Dance Dance Dance!

Scarlett started dance. she loves it. i have mixed feelings about it.here are my concerns:
1. the other day scarlett got kicked out of class for crying. when she stopped, i opened the door to let go back in to class, and the teacher said "the rule is, that if she leaves, she cant come back in to class." Which made me think, "we are not making a career out of this, it is just for fun." and she is three! and the class is 2 hours long! i guess we will see how it goes.
2. there are some crazy moms in the dance world. kids get punished if they get kicked out of class. i mean i know that you can't allow your kids to give up on things, but please it is dance. some days it is hard for me to bite my tounge,so i guess i vent about it on my blog.
3. i dont want to offend anyone, but i really dont think that boys should be forced to go to dance class. and if you do send your boys to dance class make sure they dont say thing like "look mom, i am a sweet little danicing boy and my sister is a sweet little dancing princess." yes that is what i heard from a boy the class after scarletts. (his sister is in scarletts class) so i can not escape them. but i wanted to walk up to his mom and say, "what do you think you are doing." he is going to get the crap baet out of him when he gets to school. that is mean.

Well there is my venting. we really are enjoying dance, and for right now we will continue to go. but if at anytime she wants out, she can quit.

last but not least

Owen started walking. i know this is not a picture of that, but it is one of my favorite owen pictures. plus i dont have any walking pictures yet. all we have done it video it. i know...i am a bad mom. we are so proud of him!

Owen's number one enemy

as most kids do, owens hates the vacuum cleaner (how in the heck do you spell that anyway?) in fact owen acts completely devastated when i get it out. just look at his face...complete disgust!

owen and his guitar...

we can not get this child away from the guitar...not that we want to, but we have other things to do and he wants it all of the time. if he is not busy putting things in his mouth, or taking EVERYTHING out of drawers and cabinets, and plying in the dang toilet, he is playing the guitar. Boys are sooooo much work. we never baby proofed our house, and now we have to baby proof everything.

picky eaters?!

My sweet and perfect Scarlett will eat anything...healthy. the other night my mom ordered pizza and Scarlett said,"Mommo, i can not eat this, i need some broccoli." i have really made an effort with her to get her to eat healthy, and my hard work has paid off. When she wants a snack she asks for fruit, not sweets. i am doing weight watchers to try and loose all of the weight i gained by being pregnant for the last few years, so i like to think i cook pretty healthy. i want to do what is best for my kids in this area, so i am sooo proud of scarlett and her eating habits...then there is owen. He won't even touch baby food. he is so picky!!!!!! i have been forced to put him on big people food. he will take a few bites of something and then shake his head"no" and want something else. and no he does not want things like fruit and veggies, he wants things like pizza and macaroni and cheese. i had to get creative. so i made some whole wheat pizza the other night and he loved it. but who has time to make pizza from scratch every night?! not me, i will tell you that. this just means i have to think of other things. the other day i was searching for healthy cookbooks and i found this one...


So far i love it. it takes a little time to puree everything but it is worth it. Plus, Owne has been eating a few of the purees and he likes them.

We went to space and got some glow in the dark dinosaurs!

Yesterday mike took the day off so we went to the zoo and the space center...in Alamogordo.woohoo! those of you who know where alamogordo is will understand the Woohoo. It was the best day ever. we had soooo much fun and the kids were really good. the only meltdown was when we were eating at Mcdonalds and scarlett wanted to play on the playground. We were in kind of a hurry and we needed to go to Home Depot. I love home Depot because they have carts with steering wheels that look like race cars. that keeps both of my kids occupied for a while. GENIUS! but scarlett wanted to play at the park, not go to home depot. she was yelling "i dont want to go to the "hen" depot!" But once we got there she was all smiles. here are some pictures of space. Scarlett kept telling people that we went to space. and they had an elevator in space and glow in the dark dinosaurs, which she named "Tweety Bird and Holly"

Owen's new obsession

Mike has always played the guitar to our kids, so both of them are very comforted by music. Now that we have two kids, there is not much time to play guitar with them. The other night Mike got the guitar out for the first time in a long time and started playing. Owen Would not stop staring at it and playing with it. it was sooo cute, i had to take tons of pictures. so here are a few...




He played with the guitar for 45 minutes. those of you with kids know that that is amazing, considering a ten month olds attention span.Oh, and Owen has started standing on his own!!!!! pretty soon he will be walking and then i will be chasing two babies. Yay for me!!!!!