Thanks, but no thanks!!!!!

Unwanted advice, every mother has experienced it. All mothers do it. Most mothers hate it. Myself, I have been pretty lucky up until this point. Today was a different story. So I walked into Target realizing that Curtis was tired but I just had to grab one last Christmas present. In and out no big deal....until we had a melt down. I believe maybe he wanted something on one of the isles who knows but the temper tantrum that ensued was one of the worst yet (still working on ways of preventing these...its a process). So being the mother that I am I decided to just tell him no and then leave the store. I walked to leave Target he was absolutely histerical, arching his back, just really ticked off and tired. This woman decided to stop me in my haste to leave and ask if I was okay and if I needed some help. She had what looked like a six-eight month old kid in her cart so I thought "hey that's nice some mom to mom sympathy." I politely but hurriedly told her "no thank you he is just throwing a temper tantrum we will be fine." Then the woman had THE NERVE to say "I really think something is hurting him, let me help you." Apparently this woman thought that the five seconds she had spent listening to my child scream gave her some sort of insight into him that I don't have about MY OWN CHILD. I looked her straight in the eye and told her "No, its a temper tantrum" and just walked away. Lady!!! Okay...I feel better now!

Happy Birthday Mike

Happy Birthday Michael!!! We love you!!! We are so blessed to have you in our lives. Hope you have a great day!!!

By the way Jacob says he is sorry that he forgot to call you :)

Happy 1st Birthday Anna!

So we're just barely a day late, but we couldn't go without formally saying Happy Birthday to Miss Anna Jayne Lavine! We love you very much and are so glad that we were able to spend this past weekend celebrating with you on your very special first birthday! We were remembering the anticipation we had last year around this time when we thought you would never come (shout out to Emily for all of her hard work!!!). You have blessed our lives immensely and we can not wait to see the awesome plans that God has for your life. Happy birthday little princess! We love you!

This 'n That

I have been totally absent from the entire blog scene for quite awhile now. So much has happened between my last post and this one! My Grandparents came in from Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday (pictures on Picasa). We had a great visit with them and I feel so blessed that we were able to spend some good quality time with four generations of our family. Curtis absolutely loves his Great Grandparents and they too got caught up in spoiling our little one! Most excitingly I HAVE A NEW NIECE OR NEPHEW!!!!! Dan and Kristy are pregnant, due in July! I am absolutely ecstatic about the news and can not wait to enjoy the precious angel! I am really looking forward to seeing Danny as a Dad, I know they are going to be awesome parents. Curtis is super excited about having another cousin. He has learned through Clare that cousins are a ton of fun. Curtis is pretty sick this week with a really nasty virus so that's all the time I have for now...more to come.

Who was supposed to be watching them?

How ten month olds entertain themselves while the momma's prepare for a picnic...

First Steps

To everyone's amazement Curtis took his first steps on Tuesday. He has been pulling up by himself for awhile now but hasn't been too brave when it comes to letting go of whatever he is holding on to. Dan and Kristy were over for dinner on Tuesday and we looked over and there he went. He took one step away from the couch and then crashed. Since then he has tried many more times all between one and three steps. I can not believe that my precious little baby boy is big enough to be doing this. I bet it will be awhile before he is really up and moving on his own, he still crashes after a few steps...but we will see.

TP Man

So this is what Curtis was doing while I was folding laundry Monday...

The great thing is that I watched him do it the entire time...not only did I allow it but I took pictures of it. I am totally going to regret this when he TP's our house in another month or so but for now it was too cute not to capture!