misc.

this girl is kind of a handful lately. eating is a mess. and not feeding her anything other than the food served is soooo much easier said than done.

example: i make eggs for breakfast, which she usually likes, but on morning x, she hates. so we go to appt z without her having eaten. she is, of course hungry, but eggs don't transfer too well, so she gets whatever snacky snack i have with me. i try to keep those healthy, but you know. then there's the not eating of the dinner. when she goes to bed hungry, she generally wakes up in the middle of the night hungry. and then there's the fact that she's only 2. so i am trying not to sweat this phase too much, and trying to find the healthiest thing she will eat. and yes, chocolate milk qualifies as healthy. deal with it.

there have also been some nighttime diaper issues. it goes a little something like this. we put her to bed. she plays quietly and then shouts for awhile, and then all is quiet. only, she was shouting because she'd poo'd. and who likes to sleep in poo? not this one. so she takes off her diaper. the first time, it was minimally messy. the second time, her comforter took a beating. the third-? time have been b-a-d. like horrifically bad. i took her into the shower after midnight with me one night while matt cleaned up her bed. anyways, we have assured her that we will check on her regularly so she doesn't have to take her diaper off. and that it's soooo much nice to poo on the potty. and that playing with poo is never the answer.

i wear my pink robe a lot in the winter. and i love finding rando pics on my phone. that's me as a mom right now, so there.

we celebrated st. nicholas day. the girls each got a pooping toy (what's with me and pooping lately?) that they loved and played with non-stop. it's a fun tradition from my childhood.

delaney is generally sweet and happy at gymnastics. but every once in awhile she gets grumpy about opening or closing. this day it was opening.

she just was not feeling the opening stretches. she pouted and was grumpy to the point where we had to do a reset time-out.

angry lady.

in preparation for frankie's class party i had to try out my paint project. equal parts shaving cream and elmers school glue make a fun puff paint. that smells like cologne.

it's fun stuff and you can add all sorts of embellishments, like glitter and extract, and then you can also add details to your masterpiece, like a carrot nose, or buttons.

this one continues to be impatient and sweet and adventurous and daddy's girl. amy always jokes that she looks like me, but acts like matt. 'tis true! she's been practicing soccer with daddy and is all geared up for her first game on saturday. her cute haircut is growing out and she is so excited to be able to wear pigtails again soon! she's quite loud and we're working with her on some noise level management, but she's 4, so it's going about as well as you'd think it would with a 4-year-old.

shelly sent me this the other day. our little bald laney and cute little chubby rosie! these kids are all getting so big, it's so fun to see them growing up together. :)

lexi and i have been playing an online game called trivia crack. it's pretty fun and i'm winning 3-0. laney is helping her here. she loves her some sissy!

 

whiddling away at my iphone album.