Cursing at 21 months old?

Ok, so first of all, it almost KILLED me to write the proper spelling of the word curse. Primarily because I pronounce it "cuss". Anyway, how many of you say cuss? Is it part of my Southern dialect or is it a normal pronunciation of the word?
Anyway, I'm from the South and live in Kentucky. While I don't normally carry all of the stereotypes of a hillbilly, I do have to admit that I have that "cute" Southern accent and I have been known to walk around barefoot while pregnant. What's wrong with that if you have a nice clean yard? Don't tell me you have never walked around barefoot.

Anyway, I am way off on what I was intending to talk about so on with what transpired in our household a few days ago and away from the hillbilly topic.

Baby Man and Little Man were playing in the bedroom as usual then all of a sudden Little Man started shouting saying, "Mom, brother said F**K!" "Mom, brother said F**k"!. Little Man repeated the curse word with delight about 10 times because he knew he wasn't going to get in trouble for it. I guess you could say my 5 year old was taking advantage of the situation.

Upon closer inspection of what baby man was saying, I heard the word "truck". Baby man was trying to say "truck" and he was actually saying it quite well. It did not sound like F**K at all. Hmmmm...

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It's All About the Vomit!

My 21 month old son has been throwing up after almost every meal since he was around 13 months old. Consequently, this was around the same time that I stopped breastfeeding him and started him on table foods.
To make a really long story short, our child’s doctor said it was because he was lactose intolerant or that he ate too much. So he suggested cutting out all dairy foods for a while and giving him several small meals throughout the day. Well we did that and the vomiting didn’t stop but it wasn’t as bad either. For a while, our son only vomited around once or twice per week but lately the vomiting has come back full force. He throws up around 2 times per day now and it is always directly after eating. Otherwise, he is a healthy active toddler that talks & screams constantly.

We are planning on taking him to another doctor for a second opinion since he does not overeat. He also doesn’t drink milk and rarely eats cheese so I know it’s not the lactose intolerance making him sick. I just want my baby man to be able to eat without throwing it all back up within 5 minutes.

Has anyone else experienced this with their baby?

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Understanding the Internet Trolls

Lately I have been unable to come up with a real thought-provoking topic to talk about hence the pictures.

Well, today I was reading about trolls on the Internet and unfortunately I have had my fair share of them on one of my websites. For those of you that don’t know what a troll is then you probably want to go here and read all about them before going on to my 20 questions.

In the last year, I have had the most unfortunate experience of coming across several people posing as moms online and stealing other people’s photos and passing them off as their own. Some of these so-called mom trolls were nice and were good at pretending to be moms. What were their intentions?

What really interests me is why do people do this? Where do they come from? Are they men or women? What purpose do they serve? Do they have lives other than pretending to be someone they are not? Are they crazy? Because I’m thinking they are mentally ill.

For the most part, these experiences have just freaked me out and made me rethink about what I shared online. I surely don’t want anyone stealing my photos and pretending to be my family. Do any of you out there have concerns about this? Have any of you experienced these trolls? What are your thoughts on them? I want to understand what goes on in peoples screwed up heads. I know the most important thing that they want is attention and they don’t care how they get it but WHY?

I realize that there is another type of troll that invades the Internet when they are unhappy with an outcome or mad at what someone wrote on a website. The person then comes into your site and personally bashes you then that person gets everyone they know to come and do the same to you.I have experienced this kind of troll too. Lately I have seen this happen in several mom communities as well. Why?

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On snapping photos!

I took 86 photos in less than 2 hours today while playing outside with my two boys. I spent more time snapping photos than actually playing. Do you do this? Do you feel like you need to keep on snapping until you get a picture that really makes you remember that moment? Or am I just hopelessly addicted to taking photos? One would think that since I loved taking photos so much that I'd be A.) using a better camera preferably something like this and B.) reasonably good at it.

Um, not really...

This is my favorite one from today.



You can view the rest on my flickr account later.

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Photos & Others from our weekend...

It's Sunday and I'm tired so I'm just sharing some random photos from our weekend. Yep, it's all about me and my boys today..LOL....





To your left is the latest sport: Naked Bike Trick Racing performed by my 21 month old son.












My 5 year old little man had a soccer game today in freezing rain! He enjoyed it and scored 2 goals. I, on the other hand, almost froze to death.

Oh, by the way, I'm thinking of getting my hair cut and possibly some high-lights, since I've had the same basic hair-do since my 21 month old was born.

Does anyone have any ideas?

(Side note: Does anyone else start freaking out when they upload a photo of themselves to their blog? Oh, and don't mind that lackluster smirk)

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Dysfunctional Family Shower

Every time, and I seriously do mean EVERY TIME, I get in the shower my 20 month old follows me. He then proceeds to strip and say, “Rain!” about a billion times so I give in and let him in the shower with me. Ok, and here is where it gets really weird, crazy, and seriously dysfunctional but in such a loving way… I start singing Rain by Madonna. You know…

Rain, feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down likeRain,
wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
Your love's coming down like rain

And we keep on singing rain (he’s really just screaming rain and playing with his bath toys) over and over while we shower and get clean.

So, what’s your crazy/dysfunctional family “thing”?

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Male or Female OB/GYN?

Yesterday was my dreadful visit to the Gynecologist. I'm not sure if there is ANYTHING I hate more in this world! Is there anyone out there that truly doesn't mind going? Am I the only one that makes a big deal out of this? Seriously?

Since I am on the subject, do you prefer a male or a female ob/gyn? I've been thinking about this and have to say that I prefer a male gynecologist.

Besides, if anyone is going to be putting anything inside of me, it better be a man! (Oh, and now since I have said this , I dont expect any more visitors to this blog. I'm sure I have ran all of you off...lol...)

Ok, lets just forgot the above sentence and move on... Anyhow, I have been to both male and female OB/GYNs but I have had much better and less painful experiences with the male doctors. Does anyone agree or am I totally screwed up?

I have been reading up on the psychology of gynecology...yes, psychology of gynecology...

Anyway, it seems, according to research, that everyone seem's to take issues with gynecology and there is research as to why men or women specialize in gynecology and why women prefer a certain gender over another when it comes to OB/GYNs. According to what I read, it all comes down to some pyschological and subconscious stuff (yeah "stuff" for lack of a more descriptive word...lol...).

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Are you a Mom blogger or a Mommy blogger?

I feel like I am saying, Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

I had another post planned for today until I read about the Mommy/Mom blog wars going on. Kristen of Motherhood Uncensored, explains everything HERE. By the way, Kristen insists that she is a Mama blogger and that her opinion may not count..lol... She makes some excellent points on her mama blog.

Anyway, I guess I have been too busy to hear about this EXACT topic. However, I have been in an ongoing discussion lately about mommy cliques so I'm guessing this is going in the same direction.

Honestly, I had never thought of any of this until lately when I saw this behavior happening online. I didnt know so many moms acted like they were back in high school.

What I am wondering after reading all of this is which one is better? Do I want to be called a mom blogger or a mommy blogger? Or should I even care? My 5 year old son calls me mom and mommy depending on his mood and my 20 month old calls me mama. So I guess I am a hybrid...

Overall, I guess I am STILL not clear on the dinstinction between the two. Can someone fill me in? At the end of the day, does it even matter? Because, we are all, of course, the same.

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Blog Tag Game...

Tag- You're It!

Nicole of ShowMomTheMoney.com tagged me so here's more about ME!

Four Jobs I’ve Had :

1) ESL & College Tutor

2)Customer Service Administrator (Absolutely HATED this job!)

3)Resumix Operator (the person over a big university's resume system)

4) Work at home mom (current)


Four Movies I Can Watch Over And Over :

1) Jerry Maguire

2) Waiting To Exhale

3) Unfaithful

4) My Best Friend's Wedding


Four TV Shows I Love To Watch :
1)Grey's Anatomy
2)Nip/Tuck
3)Lost
4)American Idol


Four Places I’ve Been On Vacation :

1) North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

2) Destin, Florida

3) Cairnes & Sydney, Australia

4) Niagara Falls, Canada

Four Tunes That Play In My Head :

1) Crazy by Patsy Cline

2) Lately ( Can you tell I am an American Idol addict?)

3) Belief by Gavin Degraw

4) Can't Fight The Moonlight by Leann Rimes (because my 5 yr old loves when I sing this song!)


Four Favorite Dishes :

1) Pizza from anywhere (homemade, store bought or from a restaurant...it doesn't matter)

2) Chinese

3) Pasta Salad

4) Lasagna that my older sister makes ( I wish I could make it like she does)


Four Websites I Visit Daily :

1) Google

2) Most of my sites

3) NOAA ( Now you know I'm weird..lol...)

4) Yahoo


Four Books I Really Love :

1) Any book by Dean Koontz

2) Anything by James Patterson

3) Anything by Patricia Cornwell

4) The rest of the books I read are from various authors. I usually only read fiction and I rarely have time for self-help or business ones...


Four Places I’d Rather Be :

1) At a big libraby with a coffee shop without kids!

2) Playing in the sand on a warm beach with hubby & my two boys!

3) On a houseboat at our local lake ( I've never done this and really want to!)

4) Spending time at my parents, sisters, or my in-laws!



Four Bloggers I'm Tagging : (If you have done this before then just ignore me...lol)

1) Grumpy Mommy

2) Kristen (Mommy Does It All)

3) Tasha (Mommy Needs To Vent)

4) Karla

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Mom For Sale

My 5 year old son and I were cleaning his room and I said, “We need to have a yard sale and get rid of some of your old junky toys”. He then looked at me and in an angry yet saddened tone (the tone where you can tell they are getting ready to cry) he said, “Well, let’s just sell you in the yard sale”.

I was surprised that he had said this so ALL I said was, “Ok”. Then all of a sudden he just started bawling and saying that if he didn’t have a mommy and a daddy that he would be all alone and no one would take care of him.I think he learned a lesson…

In other news (about our 20 month old), he has a new favorite phrase that he keeps saying quite often. I think he learned this one from his big brother. He goes around saying, “Oh Cwaap!” (crap..lol…)

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On Poop and Eating...

Is it just me or do you do this too?

Ok, let' see, on a daily basis while I am in the middle of eating my son yells, "Mom, wipe my butt!" and I go do just that yet I am able to go back to eating like I didn't just wipe stinky poop off of a butt. How can moms do that and it not be disgusting? In all honesty, I could NEVER wipe someone else's butt then go right back to eating like nothing ever happened. I just could not do it.

And why does this always have to happen while I am eating? Every time and I literally mean EVERY TIME I sit down to eat one of my two boys have either puked or pooped. Why is this? Can someone please explain this? LOL

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When Life Gets in the way...

Wow..it's been a week since I have blogged. I went out of town on Friday and came home Sunday and it seems like I have been busy ever since. My two boys along with working on some of my websites have kept me busy for a while and will continue to keep me busy for a little while longer.
As spring comes along, I'm outside more, exercising more, and my oldest starts spring soccer so I'm around here less. But I promise I'll try to keep up as much as I can. Some days I have tons to blog about and well on other days I just don't have anything too entertaining to share.

My typical day consists of waking up, drinking coffee, working from home, making breakfast, lunch, and dinner, cleaning, playing, cleaning some more, working some more, playing again, and well you get the picture! Plus there's talk of farts and poop all day long. Oh, the joys of having all boys...lol...

Well, that's my life and seriously I wouldn't trade it for anything...

So, what's your typical day like?

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Crab Rangoon Gone Wrong...

My Attempt at making Chinese Food…

Ok, so everyone that knows me knows that my family and I LOVE Chinese food and we frequent Chinese places.

Anyway, I attempted to make my family some yummy (Americanized) Chinese food for dinner yesterday. I attempted to make a vegetable stir-fry, chicken, baked crab rangoon, and some crabmeat thing that my husband likes. Well everything turned out ok except the crab rangoon which, by the way, is my 5 year old’s favorite part of a Chinese meal. While he was eating my attempt at crab rangoon, he turned to me and said, “Mom, can you not make Chinese anymore? Let’s just go to the restaurant from now on”.

I think the crab rangoon would have turned out perfect had I fried them in grease like the restaurant does but I wanted to make them healthier so I baked them and made them according to a recipe I found online. I told the 5 year old this and he said, “Well, I like the grease”.

Ok, so now that I have revealed to everyone on how horrible of a cook I really am, please feel free to share something that you do horribly. You are horrible at SOMETHING aren’t you?

As for today, I don't know what I am making for dinner but it will be something easy and previously tested by the family.

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Educated Stay at Home Moms

Should college educated stay at home moms stay at home or go to work? I have heard a lot about this lately and since I am a college educated mommy this is really a big deal to me.

I have heard a lot of people say that an education is a waste if you are going to stay at home and that it is a mistake. To me and I’m sure I can speak for many other moms, an education is not a waste and staying at home with your babies is certainly NOT a mistake!

I have a BA and an MBA yet I stay at home. Sometimes I jokingly say that I don’t know why I ever got my MBA because I’m a mommy but in all seriousness I know why I got it. I decided to get my MBA after my first son was born. I finished it up while staying at home with him and being pregnant with my second son. Either way, the education part and the staying at home part is my decision. I do things for myself and my family not for the world or for what “society” thinks I should do.

Also, without my education, I may have never started my online businesses. Right now my online business brings in a pretty good chunk of change. This passive income continually impresses me each day and it allows me to stay at home without really doing much work at all.

I think that if a mom has an opportunity to stay at home with her kids (educated or not) then she should if she wants to and if she feels its right for her. I have been very lucky that I have been able to stay at home. I think the most important thing (and my biggest accomplishment) I will ever do in my life is raise my two boys to be intelligent, loving, open-minded, understanding, respectful and confident young men.

So that being said, how do you all feel about this?

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Bottle Relationship Over...

Bottle Relationship is over…

My son is 20 months old. Tonight he cried for a bottle (which he calls a BAH-DOO and believe me, it's totally precious!) and I gave in and let him have one since he only occasionally asks for one.

I know some of you might be thinking, “She should have taken the bottle away from the baby at 1 year!” Well, he started the bottle at 1 year. He was breastfed before that and weaned himself at 12 months but for some reason the bottle took it’s place and I decided I would allow him to give it up when he was ready. I think that time was tonight! He put the "bah-doo" in his mouth and then said, “No!” and threw it down! After that I held him for a few minutes and he fell asleep.

This is for the best but then again it's kind of sad. I'll be honest and say I'm not sure if I want this relationship to end. The end of this relationship with his bottle signifies that he's really no longer a baby. And, it's heartbreaking for me because I'm pretty sure this is the last time I'll ever give a bottle to a baby of my own.

How did you truly feel when your baby gave up the bottle?

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Tattooing Baby Style...

I finally got around to opening a flickr account for extra photos. Here is a photo I took yesterday of my 20 month old baby man after he got into the markers! (It looks like the photo is less quality with flickr).

Anyway, I've updated my blogroll, added a recent photo for my profile, & added some very simple graphics too. To look at more of our family photos go to the flickr account on my sidebar. You will also notice that I put a copyright/mark across my photos. I do this because there are way too many crazy people stealing photos on the Internet.

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Cell Phones

We have had the same cell phone for 2 years and lately it had been acting "weird". I don't know another word to describe how it was acting. I guess you could say it was getting ready to croak because the other night as we were traveling out of state, our cell phone just died. Half of the buttons stopped working and we couldn't call anyone. The cell phone death was either due to 1.) Hubby talking on it while in the shower or 2.) Baby Man dropped it. Neither of these actions are good!

Anyway, we have been without a cell phone for a few days and we feel disconnected. We feel like we have no connection to the outside world. We have got to go get a new one very soon. I'm not sure how much longer I can live without one. I don't remember how it was without a cell phone. Do you?

Do you have a cell phone? Any recommendations on a new model? (We use cingular).

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Baby Addictions

My 20 month old baby boy has some, we will call them, baby addictions...

Lately he goes around all day long attached to my leg and crying for candy or hauling around a box of cars and throwing them in my lap all hours of the day. People, I am serious, I am lucky I can breathe.

If I am not playing cars, I am reading ten books over and over. If I am not reading books, I am holding him. If I'm not holding him, he is holding onto me. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE every minute I spend with my children. I really really do but sometimes I just need a break. For like long enough to go pee... and then I can get back to playing again. But no when I go, he goes with me. I can't believe I'm telling the world this ( oh well, it's not the world just a few of you that actually read my blog).

Anyway, if you have children, did your child do this? I also have a 5 year who did not do this at that age. He loved playing alone in his room and he loved watching a few cartoons. The 20 month old won't even look at a tv. I guess I am glad about that but then again 20 a minutes in the morning wouldn't hurt while I drank my coffee. Would it?

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