Holy cats, there have been some “interesting” and adventurous days around here. A blog reader told me on Miles’ birthday that three is a trip. She wasn’t kidding! Here he is, summoning his inner Max. I’ve been really struggling lately. I’ve lost my crap on more occasions than I care to count and I’ve gone…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Miles was so excited to decorate our tree that I had to capture his enthusiasm on video. Here’s a little bit from the morning we decorated the tree together. As you can see, he’s a chatty little guy.
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I love that kid. Man he talks like a little adult. Blows my mind!
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Sweet love cuddly warm goodness happy snuggles joy. Got a little of each of those just then. 🙂
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My favorite part . . . “I’ll do my best”:) Such a cute boy and articulates so well!!;)
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great video..all it needs is for Miles to sing Jingle Bells.. hugs to all..
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He’s like a mini martha -just talking you through the whole process. Adorable! He’s such a boy now – not a baby at all! It happens so face.
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I meant fast – he was saying face on the video. Duh – ;o)
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Adorable! Love the expression in his voice and watching his wheels turn. He definitely had critical thinking skills! Can you believe Jossy is old enough to sit up and watch in her chair? P.S. Love your sofa.
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You don’t know me but I follow your blog and although we have never met and likely never will… I just wanted to tell you that watching your family grow is a joy and I have to admit (though it sounds kinda creepy) that I get excited when i see a new post from you. You see, I just gave birth to our first son Nicholas a month ago and I look at your blog and anticipate all the fun and precious memories we have coming our way. Your son and daughter and beautiful and you are a great mommy- its very clear. Thanks for sharing your life because you inspire me to create a fantastic life for our little guy. Merry Christmas!
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“the lady with the whistle” “I’ll do my best” Ah Miles, you are so cute! I just love your kiddos!
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OM Gosh you are so blessed! That last part with you asking him about the wings and what does that make her – his precious voice saying “an angel” gets me right in the heart!! Melt melt! Jocelyn is a little beauty & a happy baby. I love how Miles is so articulate -reminds me of the Charlie Brown Christmas and Linus describing baby Jesus in the manger. Merry Christmas to you and your sweet family 🙂
I have been MIA on the internet big time and I haven’t been happy about it. I will write soon about the drama of my crazy days around here, but I won’t scar the cuteness you are about to see with my boo-hooing. So I’m shushing for now, but will be back soon. We finally…
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Oh my gosh, SO cute!
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Oh, she is sunshine.
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omg! that little tongue! did she learn that from the puggies? 🙂
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I’m bookmarking this so when I need a pick-me-up, I know where to turn 🙂
Love that little Joss! 🙂
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She just made my afternoon.
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She is just SO PRECIOUS!! I can’t believe she is 4 months old already!!!
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What a sweet age! She’s too cute!
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loove this! 🙂 & John’s “Uh oh’s” crack me up as well!
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Cutie! Such fun! I wonder where you got that great chew toy? I baby-sit a 6 mo old and bet she’d love it! I liked that rubber giraffe that J had as well. I must be missing all the good places to shop. Thx
Around here, we like our marshmallows pink and toasty. Don’t you agree?
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Hahaha!!! She looks like she is wearing one of those sumo-wrestling outfits!
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Be still my heart! You need to throw up some photos from when you and John were babies! And one of Miles at this age.
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oh my GOOD LORD. i was just going to say i like my marshmallows burnt to a crisp, but i very much prefer pink now. VERY MUCH.
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Now that’s sweet!!
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Oh my goodness! Makes you just wanna scoop her up and squeeze her! So stinkin cute:)
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hehe she looks like an adorable pink marshmallow
Oh, that sweet boy! Yes, 3 1/2 is…interesting. In our experience, so is 4! :/ I swear they plot against us when they know we are in a hurry! 🙂 Love the pics of him and Joss! The pic of him in the glow of the lights, he looks like a BABY! Oh my goodness! Is that the same sweater and hat from your B+M shoot from 2 years ago? I’m so jealous that he can still wear it! Too cute! He looks so much like you but dresses like John’s mini-me. Man, am i scatter-brained this morning or what! Have a great day and remember to breath! 🙂
scatter-brained and can’t spell…good combo! Breathe!
No advice, just a smile for your Friday. I hope you can see how good of a Mom you are. I think every mother has her moments. And the winter weather doesn’t help things, does it? I’m with you on the 3 y/o thing- I never figured out what was so bad about the ‘terrible twos’ except that it rhymed. 3 years for us had its more dire moments. 🙂 Maybe because our twins arrived when our oldest was 3? Keep smiling!
I think it’s very brave of you guys to have inflatable Christmas decorations after, you know….the incident. 😉
You are such a good mama, Betsy.
Ok so I’m not a mama to any kiddos, but I do babysit and nanny…A LOT. About 2 years ago I nannied triplets that were 4 and getting them into the car, in their carseats, and to school on time was no easy task. After being late a few too many times I decided I had to come up with something. So I made it a game. I bought those carnival tickets, the ones that come in a huge roll, and everytime they got into their carseat without me telling them to, they got a ticket. Their carseats had cupholders so that’s where we kept the tickets. And when they got 20 tickets they would get a prize. I did 20 because that would make it be a prize once a month if they got a ticket everytime. And the prizes were small, nothing big, like a piece of candy or something. Hope that helps and good luck!
Betsy, you guys dress Miles so cute. I love his style. All my mom friends with daughters always pity me because they say I dont have a little one to dress up – oh brother! My little boy has lots of fun shoes and clothes! On another note, I’m not to that challenging stage yet, but have also vowed not to be a yelling mom. Parenting is a hard job!
P.S. I forgot to say I still LOVE that art you did in Miles’ room. I’ve emailed that blog post to several of my design friends, looking for way to decorate their childs’ room. You did such a great job!
Betsy, you are a wonderful Mom, and it truly shows here on your blog, in your children. Miles can come to my “day job” office any time and try to beat us at UNO. We actually play at least once a week. ha ha! I just adored all of the images in this post.
As a mom of 3 beautiful and active young ladies, I totally understand your yelling! I am like you, never wanted to be the Yelling Mom, however when I get stressed or pushed a bit too far, the “MEAN Mom” comes out and I hate it as soon as it happens! I feel so guilty and sometimes even go cry about it. As my kiddos are 10 – 8 – and 4 I thought I would be past this by now, but the “Mean Mom” still shows up now and then. I do the same thing and try to step back and see them for what they are, sweet, innocent, interested, curious young ladies. I ask God for more patience every day! Luckily, my girls are also very understanding and forgiving so I apologize and still get my sweet kisses and hugs goodnight and pray for a better tomorrow…for their sake! Just remember we are human even though we SUPER MOMS! Happy Holidays! Enjoy the season! I love your blog and photos! Thanks!
As a stay-at-home mom of a 6(who has high functioning autism), 3, and 1 year old I can reassure you that almost every mom in the world has felt or feels the same way as you do! I did want to share with you what we do for our daughter who seems to find every excuse not to get in her carseat. We have turned it into a game. When I open the door I say, “Ready, set, go” and start counting. We then remember how long it took her to get in her seat and then she tries to beat that time the next time. She loves it!
I’ve been reading your blog for a while now….and I’ve never left a comment. I’m going to try to be better about that this next year. : ) I love reading about your daily lives and your photos are so beautiful, and I just really wanted to tell you that you are doing an amazing job mothering your two beautiful children. It’s such a difficult job, and takes so much energy! I have two – ages 4 and 2 and I lose my crap too. I think as a mom we just give, give, give and run on empty too much. So hugs to you and when I get my next coffee from Starbucks drive-through I will be thinking of you and pretending it’s wine. Love that! Cheers!
Thanks so much to everybody for their kind words (and for some blog readers to finally comment! Yippee!) Really awesome to be supported instead of judged.
BTW, that isn’t the same sweater from two years ago. He long out grew that! Just another one in a new size! 🙂
Ok, I’ve been reading your blog for awhile and I finally have to chime in too. Thank you for your honesty! I have 1 and 2 year old boys and have been going through the same thing recently. You don’t know how much more sane I feel after reading this post! You are a great writer as well as photog by the way. Love reading your posts and seeing your work!
Oh Dear Betsy! My third is 10 months old, and I have a 4 1/2 and 5 1/2 year old (which is sooo going on 15!). Anyways, i tell all my mommy friends with one – YOU HAVE NOOOO idea how easy one is. In retrospect your first seems so rough, but girl, as we both know, one is cake! lol. Imagine getting two in their carseats in this arctic weather, when they both have a million other agendas than seat buckling! Sometimes, and I say that loosely, I promise a stop to Dunkins for munchkins (if I’m desperate lol) But a juice box, animal crackers and the such are awesome in a bind to get those little ones moving. Hang in there hun, we all promise we’re not going to be reduced to ‘the crazy mom’ yelling in the parking lot. On a funnier note, just you wait til the lil one becomes a wiggler while you are trying to wrangle the bigger one LOL Hmmmm. Wine in a Starbucks cup, you’ve got something good going there ; )
Betsy I can totally relate to so much of this! I can be that frantic, impatient mom sometimes too 🙁 Something I need to work on too! The pictures are darling, so sweet to see all the Christmas excitement in Miles face! And I adore the “imperfect” shot of them together- it’s beautiful and I bet you will cherish it forever 🙂
I love the picture of Miles in front of the snowglobe. You do dress him so nicely! Loving the skinny jeans. Thanks for always being so real. I didn’t comment awhile back when you revealed that Thanksgiving was hard for you – I cried and immediately picked up the phone and called my BFF mom – who lost her husband to cancer last year. I’m just so happy that God has blessed you with your little family and I hope you won’t be too hard on yourself.
On a lighter note – I found this fun sign on Etsy & thought of you and your cute pugs!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/56309129/keep-calm-and-love-pugs-archival-print
As a mom of my fourth little upcoming boy, I can relate a bit 🙂 I think as moms we beat ourselves up too many times when we fail and even when the failures arent even that big. I constantly thank God for His grace cause that is what I rely on, parenting is such a tough yet rewarding part of our lives. Your boy looks like a sweetie!
three is SOOOO hard! i am going through the exact same thing with the carseat and now that it’s so cold out on top of it all, it can be so frustrating. sometimes they are just so SLOW. 🙂