How Cute are They?

Way cute :)

Play-Doh how I love thee

Upon finishing a story about friends...

Momma: You have lots of friends Audrey! Who are some of your friends?

Audrey: Ellie....Lucy.....................and Play-doh.

Alright, we all need to start getting out more.

Going to the store

I helped her put on her coat tonight because she

"needed to go to the store."

I asked if she needed money to buy things and she said

"I just need my purse right here"

I asked if she would please remember to buy some milk

"Sure, I'll get milk and some other things...."

....

"Do you want me to just pour you tea instead?"

Sure hunny, thank you.

Most stores have a no shoes, no pants policy anyway.

It's a Circus Here.

Dear Friends,

Please never, ever, ever-ever-ever, never-ever, stop by my house with out first calling. I am seriously considering making friends with some of the health inspector people who condemn houses for living, so that when that fateful day comes where my address is anonymously passed on to them they'll shrug off the information and kindly say

"Oh that's just Ginny. You probably didn't call ahead, so she didn't have time to speed clean."

That way my children won't be taken away from me.

...

Okay...it's not really that bad, we just rapidly accumulate counter-top clutter & we have no extra room or space to play with toys...so they end up spilling into every room. (I can't believe some people actually have separate rooms JUST for toys...what's that called again? oh yeah a PLAYROOM! What a dream...)

We do, however, have a large multi-colored tent in the middle of our living room. If you look closely you will see two children in this chaos.

But boy are they happy, well-loved children.

This Girl Loves her Hats!

These pictures are for my Aunt Sharon & Uncle LJ!

Yes, she sometimes can be seen walking around the house pantless, but never forgets to sport her beloved Boeing hat.

Thank You!!!!

Lost Footage

In-Training

At a very early age

--2 years and 3 months to be exact--

Audrey had a love for all things skiing. Her love of the sport was first sparked during the airing of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada. She was enthralled each night when we let her watch some of the nightly events before bedtime. Among others... figure skating & skiing were her favorites. Her interest in the sport began in her family's living room watching and quickly turned into role play with swifter sweepers in the kitchen. This rare, never before seen footage, was captured during this significant molding period of her life where her future would eventually be revealed.

Because the Olympic officials changed a few things around & Olympians were accepted to compete, potty-trained or not...

this role play would ultimately lead to her

2028 Gold Medal in downhill skiing.

The shortened less emotional version of this month

From exclusively & happily breastfeeding to...

(in the form of screams & exhausted desperate cries:)

"Excuse me Mom, I'm not liking this whole nursing thing anymore. There is not enough for me & it's getting more stressful the more we're both frustrated. Dr. says I'm starting to lose weight & that having you take vitamins, extra water & pumping should help...you tried it all, except formula. I need food--give up your dreams for nursing me until pre-school & feed me!!"

Some babies take time to transition from breast to bottle, this girl sucked it right down & asked for more.

And now we're both fat & happy.

Who wore it better?

Audrey & Ellie

3 months old

Audrey wins for chubbiest cheeks. Tie for cutest.

Welcome to Motherhood...

I just finished a texting conversation with my Momma about my morning, thus far. She told me I should relay it to all you who love a good poop story. If poop ain't your thang, quit reading now & blame my Mom for even suggesting I talk about the "P" word..... But here is the reality of my stage of life right now....

Intro: Ellie has been waking up earlier lately, my routine lately is I scoop her up quickly & close the door, as to not wake up Audrey-pie, feed her in the living room, change her, then put her back to sleep either in a makeshift bed in the living room or at the foot of our bedroom floor (depending on where it's warmer). Then if it's super early I go back to sleep until Audrey wakes me up or until Ellie is hungry again..whichever comes first... Today was early, 5:45am...so I crawled back into bed.

Around 7:45am I woke up to Audrey in her room "Can you hold it? Can you hold it Mommy? Mommy, can you hold it?" this was on repeat as I was dozing in & out of sleep. Finally the two dreaded words that followed, the words: "I pooped" made me literally shoot out of bed & run to her room. Yup...you guessed it. She had reached into her own diaper and pulled out a big handful of mushy poops. Since she was waiting by the door for me to "hold it" (SICK) when I flung the door open it mashed into the door. SICK. I wiped what I could. Because she had shifted her diaper some had fallen down & dried on her leg. SICK. We took a poopy, soapy, soak down scrub...Then we took a nice long warm clean bath while I tried to keep my composure from the shock of waking up to all of that... Aaron was getting ready to leave for training and when I peeked into the living room he was lighting candles to limit the smells. Haha.. He said he hopes this doesn't happen while I'm gone on our church retreat in a few weeks!


I desperately wanted to escape & asked if I could PLEASE join Aaron for his s.w.a.t training day today............... But alas, my work is here in the home. As I kissed him goodbye I spotted our mail that came yesterday. I grabbed the Fred Meyer Valentine's Day diamonds ads. I turned Sesame Street on and sat down beside her not paying any attention to the letter of the day. (Was it "P" for poop like it was in this home????) I mentally escaped from the madness for a good 10 minutes & dreamed about beautiful diamonds while chugging a very large cup of coffee with probably too much creamer!!!!! It was enough of an escape to finish the job.


Since Audrey was happily clean & enjoying Sesame Street I was able to sanitize the door, the tub, and collect all sheets/blankies/animals for the laundry which is currently going on repeat cycle... I took all the stinky poop trash outside & even found our dog Lucy had pooped near the fireplace.............. Wanted to scream, but decided to pour even more coffee. With my daily prayer for PATIENCE--COFFEE & DIAMONDS SHOULD ALSO FIX THIS!!!! :)


I am SO glad I am able to be home to raise our children and this morning was another reminder of how stressful that would have been to have happen & then have to rush off to work somewhere. We Stay-at-Home Mommas need some recovery time for experiences like this! But wow. I hate to say it but this was not the first time this has happened...... Just messier this time as she's never pulled it out, just tried to take her diaper off.

Think she's ready to be out of diapers? YES!

Am I ready to wake up to that again because she is in panties & has even more access...?? NO!!!

Current Status: Pretty sure Ellie just pooped here next to me in the Bumbo seat which we have aptly named the "poop chair". I cannot get away from this poop!! How much have you enjoyed reading the word "poop"?? Come on, say it with me! Poop, poop, poop! Oh and Lucy is happily being fed dog food by the generous hand of Audrey... Time to get away from this computer and get back to the reality of Motherhood!!! Please Lord continue to give me patience for the unexpected & keep me laughing.

Oh Lord, keep me laughing.... :)

Aye yi yi. What a crappy morning---LITERALLY!

And our happy day starts................ NOW :)