We had a wonderful Easter holiday, filled with lots of family, friends, food, and love. Hope you had a beautiful day and remembered the reason we celebrate this day.
Happy Easter to you and yours!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Kid Quotes
I have been feeling very uninspired as of late,
so the silly things my kids say will have to do for now...enjoy!
B: (praying) "bless Daddy and Grandpa at work. Please bless Darth Vader in his fight with Yoda, Amen!"
B: (holding a baby doll) "this is my baby brother. Ouch! he just bit me."
B: (seeing a commercial) "What movie is this?"
Me: "I don't know"
B: "It's called, 1-800-224- DISNEYLAND!!!"
B: (waving a wand over Cameron) "abra cadabra I turn you into a butthead!"
*not very nice but we are still working on the potty talk.
A: "you put the sticks at the end of your ears" (explaining to B how to put sunglasses on)
A: "When am I going to be 99?"
Me: "well most people don't live to be 99, that's really old"
A: "well Grandma and Grandpa are really old."
B: (poking my chest and counting...) "1, 2, 3!"
Me: "Hey don't touch Mommies boobies"
B: "I was just counting them!"
B: (found a feather in the parking lot) "Hello little feather, my name's Brady, do you want to go into Costco with me?"
A: "When I grow up my husband's name is going to be Baseballbat and our son will be Traintrack!"
A: (to me a few days later) "I wanna have another baby."
B: "yeah, let's name him Baseballbat!"
A: "no that's my husband's name!"
A: "I like cotton candy but it's a little hairy and sticky."
A: "grandma what is a bird?"
G: "you tell me, what is a bird?"
A: "I think it's a little baby chicken who can fly!"
Lauren: "boys are tougher than girls are"
A: "that's not true"
L: "yes it is andie"
A: "my mom can punch my dad really really hard, and my dad used to wrestle tuna!"
*FYI I have never punched Cameron but I am sure Andie would be right!
A: "look mom I got a spork!"
Me: "how do you know what that is?"
A: "it's a fork AND a spoon. (flips it over) and it's made in China!"
A: "mom, remember this morning when we were playing dogs and my name was sunblock?"
so the silly things my kids say will have to do for now...enjoy!
B: (praying) "bless Daddy and Grandpa at work. Please bless Darth Vader in his fight with Yoda, Amen!"
B: (holding a baby doll) "this is my baby brother. Ouch! he just bit me."
B: (seeing a commercial) "What movie is this?"
Me: "I don't know"
B: "It's called, 1-800-224- DISNEYLAND!!!"
B: (waving a wand over Cameron) "abra cadabra I turn you into a butthead!"
*not very nice but we are still working on the potty talk.
A: "you put the sticks at the end of your ears" (explaining to B how to put sunglasses on)
A: "When am I going to be 99?"
Me: "well most people don't live to be 99, that's really old"
A: "well Grandma and Grandpa are really old."
B: (poking my chest and counting...) "1, 2, 3!"
Me: "Hey don't touch Mommies boobies"
B: "I was just counting them!"
B: (found a feather in the parking lot) "Hello little feather, my name's Brady, do you want to go into Costco with me?"
A: "When I grow up my husband's name is going to be Baseballbat and our son will be Traintrack!"
A: (to me a few days later) "I wanna have another baby."
B: "yeah, let's name him Baseballbat!"
A: "no that's my husband's name!"
A: "I like cotton candy but it's a little hairy and sticky."
A: "grandma what is a bird?"
G: "you tell me, what is a bird?"
A: "I think it's a little baby chicken who can fly!"
Lauren: "boys are tougher than girls are"
A: "that's not true"
L: "yes it is andie"
A: "my mom can punch my dad really really hard, and my dad used to wrestle tuna!"
*FYI I have never punched Cameron but I am sure Andie would be right!
A: "look mom I got a spork!"
Me: "how do you know what that is?"
A: "it's a fork AND a spoon. (flips it over) and it's made in China!"
A: "mom, remember this morning when we were playing dogs and my name was sunblock?"
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Imagination
For anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Andie, may or may not know what a huge imagination the child possesses. Just yesterday as we were driving home Andie was telling Cameron and me all about the pet tiger she had. The wha? She told us all about how she got him, when she was one, and about the time when he bumped his nose on a log. Apparently they are best friends and have had so many great times together. In the middle of her babbling on Cameron turned to me and said, "I think we should write a children's book using Andie's stories." At first I laughed and said how funny that would be but then I started thinking and I could picture this fun little story about a little girl and her adventures with her pet tiger. What an idea! My husband is a genius. I am not really one to go out and do something that seems so impossible as to get a book written and published, but this is something I think could actually get done. We have several family members who have written books and suddenly the idea doesn't seem so impossible. I plan on sitting down with Andie today and hearing and recording more about her adventures with her pet tiger.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Mommy's Thoughts
When I was nine my mom died from leukemia. It was sad and hard but we were young and seemed to make it through alright. As I have gotten older and especially since becoming a mom to my own little sweeties I often wonder what my mom would have done in certain situations or just to know what her thoughts might have been during a normal day with me and my siblings. Did we drive her insane, did she lose her temper like I all too often do, did she let the little things go or was she to anal to do that? Since I was so young I sadly don't remember a lot of details. I wish there was more video more still shots, but she had 5 kids, and for a while was very sick, pulling out a camera is not the first thing one might have thought to do. I am grateful for smells, sights, pictures, and voices that can suddenly bring back a memory that was long ago tucked away.
Since I have lost a parent and now experience these feelings, I have made a solid effort to take more pictures, let the little things go, allow my children to occasionally crawl in our bed during the early morning hours and most importantly, write things down. I feel most comfortable writing these thoughts in letter form to my children, sometimes individually and sometimes together. I write about things we did that day, how the kids reacted to a new situation, a new milestone they may have reached or a funny conversation we had together. I also make sure to include private thoughts, stories from my childhood, lessons learned, and my feelings of love towards my children and my husband. These thoughts are often disorganized, I tend to just write on whatever piece of paper I can find before the thought goes away. Already I have gone through and read old notes and I am always surprised at how much has been forgotten in such a short amount of time. I wish my mom could have known what the future held for her, for us, but she didn't, no one could have. I don't know what the future holds for me and my family but I hope that if something should, heaven forbid, happen to me, my children will have a few of these future curiosities answered. This is how I keep a journal, by writing letters, and blogging of course.
I know that every day here on Earth is a gift from our Heavenly Father. I am working on being a better wife, mother and person and leaving my children memories that they can one day enjoy in my absence, whether it's tomorrow or 60 years from now. I want to make today count.
Since I have lost a parent and now experience these feelings, I have made a solid effort to take more pictures, let the little things go, allow my children to occasionally crawl in our bed during the early morning hours and most importantly, write things down. I feel most comfortable writing these thoughts in letter form to my children, sometimes individually and sometimes together. I write about things we did that day, how the kids reacted to a new situation, a new milestone they may have reached or a funny conversation we had together. I also make sure to include private thoughts, stories from my childhood, lessons learned, and my feelings of love towards my children and my husband. These thoughts are often disorganized, I tend to just write on whatever piece of paper I can find before the thought goes away. Already I have gone through and read old notes and I am always surprised at how much has been forgotten in such a short amount of time. I wish my mom could have known what the future held for her, for us, but she didn't, no one could have. I don't know what the future holds for me and my family but I hope that if something should, heaven forbid, happen to me, my children will have a few of these future curiosities answered. This is how I keep a journal, by writing letters, and blogging of course.
I know that every day here on Earth is a gift from our Heavenly Father. I am working on being a better wife, mother and person and leaving my children memories that they can one day enjoy in my absence, whether it's tomorrow or 60 years from now. I want to make today count.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Back in the Saddle
I haven't blogged in a while, obviously. I haven't really been "feelin' it" but this morning I decided to update the look of the blog and it got me excited again. I just have to get some more recent pictures put up and I'll be set.
Now to do a quick catch up:
We had a great Christmas full of family, love, food, gifts, and laughter. I am sad that one day, not to far from now, my kids won't believe in Santa and Christmas just wont be the same. I have nothing but wonderful memories of Christmas as a child, my parents did an amazing job at keeping Santa around and the true meaning of Christmas in our home. I will still insist that that one Christmas when I was maybe 5 or 6, we were driving home from a party and I saw Santa and his reindeer fly across the moon! Call me crazy, but my sister Whitney remembers the same thing. Believe or don't believe, but keep away from my kids at Christmas time, they believe and it's magical for all involved.
The New Year has brought with it new challenges but many more blessings. Our family is healthy and continues to grow. We have 2 new cousins joining us (one actually came early this morning, congratulations Chris, Emily and Eva!) which means more family gatherings and more cousin play time.
The business continues to grow and provide new and exciting opportunities to come in the next year for the Casper family. We are researching where would be ideal to live in Arizona and making a list of all the things we want in a home and all that needs to be done to get there. No, we aren't moving today, tomorrow or even next month, we are just starting the process and working on making it happen in the next year or so. The kids have been begging for a dog that they can name Goofy. We bought ourselves some time in telling them we would revisit the idea when we buy a house and they seem to be content with that, for now.
Andie and Brady are still a handful but both have mellowed out a bit which makes Mommy and Daddy nicer. Andie is getting so big and is really excited to start Kindergarten come Fall. She is working hard to be prepared and is surprising us everyday with her talents. She has been carrying around her "handy dandy notebook" and it is so awesome to see how her drawing has evolved. I was so excited yesterday to flip through it and see her first drawing that actually resembled a person! She is really good with her shapes, calling them by name and telling you how many sides they all have and what the difference is between similar ones. I am impressed cause this is not something I have thought to teach her. Yay for kids TV that actually teaches!!! She is also working on adding numbers together on her fingers and starting to really get the hang of it. Oh, I almost forgot the best new thing about Andie, SHE LOVES TO DO THE DISHES, and she is actually really good at it!
Brady is still a handful, of course. He is wanting to be more like Andie everyday. He has lost all signs of baby features and it makes me a little sad. Brady has started waking up in the middle of the night and most nights it's more than once which is killing me. I forgot how a disruption in sleep can really throw you off and make you exhausted. When I'm in the kitchen Brady loves to say, "show me how to cook like a mommy," as he climbs up on the counter to learn/"help". It's so cute, and he is getting the hang of cracking eggs. He has also become an excellent diver, jumping from inside a laundry to the floor and swimming along the ocean bottom. His imagination is impressive and endless and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
Now to do a quick catch up:
We had a great Christmas full of family, love, food, gifts, and laughter. I am sad that one day, not to far from now, my kids won't believe in Santa and Christmas just wont be the same. I have nothing but wonderful memories of Christmas as a child, my parents did an amazing job at keeping Santa around and the true meaning of Christmas in our home. I will still insist that that one Christmas when I was maybe 5 or 6, we were driving home from a party and I saw Santa and his reindeer fly across the moon! Call me crazy, but my sister Whitney remembers the same thing. Believe or don't believe, but keep away from my kids at Christmas time, they believe and it's magical for all involved.
The New Year has brought with it new challenges but many more blessings. Our family is healthy and continues to grow. We have 2 new cousins joining us (one actually came early this morning, congratulations Chris, Emily and Eva!) which means more family gatherings and more cousin play time.
The business continues to grow and provide new and exciting opportunities to come in the next year for the Casper family. We are researching where would be ideal to live in Arizona and making a list of all the things we want in a home and all that needs to be done to get there. No, we aren't moving today, tomorrow or even next month, we are just starting the process and working on making it happen in the next year or so. The kids have been begging for a dog that they can name Goofy. We bought ourselves some time in telling them we would revisit the idea when we buy a house and they seem to be content with that, for now.
Andie and Brady are still a handful but both have mellowed out a bit which makes Mommy and Daddy nicer. Andie is getting so big and is really excited to start Kindergarten come Fall. She is working hard to be prepared and is surprising us everyday with her talents. She has been carrying around her "handy dandy notebook" and it is so awesome to see how her drawing has evolved. I was so excited yesterday to flip through it and see her first drawing that actually resembled a person! She is really good with her shapes, calling them by name and telling you how many sides they all have and what the difference is between similar ones. I am impressed cause this is not something I have thought to teach her. Yay for kids TV that actually teaches!!! She is also working on adding numbers together on her fingers and starting to really get the hang of it. Oh, I almost forgot the best new thing about Andie, SHE LOVES TO DO THE DISHES, and she is actually really good at it!
Brady is still a handful, of course. He is wanting to be more like Andie everyday. He has lost all signs of baby features and it makes me a little sad. Brady has started waking up in the middle of the night and most nights it's more than once which is killing me. I forgot how a disruption in sleep can really throw you off and make you exhausted. When I'm in the kitchen Brady loves to say, "show me how to cook like a mommy," as he climbs up on the counter to learn/"help". It's so cute, and he is getting the hang of cracking eggs. He has also become an excellent diver, jumping from inside a laundry to the floor and swimming along the ocean bottom. His imagination is impressive and endless and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Andie & Brady Quotes Oct-Dec 2010
Driving in the car for a sleepover at Gma's house-
A: Where's the moon?
Me: Well it's really cloudy tonight so I don't think you'll be able to see it.
A: Well that's just great! It's my first time to have a sleepover and now it's ruined!
Giving me her order for the Mexican food place- A: I want a cheese taco with blackamole
A: Sanasauresrex, he's a carnivore. (during dinosaur talk)
A: Hey mom, where did you get this peanut butter pizza? (referring to the peanut brittle)
A: Mom, I can hear my nails growing.
Thinking that she can read the receipt-
A: This says baaaaaad news.
Me: Oh really? what does bad news mean?
A: Well it's not good news!
Saying the family prayer before bed-
B: Thank your for my pirate room. Thank you for pirate beds...Amen!
A few days after I decided we would go to a real pumpkin patch as opposed to the fake carnie one by our house. We were driving home and passed by the fake patch-
A: Boy, sure does look like those kids are having a fun time at the pumpkin patch tonight!
Me: Yeah. It's cause they have cool parents!
His answer to, "does aunt Lindsay have a boy baby or a girl baby in her tummy-
B: A boy baby, a boy baby went up the water spout...
Talking about his whale tattoo on his arm that had sparkles on it-
B: Oh no, where did the sprinkles go on my whale?
He pauses a minute to ponder this
B: I guess they blewed away, sometimes that happens.
Talking to himself in the car-
B: Sorry monkeys, you can't go in my ears!
A: I am going to tell Santa that I want a hang glider for Christmas!
B: What are those? (pointing to my hair)
Me: My bangs.
B: Oh. Bang, bang, bang.
Andie and Brady talking in the backseat of the car-
B: Hey Andie are you a pirate?
A: No
B: Oh, well I am a pirate. This is our pirate car and it says arr Brady Jack Sparrow!
A: I'm hungry
Me: you had breakfast, you had a snack and a cup of juice, what more could you possibly need?
A: I need a pomegranate!
Andie put a xbox headphone on-
A: Hello this is your captain speaking
JJ does the same thing a few minutes later: welcome to McDonald's can I take your order?
A: Brady guns aren't heavy...well maybe to ants.
B: I want to go home and see a superhero
Cam: Oh really, who's a superhero?
B leans in and whispers: Choppy, he is superhero Choppy.
Me: Whoever cleans the most in your room gets a brownie. (Brady runs to his room to clean)
A: Ummm, I'm fine. Who made the brownies?
Me: I did
A jumps up: I'm going to clean the most!!!
A: Where's the moon?
Me: Well it's really cloudy tonight so I don't think you'll be able to see it.
A: Well that's just great! It's my first time to have a sleepover and now it's ruined!
Giving me her order for the Mexican food place- A: I want a cheese taco with blackamole
A: Sanasauresrex, he's a carnivore. (during dinosaur talk)
A: Hey mom, where did you get this peanut butter pizza? (referring to the peanut brittle)
A: Mom, I can hear my nails growing.
Thinking that she can read the receipt-
A: This says baaaaaad news.
Me: Oh really? what does bad news mean?
A: Well it's not good news!
Saying the family prayer before bed-
B: Thank your for my pirate room. Thank you for pirate beds...Amen!
A few days after I decided we would go to a real pumpkin patch as opposed to the fake carnie one by our house. We were driving home and passed by the fake patch-
A: Boy, sure does look like those kids are having a fun time at the pumpkin patch tonight!
Me: Yeah. It's cause they have cool parents!
His answer to, "does aunt Lindsay have a boy baby or a girl baby in her tummy-
B: A boy baby, a boy baby went up the water spout...
Talking about his whale tattoo on his arm that had sparkles on it-
B: Oh no, where did the sprinkles go on my whale?
He pauses a minute to ponder this
B: I guess they blewed away, sometimes that happens.
Talking to himself in the car-
B: Sorry monkeys, you can't go in my ears!
A: I am going to tell Santa that I want a hang glider for Christmas!
B: What are those? (pointing to my hair)
Me: My bangs.
B: Oh. Bang, bang, bang.
Andie and Brady talking in the backseat of the car-
B: Hey Andie are you a pirate?
A: No
B: Oh, well I am a pirate. This is our pirate car and it says arr Brady Jack Sparrow!
A: I'm hungry
Me: you had breakfast, you had a snack and a cup of juice, what more could you possibly need?
A: I need a pomegranate!
Andie put a xbox headphone on-
A: Hello this is your captain speaking
JJ does the same thing a few minutes later: welcome to McDonald's can I take your order?
A: Brady guns aren't heavy...well maybe to ants.
B: I want to go home and see a superhero
Cam: Oh really, who's a superhero?
B leans in and whispers: Choppy, he is superhero Choppy.
Me: Whoever cleans the most in your room gets a brownie. (Brady runs to his room to clean)
A: Ummm, I'm fine. Who made the brownies?
Me: I did
A jumps up: I'm going to clean the most!!!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Mean Mom
Today Cameron and I took little Brady to get his hair cut. We have been growing it out for a year now and I thought it would be a good idea to cut it off and start over again. I wanted to see him all cleaned up for a while and for the fast approaching holidays. He wasn't happy at the barber to see his "football" hair falling to the ground in a mess all around him. He was silent during the entire process. I just thought it was because he was tired and confused because it is so unlike him to have nothing to say. After his nap it was very clear that he wasn't silent because he was tired, it was because he was very upset.
Over the course of the last year he has become very attached to his hair, in fact he has been calling himself Tom Brady ever since he saw that they had the same name AND haircut, thus the evolved term "football" hair. Everywhere we would go people would comment about his hair, nothing ever bad, thank goodness because I am pretty sure Brady would have tackled them. "Oh my, he has the most beautiful hair coloring!" "oh how cute, he looks like a little surfer boy," "the long hair is adorable on him," you know, stuff like that. Brady loved to look at his silly hair in the mirror after his morning showers and with a big cheesy grin would say, "oooooh, look at Tom Brady's hair! HAHAHA!" To say he liked his hair would be a gross understatement, he adored it, he appreciated it, he enjoyed it, he was found of it...the kid LOVED his hair. Now, I have to admit, none of this occurred to me until this afternoon. When we got home I laid him down for his nap. Brady slept for several hours which was heaven for mommy, but when he woke up he was in panic. I went to his room to get him and he was laying on the floor touching his hair crying, "I want Brady hair, I want Brady hair back. I don't like batman hair anymore..." Oh yeah the reason I took him to get the haircut in the first place was because a few nights ago he had asked for a batman haircut. We continued to talk about it over the next several days before I finally took him in this morning. BAD IDEA. I picked him up and calmed him down and we went into the other room to change his diaper. Once he stood up, he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and he once again touched his hair and started to cry. I FELT HORRIBLE. I put him down and explained that it would grow back and I was sorry, he ran over to Andie, gently and loathingly grabbed her hair and cried, "I want Andie's hair..." I thought my little heart was gonna break. I sat on the floor and held him while he cried. I hadn't realized what an attachment this child had made to his hair, it had become a part of him and his little personality, and I took it away from him. He is that tomato plant that's in shock right now because we cut too much too fast. He has gotten better throughout the day, later he touched his hair and said, "what's this?" to which I replied, "it's your new haircut!" he said, "oh yeah." and I reminded him that soon it would all grow back to Tom Brady hair.
SO YEAH, I AM PRETTY MUCH THE WORST MOM EVER!!!
Pictures taken last week of Brady with his "Tom Brady" hair
Picture today of the, not so found of, "Batman" hair
Maybe I cut it because I miss this little guy?!
SO YEAH, I AM PRETTY MUCH THE WORST MOM EVER!!!
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