Toddlers and Pets

Every mom (whether mom of a child or pet or both) thinks theirs is/are the greatest by far! I'm just going to say mine are the greatest for us <3

I was suppose to be adding a pictorial blog but as I was copying the photos from my camera to my computer my camera ran out of battery and so it cut that short. So instead I feel I should talk about my babies, furry and not.

First my little Naomi Jean:

When did she get to look this old?! She is 19 months now and crazier than ever. Its strange to think that in 5 short months she will be 2 years old, I JUST accepted the fact I have a 1 year old and now I have to start all over accepting this!? yup a couple hairs just turned grey. While we have our moments, the stress and less baby friendly situation we are in right now has started to give us the idea of what terrible twos may be like: tantrums, hitting, some biting and just straight doing things even though you told her not to 500 thousand times before including 2 seconds earlier, I couldn't love her more (even though she makes me bonkers some times) Multiple times during the day she will simply come up and grab my leg if I'm standing or my arm if I'm low enough and kiss it and hug it and so many times it's right when I really needed that little reminder that ok these cheap tacks suck, ok you cant find your camera charger, ok you can figure out how to do some simple construction ish type job its all ok, the world (as I tell her constantly) is not ending. Goodness she's great.  And on top of it when you tell her "Naomi, I love you so much!" she says "much" back. I kind of hope that sticks and becomes an inside thing for her and us so we can sign notes and say "much" when she leaves and just have that cute thing, but probably not...Some of her accomplishments? New things? Achievements? Take  your pick, are: she knows and can say purple, which is good because 2 of her bedroom walls are purple, she can count to 2 "wahn tew!" because when ever you like go to toss her you go one two three and toss or whatever on three so she counts to 2 and sometimes if you count one....two..... shell then run a few steps and the throw herself on the ground or on a sofa or something, its pretty hilarious. She, I think, legitimately answers questions and uses words correctly. I'll ask her if she wants juice? No. Water? No. Milk? Yessss! and if you try to give her juice she will push it away until you give her milk, sounds kinda spoiled but when you want your milk, you want your milk. Or what I love: Naomi you poopin'? Yeah. a minute later. Naomi, you got poops? Yeah. Do you need a diaper change? Nope. You sure? Nope. You need a diaper change? Yes. Ok lets go upstairs. and she'll run to the stairs. We are learning to say please which is nice but sometimes kind of difficult and it sounds a lot like peas so I don't know if she's getting the concept. Ask for peas, get gold fish? hmmmm. She also loves me to read to her and she has her favorites, one being the classic "Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?" she can't quite say it so it sounds more like buh-bye. On the last page it has all the animals brown bear, red bird, yellow duck, blue horse, green frog, purple cat, white dog, black sheep and goldfish (yes I did that in order and from memory we read it that much) and we can ask her where an animal is and she gets it correct just about every time, the sheep is the toughest one. And o man is she ever Keith's daughter if not by looks by interests! She LOVES cars! Any car or truck put her in the drivers seat and shes happy! She can now open some car doors. If she sees a car she says car car and drags me to it or tries to open the door or something. its hilarious and slightly scary haha... She saw the characters from the pixar movie "Cars" and got all excited totally passing up the butterflies and stuff, when we get our TV going we will have to rent that one for her. 

Now Ozzy, our sweet 4 year old yorkie mix thing. He is so weird and some times frustrating but dang he is so good with her. He puts up with so much and just leaves if it gets to be too much for him. He never growls at her or snaps at her or anything. He loves that little girl. For a while she would not go to bed with out seeing him and sometimes when shes crying because shes tired or hungry or something he is the only thing to help calm her down. The other morning she was chasing him around and he was just kinda going in circles and then he ran off and she chased him but he would pause (as it takes her a little longer to get up and down the two little steps in our sunken living and family rooms) sneakily look over his shoulder and wait for her to get about a foot away from him and jog off but not too fast and she's just cracking up hysterically over it all!

Then the newest baby, Dio, the 6 month old tom kitten we adopted. He is a kick, super friendly and playful. He and Ozzy get a long so well and he tolerates Naomi, shes still learning. He loves her tunnel in her bedroom and its so funny to see him, Ozzy and Naomi all playing before Naomi has to go to bed, a great way to tire her out. He doesn't bite hard and very rarely uses his claws on us when he plays and when he does its very slightly. He is just a rag a muffin, a slinky cat. My old cat, Dina, was very... stocky isn't the word, condensed? no, not quite... she just never really loosened up, this kitten I have to hold like a baby otherwise he slips out of my arms haha! He isn't very cat like either, he's clumsy, he cant really jump on things, hes messy which is odd but oh well he's still probably one of the best cats we could have gotten. 

Well I will try looking for my camera charger some more but if all else fails I will just have to buy another charger. Sad day.