The other night I was on my way home and low and behold a javelina was blocking traffic about 1\/8 of a mile from my house. When I got home, I quickly put Tanner in the car and we drove over to see him. <\/p>\n
The next night I was making Taco Salad and asked Jim if he wanted Catalina (the salad dressing) on it. Tanner quickly perked up and said “Mommy! We having the javelina for dinner?” LOL!<\/p>\n As usual, he has put a smile on my face all week. The other morning I woke up and walked out into the front room. Tanner had unloaded a ton of blocks all over the place. He greeted me with the hugest smile you ever saw. Then he said, “Mommy! Wook at my big smile!” <\/em>(I gave him an A+ for this distraction method). Then he added “I’ll pick up blocks tomorrow”. <\/p>\n See he understands me already. He knows that I am quick tempered but that I will forgive anyone anything if they will accept responsibility and take ownership. My 3 year old in about 3 seconds had mommy wrapped. Step 1:<\/strong> Greet with a smile and get her in a happy mood. Step 2<\/strong>: Observe closely as she survey’s the damage. Step 3:<\/strong> Assure her of your intent to handle the situation. Step 4<\/strong>: Draw her attention to something more pleasant. His final words were <\/em>“Mommy! Wook! The sun is SHINING!”<\/p>\n Oh happy day Tanner….<\/p>\n As all brothers do, Tanner and Ty have been starting some squabbles this week. Nine out of 10 times, Tanner has taken a toy away from Ty and Ty gets furious. Here are just a few incidents this week:<\/p>\n Tanner was blocking Ty’s vision and Ty couldn’t see the TV. Ty took his hand and smacked Tanner’s head away. I thought it was coincidental. Then he did it twice.<\/p>\n Tanner got in his way. Ty gave it to him right in the eye. Tanner said <\/em>“Dat kid is so stwong. Dat kid is so tuss. He punched me in dee eye.” (Tuss is tough)<\/p>\n Tanner was frustrated because Ty was trying to take his book away that Tanner was supposed to be cleaing up. He said:<\/p>\n <\/em>“He makin me trouble. He makin me cry. I doin this job!”<\/p>\n As always child, you are a true treasure. Please don’t grow up. The other night I was on my way home and low and behold a javelina was blocking traffic about 1\/8 of a mile from my house. When I got home, I quickly put Tanner in the car and we drove over to see him. The next night I was making Taco Salad and asked Jim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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