The Peach Parents: Shake your Body!!

I had to put that as the title..Ribbit sang it the whole time we were at Target tonight. She would stand up in the cart and wiggle as best as she could and sing " Shake your body, Shake yourself, Shake your mommy body"..it was hilarious and she got lots of smiles and conversations started. She also told me "no" several times when I asked her to sit down. That got her lots of comments from Mommy and even a love tap :) on the hiney.

Remember those parents who once upon a time said they wouldn't spank their kiddos? Well, they were STUPID....we have love tapped Ribbit several times since the adoption went through. Not that we were saving them up, but that's all that gets her attention now. Time Outs only work during meal times for some reason and when you are at Target shopping, they don't work at all. We believe in discipline, not punishment---so we always address what we are love tapping for. When it comes to Goober, he normally just needs a disappointed look.....even a loud voice from Dad brings him to tears...we constantly remind him that when he misbehaves he outside the realm of God's blessings and its our job to bring him back into that safe place. He also hates to have TV taken away from him so for right now that is doing the job.

We have had some milestones here in the Crazy Household :)....Ribbit is sleeping in a big girl bed. We took one side off of her crib and its lowered into a little daybed for her. She held her arms up for Adam to pick her up after her nap today but by bedtime she had that thing figured out...in fact she is still awake talking to her stuffed animals and naming everyone in the family. This is going to help out a lot when we travel for the holidays!

Goober also reached another milestone...one that we have been watching for. When they first came to live with us neither one of them knew how to play on their own. They literally stuck to us, where ever we went. Goob wasn't good at making friends and Ribbit wanted our attention 24/7 (I mean some of that is very normal). We would always try to get Goober to imagine fun places that he could race his cars, or set up a fort in his bedroom and create an imaginary scene. He never got it though and was always bored to tears in his room. BUT, this past weekend as Uncle Chris, Mom and Dad were watching the game and as Ribbit was napping we could hear Goober playing and talking to himself. He had built a small lego boat and was racing it all over the house, making crashing noises and acting as if the three adults weren't even in the room. He even went into his room, by himself and READ A BOOK OUTLOUD...I mean HOLY COW!!!! Adam and I both noticed that his imagination and his confidence to be by himself and with other friends has just grown by leaps and bounds.

This week is crazy and I may not get to blog much....we have 3 showers (two of which we are a part of hosting), one birthday party, one dinner theater, tae kwon do practice and Mom is hosting a Splash Night at school on Friday night for 7/8th graders.

Two funny Gooberisms---Today Goob and I had a great about slavery. Adam bought me the book " The Help" and Goob wanted to know what is was about. As we got into the discussion, we got onto the topic of the Civil War. He stopped me as serious as he could be and said " Don't you mean the silver war...come on mom".

After school I normally stay about 30 minutes to put in attendance and tie up loose ends. One of my students, Brynlee always comes by and plays with Goob....therefore he ADORES HER. He writes her "i like you" note one after the other. Well today he started to write her a whole book and so in the middle of me talking to a high schooler about an art project he said " Mom, how do you spell chother?". I had no clue what he meant, he said " you know, like they like chother". HAHAHAH. I said " do you mean each other?" and he said " yes, but look at how many teeth I am missing, I can't say it right".

Last of Auburn pictures!!

Goob wanted pics of Mom and Ribbit chasing him!

Her little booty says "Auburn"!

Mom Pile

Kisses....oh, sweet kisses

Always stealing mom's shades

Love that one

I love that his helmet is flopping down over his face...this could definitely be a marketing picture for Auburn..I mean he is just the cutest little thing.