Lets talk about your closet.

Ok, well you don't have to really talk about yours, but I am going to talk about ours. It is a nice size closet. Michael and I have the same amount of space for our clothes.

When I did this rough tally yesterday, there were still two loads of laundry out adding about 7 hangers to Michael's side and 4 to mine.

One side had 127 occupied hangers: rough breakdown
42 T-shirts
10 sweaters
8 sweatshirts
20 pants (jeans and dress)
10-polo type shirts
30 button-up shirts

This does NOT count the 8-12 pairs of shorts, 6+ athletic pants,and pj pants.

The other side had 63 occupied hangers.
13% are bottoms that cannot be worn until more weight is lost.
19% are undershirts that are not worn alone in public.
10% are kept purely for sentimental purposes (think soccer jerseys from mission trip to Brazil, and Eeyore sweatshirts from high school)
So that is approximately 58% left for actual wear, and that selection isn't the best.

So whose is whose? Michael has way more clothes than I do. In his defense, he doesn't get rid of much. Though when he learned I was going to blog about this he did do a small amount of purging. I have had to get rid of many clothes due to the gaining and loosing weight from pregnancies and the NOT loosing the weight from Piper. My MAIN reason in doing this is so I have hard core numbers to put Michael in his place when he tries to join in me in my whining about not having enough clothes. It's not my fault if you wear the same things over and over...you have options. The other reason is to say that I am REALLY excited about our upcoming shopping trip to Canton!!!

Randomness

I'm still here, I just use my phone a lot. I need to get the new keyboard on my laptop, it would make me want to use it more. I also have a few keys on backwards. It doesn't bother me at all, but Michael doesn't like it. You wouldn't think having the M and N switched wouldn't bother someone whose name starts with M, but it does. I don't look to type....apparently he does. What is really funny, he could switch them pretty easy!

I finally have Allisyn enrolled in a MDO!! She start this summer and Piper will join her in the fall! I'm really excited for Allisyn! She wasn't to excited about not getting to stay we enrolled. I have mixed emotions about Piper starting....

Anyone know where to take your vehicle when you have a BOOM! while driving and then your speakers stop working? It was kind of scary at the time....now it's really annoying.

Piper is saying mom! She says "da" too, but we aren't convinced she is meaning dad. We know she means mom, because it's always when she wants me!

I've been really bad about getting to the gym, but I'm really trying to remedy that. I went swimsuit shopping today. Well, this is like the third or fourth time, but I found one today! It covers my bum!! I'm extremely self-conscious so I was pretty happy! Now I have to work up the mind to actually where it in public.

We have been working on Alli sleeping in her own bed. She usually gets put in her bed asleep, and then wakes up about 2 hours later. Our question for everyone out there, HOW do you get them to stay asleep? She very rarely takes a nap and she plays hard so you would think she would crash out and stay asleep, but no.

Piper is growing up way to fast. I really feel like I got jilted out of her babyhood. So far she is keeping it at minimal cruising. She likes the speed of crawling. She is always on the go. A small part of me wishes she would hurry up and learn to walk so I wouldn't have to worry about her falling and hitting her head as much. She loves her big sister and loves when Allisyn plays with her. Allisyn also dotes on Piper and loves to tell everyone she is her baby sister.

Overall, things are pretty good here!

Hello!

Sooo again, I have gotten behind. Shock, shock. In my defense though, my modem kicked the bucket last week and I had to have it replaced. So I just got caught up on a lot the blogs I read. So what's going on the the land of us?

Piper is seriously growing up way too fast. I cannot leave a room without the fear that she is going to climb up on something and fall. Today...we had four falls, luckily no shiners or bumps have appeared. Just a very upset baby and worn out momma. I almost wish she would just hurry up and start walking so I don't have to worry so much. It is a lot of work trying to laundry with her right there because there is a litter box in the laundry room, and what do you think calls her attention? I already have one child who has trouble resisting the box of poo, I don't need two!

Allisyn's favorite thing to do right now is to disagree with us. Sometimes it leads to arguments. Not fun. She doesn't like being told no, and thinks she has the right to tell us not to tell her no! HaHaHa, when do they learn we really know what we are talking about and that we tell them no for good reasons? Ooooh, right....never.

Not sure if I have posted this here or not, but Allisyn is officially in big girl panties all the time during the day!! Now if her daddy could just hold his ground and not give into late milk requests we could work on giving up the night time pull-ups.

The sleeping in her bed thing has not been going very well either. She has ONE more sticker until she gets her prize, but come bed time...she doesn't want it anymore. Convenient.

We went home for Easter last weekend. We got to see a lot of my family and swung by Michael's grandma's birthday party. The girl's got a load of junk..ummm, I mean stuff. Like they really need more stuff, but they had fun which is what really matters.

And now, I must get off my duff and put to good use this time I have alone! Michael has the girls at the mall, and I need to do some cleaning. Though I do have a Starbucks gift card burning a whole in my pocket.....

Pictures!!

Happy Girls!

Piper liked the bows!

A lot!!
I want to hold her!!

NOOOOO!!!!

Thankfully, this doesn't happen too often. They are heavy!

Allisyn wanted to read my book...and loose my place.

We could not convince her it was upside down. Made for a funnier picture anyway.

I know I often complain about our fur babies...especially when they insist on hacking up in the girls' rooms, but we really do very tolerant animals.

Lily seems to be convinced that she and Piper are best buddies most days!

Evidence that dual napping does occasionally happen. Yes, Piper does have a handful of Allisyn's hair.

We have the crib at the lowest setting, and her head still comes up over the side!

It is not common practice that Allisyn be in Piper's crib, but we thought for picture's sake it would be fun.

This how I often spend my mornings. Except usually Piper is nursing. We couldn't really share that though.

Our family really likes Incredible Pizza. Not because of the food, but it does fun times of play. The seat belt is broken on this ride so Miss Piper is standing up. Good thing Daddy can be right there

Sickness has left us!

YAY!! To answer a question from Megan, Alli has had gastroenteritis twice now. There have been a few times we were afraid she was getting it, but thankfully, she has only had it twice. One thing we were afraid of, was how this would affect potty training. It has had no affect at all! Allisyn even wore big girl panties to church tonight!

A tip for those who ever encounter the type of diaper rash that leaves your baby's bum raw, try Maalox. Do NOT try to go cheap and get a generic brand because it is watered down. The real stuff is thicker and covers better. Top it off with some aquaphor, generic is fine, and it does wonders. Even if it does take two adults practically sitting on the child to get it applied, but we don't know about that part first hand. I wish.

We were actually able to get out for a much needed play date on Friday and a birthday party on Saturday. I even made to church with both girls by myself this morning! Somedays, I wonder why I bother. Especially when Allisyn has to go potty 3 times during worship. I got lucky that both girls were asleep when we got home that I actually had some time to myself! Not too much, but it was nice.

Miss Piper is continuing to grow up way too fast. She has let go a few times after pulling up. Thankfully, it always been on soft-landing areas. She thinks she can eat whatever anyone else is eating and lets you know she is mad if you don't share! She has such a precious laugh and it is great to see her and Alli laugh at some inside joke! Right now I'm letting her shred a napkin because it is keeping her off my laptop. As I was typing that last sentence she started trying to eat said napkin. Since I took it away, she is now trying to get the laptop...which means this blog is done!!

Sickness

has taken over. Well, we are praying that today is not another fluke and it is on its way out. Allisyn got a stomach bug that turned into gastroenteritis. This included extreme stomach cramping followed by poop explosions. No really, explosions. Do you have any idea what it does to the spirit of a little girl who just conquered potty training to have a blowout? It's horrible. Add that to a horribly raw bum and we have had a horrible time.


So what does mom do when ordered out of the house by dad? She goes shopping for things to make a little girl feel better. We have done a lot of painting and gluing and building of blocks last night and today to try to take away from the the horribleness of it all. So now we are hoping it is really gone and that Piper isn't getting it. Her last few diapers have not given us hope.

Well this was going to be longer but mommyhood call via the whining of a miss Piper.

Hey Chandra.....

Yes, I'm still here. It's just hard for me to get on to blog because both laptops are down. Mine still has the jacked up keyboard, thanks to Alli and the Michael's power cord fritzed out us. It was actually smoking and burned me before we stopped using it. We tried to get a universal power cord, but it didn't work so we took it back. Then Michael got the bright idea to try to solder it back together....it didn't work either. So now, I have to come all the way upstairs and use the desktop if I want to blog....terrible I know.

Sooo, what's been going on here? Potty training is going GREAT!! We had a really bad day last Thursday...actually everything about that day was terrible, and since then we've had only had a few accidents. Most of those on the day and the day after Alli got sick. I'm very proud of her.

That horrible Thursday was also the day that I knocked over almost an entire can of paint on our hardwood floors. Thankfully, most of it came up. The exception being the stuff in the cracks. It was bad, I was covered in paint, the 2 girl cats got their tails in it and got in on the couch....that hasn't came out.

Piper is still growing leaps and bounds. She is in the beginning stages of pulling herself up. I think she might start walking earlier than Allisyn did, I'm not sure I'm ready for that. Allisyn is a WONDERFUL big sister and helps Piper get things and watches her for me when I need to get stuff done. Piper is under the impression that she can eat anything so you have to be very careful while eating around her or she will do such things like steal french fries off your plate.

Today the first of 9 days off for Michael! He is taking some vacation time. Today and tomorrow his dad and brother Steve are here helping start the assembly of the girls' new play set. The SKY FORT is it's name. The ran into a big snafu right off when they were missing one of the biggest base boards. They are improvising with a piece from Home Depot until we can get it replaced.

Yesterday we got a wonderful visit from Katy. She was here from Spring Sing at OC and spent a good part of the day with us! The girls absolutely adore her and were happy to get to spend some time with her.

Other random tidbits.... I joined a Bunco group! We had our first official Bunco night last night, it was sooo much fun!! I will definitely be looking forward to it every month!

***BREAKING NEWS**** Piper just pulled her self all the way up on my computer chair!! Now she is in my lap to grab Puck who is sitting on the desk.

I'm sure there is other stuff but it is really hard to type with a squirmy baby in my lap.....