Paisley is cruising around the furniture. She is LOVING to have us walk with her holding her hands. It's such a cute stage although exhausting. I"m trying to keep my patience with it because soon all she will want is her independence.
Griffin spent the weekend with daddy having a "guys weekend". He is now completely back to momcentric needs...it's also very annoying. The best was his request for me to "wash his junk. do it mommy. do it." I had to try very hard not to completely lose it laughing at that one...I have such a dirty mind. lol.
I guess we now own a wii fit. Thanksgiving should be great working out with everyone ;)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
and now hiccups?
what gives body? uggh. given the stuff I've read on hiccups I'm guessing it's because i'm not getting a deep enough inspriation/expiration so my "switch" is now weirded out. ugh, I hope they go away soon.
Sick
Blech. I am sick. still. now it's moved fully into my chest. I am at work again. somehow I seemed to have felt better yesterday when I didn't have to work but did have the kids??? weird. anyhow, I am doing everything to try to get better aside from truly slowing down...it's just not entirely possible. the kids did sleep pretty well last night which was wonderful and Griffin has been dry for going on 48 hours fully!! we shall see what today brings of course.
cough cough, sore throat, yuck....
cough cough, sore throat, yuck....
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Pet Peeve
I get so annoyed when you grow to like a product, you think it is successful in its intended purpose, is well-priced, is easily found at many stores you frequent and BAM, the company gets rid of it. I don't get it? My newest realization was with Dawn Direct Foam...cannot find it anywhere around here and it seems to have been replaced with some new Dawn Power Scrub. Whatever....it forced me to make the switch to something greener and healthier for my family...7th generation! and what an awesome price $2.89 for the bottle!! I tested it this a.m. with a pan of grease from burgers last night and it worked spendidly :) Yahoo!! but boo on Dawn....
Monday, October 20, 2008
Tagged...not really...but I'm playing anyhow :)
Saw this on another blog and thought it was fun ...play along too, one word answers only though!
1. Where is your cell phone? downstairs
2. Where is your significant other? couch
3. Your hair color? brown
4. Your mother? strong
5. Your father? awesome
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? uhhhhh
8. Your dream/goal? freedom
9. The room you're in? bedroom
10. Your hobby? work
11. Your fear? loneliness
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? secure
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? rested
15. One of your wish list items? vacation
16. Where you grew up? Missouri
17. The last thing you did? wake
18. What are you wearing? clothes
19. Your TV? Higglytown
20. Your pet? mazzy-mune
21. Your computer? bright
22. Your mood? tired
23. Missing someone? always?
24. Your car? driveway
25. Something you're not wearing? bra
26. Favorite Store? Joe's
27. Your summer? nice!
28. Love someone? Indeed
29. Your favorite color? yellow
30. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
31. Last time you cried? sunday
1. Where is your cell phone? downstairs
2. Where is your significant other? couch
3. Your hair color? brown
4. Your mother? strong
5. Your father? awesome
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? uhhhhh
8. Your dream/goal? freedom
9. The room you're in? bedroom
10. Your hobby? work
11. Your fear? loneliness
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? secure
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? rested
15. One of your wish list items? vacation
16. Where you grew up? Missouri
17. The last thing you did? wake
18. What are you wearing? clothes
19. Your TV? Higglytown
20. Your pet? mazzy-mune
21. Your computer? bright
22. Your mood? tired
23. Missing someone? always?
24. Your car? driveway
25. Something you're not wearing? bra
26. Favorite Store? Joe's
27. Your summer? nice!
28. Love someone? Indeed
29. Your favorite color? yellow
30. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
31. Last time you cried? sunday
Aaaah, monday
Most people don't say that but after 3 days in a row at home with the kids I AM! ha. Had a talk with the husband and feeling better about life....it's all on the upswing!!
Boo at the zoo was fun. took a few pictures but none came out. Will make sure to get them on halloween. The costumes were adorable. I think they really captured the personas well :) Lee and I reconfirmed what we already know about our family. 1)don't do things like boo at the zoo until kids are older and 2)don't meet up with people. This probably makes us sound anti-social but really it's just confusing and stressful for us. Maybe for others too? It's fun to see people but I think at these ages we will save seeing people for play dates, not mass chaos events. lol. We lost his hat too (green and white hand knit :( ) so I was pretty bummed. I will call today but unlikely I'm sure to get it back. So, now we need a new one because he won't wear the other hat we own....little turd. haha.
Griffin did say he had a lot of fun so maybe it wasn't all a waste of time. I think he said this though because at the very end before we left we ran into real live ROBOTS! They were sooo cool and literally made his evening. He shook their hand and was just in awe. So, I'm glad we went overall.
off to work...
Boo at the zoo was fun. took a few pictures but none came out. Will make sure to get them on halloween. The costumes were adorable. I think they really captured the personas well :) Lee and I reconfirmed what we already know about our family. 1)don't do things like boo at the zoo until kids are older and 2)don't meet up with people. This probably makes us sound anti-social but really it's just confusing and stressful for us. Maybe for others too? It's fun to see people but I think at these ages we will save seeing people for play dates, not mass chaos events. lol. We lost his hat too (green and white hand knit :( ) so I was pretty bummed. I will call today but unlikely I'm sure to get it back. So, now we need a new one because he won't wear the other hat we own....little turd. haha.
Griffin did say he had a lot of fun so maybe it wasn't all a waste of time. I think he said this though because at the very end before we left we ran into real live ROBOTS! They were sooo cool and literally made his evening. He shook their hand and was just in awe. So, I'm glad we went overall.
off to work...
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The weekends are long
I love being with my kids. I really really mean that. I love being with my husband. I really really mean that. What I'm not sure is that I love being with them all together. lol.
I just read a blog entry from a woman whose husband recently got a job traveling. She said, "man I complain about him when he's gone because I have to do everything myself and then I complain when he returns because he messes with my routine." This is my life although Lee does not travel. I need to find a better way of assimilating the two worlds, weekdays and weekends. Uggh, it's making me bonkers. The screaming and insanity of my weekends makes me long for mondays. blech.
Anyhow, yesterday was a little crazy but fun. Paisley refused to nap the entire day which made for one tired little girl last evening and she therefore didn't sleep well. Amazingly she was in a great mood all day but seriously? no nap? what is that about? We attended a birthday party at the metroparks in the afternoon. G man took a bit to warm up to the idea and kept complaining he was cold....once he got into it though he got plenty filthy and full of candy. Happy Day for him!
Today is boo at the zoo...we are still working on their costumes. I feel like a loser and that noone will realize he is Mac or that she is PC. Whatever, right? I should feel confident in my choice to be creative :)
I'm still feeling under the weather. I want to just laze around all day but 1)there is too much to be done and 2)see above regarding my crazy family.
love to all....
I just read a blog entry from a woman whose husband recently got a job traveling. She said, "man I complain about him when he's gone because I have to do everything myself and then I complain when he returns because he messes with my routine." This is my life although Lee does not travel. I need to find a better way of assimilating the two worlds, weekdays and weekends. Uggh, it's making me bonkers. The screaming and insanity of my weekends makes me long for mondays. blech.
Anyhow, yesterday was a little crazy but fun. Paisley refused to nap the entire day which made for one tired little girl last evening and she therefore didn't sleep well. Amazingly she was in a great mood all day but seriously? no nap? what is that about? We attended a birthday party at the metroparks in the afternoon. G man took a bit to warm up to the idea and kept complaining he was cold....once he got into it though he got plenty filthy and full of candy. Happy Day for him!
Today is boo at the zoo...we are still working on their costumes. I feel like a loser and that noone will realize he is Mac or that she is PC. Whatever, right? I should feel confident in my choice to be creative :)
I'm still feeling under the weather. I want to just laze around all day but 1)there is too much to be done and 2)see above regarding my crazy family.
love to all....
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Griffin's imagination
Griffin is really beginning to get into imaginative play. I LOVE catching him do it and overhear him at play. He does it frequently with his bakugan but yesterday we were outside and he was building a "castle" with the rocks from the little tree. My inclination was to tell him no and put those rocks away but then I was fascinated with what he was going to do. I realize I so often don't trust him because when he raised one rock over his head I freaked and screamed, "don't throw that!" to which he replied, "I not. it's how to make the castle." It was all part of it. So, then once the castle was built he had to walk around the castle and avoid the mud (grass). It just melted my heart! :LOVE:
P's sleeping
the set back of last week must have been from that eye tooth because she is back to sleeping quite well again! thank the lord. Last night was 6:30 p.m. bedtime, fussed two separate times in late evening, and woke to eat at 5:15 a.m.!! Then back to sleep until 7:15 a.m.!! All in her crib :)
Cooking, Cleaning, enjoying the fall days
We are on a budget. We started it a little over a month ago and I'd say it's going so-so. Neither of us are very good at it but we have an end goal so it's making it easier to encourage each other to save rather than enable each other to spend money. Part of this is I am challenging myself to cook more, even with the kiddos around being crazy....somedays this is very very challenging but overall it's working out well and I'm finding ways to incorporate their help and at times their taste buds. P really doesn't care for anything spicey which is a shame and similarly to her brother has chosen one thing she will allow me to feed her (applesauce-G's was yogurt)...otherwise she has to do it herself. She's lucky she's so darn cute :) Yesterday I made pumpkin/sweet potato soup. It had a hint of chili powder, fresh lime juice, and I LOVED it! GG loved it as well and I shared some with my friend too. I served it with fresh steamed veggies and a turkey burger. I just was in love with this meal...lol...
Yesterday morning I needed desperately to vaccuum the first floor, there was bits of food and dog hair everywhere so I set to it after the kids ate breakfast. P crawled around while I got to work and G played upstairs, naked on my bed, with his Bakugan. I cracked up at this but hey, at least he entertained himself. Then it was time for us to go participate in our cleaning co-op (a group of friends are taking turns each week helping out cleaning at the others house--it's fun and my turn is next Tuesday!!). Griffin did not want to put clothes on so we could leave the house. This has not happened in a long time and I had to bribe him with taking a toy from the house to the other house (this is something we are working on NOT doing so I was aggravated at having to resort to it and of course we forgot the toy at the lady's house so he was a bit crushed later on). Griffin was such a nice friend while playing at the lady's house and I sorted boxes from her basement for her. P just crawled around. Griffin shared with the other little boy and really handled it well when the other little boy was pushing. He chose often to use his words instead of just push back (he did push back once but I prolly would have too in that situation). Anyhow, I was sooo proud of him!
When we got home is when I began cooking and let them have some quiet time. I guess the boy got too quiet and I didn't notice. The next thing I knew he came into the kitchen and said, "I did something to the toy-lip (toilet)." me-"what did you do?" G-"I don't know but it got bigger! (shows arms all big and to the side) me-bolting upstairs to find 2 inches of water all over the bathroom floor. So, 7 wet towels later and thankfully not a call to a plumber it was cleaned up. I told him he MUST inform me if he needs to use the restroom in the future. So far he has complied. It was too cute though he had tried to unplug the mess and actually had the plunger in the toilet when I got up there. He is one fiercely independent child!
gotta get back to work.
Yesterday morning I needed desperately to vaccuum the first floor, there was bits of food and dog hair everywhere so I set to it after the kids ate breakfast. P crawled around while I got to work and G played upstairs, naked on my bed, with his Bakugan. I cracked up at this but hey, at least he entertained himself. Then it was time for us to go participate in our cleaning co-op (a group of friends are taking turns each week helping out cleaning at the others house--it's fun and my turn is next Tuesday!!). Griffin did not want to put clothes on so we could leave the house. This has not happened in a long time and I had to bribe him with taking a toy from the house to the other house (this is something we are working on NOT doing so I was aggravated at having to resort to it and of course we forgot the toy at the lady's house so he was a bit crushed later on). Griffin was such a nice friend while playing at the lady's house and I sorted boxes from her basement for her. P just crawled around. Griffin shared with the other little boy and really handled it well when the other little boy was pushing. He chose often to use his words instead of just push back (he did push back once but I prolly would have too in that situation). Anyhow, I was sooo proud of him!
When we got home is when I began cooking and let them have some quiet time. I guess the boy got too quiet and I didn't notice. The next thing I knew he came into the kitchen and said, "I did something to the toy-lip (toilet)." me-"what did you do?" G-"I don't know but it got bigger! (shows arms all big and to the side) me-bolting upstairs to find 2 inches of water all over the bathroom floor. So, 7 wet towels later and thankfully not a call to a plumber it was cleaned up. I told him he MUST inform me if he needs to use the restroom in the future. So far he has complied. It was too cute though he had tried to unplug the mess and actually had the plunger in the toilet when I got up there. He is one fiercely independent child!
gotta get back to work.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
I have been a very bad blogger
I am so sorry and have no excuse. Last week was a bit of a high anxiety week for me and I think I just couldn't muster much "good" in written form so I just didn't blog. I'm feeling better though and wanted to say so :) Sorry for the lapse
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