My children!

I'm having a mommy day being all emotional.. :) My kids are growing up to fast for my liking. They are this small only once and I just want to capture all of it. I'm so proud of my oldest. She's so smart and sometimes I wonder if I have a genus on my hands. She's only 3 1/2 but sometimes I listen to her and can't believe some of the stuff coming out of her mouth like this morning I asked her to get her little brother a diaper for me and then she went into a 10 minutes rant of why it's not good for her because her brother should get his own diaper because he will not learn to do things for himself....I was like okay makes sense but your 3!!! My little boy is 17 months old and as much as I want him to talk he feels the need to take his own pace. Saying Momma, Dadda and Nanna aka..banana is fine with me. He knows what you are saying so I'm not too concerned. My daughter was talking in short sentences when she was his age plus I'm not in a hurry with him talking because of the future arguments between my two and it's bad enough having to get between the fights they have now. I can't imagine them arguing and my head is ringing just thinking about it...oh mine! I feel lucky I get to watch them grow up at this age to be able to stay home with them. They sure make me see things differently and there is always something going on like screaming, laughing, fighting, time outs and getting under my feet when I'm trying to keep things tidy. I think I gave up on the cleaning until they are going to school. No matter what I do or keep things tidy it's like a tornado goes through the house anyway. I do enjoy the sleeping in. Getting up at 9:30am every morning is nice. Training the kids to get up at that time is great too but at least I have a year to go before A starts pre-school and then I will have to get up early like everyone else. I guess that's what Caffeine is for.... I just realized we as my family has been living out of our laundry room. It seems like none of the clean clothes are getting put away. I hate laundry but love grocery shopping..weird! It's fine with me on my laundry not getting put away. It's not like our kids are allowed up stairs by themselves anyway and every morning they get dressed downstairs so running back up and down the stairs to get clean clothes is a waste of time plus my daughter likes finding her clean Thomas the Tank Engine clothes in the laundry room. We all win. It's funny when my daughter was smaller she loved Dora the Explorer and I thought she just liked the show because that's what she liked watching but now my son loves it. Every time he knows it's coming on he dashes to the couch and is glued to the TV until it is over. I guess Dora the Explorer is interesting to little kids. I don't see a difference in Dora compared to other kids shows but they could care less of watching those and they sure like watching Dora. I also like them watching Lazytown. When A was about 6 months old I needed to distract her for a little while so I could get things done around the apartment and Blue Clues was driving me crazy. I think I was losing brain cells in the process by watching Blue Clues so anyway I found this show on Nick Jr and loved it. I think Noggin only plays Lazytown now. It took me along time before I allowed the kids to watch Blue Clues. J loves Blues Clues so I can't discriminate because I don't like it. We have all the Lazytown DVD's and also have shows taped on our TIVO. I love this show and it's the first kids show where I could watch with the kids without feeling like it was going to turn me stupid. So if you haven't watched it before you should watch it. Great kids show! Well after wresting with the little one trying to write this blog entry I'm tired. It's not easy having a 17 month old hanging from your neck while typing on a laptop is not an easy task. Children are a joy, a pain sometimes but they have so much love. Gotta love kids!