April 26, 2007 - Thursday


For my child

The color of my skin doesn't determine my character

I am not a slave to the typical sight you see

The way I wear my hair doesn't determine my strength

Every person has a right to be seen and heard

No one has the right to take away anything you don't give them


Dont rape my soul because you dont believe in me

Dont take my innocence and naive thinking away from me

Teach me how to do things rather than harass me with your words

Show me your way is better, and I may see your point

Make me better for those around me


Feel my strength, hear the words I speak, see my truth

Listen when I tell you what that my world is brand new

You can take away from me what you want, but you cant take me down

Roll your eyes, arch your back, thumbs up or thumbs down, don't mean smack

Your impression of me, makes me, love me even more


Oppression, Impression, Discussion, these words all look alike

Take these words and make them yours

Dont stop talking, make yourself heard, speak out loud

Stand up tall, be your own self, everyone wants to spectate

Kick them in the ass, by not stepping to their level

Be brave, be strong, be who you are.

Buttons and Ice Cream!

Well lets see, Peyton has arrived in walking land, so now everyday is a total adventure!! He discovered buttons recently, and is attracted mostly to ones that include lights, such as the XBOX or the green light of the monitor power button! Watch out buttons, Peyton is coming to seek revenge on you! He is driving Elijah freaking crazy b/c now not only does he press buttons on things, he can make use of what the buttons can do! Elijah was attempting to watch Pirates of the Carribean, and Peyton thought that wasnt such a bright idea! Well the idea was bright, and so was the button that ejected the POC disc from the drive! Peyton slowly wanders over to the xbox, and pushes the button (you know its green, and its calling to him!) takes out the disc and walks away laughing!! The boy is only 10 months old, and has figured a way to get on his big brothers nerves! Way to go Pate!!
Eli is far from innocent! Hes a lil monster if I have ever seen one! He has this idea that he can go where ever it is that he sees on Tv, or reads in a book! Nothing like having a hissy fit b/c we cant wake up and go straight to Sodor Island to party with Thomas the Tank! Or how mommy got a book from the library for him, and thought he would enjoy it because it was about one of his fave things: trucks!! All kinds of trucks; dump trucks, garbage trucks, tow trucks, yadda yadda! Oh and dont let me forget the most important truck to a two year old! An I-C-E C-R-E-A-M truck!! Oh yeah, nothing like freaking out and throwing and thrashing yourself on the floor b/c the stupid icecream man in our neiborhood doenst ever come around! It seems like he comes around once every 5 months or so, if that! I guess when the icecream mand needs extra money! LOL And on top of that we have an icecream lady! She rarely has the stuff she has advertised anyway, so what the big deal Eli! AND you never seem to eat the ice cream we buy from her anyway! Remember the Dreamsicle that "I have to, have to, have to have mommy" that the ants ate?!

Teething Fun!

About 2 mins ago, I discovered Peyton's sixth tooth! If he weren't bothering me, I would have never discovered it! As normal, I wasnt paying 100 percent attention to Pate, so he tugged on my pants, and demanded some mommy attention! I picked him up and played with him, and he flashed me the biggest Pate smile he could possibly make, and I gave him a big ole hug! Well perhaps the hug was a weee bit to hard because he grunted! For some reason, it reminded me of his fifth tooth popping in, which was yesterday, so I checked for a new one! Low and Behold there was tooth number six! Hes been getting teeth in, since four months old, so hes been teething forever! Poor little guy! Eli got his first tooth at 5 months, and then at 10 months, got 4 more teeth.
Speaking of Eli, I might as well tell of today's Eli adventure!! We went to Target to get JJ a pirate thing, and to pick up a few more things that I needed. Well Eli decided that he was going to go with me, so I thought it was a great time to pick out some new sandals, since the ones that were currently glued to his feet were so ridiculously small. (Come on now, I have size 11 feet and David has size 12 or something monstrous like that!) So we pulled into the oh so narrow isles of the children's shoe section. Which is about as fun to navigate as it would be to navigate a darn ant farm! And as I tried not to run anything over, I had to remind Eli that he cant touch every shoe he sees! Too late, mission failed, three pair of shoes off the rack! "Accident mom!" he told me! Hmmmmm, right! LOL
We looked at all the cool flip flops and sandals with every cartoon/animated character you could imagine on it. We narrowed it down to Thomas the Tank and Diego, only to find out that they had shoes in sizes that were to small for my big footed monster! After further searching, I found a pair of size 10 Diego sandals, and Eli is so excited! He kicked off one of his sandals, only for me to figure out why he was so excited to get new sandals.....mommy put his shoes on the wrong feet!! Yeah, I was so flustered right before we left, mommy brain! LOL! I tried one of the shoes on him, and he said NOPE the second I Velcroed it!! Long story short, the excitement wore off pretty darn quickly! He stopped talking, just said "no shoes today mom" and so we didn't buy any shoes.