Tantrums? No she would never... okay there she goes

I knew the day would come eventually. The day every parent dreads as he/she peers at the struggling parent with the screaming toddler at the grocery store. You kind of have this awkward "I feel bad for you, wish I could help" look on your face as you just pass by and exit the situation as quickly as possible. Well this past week I decided we would venture out to the Denton Mall to look at the costume shop. I am planning a Barney birthday party for Samantha and they have a Barney costume you can rent. She seemed fine in her stroller as long as she was holding on to my car keys, a new obsession for her. She started to get fussy so we went to walk around and I thought she would have fun in the play place. So, I took her out of her stroller when we got there and told her I needed to hold the keys if she wanted to go play. I could just see Sam accidentally poking a child and potentially having a lawsuit on our hands. Extreme? You would be surprised. Anyways, after I asked her for the keys, her whole life seemed to end in that moment. Screaming, kicking, crying, rolling on the floor. You name it, she did it. This grandpa looked at me like, "Gees what did you do? Can't you control your kid?" Ugh whatever. His little grandson just barely started to walk and was still a pleasant little angel and I just thought to myself, "Just you wait..". Then Sam decided she wanted nothing to do with the play area and ran as fast as she could out in to the mall. She has gotten so fast! Well as you might have guessed, that was the end of that venture out. Its kind of funny I get these parenting emails and it forewarned me about tantrums that week. Well at least I know she is right on track lol. Yay for 21 months..!

Halloween? Already?

So I LOVE the store "Kid to Kid"! They sell gently used kid toys/clothes/everything here! Babies grow so quick its hard to be okay spending a fortune on a brand new wardrobe every couple months. Today, they had their Halloween Event sale! I was able to get 2 costumes and a cute Halloween outfit for $20! Now its just a matter of choosing which costume to use. Which one do you think Sammi should be?

Beautiful day at the Park!

So Sam was up by 7:30 this morning so I decided to get us out to a park and take advantage of the beautiful morning we were having today. The weather this week has been so beautiful and I will be sad to see it go. I don't want to go back to 3 digit weather but I guess I can deal a few more weeks. 70 degree weather is hard to beat! Anyways, I decided we should go try out this park we always drive by but never go to. It was such a wonderful park! Its called Central Park and it is completely covered by trees and there are 2 playgrounds next to each other, one for older kids and the other for younger. There was no kids out there except for this little 3 year old boy with his dad but they were playing on the big kid stuff. Sam, the social bug that she is, decided she wanted to go make a friend and went to go see the boy. They got along so well, it was so cute! They even were holding hands at one point! Because this was the big kid playground I followed behind Sam making sure she didn't fall or get too ambitious and try to climb something she could not climb alone. The little boy Conner went down the big slide and Sam climbed up to follow. She paused and looked down from the high point. "We're up high, huh Sam?!" I stated, then we went down the tall slide together. The little boy yells,"We got a pie? A pie!" He laughed and laughed and thought it was just the funniest thing I could say. Sam decided to copy him every time he said it after that too... except much louder! He would say,"Pie!" Then Sam would say, "PBYE!!" (couldn't quite noodle the "P" sound but was close) They later threw a little soft football around and Conner pretended to be a pizza man and serve pizza to Samantha. More kids started coming but we had already been there for almost an hour and a half so I decided we should go. Little Conner was so sad to see Samantha go and asked his daddy, "Am I going to see her again?" as they walked to their car. His daddy said, "I'm sure you will see her again at the park sometime!" Samantha sure made an impression on this little guy! So cute! I hope we run in to each other again at the park sometime so they can re unite!
Samantha was pretty wiped out when we got home. I washed her hands and she ate a PBJ with milk. I think this was the easiest time I had putting her down for a nap! Such a cutie.

Tuesday is cleaning day! Woopee

Dear Snow White,


I honestly do not know how you did it all those years cleaning up after those 7 men! I have a hard enough time cleaning after the 3 of us! I'll have to try to get more in touch with nature to get the animals to help out huh... I'll work on that.


your friend,
Julia

P.S. I got the Bachelor stuff sent out today so hopefully my sister will make the cut!


Oh and I made Bacon Wrapped chicken for dinner! It was delicious! Next time I will pre-cook the bacon a little bit soo it is more crispy though! If you are looking for a great new chicken recipe ask!

New season of the Bachelor!

Sharla Franklin

So I decided my 23 year old single sister should try out for the Bachelor! I think she would have fun! So, we put together a video and took these pictures last night! I hope she makes it! Tell me whic photo is your favorite!