RE-ASSESSING

Do you other mothers out there find that about every 3 weeks, you have to re-asses how you have been doing as a mother, and re-start all over again. These past couple of days life at home with Macie has been a little bit rough, Macie has been fussy, grabby, whinny and even throwing a couple of temper tantrums. The past couple of days I have been blaming her for it, teething, not being able to communicate properly, even maybe having a touch of the flu. Then this afternoon as I was baking banana bread and Macie was helping me and her face was lighting up with smiles and giggles it hit me that I am the reason Macie has been so tough. As I mentioned in my latest post how her obsessions change so quickly, well so does the toys she likes to play with and the things I build for her to play with. She is getting older and a bottle full of silver bells, beads and little colored pom poms wont keep her satisfied anymore for hours. I have to stop for one second and give a huge praise to Pinterst or I truly believe I would be the most boring mom on the planet. So as the little munchkin naps the lists are coming out of new adventures we must have and new things we must explore and new toys and games I must make for the two of us too do. I hope I am right hear and trying new things with Macie and different activities will bring back my happy, fun little girl. Any ideas or tips out there would also be greatly appreciated from other moms who are reading this post and smiling as they probably remember moments like this far to well.

OBSESSIONS

There are a few things in Macie's life right now that she is obsessed with

#1. Balls, even though we play with balls all day at home, when we go to the servus sports centre and there are tons of new toys she could play with she speedily runs past theme and strait for the balls.

#2. Music. I think her happy place right now would be a huge room full of balls that was playing music. We have our stereo set up in our kitchen right now and she knows what the remote looks like, once she sees the remote she cries for it and then points her fingers at the stereo. Once we turn it on she is full out dancing for a good 30 to 45 minutes.

#3. Nelson, her stuffed monkey. This morning I had to give her a little time out in her crib as she would not calm down, I forgot that Nelson was in there and after 2 minutes of pure silence I thought I better check to make sure she was not asleep. When I went in she was lying in her crib and was giving Nelson kisses. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. she even knows the monkey by name and if I ask her to go and get Nelson she knows exactly who he is and where she can find him.

#4. Raisins. It blows my mind that a kid could like raisins this much, but she is crazy obsessed with them. She would eat them all day long everyday if I let her. She never gets sick of them and has at times eaten a whole box to herself, and these boxes are not little.

I am sad to report that her little Octopus bath friend is no longer of interest to her and her new favorite thing to do in the tub is fill a container with water and then poor it out.

It amazes me how quickly her obsessions with things can come and go so quickly. Although I see these 4 obsessions sticking around for quit a while, or at least I hope.

LOOKING AHEAD IN 2013

There are always so many things I desire in life, to be a certain weight, to have so much money in savings, to have things done around my house, especially now with being a mom goals and accomplishments I want to fulfill with Macie. However all of these things in the end are worldly desires and thoughts, though many are good and many are selfish they are still all worldly. Mark these past couple of weeks has really had are family thinking a lot about being less worldly and focusing more on the Savior and how to love and help others more. He quoted a Scripture to me the other day...  "Many are called but few are chosen and why are they not chosen, because there Hearts are set upon the things of this world." It really had us both thinking are we individuals that are called but sadly not chosen or called and chosen. I feel that I am not a chosen one yet, but desire so to be. So as I look ahead to accomplishing many goals and tasks this year the only important one the only one I hope to commit to 100% is to try and live my life to be a chosen one. 

2013 GOAL
- Read or watch something everyday besides my Scriptures about the Savior.

SO LONG FARWELL!!!!

I couldn't decide if I wanted the title of my post to be Mini Van Mom or So Long Farewell, but seeing as our new vehicle is not a mini van and I shed a tear as I was driving our cobalt to the dealership for one last drive, and Mark shed a tear last night as he drove the truck to the dealership I thought this title was the most appropriate. So truly so long farewell to the GMC Sierra and the Chevy Cobalt (or Kobe, the name my Best Friend gave her). So many good memories and too many to write about, like sleeping in the back seat as we waited at the border crossing for it to open the next day on our way to Colorado, or dancing, crying and screaming in the Cobalt when it truly hit me that I was having a little girl and the vehicle beside me pointing and laughing at me. Both these vehicles were so good to us and kept us safe and seriously gave us tons of good memories, but onto new memories and new adventures in our "New" to us Chevy Traverse.

The option that most excited me was the DVD player, yay for quiter road trips

STARTING HER YOUNG!!!!

I hope that I am able to be a mother that lets her kids follow there dreams and not push or force them into anything, but I definitely would be thrilled if my little girl found a love for basketball.

She was doing really good at first and would pick the ball up and throw it in the hoop herself but of course once I brought the camera out she was done being interested in it. It was cute to watch her pick it up and throw it in the hoop. The ending of this movie is painful just to warn watchers.

Macie's First Christmas Dress

I remember year after year after year after year after year when we were trying to get pregnant, coming to church on the Sunday before Christmas and always being sad that I didn't have an adorable little girl to dress in a beautiful Christmas Dress. Well no longer do I need to be sad, as this year I got to put my little Munchkin in her First Christmas Dress and although she did not co-operate with taking pictures she still looked adorable in her Christmas Dress. 

this is the best pic I got of her

crying cause she wanted to play with the camera

refusing to look at Mom

still refusing

I thought this was the best pic of her cute dress

OH WHAT FUN, MACIE IS ONE!!!

That is right, my little munchkin is One Years Old Today, and oh did we have a joyous time celebrating it, that's for sure. The morning we woke her up and brought her into a family room full of balloons, which she of course loved (balloons are an obsession of hers right now). Then Macie, Grandma Hunsperger and Myself headed to the Servus Sports Centre to burn some energy out of her so she would have a good afternoon nap. Boy did she have a good nap, 2 1/2 hours later and everything finished and ready for the party. We then just played and hung out and waited for guests to arrive. Daddy got home early from work to wish Macie Happy Birthday and then the guests started to arrive. We had Hawaiin Haystacks lots of goodies and snacks, sang Happy Birthday, ate delicious cupcakes and just enjoyed a wonderful evening with family and friends celebrating the Birthday of our sweet little girl. The endless pictures say it all.

DAY 15

My Miracle

At the end of an insane day getting ready for macie's birthday, taking Macie to her 1 year doc visit, and without a doubt being overwhelmingly exhausted from chasing around a walking, getting into everything one year old, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. I wouldn't want any other little munchkin to spoil for her birthday, run me raged or mess my house up everyday, but her. She is perfect, beautiful, amazing, without a doubt wonderful and my little miracle.

DAY 14

Her Infectious Smile:

I was going to save this one for the last day, as it is definitely one of my favorite things about this little girl, but decided to have something else for DAY 15.
Her Smile really is amazing, and she can light up a room wherever she goes, I will do anything and everything to get as many smiles as I can out of her during the day. Luckily it is not hard to get her to flash a grin. If I am missing her at work all I have to do is flip through my IPhone of the 100's and 100's of photos I have of this little girl smiling and it brightens my day. If you are ever having a bad day, all it takes is one smile from this little girl and it makes it all go away.

I didn't have time to take a pic of her today, so I will share a couple of my favorite pics of her smiling.

okay I guess I couldn't just pick a couple, so hear are a lot of pics that I love of her smiling.

DAY 13

COBALT

Maybe it is because Cobalt seems unique, and she does not see her as much as she sees the puppies, but she has this intense fascination for cobalt, and is definitely more obsessed with her then the dogs. She still loves the dogs too but Cobalt has definitely taken over the title of favorite pet.