growing pains....

I'm having a few myself. I'm trying out a new style for my hair. My daughter loves it, Joey likes it and I'm not sure yet. I'm a natural curly headed gal who has to color her hair on a regular basis for....we'll say natural reasons. I get this from my mom's side of the family. Thanks Helton's.

And this year...I'm turning the big 40! I can't believe it. After all these years and now I'm going to turn an age that I used to think was so old. Thankfully my 7 yr old tells my that I will never be old to her. And this is why I color my hair so that I will not look like her grandma instead of her momma.

I'm not the only one in the house having growing pains. Jaci the 7 year old wanted to turn back into a baby last night. She even went as far as saying she wanted to wear a diaper again. In the mist of all this I was going back and forth to bathrooms bathing my kids, getting them out, dried off, putting on pj's and putting on Jena'a diaper. Who still needs it right now. She is only 2! Her daddy did come and "baby" her for a while. She loved it. And I had to carry her into the kitchen this morning, just to make her feel like a "baby" again. OH my back!

Then there's my 3 year old, who got in time out yesterday for not listening to his teacher. Seems this continued when he got home. I was turning on my flat-iron, cause I'm working on my new due, and I tell him not to touch it cause it will be hot. About this time I turn it on turbo so I can hurry. We were getting ready to take Jaci to practice. Well, guess what, he didn't listen again and touched the iron and burned his little, 3 yrs old thumb. Oh my! So now I'm doctoring up this burn which I know is very painful but I could not get on to him cause I knew he was in so much pain. I did tell him, "see what happens when you don't listen to mommy." I got a huge scream out of that one. He falls asleep at the dinner table and so I hold him close. I really felt like a bad mom for this one.

Last but not least is our Jena-bug. The one who is still in diapers cause I think she is just still too little for potty training and she still needs her pacy. I think her growing pains are hurting me more than her. I had a Kodak moment with her today but no memory left on my camera. She put her doll in her high chair and was pretending to feed the baby. She had a bottle and a dish for food and was feeding the baby with a spoon. I almost cried! She is so precious.

All of our gifts from God are so precious, even my hubby that He gave me.