people are gathered around searching for these 2 girls. Anne and I immediately looked for the creepy guy. We spotted him in the record store across the hall, by himself, lucky for him. Where did these kids go?
Of course, like any good mother would do for another mom we began walking around helping them find their children. One mom kept calling her daughters name out, fighting back the tears, she looked like she was about to collapse to the floor in disbeleif. The other mom clutched her baby in the middle of the mall, in tears, holding her face as if she might throw up all over the place. The father paced the mall. At that time I had this awful pit in my stomach, goosebumps up and down my body and I began to shake. I could not imagine the fear these mothers must be feeling.
Anne and I headed down to the center of the mall where we spotted the father with his daughter, he found her, but where was the othe girl? We followed him and asked where he found her, she was in the shoe store. Sure enough the other girl was there too. I raced back to the other end to let her mom know, she ran faster than a marathon runner to reunite with her daughter as other curious mall goers stared in confusion. And that was that, they found their children. This time.
It amazes me how quickly they disappeared like that. And gives me extremely creepy and eery feelings to think how they could have been taken by some freaky guy scoping out the kids innocently playing. This world is a scary place, and you just can't afford to take your eye off of your children for one second, not even one second. Anne made herself feel better about being an overprotective and "hovering mother" as her husband calls her! I think I will become even more of one now!
I did walk past both of the moms on my way out of the mall, both looked at me and waved with a look of pure gratitude for helping them, one even whispered "thank you." I felt their horror, their pain, I couldn't imagine what that must feel like to wonder if you were ever going to see your child again. It was like out of a freaky movie or something. But thank God it had a happy ending. And maybe if everyone with a child could experience something like this, there wouldn't be any more of those "big kids with no parents watching them" left alone in the mall play centers.
But no, I am going to tell you about a very scary incident that shows what happens to those kids whose parents are NOT watching them. Hopefully anyone who witnessed this will keep a better eye on THEIR children next time they are at one of these places.
So, its Friday night and my cousin Anne and I decide to take the little ones to the mall for some supper and a little play time. We get to the play center and its ca-ray-zee as usual. But what else is new right? So we decide to let them play for a little bit anyway. I watched as Kara was pushed out of the way several times trying to get down the slide. I observed as these two bigger girls continued to run in front of her and rough house around. I watched one of their moms text away on her cell phone and the other mother was outside of the play center watching for a little bit then doing who knows what. The father of one of the girls sat there and watched his younger child. After a couple minutes I decided I'd let Kara play with the "sicky germs" long enough. I picked her up and headed over to Anne. Anne then tells me about this creepy guy in a leather coat and no teeth who had been sitting in the play area just watching the kids. She wondered which kid was his and then got totally freaked out when he stood up and just walked away, no child in tow. At that moment we looked at each other and decided it was time to leave. Not even 2 minutes later as we are strapping the wee ones in their strollers we hear a mothers desperate cry out to her daughter. "Katelyn? Katelyn!!!??" And then the other mother is calling out for her daughter too. They were gone. The father is explaining what his daughter was wearing to one of the mall employees. And in a matter of seconds people are gathered around searching for these 2 girls. Anne and I immediately looked for the creepy guy. We spotted him in the record store across the hall, by himself, lucky for him. Where did these kids go?
Of course, like any good mother would do for another mom we began walking around helping them find their children. One mom kept calling her daughters name out, fighting back the tears, she looked like she was about to collapse to the floor in disbeleif. The other mom clutched her baby in the middle of the mall, in tears, holding her face as if she might throw up all over the place. The father paced the mall. At that time I had this awful pit in my stomach, goosebumps up and down my body and I began to shake. I could not imagine the fear these mothers must be feeling.
Anne and I headed down to the center of the mall where we spotted the father with his daughter, he found her, but where was the othe girl? We followed him and asked where he found her, she was in the shoe store. Sure enough the other girl was there too. I raced back to the other end to let her mom know, she ran faster than a marathon runner to reunite with her daughter as other curious mall goers stared in confusion. And that was that, they found their children. This time.
It amazes me how quickly they disappeared like that. And gives me extremely creepy and eery feelings to think how they could have been taken by some freaky guy scoping out the kids innocently playing. This world is a scary place, and you just can't afford to take your eye off of your children for one second, not even one second. Anne made herself feel better about being an overprotective and "hovering mother" as her husband calls her! I think I will become even more of one now!
I did walk past both of the moms on my way out of the mall, both looked at me and waved with a look of pure gratitude for helping them, one even whispered "thank you." I felt their horror, their pain, I couldn't imagine what that must feel like to wonder if you were ever going to see your child again. It was like out of a freaky movie or something. But thank God it had a happy ending. And maybe if everyone with a child could experience something like this, there wouldn't be any more of those "big kids with no parents watching them" left alone in the mall play centers.
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