Mommy Stuff

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Here is a typical morning in the Hraban household.

Chanler wakes up way earlier than I want him to. I vainly try to keep him laying quietly until the alarm goes off at 7:30. At that point there is no point in trying any longer. Once Scott gets up its wresting play time on the bed. Chanler will do almost anything to get me up at this point (jumping, licking, tickling, etc) and I of course desperately try to stay horizontal, keep my eyes closed, and protect my vital organs.

Some of the quotable things Chanler said this morning.
Mommy up! Clock beeped
Mommy sit up?
I want to see the bunny. (more explanation of the bunny some other time)
I see the belly button?
My finger stuck (while drilling into my belly button)
I flop

And my favorite . . .
C: Mommy I have poop (as he lays down with him bum inches from my face)
M: OK lets check
M: nope no poop
C: (running way) Its a tiny poop! hahaha

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Baby BOY Robinson as of yet has no official name, but mom and dad are working on that.

Born Sunday 4/22/07 around noon and the VBAC was successful – Yeah for Emily!!!! Baby was 8 lbs and 9 oz. and 21 inches long. Daddy says he has dark hair with red highlights and looks a lot like him.

For more info and photos check Emily’s Blog

Welcome Isabella Marie

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According to her Daddy!

Isabella Marie Tarver is here FINALLY. At 3:18 pm on 4-15-2007, after 30 hours of labor and two hours of pushing (mom say it was a TOTAL of 28 including pushing) she is finally here! 8 pounds 10.6 ounces, 20 1/4 inches long and the CUTEST BABY IN THE WORLD

Welcome Joseph Nicholas

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From Chris

“Joseph Nicholas Phillips was born on Tuesday morning (April 10) at 5:18am, after a heroic effort by mommy. The gorgeous new member to the Phillips family weighed in at 8 pounds, 12 ounces, and is 21 1/4 inches long; he and mom are both doing well”

We are so excited that he is finally here (he was 12 days late!)

This is how we have decided to “grow” our small group! 😉

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Have you ever been bad with your kids??? I have. My button involves being woken in the night multiple times to nurse and then having to get up early. So I am sleep deprived and not really thinking straight. Couple this with the whinning tone that Chanler can achieve which makes me want to put pencils in my ears! and you have me in a terrible mood with a VERY short fuse. It is not pretty and even while I am there I know that I am being horrible, but somehow I just can’t stop my self. I also know that the way I am acting is 1) not the way I want my child to behave, 2) not helping the situation, 3)childish, immature and selfish and still I persist.

I really want to not act this way even when I am dead tired! I really do. It is just SO hard. Chanler can be SO demanding, annoying, loud, whinny, physical, etc. that it takes all my energy to deal with him when I am not tired.

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SCARE ME!

I was at the park the other day and it was infested with little monsters. These were mean nasty barbarous miscreants. At 5 (and just out of public school) they were yelling, pushing, shoving, throwing sand, stealing toys, ordering people around, picking on kids they didn’t know, name calling, demanding, whining, and generally creating havoc. Of course parents were NO WHERE to be found – oh they were at the park, just not within hearing distance of their children. With the way these kids were acting I wish it was ok to just put them each in a box with air holes until they are 21. No maybe longer.

I sincerely hope that positive discipline and attachment parenting will help Chanler to be a better person even at a young age! Otherwise I may just go grey early or something worse.

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So today since Chanler is still sick enough that I can’t take him to childcare at MPPC, I HAD to get out of the house. We went to Target. The hilarity started when we were driving home. Chanler was in his car seat playing with his toy keyboard (which is good for car ride entertainment for Chanler, but not so much for mommy!) He was playing his usual hold down some keys for too long then switch etc. I thought he was just playing until I started to hear SNORING. Thats right folks, Chanler fell asleep while playing the keyboard and it sounded the SAME!!!

I spent the rest of the car ride home trying not to laugh myself silly!