Kids Say... (July 2018)

Some more quotes from the kids.

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Miles: Don’t put diaper on me.
He’s wearing undies and didn’t want me to swap it.

7/4/18
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I changed Miles into a diaper .

Miles: I want undies.
Me: Miles we are leaving the house. You need to wear a diaper.
Miles: I want undies right now.

Goes over and gets undies and gives them to me.

7-8-18

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I‘m super lightheaded all day and yesterday.
I ate my food
Miles poured some of his into my empty bowl and said "gave you a little more"

Miles keeps offering me more food. Such a nice boy

7-10 -18

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Miles: For you
Giving me apple jacks

Me: Thank you. That is so nice.
Miles: Eat it

7-10-18

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Miles: Can’t see her.
He covered mummaw's face with a slipper on google hangout.

7/11
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I need to get video some day of Dave bringing Ella home. Ella walks in then sees Miles and gets so excited and says "Miles." Then Miles gets super excited and says “Miles”. Ella tells him " you have to say “Ella”." so he does. And they run toward each other.

7/12
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“Don’t take the butter” as he stole butter after pushing step stool over to get to it

7-12
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Miles walks over and spits out cheese

Me: Miles you spit out food in a napkin or on a plate.
Miles: No spit out food on your leg.

7-13
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Sometimes I start tickling Miles's back thinking it'd be nice and he'd like it like Ella and he says "don't tickle back, mommy"

I typed that above to my mom so decided to tickle his back to see if he’d like it.

He said "don't tickle my back mommy" then said "Ella likes tickle back."


7-13-18
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Miles gets my attention saying “I need medicine.”

I look over and see his sock is bloody. He was using his socked foot to rub behind his knee. It was so itchy and he made it bleed.

7-13
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Miles stands up

Me: Miles why are you up?
Miles: Go get something mommy

After some encouraging he got me up

Me: Miles what do you want to get?
Miles: Something from mommy’s room.

We head upstairs but he didn’t seem to want anything

7-13-18
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Standing for a diaper change
I tell him he’s a big boy.
“Hold shirt” and holds his shirt to make it easier for me. Wow such a big boy

7/19
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We are at the park and the kids keep me doing stuff.
Me: You know if you kids didn’t keep me so busy I could invite your friends to join us.
Ella: Can you invite Arya. I really like her and Sara?

10 minutes later “where’s Arya? “

(They didn’t even text back in that time since it’s normal busy dinner time.)

7-21-18

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Miles: Buy it for me.

Me: OK I'll buy you raisins.

Miles: Oh Thank you Mommy!

He was so excited that a lady in the aisle laughed and said how cute he was. 

7/23

Nursing (19 months with Ella)

I was finally done nursing Ella at 19 months and a week.   It was a horrible 3 months of weaning.  I had to wear a hoodie in the middle of Summer so she couldn't pull at my clothes to start nursing.  She cried every single day after nap to nurse for a full month.  I was always hearing comments like "after 3 days your child will stop asking" and "quit giving in and then she will stop crying for it."  I did not give in at all!  It was awful. 30 minutes of crying every day.  The one and only time she didn't cry after nap to nurse during that month was when Marie and Clara visited and they showed up before she woke up from nap so she had a friend to play with immediately.

Many people told me how their kids self weaned. I don't even know how that is possible. Well I mean I know every kid is different but still Ella is quite the extreme. 

Chatbooks

I started a new subscription that included facebook, instagram, and favorites on my phone.  I just got 20 books to start my order and be caught up.

I've gotten 18 books and 20 books before. Now I added 20 to that and only about a month behind. My 21st book will be closed soon.  I still get Groovebooks monthly and send them to my dad. Now books are $10. They used to be $8 a couple years ago when I started.  I also ordered 1 set when they had their 20% off 2 years ago. I've been waiting for my order to get 20% off and I got it with.  So I saved $40.  I have a code if you want to sign up then you can get $10 off.

The quality is good.   I like that you can keep the captions from facebook and instagram.  I tend to go through and edit longer descriptions so they are not printed on a second page.  Now with instagram changes I make collages less and would just post 5 pictures at a time. So as I go through I sometimes split up the caption to go with each picture so it wasn't all just with the first picture.   I figured I'd do this instead of photobooks but I still want to do some photo books. 

One thing is when I have instagram photos go to facebook then there are 2 of the picture in my series and I have to delete one. I just don't always post one photo to the other so I wanted to make sure I include them from both locations.

Here is an example of a time I kept a long caption and it shows up on the next page. I always make sure a spread like this is on the same page and I don't have to flip a page for the caption.

The other ones I got over a year ago.

How do you keep up with printing pictures? Do you keep up with photobooks? Do you scrapbook? Do you just put photos in an album?

1SE August 2018

I did less of roll the dice this month. I had one day without any videos. I had another couple with only vertical videos. I need to work on this.  I take videos vertical for instagram and then horizontal for this.

5.1.18 Roadtrip Day 1

It took 6 hours to pack and load the car. Dave went to the supercharger during this time so we didn’t have to go with everyone right away.

 2:36: We finally left and were on our way!

Went from 1500 to Leuhm’s to turnpike in Irwin.   Dave wanted beef jerky so that’s why we drove a few minutes out of the way to go to the candy store. Oh we also stopped and got some food at Arby’s.

 3:30 Miles called for Pap-Pap

5:30 Super charger

7:03 Beach.

Miles loves it.  Miles loves finding the rocks to give to Dave for him to skip them.

Ella made angels in the sand.

The kids did not want to leave the beach but we had to eat dinner and get to a hotel. 

 7:50 driving away and Miles loves it and crying for it.

Dinner

We went to Sara’s, a busy place near the beach. Jen met us there. We got curly fries and hot dogs.

Miles was so cute but then you could tell he was so tired.

At the hotel there was crying. Miles was just too tired. We had to wait for pack n play before he could go to sleep.

Miles asleep at 10:34. Ella is eating. My computer won’t work. I'm rusty at road trip stuff. I forgot to bring in water bottles to be able to fill up.

Ella slept in the closet instead of sleeping on the sleeper couch.

When we were parked in the lot and booking the hotel Ella asked us to hurry and then said she was peeing in her carseat a little or starting to pee or something like that. I hurried and got the travel potty. She kept saying to hurry so I knew she could not wait for us to walk halfway around the building into it and then to the bathroom wherever that was. We were parked at the Tesla charger by a side door but since we hadn’t checked in yet we did not have a room key to get in that door. The travel potty to the rescue.