The Amelioration

Yesterday we went to the beach and Amelia loves to comb the sand for sticks, shells, rocks and any other things she can find. She brought me back her little mitt of treasures and was telling me about them. As she handed me a shell she said, "I found aunt shell, you need to talk to her mom?". (My sister's name is Rachelle and we talk on the phone a lot) The part I loved best was today when she was recapping it all to Phil, she said it again, including the part that I should talk on the phone to a shell.
Ben loves the sand a little too much. I had to give him a cracker to stop eating it.

It's time for me to confess something I did yesterday that I think a lot of mom's have probably done and may not be willing to confess, so I will and you can silently smile to yourself. I gave Ben a handful of cheerios and he eagerly attacked them and knocked majority of them to the floor. Amelia was begging me for some and kept trying to sneak his. I told her she couldn't have any until she finished her dinner. It was painfully long, but when she finally did, I told her she could eat all the cereal on the floor (my floor is clean) and made her think SHE was getting the prize, but really, it saved me from 1 more thing to clean up. Thank YOU Amelia.

Since most of my blog is fluff, I decided to blog about just that today, FLUFF. This is the time of year when we start to convince ourselves that we need to fill our closets, houses, and stomachs full of fluff and this is the one holiday that I say, YES. Aisles lined with brightly colored shredded fluff to fill baskets, little plastic eggs waiting to be hidden and packed full of jelly beans or other chewy delights, fluffy bunnies and chicks begging to be snuggled, shelves filled with pastel wrapped chocolaty goodness with layers of creamy fluff and caramel or something to resemble an uncooked egg, fluffy little sugar coated ducks and bunnies begging to be eaten because "it's a tradition" even though you know after you finish it you will immediately say to yourself or even others in the room, "I've made a horrible mistake", racks filled with dresses covering layers of fluffy petticoats and matching ribbons or shoes, or for a real find, little white gloves. Yes, I love the colors, the treats, the clothing, the everything. I realized this fully when I went to Target to and got swept up from the moment I stepped in the store and saw the whole Easter SECTION. I immediately turned in and caught myself thinking, "why yes Veronica, you do need an egg dying and glitter kit, even though Amelia is ALLERGIC to hard boiled eggs" or "$2 is a screaming deal for a package of Milky Way eggs because they never have any left when they go on sale AFTER Easter" and then, "my whole basket is filled with candy Amelia can't eat, so I better pick up one of these and one of these.....". There was just one more thing to make my holiday binge complete, Peeps. I searched everywhere and I was seriously questioning the patriotism of this store when I couldn't find them. You don't dedicate a section to a holiday and not include the basics, Cadbury creme eggs, Peeps, traditional big hard jelly beans, etc. It's like having Valentine's day without the conversation hearts, Christmas without candy canes, St Patricks day without green food coloring. Seriously Target. I managed to get over it, but they better get it together. Easter is still weeks away, and you better believe that I will be back to see. In the mean time, I typically make Amelia an Easter dress, but my trusty sewing machine is on the fritz, so I have to buy off the rack, how low brow. I was a little hesitant, but I was just out and about and managed to find a really cute and much more practical dress, so that will leave me a lot more time to do something like check on Target to see if they will be carrying Peeps.


Oh and Ben is pulling himself up, but still not crawling (just army crawling) and climbs everything. And Amelia is mostly potty trained. Goes without reminding, dry when we go out, and even woke up this morning dry!!!! Yeah.

Me: What do you want to do today?
A: I want to go to "newtah"
Me: That's too far away
A: I want to go to newtah and see the snow
Me: That would take a really long time to get there
A: We can go in dad's car and drive really fast


This is of her in newtah in the snow