Hundreds Watch Our 2 Yr. Old Son On Stage

These are two videos when Logan, uncle, daddy and mommy all went to the Renaissance Festival. This is so cool!! There were hundreds of people there, we were pretty close to the front and there was rows and rows of seats on both sides and behind us and people standing up every where.

Logan had run down to the stage as my husband was turned and said something to his brother, as I was trying to find a sit with the camera. My brother-in-law stopped my husband from getting our son and said just watch this is what it is all about.

The second video is a little blurry trying to focus, I didn’t dare get any closer for fear Logan would see me and it would mess everything up. I also couldn’t get it all because our memory card was filling up.

It was hilarious and so awesome Logan was on the stage a good 20 minutes. When the Juggler asked if Logan had parents we raised our hands and he waved us away, like don’t come down here. Logan was a ham and I couldn’t believe how well he was doing with all those people watching. I am sure it helped that the Juggler kept telling Logan he was adorable.

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There Is A Widget Bug

There is a bug in my Donors Choose Widget, well not just mine, they are working on the problem.

So if you would like to donate even $5 to help your favorite project, teacher and students. Go here to this link http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?id=19148. I have 4 pages of projects listed on the Donors Choose page at the top where projects starts is next pages.

Remember you can donate as little as $5 to your favorite project or as many projects as you would like. These projects are to help teachers and students get help with the money needed for things they need, where poverty is high and with huge school budget cuts, if they even have a budget.

Some of the states I have listed with different projects are : Oh yes and these projects keep rotating around so ones featured on the first page do change.

1. Texas
2. North Carolina
3. Minnesota
4. Illinois
5. Michigan
6. Kentucky
7. Arizona
8. New Jersey
9. Montana
10. Florida
11. Indiana
12. South Carolina
12. New York
13. Wisconsin
14. Mississippi
15. Southern California

There are more projects listed in other states as well on the page. I also had 10 others listed as well and they have been fully funded. Those teachers and students received the money needed for their projects.

Potty Training At It’s Best

Okay this toddler potty training story has humor, but is not for the faint of heart and if you are I would not read this post. lol

So my 2 1/2 year old son has been doing very well with his potty training both going #1 and #2 in his potty chair and we only use diapers at nap times and bed time. He has this thing about when he goes in his potty chair he has to show me. He takes the insert out of his toilette and bringing it to me, very carefully I might add.

So the other night my husband is in living room watching some golf and I am on the phone talking to my best friend in Florida. When I hear my son come up behind me and say mommy look I pooped. Now I know I had just put a diaper on him, because we were going to be getting ready for bed.

I slowly turned around, phone still attached to my ear and said “what honey?” My son repeated “I pooped mommy” this time pointing down at his diaper. At the same time I noticed the diaper was empty…………………. 

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Toddlers Lack Of Sleep and Moms Drained

Well I think we are finally getting Logan on a better sleeping schedule. Thank goodness, for Logan and for me, because I have been drained and sleep deprived for so long I can’t remember.

I have read so many things, helpful tips hits, etc. on getting your toddler to sleep better with better hours and nothing really seemed to work for Logan. I had even been talking to my best friend in Florida and she told me Laurie you can not make him sleep, it is a stage he is going through and I found that to be so true.

So we had been at square one for some time, not being able to make it to circle one, lol………………….

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Pictures – Getting Ready For The “Big Booms”

Pictures of Logan getting ready for the Big Boom fireworks. Here are some tips for next years fourth if you have a toddler. There is this one, however perfectly safe, because the spongy ear piece inside ear can not go in any farther. It does give the look of a Shreck mini me, so we went with the next one.

This next picture is the one we chose, not only did these stay on better, but your toddler won’t hear a thing. Caution to all parents, must speak up when toddler wears these.

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Mom, Me and The Horses We Loved (Part 2 0f 2)

Okay, this is the second story to go along with my first one written around June 21st, sorry it took me so long for this one. I have been blogging away about everything else I guess.

So mom and I decided to go on this 6 hour trail ride, okay at the time we didn’t know it would be 6 hours. This was in Creswell Oregon several years ago, way up in the mountains, where there is so much national forest land it is amazing.

So the first thing we came across was this very old homestead, still had the little cabin and fenced coral, etc. It was so cool and so small, I remember thinking how it was that people actually were able to live there. You had to duck to get through the door and trust me I am no 6 ft tall or anything.

Then we found this place that opened up to these beautiful grassy hills that you could look over some other mountains and forest land with some huge oak and what looked to be apple trees. This is where our fun begins and I become the butt of the joke literally.

Safara my bay mare had been in a mood that day, still enjoying the ride, but she was quite testy and as soon as she would think I wasn’t paying attention she would try to escape or do something like jump over absolutely nothing. I realized the little jerk was just trying to get me off her back. I guess she thought if she could do that she would be wild and free for a moment.

Well as the case most of the time mom and I found something to start laughing about and then it became hysterical to us. Well Safara sensing I was in tears laughing so hard and not in control as I should be, started that trot that is made to keep you out of control. You know the one , very choppy hard to stay on, very fast but not quite a gallop or run, that kind of trot.

So there I am trying to hang on for dear life, passing up my mom and her horse and seeing this very big, very low tree in my view and laughing uncontrollably still. Yes I was still laughing when I realized my horse the little fart was going to take me right under it. Okay I am sure she wanted to go right under it and me come right off from a branch.

All I could hear above my own laughter was that of my moms, yeah she wasn’t a lot of help. I did notice my mom started to laugh even harder if that was possible. So here I am now face to face with that tree and yep here goes Safara right under that bad boy. As fast as I could move I was on the side of the saddle leaning over as far as I could without falling on my face.

So I get the little nightmare under control finally, without falling off I might add and let me tell you I am not happy at this point, all laughter now gone. I whisper to my horse that I, not her am the smarter of the two of us and if she ever tries that again I will be writing down numbers to glue factories.

Well here comes my mom, oh yes still laughing trying to tell me something and then starts laughing all over again. That catchy kind of laugh where you start laughing too and you don’t even know why. So my mom the loving woman she is begins to tell me that is was the funniest thing she ever saw when Safara and I passed her up. I reminded her I could have been killed ( okay, not really) but it sounded good.

She says “wait I’m not done.” I am mortified to this day at what my mom says next. ” Both you and Safara’s butts were so in sink in that horrible trot bouncing back and forth so fast and choppy, they looked almost the same, it was the funniest thing I ever saw when you and Safara passed me.”

You have heard of owners looking like their dogs and visa versa, well here it is folks owner and horse butts that look alike. I am not exactly sure what my mom was trying to say that day about my butt. lol
No really in my moms behalf I am sure it did look pretty flippin funny, because it felt like it.

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Changing Of Blog Sight

Just wanted to let you know:

My older post under wblmom have had my blog page as toddleryears.blogtoolkit.com this blog page no longer exists.

I have a new blog sight instead http://everythingdaze.blogspot.com I will do my best to change the post that have the old blogsight url on them as soon as I can.

Thanks A Bunch

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More Personal Than Ever “All About Laurie”

I have lived in Michigan, California, Oregon, Montana, Minnesota and Florida.

I have seen a lot, done a lot and seen & met all kinds of people, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

I have had horses & have been a real life cowgirl pretty much, mom and I training & breaking horses. I have had every other kind of animal in between & gone to having not an animal at all.

I have gone from being down to literally Pennies with my parents and us selling firewood to be able to survive. At times I have made decent money & had decent jobs. I have worked as a housekeeper and at a zoo when I was younger, Waitress, Bartender, Production, Pruduction Line Leader, Accounts Payable for computer construction software company and at The Ledger Newspaper in Florida.

I have been fortunate enough to have a wonderful family, that has been loving, caring, thoughtful and supportive.

I have found a woman that I am so greatful and pleased to call my best friend.

I have loved and lost & I have loved and gained………………………………

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How Fast Children Grow Up

You know I was noticing once again how much Logan is changing right before my eyes. His face is changing again, looking a little more mature & i can not believe how much taller he has gotten in just 3 months.

I thought maybe I had just shrunk his clothes or something.     Nope thats not it, unfortunately. He is the true meaning of growing like a weed.

Pretty soon my little baby won’t be my little baby anymore.

HIT AND RUN – 11 YEAR OLD VICTIM

This actually happened a little while ago, but the man who did this has just gotten out this month after only serving a little over a year.

A little over a year ago a man (Sanchez) driving a friends van was returning home when an 11 year old girl (Gladys) stepped out into the crosswalk. When Sanchez turned the corner the van struck 11 year old Gladys lodging her in its wheel well and kept going.  GOOD GRIEF!!!!

People that saw what was happening tried desperately to get Sanchez to stop. He dragged Gladys for a quarter of a mile down the flippin road. This destroyed her one arm and mangled a leg, she did by some miracle survive, but the arm was amputated.  HOW UTTERLY AWEFUL !!!

Sanchez was sentenced on march 21st 2007 to 23 months. 

The father of Gladys is so upset and there is no love for the driver (Sanchez) who almost killed his only daughter. The other reasons for this besides the obvious, is the man who cost his child her arm and rendered a leg pretty much useless, got out of prison after barely serving a year.

The authorities said that their hands were tied. The judge went on to say: “It was about as sad an experience I’ve had as a judge. He recalled seeing the horrific hospital photos of Gladys injuries and feling frustrated he couldn’t give Sanchez more time. The judge also said “This poor girl was minding her own business, Sanchez deserves more prison time.”

Authorities said “our sentencing guidelines do not comprehend the magnitude of a crime of this nature, it doesn’t even call for a prison sentence.”    NICE ONE !

Sanchez’s Attorney said “Sanchez felt an enormous amount of shame and sympathy for the victim and her family.”   I WOULD HOPE SO, FOR GOODNESS SAKE !

 

OUR HEARTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU GLADYS AND YOUR FAMILY AS WELL. HANG IN THERE SWEETIE, IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER FROM HERE.

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