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Well the Beast Lehna has finally developed…

Last week when Tait went to pick up Lehna and Maya from daycare the teacher pulled Tait aside and told him that Lehna was HORRIBLE all day long. She then proceeded to tell Tait that Lehna was put in time out for calling the teacher a bad name and then while she was in time out… she then proceeded to THROW CHAIRS at the teacher demanding that her daddy come pick her up.

YIKES does this sound like a story that MY parents would have told people! Well Tait said in the car ride home Lehna was HORRIBLE she didn’t listen ran away from him… it was just a bad day for Little Miss Lehna.

Well when she got home she has stopped crying and we put her in her room in her bed for about a ½ hour to kind of “reflect” and I went in and told her how disappointed I was in her for not listening. So during that time I found out “what happened” to her during the day. This is Lehna’s side of the story.

She said that she was put in time out b/c she called Ms. Angie a poopy diaper. She said that when she was in time out the rest of the children got ice cream and she said that she wasn’t allowed to have any b/c she was in time out so she got ANGRY b/c she didn’t get any and started to throw the chairs b/c she was mad that the teacher didn’t give her any and did demand for her daddy to come pick her up.

So it also turns out that the day before a little girl in Lehna’s class got really mad and started to throw chairs… they said that she DEMANDED for her daddy to come pick her up and they said that she was bad enough that they did have to come pick her up… So Lehna was in fact copy catting that girl. So that is good news… I never found out if the ice cream part of the story was true but I’m sure she did call the teacher a poopy diaper right now Poopy is kind of her “word” of choice.

So we had to bibe her. We told her that if she is good the rest of the week then on Saturday we would take her bowling. Well she was excellent the rest of the week and we took her bowling on Saturday. It was really fun we played just one game… we did the whole 2 games before and that was a WAIST Lehna was just so done. But she lasted until frame 8 and then she started running around and stuff, but it was fun. Then we played some games and stuff in the arcade which was pretty fun. Lehna did trip on the step and hurt her head but other than that it was a pretty fun activity.

This week we told her if she is good then we will get her a Dora Birthday Movie… but she changed her mind and decided that she wants Sleeping Beauty BUT we found out that isn’t going to be released until October 7th. So we told her we would get her another movie of her choice on Friday. BUT then last night happened.

Lehna and Maya went to bed pretty easily last night. Maya was totally zonked by 8:30 after of course a screaming fit that lasted like 15 minutes (she was VERY tired). Then Lehna went right into her room. Lehna was pretty quiet and then as I was lying in bed I could hear her wrestling around, so I had to go investigate.

When I went into her room the little stinker had pulled all of her clothes out of her drawers and took ALL the toys and diapers and such off of the baby changing table. And piled them in a huge MOUND in the middle of the floor she even pulled off her blankets of her bed and piled them under the floor. So I told her very firmly (mind you I can’t yell b/c Maya is in the same room sleeping) that I was very disappointed in her and that she has a major mess to clean up tomorrow after daycare. She gave me attitude… which just DRIVES ME CRAZY and I put her back in her bed turned off the TV and soon she fell asleep, but mercy me is there a mess to clean up. Tait told her that she wasn’t going to get a movie unless she helped pick up the mess. Which NEVER goes well… she also stands along the side and says she’s not going to help…

I haven’t quite figure out when she does that how to make her start helping… without pulling her arms to hold things… which I don’t think would be very successful… but usually if she does that I just ignore her… thinking that reverse psychology will work… IT NEVER WORKS… isn’t that sad L so if anyone has any suggests on how to get my young three year old motivated when she’s being a young beast… please let me know.

Tait and I have decided we are going to do the bribing thing for awhile so far at DAYCARE she has gotten really good remarks about her behavior and how well she is doing. At home… not so much, but I really just care how she is with other people. I mean I realize that at home she is always going to be worse b/c we are her parents so she’s going to challenge us more… you know what I mean.

Maya has been given some really good compliments from daycare. They said that she is the best speaker in the class. Which she does have a large vocab but she still is kind of hard to understand. She knows the word Thank you really well. Also please she knows well. You really have to listen to what she is saying but you can normally pick out the words she is saying. She knows Bottle REALLY well… I need to hide them I think pretty soon b/c she is a BIG bottle baby. I mean she’s 18 months old… it’s time. But she really does speak well. They said she also is really well behaved, so that’s good am glad that she is good. Of course at home she throws HUGE fits. This past weekend she threw herself on the ground and started kicking the floor… it was an interesting site to say the least. So I know that she still gets frustrated… It’s mainly when we tell her No to something she wants… she normally “wants” to climb on chairs and on the table… things that are VERY unsafe… the silly girl.

This past weekend another exciting thing was that Maya was now old enough to go into Nursery at Church. So Tait and I were able to sit peacefully in Sunday school and also in our separate meetings afterwards it was so wonderful. They said that Lehna was SOOOO helpful with Maya they said she would show Maya were all the toys were and that type of thing. It was really very nice. Lehna keeps asking me if she is going to go back to nursery next week and I keep telling her yes. It’s very cute how protective she is over Maya. Maya I know loves her big sister. They are always playing together and Lehna gives Maya her suckers all the time usually unused but still really sweet. I am glad that they seem to have a good relationship in that way. Well so far anyways.

This is an update within an update… you know me I start and update get distracted then have to start a new one… this one I’m just including old news with new b/c you know I’m just really too lazy to rewrite the whole darn thing again.

So what’s the news around our home this week?

Well Lehna has managed to “earn” bowling & a movie for behaving at daycare. This past week she was so good I took her to Wal-Mart and told her she could pick out any movie she wanted (in the kid section of course) and the little girl picked up this Barbie Movie and said “this is the movie I want, it has princesses” Well you can’t argue with that and that’s the movie we went with… it was ONLY $5 bucks! So what can I say she has cheap taste? So this week I decided to make the ‘prize’ a bit smaller and I told her that if on Friday if she gets good reports I would take her to the store and she can pick out any color of nail polish and we will paint her nails and toes, she’s VERY into this. So we have talked about it all weekend long and she can’t wait! So like I said she has CHEAP taste LOL.

This past weekend we headed down and over to Williamsport. Tait’s parents were in town and we had tickets to the football game so they watched the girls on Saturday and we went and had tailgating and football. It was a ton of fun good game too. Since the game was sooooo early we brought breakfast items. Its was a good time. My coworker had extra tickets so we went up and sat where his season tickets were and they were really awesome seats so that was really fun. After the game we went back down to Williamsport and visited with Tait’s grandmother and Aunts and Uncles it was good time.

Then on Sunday we skipped church and headed back down to Williamsport b/c there was a festival going on and they were having dinner and such. It was really good they made Ham and Beans so we were very AUROMATIC afterwards but it was really fun. The parade was also really nice they gave out SO much candy every person in the parade had candy so we sat with a bunch of kids so they threw out gobs and gobs of it. We let both Maya and Lehna eat their fill of it on Sunday then I put it “up” for now. Lehna asked where it was yesterday but I told her it was put away for now. I would have given her some but it was like 8:30 at night and knew she probably wouldn’t go to sleep, if she would have had sugar that late.

Well Tait and I are still working on our weight loss. I am still hovering at 8 lbs and nothing more. It’s sad. I’m actually going to see the doctor on Friday to see if my blood work is normal b/c maybe there’s a reason why I’m not loosing. I am hoping that there is a solution wouldn’t that be great. So we’ll see what happens. I am still walking everyday; we did start to increase the amount now we are starting to walk every day for 45 minutes to help get things moving a bit faster. It’s nice to have to walk together with the girls. Lehna likes it when we are near the side walk b/c then she gets to walk along side us on the side walk… yes we walk in the streets but it’s not a booming metropolis so it’s fine.

Tait is really close to one of his goals… he is going to probably hit it this week… and he will be at 32 lbs lost. So I’m so very proud of him. None of his clothes fit him so I had to get him smaller belts to help hold up his pants. I also went through his smaller clothes that I had packed away and pulled out his 2xl shirts and XL shirts and rotated them into his closet. I didn’t remove anything yet... but it’s coming. I don’t really want to go out and spend 300 bucks on more clothes for him though until he kind of tapers off a bit. He really is doing well and I’m just so proud of him. I hope he doesn’t hit a plateau any time soon. My clothes are still fitting darn them. I can really tell in my lower baby belly (I have two you know, upper and lower, each child left their own special gift) b/c my clothes are looser through there but nothing dramatic. I want to buy smaller belts b/c my clothes won’t stay up… but again… not so much. So I’m going to still keep working and eventually the darn stuff will come off. I am considering doing weight watchers but I’m really worried that that will not help b/c I KNOW I don’t diet… and I will do it for about a week and a half then go back to old habits b/c I’m just that lazy. So we’ll see what happens.

Maya is in this HUGE climbing stage so every vacant chair she wants to climb up on and go from chair to chair like a crazed monkey. She’s cute but it is challenging.

I am getting ready to make a huge movement in their room to get them all set for a brand new set up to put the girls in the same room still but put Maya in a bigger bed. I’m excited about it I just need to have time to go through the room and move stuff to the garage. So fun fun J I went through Maya’s clothes this weekend and removed all of the too small and moved bigger ones into her closet that took a while… I need to go through Lehna’s and I was going to… but after I got done with Maya’s I was so done going through clothes it wasn’t even funny. So I will save Lehna’s clothes for another day but she is going to probably need “bigger” shirts for fall time b/c I think that she is growing faster then her clothes will allow.

Okay that is all I have for now.

News from the Zoo

So I managed to go an entire month without updating… bad blogger bad…

But the good part IS Jackie and I were able to come up with a new “theme” for my fabulous blog… and it’s true… I truly live at the Wagner Zoo! Thank you Jackie. There are days in which no zookeeper in their life would work at this zoo b/c the animals are so moody… Tonight has been a rough night so maybe this isn’t the best night to blog… but heck I’ll give it a shot.

So let me begin. The beginning of August was really good. I was able to have a very romantic 5-year anniversary with Tait. We had a babysitter for 24 hours and Tait and I rented a Jacuzzi in the room… talk about fabulous… I want one of them for my house… So we enjoyed that quite a bit and went swimming and out to eat… it was a nice “relaxing” BREAK.

For Tait’s birthday this year we were VERY informal. We had a nice quite dinner at home. Tait didn’t want a party or anything he just wanted to enjoy his “girls” is what he told me. So we got an ice cream cake and southwestern chicken… pretty fabulous.

Then the end of August… well things got a little interesting out our home. Well it mainly involved the vehicle at our home.

As I was driving to work one morning, I noticed a shape in the roadway… well at first I thought it was a Styrofoam cup and there was a car in the other lane so I really couldn’t avoid the cup… and ran over it… little did I know that this “cup” was actually a HUGE concrete chuck of the roadside… and I SMACKED it HARD! I mean it hit my car… rattled around a bit underneath it and then it rolled out… and I was like “holy crap what the hell was that” well… I then put it all together very quickly… that it was a rock that I hit… so I got to work… and I got under my car and it totally smashed my oil pan to crap… soooo I was now leaking oil. So GREATNESS! This was the Corsica a car that I have had, then was then used by Jackie and Marcus, then was used by Trent, then was used once again by use… it is like the rotating car. It was a 1994 Corsica… so it was quite an old car… Well I called the police to make a report… I don’t know what else to do… and the police officer I have to say was QUITE a jerk face… I don’t know if he just thought I was ridiculous for making a report or what… but I didn’t know what to do… I was REALLY angry b/c there was a freaking piece of the road in the middle of the road… and I just happened to hit it and there was nothing I could do… quite crappy. Well after we took the car to the car place to get it fixed… I called my insurance company and more bad news that car didn’t have comprehensive or collision… it only has liability… soon the car WE would have to fix. More then upset is how I felt about it.

Well we got the car fixed b/c we knew that it was going to have to last at least until March b/c the SUV wasn’t paid off until then… well so we pressed forward… well… then all kinds of things started to happen. The transmission was starting to act up… it would kind of forget to shift… the car place said it sounded like that there was a problem with the timing belt or something like that… have no idea not a car person… soooo we decided that we couldn’t just continue in this car b/c it wasn’t dependable… I was really afraid to drive the car to Lafayette everyday. So we went car shopping.

So finding a new car was really fun for me b/c unlike last time when we got the van and even though Tait kind of left the decision to me, even though he was going to be driving it all the time I know that this CAR I WOULD be driving all the time. So it was a different experience. We went to this place in Lafayette after looking on line and kind of window shopping… they had a 2005 Certified Toyota Corolla. It drove soooooooo nice. We drove it around it was really a great car. So we bought it. It is lovely. I love being able to get in my car everyday and have a working AC and be able to go someone at lunch and have the car start and not have to worry about the car dying in the middle of an intersection every day… what a relief. So now we have TWO new cars… yeah for us. So we should be car happy for awhile. And the good news is the Corsica AND SUV are gone… YEAH! The SUV was such a burden this is really a great thing that we have now. It’s really fabulous.

So now it’s starting September and things are getting back into the school routine… I mean even though our kids are in school yet… daycare switches curriculum and Lehna comes home now talking about different letters and counting in Spanish and stuff, compared to the summer where she comes home and talks about which movies that she has seen. Which you know summer they relax and I understand you know…

So Tait and I looked into registering Lehna for Dance classes we actually told Lehna that we were going to register for classes but when I went to the studio to register Lehna they said that she was going to be in the “creative movement classes” which is the kinderdance classes… but what the means is she won’t be in the end of the year program… which kind of sucks… so we decided to keep Lehna out for a year, and wait until next year when she’ll be in the program at the end of the year… so keep that day open… lol.

Maya is growing and growing… she has really started taking off verbally… she was at the doctor’s yesterday for another ear infection and the doctor said that Maya is really ahead of where she’s supposed to be so that is good. She says phrases things like “I want more”, “Thank you”, “Bottle”, “Lemha, (which sounds like a combination of mommy and lama) it’s hard to explain, “Hold baby” “Molly Dog” she also counts to five after you say the words (so its more of a parrot thing verses her KNOWING the words) she also is learning where her nose, eyes, hair, tongue, tummy, knees, you all the body parts are… It’s so strange when you have one kid you teach all of these things too… then when you have a second kid you kind of “forget” that you have to teach the second one all of the same things you just taught your first kid… I don’t know it’s hard to explain. She is really doing well though. She still takes a bottle and pass… basically I AM NOT in a hurry to break these yet… passes am as serious as bottles to me… bottles I want to start anytime… but I’m not quite ready yet… Lehna was really easy but Maya I think it going to be hard… b/c Maya KNOWS what a bottle is, where the are, and how to get them… and she throws a HUGE fit when she doesn’t get them and to save my sanity… I’m not ready yet… I know that is ONLY going to make it that much harder later… I just am in no hurry to break it yet, at daycare bottles are totally gone… so it’s just at home that we are still doing it. The doctor really didn’t seem too concerned yet… so we are going to just pass.

Well some big news or I should say “skinny news” Tait and I have been working on loosing weight… Tait have to say has been doing a GREAT job. He has lost 28 lbs. so far in the past 6-8 weeks approximately. I have lost 8 but then I gained some back then lost some… so my total is like 5 lbs.… My body moves so slow… I have lost “roundness” but not really lbs. yet… we have been weight lifting and walking every since day. Tait really changed his diet and that’s where a lot of his weight started to come off. I didn’t really start changing my diet until like ohhhh two weeks ago… so that’s why mine has been up and down… I don’t believe in dieting b/c I know when I “diet” I don’t follow it so I have been educating myself on calories, excerise, reading labels… all kinds of education that I never did before. And it’s really changed… but I really didn’t get serious until like two weeks ago… when I saw how much weight Tait was losing I definitely wanted to get on the bus! So I’m very proud of Tait he is looking really good. I will have to get a new picture of him up…

Well that’s all that pretty much what’s happening right now. Hopefully I will update again soon. This week is the first Purdue football game… so I can’t wait for that… and we will be tailgating on top of that…

Talk to you all later and thanks for reading about us.