Day 89: Oh, socks...

I've been catching up on laundry this week. We were pretty behind. I mean really, really behind. From the move, then getting sick, we were subsisting on a load washed every once in a while so we'd have enough clean clothes to get by, but I've had enough and now we're just getting it done and catching up. I refuse to wash a load if there is a basket full of clean clothes to be folded and put away so we don't get backed up, and I think as of today I'm about two loads shy of getting everything "caught up" and hopefully will be able to stay on top of it one load a day or every other day from now on..

Moving on.. being so behind on laundry means that we have lots of socks to match. I always save them for last, and since I know more will come from the last couple of loads, I have this great big pile of socks to sort and match now. In the mean time, Noah likes to play with them and scatter them around the living room, and then at night and at nap time I shove them back into a little Pampers wipes box. I'm hoping tomorrow will be sock day? If I can get those two last loads done, that is. (Haha, "last." I wish!)

Day 88: My afternoon is shot..

I was folding some laundry and watching Bethenny Ever After this morning (don't judge. I love that show.) while Emily played. Then it got really quiet, and I noticed that Emily's orange pacifier and her blankie were no longer in the living room. I went looking for her and found her fast asleep on her bedroom floor! At 11am! What's up with that?? She slept until about 1:30.. so of course my kid-free afternoon plans to do mucho laundry went to pot! And waking up at 1:30 also meant that by 5pm she was a Mega Grump! Oh well, she looked really cute lying there with her special blankies and all. And yes, she's still wearing pj's at 11am in this pic. Again, don't judge. Haha!

Day 87: Sick of it already..

Noah went to physical therapy for the first time today, and we learned some things to help him with his hip and knee (well, muscle) movement. While working with him this afternoon, he just put his head down. Partly because he was really tired, and partly I think because he was just sick of it!

Day 86: Sunday Best

We had a little time before church this morning, and the kids looked so dang cute, so I grabbed the camera and made them sit together for some pics! I also took some 11 month Monkey pics for Noah. Man, those are some adorable kids! I love how Noah looks like he's the same size as Emily! Haha, he's going to catch up to her really fast!

Day 85: The big 2-5!!

Our really, really good friend Martha and I share the same birthday!! She wasn't able to come to the party Friday night, but Peter had bought two cakes in case she came.. we invited her to dinner and to hang out at our place tonight and while she and I were chatting in the living room, Pete got he cake all ready - with sparkle candles in the shape of an M for Martha! We love Martha.. and hope she has a good 25th!! (Haha, she tells everyone she's 25 all the time. LOVE it!)

Day 84: The big 3-0!!

I turned 30 today! Peter threw me a really fun party with a bunch of good friends. He even put 30 (sparkly!!) candles on my cake for me. We had a lot of fun, and I had a great day, surrounded by lots of family and friends throughout the day! I think my 30s are going to be awesome!

Day 83: Again with the coloring...

Emily  has absolutely exhausted some of her coloring books - colored so many pages and lugged them to so many places that they begin to fall apart - so we've taken to printing silly pages off the Internet. Tonight she was coloring before bed and Pete printed this funny pic - of yogurt! She made it "straw-werry yoyurt." Haha!

Day 82: Bread Beast..

Noah LOVES bread. He also loves to follow me around whining at me while I try to get things done (like, say, the pile of laundry behind him). So lately I give him a slice of bread (on the floor or in his high chair) and it keeps him occupied for at least 15 minutes - which time I use to clean/fold laundry/pee/whatever as quickly as possible!!

Day 81: Little Mooch

Noah has finally decided that regular table food is AWESOME and whenever anyone is eating it, he WANTS it. Peter was having some pasta with cheese on it, and Noah stood up to the couch mooching off of him. As soon as he finished one noodle, he whined and grunted until Pete gave him another one! So funny!

Day 80: A spring project..

Emily and I started a little project this morning. We "planted" some wheat from our food storage in this big Easter basket. She helped me put the "seeds" in the plastic-lined basket, and then we watered it, covered it with plastic wrap, and waited for it to grow! Actually, by the end of the first day there were already little tiny shoots growing out! We're going to use it as a spring centerpiece on the kitchen table.. and I thought Emily would like watching it grow! It'll look cute when it's all grown up!

Day 79: Sick? Just grumpy? Teething? Who knows?!

Noah had a low-grade fever Saturday night, and again this afternoon. He's been grumpy and has had a runny nose for weeks.. but nothing ever came of it. The fever was gone by the next day.. He just spent a lot of this day whining and being grumpy. No sign of teeth, not pulling on his ears at all. Just maybe a bit of a bug that came and went in those two days..

Day 78: Pen Pal

Emily got a letter from her bestie, Hallie, today. She opened the envelope all by herself. She LOVED the Hello Kitty animal stationery! I read her the letter and she looked at Hallie's "drawings". It was very cute. now we need to write her back!


Here's what her letter said: 


"Dear Emily,


I miss you! I would like you to come to my house and play sometime. I am drawing you some pictures. What is your favorite color? My favorite color is undecided. I am sending you pictures of a bunny, a bear, a kitty with a red bow, a panda, a lion, and a kitty with a yellow bow. Which is your favorite? My favorite is the panda. Have you ever seen Kung Fu Panda? I like it. My dress today is brown with blue stockings. I just decided my favorite color is blue. I hope you are having a fun day!


Love lots,


Hallie Shaha"


SO cute! Emily remembers, and misses, her friend Hallie a lot. Anything we own that's purple (shirts, children's tylenol, sippy cups) she calls Hallie's because Hallie used to have a lot of purple things that she'd bring or wear at our house. And sometimes when we're at Target she asks if Hallie's coming, and she often wants to play at Hallie's house still and gets really sad when I say Hallie doesn't live here anymore! I hope we can visit soon!!

Day 77: Swing Pal!

We went to the park with our friends today and Noah "played" on the swings with baby Katelyn, who's a month older than him. She smiled SO big when she was on the swing that I had to get some pics of her cute chubby face! She's such a doll!

Day 76: 50 cute toes!

Aside from all our St. Patrick's Day festivities, I went this afternoon to take pics of my friend Nicole's kids. She has four girls and one little boy - all with lots of energy and personality! It was a really fun shoot, and I still need to finish editing the pics, but I like how they turned out!

Day 75: Valley Children's..

Noah had his ortho appointment today (which you can read about HERE). He was SO tired when it was all done, but he was such a trooper! Cute littel guy!

Day 74: Um, Costco.

I've totally turned into one of those moms that buys a ton of stuff at Costco! Today I went with a list of 8 things and came home with so much stuff! But, it's all stuff we needed - and besides the crackers and chips, none of it was junk. Fruit, yogurt, milk, string cheese. All things my kids eat TONS of. And really, if I've only got 8 or 9 things on my grocery list, and I'm already at Costco, I'm not going to go to another store for just one item.. may as well get the FOUR giant bottles of apple sauce, right?

Day 73: Um, filth, and an exhausted kid

Emily just LOVES to lay in front of the TV with her dwankie (blankie) - no matter what's on, or what's going on around her. And this filthy mess is what our house looked like today. And then for multiple days afterward. Disgusting. It's clean now, but this day in particular it was especially disgusting, you think??

Day 72: Snow White

ABC Family showed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Sunday afternoon so we recorded it on the DVR and played it for Emily. It was her first time seeing it and she LOVED it. During the dance at the dwarfs' cottage (in the scene above) Emily grabbed onto the skirt of her dress just liked Snow White and tried to dance like her. So adorable! She loved it!

Day 71: Ears

Peter rototilled the garden area this afternoon while Emily played outside, so of course she required her "ears" because the rototiller is "too youd!" Haha. The garden still needs some more work, especially after all the rain, but it's a nice spot and hopefully we'll have lots of yummy veggies this summer!

Day 70: We're so glad when Daddy comes home..

When Dad gets home from work in the afternoon, the kids immediately attack him! He sits on the couch and they crawl all over him, so excited to see Daddy! Here Noah was showing Dad how big he got today ("soooooo big, Dad!"). Haha!

Day 69: Bugging Buddy

Peter finished building the fence for Buddy's new pen/dog run over the weekend, so now Emily can play freely in the back yard without him knocking her over in his excitement. Emily loves it - and she loves Buddy. Today she was sitting at the fence laughing her head off and throwing "rocks" - little teeny pebbles - at the fence, or rather, at Buddy. She never hits him because her aim is terrible, and I should have stopped her, but she was laughing so hard I couldn't bring myself to tell her not to do it anymore!

Day 68: Oh dang..

This is how today's picture turned out. I guess in my still somewhat drug-induced stupor, I didn't pay attention. Maybe the lens cap was on? Or my hand was in the way? Or the settings COMPLETELY wrong? I don't have a clue what happened on March 9th other than a bit more lying around, starting to feel a little better, and getting sick of the fact that my house looked like a pig-sty. So, pretend that's what you can see here. lol.

Day 67: What to do when you're too sick to do anything?

One of the best things (okay, the only thing) that came out of my being so sick, was that I finally had time to sit down and work on my crocheting! When our crochet group started, we were right in the middle of moving, so I never had time to work on Emily's little dress in between meetings. While I was sick I ended up getting a LOT done - if I wasn't sleeping, and wasn't feeling too dizzy, I was crocheting!

Day 66: Ugh.

Friday afternoon I started to feel the teeniest bit of a sore throat. By Saturday morning I ached all over, had a fever of 102.7, had a burning sore throat, and felt generally horrible. I wasn't much better Sunday. This pic was actually taken on Monday, after my visit to the doctor for some antibiotics for the sinus infection, Tamiflu for the flu symptoms, and some really good cough syrup w/ codeine for the cough that kept me up all night long Sunday night. LOL. It was not good times. I told the dr. that it was the worst I'd felt since I had mastitis! I think I went through three boxes of tissues by myself, and used up one whole bottle of the cough syrup and got a refill of it, and a refill of the antibiotics! It was the worst! I'm glad I even got the camera out, even if it was a day late! lol.

Day 65: Bath Buds

Noah had his first "real bath" with Emily in the tub tonight - no baby tub, no sink, just sitting up splashing with his big sis. Cute! Emily helps "wash" him too - she thinks that's awesome!