shift to a higher gear

    Ok so this slowing down and enjoying the moments that matter most can be kind hard some days. Come on lets be real here. This cute, crazy, funny, adorable, stubborn, tease of a three year old can sometimes really test my limits. I totally love this little girl don't get me wrong. My life without Little M would be so boring and lacking. However, this little three year old has a way to make me wish some moments would pass by.  Let me give you some examples:
1. crying over breakfast because she wants to smear peanut butter all over a checker game and I said no.

2. crying for like a half an hour because she wants me to hold her in a certain chair. This certain chair is a hard wood chair not the best chair for snuggling with your three year old. I just wanted to rock in the rocking chair but she really wanted the wooden dining room table chair.

3. standing at the bottom or top of the stairs crying because she wants you to carry her up or down the stairs. You wouldn't mind helping her with this except for the fact you are holding a 2 month old baby, and all the toys the said three year old wants you to carry because apparently her arms are broken.

4. Crying for some unknown reason that you can't figure out as her mother and giving up cause you don't know what to do with her.

5. Trying to be patient everytime its time to go somewhere and she wants to pack up her entire room to go with her and crying when she realizes that there is no possible way to carry all 500 of her sutffed animals. ( we do this drilll every single time we have to leave. No lying)

Ok these are just a few of the moments that trust me I have tried really hard to stop and enjoy. Still working on that.
Now not to give my sweet little girl a bad name I have had some great moments with here this week. 1. picking out all the sparkly shoes in the shoe store.

2. pushing her in the cold on the swing 60 times because that is the number of pushes she asked for.

3. Trying to help her attempt the climbing wall at the local rec center.

4. celebrating with her that she made it all night long without a pull up and without an accident.

5. Holding her until she fell asleep one night after she had one of the above crying fits.

I do love my sweet M. Trying really hard to overcome the times when she is crying and upset of things that seem so silly to me but mean the world to her three year old mind. 

So minding to the moments that matter most can have its challenges but I am still working on it. This week is spring break so we are off to see if we can make some more great moments that matter.

Keep shifting gears. Corrine