Mom Fails...and a couple wins

I like to think I'm a pretty good mom. I try to be present, I love spending time with my baby man...you know all the good stuff. BUT there are definitely times where I know I'll never be up for the Mom Of The Year Award. I mean for real...




-This morning on the way to school Dominick asked to listen to Shut Up And Dance. I did the voice thing where I basically press a button and tell it to play a song. The only problem is every time Dominick heard the ding telling me to say the command I wanted the car to do he would start yelling, "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP and DAAAAAAAAAAAAAANCE! After about the 7th time of him doing this and me telling him he had to stop or it wasn't going to happen because the car didn't know what I wanted and him telling me to no tell him that I MIGHT have lost my cool and yelled, "DOMINICK!" We both instantly felt bad, but $hit son, do you want to hear the song or not?




-Dominick is REALLY big into winning. Everything is a contest with him. He's also a HORRIBLE winner and an even worse loser. So sometimes I will purposely beat him over and over again just because everyone else ALWAYS lets him win. I have also taught him whether he wins or loses he has to shake their hand and tell them good game. He doesn't always and most times it's a struggle (especially if he loses), but he will begrudgingly do it.

-Another thing he's really big on is best friends. He ALWAYS tells me that his Daddy is his BEST friend. Sometimes he'll say Mommy and Daddy are both his best friends, but Daddy is NEVER not his best friend. One night we were laying there snuggling and I had said, "I love you Dominick." He said, "Mommy, you are NOT my best friend". So my response was, "Good! You're not mine either." I mean I just want to be a best friend just once.

-I despise giving Dominick baths. He normally takes showers with Ryan at night after Ryan gets home from the gym. He gets a bath everyday because he goes to school and is around all of the germs.

-When he picks his nose I tell him his fingers are going to fall off so he will stop. I mean there's not much that's more disgusting than a kid picking their nose. Bleh!

-Dominick HATES anything spicy. He refuses to even drink anything carbonated (which this part I don't mind at all) because it burns his mouth. Anyways, he was going through this phase where he was calling people butt and saying it allllll the time. For example, Me: Hi Dominick. How was your day? Dominick: Hi butt. Good, butt!" So after about a month of this we told him if he kept saying it he would get hot sauce. Now I use the hot sauce threat way more than I probably should and have had to follow through with a couple of times as well. He gets less than a drop of red hot (so not even that hot), but man is he SO good after that.

-I'm not a huge fan of playing. I hate imaginative play and I really don't enjoy trains. Both Dominick loves. My brain just doesn't work that way. I'll give him his tablet or tell him he has to wait for his dad. I mean really, I can only push a train around the tracks so many times before I'm like why are we doing this? I will play games, play doctor, build magna tiles and duplos with him all day long (and other things), but playing is just not something that I'm good with.

And just so you all don't think I'm ruining my kid here are some of my "winning" moments...

-I built him a pretty epic train track because I love him and he asked. I've also had to put it back together approximately 10000000000 times because there's a lot of bridges and it's fallen.

-I built him a firetruck out of a cardboard box and may have spent 7 hours painting and building it for his project. I am not sure if this is a win or a fail on my part because it was supposed to be something HE did for his homework assignment, but I basically took it over and he got to glue some things on and paint the ladders. He was SO proud of it and said, "WOW, MOMMY I LOVE IT!"

-If you know me you know I DESPISE the cold and still will take him outside to play in the snow and let him sled even if it's barely 10 degrees and the snow is hardly covering the ground. I mean, y'all know how long it takes to dress a toddler to go play in the snow.

-We go on mommy and son dates all the time because quality time spent with him is basically the bees knees in my eyes.


So there you have it...a little bit of real mom moments.

MLK Weekend

Multiple posts in one week...it's basically unheard of from me! I totally forgot last weekend was MLK weekend and we had a long weekend until Dominick's teacher said something to me. It was like being a kid on Christmas.


Friday Dominick started asking about going bowling. He really enjoys it and has gone to a couple of birthday parties at the bowling alley so we told him we'd take him bowling over the weekend. We ended up going on Saturday. We also had dinner at Chuy's which is definitely a favorite in our house. We go too much.

Sunday Dominick and I went grocery shopping and then we all headed to Columbus. We went to COSI a children's museum there. Everyone kept suggesting it and saying how awesome it was. It was neat, but honestly we weren't overly impressed. We let Dominick run around and we spent a few hours there and then left to go get dinner. We went to Hofbrauhaus and it didn't disappoint. Dominick skipped his nap so he was TIRED. He slept the whole way home and then we let him stay up a little bit later than usual once we got home.

Monday was spent inside. It's been COLD here in Ohio so we had a lazy day full of movies, playing and snuggles. It was the perfect long weekend for us.

The Beginning of January

We started this year off with friends watching our poor Spartans get their butts kicked against Alabama. Aside from that it was a good night and Dominick stayed up until almost 2 AM! As soon as we got in the car to go home he was PASSED out. He is a party animal and never wants to miss out on any of the fun.

Friday we had plans to take him to the Columbus Zoo to see the Wild Lights display, but he was SO tired from the night before that we just didn't think it was a stellar idea so we went Saturday instead. We left afternoon and were only at the zoo for a couple hours. Honestly, we barely saw all the lights. It was COLD! My parents got us a family pass to the zoo this year and we are very excited to spend some time there this weekend. It's fun because we can just go and there's no pressure to see everything or spend the whole day there. They also have a lot of other fun things besides JUST animals.

Dom's class has been learning about emergency vehicles so the other day McGruff and a couple of cops came by his school. He got to see the inside of the cop car and even press a bunch of buttons. He thought that part was pretty awesome.

A couple weekends Ryan went out duck hunting with his friends so Dom and I had a little day date. We went to the bookstore (and got a TON of Christmas books for 50% off) and froyo. He had a great time.

That same weekend we started getting snow and Dom woke up DYING to go play in it. It was COLD outside so I tried to hold him off, but after his nap he was begging me so we bundled up and went out there. There was barely enough snow covering the ground, but we pulled out a sled and he went down our TINY little hill in the yard and had the best time.

It seems like winter has finally arrived in Ohio and we're counting down the days until Spring and crossing our fingers it comes early.