A conversation

A conversation related to me by Charles.

[Charles farts]
Laney: Daddy fart! I'll check.
[Laney reaches over, pulls his pants away from his butt and has a good peak inside]
Laney: Daddy poo poo!
Charles: No, I'm not!

A week in brief

I've been slacking on my posting this week. I wrote a post earlier but decided it was negative and bitter so it didn't get posted. It was a long week, what can I say.
Charles was gone until late Thursday night and it was a tough week. Saturday I worked on painting again and am almost finished. We've been waiting to paint until Laney goes down for a nap since toddlers and paint mix too well. I'm really liking the color. Friday night I went out for a mom's night out and we had a great time. I really like my Tuesday mom's group. They are all really nice people without being so saccharine sweet that it makes my face ache. Super sweet people make me wonder if a) they are really that nice or just pretending and b) if they aren't pretending if I'm just a total piece of crap because I'm not that nice all the time.
Anyhow, we had sushi and a lot of fun. Wednesday I went out for dinner with my sorority and took the kids. It was somewhat funny because my friend Kathy came out to help haul the kids in and the waitress asked if we wanted to add another table for when the other moms got there. Ha ha.

Regarding the tough week issue, suffice it to say that most of the time I put on a brave face and sort of "fake it til I make it" but sometimes having three children under age 2 is really hard and I just can't pretend otherwise.

Pee pee where it shouldn't be

I should change the name of my blog to something related to bodily fluids and their distribution. I know that many of my posts relate to pee or poo, but hey that is my life. Deal with it. You at least only have to read about it, I have to clean it up.
This morning Kenna's diaper leaked on my side of the bed. I got Laney up and found her in a pool of her own (stupid princess pull ups). During nap time, Laney decided that her pull up was too wet and needed to be removed. I don't know if she removed it before or after wetting her bed a second time, but I found her dancing naked after a too short nap. She soaked her pull up again right before bath time and sat on me all soggy.
It was just one of those days. Laney spent too much time watching videos, but I was tired. Griffin was grouchy today. He didn't really take an afternoon nap like he normally does and just cried on and off. By dinner everyone was unhappy and they all three sat around me and cried. It was just awesome, let me tell you. They all finally settled down, but when I went upstairs to give Laney a bath Griffin started howling again. That boy gets seriously mad. He turns red and just yells. It's a good thing that he's really cute. Everyone went to bed pretty easy though so I decided to clean my oven after the massive chicken leakage problem Friday night (can't remember if I mentioned this but I roasted a chicken in a pan with a hole in it and didn't figure out what the problem was until 3/4 of the way done. Very smokey). I haven't cleaned my oven before, but it started billowing smoke from all the grease burned in the bottom. So I called my mother. I'm still airing things out. It was eye watering to say the least. Now I'm going to go to bed in my pee peed bed.

Weekend warriors

Charles highjacked my laptop over the weekend and I was too tired to go up and use the other one. So here's a quick recap of the weekend:
Went to Tucson moms Fall festival on Saturday. It was majorly windy, but it was still relatively fun. We met Talia's husband for the first time and he and Charles seemed to get along. Talia's husband just got back from Iraq, where he is a security guard. He's a former Marine, so he and Charles had something to talk about. Laney ate her first cotton candy and the twins took in the scenery. Laney also bounced in the jumping castle and literally bounced out of it! The cover for the entrance was not particularly tight and she popped right out and on to the ground. She was fine, but quite suprised. The festival was from 1 to 4, so Laney didn't get a nap. We went from there over to Debbie's to check out her new house paint job--it looks great! I'm not looking forward to having ours done. Guess I should start saving now. From there we went to Pinnacle Peak for a dinner out with other moms from my Tuesday group. To say that Laney was not her normal sweet self is something of an understatement. There was food throwing, crying fits, and general mayhem. At one point she bit me on the arm for taking the dish of beans away from her and I smacked her face. So yes, I publicly abuse my daughter and I know I'm not supposed to hit in response to biting but I still have a massive ding on my chest where she bit me the other night and I reacted before I thought about it. The twins were both fussy too and cried for a good portion of the dinner. I think both Charles and I just couldn't wait to get out of there. Lesson learned. One thing a day. Skip naps at your own peril.
Sunday we got up bright and early to paint our family room and kitchen. I can't believe how different it looks. We painted the end wall, hall, and under the kitchen cabinets a darker shade of tan. The tv wall and eventually the rest of the family room walls and kitchen is a lighter golden tan. The room really changed in the way it feels and the darker shade seems to make it less long (it's very rectangular for those who haven't seen it). I like it even though the room is a little darker. It really makes the granite pop and warms the space up considerably. Hopefully it will hide kid dirt too ;-) I did most of the painting while Charles took care of the kids, then we painted together while Laney was napping. I was totally beat by last night.

Park Day

We stayed home for the last couple days, so were more than ready to bust out and get some park on. It was a good day at the park. We went to Arthur Pack, a new park, and really liked it. I meant to bring my camera but didn't. There were so many really great potential pictures too. The kids discovered big kid swings and were draping themselves over the seat and swaying back and forth and playing in the sand. It was really cute, though Laney did slip headfirst off the swing into the dirt in a sort of slow-mo slump and when she looked up the swing came back and smacked her right in the forehead. She was ok though (she's tough).
We went to Wendy's for lunch with Richelle and Ella and Tara and Cameron. The twins just crashed out and Laney did such a good job at the restaurant. She's getting so big. I just can't believe it sometimes.

Gettin' Organized

I've been busily tidying. I'm not sure what is prompting the urge to purge and cleanse, but it's very strong. I think I'm having some post twin pregnancy thing--I couldn't do anything during the last of the pregnancy with the babies so now I'm making up for lost nesting time or something. Or maybe I just feel the urge to bring more order to a potentially chaotic life. I don't know. But I do love the feeling of doing a thorough cleaning with everything all neat and tidy. Honestly, it's been a while coming. There have been pockets of major mess in my house for a while. I couldn't clean for quite a while and had lots of "help" so nothing was where it was supposed to be. It seems sometimes that if a few things start getting out of place, everything rapidly goes downhill.
I'm ready for someone to develop a brilliant means of organizing baby bottle and sippy cup stuff. It just goes out of control. I've organized the pantry and a few other kitchen cabinets and the laundry room. Now I need to do the garage, which is stuffed to the rafters with Goodwill stuff etc.

Cleaning Help

Happy birthday to my niece Colleen! She was born at 11 on the 11th day of the 11th month--the same time and date that the armistice agreement to end WWI was signed.
We did playgroup at Jamie's today and had a great time. Laney was so good and the twins were in fine spirits. I was trying to get everyone out the door this morning and was nursing a twin when I noticed that Laney was running around with my decorative hand towel from the bathroom. Then a few minutes later she ran into the family room with it and started rubbing the coffee table. She said "I cleaning" and just looked proud as could be. That is when I noticed that the towel was wet. She cleaned my house with toilet water.