"Do You Want to Build A Snowman" by Lil Diva

Frozen has been playing in heavy rotation at our house ever since Lil Diva received the movie as a gift (Best Mom Ever...or so she told me) which means that we all know all of the songs from the movie soundtrack...yes, even me. Just one of the hazards of being a Mom I suppose. Anyway, Lil Diva loves to sing and she's actually surprisingly amazing at it and her current favorite songs are all from Frozen so I thought I'd share a video that I made of her singing "Do You Want to Build a Snowman".  I don't know about y'all, but I think she may have a future with this singing thing.  I die, she's too adorable!

 

So, what do you think?  Do you think she has a future in the music biz?  

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What Do You Do When You Realize That Your Babies Are Growing Up?…

In the middle of writing a review, which I am desperately behind in at the moment due to the flu that kicked our houses ass last week, I hear my four year old’s  footsteps as she runs down the hallway to tell me that her “TV is broke”  and in the amount of time it takes her to make it from her bedroom to my computer desk, I realize that her footsteps sound so different, they didn’t sound like the baby footsteps that I have grown so used to hearing for the past few years, no, these are definitely different, yet also very familiar…

…that’s when I realize that my baby is no longer a baby.  And not only is she no longer a baby, but she’s growing up, into one of the Big Kids, and I’m not sure if I should be excited that I no longer have “babies” running around and that my diapering days are pretty much done, or if I should be sad that I don’t have babies running around anymore and that I don’t have to ever buy diapers again (at least not for a long, long while, hey SS and DT, y’all hear that?  no babies, no time soon…), it’s one of those times when being a mommy is hardest. 

I love that Lil Diva is growing up and she’s growing up into such a confident, smart, gorgeous, independent, amazing little girl who drives me crazy, but I couldn’t imagine living life without, but the fact that she’s my baby and she’s not really a baby anymore, that’s a another story.

Maybe it’s because somewhere deep inside I know that she’ll be my last, mostly because 6 kids is expensive enough, but also because my husband and I both agree that no matter how much we love babies (and I adore them), the smartest thing for us to do is concentrate on raising the ones we’ve got.  I mean, it makes all the sense in the world when you see it written in black and white, but it does little to comfort the part of me that needs them to be small so that I can protect  them forever. 

And to be honest, it’s not just Lil Diva who is growing up; Drama Teen, my oldest, will be 14 in a few months and in high school before I know it and my precious little Sporty Spice is already in middle school and growing up a little faster every day and Lil Man is already in kindergarten and he’s reading (I still can’t believe that the boy who barely knew his ABC’s 3 months ago is reading and writing and well, growing up…they all are and I’m sitting here watching it all unfold, wishing that I could slow time down a little, hoping that if I just hold on for a little while longer they’ll decide to stay little and be Mommy’s babies forever, but then I realize that the truest test of our mothering skills is letting our kids go out into the world and seeing what they do in it. 

I constantly question how I’m doing as a mom; “Do I curse too much?”, “Do I yell too much?”, “Am I sending the right messages?”, “Am I teaching them the right things?” and most of the time i don’t know the answers to those questions, none of us do really, but last week I got confirmation that I’m doing something right…

…last week was parent/teacher conferences here and aside from being told that DT and SS talk too much (wonder where they get that from?) I’m always proud of my kids when I leave, but after my meeting with Lil Man’s kindergarten teacher I was in tears…good tears mind you.  Aside from telling me how proud she was of Lil Man’s progress she told me that he was a pretty good, pretty special little kid…apparently there is a special needs child in Lil Man’s classroom that my son has taken under his wing, his teacher said that the little boy adores Lil Man and that Lil Man makes sure that the little boy gets in line when he’s supposed to and helps him whenever he can, sits with him at lunch and plays with him on the playground, she said that Lil Man was very protective over this little boy (which wasn’t a surprise to me since he’s so protective over his sister) and that I should be very proud of what a great kid I have…and I was proud, beaming even, but that wasn’t the conformation, that came later that night when I was tucking Lil Man into bed.  As I told my son how proud I was of him for being such a big helper to his friend he looked at me and said…

“Mom, I need to take care of that little boy.”  so I asked him why and he told me, “because, that’s what I’m supposed to do!”.  That’s when the tears came, right then, right in that moment I knew that I was doing an ok job, that I might not be Mom of the Year, but that I was raising four  amazing kids…and that’s enough for me.

Oh, the footsteps and Lil Diva growing up, that’s still new to me, I think I’ll play that one by ear…

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Wordless Wednesday: Happy 4th Birthday Lil Diva!

Forgive me if this is a little on the wordy side, but not every day is your youngest child’s birthday…right? 

Today is my Lil Diva’s 4h birthday, most of you are probably unaware of how this blog started, but if I weren’t for Diva, it may not even exist.  You see next month will be my blog’s 4th birthday as well and it was actually Lil Diva who inspired my blog, well she inspired my need for an outlet anyway…who knew!

Though Lil Diva may make me crazy 95% of the time, she’s one of the smartest, most beautiful, most awesome little kids I know and she’s growing into an amazing young lady!  So Happy 4th Birthday to my gorgeous Lil Diva…mommy loves you!

 

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Lil’ Diva’s Having Surgery This Week and I am NOT Happy About It!

I just wanted to let y’all know that I might not be around much the rest of the week!  I will get giveaway winners drawn and emailed (though winner’s posts may or may not happen) so make sure to check your email!!!!

 

In addition to this being my last week of school for the semester (thank goodness for Christmas break—I’m in major need of some time off from school) it’s finals week and that means exams, papers and more papers!  So I am going to be busy—please believe me when I say that I would much rather be writing for y’all as opposed to writing about sexism and racism in education institutions (the topic of one of my papers). 

 

 

On top of finals Lil’ Diva will be having oral surgery this Thursday (please keep her in your thoughts…she’s been miserable with a bad toothache for the past several days) to repair a broken tooth and fill some cavities.  FYI the whole “giving your child a cup (of anything) at night is just as bad as giving them a bottle at night” is TRUE and the cavities that Lil Diva has to have filled are proof of that!  We spent all day today at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati and were extremely lucky to get a surgery date so soon!  While I  HATE the idea of any of my children having surgery, I am thankful that  the dentist can go in and fix all of the teeth at once without traumatizing Lil’ Diva with multiple visits!  So please keep her in your thoughts and pray that she’s back up and running around being her normal silly self very soon!

 

So, that’s how I’ll be spending the rest of my week!  I hope your week is shaping up to be a less eventful one than mine!

 

See y’all soon!

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Cooking With My Misadventurous Kids: Mommy and Lil Diva!

It’s been a LONG time since we’ve done an episode of Cooking With My Misadventurous Kids so I thought what the heck nows as good a time as any to make one!

 

Tonight my husband took the boys fishing, the big girls were all off doing their own thing and that left Mommy and Kinley, so what did we do?  We made cookies of course, and then we made homemade Chocolate Chip Cookie ice cream sandwiches!  You’ll notice that my helper in the video, Lil Diva, is making her debut on Cooking With My Misadventurous Kids and Mommy thinks she did great! 

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Let us know what you think!

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“My NOT Beauful Mom!”

Yesterday as I was looking back through past posts trying to find something I came across so many posts that made me smile, laugh, and even cry and that’s when I realized that something has been missing from Misadventures for a very long time…ME!!!!

 

Alright so I won’t get all, “We’re switching things up around here.” on you, but I will say that I most definitely plan on getting back to what I love most and that is talking about the craziness that is my life, because come on how can a grumpy husband, 6 badass kids, and 1 crazy BIL not be good for bloggy business!

 

So I think I’ll start right now!

 

It’s been forever since I’ve written a post about my children that didn’t include them testing a product for me (I know, I know…bad mommy) but the conversation between Lil Diva and I tonight was too cute not to share!

 

For those of you who don’t know about Lil Diva, she’s my youngest child and at 2 she’s a handful, Lil Diva is also extremely bossy and very matter-of-face, she says what’s on her mind and that’s just all there is to it.  One of our neighbor’s has a son (we’ll call him T) Lil Man’s age (almost 4) and he has a thing for Lil Diva and well all kind of thought that Lil Diva had a thing for him too, but we found out tonight they may not be the case at all lol.

 

Lil Man:  Mom T said that sissy is beautiful.

Me:  Well Lil Man sissy is beautiful.

(During this part conversation Lil Diva just stood in the middle of the trampoline listening)

Lil Man:  Well, nope I’m gonna kick his butt!

Me:  Now Lil Man that’s not very nice, he didn’t do anything to you.

(At this point Lil Diva climbed off of the trampoline and walked over to where we were standing)

Lil Diva (arms crossed with a disgusted look on her face):  Mommy T said my was beauful! 

Me:  You are beautiful Lil Diva!

Lil Diva (clearly not happy with my response) NO MOM my not beauful…my Kin Kin!

Me:  Well yes your name is Kin Kin but you are very beautiful too!

Lil Diva (stomping her feet in protest):  My NOT beauful mom my Kin Kin.  Come on Bub Bub let go kick his butt!

 

And that ladies and gentlemen is the first in what I imagine will be many, many run ins with the opposite sex for Lil Diva…Lord help me!

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Lil Man???

My son loves Spiderman...he has since I can remember, actually now that I think about it he pretty much came outta the womb shooting webs! I indulge his love for all things Spiderman because it's cute, he loves it, and he's only 3, but lately I'm beginning to wonder if he isn't taking the whole Spider-man thing a little too seriously. Take for instance the conversation that Lil Man and I had last week...

Lil Man climbing on his web (aka Lil Diva's crib) and shooting webs at the camera

Me: Hey Lil Man (of course I used his real name) dinner's ready.

Lil Man: (looking irritated that I bothered him in the middle of his web climbing) Mom I not Lil Man.

Me: Um, ok then, who are you?

Lil Man: (annoyed...again) I'm Peter Mom.

Me: (confused) Peter who?

Lil Man: Peter Partner ( he cannot say Parker) mom...duh!

And this child is 3...3 years old and has already changed his name to a fictional superhero spider and he uses the word 'duh"...when the hell did my son become grown enough to "duh" me?


Aside from the name change associated with his hero worship Lil Man, I mean Peter Parker, now insists that we play along with him as members of the Avengers so we can fight bad guys and climb on the couches while wearing cool costumes without getting into trouble. I was fortunate enough to catch this one on video (oh the blackmail this video will provide me in the future) but since my husband threatened bodily harm if I posted it you'll just have to settle for some photos of Lil Man and even Lil Diva get in on the Spider-man act!

 

Please tell me my son (and daughter) are not the only ones obsessed with comic book heroes?

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Lil Diva Strikes Again!

Lil Diva is just that…a Diva.  Try as I might I cannot calm her down or suppress her Divaish behavior.  Last week in a fit of rage Lil Diva began jumping on her bed and refused to stop, alright no big deal, I’ll just let her throw a tantrum until she’s had enough…no such luck.  Not only did Lil Diva continue the fit until I had, had enough she also managed to tear up her crib mattress. 

Now as shopping for new crib mattresses was not high on my list of things to do yesterday I was NOT pleased to have to change my plans and add shopping to them.  Alright normally I am psyched about shopping, but I was not at all happy about the circumstances surrounding this shopping trip.  I decided to forgo an actual trip to the store, it was COLD here yesterday and I did not want to leave the house if I didn’t have to.  Thank goodness for online shopping, not only was I able to do a search for the best crib mattresses, I was also able to compare brands and prices side by side with just a few clicks on the mouse…talk about convenience. 

After hours of searching, comparing, and weighing the pros and cons I had finally decided on a mattress that I liked, could afford, and was nearly Lil Dia proof when my husband called.  When I explained to him what I was doing he started laughing and said, “Um honey, we have a brand new mattress downstairs in storage.”  Wha-huh- was all I could manage to get out.  So after it turned out that all of the time I spent finding the perfect crib mattress was un vain and I was NOT happy about that! 

So, Lil Diva has a new crib mattress, which she is only allowed to sleep on, and I can breathe a sigh of relief.  I wonder if I can just take the money I “saved” on buying a new mattress and but myself a new pair of shoes…hmm better not ask hubby, I’m sure we have several pair in storage!

This is a sponsored post…all opinions are my own and not influenced by monetary gain.

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Wordless Wednesday…Messy Cuteness!

She is NOT happy that she is this messy!

But she IS so darn cute being that messy!  Happy Wordless Wednesday!

**Photos taken with Kodak EasyShare M580 camera**

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