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Christmas is fast approaching? Are you ready? I sometimes feel when people ask the question whether I am ready or not, I feel I have to have this huge checklist checked off, with nothing but Christmas bliss left. Christmas shouldn’t be about a to-do list. Yet that is what we have made it to be….
I couldn’t wait to take 18 month pictures of our sweet Mazy! I once again fell into the trap of wanting to take the “perfect” pictures. I looked up different poses to take of 18 month olds and what I found myself doing was laughing at the different pictures I saw. Yeah, I would love…
Christmas cards. Some people love them, some people sigh at the thought of sending them out. Ironically, one of the biggest tasks of Christmas, besides buying gifts, can be making/designing/creating/buying/sending out your Christmas cards. Why do you send out a Christmas card? Do you send them out just because you feel like you “have” to?…
On Thursday, Dan and I headed back out to Minnesota to find a place to live. The whole trip started with trusting God that He would provide. When we lost focus of that trust, we would stress out and feel overwhelmed. But when we kept our focus on God and just stopped and prayed when…
Sometimes I wonder why certain things happen in life. Why we become passionate about something, to only be derailed and forced to go a different direction. That is the walk of faith. I look back at my “career” in basketball and sometimes I feel it was cut short because of my heart condition. At the…
This is the difference one month makes! Comparison of Week 12 and Week 16! So what does pregnancy look like right now for Kristin? Well, it looks like I am pregnant that is for sure! The precious students at the school I work at, are starting to ask questions, ask their parents, and I have…
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Yes, my sweet girl tends to feel the same way when her daddy is out of town too. She gets very fussy and is constantly looking out for him to come home. I got her a big photo of the two of them together and put it on the floor up against the wall so she could look at it whenever she wanted. The photo seemed to help. We also recorded video of daddy reading books etc, that made her very confused and even more sad. She couldn't understand why daddy was in front of her talking etc but not really here. And he was so small and on the screen, it weirded her out. But just the photo was good. And also doing fun stuff. But they also rough house a bit and she misses that too. Mama is too gentle with her girl. So I try to play similar games as daddy does.
Oh and she also refuses to wear her bib too. I gave up on the bibs since she just pulls them all off. But if we have no time to change a dirty outfit and I need her clean, I use a disposable bib since they have tabs that really stick together — even those she pulls them apart. One thing she likes, which Mazy may find enjoyable, is learning new skills. Like today we got Popsicle sticks and a piece of carboard, I punched holes with the scissors in the back and stuck the sticks in the holes. She pulled them all out and I got her hand and was teaching her how to put them in and out of the holes. Simple but fun… I look up on the internet little things to try. I look up toddler sensory activities, or sensory learning. We got the macaroni and poured into a big bowl and she reached in etc. I keep the paci in her mouth so she doesn't eat it. Play dough does not work, she keeps eating it.