This week I felt like a truely bad mom at one point. Tosh, our 3 year old, cries a lot still. I wait till he comes to me to figure out why he's crying and by that point he is usually ready to stop crying. Well, I was downstairs when I heard Tosh crying again. I waited for him to come to me to tell me what had happened. He just kept on crying. I finally got fed up with him crying and not coming to me so I got up to go find him. Samya found me about half way and said something about Tosh. I knew I was in trouble then bc if SR can't help him she either hit him herself, or he is really crying about being hurt. I found him stuck in the stairwell. I mean literally stuck. He had his arm cinched between the railing and the wall right where it ended. Somehow he had finessed his hand into a weird position getting it stuck. I fandangled it out without an issue but his poor hand was red and I felt like the worst mom ever. Good thing he is fine now.
On a sillier note, earlier this month I went to Friendlys to get my icecream birthday cake. I stood at the take-out window waiting to get rung up with samya as my traveling buddy when she spotted the flowers that Friendly's had planted in thier little garden. Samya went right over and pulled the whole plant out of the ground. A couple standing in line behind me began to laugh. I was so glad they found it funny instead of yelling at me or her. Then she picked each flower off the plant and gave it to me saying happy birbay mommy! (happy birthday) Friendly's was friendly about it. the cashier said it was perfectly okay even still, I had samya plant/put as well as a four year old can the plant back in the ground. It was a sacrificial present on the plants behalf.
Tosh and Samya are both doing great now. They have made instant friends with the neighbors who are 5 and 7. They play outside almost all day and run in and out of the house constantly. I feel like I'm a mommy to four kids now instead of 2. And I'm beginning to feel what it's like to have older kids, with constant friends in our house, over for dinner and I can even imagine what it's like to have Samya's friends over for sleepovers now.
To answer some questions, Warrent Officer is just a special rank in the US Army. It is like a specialist for whatever area they go into. So Ben will be a Warrent Officer for Hellicopter flight. He will be flying hellis when he gets deployed instead of fixing heaters and air conditioners like he does now. He will be flying only so many hours so hopefully he'll be gone less than a year from here on out (for deployment). There is still a lot of steps between specialist (which he is now, as in specialist in HVAC) and warrent officer. Ben is first going to try for sargeant, then put in his papers for flight school and still has to be recommended and accepted by the board, etc. Plus his three year mark is in August so we will need to move to wherever they send us as soon as they send us.
So what's new with you? love ya -hgrm
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
this week has been adventurous.
We had a yard sale this weekend. One day = one hundred dollars. Pretty good, we think. So we're going to have another on Saturday! Just don't look in our garage til it's over.
We were at walmart when we had our first ever experience with lost children. We have been lucky enough in all our four years so far to have not lost a child anywhere. Well now we can't say that much cuz we lost Samya on Saturday.
Daddy went to get one last thing, and I went to check out. the kids followed dad so I assumed dad was right behind Samya when I saw her a few minutes later near the clothes. Then Ben came over asking where Samya was. By then we had been looking for a few minutes and continued to check out the groceries. Ben continued to look unsuccessfully. When we had checked out I told Ben, who was freaking out by now, to go take the groceries and Tosh out to the car and bring it up front. I would find Samya bc I know how she thinks. First thing I did was put out a code Adam for a missing child. it didn't take long for someone to find her. she hadn't left the clothing area. She had gone shopping! I found her with clothes and a purse, ready for checkout. she started crying when I told her we had to go home without the clothes, she kept saying how pretty the clothes were, and they fit her, and she wanted to take them home. cute girl, so girly!
A few other things have happened this week but you know me and my memory. I stink at remembering things all at once so if I remember more, I'll write more. that's all for now. thanks for reading! -hgrm
We had a yard sale this weekend. One day = one hundred dollars. Pretty good, we think. So we're going to have another on Saturday! Just don't look in our garage til it's over.
We were at walmart when we had our first ever experience with lost children. We have been lucky enough in all our four years so far to have not lost a child anywhere. Well now we can't say that much cuz we lost Samya on Saturday.
Daddy went to get one last thing, and I went to check out. the kids followed dad so I assumed dad was right behind Samya when I saw her a few minutes later near the clothes. Then Ben came over asking where Samya was. By then we had been looking for a few minutes and continued to check out the groceries. Ben continued to look unsuccessfully. When we had checked out I told Ben, who was freaking out by now, to go take the groceries and Tosh out to the car and bring it up front. I would find Samya bc I know how she thinks. First thing I did was put out a code Adam for a missing child. it didn't take long for someone to find her. she hadn't left the clothing area. She had gone shopping! I found her with clothes and a purse, ready for checkout. she started crying when I told her we had to go home without the clothes, she kept saying how pretty the clothes were, and they fit her, and she wanted to take them home. cute girl, so girly!
A few other things have happened this week but you know me and my memory. I stink at remembering things all at once so if I remember more, I'll write more. that's all for now. thanks for reading! -hgrm
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
futurreeee
Bens plans for the future are: Sign up for more years in the army since his original three years are up this year. Move to wherever they let us go, hopefully hawaii. Go to retraining for a month then go to Warrent Officer school for three months in Georgia whenever he finally hands in his paperwork for warrent officer school. Who knows when that'll be. He has to get ahold of his old school records and wait for other officers to sign papers, then wait for the board to approve him. In the meantime he is working on getting sargeant. this also takes paperwork and a boards approval as well but it'll mean a nicer house and more pay. They still have yet to get back to us about where we might be living next or when we're moving. In army time, it might take years. who knows
The kids are still doing great. Tosh isn't talking much more but seems to get aggrivated now that we can't understand him. He also gets mad when the dog steals his toys or crayons. The dog is becoming a nausence bc he chews on all the toys the kids have that are plastic so we end up throwing them out. Tosh cries about Joey stealing things from right in his hand but I can't understand what he says most of the time so I can't help. Only today did I realize this is such a problem for poor low-to-the-ground Toshypoo. Samya loves to pick the dog up and she won't be fooled by him. She certainly won't let him steal any of her food or toys from her hands. She is getting very smart and tells me how we need to put all of her toys up high so the dog can't eat them.
She now figures out ways to get high up herself. She pulled a computer chair into the kitchen, climbed up it to the counter, stood up and now can reach the top shelve where mommy hides her cookies!! well needless to say I don't 'hide' anything there anymore. I have no more hiding spots now that I am determined to stay on Nutrisystem.
Tosh is no closer to potty training still. any ideas? Samya is cute. she picks a movie on Netflicks to watch and for every movie she says it is her favorite.
Ben is enjoying the nice weather to go golfing in and next weekend we are having a garage sale. we have soo much stuff to put up for sale. it takes up more than one closet in our house. we still have baby items even. so anyone who wants stuff, come by this weekend!
I've been listening to Adele often, rediscovered circle puzzles and needlework and discovered Paradise Island app for my phone. The kids are nice enough to spend time watching movies so I can do these things when I need my alone time. How I love them. Can't get much better than it is now. So how are you doing Elsa? Since you're the only one who reads this I should just address it to you... hehe Love ya -hgrm
The kids are still doing great. Tosh isn't talking much more but seems to get aggrivated now that we can't understand him. He also gets mad when the dog steals his toys or crayons. The dog is becoming a nausence bc he chews on all the toys the kids have that are plastic so we end up throwing them out. Tosh cries about Joey stealing things from right in his hand but I can't understand what he says most of the time so I can't help. Only today did I realize this is such a problem for poor low-to-the-ground Toshypoo. Samya loves to pick the dog up and she won't be fooled by him. She certainly won't let him steal any of her food or toys from her hands. She is getting very smart and tells me how we need to put all of her toys up high so the dog can't eat them.
She now figures out ways to get high up herself. She pulled a computer chair into the kitchen, climbed up it to the counter, stood up and now can reach the top shelve where mommy hides her cookies!! well needless to say I don't 'hide' anything there anymore. I have no more hiding spots now that I am determined to stay on Nutrisystem.
Tosh is no closer to potty training still. any ideas? Samya is cute. she picks a movie on Netflicks to watch and for every movie she says it is her favorite.
Ben is enjoying the nice weather to go golfing in and next weekend we are having a garage sale. we have soo much stuff to put up for sale. it takes up more than one closet in our house. we still have baby items even. so anyone who wants stuff, come by this weekend!
I've been listening to Adele often, rediscovered circle puzzles and needlework and discovered Paradise Island app for my phone. The kids are nice enough to spend time watching movies so I can do these things when I need my alone time. How I love them. Can't get much better than it is now. So how are you doing Elsa? Since you're the only one who reads this I should just address it to you... hehe Love ya -hgrm
Monday, June 13, 2011
thingamachoo
Samya and Tosh love using sidewalk chalk. It's thier new fav. toy and it only cost a buck at walmart.
This morning when the hubby came home for lunch I took a ride down the street on his new bicycle. I was unaware that Samya was running down the street after me! Good thing daddy came to the rescue in the car after her. Gave me a scare to find all this out.
Samya decided to raid the fridge today. she came upstairs with her finger stuck in the hole of the parmesean cheese container. I held my breath coming downstairs and sure enough, there was parmesean cheese all over our coffee table. Samya didnt give any reason, just said she wanted some water. :D wonder why...
Ben and I have been devouring my birthday cake this year. We bought Friendly's Wattamelon icecream cake. Sherbet, watermelon icecream and chocolate chunks; it doens't get much better than this. I have missed Friendly's on the west coast. they certainly need to take Friendlys to more warmer climates (seeing as it is an icecream shop.)
Somethings I am looking forward to are getting the backyard fully fenced so the dog will stop going around the house. Looking forward to my Nutrisystem coming in the mail so I can lose more weight. Looking forward to when we can finally go visit CT again.
slightly looking forward to when I have something exciting to write in here. love ya'll
This morning when the hubby came home for lunch I took a ride down the street on his new bicycle. I was unaware that Samya was running down the street after me! Good thing daddy came to the rescue in the car after her. Gave me a scare to find all this out.
Samya decided to raid the fridge today. she came upstairs with her finger stuck in the hole of the parmesean cheese container. I held my breath coming downstairs and sure enough, there was parmesean cheese all over our coffee table. Samya didnt give any reason, just said she wanted some water. :D wonder why...
Ben and I have been devouring my birthday cake this year. We bought Friendly's Wattamelon icecream cake. Sherbet, watermelon icecream and chocolate chunks; it doens't get much better than this. I have missed Friendly's on the west coast. they certainly need to take Friendlys to more warmer climates (seeing as it is an icecream shop.)
Somethings I am looking forward to are getting the backyard fully fenced so the dog will stop going around the house. Looking forward to my Nutrisystem coming in the mail so I can lose more weight. Looking forward to when we can finally go visit CT again.
slightly looking forward to when I have something exciting to write in here. love ya'll
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
wamachoo-choo
It's raining like crazy here in northern NY. The weather has knocked over our outdoor patio set and knocked out our internet as well. Just in time to feed our newly planted strawberry plants tho!
We recently signed up for Netflix for a free month to try it out. THe kids love having Dora on demand. That's down now due to the thunderstorm.
I love thunderstorms actually. The dog goes crazy, the kids start crying, but I just look at the rain falling down and watch for flashes of lightning. What's your opinion on T-storms?
I finally got the whole house unpacked. We got all our pictures hung, got rid of the boxes and it feels like a home now.
So, who wants to come over?
Ben placed his papers in for renewing his contract with the army. He gets to choose his new PCS (station) so his requests were as follows: 1 hawaii 2 germany 3 California
he tells me its not worth it to get a job on base bc we might be moving in as little as one month! And I just barely got the house unpacked!!
I got some lovely birthday gifts in the mail today. my favorite part was the card I got with a pic of a cat on the front. It said Birthdays are like cats. One day you wake up and it's right in front of you.
so much like cats. always there for you.
speaking of pets, our dog has found the best places to sleep are exactly where you don't want him like in the middle of a stair, or on top of your head when you're lying in bed. If he weren't so boney that might work...but atleast he's warm. We named him Joey. Barks at strangers, everyone but us actually, but he is cuter than many dogs. I posted a pic of FB of him sleeping on the stairs, right in the way.
Purchased the new Adele CD. I recommend it. I LOVE her voice. I also recommend reading The Guardian by nicholas sparks. (author of The Notebook)
Spent 4 hours yesturday running errands but now my husband has his newly cleaned and pressed suit, the kids are fully registered for school/daycare, and I have new books to read to the kids, and read for myself of course. What type of books do I like? I like mysteries. Usually I like them to have a tad bit of romance in them and always have a happy ending. I don't understand too much lawyer jargen so those are out. Romance novels themselves are usually too obscene if you know what I mean. I'm very picky about my books, and my food but man do I love restuarants and book stores.
Hope tomorrow is a great day for us all! thanks for reading -the moody fam
We recently signed up for Netflix for a free month to try it out. THe kids love having Dora on demand. That's down now due to the thunderstorm.
I love thunderstorms actually. The dog goes crazy, the kids start crying, but I just look at the rain falling down and watch for flashes of lightning. What's your opinion on T-storms?
I finally got the whole house unpacked. We got all our pictures hung, got rid of the boxes and it feels like a home now.
So, who wants to come over?
Ben placed his papers in for renewing his contract with the army. He gets to choose his new PCS (station) so his requests were as follows: 1 hawaii 2 germany 3 California
he tells me its not worth it to get a job on base bc we might be moving in as little as one month! And I just barely got the house unpacked!!
I got some lovely birthday gifts in the mail today. my favorite part was the card I got with a pic of a cat on the front. It said Birthdays are like cats. One day you wake up and it's right in front of you.
so much like cats. always there for you.
speaking of pets, our dog has found the best places to sleep are exactly where you don't want him like in the middle of a stair, or on top of your head when you're lying in bed. If he weren't so boney that might work...but atleast he's warm. We named him Joey. Barks at strangers, everyone but us actually, but he is cuter than many dogs. I posted a pic of FB of him sleeping on the stairs, right in the way.
Purchased the new Adele CD. I recommend it. I LOVE her voice. I also recommend reading The Guardian by nicholas sparks. (author of The Notebook)
Spent 4 hours yesturday running errands but now my husband has his newly cleaned and pressed suit, the kids are fully registered for school/daycare, and I have new books to read to the kids, and read for myself of course. What type of books do I like? I like mysteries. Usually I like them to have a tad bit of romance in them and always have a happy ending. I don't understand too much lawyer jargen so those are out. Romance novels themselves are usually too obscene if you know what I mean. I'm very picky about my books, and my food but man do I love restuarants and book stores.
Hope tomorrow is a great day for us all! thanks for reading -the moody fam
Saturday, June 4, 2011
the weekend
Weekends are great! But they are boring too.
What's new at la casa de Moody?
Well we finally got a wireless router so we have internet all over our house now.
We also hired a professional cleaner to help me finish unpacking the house. They cleaned up too so now our house looks fabulous!! we can have people over again!
My husband just took a mysterious trip to the store. I have no idea what he got at the store but I do know my birthday is coming up next week.
We were going to do something fun this weekend but our planned date, a night at the drive-in, has come up short. or late I should say. The first movie doesn't start until atleast nine and the second movie doesn't start til around midnight. call us old farts but Ben and I just don't stay up that late anymore. we want to see the movies and we love the experience but we go to bed around ten every night. old folks? maybe...
Our little chihuahua is cute and happy as ever but I still can not find my camera. I did manage to find my missing Ipod. it's been mia since our vacation in April. and so has my camera. hhmm
so there's our unexciting life in the last few days. Till next time!
What's new at la casa de Moody?
Well we finally got a wireless router so we have internet all over our house now.
We also hired a professional cleaner to help me finish unpacking the house. They cleaned up too so now our house looks fabulous!! we can have people over again!
My husband just took a mysterious trip to the store. I have no idea what he got at the store but I do know my birthday is coming up next week.
We were going to do something fun this weekend but our planned date, a night at the drive-in, has come up short. or late I should say. The first movie doesn't start until atleast nine and the second movie doesn't start til around midnight. call us old farts but Ben and I just don't stay up that late anymore. we want to see the movies and we love the experience but we go to bed around ten every night. old folks? maybe...
Our little chihuahua is cute and happy as ever but I still can not find my camera. I did manage to find my missing Ipod. it's been mia since our vacation in April. and so has my camera. hhmm
so there's our unexciting life in the last few days. Till next time!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
The first of many ramblings
hello ya'll! Welcome to my Moody Family Blog. As the representative for our family I will be writing in here stories about our family and all our noteworthy activities.
Our whole family has all thier birthdays in a 5 week period.
Bens May 7th
SamyaRoses May 14th
Toshs May 27th
Gwens June 9th
So there you have our family. SamyaRose is four. She has her mothers brown hair with her dads straighness and her mothers green eyes. Tosh Benjamin is 3 now with his birthday only days ago. He has blonde hair like his father did when he was young, with beautiful blue eyes.
Our current situation is this: Tosh is having troubles potty training. He is deathly afraid of the potty. He won't even go on a small toilet. He has absolutely no interest in getting rid of his diapers although now he tells us when he needs to be changed and he also likes wearing big boy SpongeBob underwear.
He is a little behind developmentally. He says a few words that everyone can understand. Then he has a few words that only mom and dad can understand. the rest is mumbo-jumbo and Tosh talk.
Samya did the same thing when she was learning how to talk. it took her a little while to figure out how to correspond with other people. Potty training for her was a cinch. She took to it like a metal to a magnet. Now we are waiting for her preschool to start in August so she can be around other little kids who will help her with all her social skills. Right now, if there are children at the park, she won't go play. she will watch them but is too shy to say hello or play near them. We are working on counting and colors with her right now. She currently counts like so: one through ten she has down, then its 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 11, 14,etc, etc. I think it's cute but as her mother she doesn't do much that isn't cute to me.
a lot of people don't realize how crazy the schedule is for active military. My husband is currently gone on duty, which is 24hr work for him. He left this morning at 9am and will return home at 9am tomorrow morning. They get the following day off but it messes up his sleep schedule. Not to mention the kids and I don't get to see him all day. These things are common in the Army, without any prior warning too. I guess the life of an army wife is too last minute for me.
I applied for a position on base at the hotel but I guess it is an open position so who knows when they'll be doing interviews?! Ben encourages me to do schooling while he's in the army but my problem is school itself. I am not good at it. plus I can't decide what I want to do with my life. Being a mom is all I ever wanted to be. Never thought about afterwords before.
any ideas about what I should do for schooling?
Craigslist has been good to us lately. We have sold Ipods and random household items on there and gotten our dog from there. If I remember I will post pics of our little chocolate chihuahua as soon as I find my camera again. I am sooo good at losing things. Too bad I can't make that into a career.
Well that's all that is going on with our Moody family for now. I'm sure I'll be back again soon as I find my days empty here and there. Thanks for reading. talk to you soon!
Our whole family has all thier birthdays in a 5 week period.
Bens May 7th
SamyaRoses May 14th
Toshs May 27th
Gwens June 9th
So there you have our family. SamyaRose is four. She has her mothers brown hair with her dads straighness and her mothers green eyes. Tosh Benjamin is 3 now with his birthday only days ago. He has blonde hair like his father did when he was young, with beautiful blue eyes.
Our current situation is this: Tosh is having troubles potty training. He is deathly afraid of the potty. He won't even go on a small toilet. He has absolutely no interest in getting rid of his diapers although now he tells us when he needs to be changed and he also likes wearing big boy SpongeBob underwear.
He is a little behind developmentally. He says a few words that everyone can understand. Then he has a few words that only mom and dad can understand. the rest is mumbo-jumbo and Tosh talk.
Samya did the same thing when she was learning how to talk. it took her a little while to figure out how to correspond with other people. Potty training for her was a cinch. She took to it like a metal to a magnet. Now we are waiting for her preschool to start in August so she can be around other little kids who will help her with all her social skills. Right now, if there are children at the park, she won't go play. she will watch them but is too shy to say hello or play near them. We are working on counting and colors with her right now. She currently counts like so: one through ten she has down, then its 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 11, 14,etc, etc. I think it's cute but as her mother she doesn't do much that isn't cute to me.
a lot of people don't realize how crazy the schedule is for active military. My husband is currently gone on duty, which is 24hr work for him. He left this morning at 9am and will return home at 9am tomorrow morning. They get the following day off but it messes up his sleep schedule. Not to mention the kids and I don't get to see him all day. These things are common in the Army, without any prior warning too. I guess the life of an army wife is too last minute for me.
I applied for a position on base at the hotel but I guess it is an open position so who knows when they'll be doing interviews?! Ben encourages me to do schooling while he's in the army but my problem is school itself. I am not good at it. plus I can't decide what I want to do with my life. Being a mom is all I ever wanted to be. Never thought about afterwords before.
any ideas about what I should do for schooling?
Craigslist has been good to us lately. We have sold Ipods and random household items on there and gotten our dog from there. If I remember I will post pics of our little chocolate chihuahua as soon as I find my camera again. I am sooo good at losing things. Too bad I can't make that into a career.
Well that's all that is going on with our Moody family for now. I'm sure I'll be back again soon as I find my days empty here and there. Thanks for reading. talk to you soon!
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