Crazy Love Gamble-Style

Ava loves to throw some wings on & turn into fairy this or that, or Super Ava, or what ever mood strikes her.  She's basically dressed up 92% of the time.  When Norah sees her she wants to get in on this action, she says "I be super too!" and Ava happily gets her a pair of wings so that they can be super together, which is way more fun .  They run back and forth, over and over, as fast a possible.  I love watching them play together.  Ooooh this picture.  LOVE. I'll be honest, with or without wings, I think they are pretty super too : )

Ok so I've come to the conclusion that I don't have enough patience to do this.   These kids are driving me nuts. Oh but wait, as I write this, Norah is SLEEPING and Ava is at SCHOOL and suddenly I feel fine, so there's that... But lets back up to this morning.   My alarm (Norah yelling) woke me up before I  was ready, just like every day. She was thrilled to see me, but had no patience for the fact that I didn't have pants on and wanted  to go find some... She wanted to play on the dead phone she found nestled under the ottoman, she didn't like the  answer I gave her about it needing to be charged. She screamed & yelled with no end in sight, she  ran down the hall to yell at her Dad about all the  injustices going on in the living room. She noticed the door to Ava's room closed and  decided she needed in there to play.   I explained to her that Ava was sleeping & that...

I love Mondays.   Not sure many people can say that. Monday is the one day Ava has preschool, and even if it's only for 3 hours, those 3 hours also fall exactly when Norah's nap time is. I may or may not of worked VERY hard to  change that to her nap time when we determined when Ava would be attending school... Not saying I don't just love spending time with  with both these girls, because I do.  They are both pretty amazing. Look at this face.  Where's Norah???  There she is!!!  I was standing in the kitchen today, talking to Ava when I see this little face peek in the window. Thing is she is too short to be up that high...  Ummm yeah, that's what I thought.  36 seconds after I got her dressed, drenched.  Ava thinks it's funny (I'm not admitting I do too)  How cute is this girl?  I almost miss her while she is at school. I love that she loves it thou...

I know I talk a lot of smack about my kids and I know you know that I love them like crazy no matter what not-so-nice things I say, but I think I'm starting to realize that I don't give them enough credit for how GOOD they are.  When we're around some children  (not your kids I swear!)  it makes me think that mine are complete angels.   They can do no wrong, or at least by comparison  they are nearly perfect.    For kids.  I think Ava likes to be the "good one" just because she doesn't necessarily get to be that at home,  she loves that role.  I know that about her so I play  off of that, trying to encourage her to be good all the time . Norah likes being naughty, she thinks it's really funny, but she is so darn cute that even when she is being really naughty you can't think ill of her.    I'm pretty sure they make them that cute to keep you  from killing them, ...

Today was hard, to put it mildly. Some days parenting brings me to tears, this was one of  those days.  I don't know what it is.  Ava is the sweetest most loving girl.  She can charm the pants off of just about anyone and has a million perfect little qualities...BUT She is driving me bat-shit crazy lately. She KNOWS she is driving me crazy and it seems to just fuel the fire.   Yes, I know what you are thinking, she needs more  attention.  This girl is demanding attention every. single. second.  With out fail, she is asking for something at  all times.   Usually you can find her on me, physically on me.   She is loud, totally obnoxious, sassy, back-talking, instigator of all kinds of trouble, liar, wild and  constantly disrespectful. I am at my whits end.   I talk to her about all these issues until I am blue in the  face, I explain what s...

These kids are driving me crazy. And it has nothing to do with the fact  that I couldn't ever get them both to look at me at the same time for these photos.  No, I'm talking about stubborn, naughtiness that is just too much.  I tell Ava to do something and she just looks at me and says "No.  I'm NOT doing that."  What?  How is that possibly acceptable??  I don't understand why she is not more scared of me yet?!  I try so hard....: )  But seriously, she is so difficult right now.   You know how I made her those cool school  books that she could use dry erase on, she is  now acting like it's a fate worse then death if  I try to get her to work on them.  I wanted her  to love doing them, she actually did at first.  I have been also working on getting her to do  something, anything, independently.  She is pinned to me ALL. DAY. LONG.  She used to s...