Just a wee stroll downtown

Took Freedom to a groovy coffee shop, Common Grounds (where the service is fab and the baristas all have great hair) in downtown Denver, to visit with a couple of our special lady friends and two little Freedom friends. All was well, until Freedom saw that his lil friend had arrived outside parked on the other side of the busy, downtown morning rush, street. He was jumping all around, getting super excited and saying, "hooray", because he wanted to greet them immediately. So, I decided we'd walk outside to the sidewalk and just make sure they didn't need any help.

Well, Freedom pulled his super independent, stubborn, crazy two-year old attitude and at one moment started to bolt off the curb and into the corner of the street. I had to, in an instant, grab him, and pull him back with force, just as a big suv was approaching that corner. He could have been hit, no doubt. I felt shaky and scared, that's for sure, but I feel grateful that there were guardian angels looking out for my boy & giving me the alertness and momentum to grab him. Having your child leap into oncoming traffic is a frightening experience. Ahhhh, another freaky motherhood moment, thankfully that one is over, unfortunately, I know there will be more freaky things to come. Bracing myself. Here's a couple snapshots I took of the lil car tire chaser while we were hanging out on this sunny day downtown. Please, dear son, let's stay cute & on the sidewalk!

Ready for Back to School

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Co-Sleeping with Children

Just wanted to share a photo glimpse into what co-sleeping with Freedom looks like in our bed. He actually sleeps 85% of the time in his own bed, but sometimes comes into mommy's bed in the middle of the night. However, this particular example is from a night when daddy was out of town and mommy allowed Freedom to sleep with her. It's nice to encourage attachment with your toddler, but when that involves feet to the face, being pushed almost off your own bed, and upside down sleeping by your beloved, I gotta say, co-sleeping can be a pain. Yep, uh huh. You too can try co-sleeping with your toddler's feet on the pillow. Ha!

First Moppets Craft

We are starting our second year/season of the MOPS & Moppets group at our church. MOPS is Mothers' of Preschoolers, and Moppets is what they call the nursery school that the kiddos attend while their moms are in fellowship and meeting. It is basically a community, support and friendship group that meets in local churches and is a religious based meeting that enables mommies to get out and meet other moms a few times a month, have breakfast, take a break, participate in activities, do crafts and hear speakers. We did it last year and enjoyed it, with mommy getting to spend time with other moms and hear fun guest speakers and Freedom having the opportunity to experience nursery class and socializing with other kids his age, we greatly enjoyed it. Today was the first meeting of this semester. Freedom's Moppets class did a little art craft and drew around their hands, but another mommy accidentally took Freedom's drawing home instead of her own child's. So, when we got home, we basically redid what they had done, just a little nursery craft treat to hang on the wall.

Christmas in September

Our lil water baby's first time at the local reservoir

Free's first time on a jet ski ride with mommy

Ready to take her for a spin on the water

Freedo meets Sea Doo the PWC

Daddy has gone bananas and treated himself & us to a banana colored jet ski. Must be Christmas in September, because he also bought Mama B a brand new serger sewing machine, so I can get to making my kids clothes a whole lot faster. Ordered the Brother 1034D machine from Amazon, yipee! Freedom got to test out the jet ski (as a passenger with mommy of course), or "water bike", "boat bike", "Freeum's boat" as he refers to it, this weekend, and loved it! Actually, when I took him out for his second ride, the rocking of the jet ski on the water started luling him to sleep. Pretty crazy, because it was a windy day and the water was super choppy. He must be a lil fishy at heart, because he's already been on boats a few times now, in his babyhood and seems very comfortable, calm and downright excited to be in, on and around the water. Yes folks, my 2.5 yr old has a jet ski. Lord help me! But, in all seriousness, I am excited that his dad can expose him to the water at such a young age, because I love the ocean and swimming and have hopes that he will learn to love them too!