My new "Do"

OK so these aren't the best pictures because I took them myself. Maybe you can get the idea. I am loving it! It feels so light and liberating!

Hair styles

Lets talk hair! I am getting my hair cut in the next few days YAY! I am so tired of my hair. It is to long and to heavy and to hot! I want to go shorter but I can't go to short because hubby would hate it. I know, I know I shouldn't let him dictate my hair and I don't! If I did it would be past my butt! However, I don't want to go so short that he cringes any time he sees me. (Love ya babe!) So having said all that I do want to go a little shorter and I am considering putting in some layers or bangs or something. My MIL thinks I should do a wedge cut but I just don't know what to do. I am open to suggestions. I will try almost anything once after all it will grow back. So what should a girl with a round face and chubby cheeks do to her hair for some fun!

The Queen of Dirty Laundry has an Advice Forum every Friday. If you like to dole out advice or need advice head over to her place!

F~U~N Friday

Fun came in many different ways this week. It came when we were not trying, it came when we did try (just for a glimpse) and it came when we least expected it.

My hubby got in on the action without even knowing it. He came home from work one day and ended up under our coffee table. They were playing and having fun. They were going "Anybody in here" in these really funny voices.

When I attempted to inject some spontaneous fun into our day I didn't think it was going to work. It was a hot day and I thought we would have a little water fun. I got my water hose and splashed Anna and her slide so that she could slide down in the cool water. It hit her and she started crying *oops! She settled down though and started splashing in the water. So we quickly discovered she doesn't want to be splashed but to splash is ok lol.

The most fun we had though was playing in the dirt, oh I mean getting our garden ready. I thought this was work and would by no means be FUN! Anna had different thoughts about it though. This kid loves to get her hands dirty. She normally hates to be dirty but ever since I let her start helping me pull weeds she has discovered the joy of getting her hands dirty. Needless to say she was in heaven digging in the dirt. She gave me and my friend Angel "dirt baths" and did a "dirt dance". She laughed and played and thought that gardening was like the greatest thing EVER!

If you would like to see more fun ideas run over to Letters to my Daughters. If you want to add your ideas that would be great too!!!

Standing Back!

You might consider me terrible but I find great pleasure in standing back and watching Anna. By this I mean when she is trying to do something paticularly challenging I will stand back and see how she reacts to it. Mind you I would never leave her in a dangerous situation! I do so enjoy watching her working out how to climb through holes on her toy outside or how to manage getting one baby out of the stroller and another one in without putting either one down. It has been exciting watching how her little mind works. You can almost see the wheels turning in her head.

She is a very determined child and she almost always works it out one way or another. Occassionally if it is something extra tough she will say "Mommmmmy ~ help ME!" I don't mind that either. I like to see her learn and do for herself but a little part of me likes to be needed too. She has been working out how to go potty all by herself. You know she has been trained for some time but I always go with her and help her with her clothes and with washing her hands. Now she goes "I do it" even though she wants me to go with her she just wants me for moral support lol. I do have to help if she has on pants that button she hasn't gotten the hang of all that. It is probably my fault though cause I just jump in there for fear of wetting herself while trying to get her pants down lol.

I kind of got off on a tangent there lol. I was writing this because the other day I was watching her outside with her baby on her outdoor toy. She was working through something I don't even remember what she was trying to do but she was talking to the baby telling her what she was going to try. I couldn't help but laugh because she looked so like me at that moment. Since she was a baby I talk to her constantly. I tell her what we are going to do, why we were going to do it and all of the details as I go along. She was doing that with her baby and it was so very adorable. She and the baby worked it out and solved the puzzle without any help from me. It took her a few tries but she got it.

I haven't done the tiny talk in a few weeks but her language improves daily. She still has days where she is speaking in tongues but most of the time she is speaking in clear full sentences. Her favorite sentences start with "don't" like: Don't touch that, its mine! or Don't make that noise again! She is trying to work out the whole me, my or I thing so sometimes you will get: me go there! or something like that.

Well, my sunshine is up and ready for some Mommy and me time! Have fun!

Works for me Wednesday

Well with our greatest hits for todays topic I reviewed my previous posts and found the one with the largest amount of comments. Here it is please enjoy.

I have a very high needs toddler that likes to be the center of my world! She generally is but sometimes I have to cook dinner ;) So in the kitchen we have set up a drawer that has her toys in it. Some fake food, a bowl or two and some big serving spoons so that she can prepare her own dinner. She loves to go in the kitchen to "help" me cook dinner. I will assign her tasks and if she needs a little extra incentive to stay away from the stove or whatever I will even put a little water in her bowl and let her stir it up. This has worked great for us and she knows which drawer is hers and which ones are not. We also have a cabinet with tupper ware stuff in it that I will let her rummage through.

* I would like to add now that she is older she sits by the stove more often then not and I will let her help me put things in the pot or stir it before it gets to hot. I have also started giving her a bowl of beans to stir up (just the dry ones) they are of the mixed variety so we use it to work with colors. Oh and you can get a pot and put it in the sink and let her have old seasonings to "make" soup while you do whatever. This one is definitely a crowd pleaser!

So this works for me and Anna! If you want some more fabulous ideas head over to Rocks in My Dryer. Thanks for stopping by!!!

Wordless Wednesday

It's a garden!

It's not a secret garden and it won't have pretty flowers in it BUT it will have some scrumptious veggies in it! I am so excited about my garden I had to share it with you. My friend Angel came over and we tilled and sowed seeds. I felt like I was going back in time where people actually did reap what they sow on a regular basis. In today's world not a lot of people actually plant gardens. Maybe it is because we don't have enough time or enough land or enough energy. Whatever the reason I am thrilled that I made enough of all of them to do it. Now mind you when you look at the pictures it doesn't look like much but just give me a month or so and we will see what happens.

I couldn't have done this without Angels help! She borrowed a tiller from someone we go to church with and she was a ton of help in the whole process. She got down and dirty out there with us. She even taught Anna the dirt dance. If she wouldn't kill me I would've gotten a video of the two of them doing it and put it on here. You will just have to take my word for it that it was very entertaining and lots of fun. I even did it myself a few times practically bringing Angel to her knees with laughter!

I don't know if I am more excited about the garden being done or about having a good Christian friend to hang out with. We had so much fun. Doing things with a friend makes it a little more fun. We spent the full day together and had a blast. Angel even won Anna over which takes a while. By the end of the day Anna couldn't get enough of Angel and she was very sad to see them go. Although, she was very happy to get in the tub lol.

Check out our pictures!

Anna was demonstrating the dirt dance!

What a pretty dirty face!

"Mom, you aren't going to put this on the blog are you!?!"