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My children are growing too fast

melodieshouse — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:48:50 +0000

I realized this weekend, again, that my children are growing too fast. My oldest, Melissa, is 6, and yesterday my husband took the training wheels off her bike. I know age 6 is not prodigious for going 2-wheels only, but I still feel so proud of her. She took to balancing on her bike so quickly, and I’ve watched her this afternoon riding in the driveway like she’s been doing it all along. I didn’t take to balancing on 2 wheels so well when I was a kid. I asked my son, Joshua, who’s 4 now, if he’s ready to ride without the training wheels and he said no. I’m pretty sure it won’t take long for him to change his mind though. Now if I can get the twins potty trained, that’s one milestone I’ll be SOOOO glad to get through. I will NOT miss the days of diapers. I DO miss when they were cuddly little bundles small enough to rest in each of my husband’s hands (except Joshua, he wasn’t quite that tiny), and they would coo and grunt and nuzzle our necks. I miss when they would nurse their fill and look punch drunk. I miss the days when there were no socks and shoes small enough to stay on their feet. I miss Melissa vocalizing “eeeeeee,” “eeeeeee” trying to talk to us when she was only a few months old. I miss feeling them move in my belly when I was carrying each of them. I miss experiencing the moments right after each of them was born.

But I have many more milestones to look forward to. The twins sleeping in big girl beds, then going to the potty on their own. My son and the twins riding their bikes without training wheels. Each of them reading to me instead of me reading to them. More days of no front teeth. Watching them become their own persons. Teaching them about Jesus and the ways of the Lord, then watching them grow in faith. Then PUBERTY and the TEENAGE years (well, I’m not sure I look forward to that period, but I’m hopeful that time in their upbringing will ultimately prove to be very rewarding and we’ll all look back on those years with fondness).

Motrin in a Sling

melodieshouse — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:39:32 +0000

McNeil, the company that makes the Motrin line of pain relievers, recently released the following commercial:

Controversial Motrin Moms Commercial

This commercial ticked off a lot of baby-wearing moms, creating quite a buzz in the blogosphere, lots of video responses on YouTube, and enough complaints to McNeil that the company issued this statement on the Motrin website:

I’m actually one of the vocal minority that thought the furor was much ado about nothing. You’d think that McNeil was undermining the fabric of American families by suggesting baby carriers can hurt. I don’t watch hardly any TV at all because it’s like feeding your brain a steady diet of junk food, so I would have never known about this commerical except I was alerted to it in an e-mail. After seeing it I actually thought the commercial, though kind of tacky in its narrative, was funny, because I can relate to it. I tried a sling with my oldest when she was a few weeks old (she’s 5 now) and didn’t like it, and neither did she. I also found taking the baby out of a carseat, into the sling/carrier, and back in the carseat when out and about to be a hassle. So I quickly abandoned the idea. Three more kids later and I go around looking tired and crazy most all the time too. Now I will acknowledge that if you’re using a sling/carrier and feel like you need to take Motrin, you need to adjust it or get another that fits closer to you and is better supported to take the strain off and relieve the pain, but I bet there are some moms out there that can’t wear any kind of sling or carrier without pain, probably because they already have neck, back and/or shoulder issues. I would hope they wouldn’t take Motrin and wear their babies anyway just so they look or feel like a “real mom.” They shouldn’t be made to feel guilty if they have to stop.

I wonder how the Greatest Generation got along without being worn by their mommas?

My Twin Girls are 2 Years Old Today!

melodieshouse — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:09:05 +0000

I can’t believe it, they’re growing so fast! It seems like only yesterday that I gave birth to these little angels, and it’s been 2 yrs already! Happy Birthday Angela and Abigail!

Here’s Angela (L) and Abigail (R) at about 3hrs old:

Here’s Angela (front) and Abigail (back) this past summer:

Spit can happen

melodieshouse — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:31:39 +0000

I was watching the Republican convention last night and while Sarah Palin held her baby son Trig onstage after her speech, I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be funny if the baby spits up on her shoulder while the world’s watching?” I didn’t see her drape a burp cloth over her shoulder either. Amazing what mommy brains think.