Mopey? Is that a word: moping, mopeing, mopey, mooping... You know, like "stop mopeing around!" Honestly, how do you spell that?
It was a long weekend. It has been raining for the last 3 or 4 days and chilly, so no outside play time. The yard is one big wet, pine needle & leaf covered mud-mess. I wanted to get the yard cleaned up or raked but then we would only have the mud. Not really better.
Saturday, during nap-time Alexander decided to strip off his clothes and take off his poopy pull-up. Go ahead, visualize that for a moment. ************************************
I was talking to mom on the phone when I went up to check and see why he was yelling for me when he should have been asleep. All I could say was, "He's covered in sh**! Naked. Covered. In. Sh**! I gotta go!"
But here is a parenting tip no one else will give you: Dawn Dish Washing Liquid.
Not even kidding. I didn't know what else to do, I just didn't think Johnson's was gonna cut it. So I put him in the tub with a big squirt of Dawn and left him to soak while I stripped the bed and cleaned poop off all the bars and rails of his crib. And the wall behind the crib.
He thought the bubbles were fantastic fun and it kept him occupied! Worked perfectly and it was anti-bacterial!! Can't say it would be good for the skin to use often, but in this case it worked well.
Sunday we were all crabby, and at one point Catelin was screaming at Alex for eating white bread. Yes, for eating bread, because the white bread is for HER not HIM! Of course he was screaming right back, you just couldn't understand what he was saying. Probably better that way.
On a better note, Mark and I have been doing some house shopping. We looked at 3 more houses last week and were pretty excited. The market is really good for buyers right now. You can get alot for your money, so we are looking at some houses that we would not have been looking at a year ago, so that's fun.
Looking forward to a better week!!
Monday, January 12, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Saving For Therapy
As we pull into the driveway this evening, we see that the neighbor's cat has left us a lovely gift. A tasty, dead squirrel. Headless.
She loves us very much...
As we get out of the car, Mark decides to "show" Catelin the squirrel.
So, you already know what kind of father my children have.......
He proceeds to chase Catelin around the driveway slinging a dead, headless squirrel by the tail.
She is shrieking bloody murder: "Mom, Mom, help, make him stooooopppp, why'd you marry him anyway???!!!!" AAAAAHHHHHH, Help!!
She shoves poor bewildered Alex down on the concrete. He is already confused & frightened, not sure what is going on. Usually if Catelin cries, he cries too (just in case).
She is screaming like a maniac, Alex is bawling HIS head off and Mark is running after Catelin yelling "EEEEWWWWW!".
The peace and quiet of our little neighborhood is shattered.
Don't you think the neighbors just love us?
Such is my life, dead squirrels and all.
She loves us very much...
As we get out of the car, Mark decides to "show" Catelin the squirrel.
So, you already know what kind of father my children have.......
He proceeds to chase Catelin around the driveway slinging a dead, headless squirrel by the tail.
She is shrieking bloody murder: "Mom, Mom, help, make him stooooopppp, why'd you marry him anyway???!!!!" AAAAAHHHHHH, Help!!
She shoves poor bewildered Alex down on the concrete. He is already confused & frightened, not sure what is going on. Usually if Catelin cries, he cries too (just in case).
She is screaming like a maniac, Alex is bawling HIS head off and Mark is running after Catelin yelling "EEEEWWWWW!".
The peace and quiet of our little neighborhood is shattered.
Don't you think the neighbors just love us?
Such is my life, dead squirrels and all.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Still Potty Training
This afternoon:
Me: Alex, your pants are still dry. Do you need to potty? Let's sit on the potty!
Alex: NOOOOOOOOO..... NA-HUN! NOOOOO....
(Throws self on floor. Kicks dresser.)
Five minutes later, changing wet Pull-Up.
Me: (Stern voice) Alex, look at this... all wet, next time you put your pee in the potty!
Alex points at the potty chair and says: No, dat's eeeewwwww.
**Sigh**
Me: Alex, your pants are still dry. Do you need to potty? Let's sit on the potty!
Alex: NOOOOOOOOO..... NA-HUN! NOOOOO....
(Throws self on floor. Kicks dresser.)
Five minutes later, changing wet Pull-Up.
Me: (Stern voice) Alex, look at this... all wet, next time you put your pee in the potty!
Alex points at the potty chair and says: No, dat's eeeewwwww.
**Sigh**
Friday, December 26, 2008
Christmas 2008
We made our own home-made Reindeer Food to feed Santa's reindeer.
Alex wasn't too interested in sprinkling out the 'reindeer food'. The neighbor's cat came over and started eating the Wheat Chex out of the Reindeer Food. Alex was more interested in chasing the cat around the yard!
Some of us took nice Christmas picture.
Some of of didn't....
Catelin put out letters for Santa and cookies and milk.
We played our favorite Christmas Game. Wrap the baby in a blanket and wait for him to find his way out...
Catelin ripped through her gifts on Christmas like a crazy kid. With her usual 'jump in with both feet-gotta see everything' zest for life and excitement.
Their very different personalities were obvious. Alex was content to open one gift at a time, take it over to the coffee table and examine it completely. It didn't bother him a bit that there was a whole pile of presents with his name on them.
It drove Catelin nuts. She wanted to open his presents for him.
They really liked all their gifts and had a great time playing. Thanks for everything!!!
The best "free" Christmas present ever!!
Playing Wii Boxing.
Playing Wii Boxing.Monday, December 22, 2008
Happy Holidays!
The kids and I spent yesterday afternoon making Christmas cookies! Lots of chocolate chips were snatched and eaten.
We made Chocolate Chip, Cream Cheese cookies, Fudge and No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. Today, after we go to the store, I will make some Buckeyes and maybe one other kind of treat. This time I intend to make the cookies when the kids aren't around...
I tried to be one of those "good Moms" and let the kids "help" and "make memories" and all that on Sunday. But, geeesh, all the messes and burnt cookies, and flour spilled all over Alex, and nuts all over the floor, and Alex trying to lick a Ginsu knife. It was enough to give me a twitch.
We did use our fresh picked pecans from Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving dinner Rita, Catelin, Alex and I went for a walk in C-Hill and picked up pecans. We ended up with two BIG plastic bags of fresh pecans. We cracked/shelled these pecans to use in one of our cookie recipes. That was pretty neat! I hope to get a bunch shelled so we can make a Pecan Pie for X-Mas. The fresh nuts were really good, better than store bought.
We put our tree up last week. Between Alex and the kitten, Lucy, the bottom 1/3 of the tree is bare and about four ornaments have been broken. Catelin has put herself in charge of guarding the tree. Two gifts have "accidently" been opened. One by Alex, of course, and one by Lucy. Who knew kittens were kinda like puppies? She chewed and ripped at the paper until it was shreds, ummm, thanks Mom, I like the Arbonne Travel Kit!
Today, we are going to clean house and get the last of the gifts wrapped. I can't believe it is December 22nd already. Even though we have seen every old Rudolph Christmas movie made (about 5 times), decorated a tree and made cookies, listened to endless Christmas music on the radio and paid insane amounts of money to ship gifts, it still does not feel like it should be Christmas time!
Well, better go this house isn't cleaning itself and Alex is getting his own breakfast, Ha, Ha!!
Merry Christmas, ya'll!
We made Chocolate Chip, Cream Cheese cookies, Fudge and No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. Today, after we go to the store, I will make some Buckeyes and maybe one other kind of treat. This time I intend to make the cookies when the kids aren't around...
I tried to be one of those "good Moms" and let the kids "help" and "make memories" and all that on Sunday. But, geeesh, all the messes and burnt cookies, and flour spilled all over Alex, and nuts all over the floor, and Alex trying to lick a Ginsu knife. It was enough to give me a twitch.
We did use our fresh picked pecans from Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving dinner Rita, Catelin, Alex and I went for a walk in C-Hill and picked up pecans. We ended up with two BIG plastic bags of fresh pecans. We cracked/shelled these pecans to use in one of our cookie recipes. That was pretty neat! I hope to get a bunch shelled so we can make a Pecan Pie for X-Mas. The fresh nuts were really good, better than store bought.
We put our tree up last week. Between Alex and the kitten, Lucy, the bottom 1/3 of the tree is bare and about four ornaments have been broken. Catelin has put herself in charge of guarding the tree. Two gifts have "accidently" been opened. One by Alex, of course, and one by Lucy. Who knew kittens were kinda like puppies? She chewed and ripped at the paper until it was shreds, ummm, thanks Mom, I like the Arbonne Travel Kit!
Today, we are going to clean house and get the last of the gifts wrapped. I can't believe it is December 22nd already. Even though we have seen every old Rudolph Christmas movie made (about 5 times), decorated a tree and made cookies, listened to endless Christmas music on the radio and paid insane amounts of money to ship gifts, it still does not feel like it should be Christmas time!
Well, better go this house isn't cleaning itself and Alex is getting his own breakfast, Ha, Ha!!
Merry Christmas, ya'll!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
You Can't Beat Free!
Back in October, when I first started thinking about Christmas shopping, Catelin was going on and on about her friend's Nintendo Wii. She wanted a Wii for Christmas. Well, I thought, it could be a gift for the whole family to use, Mark could play with Catelin with it, etc, etc.
Then I priced them. Not only were they hard to find, but they were $250 for the basic console with one traditional controller and one "action" controller. Well, when you start adding in all the second controllers and a couple games to play, it became quite pricey.
So, we decided, maybe not this year. Maybe next year, when the prices start dropping and we have a big family room to play in, etc...
BUT, while feeding my blogging addiction I came across a Blog Giveaway. Blog giveaways, they are so much fun and I never win anything, and Mark just laughs at me, but I'm always hopeful. One of these days I will win a Kitchenaid Mixer from http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/!
Sooo, http://www.noobie.com/ is having a Wii giveaway for Christmas!! Fantastic! I sign up, BUT, if I "tell my friends" about it I get 5 extra entries. Well, of course I pimped out a few e-mail addresses so I could get 5 extra entries!
I warned Mom that I had done this, and told her she could just delete any junk looking stuff.
Well, SHE ENTERED THE WII GIVEAWAY TOO! And out of 8,000 entries.............
No I didn't win, of course not................ MOM won the Wii giveaway! How cool is that!!!!!!!!!!
Then I priced them. Not only were they hard to find, but they were $250 for the basic console with one traditional controller and one "action" controller. Well, when you start adding in all the second controllers and a couple games to play, it became quite pricey.
So, we decided, maybe not this year. Maybe next year, when the prices start dropping and we have a big family room to play in, etc...
BUT, while feeding my blogging addiction I came across a Blog Giveaway. Blog giveaways, they are so much fun and I never win anything, and Mark just laughs at me, but I'm always hopeful. One of these days I will win a Kitchenaid Mixer from http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/!
Sooo, http://www.noobie.com/ is having a Wii giveaway for Christmas!! Fantastic! I sign up, BUT, if I "tell my friends" about it I get 5 extra entries. Well, of course I pimped out a few e-mail addresses so I could get 5 extra entries!
I warned Mom that I had done this, and told her she could just delete any junk looking stuff.
Well, SHE ENTERED THE WII GIVEAWAY TOO! And out of 8,000 entries.............
No I didn't win, of course not................ MOM won the Wii giveaway! How cool is that!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Potty training
This morning.
Me: Alex, you tell me when you have to potty. Okay?
Alex nods.
Me: Keep your pull-ups dry. Okay?
Alex nods.
Ten minutes later, the air is pretty stinky.
Clean up, sit on potty.
Me: Alex, next time you sit on the potty. Put your poop in the potty.
Alex: (Very soft, serious voice) Oh, noooo!
We started out with cotton pants, I was going to skip the whole pull-up phase. Go straight to cotton pants, to make training faster.
After the second time Alex wet his pants, and was left standing in a puddle of pee, he took the stack of cotton pants out of the bathroom and hid them in the bottom of the closet. Then he went and got a diaper and brought it to me.
And so it goes....
Me: Alex, you tell me when you have to potty. Okay?
Alex nods.
Me: Keep your pull-ups dry. Okay?
Alex nods.
Ten minutes later, the air is pretty stinky.
Clean up, sit on potty.
Me: Alex, next time you sit on the potty. Put your poop in the potty.
Alex: (Very soft, serious voice) Oh, noooo!
We started out with cotton pants, I was going to skip the whole pull-up phase. Go straight to cotton pants, to make training faster.
After the second time Alex wet his pants, and was left standing in a puddle of pee, he took the stack of cotton pants out of the bathroom and hid them in the bottom of the closet. Then he went and got a diaper and brought it to me.
And so it goes....
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