Saturday Ramblings

I've noticed a lot of people in the blog world love to do a midweek or wednesday random post every week. I find Saturday is the day I tend to be sporadic in what I have to say. I doubt I will make this an every week thing, but I have lots of miscellaneous pics and videos to share that need a home and this post is going to be just that.

Today has been a rough day with Maddy. I have no idea what happened today but I know I don't care to have another day like this ever!! It wasn't an all day bad day kinda thing, but her melt downs today were just horrific feeling and I was not at all prepared for them. She woke up in the middle of the night doing her screaming thing. I went in to comfort her and I was so tired I couldn't force myself to go back to my bed, so I just slept the rest of the night in her room. She woke up pretty early because it wasn't even light outside. She kept getting off and on her bed and I noticed her door wasn't shut all the way. I closed my eyes and just prayed she wouldn't leave her room, but that prayer was not answered lol. I checked the time and it was only 7 a.m. which means she had us up at least by 6:30 a.m. I'm really hoping that is what caused her emotions today. Her fits started in the car because she was so tired...she finally got her nap in around 1:30-2:00-ish. When she woke up we only had one store to go in to and that was McKay's to get her movies for Florida and just to enjoy at home. She started out so sweet and wanted me to carry her. I got a pushing basket and she immediately wanted down to push. She pushed the basket very nicely at first and we put in movies. I had to calculate the total so I would know if i had to stop or if could keep adding and that caused her to get mad/upset and did a mini fit right there in the floor. Then came time to pay and she wanted to go upstairs and oh my goodness...you woulda thought I was just absolutely torturing her. She laid in the middle of the floor...I mean so much in the middle that we were right in everybody's path when they walked through the door. She's screaming, "NO!' and crying and then saying, 'OWWW THAT HURTS" and scooting herself around on the floor. Yes, my child has some how learned that if we are in public all she has to do is say ow that hurts. I had so many people just stare at us I was just super embarrassed. I honestly wanted to just crawl out of the store. I finally was able to scoop her up and she was just flailing her legs and arms and crying and screaming and oh yes the stares continued. It wouldn't surprise me if someone tried calling the police or child services because it looked bad lol. I was able to finally coax her into her car seat and after that whole ordeal I just wanted a mello yello and a bed. We got home and everything was all good. We all went out tonight to Sweet Frog (I am so in love with that place). She did so good in the store and listened and then there was the walking to the car part. She got mad because she wanted to walk down to a different store so she literally just sat down in the middle of the road on a speed bump. This mommy was panicking because she's hard to just "pick up" in the middle of her fits...I have to get her a certain way to be able to lift her without hurting her. We finally got her up and then there was the getting into the car seat scene. I don't know how long it took but I seriously think it was at LEAST 30 minutes. She was so angry and nothing would work. I had her dvd player and she just didn't care. When she is in that kind of mood nothing works...you just have to do. When she finally got buckled she thought she would still get her movie and she was crushed when I said no and then she cried, "I listen!!" My favorite part of the day was when I was putting her in bed. Not because I was getting to chill out a minute, but because she just gave me some sweet lovin. She hugged me with everything she had then she would kiss my cheek then she would hug me and pat my back then give me another kiss and honestly it just melted my heart. I made sure she knew that no matter what mommy will always love her. When I told her that she just gave me another kiss and it was just super sweet. That is my long story of this post...now on to the randomness

I think it's so neat how she mimicks my actions and what I do. I always say, "Hey buddy" when I talk to Manny and pet him and she has started doing the same. It's so cute when she does it on her own, but this gives you an idea of the cuteness :)

Maddy's first time trying ribs. She didn't quite know what to think and didn't really like getting all messy. I have a video but am having problems getting my videos to publish to youtube so I will have to add later.

I will stop here and save the rest for other posts. I hope you all are enjoying the weekend :)