Activities

The kids( all of them) have been full with activities for a while now.  Coby is doing TaeKwon Do, Paige and Zuri are both doing gymnastics, soccer, and Girl Scouts, Liana was doing gymnastics, but quit after the traumatic preschool experience.  Gosh darn me for wanting her to be smart as well as talented!

Coby.  He's a tough one.  His only interest used to be bugs.  Seriously, nothing but bugs.  We started him in Tae Kwon Do in the last year.  It has helped him in so many ways.  I was hoping it would help him focus, mind well, pay attention.  Has it?  Nooot so much, but it is helping him socially.  He loves it.  Our very first tournament is coming up this weekend and I am so very excited for him.  My hope is that these tournaments will encourage him to work even harder.  Its so great to see him finally really enjoy something.

Paige loves gymnastics.  She recently did her first back handspring clinic and I loved every minute of it. Yes, me.  I'm positive I was more excited than her.  Getting your roundoff back-handspring combination is a HUGE deal in the gymnast world.  I will get her there in the next few months.  She's starting cheerleading over the summer. We have a new babysitter, that we have not gotten to use yet.  She is young, cute, red headed, and a cheerleader/poms girl.  Paige met her again over the weekend.  Paige is NEVER quiet.  She was so intimidated by her.  Almost star struck.  Paige is loud, rambunctious, and  outgoing. She is going to make an awesome cheerleader.  My dream as a child was to be a Fly Girl. Iinspiring right?! I didn't want to be a doctor like Donnie or a lawyer..a Fly Girl was it!  I could see Paige doing this.  She is very much a diva and has that personality.

Zuri is my natural gymnast.  From the moment Zuri was born the nurses were calling her my cirque du soleil girl.  Zuri was born via c-section bc her arm and leg were pinned to her head.  She apparently couldn't come out that way.  She has been limber from the very get go.  I think she was just making us aware of her passion.  Zuri watches in awe of the T3 tumblers at gymnastics.  She shares my passion.  She is going to be an amazing tumbler and I will be the crazy gymnastics mom.


Liana.  Wellll...she is dominated by Zuri.  She's working on being her own person right now.  L did do gymanstics as well, and was good at at.  We will get there again.  I can't push this one. 

I really love that my kids can do all these things.  I didn't get this oppurtunity as a kid.  I want them to all have their own passion and mine for gymnastics. My girls must be gymnasts.  There really is no choice about it.  I want all my kids to be successful, talented, and smart.  I want to be the proud mom watching my girls in meets or watching Coby in tournaments.  Lets hope they appreciate it later.  My life as a mother right now is who needs to be where, what time, how are they getting there.  I wouldn't have it any other way.

Duece

After school today, the little girls and I are sitting at the kitchen table doing some homework assignments.  For some reason in our home, don't ask me why, the fun always begins at the kitchen table.  I hear the word " duece" in conversation between Paige(6) and Liana(4).  I hear the word, they giggle, I look up with the really face.  Here is how it went.

Paige- " are you looking at me bc I said duece?"
Me- " YES, what's a duece Paige?"
Paige- " you know. Its what dad takes every morning and night."

YES, this is exactly how she defined it.

First off, WHY does she know this term?
Second, where did she hear this from?
Third, why is she teaching Liana this term?

Don't even get me started on the language in this house.  They are so Donnie's children.  They look identical to him.  They talk like him; like dirty truckers.   They are known as mini-me, and mini-mini-me in this house.  Back to the language. It annoys me.  Badly.  Ok, so I admit duece isn't such a bad word, but still.  What happens when we are out to eat with family or something and somebody farts like they usually do(daddy). One of them is bound to say "  Oooh, dad dropped a duece."  Its kind of embarrasing really.

 I can't get over why Paige already knows these things! I knew what a duece was.  Sometimes when they say these things, I wonder if its just a term she's heard or if she really does know what the dirty lingo means.  Aren't little girls suppose to be dainty, pretty,ruffly, and sweet?  Paige is anything but those things.  Is this how they are always going to talk?!  I'm afraid Liana doesn't stand a chance.  Liana will be the kid that comes home from Pre-K with a yellow because she used the term duece at school.

Our Adventures

Our family always comments about the things our kids do.  I can't help it; they are who they are.  I wanted all of our families hundreds of miles away to be able to keep up with us as much as they want.  Sooo, I created this blog!  Donnie and I have made a large family.  I never thought it would be this way as this is never how I envisioned my life to be.  My children have taught me many lessons in life.  I have been raising them in a certain way in hopes to get a certain outcome.  I'm not sure it's working.  These experiences are my Adventures in Motherhood.  Enjoy!