It's a big, big world...

Oh how I love Noggin. They finally have given us this channel since the 1st of January and just love it.

For awhile there my kid was just watching PBS which is nothing wrong with that, they have Clifford the big red dog, Dragon Tales, Maya and Miguel, which was one of my favorites for her to watch because they would teach English and Spanish words, and so does Sesame Street while actually watching cartoons. But then there's the other PBS shows that, ugh, irked me, they have It's a Big, Big World where these puppets are just hopping around and they are not interesting to watch at all. I know it's TV for a kid but mines didn't even watch it. And can't forget the Teletubbies, that can give you nightmares.

Then I tried the Disney Channel, Cartoon Network and Toon Disney and so on. Because I assumed they still have good cartoons on there. In the morning they did, they were bringing back old faves like The little mermaid, Chip and dale, Talespin and such. She even enjoyed The Mickey Mouse show. But I noticed in the evening they had other cartoons that were for older kids which I think are horrible no wonder the boys are all rumbuctious. Of course they would have those in the evening when school is out.

You got SpongBob SquarePants and his nasty acts like eyeballs popping out, being annoying (which give the boys and girls reason to annoy other kids and people, like their parents) they show them being money hungry and so on. Then you have Ed, Ed and Eddy, my kid never watched that show but I have to tell you I caught one episode and ewww they had one of the Ed's eating his mocos.


So now can you see why Noggin is my savior. They have educational and cute cartoons. My daughter even memorized their names.. She knows Lil Bill, Wa Wa Wubzy, Go Diego Go, again because I love that they teach them Spanish words, and as much as I hate this little girl cartoon my daughter loves her..Dora The Explorer.

Now just because my daughter knows all these cartoons doesn't mean I leave her in front of the Tv all day. When she wakes up all the tv's are off. I make her breakfast and when she's done I let her watch Cartoons for awhile since each show is only 30 minutes long.. Then she obviously gets bored and then she plays with her toys and her puppy while I clean and when I'm occasionally on the computer =) hehehe.

Ladida....

Yesterday in the morning and afternoon it was such a pretty day, then around 5pm, boom, it starts snowing like crazy. It stopped after 3 hours but for those 3 hours I think it snowed 3-4 inches worth. You couldn't see anything...



And this is how pretty it looks after the storm passed..




While that was happening outside, this was happening inside.. Karla is at the point where she pretty much wants to dress herself, most of the time she gets it right but she still has a bit of trouble sometimes..







Awhile back I wrote about how many mom bloggers don't return comments, but let me tell you after reading a couple of twenty something bloggers and reading their comments I prefer to go with the no comments.. I was reading a post about this 1st girl dealing with rude comments. The 2nd girl wrote how boring 1st girls blog was, that she was whiny and selfish and so on..
Ex: "I'm not going to sugarcoat this. I have been reading your blog for a while, and have come to the conclusion you are boring, needy and insecure. You say yourself, that you need more girlfriends. You should go make some, because otherwise you are putting way too much into a relationship that is probably going to fail anyways."

Yea, so I'm thinking ok this is 1st girls blog, she pretty much is writing down feelings, thoughts, experiances and so on, for herself and to share with others. Yet 2nd girls is so tired of reading her "boring" blog, (but of course she continues to read it) to the point of writing a very long rude comment.

I have read blogs which are boring to me or just like "WTF", and I don’t ever feel the need to publicly tear another blogger down for being who they are. And I assumed everyone had left all that high school drama when they graduated into adulthood.

I don't want to clean and you can't make me!

I am just sitting here because I'm dreading cleaning my kitchen and my bedroom. It looks like a damn tornado went through both. My husband and daughter are seriously just trying my patience. He makes a mess and leaves it for me to clean and I'll tell her not to make a mess and that's the first thing she does..
sigh





Yesterday was pretty uneventful that nothing was bloggable. Yesterday was one of the few days my husband has the morning off so we went to visit his parents.

I like his parents but his mother just annoys me. All she ever talks about is money. She gets mad because her sons don't give her money, and then when they do, she gets upset because it wasn't enough money. I still say the day was uneventful because they never talk to me. They share stories from back home that just BORE me. I understand he hasn't seen his parents in 8 years but come on. Who cares what the neighbors did in there yard! Or if that drugstore is still around the corner.

So I literally just ignored their conversations while I watched my daughter help her grandma make tortillas.

When we tell her to look at the camera and smile she comes up with this silly faces.Jee it's kinda of an ugly picture.

What a Headache...

Today I had to get Spanky's shots, and I was dreading it.. He knows he's going to the vet when I stick him in his kennel, he starts whining and crying like my 2 year old when she wants and can't have a .

We get there and I'm telling Karla to sit down, sit down and sit down.. because she could be running around or playing and a dog could come out of the vets office unhappy that for the umpteenth time that thermometer went up his a$$ and may not be in such a good mood, and then I remember, damn, I forgot Karla's monkey harness.. and I remember that too when I see this dog coming in who had this crazy, wild look on his face and he had no harness or muzzle and the next thing I see is Karla running up to him wanting to pet him.. and wow did I freak... I grabbed her and swept her up from the floor while holding a 5lb rat, a huge purse, and my fill in sheets.

She's crying and throwing a hissy fit while I literally hold her down until that damn lady left with her dog.. So all the vet's asst's are looking at me like If I'm a bad mom because Karla is balling her little eyes out wanting to get up and I'm telling her no and holding her down until the vet can see us..

Now it's our turn to be seen and I tell her to give me her hand, and she is not budging and I don't have time to wait for her or the patience to have all the people stare at me while my child defies me in public..So I grab her jacket by the arm and I'm dragging Karla so that she'll follow us. The lady closes my door cause i guess she thinks I'm going to beat the crap out of my kid.. a second later the nurse comes in with a book and a box full of crayons.. and she looks at me like she's scared..(I promise I'm not making this up) and says, 'um is it OK if she has crayons?', like I'm going to tell her no to something that might shut up my kid. So we're in there and she's still slowly crying her little heart out and she comes up to me after a while and says ..."Sorry mommy.." awww man, now I can't stay mad at her and threaten to take away her crayons if she keeps acting up.. well in all for the 30 minutes we where there, it gave me a pretty big headache .. So I'm off to bed to dream about Cujo

The other side of my life...

← Does this face look the type
to spit her medicine back at me?


My baby girl, Karla, has a little cold today and the minute she started coughing and sneezing I thought 'Oh man, how am I going to give her, her medicine?" She absolutely HATES IT..She sees the little cup or the spoon with the meds and she starts crying and hiding.

I tried telling her that it tastes good, or that it's candy and since she could first take medicine we made the mistake of calling it medicine. So she looks at us like 'Do you think i'm dumb' and she'll start pointing at us and yelling 'No Medicine'.. Yea so..

I try to check out some advice from parents and mainly they say to add it in applesauce or in juice, but then I'm thinking "Doesn't that actually dilute more of the medicine and then it wont take the effect needed?

Well I pretty much forced it down her throat, and now I feel bad so I let her watch cartoons an extra 30 mins..I guess applesauce is the next step.

Today is the day to start potty training, no wait tomorrow is the day to start

It's been 2 weeks since I have tried to get my 2 1/2 year old daughter to use her potty. When she wakes up, after she eats, before going to bed..as of now she uses it to push around her dolls.

This is the one thing I find the most difficult in teaching a child. We read to her and she picks up the words and the sentences quickly.. she has learned to use a fork and spoon and she doesn't drink out of a bottle anymore.

Most mothers are real proud that their little ones are already potty trained and like to show off a bit.. but hey it's ok sooner or later my time to show off my little one isn't costing us hundreds of dollars a year on diapers will soon come.