I feel old now

2555 days ago I reluctantly faked being in labor and to my surprise it actually resulted in a baby being born. Lucky for me I was only in labor for 8 hours, pushed for half an hour and out came a perfect little person/creature with red peach fuzz weighing 8 lbs 6oz who was now my responsibility, his name, William Holden Dassler!

Over the passed 7 years my darling son has been nothing what I had expected I foolishly assumed he would be mellow and calm and always stay right by my side afraid to leave the security of my leg, I thought he would be shy and need my encouragement to go play with the other kids and have fun, but oh how I was so very very wrong. He is exactly opposite of everything I imagined. He is confident and outgoing, he makes friends very easily and never sits still, he has more energy than I thought was humanly possible, and quite the little ladies man apparently, he's already had two sweet young ladies plan their future nuptials. I love his personality and I wish I can say he gets all these great qualities from me but alas it's his Father with the personality and confidence in life that has giving him such a good example and inspired me to help him become such an awesome little man. Here's to you El Guapo even though you make me feel old.

Dear Holden, you make me smile and laugh everyday, you wear your shirts backwards or inside out or both on purpose just because you want to, when I say thanks for behaving so well today you tell me it's because your starting to act like a man now, you want to be just like your dad and think he is so cool. You like to wear deodorant even though you don't need it, you love your vegetables and get excited when the bread they pass in sacrament is wheat bread, you ask for green smoothies with lots of spinach, you love your family especially your Oma you can talk her into almost anything, I don't know why but you want to go to China and ask me several times a week when I think we'll be able to go there. You never clean your room, you take your sweet time to do things which is pretty annoying when we're all waiting to leave and you still don't have your shoes on or have brushed your teeth. You tell me that snakes are God's creatures too so I have to like them, you hold them up to my face even though you know I'm scared, you shout where to go and what to do when I'm trying to play super mario bros. You can always talk your Dad into getting you Slurpee's you usually start by saying oh dad it's such a hot day don't you think, maybe we should get something to cool us off, Slurpee's would cool us off how bout we head to 7-11 real quick. I love you very much and I hope you never change. Love Mom.

thanks for the info

As if I wasn't self concious enough about the weight I've put on my son informed me yesterday that I was probably going to have another baby and when I said I"m not pregnant why do you say that he responded because you're getting fat and last time you were fat you were having a baby. And only because I love my son and know he wouldn't have said that if he had know it was hurtfull I didn't cry.

Maybe my brothers are the ones with bad karma

It's awful, every time a member of my family comes to stay with us our plumbing decides it's not going to be help full to our bathroom and laundry needs. The very first weekend we lived in our new home (new to us no where near new) and my brother and his wife and kids come to visit, our main sewer line choose to let an enormous amount of tree roots infiltrate it and clog it completely causing it to back up into my bathtub and shower fun to clean up right, because it was a weekend we couldn't get anyone out for two days which means going back to our other house, which was thankfully still our house, to shower and take care of business all other bathroom needs and for those little ones that couldn't hold it long enough to drive across town had to be taken care of at the gas station up the street or walmart, fun weekend right. The second plumber was finally able to clear the sewer pipe of the roots and said it needed to be replaced as soon as possible before the roots overgrew it again. Of course I assume my darling husband is going to take care of this problem and oversee that it gets fixed, stupid me that's what get for assuming you think I would have learned over the past 9 years that when I want something taken care of it's best to just do it myself and save the frustrations and possible anger. FYI it only takes about six months for roots to takeover an eight inch sewer pipe and I'm talking six feet of roots down the pipe. So this is the pleasant surprise we got when we got home from camping with my brother Zach in tow who is on vacation from being an embassy guard in Peru, the man deserves descent plumbing! At least it was a week day and we were able to get the plumber out right away so we could at least resume bathroom and all water supplying functions within a few hours but now we need to get the pipe replaced ASAP and at a price of an estimated $1800 who would pass that up. And since it usually makes me feel better to blame things I can't control on other people I'm just going to assume it's my brothers that bring bad Karma with them.

Just a funny picture

she weighs 30 lbs and thinks it's fun the "help" I don't know how much longer I can keep carrying her in slings but they still work so well when she is sleepy or not feeling so well or I just can't have her running around and need both hands like mowing the lawn or buying lumber at the hardware store and yes the guys at Home Depot think I'm all sorts of fun. FYI Billy has terrible allergies therefore I mow the lawn since he bought me a car and had to cut back on gardening expenses, so I guess I really don't mind because while I'm putting away the lawn mower I get to look at my beautiful durango that I love so much.

so sad

My poor Princess Buttercup died yesterday. I guess it was from the heat stupid global warming. The hardest part was hearing Holden start to cry when Billy came home to tell him, I didn't have the heart to tell him myself. I think it was a good lesson on the facts of life for him that all living things must die at some point and it wasn't anyone's fault it was just an accident. I don't think it took very long for him to get over it though, and by that I mean it didn't take very long for him to start talking me into letting him have a pet snake his reasoning was that they don't die for a really long time and it would stay in his room and snakes are God's creatures too so I can't hate them. I don't know what I'm going to do when he's a teenager, his reasoning skills are just way too advanced for what I am prepared for. I haven't desided if we will get another bunny or not we still have another one that was givin to us but I liked Buttercup way better she never bit me. So long buttercup sorry we accidently killed you .

don't tell mom I'm drinking coke

My cousin's daughter kacie is in town for the week and wanted to take all the kids in the family bowling it was fun they got to drink sodas and eat pizza and licorice. We would set the ball in front of the lane for Ashlynn to roll down but she thought kicking it would be more fun it didn't get very far they had to go down the lane and rescue the stranding ball. Holden did a pretty good job he even got quite a few spares. Ashlynn didn't last very long she was over it after 2 frames so Holden got to bowl for her so she got a pretty good score too. In the last frame she finally let Kacie help her and right after they rolled the bowl she laid down on her stomach with her head in her arms up on elbows kicking her feet back and forth watching the ball it was the cutest sight but of course I didn't have the camera out. Holden was so excited to get to drink soda just like all the other kids and somehow talked me into letting him get candy from the vending machines I told myself it was ok since it was a party and it's ok to do that every once in a while.

No more fluffy bums

After 20 months of washing diapers every other night I am so excited that I wont be washing anymore for a very long time. Making the choice to use cloth diapers was easy for me and I never minding washing them because I knew the benefits far outweighed the inconvenience, but boy am I excited to not be doing it anymore. We said goodbye to diapers and packed them in a box to send to another baby who needs them because my little girl is now a big girl and wears panties all day and all night and as of last week goes all by herself without even telling me. Last week I did catch her faking that she went potty to get a gummy bear, so funny. The best part is when she puts her underwear on backwards and pulls them up real high so both her cheeks are hanging out and wants to leave them that way, I should take a picture but I feel that it might be considered cruel when she's older. Of course I won't miss all the times she peed on my couch or the floor while learning or toilet paper unrolled just for fun or cringing every time I gave her a piece of candy really not wanting to but that was what worked for her so I did it, a little bit sad she is growing too fast but most of all love watching her becoming this little person and see all the fun things her life brings into ours. so here she is unfluffdified
p.s. you are very welcome my darling husband that you don't get to enjoy all the funness that comes with potty learning. Although you did get waken up in the middle of the night by being peed on I'm sure you'll never forget it.