One Frazzled Mom!: Temper, Temper & a vacation

Well, I'm sorry it's been awhile. We've been really busy trying to get the house in order. It's been difficult because I really don't have a lot of time during the day between just picking up the daily mess, Lucy, and homeschooling Daniel.

Lucy has officially entered the 2 year old stage. She has a temper to go along with this stage. If she doesn't get what she wants, she SCREAMS! and can she scream! Wow, that girl has a set of lungs. We've been spanking her, putting her in a naughty chair but nothing really works. We're consistent too!!!!! She's just very stubborn. I must admit that the screaming has slowed down a bit, but now when she gets mad, she stomps upstairs and slams the door to her room! Is it not a bit early for this???

We just got home from a trip to Virginia to see my dad. We had a really good time. My dad has white hair and a white beard that he lets grow starting in July/August. He dresses up like Santa and volunteers at Andrew's Air Force Base, and goes to see newborn babies on Christmas Day at the local hospital. He also gets to ride around on a fire truck for a parade. With all that said, we've never had the kids picture taken with him. He was supposed to come down after Christmas, but we weren't back in our house yet, so they couldn't come. We went up this past week and I made sure that I got a picture.

When we got into the van from the airport, Lucy looked at Dad and said 'You look like Santa Claus'. It was so cute. She kept alternating between calling him Poppa and Santa all week. I have posted some pictures below. The picture of the kids with two older girls, are my cousins, Amy (on left) and Nicole (on right). The other group shot is of my dad (aka Poppa) and step-mom, Linda (aka Grandma).

Linda plays the piano and help teach EmmaLee a couple of songs. She says that EmmaLee is really pretty good and that we should get her lessons. So I guess EmmaLee will be starting piano lessons soon. Yea!

The kids didn't get to see snow, but it had snowed the week before so there was some icy snow still on the ground. The kids made an Ice Man with it. See picture below.

This is typical Lucy. We kept telling her that she could not have a 'chocolate sandwich' and she got tired of us telling her no, so she went and got one herself!

This is my Aunt Karrie, she's a scientist for the Navy and helps build bombs. Way cool job! Her lab is the one that built the Bunker Busters we used looking for Saddam.