Mama...Do you know why I have all this Shit in here?

Okay, so on Tuesday morning, Zach was playing with his pirate ship and the day before he had put a bunch of his Cars in it. Well, I was getting ready to get Mocha out of her bed when he asked me..."Mama, do you know why I have all this shit in here?" So, I'm thinking surely I misunderstood the little man and he was just commenting on his Ship, so I ask him..."What did you say?" He replies...."Do you know why I have all this shit in here? It was at that moment that I glance over at the kitchen table and see my camera and I think to myself....do I REALLY want to get this on video or should I screw the funny moment and have my little discussion on how that is not a nice word....Of course...bad mommy decides this is some funny shit...I have to get it and I will talk to him after...

Okay...so I have my little talk with him telling him that that is not a nice word and next time he should use the word stuff....he looks at me and says...."oh you mean instead of shit?" I just said yes Zachary and that was the end of that.

Fastforward two days later and Zachary is using the restroom while I am in the kitchen by the garbage can and I said something about....shit. Well, he takes it upon himself to say...."Mama" I say "Yes Zachary" He says "Shit is not nice." I tell him he is right and that's that.

Now, why is it that the kid can completely tune me out when I am in his face talking to him, but when I am having a nice quiet conversation over the phone he can pick it up from 20 feet away...He is a very funny guy!

Enough about SHIT...

Ellie Pulled herself up to Standing

Okay, we had another HUGE event happen this week...Our little girl figured out how to pull herself up to standing position. Now...I know that this doesn't sound all that exciting, but she is going on 14 months and we have waited a very long time for this. She has been a few months behind on just about everything as far as her physical development is concerned (rolling over, sitting up, crawling, and now of course standing and walking). SO....a couple weeks ago, I was looking through some old pictures of Zach when he was Ellie's age and he was definitely standing and doing a few other things that our little princess wasn't even close to doing.

I decided to call Help me Grow. It is a program offered by the state and they come out and evaluate them to see what we need to work on. Well, I was not able to get an appointment until almost 2.5 weeks after I called. So, I set it up for Monday, February 4 and I knew that once I set it up she would be standing up because that's how it always works, right? The night before I was talking to Zoe about it and we had this long detailed conversation about it and how I figured by the time the appointment rolled around she would be standing...as of Sunday night before her appointment...still no standing.

So Monday morning, I wake up to Ellie crying...which she never does in the morning. She wakes up talking, never crying. I also always turn on the video monitor before I go to get her because I usually sit there and watch her for a few minutes before I can roll my lazy ass out of bed. Well, since she started crying, I just jumped up to get her and there she was....Standing in her bed! I was so proud of her...I almost cried. I was very mad because I did not get a picture of her...and if I would have turned the monitor on I would have seen that she was standing and then RAN for the CAM! But, anyways, she was crying because she didn't know how to get down! Once I walked in her room, she was ALL smiles, she knew what she had done and was so proud of herself! Good Job, Ellie!!

Of course, I did get the picture of her doing it later that day when she got up from her nap!

At first, she was only doing it in her bed, but now, about 5 days later, she is a pro! She will try to stand up on just about anything. She is still working on how to get down, but she'll figure it out.