Our Kids

Yes I know, it is totally inappropriate to be tooting my own horn but I feel I must do it!

This weekend I sold $600 bucks of unused toys at a consignment sale, yeah me! And then to top that this happened:

Landis ate:
Oatmeal and Cinnamon Raisin toast
Pears and frozen green beans
Noodles with broccoli and butter
Bean and tortilla “quesa”dilla
Graham crackers
Potato and Broccoli Soup

Still not a stellar day nutritionally but huge strides for me and this little one. Oh happy day!!

I am so wiped out, what happened to my weekend?? Sigh.

Last night Jason and I both were so tired that we laid down at 8:15 and both fell asleep! HA! We were trying to get our littlest angel to sleep and she had a late nap on the car ride home from her Grandparents house so she was having a really hard time going down (even though she was beat too). Well we all fell asleep so I guess we were tired.

Today we have been running around doing things, Jason has been working on Toobz and work and now we are on to our weekly Sunday chores. I am wiped out again! We did go and have a spinal balancing session and everyone enjoyed that. Dr. Jason said I really needed to come in for some more spine work. I am sure with all my weight training, baby wearing and long running I have done a number on my back and it shows. While everyone felt good after their adjustment, I felt like throwing up, ha! I guess I will be calling our insurance on Monday to sort out chiropractic care:)

HA! Landis and Phoebe have been keeping me in stitches today. Landis is picking up things her sisters say and they are picking up things people at school say and I am laughing my head off.

All day today Landis kept saying things like:

Mom, this song is cweeping me out (creeping) or
Mom, your face is fweaking me out (freaking)

All I can do is laugh and change the song or my facial expression (how do you change your face from looking old and tired to not old and tired…anyone??).

Then I was changing Phoebe’s diaper and asked Piper to take her diaper to the diaper pail in the garage, Piper did and I said “thank you.” Then Phoebe said “thank you!” So I said thank you again and she said thank you again. It is so weird to have a baby trying to talk to you, I guess it is because none of the girls were big talkers before age 2 at least and here is Phoebe trying to get a word in edgewise already! So cute. She is also getting really good at the grunt and point, followed by the screech and point if you don’t do as she wishes. Keeping me in stitches I tell ya!

Yes, irony is the word of the day for me. You know I have been cleaning out the garage and play room for things to sell so that we can buy a trampoline right? Well some of that stuff is piled to one side in the garage. I had noticed in the last few days how close I was to hitting the stuff at times and how close I was to the side of the garage wall at other times.

This morning I got up to go and workout and when I got back it was still dark and I pulled in to the garage like I have been for the last 60+ days. Then I heard this loud crunching sound, I put my foot on the brake and looked around thinking what the hell was that. When I looked to the rear of the car I could clearly see what it was, I had hit the house! Holy crap. How in the heck did that happen? So annoyed!

So the irony comes in that because I was pulling stuff out for the sale to buy the tramp and I was subconsciously compensating for what appeared to be less room (but really wasn’t) I hit the side of the house and scraped up my car. So the money I would be making at the sale is a draw because I have to have the wall of the house repaired and my car. Oh irony how I loathe you!

Now before you are tempted to whip out your checkbooks to buy a trampoline I won’t be penalizing the girls for my carelessness. The money we make off their stuff still goes for the trampoline and the money I was saving up for blinds will go to my misfortune. Sigh, somehow this all seems just wrong but at least I can still smile about it (unless I am looking at the damage and then I get downright weepy).

Phoebe is so done with being a baby. There are a few things that she still likes such as nursing and being carried but most things she wants to do all by herself. You can’t share with her because she just wants the spoon, cup, straw or whatever you are offering. She wants to feed herself 90% of the time, she really wants to walk and she is getting more vocal when she doesn’t get her way.

The other day she was sitting by Lela watching her color. She asked for a crayon by pointing and grunting and then proceeded to scribble on a piece of paper! I was shocked. She is such a little mimic. I think she may be a handful but at least I have lots of hands to help me out these days:)

Well we have two days off this week from school and we are making the most of them. We had a super fun and super long playdate with friends today. We got together, jumped on the trampoline, made hot noodle soup, did some sprial drawings, went to the park, ate more snacks, jumped on the tramp some more and finally headed home. There was lots of dress up, role playing and more coloring that happened in between all the fun. Phoebe had a great time on the stairs and I got some good mom time with a friend. Tomorrow we might brave the zoo depending on the state of the girls in the morning.

On top of that I am going through toys and kid stuff for a big Mother of Multiples sale this weekend. I think I will have quite a haul with all the toys the girls don’t want and all the baby stuff we don’t need. We are hoping to make enough money to get the girls a trampoline for the backyard or at least get a chunk towards a trampoline. I still have tons of clean up and tagging to do but I think it will all be worth it.

During our stomach poisoning (of whatever variety it was) we took a break from barfing and headed to the school for the community work day. At this point I was still under the delusion that Landis and I had food poisoning so sorry to anyone we may have gotten ill (I think it was no one but you never know). I thought it would be a good idea for us all to get some fresh air and for Landis to get her mind off the events of the last couple days.

We headed out to the school as a family to participate in the community work day. The day involved scrubbing down the early childhood patio, windows, benches and doors as well as sanding and painting all the wood tables, posts and structures in the playground. It was a lot of fun. The girls worked in side making cinnamon applesauce ornaments, drawing, eating snacks and playing before they joined us on the playground for some painting. It is really nice that the school provides us the opportunity to work with our kids to show them that every single person can make a difference and lots of folks working together can accomplish so much more.

We took her to the dentist, she said pull it out.
We tried to get her to wiggle it….nope.
We iced it to numb it to wiggle it….nope.
We tried to pull it……double nope.
We encouraged her to pull it…..nopeity nope nope.
We bribed her with money to pull it….nope.
We bribed her sisters with money to pull it….nope.

Finally one day she slinked off to the bathroom to pull it herself in her own time and in her own way. I got curious as to where she was and I found her in the bathroom with a tissue trying to pull it. I offered her a washcloth and left her alone. Piper became our little reporter and kept running back and forth telling me every step, blood, more blood, more wiggling. There was lots of squealing from Piper and running around. Finally I went back to check on her and it was still in there. I asked her if I could see it and she showed me, I asked her if I could pull it and she was unsure but I got my fingers in there and pulled the little bugger out before she could notice.

I think she was shocked it was finally gone and that it didn’t hurt. She was super excited too. Now the fun part. She informed me that her friend got a magic egg, a golden dollar and a crystal from the tooth fairy and that Lela did not want “just a dollar.” Why couldn’t she tell me this in the months that we have been wiggling this darn tooth??? Is that too much to ask? So now here I am on a Sunday night with no crystal, no magic egg and no golden dollar. Gah!

What did I do? I rummaged through the rocks that we have inherited from Grampy Jack and found a smooth pink stone that had crystal qualities. I found a dollar, not golden but still a dollar! Finally I found penguin toothbrush in my stash of stuff. So that is what she got and she was pleased to not get “just a dollar.” HA! Tooth fairy wins again.

PS. This time we set an alarm on our phone so we did not forget the tooth fairy. I am sure Jason has his own version of this story since it took him several trips in to her room feeling around under her pillow to find the tooth, lol.