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Why is it so hard watching your oldest take new steps and grow up ? She's loosing teeth, taking on the responsibility of pets, homework, cleaning her room, she's being invited to birthday parties, getting good grades, and she's calling boys... what happened to my chubby little baby girl? I yell at her all the time to "stop growing" and "go back!" so I can hear her cute prattle again or rock her to sleep at night. I know why kindergarten is a love/hate relationship with parents - they have to see their babies grow and take new steps . She reads and spells to me all the time. She is so smart & so cute it breaks my heart to think that boys will be calling her (because she is a cutie) in a few years. well, she took another big step. She decided she wanted her ears pierced . I decided when she was a baby that I wanted it to be her choice & when she thought she was ready, we'd go do it. She warmed up to the idea about a week ago when she saw the...

Part 1 - "No more fish" Our good friends (the Perry's) offered to give Paige one of their fish since they just had babies. I was away when they picked it up but when I got home that night I asked Jason about the fish & he said it was fine and he put it in her tank.... oh no! I never cleaned it out after the last fish died . I ran in her room and said "Oh crap!" Paige sat straight up in bed and started crying. She said she didn't want any more fish . They die too much. I asked Jason to get the fish out of her room before she saw it in the morning - he grabbed the whole tank & threw it away. He said, "No more fish." The picture above is James impersonation of a dead fish . It makes me laugh every time I see it. No more fish. Part 2 - "the Haircut" It seems like most moms have horror stories of their kids & scissors . My little sister Megan had a mullet for quite a few years because she wouldn't leave her hair alone and rece...

This was the Betta fish that was Paige's first pet. I thought it would live forever and my sister assured me that they are darn near impossible to kill. And after all the assassination attempts on poor Cody's life from a myriad of preschoolers, I began to think Cody was immortal. That all changed today. Cody had lived through countless over feedings and muck in his fish tank. I was tired of the stench and thought I would do him & Paige a favor and really clean out his tank good. Jason had cleaned it out just a day or two prior and his water again returned to pea soup status thanks to James. Anyway, I safely put him in a bowl & began cleaning his tank. What I've learned from this experience is that bleach & fish don't mix, no matter how many times you rinse out the rocks & filters - you might want to neutralize the water before returning the fix to it's "toxic" home. If not this is what you get... Paige didn't have the heart to flush h...

I think there is a very important reason why Heavenly Father made our own kids so cute to us, and that we can see ourselves and others through them. It's for all the times they say: "Mom, your a bossy Gordon-head" or "Mom, you are grounded from me", or " mMMMMhhhhh " (aka sticking out tongue), or the heart breaker "I hate you" - yes. my 3 year old says that almost daily and usually when he is on time out. That one I always have to restrain myself from being mad and remind myself that he is 3 Years old. HF having greater wisdom then us, knew that we couldn't stay mad or even get upset when we see ourselves or hear our own voices in our little ones. Nothing melts me more then when James crawls in my lap and tells me "Mom, let's be best friends okay" or out of nowhere say "mom... I love you." Which he does all the time . I love that we are together during the day. Just me and my little buddy. He is such a helper a...

Since it's been 4 years since Jason & I've had a baby in our house, my friend Nikki sent me these reminders to help make the adjustment process a little easier with a new baby. I thought I better post them since I have a slew of friends popping out kids left & right. Coffee, well, I can understand - but does that include Coke products too? What if we are watching Dallas, still bad?.... This is just too disturbing. This one is for Chris, who already thinks I'm disturbed.