Too funny

Our friend Mikey shared these with us the other night. Not for children or bedtime, the voice alone might frighten little ones. It cracked me up. Pretty interesting and entertaining to see and hear this alternate perspective of these classic children's stories. Check 'em out when you get a few minutes.

Curious George

Madeline

Mixed Emotions

I got the news that something I chose to do was successful, so why do I feel sad? My radioactive iodine treatment worked. Um...Yay? Is it odd that I feel more like crying than celebrating?

I guess I was just holding out hope that it would work just enough to restore normal balance to my thyroid - for a few years anyway. I guess it's just because, now I am face to face with the reality that there is definitely no turning back. I know this sounds unreasonable (but emotions are sometimes). It's not like my body wasn't already on a path to destroy my thyroid eventually. I know it's safer to be on a thyroid hormone than an anti-thyroid drug for lots of reasons and in my situation it was going to be an either/or for the rest of my life already...but this news still just feels so suddenly irreversible. I have always hated taking medicine. One little pill a day, routine blood tests here and there really shouldn't be a big deal - I just hate being reliant on doctors and medication continually for normal health. Welcome to the rest of my life. I know I am lucky to have access to modern medicine and that tons of people suffer way more serious conditions. I'm just still learning to deal with this. The good news is I don't have to go through the treatment again! Now we'll just have to see if the synthetic stuff works as good as the real thing...

Sorry, I am such a skeptic sometimes. ,';-P

Which one of these is not like the others?

Noticed this little anomaly on Lily's shelf of books the other day. 

Can you spot it? 

Gotta love my husband! :)

Another Year Older

Mike's birthday passed recently and we had fun celebrating with friends and family. I actually put the right number of candles on his birthday cake this year (including a duck candle left over from Lily's first birthday) and as you can see it made quite a lot of smoke!

But you can still make him out in all that haze - so he must not be that old. Young enough at heart to still lick the frosting and want a duck candle on his cake.

Lily was excited about the cake and ice cream. I'd been coaching her to sing Happy Birthday too, but all my coaching just started resulting in No no no! - so I let it go.

 

The Birthday Boy and Little Chocolate Beard.

 

Lily helped unwrap presents, and I think the card she made her dad was his favorite one.

 

We're glad you were born, Mike! Glad to have you for husband, Dad, companion and friend! One year closer to your goal of 120!

The Daily View

I feel like I haven't blogged in a very long time. Life just keeps throwing things at you, doesn't it? Sometimes things you thought would hardly change turn upside down. We've had a lot of crazy things going on lately amongst our extended family, but I don't want to go too much into that aside from the fact that it has really brought home to me, however much I knew it before, how one person's choices effect so much more than that one person. And how important family is to a happy life!

Anyway, here's the daily view:

 

From mom's perspective. A very typical scene in my life right now. The pajamas and scattered toys may change. I might be walking through the house or trying to cook or clean in the kitchen, but just look down and there's that face, and those little hands clinging to my leg.

Lily is going through a 'me, too' phase. Anything you do, she wants to do it too. I know I should probably use my brain and turn this to my advantage to get her to try more things, but she's also in a changing her mind from one second to the next phase - so I figure any strategic attempts to bend her to my will are pretty much guaranteed to fail. So we just keep plugging along. Someday we'll get the hang of it. Any suggestions on diffusing tantrums are welcome - we are entering age 2 sooner than we had anticipated.

She's testing her boundaries, but she's also getting a lot more fun to talk to and play with. Her taste and her imagination are developing by leaps and bounds. How fun it is to teach her little things each day! And watch her gain new skills and confidence in what she can do. She's going to go far, this little girl of mine.

 

  

Her current favorite things to do are:

Play Tea Party

Draw and Color

Play ABC's

Watch Little Bear

Play Chase or Catch me!

  

  

  

 

I love that she still loves reading together and being sung to and is starting to sing a little too.

I love when I ask her to do something and she says 'OK, Mama' and does it! Note: I did say when.

I love that she's finally catching on to the smile and say cheese concept. Cheesy smile:

 

 

Recently heard from the lips of my child:

  I love you, too!

  Ouch! I've got the mumps. (Courtesy of Little Bear. Also courtesy of Little Bear: She sometimes mumbles about No Feet (the snake) in her sleep, starts counting with her arm up over her eyes to play hide and seek, and has tried to initiate a game of I spy in the car in which the answer is always No Feet. The other day while getting her diaper changed she told me her first knock knock joke: Knock-a-knock..Who's there? Owl Who Hoo Hoo Hoo. (Also thank you to Little Bear.))

  I wanna go outside, too. (Me, with a clarifying question:) You want to go outside with dad? (Lily) OK. 

(After announcing my back was hurting.) Mom, your back hurts? Yes, mom's back hurts. Don't worry, I'll help you.

  (Singing:) So long. See you later. We had fun.. (Yo Gabba Gabba got that running in my head last week and I must've sung it so much I got it in hers.)

Somehow this blog has ended up all about Lily, again! I guess that's one thing you can pretty much count on - it is my journal, and did you see my daily view? :) Somebody else I love had a birthday recently, so you can pretty much guarantee I will blog a little about that, but I think that's enough blogging for now. Until next time!