My brother asked me the other day "What happened to your blog?" I replied "School. And why? Did you like my blog?" My brother actually read and enjoyed my mommy blog! Well the semester is at a end so now I can a blog a little more for a bit :)
My friend, Lindsay, most accurately titled my frustration that I felt at the Super Target today with Autumn while finishing Christmas Shopping.....The Nod of Shame.
The Nod of Shame- When two mothers cross each others paths and both of their children are acting out. Eye contact and a nod of the head is done to assure the other mother "I feel your pain" or "I have been there".
We went through a stage at about 13 months where going to the grocery store became more difficult as Autumn realized, "Hey I can move by myself you know". That phase passed and the grocery store became fun again for awhile. But now we have entered a new stage.....Ms. Independent. Yes Kelly Clarkson just had a flash back in my head but this is not a yay go you girl moment. My toddler ( I have stopped saying baby :( ) does not want to sit in the cart, cause well she is a big girl, and randomly decides, I want to go this way. This starts a chain reaction of mom with a cart chasing a toddler. Now there are times when we go shopping that she behaves like a perfect angel just walking next to me or sometimes she even pushes the cart. I let her pick out items, she throws them in the cart. And I even let her hand my debit card to the cashier. But there are other times that shopping was just not on the agenda in toddler land and that day was today! She had a couple of those, I give up "toddler throw your whole body back", screeching moments that are so loud and a little embarrassing that your face starts matching your red pea coat. Well I decided I am done lets go. We can do this another day. As I was leaving I saw a mom in the line for Customer Service, her toddler was doing the lying on the floor knees bent arched back cry, us mom's looked at each other, smiled and did the nod of shame. The minute we left Autumn was happy again.
Now for the part everyone loves a flash back of Autumn photos over the last couple months!
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| Our first haircut |
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| Autumn was a flower girl in 2 weddings this fall. She made it down the aisle both times :) |
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| We have mastered the cup but I still enjoy the comfort of a no leak sippy cup |
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| Our eating habits have improved! Autumn is trying new things and enjoys apples, strawberries, pears, and bananas |
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| this girl loves to climb |
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| Autumn was Tinker Bell for Halloween |
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| She has memorized all the Ponies names. The best one is listening to her say Rarity |
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| Eczema has improved I haven't used steroids in over a week! |
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| She has been very good at not touching the tree. It only took 3 visits to the time out corner |
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| Yep we rocked out sunglasses when we went to go see Santa |
