Sweet Dreams

Well today was a big day in the Turnbow household. Cassidy's "Big Girl Bed" was delivered. We had not told her about it so when the delivery truck pulled up and strangers started in our house she was a bit intrigued. She was so funny and perfect, when told to stay out of the way she did! She stood in the doorway from our family room to the front hall just watching what happened. All she could see was the men going in and out and up the stairs. She was so ready to go see her new bed. She could hear them assembling it upstairs and she really wanted to see it. Once they were done she stood in the front door and waved to them as they drove away in their big truck then up the stairs we went.

She was a bit disappointed when she went into her room and didn't find a new bed. We tried to explain that when the baby comes she'll give her room to the baby. So then she was on the hunt, where would her bed be?? Down the hall to the current "playroom" and we found it! WOW she said, excitedly climbed up and was in heaven. Then dad pulled out the trundle and her world exploded! Another level to her new bed, could it get any better? She was so excited, we were thrilled!

It was definitely time for "quite time" also known as nap time. She wanted to have her quite time in the playroom in her new bed so of course we said OK. She decided that she had to put on her pj's and bring all her friends in from the crib to her new bed then she was ready. Well, after being told to get back in about 3 times because she was just so excited and loved to climb up and down from the bed and make sure mom and dad were having their quite time. :-)

After about an hour, Jason woke up and thought for sure he heard her downstairs. He got up headed down and then saw her in her new bed fast asleep. She was laying on a pillow and had even pulled a blanket up over herself, he said it was adorable. Tried to sneak back and get a picture later but she woke up first. Oh well.

When I went to see her, she was sitting on the trundle at the end. I asked her how quite time was and she said good. Then she said "mommy wants to say Cassidy get up now", so of course I did and she then climbed out of bed. Was she really waiting for me? If so, this is going to be better than I could have hoped!

Her one complaint was that her new bed was LOUD according to her. She then said it was windy. She was right, today was a very windy day and she can hear it a lot more in that room but it's just something that she'll have to get used to!

Bedtime came and we had to convince her that she needed to sleep in her crib again tonight because we don't have sheets on her new bed yet, and after a while of talking about it she was actually OK with that idea. We said our prayers, she climbed in bed and as I was leaving her room as I do every night I said "good night sweetie, I love you, sweet dreams". I usually hear a good night and an I love you, but tonight I heard "sweet dreams". This meant so much to me, I remember every night that my mom and dad would tuck me in it was very important for me to hear and say back sweet dreams. I remember nights that they wouldn't say it so I would and I would repeat it over and over until they finally said it. Funny the things that stick with you and become meaningful when you are a parent.

With that full day for you all, I will now say SWEET DREAMS!! :-)

A Hopeful Day

So to start out, last night I gave Cassidy her bath and everything was normal. She took her clothes off, sat on the potty (nothing happened as is typical) and she got in the bath. When she was done, I wrapped her in her towel and she started to her room to get dressed then detoured and said I need to potty. She went to the playroom where we have a plastic potty seat. She sat down and began reading her book "Ducky wears Diapers". I sat on our bed and watched the Grammys. 2 minutes later she came running in saying mommy I made TWINKLES (yes, that's how she says it and I admit its pretty darn cute, especially when she is so excited)!! Sure enough she did! More than I have ever seen her make in the potty, I was so proud. So we cleaned up got dressed and called the special treat fairy to let her know, unfortunately the 1 M&M didn't show up until morning, apparently the fairy was busy last night.

So we started our morning off with excitement of trying for a full day of pottying! We tried, visited the potty 8 times between 7:30 and 9:30. Unfortunately though, the only activity was in our Elmo panties.

I know that I should push through and keep supporting her but something about it seems that shes just not that into it today. Maybe 2 years 3 months is a bit early for my daughter.

Maybe mom should read some more books on the subject...life is fun with a 2 year old!!

MOTIVATION

Do you have those nights that you start thinking about all the things you need to accomplish the next day and you mentally tell yourself "you CAN do it"? Well if not, you are nothing like me. I had yet another one of those nights last night. All went good when I rolled right out of bed and into the shower and got moving until now. It's 3:27pm and I just want to sit. I don't want to unload the dishwasher, I don't want to fold the towels that are waiting, I just want to sit but I can't. I know Cassidy will be waking up any second so I must keep moving, and here I am, posting for you. Don't you feel honored?

I decided this would give me the few minutes that I was craving to do something different and I could fill you in on the happenings at the Turnbow house.

First thing first, before I forget the great morning my daughter gave me last week, I must put it down. Last Wednesday I had changed Cassidy's diaper and stood her up on her dresser to pull up her tights. While doing this she took her precious hands, placed them on my cheeks and said in her words, "Mommy, you're a cutie pie". My day was the brightest ever!! What a precious thing for my 2 year old to come out and say with no prompting, I LOVE HER!!

So a week ago Saturday we were all in Jason's car when it started jumping (almost literally), we drove it straight to the dealership but unfortunately the person who dealt with "that kind of problem" was not in on Saturdays. So we left it and moved on. We then began our week a one car family.
We loaded up at 7:30 Monday morning to drive all 3 of us to Enid for a funeral. This was a bit unnerving because a winter storm was to (finally, yes I needed a bit of Winter precipitation) be hitting Oklahoma this year and here we were going to drive out in it instead of sitting by the fire. You do what you have to though. The drive there was great, dry all the way just cold. We got out of the service to find the city of Enid America covered in a sheet of black ice. Literally in less than a mile we saw one car on its side and another had jumped a curb and run through a wrought iron fence of a cemetery. Well, slow and steady wins the race and we finally made it back to OKC where cars were banging into each other everywhere and sliding all around. Home is where we went and stayed. It actually turned out to be a fun storm, eventually it sleeted and a small amount of snow fell which allowed us to play, which was way too much fun!

She was worn out in this picture!!

Well to quickly run down the week, while pulling my car out of the garage it slid on the ice into the side, I got my car stuck on the ice on Thursday, fell on my rear then almost did it again 2 hours later in the exact same spot! (falling that is)

I was so ready for the week to be over, it was just one of those, you know? Then, yes, then...we are all once again loaded up to go to yes, once again, Enid, this time for a 3 year old birthday party. We are just outside of OKC, Cassidy is snoozing away and boom! We are getting pulled over. Jason pulls to the shoulder, which was only about 2 feet wide, so he pulls to the dirt, stops and we sink. Yes, we sink, right there in front of the Highway Patrol on the side of the road in the only car our family has in possession at the moment, oh and did I mention we are driving on a spare because there was a nail in the sidewall of our tire and we had been waiting 3 weeks for the new tires to get in that were special ordered???? The deputy came up to us and said try to get out of the mud first, so we did, it seriously took 10 minutes. He then walked up and with a slight smile said you were going 61 in a 55 but I'm just going to give you a verbal warning, I would say your car wash is going to cost you enough. He was nice about it and laughed at it with us but man was that an end to the week we were ready to put away.

Thankfully we made it to Enid and home safely and I can say it's Tuesday and we are going great now, still one car, hopefully will get #2 back this week but even without it we will survive!! Oh, and I finally have new tires.

Happy 2009!!!

So apparently I am not a professional blogger. I will try to catch you all up on whats been happening in our world with out boring you...

My last blog was about Cassidy's trip to the ER. Since then she has done great but does have a small scar on her eye, hopefully someday it won't be so noticable. I am sure this is the first bad scar of many to come, after all have you all seen my knees?? (car wreck in high school)

So we had planned to have Thanksgiving here at our house but had to cancel it when all 3 of us were hit with the stomach bug. I tell you that having a 2 year old with the bug is no fun and when mom and dad are hit with it too there is nothing fun about it!! So we moved Thanksgiving to Jason's dads in Enid. We debated going since we had been sick but had felt better since Monday afternoon so the family convinced us to join them and so we did. Unfortunately for them 4 out of 10 came down with the bug starting on Friday, we are still so sorry for that!!!

Luckily we got better and stayed that way through the new year. We weren't sure how Cassidy was going to handle the whole Christmas hoopla but we were hopeful that it would be great. Well our first run in with Santa was a random evening we went to the mall just to walk around and waste some time. She saw Santa in his chair and wanted to see him so we let her sit on his lap and pictures had to be taken. You've got to love the outfit, obviously not planned! When he asked her what she wanted she answered "presents". We were surprised since we had not talked to her about getting presents that she answered like this.

"Presents" became her common answer to the all too common question from everybody during this time of year. We went with it because we figured this way Santa couldn't go wrong, right?

She loved Santa and seeing him, we visited him many times here is one of my favorite pictures. Can you see how she is leaning in and snuggling with him?

So there's the end of our year and our lead to the beginning of a new one. We have been very thankful for all that we have been blessed with and are looking forward to what 2009 has to offer!! I will make a vow to my blog and those who care to read it, I will get better at this and I promise to quickly post those funny things that Miss Cassidy says, because she said something the other day I really wanted to post so you could giggle with me but now I can't remember what it was, motherhood I guess!!

So to you and yours have a blessed New Year!! (even though we are over halfway through January!!)

The ER...

Do you ever have one of those days that you know something just isn't right? Well that was today for me. I took Cassidy to Church (MDO) and it seemed all was well, I was off to hit the grocery store, clean house and run a couple errands. Well I get home from the grocery store to find out that a friends little girl (4 months) had been in the hospital since Monday but was home and doing better though I couldn't help but think Cassidy or Jason and I were going to be getting sick since we were with them on Saturday and Monday. So that was probably the moment that the pit formed in my stomach.

I went on with my to-do list and ran my errands to come home and find Jason here meeting a guy delivering firewood (there is nothing like the real smell of a fire!). We were standing in the kitchen catching up on our afternoons when my cell phone rang, it was a number with no name. When I saw it I looked at Jason and said great, I bet it's church and something happened. Well, it did!

Cassidy fell backwards in a chair and hit her eye on the corner of a wooden baby doll bed. She was cut and bleeding but calm. Jason and I jumped in the car and went to see our baby girl. She was a bit in shock but calm cool and collected, it was a bit strange. We brought her home and took her to our neighbors for some advice. They have a 3 year old little boy who has had a few facial abrasions plus her brother is a plastic surgeon, so if we were going to have stitches we knew where we wanted to go!

After a few minutes of dissecting the cut we found out the Brother in law was in surgery at the hospital so we headed there, the best part was he was in the house if we needed him. Our visit was actually very quick and easy, we were in the room in less than 30 minutes. Once the ER doctor got to us he wasn't sure if we were going to get glued or stitched. Thankfully after cleaning the wound up he decided that it didn't need either! Yeah. We were sent on our way with a little ointment and a boo-boo band aid. Life is Good!!

Funny thought was while sitting in the waiting room Jason pointed out that he doesn't think he has ever had stitches and I couldn't count the number of times that I have had them!! Let's hope Cassidy follows in her daddy's footsteps!!

in need of a laugh...

Well so far my record for writing on here is not great, I hope to get on track eventually. For now I let you know that today has been one of those days where I really needed a laugh! Well, it's 6:45 pm and I finally got the one I needed.

Jason, Cassidy and I are sitting here watching our favorite show, Dora. If you know us or have ever hung around a 2 year old, you probably understand that this is the millionth time we've seen the same episode and mom & dad would really rather watch anything else, but the girl wins. OK, so imagine this...Cassidy and Jason are sitting on the couch, Cassidy has the remote, she is about to throw it, Jason says to her, give me that. (Use your imagination here) Cassidy stands up on the couch, stands with her legs bowed, puts the remote between them and sits down on it, as if we did not see her do this. She then looks at dad and gives him the what are you talking about look. Well, that was my laugh. I do understand that it was really one of those moments that you needed to be here, but if you can imagine and have ever spent time with a 2 year old I am sure you can appreciate it!

Hope everyone else has gotten the laughs they need or that this may have helped bring them to you!!

time to become a blogger

Howdy everyone! Well here I am, a new blogger, wondering what to say...I will start with coming up with a name for the page. One of my thoughts was "The Torry Teller". Those of you who know me best know that this is a name that was granted to me by a dear friend (you know who you are!) mostly because I LOVE telling stories, especially long ones. I will tell you its a family trait, short stories are NOT our speciality. With that said, I will make a vow now to do my best to keep my posts short, sweet and to the point! Be patient, I am sure it will get easier for me.

So why am I starting this? I finally realized that my daughter turns 2 this week and when she was born I vowed to myself to write down all the "little" things that she would do so that we could remember and some day tell her about them. Well let's just say that I haven't kept up with my part of the bargain and she sure has! With that thought I decided that the best way to do this and keep up with it would be to start blogging so that I can document and share with family and friends as soon as these little things happen.

A first "moment" for the blog....last week Jason, Cassidy and I were out to dinner. We were seated next to a man dining by himself. He was trying to read and enjoy his dinner and Jason and I were doing our best to keep Cassidy focused on our table and not trying to talk to him. Soon enough he left. Cassidy didn't realize it at first and when she did she asked me where he went, I responded with, "he went home to go night-night". She was quick to respond, "no, he went poo-poo in the potty". With tears streaming down my face and Jason trying not to choke on his food, I calmly tried to tell her that we didn't know him and that going potty is a bit personal. Oh Lord, the life and mind of a 2 year old!!

So to each of you who may be reading, I hope you enjoy the life of my husband, daughter and myself and may it bring you a moment of happiness along with us!

That's all for now!