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My original goal was to paint every wall in this new house by the end of 2013. Over the summer I changed this goal to say I wanted to paint every wall in this house EXCEPT the kitchen, master & currently unused spare room by the end of 2013 as those are going to be bigger projects for us & I want to invest in a few new pieces of furniture for the master before making any decisions.
Well I spent the weekend tackling the living room & finishing up the entry way & I can now say, outside of a coat closet, a linen closet, & a few touch ups, I have officially MET my goal before October! (And I'm still hoping to get those closets freshened up with paint before the year ends.) We have some projects planned to finish up some of these newly painted walls (meaning I have some honey do projects for Jeff to do) & we have to decide what to hang where as these walls have been bare for over a year!! But I'm feeling pretty accomplished!!
Dear child,
Dear child with seasonal allergies & a very strong gag reflex,
Thank you for the "inspiration" to steam clean my entire living room carpet today. While I had a blast at the pumpkin patch, I'm hoping to not have to deep clean my carpet after each trip due to your post nasal drip. However, the living room does now smell quite nice & I am reminded how thankful I am that we invested in a carpet cleaner.
Sincerely,
A mom who had better things to do during nap time today.
Thank you for the "inspiration" to steam clean my entire living room carpet today. While I had a blast at the pumpkin patch, I'm hoping to not have to deep clean my carpet after each trip due to your post nasal drip. However, the living room does now smell quite nice & I am reminded how thankful I am that we invested in a carpet cleaner.
Sincerely,
A mom who had better things to do during nap time today.
Its Pumpkin Patch Season!!
Fall is here & the pumpkin patch is open! Olivia has been asking since July when we could go to the pumpkin patch & today she finally got her wish.
After she came home from school yesterday with a "naughty note" about not wanting to participate to the extent that she flopped to the floor & threw a tantrum, we almost didn't go. But then I remembered how excited 'I' was to go, so we went. And yes, she really threw a tantrum, she admitted to it & said she did it just because she doesn't know how to write the "letter" 2 & didn't want to try. Yikes! Going to have to follow up with Mrs. Starr on that one. That's a far cry from a kid who wouldn't pee at school. We had to have a big talk about it last night & she promises it won't happen again.
But back to the pumpkin patch, oh how we love that place. And love it even more early in the season when there are only like 10 other families in the whole place. I felt like we had the whole place to ourselves! The weather was absolutely perfect. The kids behaved well. Going places with them gets easier, we went with no stroller or wagon, no change of clothes & all I had was a little backpack that held nothing more than 3 water cups, keys, phone, wallet, hand sani wipes & chapstick.
The place is a bit spendy, but we of course bought a pass. We love it there & figure if we go 2-3 times, the pass will pay for itself. There is so much to do & is a great place to get out of the house to so hopefully we get there at least weekly for the next 5 weeks until Halloween.
After she came home from school yesterday with a "naughty note" about not wanting to participate to the extent that she flopped to the floor & threw a tantrum, we almost didn't go. But then I remembered how excited 'I' was to go, so we went. And yes, she really threw a tantrum, she admitted to it & said she did it just because she doesn't know how to write the "letter" 2 & didn't want to try. Yikes! Going to have to follow up with Mrs. Starr on that one. That's a far cry from a kid who wouldn't pee at school. We had to have a big talk about it last night & she promises it won't happen again.
But back to the pumpkin patch, oh how we love that place. And love it even more early in the season when there are only like 10 other families in the whole place. I felt like we had the whole place to ourselves! The weather was absolutely perfect. The kids behaved well. Going places with them gets easier, we went with no stroller or wagon, no change of clothes & all I had was a little backpack that held nothing more than 3 water cups, keys, phone, wallet, hand sani wipes & chapstick.
The place is a bit spendy, but we of course bought a pass. We love it there & figure if we go 2-3 times, the pass will pay for itself. There is so much to do & is a great place to get out of the house to so hopefully we get there at least weekly for the next 5 weeks until Halloween.
Goats walking across the bridge.
Feeding the goats of course.
Checking out the bunnies
Duck races! This is the first year we have done this & they would have stayed there all day!
See... literally had the place to ourselves! It was awesome!
They played HARD!!
My little animals.
Our classic Vala's picture ;)
3 little spiders
Why not buy a pass a come a ton? Why would you go to the park instead of come here?
They figured out how to drive these little race car things this year.
But it took some serious concentration!! Their faces are hillarious!!
Hayden obviously took it pretty serious.
Logan puffs out his cheeks in concentration I guess.
And Olivia had to use her tongue to help her drive :)
Caught her mid-tip-over!
We stayed about 4 hours, snacked on Kettle Corn & headed out before we had to invest in an expensive lunch. What a fun, fun morning!!
Clearly.... they played hard!
Ode to MiraLAX
Dear MiraLAX,
Thank you for saving my sanity.
I think you alone are to credit for finally getting my last child poop potty trained. More than a year after his potty training adventure began, I think its fair to say we have it mastered. After months & months of fights & tears, and bribes & threats, I think we did it. We discovered quickly that a whole cap of MiraLAX daily was too much. But it showed my poop-holding-in-all-day-long child that sometimes you can't hold poop in all day long! After a few dirty undies & a pile or two on the floor, we have settled on a half cap about 4-5 times a week & seem to have found a good balance. Our nightly fights of making said child poop before bed have ended. And the last week has brought about his first ever events of potty pooping on his own accord.
And, as if by magic, poop-less morning & nap time diapers are starting to become DRY morning & nap time diapers as well. MiraLAX has also begun the cascade for him of working towards night potty training.
I never knew I could love a bottle of white powder this much.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
A very thankful mother of three.
Thank you for saving my sanity.
I think you alone are to credit for finally getting my last child poop potty trained. More than a year after his potty training adventure began, I think its fair to say we have it mastered. After months & months of fights & tears, and bribes & threats, I think we did it. We discovered quickly that a whole cap of MiraLAX daily was too much. But it showed my poop-holding-in-all-day-long child that sometimes you can't hold poop in all day long! After a few dirty undies & a pile or two on the floor, we have settled on a half cap about 4-5 times a week & seem to have found a good balance. Our nightly fights of making said child poop before bed have ended. And the last week has brought about his first ever events of potty pooping on his own accord.
And, as if by magic, poop-less morning & nap time diapers are starting to become DRY morning & nap time diapers as well. MiraLAX has also begun the cascade for him of working towards night potty training.
I never knew I could love a bottle of white powder this much.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
A very thankful mother of three.
Sleeping Babies
Posting THIS picture made me think of back in the day, when they were first home & I let them nap together once a day when I could watch them.
Remember those days??
They've sure grown.
Life
What have we been up to?
Not a lot. Getting out to the park a couple of times as the 100 degree August heat has finally gone & we've gotten some cooler fall weather.
Sunday school day 2 is in the books.
I worked, Jeff took the kids by himself & managed to duck out & make them stay on their own, which made it go better for them I think. They came up after Church & brought me lunch at work & I asked them what learned at Sunday School & they said:
"Snakes are turds. They tricked those grown ups into eating that candy."
Um.... close enough??!!
At least they listened.
Not a lot. Getting out to the park a couple of times as the 100 degree August heat has finally gone & we've gotten some cooler fall weather.
Sunday school day 2 is in the books.
I worked, Jeff took the kids by himself & managed to duck out & make them stay on their own, which made it go better for them I think. They came up after Church & brought me lunch at work & I asked them what learned at Sunday School & they said:
"Snakes are turds. They tricked those grown ups into eating that candy."
Um.... close enough??!!
At least they listened.
Grocery shopping at Hyvee for Cotton Candy Grapes. I never knew they existed! SO yummy. The kids & I ate an ENTIRE bag for snack that afternoon!!
P.S. 3 almost 4 year olds with their own carts at the grocery store is not the most awesome idea.
"Mom, can we have a slumber party for nap?" Sometimes being a triplet is awesome! I LOVE their special little bond.
Don't get me wrong... they definitely have their fights, but sometimes I feel like they appreciate each other a little more as of late. I was hoping a daycare split up would have that effect. Maybe its all in my head or just a lucky moment?
That's about it for us right now.
Boys' Closet
The boys' room has been done for quite some time, but yesterday while I was home on call & the kids were at school, I finally knocked out their closet!
First everything came out & the whole thing got a fresh coat of paint. I used the same very pale grey that is in Olivia's room & closet. I forgot to take any before pictures, but you probably wouldn't be able to notice the difference between pale grey & the tan that was there. Really for me it wasn't about color, but to me it feels SOO much cleaner in there freshly painted!! Its a walk in closet & it just needed freshened up.
First everything came out & the whole thing got a fresh coat of paint. I used the same very pale grey that is in Olivia's room & closet. I forgot to take any before pictures, but you probably wouldn't be able to notice the difference between pale grey & the tan that was there. Really for me it wasn't about color, but to me it feels SOO much cleaner in there freshly painted!! Its a walk in closet & it just needed freshened up.
Then I took the same checkerboard duck tape that I have used other places in their room & created an easy peasy border!
Then each side of the closet got a little personalization.
I found these at Walmart by the stencil paint & brushes. Like a paint sharpie. It was awesome!!
Cut out the stencil with my Cricut & just outlined the letters & colored them in.
On the left wall is all storage.
The bottom holds shoes, blankets, toys & the top 2 baskets have extra sheets, pillow cases, lovies, etc. for each of the boys.
The top has pull-ups, overnight diapers, wipes, more blankets & plastic bed liners. All labeled with printed on paper cut out with my Cricut.
A few OLD red baskets were falling apart, so I wrapped them in the duck tape to get a little longer use out of them. The top middle basket is a diaper box done with wrapping paper & mod podge with a pillowcase lining it. And the little middle one is a wipes box, covered with duck tape & a liner sewed from a pillow case.
And just because I found Superman & Batman Duck tape & this saying on Pinterest... I added some superheros into our Transportation theme. "Sometimes being a Brother is even better than being a Superhero!" I will put some pictures of the boys in those frames & have the Superman & Batman tape as a mat.
A new light fixture.
It mimics their ceiling fan. ALL the ceilings in our house will need painted someday, like a million years from now when I have time & $$ for that. Their closet ceiling is splatter painted with green/blue glow in the dark paint & as we put up new light fixtures we have different color rings around all of our lights from the ceilings being painted once up on a time.
The right side is clothes & a few other things. I bought 2 little 3 bin shelves to split up the space for two boys. The top 3 bins are labeled Pull-ups, Hayden Overnights, Logan Overnights. And the bottom 3 are Hayden Swimsuits, Logan Swimusits & Swim diapers (which we didn't use this year). They can all easily be re-labeled & change as they grow.
Shoes.
And banker's boxes labeled & decorated with duck tape to hold too big & too small clothes.
I'd like to find some sort of privacy film on that window eventually, & I have a red valance that I could hang up, maybe? But otherwise it's done! Yay!
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