Some Fun Parenting Advice

In parenting, I think it is really important to keep your sense of humor, so I will have to say I could not stop laughing at some of these, and some of these are just sooo wrong.

Enjoy!

http://www.c00lstuff.com/1133/Do_s_and_don_ts_with_babies/

Prayers for the Burgess's

Only four months into being a father, the impact of this weekends tragic event hit hard with me. My prayers and thoughts are with the Burgess's and all families who have experienced the unexplainable loss of a child.

After I found out I sat thinking for quite some time what would I do, would I be strong, would I be strong in my faith, would I ever be able to forgive myself. You hope your answers to those questions is yes, but when it is your child things just become different. You always knew that things would be different when you had your own, but no one could ever prepare you for the level that it affects you. We will never understand the kind of love our God has for us, but the love we have for our children has to be the closest thing to understanding how much God loves us. And seeing the pain and sorrow families go through during loss, gives us a small glimpse of the pain and sorrow that our Father has when he loses one of us, when we turn our back on him. It really does make you evaluate where am I right now.

My heart literally aches for their family, the loss they are experiencing I cannot imagine nor do I ever want to imagine it. I know through everything His Glory is revealed, and I hope that Rick and Sherri found some comfort in that.

I am not the best with words or thoughts in situations like this, but bottom line is people want to ask why, but it is not for us to ask why, it is for us to follow him with blind faith, like the faith of a child. And there is great victory is knowing that Bronner followed Jesus on Saturday night and joined our Father and his son our savior, Jesus Christ, in Heavan.

Bronner Burgess Memorial Donation Site

The Room

Not many guys ever get to experience the day their wife comes to them and says I want a TV for the upstairs...what you didnt realize in your dazed and confused state is she also said I want new furniture and a new rug as well.

So this Christmas Allyson and I both did not do gifts instead we spent a lot more money than we would have getting gifts and completely redid the upstairs living room. Which included a tv, new couches and a new rug. Since the girls set up (swings, seats, play mat, food source) is all upstairs, it really did make a lot of sense, not to mention the current furniture we had made the room really really small.

So under the guise of the girls we now have a more functional upstairs room, that we now use more often than our downstairs room. All and all it really is a good decision, and we really have enjoyed it.

Then there was this weekend. We are sitting down and settling in for winter storm 2008 :), when the tv just goes off...Great. On any usual day this would be fine, we would just use the other tv till this one got fixed. But this is "The Room" now, and we cannot be denied. So after finding out it would be a min of 10 days to get the tv fixed, i called Wal-mart where I found out they have a 90 day return policy. So the girls loving grandfather at 8:30 at night got up and came over and helped me take the tv off the wall return it and remount the new one. What a granddad!!!!!!! To add guilt to it the next day he got sick...most likely due to standing out in the cold getting that tv packed and unpacked.

While not a big story about the girls..it is a good story about their granddad and how much he loves them and us, plus like we said the room is all about the girls ;).

I have heard of babies being chick magnets, but...

Short story. We (Allyson, me, Laura and the girls) went out to eat at Olive Garden on Thursday night, as usual we experienced the usual spectacle of having twins. Ah are they twins, boy and a girl (WHAT!!!!! Yes I dress my little boy in pink and put him in a pink carrier!!!!), all the usual comments and uninvited touching of our children. We sat down and had a pretty good meal. Our waiter was around my age, 25-26, was a very good waiter, very attentive and very conversational. We really did not think much of it, but we got up to start leaving, the waiter looked like he was just waiting on us to leave so he could clear the table, but as we walked out he slipped Laura his number, we all got a kick out of it. As the title states, I have heard of babies being a chick magnet but a guy magnet :), I guess Laura might of had something to do with it.

She learned to press the button!

Allyson had to be at work early this morning, so after Hannah woke up we put her in the bed with us, until Leah wakes up. Leah decided to sleep a little later, so I took Hannah and held her in bed until Leah woke up around 5:30. Most of the time at this point we kind of wait till they are really up, because they tend to make noise for quite some time while they wake up. At about 5:40 i hear the music go on from her noise maker in her crib. This is not a new thing, she has been known to push the button when she stretches or kicks her feet. Then the music went off! Great batteries must be dead! Then the music came on again. Then off again, then on again, then off again, then on again. At this point you start to hear a couple koos and what we have defined as her laugh right now. It finally occured to me she has learned to press the button. Now I dont read the books about where they should be developmentally, but this was awesome to me, and heck tonight she might and most likely will forget what the big blue button does, but for a 15 minute period she learned to press the button. As a daddy I could not have been more proud, I wish her mom would have been there to hear it.

Then all that fuzzy good moment ended when she started to scream....it was time to feed!

Our future son-in-law

Well our future son-in-law was born late friday afternoon to Ben and Sara Wyrosdick. We are so excited for their new addition! Matt and I figured that baby Isaac would be one of our girls type about 20 years from now. :)

Weighing in at 7lbs, 10oz, he is still a tiny little thing! I guess my girls just seem big now! But he could not be cuter! Everything went well with the delivery and they are now enjoying the first night at home.

Good luck to you both! It is a blast! Love you all!

My funny addition to the Christmas update.

Since Allyson is showing me up, I figured i needed to post, especially since she missed one of the funniest moments of the holidays...well at least for us it was.

Starting on the Saturday before Christmas, we basically drug the kids all over town, ripping them out of the routine the are used to, i dont use schedule because we are not quite there yet...so we will say routine. They really did great, were troopers the entire time, but on Christmas Eve night, both had officially had enough, especially little Ms. Hannah. We started to pack up the car to leave the Sizemore's and head home, Laura was riding with us since we would all be returning there the next morning. Basically we got them in the car, all is well, the minute the car started to move, the engines revved up, and I am not talking about the car. Hannah was crying at the top of her lungs with basically only breaks to take a deep breath and start all over again. Attempts at the pacifier failed, music failed...so alas you basically have to let her sit there and scream, unless you wanted to pull a Britney Spears or something. From the Sizemore's to our door is about 20 minutes...trust me it felt like at least 60. So we trudged on driving to the house, basically turning the music up trying to drown out the crying, all that did was serve to make my headache worse. No body talked, no singing of Christmas carols, just sat there trying not to pull out our hair, when from the back the only words of the night were spoken by Laura...

"This has to be the longest 20 minutes of my life!"

For some reason this struck us all hilarious and we could not stop laughing. In the stress of that drive, no one talked, no one sang, no one slept...but just one single sentence was said.

It might not sound that funny...but I guess you had to be there, and i am sure most parents can sympathize.