Category: Märia’s Moments

Märia’s moments are funny, sad, happy, and some just are. Put them together and what do you get? A mildly entertaining blog.

Crawling

Holy Cow, Felicity was kinda crawling, but now she really is, she just crawled like 4 feet. Save me. There’s a little 13 month girl in our ward who’s not even crawling, why didn’t I get that kinda luck. In 8 more months I will have 2 toddlers to chase after, maybe I’ll get lucky and Felicity’ll have Stranger or Separation Anxiety, cuz Seporah sure never had either.

Quiz

1. I lay Seporah down for a nap and quietly check my email. Suddenly she appears next to me and says, “Hi!” What happened?
a. a burglar let her out of her crib
b. I forgot to put her in her crib
c. Seporah learned magic and poofed herself next to me
d. Seporah finally learned to crawl out of her crib

2. What is the most suitable option for breakfast (note: popcorn is NOT one of the choices, no matter how many times you ask for it)?
a. cereal
b. eggs
c. applesauce
d. cold canned corn and shredded cheddar cheese

3. Seporah learned to crawl at 5 months, eventually leading to running at 13 months. Felicity is starting to crawl now at 5 months, what do I do to prevent 2 toddlers that can move faster than me in 8 months?
a. kill off the first
b. tie Felicity’s legs together and convince her she’s a mermaid
c. carry Felicity everywhere so she won’t learn to crawl (caution this option will fund 3 chiropractors for life)
d. do nothing, it’s going to happen, just make sure to prevent anymore small beings from being formed in your uterus

4. Where is the most appropriate place to scream like Mom is beating you to within an inch of your life?

a. your bedroom
b. Ross bathroom
c. church’s mother’s lounge
d. all of the above, plus anywhere else Felicity decides to

If you answered ‘D’ to the previous questions you get an A+ and a free babysitting job to aforementioned children. If you did not get an A+ you can still have the babysitting job.

Juno

So I know the movies I’ve seen lately have been pretty lame due to the small beings I live with being the primary pickers of them. And I realize that means that probably any movie I see that I personally pick has to be great in comparison. However, I really have to say that Juno is a great movie. I saw it in theaters and then we just bought it. I love the writing, the music, the acting, it’s just flippin’ hilarious. The only other place I can think of with as much wit is Gilmore Girls or 10 Things I Hate About You (minus all the dirty talk). The premise is about a teenager who gets pregnant and decides to give the baby to a couple, which may or may not sound very entertaining, but it is. Anyways, go rent it if you haven’t seen it.

Wow, I just reread that post. I should not be writing for anything for real at the present time because I sound like I’m 12 writing a note to my friend. Really, it’s just sleep deprivation, we’re working on the whole sleeping thing at our house. I have yet to resort to benadryl, rum or stuffing socks, I swear I’m coming close though.

Easy or Difficult and Stalking

So it’s said that when you have an easy baby, they turn into a difficult toddler and when you have a difficult toddler, they turn into an easy toddler. Well that definitely turned out true for Seporah. She was a pretty easy baby and has become a rather difficult toddler. And Felicity has been a difficult baby so I’m hoping she’ll turn into an easy toddler.

That sounds fine and dandy in about a year. But right now I have a difficult toddler and a difficult baby at the same time. And I had no idea one could be this sleep deprived for this long. I’m sure this counts as torture. Yeah, being a parent is hard work. No one really has any idea until you get to be one.

Which is one of the main reasons I read mommy blogs, to realize I’m not the only one who finds rotten apple cores in the couch cushions or has a meltdown right in the middle of church (the child, not the mom).

I happened to stumble on a friend of mine’s blog last week and I was like “Hey Ellie!” I found her blog from one of her sisters’ blogs. I went to a church playgroup this morning with Ellie and Ellie’s sister from the mainland who happened to be visiting. I was like “Hey Ellie’s sister Paige, I read your blog.” I can only imagine what she was thinking “Ok, I come to Hawaii for a vacation and one of my sister’s friends is stalking me.” I’d give you guys the link to her blog, but then she might really get worried.