Life with a Toddler

Today was just a fun day for me and justice. We made deliveries, hung around the house and played all day. I love the days when we just play and hang out together. It is so much fun and I do not get to do it as much as I would like. With me being sick all week I did not feel like playing at all so today I was starting to feel way better so I decided that it was time to play with my little man some.
Last night I actually got justice on tape singing row row row your boat with his daddy, it is so cute and I am going to try to upload it so that everyone can see how cute it is. Not sure where he got this from but when he sings it he holds his hands above his head with his fingers folded together and signs that way and sways back and forth. I can not tell you how cute it is.
We also made a trip down south to meet uncle joel since he had collected some money for me for some jewerly that he had sold. We hung out at grandma and pappa's for a little while then it was off to home again so we could eat dinner and start relaxing for bed time, but the relaxing part never happened as little man has just been hyper all day long, still right now he is. He is in bed supposed to be going to sleep but that is not working out so well. He is playing and calling for me every couple of mins. This has became his new bed time thing I believe. Well last night he went to bed no problem but not the night before or tonight. But it has been nice being able to sleep in until 7 which i have not gotten to do in a couple of years.
I have not gotten any bad news about anyone today which is nice and I am just waiting until monday to find out what is going to happen to my step mom. Then we will no more after that appointment to see what the future will hold.
Tomorrow is my mom and step dad's anniversary, I know weird day to get married on but they thought it would be funny as they both have been married before. I am really not sure how many years this is but I think it is like 12 or something like that. They have been together a lot longer than that but it took them a while to get married, but hay it does not matter. As long as they are happy is all that matters to me

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Tonight Justice was a stinker when it came to bed time. He did everything that he could to keep me coming in his room and not to go a sleep. He dropped all his binkies on the floor, wanted kisses, wanted the blankie put back on him, threw everything out of his crib what ever that little boy could think of he did. He was so cute about it too, which I normally would not say because after an hour and a half normally I would be a little irrated but not tonight, I just sat at my computer and kept getting up to this really cute little boy yelling for me. I must be in a good mood tonight or something. I know that this will only be something that he will do for a while and I already went in and tucked him in and he is now fast asleep.

I have been sick since Thursday night. I feel miserable and do not want to do anything. I have though done my shows and taken care of justice, my mommy duties.
Alright so this week has pretty much been crappy with a little happiness. My step mom has been diagnosed with a major brain tumor that is really big, she will have to go to Swedish medical on the 6th to see what they are going to do as far as surgery, my husbands grandpa had a stroke, I have been sick and then my sister had a baby girl yesterday morning. Katelynn was born at 7:55 in the morning. This is my sisters third and last child. As far as my step mom we know nothing yet other than it is big and really deep in the center of her brain. That is all I know. It sucks and I wish there was something that I could do for her.
So on friday Justice got to go to my dad and step moms for the day. They took him to the park, the touch tank and just spent the day with him. He had so much fun and he was not ready to come home. I was so happy that they got to spend the day together especially with this bad news. They played outside the whole day and justice could not care that I was there when I came to get him.
Today is sunday and I am staying home and doing a whole lot of nothing. Justice is just hanging out at home with me and aaron and adina today.

Today is another day so far like any other. I ran some errands, justice is down for his nap then we will run a few more errands. other than that we are not up to much. I have to get my stuff ready and Justice's stuff ready since I have another Cookie Lee show tomorrow and the rest of the week, so I need to spend sometime on that. I am not sure what else might come our way today but hopefully not much as I would like to stay home and do nothing since it is so yucky outside. I am sure though Justice will keep me busy and entertained all day like he does. He is so cute and into so many different things now. He loves to color, build with blocks, play with play dough, play in his sand box and he really loves to blow bubbles.

What I am thankful for

Today I am having one of those days. Life is just not where I want it to be. I am not where I want to be with God, I am not making as much money as I would like, no enough people are booking parties with my new company, my house is not clean by any means, I just want everything to be where I want it to be and today is not the day that I want to mess with it all. I think that it is time that I need to do something for myself for a change but I am not sure what I need to do to get out of this funk?
Ok so on another note, Justice went with me to church yesterday he has so much fun in his class, he colored me a picture, and sang. He goes into class with one of my foster sisters and they love to play together. We also then went to my grandma's to see how she was doing and to take her pictures of justice, then off to nana and poppa's house like every sunday. I had a nice time visting with my family and getting some work done and justice played all day and would not take a nap. Oh well he was a good boy and one day with out a nap is not going to kill him or me. Then we came home and played around, well I wanted to do was sleep since I could not fall asleep until two in the morning, then got up at 6.
today I am just hanging out at home, I do not want to go anywhere so I am not. I am going to stay home and work and play with my son. I love playing with him and he likes it too. Other than that I might continue cleaning house, doing dishes, laundry and things like that since it needs to be done but we will see.

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today I did a fundraiser for the cancer society with my cookielee jewerly. It went alright. I would like to raise some more money for this so if you would like to go to www.cookielee.biz/sharicooley and like what you see you can purchase it through me so call or leave me a comment and I will get it for you and mail it then I will donate 25% to the cancer society. 360-708-4353
Justice went to grandma and grandpa's today while I was doing my fundraiser. He had a lot of fun and was an excellent little boy. I am so proud of him and he did not care at all when I was leaving. I guess he was tapping on the table asking for ho ho which is santa. Grandma could not figure out at first what he wanted then it made sense that the santa was on that table at christmas time that played music and danced and justice just loved it. So grandma dug it out and he played with that and was so happy.
I am beat so I think I am going to keep this short as I have some work to do and would like to go to bed.

Today Justice got to nana and poppa's because I jad to go to court to fight a ticket that I had got and did not desrve. I went into court with a really bad attitude that it would not be dropped and I would be stuck with somethig that was not right, but the judge was really cool and dropped my ticket even before I told my side of the story. Luck was in my favor I was so excited.
I went back and got justice, he was still eating dinner with the other kids when I got there so I hung out for a while and finished letting him eat, then off to home we went. We got home and cuddled for a while and got our jammies on and off to bed. He is actually asleep and that is amazing since the last few nights it has taken him a couple of hours to go to bed, but not tonight I just let him yell and off to sleep he went. Yeah

Today was one of my many shows for cookie lee. It went well and got another show from it so that is good. Justice got to go to grandma and grandpa's for the day while I went and worked. He was so cute when I left he gave me kisses and waived bye bye and that was it, no crying or anything which is good. It is getting easier to leave him which makes me happy but sad at the same time. I guess he played with his toys that I had packet for him, played with bubbles and walked around the yard looking for bunnies and birds, it sounds like he had a good time.
When I got there to pick him up he was still sleeping which was good that he got a good nap today. We then came home to leave again to make an avon delivery then home to make dinner and take a bath apon his request. So off to the bath tub, then he cuddled up on my lap soaking wet like always and cuddled for about an hour. I love those times to just hold my little boy. Then off to play and wait for daddy to get home.
Now he is in bed and hopefully going to get a good night sleep since we have a long day again tomorrow. He will be going to Nana and Poppa's will I go to court to fight a ticket that I really should have never gotten, but that is another story on its own. Then friday back down to grandma and grandpa's so I can do another cookie lee show, that one is also a fundraiser for the american cancer society. I would love to do some more of these since they are for such a good cause and many people in my family are survivors of cancer/
Oh yeah we found out on monday that my mom is 100% cancer free this is wonderful news since the type of cancer she had was never subpost to go away.
Ok now I need to go and work on orgainizing my jewerly since it was mess from today.

This weekend I had the fashion show that I was in, went to my moms house to work. I did not have time to sit down and relax at all and this week I have no time to relax either because I have so many shows going on and with avon. Justice loves it though because he is still spending time with me and he gets to go and play with the grandparents while I am at my shows. Right now he is down for his nap and I am working.

Toay has started out pretty normal other than I took down the baby gate to keep Justice out of Adina's room. I only had it up when he first started to crawl and now it is time for it to come down. Adina is not happy about this because now Justice can go in there when ever he wants but it had to come down. It drives me nuts and she never cleans under it so it gets grosse. I decided that it was time since it was something that I have wanted to do for a long time.
I am really busy this next week and the following and will be leaving Justice with family so that I can go do my parties for my new company. I am scared but I know he will be fine, it is just that I do not leave him anywhere that often and Tuesday, Wednesday next week he will have to go somewhere and saturday he will stay home with daddy since I am in a fashion show. Then the next week he will be with someone Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and part of saturday. That is a lot of days but at least he is not in daycare.
Last night our friend Donny came over for dinner, we had a nice time visting and having dinner that him and I cooked. Today me and Justice are just going to stay home as I have a lot of work to do and I would really like to deep clean my house, if at all possible. I am not sure how much of that I will accomplish with little man running around the house but we will see what I can get done. I am also taking care of my neighbors dogs, cats and fish while she is out of town. I will also get her mail and take her garbage out for her since she will be gone almost a week. I also take the little old lady down the road from me her mail everyday so I would say that I am pretty busy right now, but I do not mind, it is better than being bored all day long.
Our sink broke yesterday and that was not fun since I could not use the kitchen sink all day long, you never know how much you use something until you can not any more. Aaron got that fixed when he got home from work yesterday. Thank goodness because I was going nuts not being able to take care of the dishes or anything like that.
Well I need to go and fold the 4 loads of laundry on my bed and put in my avon order before it gets to late.

Today was Justice's 2nd birthday party. It went wonderful and I am so thankful for everyone that could come. Justice had so much fun and loved all the gifts he got. He got a scooter today and was riding it in the restaurant where we had his party, needless to say he fell now has a bump on his head that is black and blue. That is my fault for letting him ride it but he is ok so nothing to stew over.
It was so wonderful to have friends and family there to celebrate Justice's special day and I had a lot of fun too. I love big parties where Aaron likes small ones, well since last year I could not do a big party since Justice had the flu I did one this year, not sure if I will do a big one again next year. I will decide that closer to his birthday then.
We got home from his party and he played out side for a while, then came in and played, then took a bath after he tore his diaper off and was running around naked because he wanted a bath. I then got him ready for bed and put him down, for one hour he came up with every excuses not to go to sleep, so he got up and ate some pizza. I think I finally got him to sleep around 7:45. I am totally wiped out now and I think that it is about time to go to bed. I have already got all his presents put away and found homes for everything even the stuff that goes outside.
It was a wonderful day today and I am very thankful for everything and everyone today

Ok so justice is two today so I thought I would put some pictures on here of him from the past two years He is getting so big. Happy birthday momma's little man. I love you more than words can express, you make my life complete and I cherish each and every moment with you. You are growing so fast and turning into such a wonderful little man, so much energy and so much love for everyone. I learn so much from you everyday and love holding and kissing you. You went from momma's tiny little baby to momma's big boy in no time at all. I can not wait to continue watching you grow and help and guide you along the way.
Happy birthday my little man. I love you!

Justice will be two tomorrow. Time sure flyes. I took him today to get his two year old pictures taken and he was so good and they turned out so cute. I can not wait to get them in my hands to give out to everyone. We also did the last of his birthday shopping. Yeah I am done. Today we are just hanging around home now that I got all of that done, we are going to try to make the last of our deliveries for avon, but other than that not a lot of anything. I need to wrap his and austins presents but that can wait until later.
My little man is growing up so fast and right in front of my eyes. I can not believe how big he has gotten and how smart he is. It seems like yesterday I was just bringing him home from the hospital where I could shower with out company, I could get things done around the house and not worry about them getting destroyed the very next second. Oh well it is all part of life and I love every minuet of it

Today is my typical Thursday. Damian is here for the day and Justice and him sometimes are more than I can handle but today they both are being really good which is nice. I am also taking Justice in this afternoon to get his two year old pictures done. I am so excited for that. I know not that big of a deal but it is for me. I got most of Justice's birthday presents bought last night so that made me happy and since I can not find a sand table for him, Aaron is going to build one before Sunday.
We are having a big party for him since I could not do it in his first birthday because he had the flue so I had to cancel his party then, not this year I am making up for last year and some. It should be fund the only thing is that I can not do it on his actual birthday since my nephew was born that day too and my sister had already said that she did not want to do a joint party so I have to do Justice's the day after but that is alright. I do not mind. This week is full of birthdays, 4th was my mom and brother in laws, 7 th is Austin and Justice's, 11th is my brother and the 13th in my cousins son and I am sure I might have missed a few but that means that we will being going to a lot birthday parties this weekend and next week.

I took justice to the doctor today to get his well child check thinking that he would have to have shots. Much to my amazement he is done with shots until he goes into kindergarten thank you. He got weighed 38 pounds and measured at 3 feet 1 inch (37 inches). My little boy is not so little any more. We also got some cream for his dry skin. They also looked at his rash that he has had for a couple of weeks now and found out that it is some viral rash that he could have up to 24 months. There is no real treatment and it will just eventually go away on its own. Other than that he is healthy and doing good. I love my doctor and Justice was a perfect little boy today. He did not run through the doctors office and held my hand like he is being taught to. He let the doctor look in his ears, eyes mouth and listen to his heart beat. I could not believe that he sat so still and let her check everything out and did not need momma at all. The only thing is though that the doctor says that I need to take away his Binky really soon which I have wanted to do anyway. So that is just another push to do so. She wants him to stay on tums everyday since he still will not drink milk and take his fluoride. Yeah clean bill of health and if all is well he does not need to be seen for another year. I need to get him into the dentist again just to have them look at his teeth and I need to change his tooth paste to a fluoride one the doctor says but that will come.

Tomorrow we will be going to get Justice's two year old pictures taken. I am so excited to get them done and home to compare with the last set that we did at one. I know he has grown up and the baby is gone altogether and now he looks like a little boy. It makes me sad and happy all at the same time. Time just goes by too fast.

Other than that Justice is down for his nap and I am going to work on some things around the house and try to figure out what I would like to get little man for his birthday. I have some ideas but not many so we will see what happens.

Today has been a wonderful day so far. Got lots of deliveries done and things around the house done. I am now working on reference checks, calling people whom came to my last party and thanking them for coming and trying to get some more parties on the books. I would love to have some sort of party going on every week. It might not happen right away but that is my goal. I am also trying to think of what to get little man for his 2nd birthday this weekend. I can not believe that he is already two, where has the time gone? As you get older I have noticed that time goes by a lot faster. It saddens me that he is no longer a baby, but I have so much fun with him every day that I love him being a big boy too. I just wish that I had a few more months with him as a tiny baby, but who knows maybe we will have another one someday, well hopefully sooner than later, but we will see what happens.
Justice has learned how to count, one, two, three then either six or one again but that is good for a two year old I think, He also says welcome instead of thank you, but at least he is using his manners, which is wonderful. Justice is growing up so fast that I am not really sure where all the time has gone, but it is nice to see what a nice and helpful boy he is becoming. Tomorrow morning we have his two year old check up and also they are going to look at his arm that keeps getting red bumps then they go away then they come back so I just want them to check them out. Other than that I can not wait to see how tall he is and how much he weighs. It should be fun.

This weekend was busy like always. Saturday we went to the roller skating rink for my little sisters birthday party and Justice did so good skating and it was so much fun. We then got home saturday night and hung around the house, Sunday me and Justice headed to bellingham like every Sunday and went to church and made our rounds. We then found out that five mins. after we left the skating rink my sister had fallen and broke her arm. I feel so bad for her.
Today was the same as everyday. Had to go to an appointment, delivered avon and worked around the house. Tomorrow will be just as busy if not worse.