- Jack and all of this "cozy" toys. (Most of them are my old sea animal beanie babies that my mom sent us home with in January) The second he got home from Disney World, he got them out and introduced his new Disney toys to his old toys :) He seriously has played with these toys every single day since he got them in January! We are putting those beanie babies to good use while we wait for their values to sky rocket like we suspected they would in the 90s ;) I thought this article about beanie babies was funny ---------> How much are beanie babies worth? The Princess Diana bear is going for $30,000 on ebay, but here's what you can get for your other favorites.
- Friends that buy me chocolate covered cinnamon bears! Chocolate covered cinnamon bears don't exist in the Quad Cities, so when my friend saw some in Nauvoo, she brought some back for me because she knows my love for them. How sweet is that?! She's crazy though, because she tried them and didn't like them!
- Watching these boys play racquetball. Jack says it's his favorite sport and we have to play every time we go to the gym before I drop them off at child watch. After over a year of practicing, they are getting pretty good!
1. I AM THE BOSS OF MY BODY!
2. I know my NAME, ADDRESS, & PHONE NUMBER, and my parents’ names too. (Don’t forget: kids need to know their parents’ cell phone numbers!)
3. Safe Grownups Don’t Ask Kids for Help!! (They go to other grownups if they need assistance).
4. I never go ANYWHERE or take ANYTHING from someone I don’t know.
5. I must “CHECK FIRST” with my safe-smarts grownup for permission: before I go anywhere, change my plans, or get into a car even if it’s with someone I know. If I can’t check first, then the answer is NO!
6. Everybody’s bathing suit areas are PRIVATE.
7. I don’t have to be POLITE, if someone makes me feel scared or uncomfortable. It’s okay to say NO… even to a grownup, if I have to.
8. I don’t keep SECRETS… especially if they make me feel scared or uneasy. (No adult should tell a child to keep a secret).
9. If I ever get LOST in a public place, I can FREEZE & YELL or go to a Mom with Kids and ask for help.
10. I will always pay attention to my Special Inner Voice, especially if I get an “uh-oh” feeling.
I've been trying to find a good way to teach Jack about stranger danger and then I came across this quote from this blog post, (which then lead me to the website I listed above) and I love it:
"Stop telling your kids not to talk to strangers. They might need to talk to a stranger one day. Instead, teach them which sorts of strangers are safe. You know who's safe? A mom with kids. Period. Your kid gets separated from you at the mall? Tell her to flag down the first mom with kids she sees."
- The fact that we spent almost the entire week last week playing in the sun! My house was a mess, but I think we deserved a solid week of fun in the sun to celebrate surviving another Iowa winter :) Plus, I had post vacation depression, and the best way to get over it is not to catch up on laundry, but to just leave the house and pretend that the laundry doesn't exist :)
They put their swimsuits on the second they woke up every day last week :)
I'm so grateful for all of my awesome Iowa friends!
The problem with Iowa is that when the weather is legitimately good summer weather, you don't know how long it's going to last. The next week it could be raining or the high could be 60. Plus, the summer season is so short. So when it's good swimming weather, you don't stay inside and get things done. You swim. You treat every swim weather day like it's the last swim day :) And it just happened to be good swimming weather every day last week :) Can't complain about that!
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We start potty training today. Pray for me!
“Stop
telling your kids not to talk to strangers. They might need to talk to a
stranger one day. Instead, teach them which sorts of strangers are
safe. You know who’s safe? A mom with kids. Period. Your kid gets
separated from you at the mall? Tell her to flag down the first mom with
kids she sees.” - See more at:
http://www.checklistmommy.com/2012/02/09/tricky-people-are-the-new-strangers/#sthash.yA0Cx6Dt.mTHl5xBC.dpuf
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