LarkExaltation

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.

I’m doing major catch up on posts here, and I added two others for the 13th and the 14th. In this post we have my work Easter egg hunt from the 15th. With out “Onala” and “Ahmee” I don’t think that day would have turned out so well. We were running so late. It was nice to have a couple pair of extra hands… Thanks Ladies! And then the kids Easter baskets and the eggs we decorated. The Easter bunnies decided to not do too much candy. Each child got a hollow bunny and some long awaited prizes. I think the most expensive thing had to be the Elefun game that made it into Libby’s basket. Sam has been asking for that for a couple of years now. They really have a trunk full of fun playing it. (sorry, I couldn’t resist)

So what do we think?
Thanks for the idea Beth, I’m really happy with how these turned out.

Taking orders…

It’s really hard to believe we actually got snow. Sam was so excited. He had been waiting for this all winter. They closed our schools at one o’clock, which I thought was hilarious. It didn’t even stick, much less stick around, but neighboring towns got hit pretty hard so I suppose it had potential for damage. Or maybe it’s just so rare, they wanted the kids to be able to play in it?! In my videos, it’s hard to believe the kids were even home. It was so quiet… except for my cell phone ringing a couple of times.

I was so worried about how this would turn out. They took this the day after the major hair cut. I’m very pleased.

Libby has been on a dress kick lately. Insisting on them to wear for play and sleep.

I nipped the sleep one in the bud quickly by buying a dora nightgown.
I had to convince the girl it was a dress…

I’ve been finding a lot of cute little dresses on ebay. Today, an ebayer brightened my day.

Sitting at my desk, busy in my work and these came. I couldn’t help but smile!

Sam’s school had their, oh so cute, kindergarten program last night.

A few things I’ve learned I need for next time…
- tell family earlier than four hours before
- get there 15 minutes earlier than they tell the parents to have the kids there.
- baby sling
- camera tripod
- get my son to carry a handkerchief (an every day thing)

she’s trying her best to look away and not show me her pigtails…

“i don’t like it picture” (and yet, anytime she picks up anything she says “mommy, say cheese! - click”)

he was up early watching cartoons. she’s teething and had been running a fever. she toddled in there shortly after he did…

they really do love each other.

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.”