Tagged....

I'm so bad about completing tags but I'll give it a shot. The wonderful April of Momo's Clothes tagged me to reveal 7 random facts about myself.

Rules for the tag...
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

1. I have red hair, freckles and blue eyes and none of my kids do. Well all of them have blue eyes and some of them have freckles but not one of them has even one red hair. Grae is the closest with being blonde.

2. When I worked at the Oregon State Capitol(before I had kids) the then Governor came out of a meeting room and almost knocked me down. I was 6 mths pregnant at the time. He didn't even say he was sorry (but he was a democrat so I didn't expect much, hee-hee).

3. I wear my husband socks and his Keen clogs around the house even though they are much too big for me. Actually he doesn't even wear them (probably because I do). I really need to get some house shoes but never think about it when I'm out.

4. I can't stand to have anything that is not absolutely necessary laying around the house. If I can't find a use for it, then I sell it or throw it away. I really want a big fabric stash but it stresses me out to have all that fabric looking at me and not have the time to sew it up.

5. My best friend Melodie and I have been friends since 1st grade. She lives about 5 minutes away from me now. We've never lived more than 20 minutes away from each other (well she did go to college in Washington for 4 years). What's funny is that Brian (my DH) and Melodie are distant cousins.

6. I recently found a love for vintage Pyrex. I can't believe how much I'm finding at Goodwill (and cheaply too!). My favorites are the turquoise blue pieces.

7. Every morning for breakfast I must have 2 eggs scrambled, 1/2 cup of cereal and an earl grey tea with 2 packets of Splenda and a splash of whole milk. That has been my breakfast of choice for over 3 years now. Boring - yes, but it really gets me through the day. Sometimes that's all I have until dinner.

Okay - so I'm only going to tag 3 people 'cause I'm a rule breaker... ;)
Kerri
Melanie
Rachel

Learn from me...

You have company coming on Friday morning; don't decide that you can't stand the paint color in your living room, paint some new swatches on the wall, decide that the original color wasn't so bad but now you have blue swatches everywhere and no time to repaint the wall. Just don't.

Glasses

Both Ava and Lauren need reading glasses. Guess how much I had to pay? $200? Nope. $100? Nope. $50? Nope. I paid $20 each for them. Insurance came through this time!

Lauren and the Dr. picked out her glasses. Ava and I picked out hers. Ava really wanted purple frames but they didn't have any. This is the closest we got. Green with some purple in them.

Oh and I never call them four eyes in school, 'cause you know, that would be immature. Ahem...

A poop day....

Wool knit longies by Brandy's Boutique

So most days lately are what I would term "bad". I think it is because my expectations of what I want to accomplish are too high and when I don't get through my list, I feel defeated. When all Molly wants to do all day is be held, it's frustrating to me. It shouldn't be, afterall I'm a stay at home mom so I can be with the kids. But still...

On Friday Molly decided to poop. She's a once a week pooper and boy did she save it up. I had just put her new wool longies on her so of course she would have to blow out. I have to hand wash the wool (which I actually like) but it takes the wool pants about 3 days to dry.

Anyway, I didn't know she was going to poop when I put them on her. She had a cloth diaper prefold on underneath, no diaper cover. I was watching the kids eat their lunch when I heard Molly make these strange choking sounds. She was in my lap at the time and I turned her around to see what was wrong. Nothing. She made them again and then I heard the first of what was about 5 explosions. I'm thinking, "uh-oh, hope the prefold holds."

Finally the choking noise stopped and was replaced with a smile. She must be done. I go and peel off her pants and notice yellow mustardy poop EVERYWHERE...on her longies, on her legs, up her back. This was no runny poop but thick peanutbutter poop. Too much information? Yeah well at least I didn't take a picture.

I decided instead of using all my cloth wipes that I would get most of it off and hose her off in the tub. Problem is that is was past Graedon's naptime and he was bouncing off the walls. Well, it couldn't be avoided, he would have to wait 10 minutes. I started the bath water and put Molly in her bath seat. Graedon showed up and started peeling off his clothes and before I could tell him no, he jumped in the tub. Oh man...the water was turning a pale yellow from the leftover poop and I didn't want Grae in there. Oh, it gets better. Grae gets a very serious look on his face and says he went potty. AHHHHHH....so I drain the tub, run some fresh water, finish up the bath, get them dressed, put Grae down for his nap, feed Molly, put her to bed and try to figure out if I was going to laugh or cry. I called Brian and he laughed for me.

Hey I haven't blogged in awhile so it may as well be about poop, eh?

Sayings...

Today has been a horrible day so I thought I would remember some amusing things the kids have said, you know, so I can remember why I still have them around.

Me: "Grae, do you want some milk or something?"
Grae: "Yes."
I get him a cup of milk and hand it to him.
Me: "Here's your milk."
Grae: "Nooooo, I want something."

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Ava: "If you needed to drink water so you wouldn't die, it would be better to eat a tomato not a frog."
Me: "Couldn't you just drink a glass of water?"
Ava: "Yeah, you could do that too."

(We studied the water content of food and animals in science and found out a tomato is 98% water and a frog is only 70%. )

I heart The Office

Funniest show on tv!

Hardly time to write....

Hey, I'm alive, tired but alive. Let's see what's been going on. Graedon's sick, Molly's sick. Gradeon is grouchy, Molly is grouchy. We went up to the church nursery to play after the service was over and I think that was a mistake. I used to take Ellie and Grae up there and every Wednesday they would have the sniffles. I forgot and did it last Sunday and now Grae and Molly have full blown nasal congestion. Ugh...

Ava and Lauren both have reading glasses now. I'll get a picture of them sporting their four-eyes. Brian went in and bought new glasses but thankfully his prescription didn't change. No change in 5 years is great!

Ellie used the word 'realistically' in a sentence correctly which surprised me greatly. She is more than ready to start learning to read but I keep putting it off. I can barely keep up with the girls school work. Ava wants to teach her so I think I'll let her start introducing the phonograms to her.

The girls are taking over more of the dinner preparation. Last night Lauren made the beef-barley soup and Maddie made the bread (in the bread maker). I didn't have to do anything, which was good because I was dealing with a sick Molly.

Ava claimed she had short term memory loss in school and then she answered a question twice. I told her she just said that and she replied, "oh I forgot". ;)

I've been getting up at 6:30ish a.m. and going for a 1.5 mile walk around the neighborhood. I'm enjoying it very much. It's nice not to have to carry someone or push a stroller. And I get to spy on all the neighbors remodeling projects.

The girls and I got out all of their fall clothes this week and made a count of who needs what. Ellie has two dresses. Oops. So I'm going to sit down and make a plan of mix and match outfits I can sew. Ava ended up with all of Maddie's clothes and Maddie ended up with a few of Lauren's clothes. So I need to go shopping for Lauren. She is almost as tall as I am and doesn't fit into girl clothes anymore. It's a struggle to find modest clothing for a 12 year old.

Speaking of Lauren, she attended a 6.5 hour Red Cross babysitter's course on Saturday. It was the first time she was gone by herself for that long. Brian dropped her off (it's 5 minutes away) and it was weird not to see Lauren walk in the door. She loved it and we're looking into more classes she can take.

Well Molly is screaming now so I'll go attend to her.