Hypocrite Mommy

Five minutes ago this was my conversation with grace:

Grace for the third time this morning: "whatever mom"
Me: Grace I don't really like it when you say that
Grace: Well, I like it
Me: Well sweetie, it's kind of rude, I don't want you to say that anymore
Grace: well why do you say it then, when you fight with daddy...............

OMG! We are actually at the stage where if I'm not a good person My kid will notice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Better shape up!

Who's the boss?

I posed that question (who's the boss?) to Grace tonight- to which she answered, "Gabe". And she was right. Dinner time is near a disaster almost every night lately. I thought Grace was my strong willed child, but I was wrong. Almost every night Gabe and I battle it out over dinner. What to eat, when to eat, and whether he eats with his binki and lion in hand. Some nights he will scream until I make him peanut butter and Jelly, some nights he will just scream for the 30 minutes I am making dinner. Tonight he wanted his binki and his stuffed lion while he sort of ate what I made for dinner. He won. I've always believed that parents need to be parents, that your children shouldn't run the show. I also thought I knew how to execute that disposition, but I do not. I have been out-willed and out-screamed; something I, a strong willed person myself, am not used to and I don't like it! What do you do? Gabe is 16 months old. He knows "no". But can't understand - "you need to eat what I made you because if all you eat is pbnj you will get scurvy". Do you let him scream? (and I mean for like an hour, he does not back down easily)

When we were battling over sleep, and I didn't want him in our bed, we tried everything and eventually one night I actually fell asleep to him screaming because he had gone on so long, and I was so exhausted. It was horrible, but eventually he started to sleep. Anyways gimmie your solicited advice!

A time out that didn't work

Pictures and Words

As I stated in my previous post, I would like to play catch up to all that has been going on in our lives. For now I will post one pic and one (or a few) words for each event!

Birthday Present
City Slickers!

Birthday- so loved!

Awesome Great Grandparents

Just cute

Such good friends!

Pennsylvania- long flight!

Ice cream University- possibly my calling!

So big, so proud!

Birthday breakfast- chocolate waffles not burnt!

Beauty

Leslie's bucket list

Josh's bucket list

Cousins

All boy

Fun games

First field trip!

Messy Mount

Mini Cupcakes for Grace's Class Halloween Party
Gabe enjoying his donut after carving pumpkins

Watching The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Gabe was a stud his first year trick or treating!

Princess Belle and a duck hunter

You know how when a space, like a garage, gets messier and messier. When it starts to get so bad it becomes insurmountable, and you begin to avoid it because you don't even know where to start? Well that is what our garage looks like right now, so messy we don't even know where to start, and metaphorically that is how I feel about blogging! I haven't blogged since AUGUST! There are so many things that have happened since August that I don't know if I should even attempt to catch up or just start with today! So I will start with this weekend, and if I'm brave enough I will play catch up as well.