Prep for preschool

Lexi starts preschool next week. On the first day of class the kids are suppose to bring a parent with them for an hour so they can get use to the surroundings and learn about their new friends. I went and registered her last week and found all of this out so we had this conversation:

M: "Lexi do you want Mommy or Daddy to take you on your first day"
L: "Neither one of you are coming with me...I am a big girl, you can put me on the bus so I can go by myself!"
M: "Well Lexi girl everyone has to bring a parent with them so that we can meet your new friends"
L: "Well I still wanna go alone"

family game night

So tonight we decided to start doing family game night. The game selected for this evening was hungry hungry hippos. While playing the game this conversation happens:
L: I want to be you mom and you can be my kids

M: Well what is my name?

L: You can be Alexis

T: Well who can I be?

L: you will be Lexi.

T: so we are both you?

L: Yes, now lets go Lexis it is time to play, the hippos are hungry.

to be mortified or not to be...that is the question

Do you ever have those moments with your children where you are in public and your child does something that you are not sure if you should be mortified or throw all of the "mom" books out the door and laugh hysterically. After my Easter dress shopping extravaganza today and thinking about the days events I wondered if I am the only one that these things happen to. Here are a few things that Lexi does that I have to "talk" to her about but silently inside (and sometime not so silently, Tim often gets upset with me for laughing while we are trying to discipline Lexi...not good I know)I want to fall over laughing!

So during today's shopping on our seventh and final store looking for dress shoes for her Easter dress, after trying on many pairs...I finally had a second to find some pants for me for Sunday. As I am looking Lexi starts hiding in the racks and suddenly jumps out in front of a lady and says "BOO!" of course I am standing two feet away and give a shy smile as if to say sorry but before I could get it out Lexi then says "Lady have you seen my mom, I almost got lost!" Now a little more mortified I say "Lexi right here please stay with me" She replies "it's ok mom I ask the nice lady where you were" hmmm....mortified or not...

Lost your chance

So Lexi was acting up the other day, so I sent her to her room. She then says to me:
"I don't want to go" I reply
"Sorry honey you lost your chance, I gave you three warnings and you didn't stop"
she then says:
"Look mom I found my chance I would like to stay please" At this point she has her arms stretched out as if holding something in her cupped hands.

hair cut

Hello! So I have decided that it is time for a change with my hair. Part of me would really like to chop it because I have been getting major headaches...but the other part of me thinks that it has taken me like three years to grow it out. So I have posted some picture of celebs that I am thinking about and want to know what you think. love you all & thanks


Jessica Simpson



Sophia bush



Kristen from th OC



Jenny McCarthy



Jennifer Aniston


Amanda Bynes

Letter's by Lexi

I bought some flash cards for Lexi with letters on them. I want to start having her recognize sounds and be able to identify letter so that she can have a head start on reading. As we are going through the letters I am explaining lower case an upper case letters, each flash card has both...we get to the letter B it has a picture of a baby on it and then the letters B b.
I ask Lexi "what letter is this"
she replies:
"it has a big B and an upside down P" she pauses and says "B-p is for baby". I try to explain that the "upside down P" is a little b at which point she turns the card upside down to show me that it is a P, we ran into the same problem with the little n being a u and the d being backward, she was also quite sure the the V was missing a line (funny side note she calls lines lions...) and it too was upside down.
This makes me wonder who on earth though up the alphabet and why the letters cannot be more distinct, it also makes me wonder why some letters such as:
S s & X x & C c
truly look like a larger and smaller version yet letters like

R r & Q q & G g
are so different, and really what is the point of have upper case and lower case letter?? Wouldn't it just be easier to have one or the other? After all we use spaces and punctuation marks to start and end sentences and wouldn't the second grade go by a lot quicker with out a proper noun chapter?

Thoughts by Jess

So today I was reading an article titled "Teach your kids to break the rules" it was on msn and really wonderful, here is the link for those who are interested:

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/article.aspx?cp-documentid=16949831

I began thinking, Lexi has been many times pegged as a 'bully' however as bad as it sounds I do tell her it is wrong but I don't really punish her for it...my thought in this process is that I would much rather have her know how to stick up for herself than be bullied. This is really awful but it is truly how I feel. I also think that if she was really being horrible to other kids she would be in huge trouble (or as much trouble and punishment as I can give my three year old).
In the article I was reading it goes on to talk about teaching your children to question things and think as an individual instead of 'running with the herd'. Although my daughter is thick-headed and stubborn I am very thankful that she does think for herself...maybe some day I will teach her to pee in the woods.