So yesterday when we got to church the doors were locked, so we drove around and parked on the other side, which we don't usually park on that side. So we get in side and I fix Lydia's hair cause if I fix it before we leave she takes it out in the car. Though I don't know why i bother it comes out in Nursery anyway. :)
As we were singing the opening some Lydia said she needed to go potty, so out we go. But she didn't want to go in the regular potty, she wanted to go in the nursery potty, they have a little tiny toddler toilet. The door was open but the lights weren't working, and that scared Lydia, she sat on the potty with her head in her hands. So we went to the big potty. She couldn't decide which stall. We went in one and she got upset cause she wanted the other one, so we switched, and she got upset again cause she wanted the one we were just in....that's a 2 year old for you. I said either go in this one or we will leave, so she screamed....ooo this is fun. The bathroom echos. So I took her into a room and held her down, till she stopped screaming. She calmed down and said she needed to go potty, so we tried again. Same result.
By now the sacrament had started to I took my screaming child out side and held her till she calmed down. We had a chat and went back inside. Sacrament was still going on so we sat in the foyer waiting to go sit in the chapel. Then Daddy came out with Danton. He was singing his sleepy song which actually sounds like loud yelling, the more tired he gets the louder he groans.
As we waited, Lydia found a friend. A little boy about her age. And she started flirting. talking about colors and shapes, and she was playing with her hair and twisting back and forth and smiling real big, then they chased each other...and got in trouble for running. Then they started all over again.
When we got back inside Lydia made friends with the girl behind us (about my age this time) She shared her lip gloss, and Lydia felt so pretty. she was being good so I turned around and let her stay. Next time I looked back she had mascara, and blush on also...um I'm glad she was having fun dressing up, I just didn't really like it during church. She came up to me and was playing with her hair again and twisting back and forth, she was gorgeous. She told me so her self. I washed her face before nursery.
Then my favorite part of the day, after church was over since we parked on the opposite side I had to walk down the opposite hall, and I saw all the people I usually miss after church. One of these people that I happened to run into I had been wanting to talk to. She use to own a Dance studio so I asked her if she would be interested in teaching tap again. She smiled and said now wouldn't that be fun. Then she told me that she had actually been thinking about starting it up again. WOOT WOOT!!!
I got SO excited. IF I can tap again I really need to be able to take my kids with me cause Mark will be in school. So there is nothing concrete now besides she thinks it will be fun too, but it got me excited. I'll keep bugging her till she decides one way or the other.
I haven't done tap since I was pregnant with Danton, and I really need to get back in shape. That would be AWESOME! So we shall see...
Monday, August 31, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Just because Mommy didn't get mad, doesn't make it ok to do it again!
Friday I put Lydia down for a nap. I put the lock on the out side of her door so I can keep her in there when it is nap time. She is pretty good about staying in bed when she is suppose to. Sometimes she is a pill and will try anything to get out of bed.
"I need some water"
"I need to go potty"
"I need kissies"
"I want to watch cartoons"
"I want to sleep on the couch"
I usually just ignore her till she goes to sleep, unless she needs to go potty. But I never let her out the first time she asks. I give her 5 or 10 mins, because we always take her potty before bed/nap time. Well Friday at nap time I got the I need to go potty bit. I let her sleep in her princess dress mainly cause I didn't want to deal with the fight to take it off. Then I hear instead of the usual "I need to go potty" she says "I pee'd in my princess dress!" So I come running to the door.
I opened the door and she came walking funny out in her underwear, and I noticed the "heavy" looking underwear. you guessed it folks, she pooped in her panties. She didn't get in trouble cause it was technically my fault for not getting her when she said she needed to go. So we cleaned her up and sent her back to bed.
SATURDAY... Nap time rolls around again, and I hear the potty bit. I wait and hear it a few more times in the next couple mins, but it didn't really sound urgent. Not even 5 mins passes and I hear "I peed in my princess dress" I went running. She pooped AGAIN.
Now you have to understand, usually when Lydia has to go any kind of potty she starts knocking at the door and getting louder and crying if I take to long, so the fact that she didn't' even try for 5 mins, that was just sillyness. And mom was NOT happy. PLUS she took her underwear of in the bathroom, so I had THAT mess to clean up.
I wiped her bum and said "ok, since you pooped in your underwear and got all dirty we need to clean you off, so lets go take a shower." Lydia does not like the shower. usually I wait for the water to warm up, but she hopped right in so I closed the curtain and gave her a COLD shower. ...lets just say that left a big impact on that little girl, she soon went to bed, and I don't think we will have that problem again.
"I need some water"
"I need to go potty"
"I need kissies"
"I want to watch cartoons"
"I want to sleep on the couch"
I usually just ignore her till she goes to sleep, unless she needs to go potty. But I never let her out the first time she asks. I give her 5 or 10 mins, because we always take her potty before bed/nap time. Well Friday at nap time I got the I need to go potty bit. I let her sleep in her princess dress mainly cause I didn't want to deal with the fight to take it off. Then I hear instead of the usual "I need to go potty" she says "I pee'd in my princess dress!" So I come running to the door.
I opened the door and she came walking funny out in her underwear, and I noticed the "heavy" looking underwear. you guessed it folks, she pooped in her panties. She didn't get in trouble cause it was technically my fault for not getting her when she said she needed to go. So we cleaned her up and sent her back to bed.
SATURDAY... Nap time rolls around again, and I hear the potty bit. I wait and hear it a few more times in the next couple mins, but it didn't really sound urgent. Not even 5 mins passes and I hear "I peed in my princess dress" I went running. She pooped AGAIN.
Now you have to understand, usually when Lydia has to go any kind of potty she starts knocking at the door and getting louder and crying if I take to long, so the fact that she didn't' even try for 5 mins, that was just sillyness. And mom was NOT happy. PLUS she took her underwear of in the bathroom, so I had THAT mess to clean up.
I wiped her bum and said "ok, since you pooped in your underwear and got all dirty we need to clean you off, so lets go take a shower." Lydia does not like the shower. usually I wait for the water to warm up, but she hopped right in so I closed the curtain and gave her a COLD shower. ...lets just say that left a big impact on that little girl, she soon went to bed, and I don't think we will have that problem again.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wana Learn EVERYTHING
The html for my blog is wanna learn everything. I was starting to think that I should have done something more fitting like Rone famliy, or something along those lines, but I have come to realize that it is plenty fitting.
I chose "wanna learn everything" for my blog cause it very well describes me. (especially in reference to the fine arts) I see something new and I want to try it. Like the cookie tin banjo I made at the begining of the year. Or my "work" with duct tape. No one showed me how, I saw something or got an idea, and I wanted to figure it out.
I need to pace my self though, lately I've been wanting to learn all sorts of new stuff. New instruments really. Piano, Fiddle, and Mandolin. I want to learn all these new things for my self, but also so I have that much more I can offer my kids. Lets face it, they aren't getting much academic enlightenment from me with my do-what-I-have-to-to-graduate high school diploma. I wont be much help with their math home work :)
I also learned something new about my self. My talent is not in being able to play different instruments, or sew, or glass etching, or any of the random crafts I can do. My talent lies in being able to teach my self something new, and being able to improve with out a teacher guiding me along.
All I need to learn something new (for the most part, not on everything) is to have a strong desire to learn it (you wont get very far with out the proper motivation) and resources available, ie the internet. I taught my self to play the banjo, never bought a single book or paid for a lesson, I found all my songs and info on line. And I have gotten good enough to give beginner banjo lessons. Not to shabby. :)
Well it's official. I'm now learning to play the piano. I am borrowing my Grandma's key board and so far I've played it every day. And I'm picking it up faster then I thought I would. I just need to remember I can't get good over night. I'm having so much fun with it though. I'd like to be good enough to play in church. I'm always happy to serve ( or try to be) and what better way to serve then to get to do something you love too. And you can't really play the banjo for Relief Society now can you :)
I'm also wanting to practice my fiddle. That one is a little harder to practice cause I sound so bad...and I can't wear ear plugs if I want to improve :) I play piano more casue it's out and I cant' leave my fiddle out where little fingers can play with it.
Just give me a year on the fiddle and piano to where I can just sit down a play a pice of music in front of me, and I'm sure something else will catch my eye.
It's just too bad that my very favorite "hobby" is something I cant' teach my self. I need a tap teacher to progress, and that is something that only sometimes works out. :(
I chose "wanna learn everything" for my blog cause it very well describes me. (especially in reference to the fine arts) I see something new and I want to try it. Like the cookie tin banjo I made at the begining of the year. Or my "work" with duct tape. No one showed me how, I saw something or got an idea, and I wanted to figure it out.
I need to pace my self though, lately I've been wanting to learn all sorts of new stuff. New instruments really. Piano, Fiddle, and Mandolin. I want to learn all these new things for my self, but also so I have that much more I can offer my kids. Lets face it, they aren't getting much academic enlightenment from me with my do-what-I-have-to-to-graduate high school diploma. I wont be much help with their math home work :)
I also learned something new about my self. My talent is not in being able to play different instruments, or sew, or glass etching, or any of the random crafts I can do. My talent lies in being able to teach my self something new, and being able to improve with out a teacher guiding me along.
All I need to learn something new (for the most part, not on everything) is to have a strong desire to learn it (you wont get very far with out the proper motivation) and resources available, ie the internet. I taught my self to play the banjo, never bought a single book or paid for a lesson, I found all my songs and info on line. And I have gotten good enough to give beginner banjo lessons. Not to shabby. :)
Well it's official. I'm now learning to play the piano. I am borrowing my Grandma's key board and so far I've played it every day. And I'm picking it up faster then I thought I would. I just need to remember I can't get good over night. I'm having so much fun with it though. I'd like to be good enough to play in church. I'm always happy to serve ( or try to be) and what better way to serve then to get to do something you love too. And you can't really play the banjo for Relief Society now can you :)
I'm also wanting to practice my fiddle. That one is a little harder to practice cause I sound so bad...and I can't wear ear plugs if I want to improve :) I play piano more casue it's out and I cant' leave my fiddle out where little fingers can play with it.
Just give me a year on the fiddle and piano to where I can just sit down a play a pice of music in front of me, and I'm sure something else will catch my eye.
It's just too bad that my very favorite "hobby" is something I cant' teach my self. I need a tap teacher to progress, and that is something that only sometimes works out. :(
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Music Store
Yesterday I had to stop into Palen Music Center. My violin needs new strings and I needed to get some good rosin. Well he had just sold his last set of strings in stock earlier in the day. Because he had no strings for me he gave me the rosin for free. sa-WEET! (which by the way it ROCKS makes all the difference in my sound)
Well I had Danton in his car seat and he was asleep. The sales man asked if I needed him to get the door for me. I said no cause I wanted to show Lydia around.
First a few new instruments, band instruments, sax, trumpet, clarinet, and so on. Then an entire wall of guitars! She was amazed! then only 2 banjos, then another entire wall of electric guitars. She just learned what those were the day before. So many colors! Next a huge floor of drum sets. the first one we came to had a tiny little Lydia size stool. She got to play the drums (just a little rap on each one) more drums, then pianos! then back to the drums, then back to the guitars.
I swear she could spend more time in there then I could. She had so much fun in there. I couldn't even BRIBE her to get out. not candy, not chocolate. I had to DRAG her out while she was throwing a fit cause she wanted to stay longer.
Didn't love the fit but I loved that she loved the music store. I told her we would come back in a few weeks to get soem strings. I'll have to plan for more time then. :) That's our little girl.
Well I had Danton in his car seat and he was asleep. The sales man asked if I needed him to get the door for me. I said no cause I wanted to show Lydia around.
First a few new instruments, band instruments, sax, trumpet, clarinet, and so on. Then an entire wall of guitars! She was amazed! then only 2 banjos, then another entire wall of electric guitars. She just learned what those were the day before. So many colors! Next a huge floor of drum sets. the first one we came to had a tiny little Lydia size stool. She got to play the drums (just a little rap on each one) more drums, then pianos! then back to the drums, then back to the guitars.
I swear she could spend more time in there then I could. She had so much fun in there. I couldn't even BRIBE her to get out. not candy, not chocolate. I had to DRAG her out while she was throwing a fit cause she wanted to stay longer.
Didn't love the fit but I loved that she loved the music store. I told her we would come back in a few weeks to get soem strings. I'll have to plan for more time then. :) That's our little girl.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Dancing Danton
Mark pulled out his Guitar yesterday and started playing. Lydia was over joyed as usual and started dancing. Danton had been playing on the floor happily until Mark started to play. Then he got very upset. I figured he decided he was hungry, cause that's what he does. One minuet happy the next mad and screaming for food. "I'm hungry, feed me now!"
Well I didn't get as far as the food. I grabbed his arms and stood him up and immediately he was happy and laughing and kicking his feet. It took me only a second or two to realize what he was doing. He was DANCING. He was upset when Lydia got to dance and he couldn't. So we all had a great time dancing to Daddy's music.
I think that boy will go straight to walking. He has been so close to crawling for almost 2 weeks now, and he just wont do it, bu he LOVES to walk around the house. He is happiest when he is on his feet.
Well I didn't get as far as the food. I grabbed his arms and stood him up and immediately he was happy and laughing and kicking his feet. It took me only a second or two to realize what he was doing. He was DANCING. He was upset when Lydia got to dance and he couldn't. So we all had a great time dancing to Daddy's music.
I think that boy will go straight to walking. He has been so close to crawling for almost 2 weeks now, and he just wont do it, bu he LOVES to walk around the house. He is happiest when he is on his feet.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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