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We had Kate's 15 month check up today. Little bugger grew an inch over the last three months! But she still doesn't weigh anything. Not even 20lbs yet. How she is so light I do not understand, she eats a ton of food and eats it all day long too! She is getting so big and has such a fun personality. She likes to pray and when she is done she yells "done!" Even in church. She also says no (of course) and bye bye. She likes to turn in circle to make herself dizzy. Apparently this is fun?

Eric's birthday is coming up and what a chore getting his gifts has been. A month ago we decided to get him an mp3 player, but we wanted one with an fm tuner. We found one at Walmart.com and ordered it. They only had it online but we used that free shipping that they offer. When it finally came in they had sent us the wrong one. So then we turned to Circut City since we had lost our trust in Walmart. They have this option to purchase it online and the pick it up at the store. They had one that we liked so we did that. When I went to it on Monday they didn't have it. The internet had been wrong. Thankfully another store in town had it. The sweatshirt we got him was almost as bad. Long story short, I won it on ebay and for some reason the address change did not go through and it was shipped to the old house. Thankfully I was able to get it before the new owner knew it was there. Boy was I lucky that day! So after a lot of stress I finally have his birthday gifts. The things we do for the kiddos. And with that said, I am off to make his cupcakes decorated in the Denver Bronco's colors.

Development of the monkey

In the development of the monkey, climbing is a necessary skill. This particular skill allows the young primate to get to the things that her parents have place high to keep out of her reach. It also aids in the destruction of the pretty things that the mother has carelessly left out. This skill is necessary for the entertainment of the older, more disciplined monkeys. The primate mothers often worry about their young at this stage as the risk for injury is high, but know that their young will master this skill and move on to another necessary life skill.

ramblings of an overworked mommy

This is what I should be doing.

Obviously, this is what I AM doing.

It has been a very busy week. There are many reasons. I am not complaining. I am just trying to relax and let it out. But I am a little frustrated. Being busy makes me cranky. I always try to fit in a little personal time during the week. This week I had a hard time doing that. So this is my personal time. Time to do some thing that I enjoy, something that I have not had much time to do. Here is just a little bit of my week.

• I work 5 days in this pay period (sat- fri). It has been a long time since I have done that. Result... no personal time, a trashed out house, and one CRANKY and TIRED Mom.


• No hubby to help. I would love to have him home more. But he works sooo hard. He leaves each morning at 7:30ish and comes home around 6. He leaves again at 7:30pm and does not come home until midnight. On his night off I work. He offers to help when he is here, but I can't let him. He needs the break.


• District manager and the guy who monitors compliance were in town. I have an issue with the compliance guy. His job it to look at the day-to-day ops of our store and complain that we did not get up to 90% on this, or that. Seriously, get a life. Have you ever worked a real store?


• J (he WAS trying to be helpful) took his shoes upstairs to his bedroom, while leaving a large trail of sand on the stairs. I get to vacuum the stairs.


• Pack meeting tonight.


• I won an auction on eBay. Normally this would be good. Only I thought that I would be outbid and so when I came across the same item at Walmart I bought it. It is for Eric's birthday and so I needed to be prepared. Oh well. I will return the Walmart one.


• I received a recognition today at work for 10 years of faithful service. It will be 11 years in November, but better late then never. But still, a pretty cool thing to get. How many people can say that they have been in a job for 11 years. Never mind that those 11 years equal 1/3 of my life.


• New schedule for me and the kids. Leave work @ 3. Young kids meet me there at work, go pick up the Brown kids (thank goodness for the mini-van), drop off Young's, get Katie, drop off Browns, park a mile from the school, walk to get J with Kate in tow, go home, give snacks, return the million phone calls that I got during the day, start dinner, go get Eric, come home, finish dinner, homework, eat dinner, baths, books, tv, milk, prayer, BED!

Okay, enough rambling. Thank you for listening. I am OFF tomorrow, but I have to get a cavity filled. What a bummer. I am excited for the weekend. The kids and I are going to decorate for Halloween. I love the fall! I will share pictures. Then Saturday night, DATE night with Brandon and some great friends. Hooray for the weekend!

Aren't they sweet?

My kids, loving each other, while watching Sunday morning cartoons.

So cute and fun too!

Thank you Dacia! She shared this great link to a fun website for girls hair. Yesterday I decided to try one on Katie. She was so good for me and sat still while I combed, pulled, and banded back. She looked sooo cute. I love having a girl!

She apparently didn't want her picture taken. I tried to get her to take out her "binkey", but she would throw a fit. Clearly she was tired. Tired, but oh, so cute!

I love her curls. This website also told me about this stuff to put in her hair that will keep the curls intact with out the nasty crusty stuff. I will let you know how that works when I get it. Her hair does curl on its own, but she is always pulling on her piggy tails and so they straighten out. I hope that she out grows that habit because her curls are really pretty.

More fun hair to follow!

"Those kids"

I have been in denial too long. I must face the fact that my boys are "those kids," you know, the ones that act awful during sacrament meeting.

Brandon had a stake commitment yesterday that left me alone at church. I had been debating about skipping sacrament meeting and coming for Primary only. A sanity saver to say the least. But I would say that for me to make a wise decision in favor of my sanity, would be exactly that, wise. So off to sacrament meeting I go ready for battle. I was mostly on time, but not enough to get a bench that would have aided in the defense of Katie. Thankfully she was content with her prison for the first two speakers before I make an exit. As I was blissfully roaming the halls with my sweet toddler, the label was being placed on my boys. THOSE KIDS

Now, in my defense, I have to say that I have tried to teach them the way that they need to act. They know how to be reverent and I have even heard them whisper on occasion. Throwing and hitting are not tolerated in my home, much less outside of it. Apparently what I have failed to teach them is that this good and positive behavior must continue even after parental supervision has ceased.

Thankfully I belong to a wonderful ward who has kindly not said anything to me... yet. I know that they are all thinking it. I have. I remember all of the wards that I have lived in over the years. Every single one of them has them. THOSE KIDS

Simple Pleasures

The stairs in my house have been a source of contention for my daughter and I. She wants to go up and down at her leisure and I want to control her stair-step routine. The biggest fear that I have had is banister. It is quite old and certainly not up to code. Even J can fit through the bars. I am afraid that she will squeeze through them and fall. This week and I took some fabric and weaved it though the rungs of the banister and let her have her fun. And boy, did she have fun. She played on them for hours. I took video of the one activity. I am sorry about the video being sideways. I never thought about turning the camera.