Paranoia

Ugh so apparently there is this "Swine Flu" going around and they keep raising the alert. I had heard NOTHING about it, because I really don't watch the news it gives me nightmares. My mom informed me of it. JUST GREAT! I had taken a month off of going to the gym cause I was sick and then I wanted to wait out the rest of cold season because CAmeron gets so sick every time he goes to kiddie care. I finally started going again and now I don't feel comfortable taking him there. The parents around here are assholes and will drop their sick kids off at the kiddie care just so they can work out and in turn getting everyone elses kids sick. Irritates the hell out of me. When Cameron is sick I don't bring him I find someone to watch him and if I can't find someone to watch him then I have to work out another way. Ignorant people suck!

Is It A Bad Thing? :-\

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that my son wants to do whatever I do or whatever his Memere or Pepere are doing?

My dad makes espresso and cappuccino's in the morning. Cameron loves to help this is one of this "jobs" in the mornings on the weekends.

Next thing he likes to do is feed the dog. He has to help or he screams at you and tries to push you out of the way. This is yet another one of his "jobs"

If I see Cameron's shoes laying around and I ask him to put them in the basket he will pick up his shoes and put them right where they belong. And if I ask him where my shoes are he'll go find them for me. So helpful!

Today I said okay Cameron lets go to the store. He grabs my keys and cell phone and says "here mommy! mommy here!" Sweet boy knows how I forget everything ;-)

When he spills things on the floor he wants to clean it and he doesn't want any help.

When my dad is out in his woodworking shop Cameron has to be out there to hand the wood to him or pretend he's making something right next to Pepere.

He'd rather do all those things than play with his toys! Is that a bad thing?? He isn't interested in TV. When i take him to the park he just likes to wonder around. He does love his Cozy Coupe but that's only because it mimics a real car and he can actually get in it and drive to be like us. He loves his slide mostly I think because of our reactions. He even now tells me where to put things away. I hope it keeps up and in other ways I wish there was something he likes better than this :/

The Day Isn't Complete Without......

Wednesday night I was sitting at the kitchen table enjoying some wonderfully fattening Chicken Fingers. My naked son (airing out before bath) hops up on the chair insisting on a bite. As I tear a piece off and blow on it I hear a strange noise and then I feel my foot vibrating....I look down to see a nice steaming golden stream of pee hitting my foot and bouncing off splattering everywhere!!!! OH JOY!!!!

So you think I would have learned my lesson! Hah! fat chance. Thursday night once again I'm sitting at the kitchen table eating a hamburger with 2 of my friends. When Cameron hops up on one of the chairs to chat with us...2 mins later and he is peeing all over the floor. Now Cameron loves to clean up his own messes so I promptly fetched some paper towels and handed him a couple sheets to help me. He wipes up a bunch of pee and I crouch down to get under the chair and he starts wiping me down with this piss filled paper towel. Yeah my friends got a huge kick outta that.

Needless to say the diaper did not come off tonight before bath!

Peanut....Peanut Butter....And Jelly!

I gave Cam peanut butter crackers for lunch yesterday. While I was cleaning up I left the peanut butter on the table figuring he probably won't mess with it since he has crackers in front of him. WRONG!!!!! While I was throwing something out and putting dishes in the dish washer he decided to help himself. I check on him to see how he's doing and he turns around and has peanut butter all the way up to his elbows and he says "mmmmm!" in the other hand is the peanut butter jar....he proceeds to stick his entire hand in the peanut butter jar and then start licking it exclaiming "mmmmmm!!!" hahahaha. It's so hard not to laugh at moments like these, but I know if I do it will only encourage him to do more things like this. I try to put on my poker face and tell him "No Thank you! That's not okay." and begin the clean up. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get peanut butter off of things especially a toddler with ants in his pants? I ended up getting the majority of the peanut butter on me not the wash cloth.

New Beginning

So I started this blog months ago and I just decided to erase the majority of it and start fresh. Here it goes....I'm 24 y/o single mom to my 19 month old son Cam. I've never been more proud. He's a vivacious little boy with a big sense of humor and an even bigger heart. He's go go go and never stops not even to watch TV (to my dismay). Which I guess is a good thing he keeps me young and fit haha.

I lost myself in mommy-hood for a while, but I have recently learned to balance being a mommy and being Kate. My friend and family have been great and sooo supportive of me every step of the way. I couldn't be more blessed.

Being a single mom definitely is not easy and has lots of ups and downs, but I wouldn't trade one moment of it. It's not fun if it's easy right ;-) Honestly, my son has taught me so much and thanks to him I've grown up and become a better person. I have a ton of respect for those single mom's that do this with more than one kid.

I took a brief vacation from this blog because my ex claimed things about my character that were absolutely false and I didn't want to give him another way to twist my words. Another reason why I'm starting this from scratch again. He can try and take whatever he wants from this but he is not going to take my voice anymore. Plain and simple.