Mischievous Girls...

So last week, the girls were suppose to be having quiet time. So, I, of course, put a movie on for them and went downstairs to eat lunch and watch a DVRed show of mine. About 30 minutes into the movie, I hear something upstairs so I go up and find Madelyn with a bottle of lotion making little piles everywhere...on a book of mine, a craft project, a few on the floor...you get the picture. I was on the phone with my mom and she says, "oh I can just see Madelyn's pouty face." I tell her, actually she is smiling at me and doing her little mischievous laugh. She so does not care if she gets in trouble. So, I put her back in the playroom to watch the movie. Another 20 minutes pass and I hear Alyse at the stairs calling my name and something about Madelyn's hair. I start walking upstairs and see scissors in her hands and about freak out. I got to the bathroom and see hair everywhere...luckily Alyse doesn't know how to use the scissors very well or I could have two very ugly haircuts on my girls! I again, go downstairs, determined to have my quiet time...the girls go into the playroom to finish their movie and 5-10 minutes later I hear Alyse at the stairs again talking about cleaning Madelyn up. I race upstairs to find Madelyn naked in the bathroom with about 20 tissues in the trash can with pooped on them. Alyse proceeds to tell me that Madelyn took her poopy diaper off and accidentally stepped in (not likely, since Madelyn usually does things on purpose and thinks it is funny) and she was trying to help me clean her up. She also told me the diaper was in the playroom, but not to worry, she folded it in half, so Madelyn wouldn't step in it again! So, I threw both girl in the bath and they had a great time! I know this means I should start potty training Madelyn...she takes her diaper off often, but it's the thing I hate most about parenting and I really don't know how to train properly....so we have 2 more "packs" of diapers left and then we're going to give it a go!

Luckily that day happened to be a nice one and we left the house for a while before anymore incidents occurred...Annie got off the bus and Kurt got home early so we stayed outside to play. These are the first pictures I have of Annie riding her bike. She finally figured it out about a month or so ago...it's been a big challenge for us. She's so afraid of falling, but for whatever reason, it finally clicked....YEAH!!! She loves it too and can start and stop herself and turn herself around. The first time I let go of her and ran next to her she was just giggling and let out little screams of excitement...it was so fun to be there!!! Alyse, of course dressed herself again and tells me she just likes to be silly and Madelyn always has to put on all the protective gear...not sure why?

Vacation Mode

I am having the hardest time getting back into the swing of things. When I wake up in the morning and get Annie off to school, I just want to crawl back into bed with my other two kiddos and go to sleep or read a book (pretty much just be lazy) while they watch TV. However, I have only done this once in the past two weeks despite my desires to do it every day. I hate coming back from vacation for this reason. My kids have adjusted fine, which is nice and makes it easy for me.

A few things have been going on...
One of my friends is doing a picture a day thingy and it sounded like a great idea. So one of my goals this year is to do just that and take at least one picture a day and at the end of the year I'll make a photo album of all my pictures and hopefully it will represent the year well. For instance, I took a picture of Kurt folding the laundry the other night. I want to try and capture my everyday life as best I can...if only I was a good photography it would be even more fun!

I also am in the process of making my past blog posts (about a year and a half) into a book and will then delete them from here. So far I am loving it and it looks great on the computer. I should have it ordered next week sometime. It is taking me forever though. Annie had school canceled today for cold weather (felt like -4 this morning). So it was a perfect day to work on it, since she kept the girls occupied without any fights...amazing! I really do have good girls and they are growing up so fast. I have to remember to be kind and patient with them because I don't want to look back and wonder why I tried to make them "grow up" so fast.

Here's a few of my latest pictures from being back home...of course one of Alyse dressing herself to go to Annie's haircut and looking stylish as ever (today she had on a pink long sleeve shirt with her Halloween shirt on top and orange biker shorts...classic). I finally talked Annie into getting her haircut, in hopes that we wouldn't have so many tangles to comb out in the morning...I love her hair a little shorter like it is now!
There's one more picture of Annie coming off the bus after school and I love it...I can hear the bus when it stops the one stop before Annie's and that's when I go outside and everyday she comes running to me and I pick her up and give her a huge hug...I love it and usually her sisters follow after me without much clothing or shoes on!