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
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