Happy Halloween!

Elese

Now it's Elese's turn. Here are somethings about her. If you didn't read about Max click here.

• Former favorite word: Awesome (if anyone else would say it she would say, "Don't say that!"
• Doesn't fear spiders-after the flood the kids slept on the front room floor. One night at around midnight Elese calmly walked into our room and said, "Mommy, there is a spider in my bed." We thought she was just being a stinker so Steven told her it was OK but to go back to bed. Elese said, "NO! There is a spider in my bed." Sure enough, there was a spider in her bed.
• She is Dora Explorer
  
• She is Rachel (our babysitter)
• She is Diego and/or Alisia and/or a Jaguar
• She is a princess
• Lucifer the cat in Cinderella is currently her greatest fear because "He went like this" (imagine her cheeks all puffed up) "With that mouse and tried to eat it." She refuses to watch the movie alone now.
• When the little rascals dress up like Amish men she thinks they are monsters.
• She wants to be just like her brother
• Crawdads are very cool and not scary
• Jumping off things is an adventure for her.
• Has gotten better about throwing fits in the library...
• ...although she has gotten worse about throwing fits in fabric stores
• Daddy is a prince and she makes him dance with her
• Lip gloss is the coolest thing since a sippy cup.
• Being 5 is the biggest accomplishment ever!
  
• Dropping Max off at school provides her a great opportunity to run around and report back to mommy which girls have princess backpacks and which ones have Dora backpacks.
• She likes to sing songs (ie. "lalala, I'm a princess..dododo...I'm dancing like a princess...ladeda")
• Nursery is the best place ever!
• BABIES! Oh MY BABIES! Real babies, toy babies, big babies(2 years +) and even little babies. "It's a baby! Mommy I want to see the baby! What's the babies name? Look mommy it's a pink baby! Look mommy it's a blue baby! Hold me like a baby! Look mommy I'm a pink baby! Goo goo ga ga. WAAAAHHH"
• Loves her Grandmas
• Screams at Uncle Blake if he looks at her (Ah, just like her mommy used to)
• Got her first hair cut
• Thinks the bank is a sucker store and the Lake is for throwing things in.
• Enjoys helping daddy cook breakfast and mommy cook everything else.
• Refers to Lagoon as "The Goon"
  

Funny Things she has said or done

12/20/2008 Elese had been bitten by a dog (don't worry, not a bad bite) she said, "Doggy eat you."

7/24/2009 Max had just said, "I love you Daddy!" and then Elese said, "And I love Mama!" In the previous days she didn't want anything to do with daddy, mommy was her favorite.

8/3/2009 We were coming home from a neighborhood party and Elese wanted to stay so she started crying and throwing a HUGE fit. Suddenly she just stopped, looked at me and said, "Mommy, I'm fake crying."

September '09 A new little girl in our ward kept looking at us in sacrament meeting so Elese asked about her...I told her that her name is Grace and that she is in Kindergarten like Max. Elese looked at me with total amazement and said, "She's 5?!!!" as if being 5 was the most spectacular thing to be.

10/11/2009 while visiting another sacrament meeting and everyone laughed at something that had been said, "This Sacrament is funny!"

10/11/2009 We have Sacrament meeting last and the ward we visited today has it first so when we went in Elese got very worried and said, "Mommy! I forgot to go to Nursery!"


During the flood in our basement we had to cut out a piece of drywall in the kids closet, this created a hole that opened up into my moms portion of the basement. We have a door with a deadbolt that separates our space from hers. One day Elese was REFUSING to take her nap. She was having trouble because during the flood clean up she had to sleep on her mattress in the front room. I got fed up with it and dead bolted our front door (so she couldn't escape and wander the neighborhood) and then went through the door that links to my moms and locked her in our apartment while I sat on the steps and calmly said, "Get back in bed and I'll come back in." She SCREAMED and cried for about 30 seconds and then got quiet. I was so relived and thought she had gotten in bed to go to sleep so I was about to go back in when I heard a noise coming from my mom's side of the basement. She had gone into her demolished bedroom and crawled through the door. I was so mad yet so amazed that she was smart enough to think to do that.

Max

So here is a quick (hopefully) update of what has been going on with Max this summer up to now.

• Best Friend Reed, moved to Mexico
• Started Kindergarten
• Going to be starting Karate (hopefully)
• Wants to be an Astronaut when he grows up...
• ...or a race car driver
• Hopes to build a Speed Racer car in his spare time
• Wants to paint daddy's car like the speed racer
• ALWAYS tells mommy where he is going
• Likes to eat fish
• Favorite color (yep color, no "s") Red, white, blue and black
• Does his homework everyday after school
• Trying hard to learn to read
• Thinks Crawdads are YUMMY
• Loves taking random pictures of his toys
• Thinks the world is coming to an end if he doesn't have friends to play with
• Likes girls but blushes if they show him attention
• Favorite yearly event: Father and Sons camp out
• Enjoys fishing with daddy at Fish Lake
• Makes silly faces when you take his picture
• Loved eating at African Ice (shaved ice) as often as possible
• Does not like being skinny and the mention of it will cause him to cry for a half hour screaming "I don't want to be skinny! I don't want to be fat but I don't want to be skinny!"
  

Funny Things he has said/done recently

One day while I was at work he asked my mom to help him write a note. This is what it said:

REED, Don't hur Ryan. He is our best friend. Forgive Ryan. Forget about that.

My personal favorite: (4/6/2009) "Mommy, you're my favorite person in the family because your pretty."

(8/30/2009) "Mommy, my elbow is almost resurrected!"

He said this sometime this summer (2009) to Elese, "I'm bigger than you because I work out more."

Sister Taylor (aka Max's "other Grandma") saw us walking to school on Max's first day of kindergarten and she told him to be the best kid in school. While passing her house on the way home form school Max proclaimed, "I was the best kid in school!"

Ready Set Go!!!

So I'm all set for my giveaway tomorrow on my new website! Well, sort of. For some reason when I add a link to the post it adds a big space. For example... "learn more about this site by clicking here". Isn't that weird? I REALLY don't want to have to change my theme so I hope we can figure it out. I don't want to postpone the giveaway so I'm just going to post it anyway, even with the glitches, I hope it doesn't reflect badly on me. By helping me pass along the word about www.mediocremom.com you TOO can be entered into the giveaway! :)Information will be posted here (see how that's SUPOSED to work?) tomorrow morning.

Sneak Peak

So, you want a sneak peak at my new website? I just need to come up with some fabulous give away. Steven is hoping he can score a free trip from his work that I can give away. If you have any suggestions or would like to donate to my cause :) let me know.

So it's not completely finished. Our computer is still out of commission which means that Steven hasn't had a chance to fix the font and size of the title and little tweaks in the logo. I'm hoping to have it all up and good to go with a giveaway and all by next Monday and then I will start posting October 1st.

Check it out if you please and let me know what you think.

www.mediocremom.com

Are you Mediocre?

I think that every mom (and every human being for that matter) feels mediocre 50% of the time and less than mediocre 40% or the time with higher than average amounts of confidence the remaining 10% of the time. I for one don't want to continue feeling mediocre so I'm going to try and lessen my mediocrity as a mom by setting simple goals for myself. Because I believe that most women feel the same way I'm starting a website just for moms. The launch date is set (I hope I make it) for October 1st. The idea is to give mom's something to do every day to help them feel like better moms. I'm getting ideas and having lots of ideas just randomly jump into my head. If I wasn't setting this up as a website I wouldn't be quite so motivated to actually do the things I'm suggesting to my readers. I do not expect my readers to do everyday's task..life happens...I'm sure I won't (Heck I'd be happy with once a week) but I'm still very excited for the small changes and acts of playfulness that will help my relationship with my children and husband.

My computer is still having issues and that is why I haven't been blogging. I would have posted the logo (thanks babe for being SO talented!) but it is on my computer that may or may not freeze up at any moment. Sorry, that was a little off track. Anyway, this is something that I can blog about that doesn't involve posting pictures (other than the logo of course).

So, I'll give you all the domain address once things are a little more presentable (Most likely Oct. 1st 2009) but for now you will have to be satisfied with the title of my blog, The Mediocre Mom's Guide to Greatness (Activities for you and your kids).

I will blog again...

So I still want to blog about some of the cute things Max and Elese have been doing lately...(ie Elese getting potty trained...she pooped in the potty two days in a row but in her underwear today..stinker...she also intentionally peed on her bed last night just before bedtime) the only problem is that my computer keeps freezing and my outlook is acting strange. I don't have access to all my notes about what I wanted to blog about...not to mention pictures.

So this is just a random update that I will soon update my blog. I'm sitting here at work waiting on a text message to tell me what I'm supposed to fedex and then I'm going to go home so I thought this would be a good time to update my blog about updateing my blog.

Also, I think my blog is booring looking. There are so many cute blogs out there but if I understand it right, in some cases people pay someone to design them...I'm not willing to do that. Any tips on how I can get my blog looking more cutesie for Free?