Ella had so much fun at the park. We had beautiful weather on Sunday and took advantage of it. Here’s a couple of pictures.
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Park Day
Ella had so much fun at the park. We had beautiful weather on Sunday and took advantage of it. Here’s a couple of pictures.
6 Year Old Unhealthy Eater
It’s a backwards edition of Works For Me Wednesday and I get to ask for some advice on something. I’ve actually been thinking about what I’m going to ask for the past week and have had so many ideas come to mind, but I think I’ve decided to stick with some advice on my son. Jayden is 6 years old and we have the worst issue with foods. It’s my fault and I’ll start there. We lived a very busy life up until a year ago and there wasn’t much time for home cooked meals and we’ve lived our lives in the fast lane and spent many nights eating fast food and basically CRAP. I am now a SAHM and have picked up cooking and we actually have home cooked meals almost every night. Jayden, however, does not eat what we eat. His list of foods is as follows:
Sandwiches (on wheat bread)
Chicken Nuggets
Corn Dogs
Top Ramen
Fish Sticks
Chicken
Tons of fruit (I’m lucky here)
However, he will not eat a veggie if his life depended on it. If I stick something in front of him at the table that he does not eat he actually will throw up. It’s horrible. I know 110% that it is my fault, so I just wanted to cover that, but I want to nip this in the butt and have been trying for a while. I took him to the doctors and they’re going to do some testing on him, but in the meantime how in the world am I going to get this kid of mine to start eating healthy? We just found out my husband has high blood pressure and now we’re even going more healthy in our home and I really want my son to be on board with this. I don’t want to make 2 meals at night, but I don’t want him to throw up at my table. I’m kinda at my witt’s end.
So, my question to you is, what can I do to get him more healthy. Do you have a recipe that you could share that he might like and has hidden veggies in them? HELP!!!
Also, if you wouldn’t mind, if you know anything about how to lower blood pressure please CLICK HERE and comment on my post from yesterday about helping my husband to lower his blood pressure. Thank you so much!!!
To check out other’s participating this week in backward’s WFMW head over to Shannon’s Blog
Happiness Shattered in 1 Second
It amazes me how we can go through life doing our routines when something out of the middle of nowhere can shatter your happiness in literally 1 second. I feel like that happened to me tonight. I know that what I’m about to say doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, but it’s huge to me. My husband has worked graveyard for our entire relationship. We’ve known no different. I mentioned before about how he will be moving to days. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this, but it’s grown on me. His new schedule was going to be 4am-1pm Tues-Sat. It was the perfect schedule! Jayden gets out of school @ 12:30pm so we’d have all day together. Tonight my husband called me to tell me that he checked the schedule and he’s scheduled for 3pm-midnight starting 3/10/08. I LOST IT! I was hysterical on the phone. My poor husband thought I’d be happy and I wasn’t. See, he failed to look at the biggest con to this whole thing. Jayden has had his daddy all day his whole life. You can’t rip that away from a child. You can’t go from having your dad around all day to only seeing him 1 1/2 hours a day. Jayden gets home from school at around 1pm. Gino would have to leave the house at 2:45pm. They’d never see each other and it’s not gonna work. Gino is going to have to go in there and tell them that we based our lives around this new change. Going away from graveyard was a big enough burden on us, but now they’ve changed what was originally planned. It’s not going to work. I will not have this big of a change happen to our son. As I was talking about tonight, Jayden’s already having problems this will make them SO much worse.
Please pray that something happens here. I wouldn’t even mind Gino working 8am-5pm….anything but 3-midnight. That is the worse shift EVER! And I was just getting into cooking dinners and OMG I am so depressed about this.
Struggling with behavior
Every day it seems like Jayden does something wrong at school. Honestly, I get pretty darn tired of the teacher calling me or giving me that “look” after school like ‘He was an absolute TYRANT today.’ I’m almost at my wit’s end with this boy and just don’t know what to do.
Today we went to go and buy Jayden a new radio. He’s been into music and I thought it would be cool for him to have his own CD player in his room. So, while buying it I got a phone call from his teacher. First thing she had to tell me was that Jayden has been poking other students with his pencil. UGH! I knew this was going on, because Jayden comes home and tells me that his friend does this to him. Then when his teacher gave them their work to do, Jayden put an X on his worksheet because he didn’t want to do it. I don’t know what to do! I want him to listen to his teacher, do his work, be a model example in school (who am I kidding!?!?! LMAO) but seriously, I don’t want Jayden to struggle. I want to get down to what it is exactly that’s causing him to struggle with following directions. This honestly scares the living crap out of me. I can’t imagine how hard it’s going to be when he’s in Junior High or High School. I don’t even want to think about how my vibrant little Ella is going to be. Being a mom is the most wonderful gift from God, but man it’s hard! I know I’m good a mom, but a part of me almost is feeling like a failure since Jayden has a hard time. I know shouldn’t, but I do.
I decided tonight to not let him get away with all the little stunts he pulled today. So, we bought his CD player, which he really didn’t even know we were buying, but we get home and I put the box on the floor and watched him get all excited. I’m so evil! I sat him down and said, it looks really cool doesn’t it? Keep in mind we bought the Pirates of the Caribbean Treasure Chest Boombox. Then I told him unfortunately since he didn’t do his work at school and because he was poking other kids w/his pencil that he wasn’t able to watch cartoons or listen to his new CD player. He was devastated, but I’m hoping that this gives him motivation to do good. Tomorrow if he can at least show that he’s trying I will give his CD player to him, but the first day that his teacher tells me that he doesn’t do his work or is fighting with other kids it’s gone again and he’ll have to earn it back w/good behavior. This also goes w/Cartoons, which if you know Jayden you know Cartoons is his everything.
If you’re a lurker on my blog and have some advice for me PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave me a comment and give it to me.
Devious Little Minds!
I swear I don’t understand how kids get to be so smart! I’m not talking book smart, I’m talking downright deceivingly smart. Jayden spends a lot of his time upstairs. The computer he’s allowed to play w/is up there, his toys are up there – it’s Jayden’s world up there. However, there are things of mine up there as well…. of course. I walked up stairs and walk in my room to see Jayden sitting on my laundry basket filled with clean laundry. It not only irritated me that his dirty little body was sitting on top of my clean, white clothes, but that he was bending the crap out of my laundry basket. Jayden looks at me and goes, “Oh, Mom, I didn’t hear your footsteps. Sorry.” Greaaat! I wonder what else he does upstairs when I’m not up there for him to have to listen for my footsteps.
Friday Letters
For Works For Me Wednesday I thought I’d share something special that I do for my kids with other moms. There’s so many memories with kids and not enough space in the baby books to put them. I want my kids to be able to go back and read about milestones they had, funny things they said, and even the bad stuff. I want them to be able to know how much they truly were loved so a few weeks ago I went and bought 2 journals. One for Jayden, one for Ella. I set a reoccurring reminder in my phone calendar for every Friday @ 10:00pm and every Friday I write a letter to each child in their journal. Some letters are a short I love you, and others are detailed. I only wish I thought of this when Jayden was a baby, but better late than never. In the first letter I promised that they would have a letter every Friday. When they’re 18 I’ll wrap the finished journals up and give them as a birthday present. It will be a lot of reading for them, but what a special gift that will be for them.
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A Little Bit of Ella – A Little Bit of Jayden
Ella has decided to say forget crawling and has resorted to rolling to whatever location she wants to go. It takes her a few minutes, but she gets there. This sorta started last night, but went full blown today. Sadly, she also rolled into a tall candle stick thingy of mine and that fell on her head… so she has her first bump. I really have to get to baby proofing now and that sucks. She is still trying to crawl and is almost there, but she’s loving this new rolling game.
We went up to my Grandma’s house today to work on a quilt that I’m making and I took a couple pics of the kids. I really wanted to take more, but Ella just wasn’t into it…maybe she’ll be more into it on Thursday when I go back. ALSO!!! Jayden drew my cousin a picture and wrote To: (Then asked me how to spell Jill) From: Jayden all by himself!!!!! He didn’t even ask me how to spell To & From ~ I couldn’t be prouder of my little man.
Jayden’s First "Real" Valentine’s Day
Last night Jayden sat down with his list of school mate’s names and wrote out each and every single Valentine. He was so excited this morning to go to his Valentine’s Day class. He even wrote “I Love You” on his girlfriend’s Valentine. I bought him the movie Aladdin for Valentine’s Day w/some chocolates. I couldn’t wait for him to get out of school today so I could watch it with him. That is one of my FAVORITE Disney movies. I think he was a little shocked when I knew all the words to all the songs. Actually I was a little shocked that I still remembered them. Yes, I was singing. Jayden would get mad if I sang the “boy” part. I was only allowed to sing when Jasmine sang.
Jayden made me the sweetest card I’ve ever seen. In the pictures you’ll see his hand prints that are made into a heart and he wrote out the card all by himself. I’m so proud of him. He has turned into the most sweetest boy. Watching him grow into such a respectable, sweet , precious soul is so rewarding. 
No More Baths
Jayden is now too “old” for baths. He’s six years old and six year olds take showers. I must say I’m quite pleased with this new decision of his. Last night while Jayden was in the shower I cleaned MY bathroom – not his… MINE! It was so needed. He actually is doing a good job washing himself. Even his own hair! He uses a loofah like his daddy (yes he probably would kill me if he knew I was putting this on the world wide web) and I could watch through the clear glass door to see if he was doing a good job. It was all a success. No splashing, no water on the floor, no me bending down to help him. I like this no more baths deal. He was even singing in the shower… how cute is that? It amazes me how every day this little boy of mine is growing into his own little person. I cannot believe that he’s 6. I cannot believe that he no longer wants to give his dad a kiss goodbye (boys do not kiss boys) I can’t believe that my baby is not a baby.