10 Hours

I have been begging the kids to clean up the playroom for 10 days.

"No dessert until the playroom is clean!"

"No friends over until the playroom is clean!"

"Flu shots everyday until the playroom is clean!"

Then the last three days have been more like this:
"I just need to vacuum! Throw everything behind the couch so I can vacuum the floor!"

Today, with my trusty husband backup, I put my foot down...right on a piece of popcorn.
"Don't leave this playroom until everything is put away!!!"

(There may have been some screaming involved.)

(From most parties involved.)

So they started this morning at 8:30. Around 11:45, they decided the best course of action was to dump all of the toys out of the totes onto the floor. At 2 pm I gave them a 20 minute lunch break, then back to "work." At 6 pm, hubby and I went down with big, black garbage bags and sent all the kids to their rooms. (An idea he'd suggested at 1 pm.) By 6:20 pm, every toy was picked up and the floor was vacuumed and the playroom door was locked.

Then we sent them outside to pick up the outside toys so Hubby could mow the grass. Each one of them (separately) came back in to tell me that I hadn't taken away all of their toys: "We still have toys outside!"

We didn't, however, tell them that their toys did not actually go in the garbage. But we sure did let them assume.

Super Reader

We love the library. We go, without fail, at least every three weeks. Mostly for this guy. He picks all different types of books. Most of the ones he picks are chapter books now. This time he got a nonfiction Space book with hardly any pictures...and was super excited about it. But the cutest part of it was how he took all of "his" books and sat on my bed reading them. He had every single book open. He would read a bit from one, put it down opened to his spot and start another one.

A Little Early?

Isn't it a bit early for going goth?

On the other hand...thank goodness for washable markers that are really washable.

Sleeping In

Hubby gets up early for work. Like butt-crack of dawn early. He leaves the house at 5:30 am. But he gets up before then...you know if he wants to get ready or eat breakfast or anything. He usually gets out of bed around 5:15...which gives him time to look through Mount Washmore for clothes, brush his teeth and get out the door. So Saturday is his only day to sleep in. I generously let him sleep until the kids wake up.

Today he got to sleep in for a whole hour until the 6 am potty party the kids have every morning turned into a party in my bed wherein they all kicked me out.

I guess I did have to get up and pump anyway but seriously! If my baby is sleeping, should I be able to sleep?!

Forget It

ET came home from school yesterday without his lunchbox, his homework, papers from his teacher to me that I specifically told him to bring home, and anything else he could have possibly forgotten. Of course I didn't find out about all of the stuff at the same time so I stayed frustrated with him for most of the evening.

He did remember his scooter and his sister, so I guess I can't be too mad at him.

The Final First

Today marked the last time I will feed one of my babies their first bite of rice cereal.
And again and again with the same bite about 50 times.

4 Months

Weight: 14 pounds (61%)
Height: 24.75 inches (71%)
Head: 16.3 inches (64%)

I love my pediatrician--well, she's not really a pediatrician she is a Nurse something but we love her.

We had another first today. ET was the first in everything but things were pretty routine with him when he was a baby. He was our first experience with RSV. Thumbelina was our first experience with an inhaler and spacer at 6 months. Munchkin has had a lot of firsts. First neck yeast infection. First bum strep infection. First pneumonia. But Squirt had a first today. Squirt has ringworm on her arm.

Learn something new everyday.

Tomorrow I would like to learn that hot fudge sauce is a natural remedy for everything