What did I do today?

Today I decided to text my husband a list of things I did throughout the day. (Actually he sort of requested it.)

9:41 am - J spills entire box of corn chex cereal on the kitchen floor and proceeds to dance on top of the cereal.
10 am - I discover sink cupboard open while cleaning discover the dish soap to be missing.

10:15 I run downstairs to discover bathroom soap and lotion art decorations on carpet.

Babies hungry, Babies fed. Locks all in bedroom- folding laundry.
10:30 laundry started bathroom scrubbed. Laundry mostly folded bed made.
Spit Up! Clean bed covers, diaper change. Greet M home from school.
Clean S's room make bed, Pick up toys. lunch. baby cuddles, clean table, clean floor.
Boys crying downstairs, teach no jumping on the bed. Give back sucker to M after it was stolen when younger brother tackled him.
baby cuddles, start ice age. Cuddle J. put J down for nap. babies fed, laundry checked, clean living room, organize books, diaper changes. Reschedule WIC for tomorrow. sweep kitchen. tidy patio/deck baby playtime. Ice age- skipping-turn off, play Rusty and Rosy
Upstairs bathroom scrubbed, wait outside for S to get home, pet cat.
Scrub table, again sweep. wash sticky off floor gather dishes.
Babies tummy time, feed babies, S & M afternoon snack, check laundry.
Laundry moved, dishes put away, crackers and Cheese snack cleaned up.
babies fed and changed, dishes put in dishwasher upstairs bathroom cleaned again, countertops wiped. babies outfits changed

Things we did

For the past six months I wake up to my husband on the computer. Once again applying to more jobs, reading the newspaper, checking e-mail or perhaps an occasional game.

Afterward he makes breakfast, his favorite: pancakes(his own recipe) & maple syrup. Our daughter prefers eggs: made like a crepe, sprinkled with cheese and rolled loosely. (Rew wishes me to clarify that it is an omelet, however it's very thin like a crepe. So... a crepe omelet.) I take a little bit of both, I like my pancakes bite-sized dipped in the syrup and only a few bites of the crepe...since my daughter usually begs to have mine too.

(my syrup jar...that I painted at Color-Me-Mine a few years back. Excellent place to go btw.)

Breakfast is usually followed by reading! Our daughter LOVES books! She likes to curl up with a book, sit on your lap with a nice sippy of cold milk and be read to. New words come everyday as she's starting repeating what you say: 'Kitty-cat' 'Bunny' 'Doggie, woof woof'.

This book is one of her favorites. (I'm not kidding.)

Perhaps it's because of all the brightly colored pictures inside.

Then usually outside to play! We were flying kites at Rock Canyon Park.

Rew fiddling with his kite (he had the harder one).

This is the closest picture of me that you'll get... all the others are of our daughter! I was holding the string to the kite at the time. You can barely see the white string....and the kite is the blurry yellowish thing seen against the gray rock.

Back home for lunch made by me! It changes everyday but always has a vegetable...because veges are our daughters favorite!

Then down for a nap while I search the realm of job hunting and Rew drives to drop off resumes. Once completing the task we usually read the new books of the week from the Library, take a nap, I write lesson plans, perhaps watch an online video, clean my dishes and house.

Daughter wakes up! Time to play, perhaps with a friend, or with mommy and daddy! We have sidewalk chalk, Moonsand, Playdough and crayons! She also loves to draw. We go to Library storytime, or dance to music, watch Baby Einstien or read more books.

We walk to the duck ponds to feed the ducks, or perhaps to the pet store. On really special days we'll see a movie at the dollar theatre (we just saw Bolt... very cute!)

5 pm I make dinner (Spagetti for tonight with broccoli and pears.) Play some more, read more, says prayers, sing songs and tuck our daughter into bed. After she is peacefully asleep we read until 11:30 or so then go to sleep. Ready to start a new day tomorrow.....

Then find this:

Yes... she stuffed her pajamas and daddy's socks in the toilet! (I thought that door was always locked!)

My Daughter

In the few short months that I have suddenly been (as my sister Marcae put it) "Baptized by Fire" into Motherhood, I have learned a lot. How to sing Teddy Bears picnic, Make up songs while waiting at traffic lights, finding more ways to shorten or lengthen stories depending on how fast my daughter wishes to turn the page, discovering patience with a cranky baby, 102 ways to make her giggle.

During Christmas we worked really hard on recognizing pictures of Jesus, (point to the picture) "That's baby Jesus! Do you see baby Jesus?" This led to my daughter (pointing to a baby...any baby) "JESUS!" (I think it's really cute.) I was shocked the day I asked "It's time to pray, can you fold your arms?" and she did it without any help!

Yesterday Rew and I decided to go on a date. We were going to go to a free Museum in South Provo, however, they were closed...so instead we ended up going to a pet shop. We decided to buy a little froggy for our small fish bowl. Our daughter was fascinated, she kept staring a the froggy and babbling.

We brought it home and I placed it in the fish bowl. My daughter stood on a chair the whole time and watched. Finally when the froggy was placed she crept onto the table, leaned over and "Mmmmmm-Mwah" KISSED THE FROGGY! This she did without prompting. (I was actually able to get pictures and video of her doing this.)

Rew and I have been trying to remember to sing songs to our daughter at night when she goes to sleep. We've been getting more consistent and she loves it. Today is Sunday, so we listened to Music and the Spoken Word, she was loving the songs. When it finished we sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." For the first time she did all the actions!!! It is SO CUTE!!! I LOVE IT!!! (I got video of that too! woo hoo!)

sorry... still have to wait to see it…

Fluffy White Stickers

FLUFFY WHITE STICKERS

I love Children Books.

Quite often I'll cuddle up to a children book aisle in the Library and read. This habit began in Elementary School and follows me even today.

One fine day while reading in the Children section (I had been there quite awhile). I could hear two young girls, probably 6 and 8 years old, in the next row begging their mother for quarters.

The Library sells pencils for .25 cents and notebooks for .50 cents.

"Mom!" They begged, "please! can i have a quarter!"

The mother not paying much attention handed them each two quarters.

With all the glee a young child can muster they disappeared around the corner; each with their quarters held tightly in their hands.

At that moment I needed to use the bathroom. Why would I be telling you this? Just keep reading.

I went to the bathroom. Nothing abnormal about it: stalls, sinks, paper towels....and .... two young children trying to use the tampon machine...

"What is it?" I could hear them whispering to each other.

"I don't know, let's open it!"

"OH! It's a sticker!"

"Fluffy White Stickers!"

Realizing with horror that the young girls had each purchased a tampon pad with their quarters I tried to warn them. "Um, those aren't stickers."

Both turned around the fluffy white stickers stuck to their T-shirts! They ran from the bathroom and I cackled in laughter.

I exited the bathroom to find the mother (still not paying attention) as the girls danced around her singing, "Fluffy White Stickers! Fluffy White Stickers!"

Then the mother noticed... They lost their Fluffy White Stickers very quickly.