DADDY: Izzy, lift your bum. Don't be a lazy baby!
ALICE: (laughing) Izzy, she's almost Iike Uncle Chuck!
MOMMY AND DADDY: What?!
ALICE: Because Uncle Chuck is LAZZZY!
MOMMY: (through hysterical laughter) Who said that?
ALICE: Me and Erin.
- driving down to J'ville.
- meeting up with Tori for dinner because she couldn't come home this
weekend.
- when we got home I was expecting a very surprised grandma, turns out
Dad had spilled the beans and she already knew.
- watching a movie with Dad, and he actually stayed awake for the
whole movie!
- I got to sleep in till almost 10am, Dad and Cindy were up at 6am
with the girls. Aaaaahhhh!
- Izzy fell in love with the neighbors' playhouse and protested
leaving it to come inside for lunch by channeling her inner ostrich
and burying her head in the sand.
- Alice "had her first dwivin yesson" behind the wheel of a Big Wheel,
and she plowed down her sister once.
- the girls went on a nature hunt with Auntie JJ and Amanda. Alice
came home with lots of naturey stuff, and Izzy came home passed out in
JJ's arms (both of the girls decided nap time was play time today).
- we ate a yummy chicken dinner Koinonia to help them raise money for
various things.
- Izzy ate well, but she was much more interested in Uncle Chuck's hat.
- we came home and the girls watched most of Dumbo before heading to
bed.
- Matt and I are off to see The American, starring George Clooney,
here in a bit. Hopefully it's worth the $$$.
9) Getting two kids ready to go to the grocery store takes entirely
too long.
8) Shopping with two kids at said grocery store takes entirely too long.
7) Shopping while feeling like you're going to puke, pass out, or pull
your hair out from the headache pain SOOOOO not fun.
6) Biting my tongue while a cashier who would rather oogle my kids
than pack my groceries properly while I feel like I'm going to hurl or
fall over. Next time I will ask her to double bag it herself if she
intends on stuffing my bags so full.
5) Lugging groceries up my rediculous stairs while feeling like crap
with screaming children in tow. I curse Matt's name for buying a place
with such steep stairs every shopping trip!
4) Having to sit down and eat something before putting groceries away
for fear I may pass out if I didn't.
3) I stupidly made taco soup when I got home because it's what I had
planned before I started feeling sick. Big mistake.
2) Waking Alice from that late nap to eat dinner. I need to learn not
to poke the bear.
1) Izzy having a major sick poo diaper blow out all over herself and
her highchair. Then having to help clean it up while queezy. I'm
pretty shocked I didn't lose my dinner.
Hopefully we'll all be ok in the morning. Ugh!
By the way, Happy Birthday, Grandma Cindy! Had we not had the day we
had you would have had a video. Maybe you'll get lucky and get one
tomorrow. Love you and we miss you!
Something tells me the girls were missed as well. (By the way, that
crazy pic of my FIL is of him playing with the girls. They sure do
enjoy their Boompa.)
Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGS!! We all hope you had a great day.
Minus the whole chopping off toes thing, of course.
Give up? Poor thing is actually sleeping! She started to get crabby
during lunch and was very slowly eating her food. Next thing I know
she's pulling a Grandpa Charlie and she's sleeping sitting up. Then,
just like G'pa, her head gets heavy and starts to flop…right onto her
highchair! She must have been super tired because it didn't even
phase her, she just sat up (while sleeping), then laid her head down
like this.
Wanna know the craziest part? Once I put her to bed (about 5 min
after she fell asleep) it took her an hour to go back to sleep! Silly
baby.
Day 2 of preschool tomorrow. Cross your fingers all goes well!!
Anyway, as you might expect, Alice loved it! She sang songs, played
games, made new friends, and learned how to do "crisscross-
applesauce" (a method for teaching kids how to sit Indian style). What
was her favorite part you ask?! When she told me I was certain my kid
had been replaced with a pod person - cleaning up the toys!
Seriously, kid?! That is EASILY her least favorite part of the day
here at home, even when I make it fun.
At least now I have something to hang over her when we clean at home.
In fact, I've already used it!
ALICE: "NO! I. DON'T. WANT. TO. CLEANUPTOYS!!!!!! Hmmph."
MOMMY: "Remember when you said cleaning up toys was your FAVORITE part
of preschool? Let's pick up toys please."
ALICE: "Ooooook, Mommy."
After school we played, ate lunch, then we ALL took a 4 hour nap. Even
Mommy. It was a long night as Izzy was not a happy camper (thankfully
she seems much better today) and I didn't sleep well. Tomorrow we
clean because Uncle Chuck and Erin will be here this weekend and the
house is trashed. And not Auntie Annie's version of trashed - really
trashed! You know we love you, and your OCD. ;)
One last photo, Alice enjoying one hell of a celebration s'more. I
found these massive marshmallows at the store the other day and I
could not pass them up. We roasted them over an open flame in our
kitchen, just like Mom used to, and boy were they delicious!
We had been out for hours and kind of missed lunch, so I decided it
best to grab a quick bite before heading to Meijer for round two of
shopping. I had to settle for McDonnald's because the Chic-fil-A still
isn't open (I'm being patient, but damn, I want some chicken nuggets
and waffle fries!) and while we were there we met a nice woman who was
there with her mother. We talked for a bit while waiting for our
orders and then parted ways. Fastforward a half an hour or so and we
run into each other, mulitiple times, in Meijer. The last time the
woman was eating from a Cheese-It box and said something about the
salad not being filling enough. Then she offered me and my girls some
crackers. I accepted, so today is the first day I took food from a
stranger…in a supermarket.
Poor Izzy. This one isn't going to be a fun paragraph. Poor Izzy is so
backed up that she's not eating well at all. The past few weeks I've
been struggling to keep the girls hydrated and both of them have had
BM issues as a result. Izzy though I'm starting to wonder if her
deminished appetite isn't tooth related at all, but due to her belly.
This evening she struggled SO much to no avail. It was my first time
ever having to deal with a very stopped up kid, and I hope she can get
some relief soon. I was so desperate to get her to eat something that
I fed her applesauce off of my finger (the only way she'd eat it).
Hopefully I don't have to buy some baby laxatives, but if she's not
feeling better in the morning, I'm going to have to pick something up.
Like I said, poor Izzy!
There will be a day of firsts tomorrow as well - preschool starts
bright and early in the AM. Now I'm off to convince Matt it's time to
get off the computer so we can go to bed!
Isabel Rose
