What A Crappity Crap Crap Day... Literally

I was on schedule to leave the house 15 minutes after I woke up... grooming, brushing, makeup, dressed. The last thing on my list before I snuck out of the house was to get my coffee. Daisy decided to leave us a number of free gifts in the middle of the night... in the form of diarrhea piles. Great. 7:30AM.  I'm barely functioning and the house smells horrible. So I did the only thing I was capable of doing. I grabbed my coffee, let Daisy out, and left the house. I'm not cleaning up that shit.... literally. Instead, I sent Ryan a text to let him know that Daisy was sick and she was outside. He was going to be pissed... rightly so.

Fast forward to after work. Ryan said Daisy was in our bathroom. I'm hoping and praying that everything was ok. The house didn't smelled bad when I got home, so I go upstairs to let Daisy out. The stench that greeted me when I opened the bathroom door gagged me. Sigh... Not only that, she tracked "wet" prints out of the bathroom on her way down the stairs and out the door. It wasn't pleasant. I cleaned it up w/o throwing up.  Close call, but I did it. What's worse? The mop was nowhere to be found, so I had to play Cinderella and get on my hands and knees to mop the whole damn bathroom with a rag.

The bathroom got cleaned, Daisy got a trip to the vet (we're a couple hundred poorer), Ryan has a thoroughly washed and shampooed dog while he was out riding, and I'm tired.

My in-laws are coming back up in a couple of weeks.  Maybe they'll take Daisy home with them.    

Someone's Walking!!! FINALLY!

After months of crawling and walking on her knees, she finally decided to just get up and start walking this afternoon.  This was right after hanging onto my finger and walking around the stairs for 10 minutes.  I actually think she was trying to get away from me after we changed her diapers cuz she didn't want to put her pants on.  She just got up and walked away. 18 months old. This child is stubborn! I was seriously thinking that she wasn't going to ever walk.  After all, she's amazingly fast on her knees. Months.  On her knees. So long and so fast that there are calluses on her knees. Yay Hannah!  :)  That's my girl!

5 Weeks Away

I left my babies for 5 weeks.  In those 5 weeks...

Hannah -
Learned to crawl.
Says "bao bao" when she wants to be picked up.  Or rather... "bo bo" like how Ryan says it.  :) 
Says "ze ge ze ge ze ge..." repeatedly.
Can pull herself up.
Learned to eat complete solids.  Apparently she loves peas. 
Shakes her head when she doesn't want something.


Alex -
Got to spend 3 weeks with her grandparents down in Georgia. 
Learned how to jump off the side of the pool and blow bubbles in the water. 
Talking so much in English now, although I think she lost some of her Chinese. 
Learned to "try it" when given something new to eat.  

Thanks to Ryan for taking such good care of our girls.  I couldn't have gone away w/o your support.  I love you!

Oh.  And since being back, I've noticed that Hannah has a mischievous streak.  We'll have to watch out for this one. 

Turtle Power?

Current project. It needs to be bigger. Maybe make the green part wider. But I have the concept down and it looks cute!!

10 Month Checkup

Height 27" - 25%
Weight 18lb 12oz - <50%
Head 17" - 75%

Potty Training... It's Bound To Get Messy!

We started potty training yesterday.  After breakfast, Ryan took Alex to the playground and run some errands.  So we didn't start until the afternoon.  Off came the diaper and on went the undies.  I don't like this... at all.  I've been dreading this for months.  Alex loved it.  She got to run around in a shirt and undies all day.  She even went in the potty each time.  It was more fun for her than for me.  She got to unroll tons of toilet paper and "wipe" herself.  "Wipe" in quotes because this really only involves her shoving wads of TP down into the bowl.  She has to lift the seat herself and lift the bowl to dump into the toilet.  No help from Mommy allowed.  Mommy lets her do it while cringing each and every time.  She even got the tapping the bowl on the toilet to dislodge the wet TP at the bottom down.  Of course this just sprinkles pee everywhere on the big toilet.  At least she lets me rinse the bowl out before putting it back into the seat.  We only had 1 accident yesterday and that was poop.  She completely dropped the ball on that one, didn't even let me know that she went in her undies. 

Today... well...  We had a few accidents.  None while she was outside playing with the neighbors.  She even came home with  me half way through to go to the bathroom before returning outside.  First accident involved her just going on the couch.  No warning, just watching TV and the next thing I noticed is the puddle on the couch cushions.  I quickly picked her up and ran to the bathroom... meanwhile leaving a trail of pee on the hardwood and myself.  Damage was done.  We deliberately bought couches where the cushion covers comes off for kids and animals... unfortunately, the back cushion was just completely filled with uncontained batting.  WTH.  I hate that.  I took me 3 garbage bags to hold all the stuffing.  A couple incidents involving poop.  She's getting better at letting me know about poop, but she's letting me know AS IT IS HAPPENING.  And another incident involving pee, but that wasn't too bad. 

We're still using diapers at night.  I'm not even going to tackle that front right now.  Especially since she's still drinking milk before going to bed.  That potty training in 3 days booklet thing suggested that you should wake the kid up an hour after they fall asleep to make them go to the bathroom and again an hour before their usual wake up time.  First of all... WHAT PARENT OF A LITTLE KID WANTS TO WAKE THEIR CHILD UP AFTER THEY GO TO BED AND BEFORE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GET UP?!?!  That's complete BS.  I was all excited about the method until I got to that part.  So until I wean her night time milk, I'm using diapers. 

Alex loves this whole potty training thing a lot more than I do.  I try keeping her in a shirt and undies, but whenever I leave her to her own device for a few minutes, she's running around butt naked.  She loves it.  Oh well. 

And oh.  Potty training one kid, giving a bath to another kid, and having stomach issues myself does not make for a good experience... lol  That was poop incident #2 today. 

Where are mommy and daddy?

Dawn: Where is daddy?
Alex: Daddy is at work.
Dawn: Where is mommy?
Alex: Mommy is sleeping.

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