Mike is busy at work as usual and on top of that he was called to be the Elder's Quorum President a couple of months ago so his life got even busier but manages to find time to do house work, yard work, and spend time together as family.
I was released from YW and now I'm in the nursery as an assistant. I try not to complain about anything but this is probably the hardest calling I ever had just because I have Ella with me. I adore kids and love playing with them but holding a 4 month old with me trying to play and watch other kids are not the easiest thing to do and not only that trying to teach a lesson. My friend was so kind and offered to take Ella with her to Relief Society so I was able to actually do my calling until the last 10 minutes with a crying and hungry baby trying to manage other kids. That was really hard. How do people have so many kids and even in closer in age? Even to complain more, Abbie is not being a good girl at all. She doens't listen, doens't obey, she talks back all the time and hits me. How do I fix her attitude? She tells me that I'm mean and doesn't like me, etc. oh boy, I'm scared to see her in ten years. Any tips or suggestion on how to change her behavior? But she is good sometimes. She loves to paint, do crafts, read, sing, and dance. She is always singing, making up songs, and dance all the time with her skirt on. Preschool is done after this week for three months and I have NO IDEA what I'm going to do having no break from her. I just hope that she'll pass the terrible threes when she turns 4 in July. Hopefully she'll be busy and get tired after her swimming lessons.
On the other hand, Ella is such a good baby. It makes my life a little easier. She only cries when she's hungry and tired. She has been sleeping through the night for a while but with teething, she's up two or three times but goes right back to sleep when I give her a pacifier. I cannot believe she's already four months old. She loves to play with toys, sleep, and not to mention LOVES to EAT and also smiles a lot. She has got a really big and cute smile! She's our chuncky girl and LOVE her! of course I love Abbie too especially when she is sweet and kind.
Life is good. I have decided that I don't care where I live as long as I can be with my family. I didn't like living in the desert at first but now I don't mind it so much. Who knows how long we'll be here but I just hope that we can do fun things and take advantage of where we live and go out and take more trips. Good thing we got my family in San Diego. We can go there anytime we want and won't have to pay for hotels (just extremely over priced gas and some food).
I realized that I haven't been taking pictures of Ella. not even close to how much I did with Abbie so my goal is to capture many of Ella and her growth.
Now enough said for now, just lots of pictures! ( it is not in order, sorry, no time and if I don't get this out now, who knows when I will do it next time LOL)
Played out in the backyard on a really nice day:
Abbie loves her new haircut! I cut about 5 inches long
Ella's big smile :) can't get this picture to turn...
Abbie's always keeping her eyes on Ella
Abbie is finally wanting to learn to ride her scooter
Abbie loves Ella
Can you spot Ella? Abbie loves to water the flowers with her big pettiskirt I made
more watering
sunbathing
Ella loves her daddy! She gets excited everytime he comes home and gives him the biggest smile :)
Abbie opening up her eggs she found outside
2 comments:
Fun to read your update.
My friend has two about the same ages as your two and she just wrote a very similar post of what do I do? Being a mom can be so hard sometimes...
Hey sweetie! Looks like a lot of fun things, and craziness happening over there. Hang in there, having my kids, at least Lily and Cloey (17 months apart), close actually has made it easy for me. When I had Autumn they were old enough to where they were playing well together. They are all good friends, but Autumn is our little pistol, she can have a temper and she and I seem to butt heads. I have found that when she gets cranky figuring out why, redirecting her ( getting on her level and playing with her for a while) has helped. I am sure you already do things like that you are an amazing mom!
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