Heather K Stratton

So my holiday season was totally crazy! I was running from family party to family party. Driving from Murray to Bountiful, Layton and then to Holladay. However just being able to watch my daughter open gifts was the best! She did not care really what was in it she just wanted to continue to open gifts. I let her open all of mine and my husband’s as well. She was so cute because all she wanted was to tear all of the paper off the box. This did make more of a mess than usual because she would tear the paper into small pieces which I had to clean. But her determination was fascinating to watch. At times she was so intent on getting a gift open that she was going red in the face and shaking as she was trying to tear open a small box. She has loved her Christmas. Funny thing is one of her favorite things is a large candy cane balloon that my brother in law had at his house and gave to her because she loved it so much. She talks about the “bazoon” all of the time and she says night night to it also bye and asks for it first thing when she wakes.

Then two days after Christmas my husband and daughter went up to my brother in laws house for dinner (I stayed home not feeling well and enjoying a good break).  They have an outside cat and now that my daughter is practicing animal sounds one of her favorites is what a kitty say and she just says meow meow all of the time. When she sees a cat she starts yelling meow meow. So that night my husband had shown her the kitty and she loved it. So he started on his way back home and my daughter kept saying meow over and over again and he was saying was that your favorite part of the evening seeing the kitty? He kept thinking wow that sounds so much better and he was feeling proud of my little girl. As he almost reached the freeway from the highway, all of a sudden something jumped from the back seat to the top of the passenger front seat. He said that he screamed like a girl but did not get into accident. He stopped the car and turned around to return the stowaway and this time he looked back often to see our little girl holding the kitty in her car seat and just so happy smiling from ear to ear and squeezing the poor cat. He decided that a thirty minute drive with an almost two year old should be a lesson enough to the cat not to jump into random cars. The next day I was asking her about what she found in the car the previous night and she was so happily jabbering away telling me all about it then I asked what did daddy say when the meow meow jumped up next to him and she let out a shrilly scream. I laughed so hard then proceeded to scream with her over and over again. She is so amazing with all of the animal noises.

Being a mom makes for some good stories.

So Susie gave me the best idea EVER! I was telling her how cute my girl is other then when she is jumping on me so she said get her a little trampoline. I remembered that I had one when I was little and for many years and loved it. So I did get one at Walmart and it can be just for her or also I can exercise on it, if I ever get the inkling to.  This is so great it is a wonderful way of getting a small amount of time to think. But then she will want me to watch her.

Why do I have to get sick every winter? I hate it! At least Venice has not gotten sick. I have a horrible head cold and I just get so tired but there is just a limit to how much I can sleep. However my husband could sleep forever with an I.V. and catheter. I do not get how he can sleep so much and how he falls asleep so quickly. He will say goodnight roll over and within thirty seconds he is snoring. And it is real because I have woken him up to tell him it is not fair that he can fall asleep so fast.  It takes me forever to fall asleep I think max I usually sleep is four to six hours and if I am woken up the chances of me going back to sleep are nearing zero.

Well nap time…oh yeah I don’t take naps.