Last week, Miss Libby only had a couple of accidents in her pullup, of course only at home. So her daycare care givers asked if we wanted to start sending her in panties. Of course PD and I had been talking about this for a couple of weeks now and we were all for it. Over the weekend we bought her Dora panties and Curious George panties… to add to her collection of Princesses and Elmo. She’s so excited. “Pretty Dora panties!” Monday and Yesterday, she went the whole day with no accidents. I think she even kept the dry pull up during nap. yay for my big girl! The only accidents I’ve noticed have been when I’m home alone with the kiddos and I’m feeding Evelyn and can not help her when the timing is urgent. I’m so proud of her doing so well… and so grateful for this wonderful daycare for sticking with it. We’ve had trouble in the past with daycares being inconstant causing lots of regression with Samuel. Of course all kiddos are different and it’s going to happen eventually. You either start early or wait for them to be ready, either way… it gets done.
We had a pretty good scare. The wind was blowing through like a train, and the hail was hitting the room so very hard.
PD had me get the kids in the hall bathroom while he checked out the weather from the back door.
Only a little damage to his truck, nothing worth bothering about.
I’m glad nothing serious came of it, and the kids were glad to go back to bed.
Have I mentioned how much I love my new kitchen?
I actually fell asleep in the bathtub Sunday night, and I really don’t think my body is going to forgive me anytime soon. PD and I, with the help of my sister, cousin and mother-in-law watching the children over the weekend (THANK YOU!!!), managed to move all of the furniture and a huge chunk of our things to the new house Saturday. We worked for nine hours loading and unloading. We’ve made a couple of small truck trips since then. I haven’t seen it since Sunday afternoon, but PD made a few trips yesterday and says there isn’t much left, though I know I have a good bit of my kitchen waiting to be moved. We had the piano moved yesterday, the best $150 we’ve every spent. After we get the last of our things, the only thing I’ll need to do is clean the bathrooms and the kitchen. We’re having the carpets cleaned on Thursday, just in time for the electricity to be cut off on Friday. PD managed to keep moving yesterday so the muscle soreness isn’t quite as bad for him as it is for me who sat at work all day. I know for sure now, when we build our house, I’m going to hire movers to move us… ug!
Before we moved I was making all of the appropriate phone calls and fill out change of address forms. Our telephone company informed me that they did not have DSL in that area. I was shocked and very disappointed. I haven’t heard great reviews on the major cable company for their customer service, and when I called to see about service, I quickly realized why. PD asked if I would call a local DSL provider about service. I was informed that I would need phone service, obviously, and told me to check out a local telephone company. Well, I think this company must lease the circuits or something because the prices where phenomenal, and there were odd places to go and fill out an application. I got back online to our phone company’s site and started to place an order for our service to move our phone service and I realized they weren’t telling me the DSL service was not available. I can’t help but wonder if my questioning the lack of DSL made them reevaluated the area and realized, hey, maybe this is a service area! Needless to say I’m ecstatic about it! Though, the turn up date isn’t until the 28th. Not very convenient for someone who’s taking internet classes, but PD said he’d either sit at the empty apartment… until Friday I guess, hehe…. or go to the lab on campus.
Needless to say the house is a mess right now and there are boxes everywhere, but we can already see that we’re really going to enjoy living there. I really can’t wait to get it all fixed and post pictures of our new home. Here are some of it empty I took at the beginning of the month. I left out the laundry room and the bathrooms because I’m not really going to decorate those much. They have very nice counter tops and fixtures, but once you’ve seen one regular bathroom, you’ve seen them all, no? The back yard is dirt right now, I’m not stranger to that, but they’ve been smoothing it out from construction, and I’m sure the grass will get going once the months get warmer and it stops raining so much. We have a little man made bayou in our back yard and Sam is really looking forward to fishing and every morning Libby asks to “see ducks.”
it’s hard to believe i haven’t written a post in over a week. the kids are keeping me busy,that’s for sure. after evelyn got over her rsv the lovely daycare decided that she was having…. loose stools…. to be polite about it. and i couldn’t bring her back until it was cleared up. well, i breastfeed exclusively and that’s gunna happen! sam had a stomach virus but she just wasn’t acting like that was the case. on her last checkup on the rsv i had the doctor write a letter stating the facts and that she could return to daycare, she was not contagious. i was then informed that it was not only the content but the fact that it was getting out. what the heck? babies have leaks! so i told them i would buy bigger diapers, my girl is in a 2 now! the director said she would work with me…
my online buying consultant
she always does this, i’m not sure why. biblical or bride?
… so on the more fun side of things. pd got his student aid refun, yay grants! and we purchased a laptop. my favorite laptop! so he could take it to school, work, etc to do his school work and to have something to take to church for his power points when he teaches sunday school. it’s lovely! well, the lappy has wireless so we just HAD to get a wireless router, tee-hee. i got it all set up at lunch yesterday and i have to say i’m very pleased with myself. of course this is after i set it up perfectly and then started looking at settings and botched everything up and after a long lovely phone call with my isp support, they decided to send out a wireless modem/router, and i could send my router back if i wanted. right! i put it back the way it was after initial installation and let it go. isp’s wireless router should be here tomorrow… ir.. today. after several IMs and phone calls with a friend I finally realized what was going “wrong” and that i should leave it the way i had first set it up. we even worked through managing the router remotely. all issues from before, the same. and so here i sit, having just fed/changed evelyn, blogging from my favorite recliner.
she’s a beauty!
in other great news, we’re moving. i know i said i wouldn’t move again until we had a house, but in the warm nights, and even some of the cold ones, our neighbors are rather obnoxious, outside talking into the wee hours of the night/morning, and the girls across the hall who smoke outside our doors and it leaks into our apartment. bleh! we’re renting this brand new duplex apartment. it’s lovely. 3/2 a very open living space, no carpet (good for the allergies, bad for clumsy kids - we plan to put down area rugs). though we’re living in a box mess right now, we’re hoping to have everything moved next weekend. if i could get my act together i’d pack more, blog less and have everything done by moving day…
I couldn’t help but blog about this. It’s just one of those normal everyday things that no body cares about but I still feel the need to share.
I made a mediocre roast last night and boiled some potatoes…
It was a HUGE bag of potatoes and I knew that we would never eat them all plain, SO back into the pot they go with water, milk, butter, some lovely pea and carrot purée and so on…
Voilà!
a yum soup!
two meals in the time of one…
we ate the soup last night and it is my lunch today.
now to make the roast more to my liking…
1:42am - wake to coughing two month old/change diaper/administer breathing treatment - approximately 10min
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2:40am - wake to hungry two month old/change diaper/nurse said child - approximately 20min but I really couldn’t tell you, I was asleep.
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3:30am - wake to fussy two month old/change diaper/rock
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5:30am - wake, in living room recliner, to alarm clock in bedroom
5:40am - change diaper/administer breathing treatment to infant
6:00am - arouse sleepy two year old, in my bed
6:10am - bathe said two year old
6:20am - bathe sleepy five year old
6:30am - shower/brush teeth/dress
6:40am - dry five year olds hair
6:50am - brush old* children’s teeth
7:05am - kiss 34/5/2 goodbye
8:00am - nurse infant/change diaper
8:15am - eat cereal
8:30am - load/run dishwasher
9:00am - start washing/putting away laundry
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11:00am - nurse hungry infant
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12:10pm - wake in recliner/change diaper/administer breathing treatment
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12:28pm - check email/bank account/document day on blog
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12:45pm - continue laundry
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1:30pm - change diaper/continue laundry
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2:30pm - nurse baby/dress beds/finish laundry
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3:45pm - 34/5/2 come home
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4:15pm - update blog post/start on dinner
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5:00pm - dinner/dishes/diaper/breathing treatment
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5:45pm - monopoly (with a 5yr old)
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6:30pm - nurse baby/continue monopoly
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7:20pm - Thing 2 to bed/still playing monopoly
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9:00pm - nurse baby/put monopoly on hold
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10:45pm - wake in recliner/diaper/breathing treatment/bed
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*LOL - okay, yeah I’m tired, that was suppose to be “older”
Not much, just a new profile picture at the moment. I figured the other one was four years old, it was about time I grew up a little more.
I’m also thinking about naming the blog… or committing to LarkExaltation as a name.
I’m at a loss and in need….
…Taking suggestions…
today, i bought this…
It’s just so beautiful, and I’ve been thinking about how very difficult of a time I have getting the Bjorn on and adjusted. And my husband likes to wear it too, so it’s always having to be adjusted. So after reading a very convincing blog post from BAGM, how could I not? Don’t worry, I put just as much research into baby slings as I do all of my … well, anything. I think I’m really going to enjoy it, I hope I’m right.
