Tuesday, January 16, 2007

No time for that!

Someday maybe I will have time to watch the news again. Then, maybe I can have an intelligent conversation with someone who says to me, "Can you believe about those two missing kids being found?" Okay, I do know a teeny bit of that story, but only what I could read on yahoo! news (didn't have time to watch the video clip).

We are too busy to watch the news. Busy trying to figure out if this kind of poo is from Rotavirus or Noravirus or neither. Busy trying to figure out the best way to remove said poo from the back of every one of Charlotte's outfits, since she only "goes" every two or three days, usually in the exersaucer, and it goes all the way up her back. Busy trying to figure out when I'm going to have time to take the Christmas tree down (last year it was up until February). Busy giving the baby breathing treatments every four hours. Busy folding six loads of laundry I did over the weekend. Busy listening to a "barking cough" coming from the one child upstairs who is neither sick nor has asthma.

So next time you see me, let's have a current events report. Remember, the kind you did in high school? You read the paper or watch the news, then summarize for me the current event of your choosing. Oh, and I need you to do it in less than 15 seconds. Because at that point someone under four feet tall is likely to need me again.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Identify yourselves!


It's delurking week, the brain child of Sheryl over at Paper Napkin. If you enjoy the blog, or even if you just read it because you're related to me and feel like you have to, leave a comment and show me some love. Seriously.

Keep your clothes on, already!

I have a friend whose daughter became so obsessed with "getting naked" during naptime that she finally started using duct tape to secure her diaper. Every day at naptime she would wrap duct tape around the child's diaper to keep her from taking it off and smearing poo all over her crib. Eventually, the child learned to go get the duct tape and bring it to mommy before she put her down for her nap.

I think we are headed toward duct tape.

Mitchell has been having trouble settling down and going to sleep at night. Which then causes him to be sleepy about lunchtime each day, because he stayed up so late the night before. So sleepy that as he's sitting in his chair eating lunch, he starts saying to me, "Mommy nap?" Then I put him down for a nap and he sleeps 3 to 3.5 hours! Then, at bedtime he can't go to sleep and the cycle starts all over again.

At bedtime tonight, apparently the insomnia set in and he decided to amuse himself by getting his shirt all wet. I'm not sure how, but probably by taking a sip of water from his sippy cup, then letting it run out of his mouth and all over his shirt. So, I change his shirt and put him back to bed. Fifteen minutes later, I discover that he's stripped himself down to nothing but a diaper and is trying to get said diaper off. Arghh!

So I put him in "zip-up" jammies and safety-pinned the zipper up. We'll see if it works. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Overheard Upstairs

(Holly Grace has decided that she's going to marry her friend Mason...)

Holly Grace: Mommy, do you know how many babies I'm going to have when I grow up?

Me: No, tell me how many!

Holly Grace: FIVE!!!

Me: Really?!?!?

Jack: Then MASON will have to have a surgery!!!