Today's Thankful Thought

Sunday - Today I am thankful for a wonderful message at church full of great insight! My favorite from today - We think life should be fair because God is fair...but God and life are not the same thing.

Monday - Today I am thankful for sunshine!

Tuesday - Today I am thankful for baby swings!

Today - Today I am thankful for a good friend, great conversation and a fun playdate!

I don't have the energy to expand on those thoughts at all right now. Sometime soon I will do an entire post on the message at church...it was wonderful! I also have a few million ideas of future posts floating around in my head. Not to mention staying caught up on all the cute, funny and naughty things that the kiddos might just be up to.

I have been deep in pray on where exactly to take this blog...if anywhere besides a journey of our lives and our children growing up or something more!?!

Wanted to leave you with a photo...what would a post be without a photo!

Charlie's cute little socked toes. She almost always picks mismatched socks when she dresses herself.

 God bless!

Not Me Monday

Ok, so I thought I would give this a try. Not Me! Monday! is a blog idea created by MckMama. You can head on over to her blog to read what she and others have not been up to this last week. There are a ton of links there...so check them out!

I did NOT use the restroom while babywearing just to save maybe waking up babe by putting her down. Who would combine such activites...NOT ME!

I did NOT have the chance to take the above picture at my home...NOT ME! There is no way those rotting pumpkins are still on my front porch..no way, no how, NOT HERE!

And finally, I did NOT wake up in the middle of the night last week and was NOT sure if I was waking up to nurse the baby or waking up because she was now done nursing. No NOT ME...I would never be so tired that I couldn't remember if the baby had been taken care of already.

God bless and have a great week!

Silly...Sweet...Sassy Charlie

I love this little girl's eyes...

...and her expressions in general!

Knock on wood...Charlie has this toilet training all figured out. She has even been dry the last 2 mornings after having a diaper on for overnight. And even before bedtime with a diaper on she will tell you she needs to go. Do I dare get rid of the diapers all together? I'm thinking so...or is that the lack of sleep talking!?!

She is so dang funny, too! The things she says just crack me up! Yesterday, we were in the bathroom washing hands and she asks about Joe's fast orange soap that is on the counter.

Charlie - "Whered you get it?"

Me - "Target, I think."

Charlie - "On sale!?!"

I do really like getting a deal and I love Target...and apparently I talk about my deal snagging pretty often. Her excited tone when she asked was just priceless!

Earlier today, she had a little gas and I asked her if she tooted. Her reply - "It's stinky too!"

I love that her face is always a little a lot dirty...

...and I love her eyes...did I mention that already?

Have I told you how observant she is. I have told numerous people...don't every tell her something you don't want her to remember, to know or to repeat.

For example, I was sitting on the couch nursing Cori and Charlie grabbed her 'baby' and said she needed to feed her baby too. She crawled up on the couch, lift her shirt and began 'nursing' her baby. Very quickly she got up with her baby still in the nursing position and says - "The phone is ringing. I get it." She has seen me more than once get up while still nursing and answer the phone.

Oh and to hear her pray at bedtime...it is the sweetest thing and a great end to the day! We usually start out with thanking God for the day and for daddy, etc and go from there. She usually rattles out a laundry lists of sorts when you ask who else we should pray for...Travis and Wade, Abby, auntie Jessi, grandma and grandpa, Megan and Maddie, and Jason and Justin and...the list goes on and on!

...and those curls...who won't love those curls!

Oh how the Lord has blessed me! I love you Charlie bean!

Today's Thankful Thought

Today I am thankful for the nice stranger who lifted the 24lb turkey into my cart at the grocery store. I was babywearing at the time and didn't want to hit babe in the head.

It is also amazing how many people comment and ooohh and aaahh over the babe while she is just hanging out in the wrap.

Check back soon. I've got a couple of different posts in the works. Up next all about my Charlie bean and just how sweet and sassy and funny and smart she is. Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Good bless!

Today's Thankful Thought

Today I am thankful for my husband! He leaves each morning to work without complaining and is a wonderful provider! I think one of the best things about my Joe is that he is a wonderful husband even when I'm not being a wonderful wife. He is almost always level-headed and calm...good qualities when you live with a sleep deprived crazy woman! He never complains...he's never fussy about meals or how clean the house is. He is appreciative of the things I do and tells me often. The Lord has blessed our family greatly and I love that I get to be Joe's wife! I'm so proud of the man in my life and truely thankful for him!

Today's Thankful Thought

Yesterday, my friend Danielle posted the following on Facebook.

Let's see how many people can do this. Every day this month until Thanksgiving, think of one thing that you are thankful for and post it as your status. "Today I am thankful for..." The longer you do it, the harder it gets! Now if you think you can do it then repost this message as your status to invite others to take the challenge, then post what YOU are thankful for today.

It got me thinking. I know I should be thankful in all things and I know I'm not always. My goal from here on out is to do just that - BE THANKFUL IN ALL THINGS! So, I thought I would share my thankful thoughts from yesterday and today and then add a 'Today's Thankful Thought' each day from here on out.

Yesterday - Today I am thankful for hot water! (Pauly, the wonderful plumber has been out the last 2 days to work on the water heater and it seems to be working perfect now.)
You don't really think about hot water until you don't have any. We had been having issues with the water heater off and on for a couple of months and it finally quite working the other day. Pauly the plumber was out on Tuesday and replaced the ignitor and all was well. I happily went on to do dishes and laundry the rest of the day. I even got to take a shower...with a 2 year old, but a shower none the less. Joe got in the shower that night and you guessed it - NO hot water. Pauly came out again on Wednesday and replaced some other part and it is working perfectly now! Yeah!

Today - Today I am thankful for a talkative 2 year old. Charlie says the cutest things and it brings a smile to my face!
It is just amazing to me the things that are said in our home. Things you never thought of hearing or saying in your lifetime...but with a 2 year old it all seems so so normal. Just last night I had to tell her..."No, I won't kiss your butt"..."I know you fell down and it hurts"..."But no, I won't kiss your butt." I mean seriously, it is sweet that she thinks a mommy kiss will make it all better, but I have to draw the line somewhere. And this afternoon, she came and told me..."I need to be nakie." I let her take her clothes off...she NEEDED to be after all.

I needed to share a couple of pictures of my beautiful, wonderful girls. I don't think I've posted any all week and what is a blog with out pictures? Mommyhood is hard some days (most days!?!), but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I feel so blessed that I am able to stay home with them and have the opportunity to take pictures of them each and every day.

I can't believe how big she is getting.

The last 3 months have went by so fast.

This picture makes me laugh. And not because Charlie has no clothes on...that's totally normal. Laughable because Joe had just said..."I'm feeling a little claustrophobic here girls." My only thought was - welcome to my world!

Charlie was laying on the floor talking to her baby sister and said..."Mom, take a picture." Why not, can't have too many pictures!

Cori is all about laughing, cooing, and babbling these days.

This is what I get when I ask her to look at me and say 'cheese'.

This isn't a very good picture but I thought it was cute anyways.

Charlie enjoyed her cheesy noodles so much tonight that she thought she would lick the plate.

God bless!