Not Everyone's Mama

Today is my SITS day!  I am all kinds of excited!  I love me my SITS-tahs!  What is SITS for those of you who might not know?

It is this awesome blogging community that I adore!  Everyday there is a featured blogger who we all visit and then after visiting them, you can visit all your fellow SITS-tahs until you have fulfilled your blogging addiction for the day!  (Is that possible?)  Then you start the process all over again the next day!  On Friday there is a potluck where various bloggers who participated throughout the week get featured and there are helpful blogging tips on the weekend!

I have met so many awesome bloggers over at SITS and I really hope you all enjoy getting to know me!

I am Heather.  I’m a 35 year old attachment parenting, extended nursing, baby wearing SAHM to 4 married to Pato and we live in Iowa – land of storm warnings and tornados.  (Turning 35 traumatized me, I hate my birthday anyway, don’t know why.)

Yep, that’s us!

Jordan is my oldest.  He’s a soccer playing (goalie or fullback), video gaming, bike riding, book reading, incredibly smart 11 year old who thinks he’s 16.  He will be playing the trombone this fall in 5th grade.

He’s my mini-me I’m told and he’ll tell you proudly he looks like his mama.  I miss him terribly when he goes to his dads and not just because he does so much to help me out with the little ones.

Katiana is my next one.  She’s my 6 year old girly girl.  She always wants to be styling in a skirt or dress and gets really mad at me in the winter when she can’t wear them.  She loves playing soccer too and has been getting goal after goal this last season.  She loves Hannah Montana, Polly Pocket, and her DS. She’s also awfully proud that her hair is to her waist and plans on growing it out to her feet.  She loves to memorize poems!  She’s also really excited that she is going into 1st grade this fall.

Alyce is my 3rd child and she is 3.  She’s my blue eyed baby.  My mother in law is constantly asking where she gets those blue eyes from.  (Did I forget to mention my husband is Mexican, from Mexico, been here 10 years, hence my MIL thinking her eyes are impossible.  Just to prove she’s not the milk man’s child, my mom’s whole side of the family has every color of eyes but brown.)  Alyce is my thumb sucker, we’re working on that, she loves the Little People, Hannah Montana, any baby that you can buy her, and singing and dancing.  She cracks me up!  For the record, she’s also my drama princess.

Christiano.  He’s my last.  And the one who gave me a panic attack when I found out I was pregnant.  He was a “what do you mean I’m pregnant, we were using protection” baby.  Best thing that was not supposed to have happened to me.  Christiano was insistent that he share a birthday with Jordan even though I tried my hardest to give both of them their own day.  My boys are exactly 10 years apart.  Christiano is now almost 16 months old, at his 15 month check he was 29 1/2 lbs and 35 1/2 in long.  The doctor didn’t think it was possible for him to grow almost 5 inches in 3 months, rechecked him, and yes it was possible.  He loves cars, trucks, trains, anything with wheels and has been pushing things around (vacuum cleaner attachments)  making car noises since he was 9 months old.  He started walking at 9 1/2 months and his first word was den (here, take this in Spanish).  Daddy was so proud.  His latest phrase is I did it!  I find that incredibly funny because no one in this house ever claims anything.  He also says I stop, even though he doesn’t really stop.  And he has the cutest cheesy smile ever.  We think he’s going to be a big guy like his 6’2”, 220 lb daddy.

That’s us!  I’m also a parront.  What’s a parront?  A bird parent.   We have 5 parakeets (Lemon Meringue, Blueberry Pie, Angel Cakes, Lucky, and Penelope)  and 1 newly added absolutely adorable baby lovebird (Twinkle), who I have had to hand feed because the breeder kind of told a fib.  We think she’s younger than he told us she was.

Lucky and Penelope don’t do pictures.

Twinkle

Did I mention that I cook for my birds?  Really, if you have birds, you might think about doing it too.  An all seed diet is very bad for them.  Just a tid bit of knowledge from me to you.

We speak Spanglish in our house.  Pato speaks in Spanish, I speak in English, the kids understand Spanish, but respond in English, frustrating my non-English speaking MIL to death when Pato calls down to her.

Also, if you’d like to follow me (right sidebar), I am going to be a bazillionaire and I promise to remember the little people who helped me get there.

Oh, I also am a digital scrapbook designer who hasn’t added anything to her store in months (If you want to see digital scrapbooking in action, here’s my layouts and I’ve got some tutorials for Paintshop Pro users), bad bad me, but I’ve had so much fun doing reviews and giveaways that I’ve neglected my other passion in recent months.  I’ve got 4 giveaways listed. I’m bouncing back from my site going down (what a mess!) but I’ll get more added little by little.  I also have my own cafepress store where all the designs are either hand drawn by me or are one of my digiscrapping products (made by me) that I use.  I make some fun Scottish stuff, stuff for mom’s, stuff for women, and of course, Twi-stuff because I’m a Twi-mom/Twi-addict/whatever you want to call me!

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My husband loves to drive my Kia with that on the back of it. (Random people take cell phone pictures of my car when we’re driving down the road.)  Here’s a video of my son talking about his Twi-mom’s addiction.

I also love to read, but I’m sadly behind on my stack on my desk right now also.

I think I’ve overloaded you with info on us.  You never knew you wanted to know so much did you? 

Have a wonderful day and thank you for dropping by today!

If you’re looking for another blog to read, my mama has entered the wonderful world of blogging.  I just told her about SITS, so you might see her over there sometime!  My son has his own blog too where he shows off his pictures and videos, it needs updated.  Totally my fault because I haven’t uploaded his stuff recently.

Again, have a wonderful day!

ETA – Yes, I do talk like I blog.  Fast, lots, and jumping all over the place.  My blog was just my journal for it’s first 4 years of existence.  Lots of it is about my kids and their naughtiness antics (I’ve got 4, they fill a lot of my time), other times it’s a make up trick I’ve found, a celeb that I think is crazy, a recipe here and there, some news,  plus the reviews and giveaways.

My sister in law just got me a sign that says Life is too short 2 stay on topic.  It’s so me.

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