Some Dance Camp Cuteness

I mainly do these video posts for family, so forgive my obvious/obnoxious suburban mommy-blog aren’t-my-children-the-greatest posts.

You know I don’t try to be that Mom.

As of yet, I’ve not promised that home videos and picture slide shows will “never” be playing in the background of a life celebration at some point. Now that we have Apple TV, it is all made easier.

The first two are Carter, who is in black in the back. Sorry for the bad camera placement. The second two are Eliott, who should be obvious by her attitude and sass alone. This girl might have a future as a Laker Girl. Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not that anyone is counting, but if you want to subscribe to my You Tube videos, apparently that’s a thing now. I can’t direct on how to do it, but by all means, feel free to post directions in the comments if you figure it out.

Cheerios and Pancakes

In the last month or so, my almost eight month old son has slowly been transitioning away from a predominantly milk-filled diet, to a predominantly food-filled diet. Because he’s my third child, and because he does not go to daycare, I have not been paying much attention to exactly how much I feed him during the day. This is why up until about two weeks ago, I mistook his crying and screaming for personal mommy-hatred, when in truth, he was just starving.

It is far too easy to take things personally in stay-at-home mommy land.

This morning I was feeding him Cheerios one-by-one in the high chair while I ate pancakes. He had just finished a big bottle, yet I still underestimated his hunger. When I ran out of Cheerios, instead of getting up to get more from the pantry, I simply gave him a bite of my pancakes. And then another. And then we were sharing my pancakes. And then the pancakes were gone.

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