Let's Be Honest

Hello!!!!!!  Is anyone still out there actually reading this blog?  Mark asked me the other day if I was ever going to update my blog again.  I replied that lately it was a lot of work to update it and I didn't think anyone actually read it.  He reminded me that he and his dad did so that was reason enough to keep it updated.  I am only kidding about no one reading it...sorta!  I know there are five of you who read it and want me to keep it up!

I began this blog as a way to keep up with what was going on in our lives because I'll never be a scrapbooker!!  I'm not even going to pretend.  It soon became a mini obsession of mine to blog about every funny comment, face, or move that my kids made.... and you all know that Kamdyn gave me plenty to write about then....

Let's be honest though... life is not always a laugh a minute and sometimes your kids are going to be sassy and whiney and backtalk and I could go on and on.  I think that's where I've been the last few months.  I didn't have anything funny to write about so I didn't want to bore you with any of the drama.  

Kam loves school but we've (mainly me and Mark!) experienced some changes since she began.  Somewhere along the way, she picked up a very smart mouth and sassy attitude.  I know...everyone says that happens once they start school...but I didn't want to believe that about my child!  This should not be surprising to someone who has called their child "Sybil" since she was two, should it?


Kam has always been a very strong-willed child.  I have a love/hate relationship with that quality now.  I know that will be so beneficial to her as a teenager and adult but as a child, that trait has driven me mad at times.  She's so like her dad - you can't make her do anything she doesn't want to....like wear a certain shirt or her hair in any other way than a headband!  Oh, the hair drama!!!  

Mark says that last semester at least one of us left crying every morning over hair and clothes.  He's totally right on that!  At times, I learned to pick my battles so there were some days Kam looked like her hair hadn't even been brushed.  That's a hard one for me!  But we are making progress.  Just this week she has worn her hair in a side half-ponytail and last night she let me braid it so she could wear it curly today.  Those are major victories for us!!!!

I've not forgotten about Cooper.... He has become really funny in the last year and I've not blogged about him as much as Kam.  With Cooper it's not so much what he says, but more the way he says it.  The way he emphasizes things  ("yea, man" is my favorite thing to hear him say) and his mispronunciations keep us in stitches.

For instance, he has always pronounced L's as W's so he'll say, "I wuv you, Mommy" or "my weg hurts."  He also says chicken "nunnets" instead of nuggets which always cracks us up. His latest and probably my favorite is that he says "fremote control" instead of remote control and "fressert" instead of dessert.  Don't ask me where that came from!

Cooper is obsessed with the Wii so we have had major issues with him on that for the last few months.  He was only allowed to play on the weekends but I let him play a lot over the holidays and I am paying for that now.  Some days I want to scream when he asks me for the 400th time, "can I play da Wii?"  

He always has been and promises me that he always will be a "momma's boy!"  No shame in that, regardless of how Mark teases him about it! 


So having said all of that, I am going to attempt to blog more this year.  I have lots of catching up to do so I'll be posting pictures from the last month next week.  It's also "birthday season" with the cousins, so we'll be spending lots of time with them in the next month or two.  Until then!!!