So Baby Girl has been smiling ALOT for several days now. It's so cute to look down while she's nursing, and she stops and looks back up at me and gives me the biggest grin. So cute. She was in a particularly smiley mood today, but by the time I got my camera, the mood had been replaced by the hiccups and hasn't quite made it back yet. That elusive smile. When she smiles, she looks just like her big sisters.
Even if I'd gotten that picture that I've been trying to get, I wouldn't have gotten it uploaded.
While I was tending the other children today E made some mischief. Mischief is her middle name, but this one was a new one for her. I came into the living room to find her jumping around on the couch naked from the waist down. When she saw me she shrieked hysterically and climbed down from the couch and started her usual 'run away from mom because it's funny'. I found her pants and underwear in a pile in the bathroom. I thought maybe there was a potty-break-thru and she'd taken herself to the potty, and either not bothered to put her pants back on, or that she hadn't made it to the potty, but took off her wet clothes. Well her clothes were wet. And that's not all they were.
Luckily is wasn't the super-messy kind, but by the time I got ahold of her, her hind-quarters were pretty yucky. And I washed all the things in from the couch in the washer that I could, and sprayed the rest with Lysol and she got a semi-bath.
Later in the day, while Baby napped, we went outside to play. I had to come back in for something and it wasn't soon before E came running in the house, with sand allover her, in her eyes, you name it. SO she got another bath. And let me tell you, flushing a screaming 2 year olds eyes with running water is much easier said than done.
So she took another nap. While she was napping, and I was looking forward to getting alot of schoolwork accomplished with my oldest, my sisters dog started going nuts in my front yard. We go outside to find that she'd treed a critter that I first thought was raccoon but turned out to be a cat. And the dog was not letting the cat get away. And her barking attracted the attention of the neighbors dog. So K and I chained up my sisters dog. And 10 minutes later had lured the neighbors dog (no collar) into our dog's kennel. Then K wanted to stand there and watch the cat, who didn't want to move with her pacing under the tree now.
I finally convinced her to leave it alone. So 10 min. later she couldn't stand the suspense and went back to check and the cat was gone by now- she was kinda disapointed she wanted to keep it. So then we let the dogs loose again, and she kept making remarks all afternoon about the dogs 'enjoying the cat as a tasty treat'. Perhaps.
On my original list of things that I really needed to get done today was giving one of our dogs, Shadow a bath before her upcoming vet visit. Ofcourse today was the day that both of our dogs were MIA all day long. So as the sun was setting, they came home, and we managed to get both dogs mostly washed..(We'd had the wading pool out for a few days for the water to warm up).
I'm sure both black dogs will be yellow with pollen by tomorrow again, but at least we tried.
So we finally get in, and we all get cleaned up, and since we've been opening windows, we've seen a few ants, so we've been pretty diligent about vacuuming at least once a day. So while K is vacuuming while I'm still running around like a chicken with my head cut off, she sucks E's 'silky' up the vacuum's hose. ('Silky' is her lovey. It was actually mine a child. My mom butchered a few of her 'silky' gowns for me. I had at least 3 silkys. A pair and a spare, LOL. We're down to one...)
I was able to disconnect the hose, but it was ofcourse lodged just out of my grasp, so I got the meter stick and was able to poke it out, but not before 'Silky' picked up some splinters and a lot of crud. So I picked the splinters out and washed it by hand and thru it in the dryer, where it is now.
I start out with a To Do list and it grows everytime I turn around. But life is what keeps you from getting the To Do list done. I did get both dogs cleaned. And I spent time outside with the kids today. E learned that poop isn't fun to wear and so on. My husband called in the middle of me trying to rescue 'Silky' and wanted me to look up an address on Google Maps for him, which had me sitting down at the computer.
I started brushing me teeth for the first time today, about an hour ago and had to go break up a fight or wipe some tears or something. I can't remember. But I wouldn't have it any other way. My life is crazy and hectic and I never get anything done. I had to read the answer key in the back of K's grammar book the other night at 1 am b/c my poor brain couldn't diagram a sentence.
And I'll get up and do it allover again tomorrow.....
