Spring Cleaning, 3

Changed course.  Too nice to be inside. 
Swept van -side of garage and de-pooped the backyard.  Finally removed all melted snow water from cover of sandbox!  Is it Spring yet?

Spring Cleaning, 2

Two more bathrooms scrubbed down, and crossed off the list.  I threw away a ton of stuff, anyone need Dayquill that expired in 2002?

Spring Cleaning

It needs to be done.  Rob thinks I am crazy, maybe I am... I feel the need to wipe down the baseboards and the wall behind Dallas's seat at the table.  I don't know if I will clean the windows, that has backfired on me in the past, as there are some windows I can't get open or get to the pane, which then makes them look really dirty in comparison to the windows I was able to clean. 
I have decided to go room by room.  I also want to touch up some paint.  With all the car ramming that has taken place around the house the last two years, the white woodwork and some of the corners of the walls need a face lift.  The paint I am planning for the end, and will happen by paint color not by room. 

I already have the downstairs bath polished up.  I think I will move upstairs.  No point in tackling the downstairs while we are dog sitting and the kids are up.  Eight rooms to go!  Shall I get really go hung-ho and declutter and make a garage sale pile at the same time? 

I think I know....

Hoping the reason for the bottle strike on Sunday is due to the fact that I feel two TEETH in her mouth. My little 6 month baby has her two bottom teeth coming in. I have not been able to get her mouth pried open in a way so I could actually look to see if they are visible. I feel them clearly, and can tell there is two of them.

Lets hope she is not suffering much, and will try the bottle again later. Like I said, I like to go see a movie and have dinner out now and again. Love spending time with Robert! I don't want to have to butter up our "Aunties" to much.

being weekend foodies

The kids first Shamrock Shakes. Think they like them?

They are a lot bigger and prettier in 2011, they come with whipped topping and a cherry. We clearly over ordered. Rob and I remembered them as kids being about 6 oz, no real reason we needed four. They are still in the freezer, each of them a little less full!

Donut Saturday. We have created a little habit of visiting Dutch Oven Bakery Saturday Mornings. It started a couple weeks ago, Rob and I have our cheat day on Sat. and donuts sounded good. Now the kids like to go and help pick them up. Usually it is a dozen holes brought home. We went to eat there this Sat. while Rob was in New Mexico. They both picked a cake sprinkle donut, and I brought cups so they could split a chocolate milk. Best $2.10 I spent on Saturday! We sat and watched the trains and the birds. After the bakery we went to Riemen Gardens to watch ants and butterflies.

And Noelle, she doesn't eat the oatmeal, but she stole the spoon! Guess it is just milk for her.

Six Months Young

My little Noelle is now six months old. We let her nosh on some oatmeal. She opened wide, let us pop in the spoon, she swooshed around the cereal, and then pushed it out with her tongue. I now find it funny when the Dr. says try some cereal it might fill her up and help her sleep longer. Ha Ha, three tiny, baby spoonfuls of oatmeal, that did not get consumed did not help my baby sleep longer. He might have tricked me with my first kid, but not my third.
We go for a well visit on Friday, so I will have her half year stats then.
She doesn't really care to do much physical stuff besides standing, she loves to stand. I bet she has only rolled from her belly to her back 10-15 times total. She has yet to roll from her back to her belly. Noelle does love to stand on my lap and bounce in the jumperoo. She only tolerates laying in the playmat for a short time. We have stopped swaddling her, which means she has stopped sleeping, lets hope this only continues one more day, she'll sleep eventually, is what common sense tells me...
Noelle loves to watch her brother and sister, and dog. She smiles constantly and screaming (happy and sad/mad) is her main form of communication. My only complaint is she went on a bottle strike Sunday for Grandma while we were gone for six hours. I hope it is short lived, because I like going on dates with my sweetest, and it will be hard to keep convincing these relatives to come watch my kids if they don't eat and fuss instead.

dreaming.

I was looking at some friends pictures on the internet today of their recent trip sans kids to St. Lucia. It looked wonderful, they looked wonderful. I can't wait to look well rested again! I don't know if Rob has, but I have been giving some thought of a vacation. We have the big 10 yr anniversary coming up, and I would like to get the heck out of dodge, and leave responsibility in Iowa! Realistically though it would be easier on me (the one who would have to pump on vacation) and on the little one who gets her meals from me, to not go in May. I guess we will think about something next winter. We will be vacationing with the family in November, so something in the fall would probably be a stretch to our time and wallet.
I have never been somewhere warm in the winter. I am dreaming of wearing sundresses, sandals, pretty toenails, not wiping faces or butts, or making dinner (and cleanup!)

-I feel better, needed to get that out of my system... you as my audience can be thinking of places for me to go, and who wants three little kids