Update

You guys said that I never update so I'm doing it right now from your backyard.

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Terrible Twos @ 18 months!?!?!?

Say it isn't so, but it really could be. Highly (and yes I'm biased but truly he is) intelligent child who wants to do all kinds of stuff with a bank of about 100 or so words and what does this get you? Frustration. Plain and simple F.R.U.S.T.R.A.T.I.O.N. On my part? No. For me it is higly entertaining and fasinating to watch him grow. For him? TOTAL FRUSTRATION. Knows what he wants, communicates it to some degree, and doesn't always get what he wants. For now, he's too young to compromise, but still young enough to distract. I am so in for it over the next year or so.

The Big Awards Show

My child got a perfect attendance AND an honor roll award today. The honor roll thing he totally gets from me, but the perfect attendance thing must come from Ed. The Brown's are smart, but we don't always show up ;-)

A Picture Sam did in Kindergarten

I just found it looking for something else. Blogger has this neat posting app for docs so I might post a few others too.

101th Post

So I slack sometimes, but 100 posts is somewhat impressive I think!

Real Life Moment -

Sam gives us his best muscle man pose and proclaims himself "A Green Bean Fighting Machine"

Ed and I busted out laughing and Sam said, "What?!"

Mom My Ride

For all my fellow Momobile Drivers and for their husbands who can't understand why the family car is always such a pit!

Thinking Back

This morning while in the shower, I had this flashback of Ed's Mother's funeral and my miscarriage. And it dawned on me that literally hours after his Mother was buried, in my own turmoil of the miscarriage, I said to him that I wanted to go home to my Mom. We left the very next morning. It never even dawned on me until this morning how hurtful that was for him to hear. His Mom was gone and all I wanted was my Mom. I know the whole thing was a difficult situation and I was scared of having a miscarriage away from my home, my doctor, and my comfort zone, but still did I have to cry about going home to my Mom?

Real life moment

We got Sam an athletic cup over the weekend. He wore it to practice yesterday and complained about it. I kept telling him to talk to dad about it and not me because before yesterday I'd never even seen one so I have no idea how its supposed to fit obviously.

Ed and I take turns going to the game or staying gone with Benjamin. Today is my game day. Sam complained on the way here and I tried to tell him that he'd get used to it.

Second inning he tells out to me on the way out of the dugout with his hand on his crotch in his loud voice, "Mom, I'm getting used to this cup." I managed to smile as I melted into my seat.

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Life is good when

You put on a pair of pre-pregnancy jeans and they fit really well.

AND you put your hand in the pocket and pull out $5.

Life is good today.

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Iraq

Lord knows I don't have the answer but does anyone?

I know that we can't just walk away, but is more troops the answer? I want to believe this will work, but everyday Americans are dying.

I just want peace. Pray for peace.
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Do you look your age?

You Probably Look Younger Than Your Age

You live a healthy lifestyle and know how to take care of yourself. You'll probably have a youthful glow for many years.

Do You Look Your Age?

So I took this little 'Quiz' and its pretty bogus. It doesn't ask how many times you get up a night with a baby. And it doesn't ask about the number of medications you take daily. But what it does is give me hope, even if it is false, that I don't look 35 about to be 36.

Wrapping Paper Roll

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This Christmas will now be known as "The Christmas that Benjamin was as tall as a roll of wrapping paper."

A roll must be 30" because it is exactly as tall as he is ;-).

Ben's 12 Month Checkup

It was a month late, but whose counting?

He got 4 shots, including a flu shot. He is doing great all around and proclaimed to be verbally advanced. We're not around too many babies so I've forgotten what's norm and what's not. I guess normal at this age is 3 words. He's got a ton and he sings three songs. He cried a good bit of the time that we were there. He's not much for being touched by strangers. And who can blame him? He got held down a couple of months ago for stitches and shots this time. He was 25-50% for height and weight and 95% for head. Right about where Sam was at this age. I need to find the sheet with the height and weight. I think he was about 30 inches and 22 pounds, but I'm not certain.

I am in mall traffic

Omdog. This is bad.
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Last One.

Ben's Birthday Pictures

Singing Happy Birthday!

Checking out the cake.

Realizing that its cake!

Total mess. The water turned orange when I gave him a bath. I ordered a cake for the party and they said that they'd throw in a cake for Ben. Never in my wildest dreams would I imagined they would use Orange and Turquoise frosting. It was interesting, but he LOVED it.

Better Late than NEVER.

Hated the hat, but he sure was the cutest Candy Corn ever. Luckily it was super easy to make because he fell asleep about 1/3 of the way through Trick or Treating. Not too many people got to see it. I'm so BAD. I made Sam take his bucket to the door and ask for candy for his brother that had fallen asleep in the stroller. Like Ben was going to eat candy. Um, no. It was all me.

My Jedi. This picture doesn't do the whole thing justice. It has breast armour under the cloak and was really cool. He was so excited and loved it. He got a couple of comments on it. I may actually get an honorable mention at the Mother of the Year banquet for making this for him. Hopefully, he'll be willing to wear it next year too!

Does everyone's child sit in their kitchen draws?

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Originally uploaded by wagnerjb.

If they don't, please don't tell me.

The George W Pose

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Originally uploaded by wagnerjb.

Doesn't this face look familiar? LOL. No knocks to the President, but he does make a face very similar to this one.

The Stitches Picture

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Originally uploaded by wagnerjb.

They used white stitches so it wasn't to noticable. Its healed really nicely and if you didn't know, you'd probably not even notice it.

Christmas Card Bloopers

I can't show you the real one because it would ruin that "Awww" moment when you open it, but I can share these. These two are so funny together. L.O.V.E.I.T. Watch out World.