Needless to say, there is CONSTANTLY something to pick up...or clean up, or put batteries in, or organize, or fix, or replace, etc, etc....having kids = SO...MUCH...WORK...I've decided I'm going to pay my friend to watch them for 8 hours this week just so I can actually get some things done around the house without 5 million interruptions...Things like dusting...perhaps some windexing...cleaning out the closet and the safe room (the safe room isn't really a safe room if it would take 20 minutes to shove everything out of it in order to fit the family in)...there's also the shower...and Chris' bathroom...tons of baby/toddler and preschool clothes that I'd like to go through and organize by size and gender...I have a rubbermaid bin for each of the kids that goes under our bed...I store all of their keepsakes/pictures/drawings/etc in them and for the past 6 months or so have been just keeping piles of stuff to be sorted and put into each of them...I have 15 pictures waiting to be hung on the walls...the pictures are old at this point but whatever...Obviously I won't be getting all of this stuff done but I should be able to make a dent in it...I personally can't figure out where the heck my time is going...aside from the normal keeping the house picked up, doing laundry, wiping butts and making meals...but seriously, in addition to never having time for the blog anymore, I also have about 30 (and counting) magazines to read...about 20 books sitting in a corner AND get this...I finally sat down and looked at the fall lineup of tv shows that NEED to be watched on my part...yeah, I have 20 hours worth each week =) SO, I hate to say it but the cleaning that gets done this Thursday while the kids are gone, is probably going to be the only cleaning that's done for the rest of this year or until the fall tv shows start their reruns mid-winter...cuz if it's Grey's Anatomy or dusting, Grey's is going to win out...along with House and Bones and Castle and Desperate Housewives and Brother's and Sisters, etc, etc, etc...the list is a mile long...and I'm not giving up my shows...after 13+ hours a day of kids, I need something different...the only problem now is getting the children to go back to an 8'oclock bedtime instead of the 10-11 thing we have going on right now...so actually when you consider no one takes a nap but Adler, it's more like 15 hours of kids a day! But they are worth it...
So worth it in fact that I drove all of us to Target in Northfield to get the squinkies gumball playhouse for Ayris' and Asher for Christmas because I called ahead of time and they said they had it and would hold it...so yeah, turns out, they had the miniature version of it...so we all drove 30 minutes to have a hot dog and some nachos. (AND I forgot to get the stupid extension cord so I can start using the treadmill...hello, that was the OTHER thing I was going for!!!) I said I wasn't going to eat out for lunch today but I wasn't going to have our trip be for NOTHING so we ate...and then we got rained on...HARD on the way out to the car. As soon as we walked out the door, there were these teency tinsy sprinkles...I was telling the kids to hurry up so we wouldn't get wet...it was straight up pouring by the time we reached the car (which was all of 20 feet away) and THEN, as if my children's bodies had been set to "slow motion mode", it took them the next 5 minutes to get into the car leaving me totally soaked. I questioned on the ride home if next time, I shouldn't just get in the car first?? Oh the things we do for these little time thieves...Anyway, enough blathering...on to the pictures...
Does he look like me AT ALL??? I can never see it...Chris or myself in any of the kids...
Ayris always manages to take pictures of me that look like I'm trying to eat Adler...poor kid...I'd turn away too if that's what I saw each time!
Couldn't decide...
Which was my favorite...he's just SO stinkin' cute...
And he is wild about his mommy...thank goodness because the other two "I-take-my-mama-for-granted-heathens" are wild about their daddy. I had to fill out this form for Ayris and her school and one of the questions was "What makes you sad"...Ayris responded when her daddy wasn't here...then the second question was "What makes you happy" to which she said "My daddy!....3 second pause..."And you too mom!"...Well, I'm glad I could be an afterthought!
You couldn't see it in this picture but Adler looked really cute...he had his fist shoved in his mouth and just kept gnawing on it the whole time we were at the Apple Orchard...
More pictures from the orchard...
Ayris LOVES school. She's only had one day but she's ready for this day to end so she can go there tomorrow...that's my girl! I always loved when school started up again...
Daddy and Asher in their Made-By-Grandma-Callie hats/scarves...
That's all for now I think...just one last funny thing...there's this song called "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz...Ayris calls it the Lego song:
I throw my hands up in the air sometimes
Sayin' ay-oh, gotta LEGO (supposed to be "let go")
I wanna celebrate and live my life
Sayin' ay-oh, baby LEGO (let's go)
It took me a bit to figure out which song she was talking about but I finally realized. It reminds me of when I was little...maybe her age, there was a song that said "Every time you go away...you take a piece of me...with you"...I always thought it said, "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you"...which obviously is weird...which is probably why I still remember it today...I just looked up the singer online...it's Paul Young...isn't that the name of the creepy neighbor on Desperate Housewives?? =) Can't...wait...for...fall...TV!
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