Thor: The Dark World New Movie Poster

My son is quite possibly the biggest Thor fan of all time—seriously, he spends 90% of his days fighting Loki and defending Asgard—true story.  So I couldn’t not post the new poster for MARVEL’S THOR: THE DARK WORLD, it would have just been wrong and mean and well as soon as Lil Man saw it in my email he almost lost his mind and then spent the rest of the day being Thor (I was told he wasn’t actually pretending, that he was, in fact, Thor) so here Lil Man, this one’s for you. 



Marvel’s "Thor: The Dark World" continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself.  In the aftermath of Marvel’s "Thor" and "Marvel’s The Avengers," Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos...but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, and Jaimie Alexander with Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” is directed by Alan Taylor, produced by Kevin Feige, p.g.a., from a story by Don Payne and Robert Rodat and screenplay by Christopher L. Yost and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and is based on Marvel’s classic Super Hero Thor, who first appeared in the comic book “Journey into Mystery “ #83 in August, 1962.

Marvel’s "Thor: The Dark World" continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself.

Don’t forget, Marvel’s Thor:  The Dark World hits theaters in the US on on November 8, 2013!

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Happy 6th Birthday Lil Man!

Six years ago today I met my son, my only son, for the first time.  Words can’t even come close to explaining how happy I was the first moment I saw him, or how much he has changed who I am, or how much I truly, completely adore that boy!  My Lil Man is smart, funny, silly, kind, generous, loving, happy, compassionate, caring, talented and just flat out amazing!  He’s one of the four most precious and important things in my life and I couldn't imagine it without him, he’s a true “momma’s boy” and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Happy 6th Birthday Little Man…Mommy loves you to the moon and back!  

 

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Lil Man’s Cover of When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars…Too Cute!

I had actually planned a rather heavy, very emotional post for today, but decided at the last minute that I couldn’t publish it just yet—still a little too soon.  So instead I decided to share with you my one and only son serenading his mommy with his rendition of When I was Your Man by Bruno Mars.  I can't honestly say that I ever wanted to have a son, until my I laid eyes on my Lil Man, I can't imagine my life without this boy in it, he's everything I ever expected a perfect son to be and man do I love this little boy!

I’m not sure if he realizes or not at such a young age, but he truly has my heart, I couldn’t imagine a more perfect son for me than my Lil Man…he’s always gonna make this momma proud!

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Wordless Wednesday: Mommy’s Basketball Stars

It’s been a while since I’ve participated in Wordless Wednesday so I thought what the heck.  If you know me then you know how much of a sports mom I can be, especially when it comes to basketball.  This year’s basketball season just did wrap up last weekend and of all of the pictures I’ve taken over the past two and a half months, this is my favorite.  Mommy’s Basketball Stars…so proud of them both!

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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: PURPLE

Since I haven’t been around much lately (long, boring story that involves the flu and houseguests) I thought what better way to get back in the swing of things than by participating in Wordless Wednesday!

As some of you may know, Lil Man started Kindergarten this year, he absolutely loves school and I couldn’t be happier, anyway, the picture below is of Lil Man earlier this week,the kids are on break all this week (county fair—only in Ohio I bet) and he’s still so eager to learn!!!

For those of you having a hard time, he wrote Purple all by himself with no help writing or spelling…so proud of my boy!

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My Lil Man is 5 Today!!!

Five years ago today I gave birth to the cutest, sweetest, most amazing little boy I know!  I can’t believe that the past 5 years have gone by so fast, it seems like only yesterday I was pregnant with my lil man and now he’s getting ready to start kindergarten in a few weeks…it just doesn’t seem possible. 

God absolutely knew what he was doing when he sent me you and I’m thankful and so proud every single day to be able to say that I’m your mommy!

I love you SO much my baby boy and I hope that your birthday is as amazing as special as you are!

Happy Birthday Lil Man!

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Look Mom, I’m a Big Boy!

I love the weekends, no matter what we’re doing, we’re having a blast simply because we’re hanging out with each other…though to be fair, we’re usually fishing (SO not my thing btw). 

Anyway, this weekend Lil Man learned to ride a bike… a big bike, without training wheels!  Last year for his birthday, Lil Man chose a big wheel over a bike so he’s never even had a smaller bike to practice on, but that didn’t stop Lil Man, with the help of his big sister K, Lil Man was riding on his own in less than 20 minutes! 

I have to say, I am very, very proud of my Lil Boo Boo, but I’m also kinda sad that he’s growing up so quickly…I know all of you moms out there can relate to that one. 

Isn’t he the cutest thing ever…alight, I may be a bit bias, but come on, admit it, he’s one heck of a handsome boy!

 

 

 

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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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