Yay, my first award!

Yemi bestowed the honorable Rockin' Blogger Award on me this week. It was started by Roberta.



I'm so stoked to get my first blogger award ever. Thanks, Yemi!

I'm passing it on to other rockin' mom bloggers, Tanyetta, NatashaC and Tiffany.

ROCK ON MOMS!

now where on my busy blog do I put this heavy award? tee hee.

Just discovered...

two new sites to meet dozens, if not hundreds of new bloggers, including scores of mommy (and daddy) blogs. the bonus is these services are great tools to draw more traffic to the blog (though i'm not quite sure if i want more traffic yet. i'm up in the air with that one. straddling the privacy fence. don't think dave wants our business out there like that. better start using pseudonyms or something like Mammynicechile)

Anywho, the sites are

(1) Del.icio.us allows you organize all the sites you go to, and to search and save the results. You can see who else has bookmarked the site, and link your account to your blog. it helps generate traffic to your site.

(2) Mybloglog allows you to register your various blogs and sort them in a community. Others in its community of 30K or so can view your profile read your blogs, join your personal community. When you join a community and or post a comment, all of that community's readers can then click your profile and thus you can get more visitors. Likewise, you can use the site to meet and learn of dozens of other wonderful bloggers out there....

NOT THAT I HAVE TIME TO ENGAGE IN ANY OF THIS, but thought I'd share.

i'm prolly too late, but anyway (thanks ebonymommy aka Ebonymom for the source of discovery and inspiration) (smile)

Take II

So I've created this blog (again) silly me, never confirmed the old account and now for some reason cannot access it. Oh well. JJsKids.blogspot.com is out there abandoned and hopefully will die a dignified death sooner or later.

Anyway, had been meaning to put together a journal to document crazy things my kids, Mischiefmaker#1 (4 1/2) and Mischiefmaker#2(almost 1) say and do for several months now and just never got around to do it. Usually, when something funny comes out their mouths, I'd savor the moment and share it with my hubby or family member later, wantingit to be memorialized somewhere for others in the family or maybe my kids to enjoy someday. They never seem to amaze me and my husband, TriniD.

This is a quick and easy way to memorialize their growth and development.

Yesterday (not really, but a month ago, remember this is a clone of the original, but bare with me here), TriniD brought home a package of corn muffins from my moms after picking up the boys. I ran downstairs to look for the muffin pan and check on the laundry. Mischiefmaker#1 says, "okay, I'll look at the directions so we can know how to make the muffins." Amazing to me that he would know the context and how to pronounce such a big word like "directions." Mischiefmaker#1 is quite the precocious little boy.

Mischiefmaker#2 also amazed me when playing puzzles downstairs, I was astonished that he picked up a picture of a cat and called its name. He also knows juice, water, phone, shoes. He understands procedures and routine. When he understands he's going out, he'll go to the coat closet and get his coat and look for his shoes.

At a superbowl party last week, I saw the 27 month old child of a friend who could recognize and pronounce letters and talk very clearly. It has motivated me to read and play learning games with Mischiefmaker#2more.

With Mischiefmaker#1, I did every thing: library story hour, Gymboree, took his professional photos every month, read nearly every night, did all the computer and books. But with Mischiefmaker#2, I'm so busy because of work and have a more hectic life and so, like most second kids, he's getting the short end of the stick. Poor fellah.

Anyway, my new mission is to engage him in at least two activities. I'm thinking gymnastics and kindermusik (library story time until his Kindermusik teacher returns). And...I will read to him every night and play at least one puzzle, computer game or learning game with him every night.

That is the challenge, however. We'll pray it works out.

Posted by jjskids at 3:44 AM