"cinderella, cinderella, night and day it's cinderella"

geez, now i realize why on some days i just give up trying to accomplish anything before half the day is over. 

this morning daniel woke up at 7 wanting to nurse...and kathryn woke up at 8, so i finally kick myself out of bed to make breakfast...but daniel, with his really bad ear infection, only wants to be held, and so putting him down for even a second is like murdering him...(which i figured out is the cause of all of my horribly painful back problems) 

so since it is cold, i figure, lets make oatmeal...get in the kitchen with daniel in one arm, getting the bowls out, only to realize kathryn is going for the oatmeal container, but it somehow slips, and crash, a nice mess to clean up. ok, not bad, it's dry, just sweep it up....so i put daniel down, ugggh screams ringing in my ears, i clean it up while taking a deep breath...

ok, so pick daniel back up, get back to the oatmeal, i get it all preped for the microwave, give daniel a piece of bread, put him down to get the bowls to the microwave, turn it on, turn around, and daniel has crawled over to the highchair where kathryn has just placed her juice (he is just tall enough to reach) and grabs her cup (not sippy cup) and turns it over...all over him. 

so do i give him a bath or just change his clothes wipe him down and fill my own growling tummy...

yeah, skip the bath, struggle with daniel to get his clothes off, wipe him down, battle with him to get clothes back on, and at this point trying to calm kathryn down who is now screaming for more juice...deep breath...."JUICE JUICE JUICE MAMA!!!" aaaaagh, "i just want to finish the oatmeal!!! is that too much to ask!!!" 

ok, so now i get to eat my oatmeal, and only hope the rest of my day doesn't go this way. 

i've still got to do the dishes and the laundry, and clean the kitchen, vacuum the floor (for remaining oatmeal), mop the floor (all the juice will get sticky) and possibly make dinner too?? i feel like cinderella. couldn't possibly be because that is the movie of choice kathryn decided to play 4 times already this morning.  =) ::sigh::

but i would like to say thank you to my wonderful husband who watched the kids and put them to bed so i could run off to foxy's last night and sit in their hot tub to loosen up the muscles and pain in my back. it helped so much, i feel much better, so thank you  johnathan!

getting to be a kid again

so, my in-laws let everyone open gifts yesterday, because that was the only day that everyone was going to be able to get together before christmas... (thanks to retail) and kathryn got a nice 5 pack train set (geotrax) and so, after sorting through everything, i decided to get it out and put it together, after putting together the other new train set at the in-laws house yesterday (trackmaster train set). i just had so much fun doing both, and realized obviously because of the lack of money my mom had, we never got things like this (except legos and barbies) but i have always like the "boy" toys better. hehe. so i got to be a kid again and play with the flippin sweet train sets with kathryn and daniel too. he liked to look at them. so check out all the fun we had!

daniel is growing up too fast!

so just last week, out of the blue, daniel started crawling all the time, getting everywhere super quick. and a day later, he started pulling up to a kneel on things like chairs, my legs, and whatever else. yesterday he started pulling himself up to a stand, and today he pulled himself up on an empty rubbermaid container, and leaned forward, and it started moving across the tile floor (it was empty) and he was walking with it! then he let go and stood up by himself for a second before grabbing back on!! he's only 6 1/2 months!!! this is crazy talk! i can hardly believe what i'm seeing. my little baby boy is growing up. but he sure loves his mommy and loves to cuddle and eat my feet...yeah, it's his way of telling me he wants to be picked up. 

and kathryn's new thing is "i'm fine" do you want a sandwich? "i'm fine" do you want to take a bath "i'm fine" do you want some water "i'm fine" do you want some candy "i'm fine...oo, candy candy, please" it's pretty funny. it's her getting a bit of an attitude i guess.

Audio Books

hmmm...i have recently been listening to the Book of Mormon on audio, and wow! i love it! most of the time i follow along, but i can see why people love audio books! i know Aaron Saxon has a few audio books, and i may see if he's got twilight...heh heh. it is a wonderful way for people to "read" books, who either read slowly, or don't like to read. 

Twilight.

well, somehow i was lucky enough to be included in the mix of a group that got to see the movie Twilight tonight, 2 days before it's release. funny thing is, i haven't even read the books, so i don't even know what the hype was about! i just figured, nice treat for me to see a free movie...so let me just tell you...i'm going to be looking to purchase these books, because i have to read them now! i hate when movies have an open ending right after they've hooked you in. it was a great movie, but i really want to read the books because i know books are always better than the movie. so that's that. i may see if john wants to watch it with me soon... anyhow. thanks Holly for thinking of me and inviting me!!! and thanks to Jamie for giving me a ride! you guys are awesome!

what a difference

"what a difference a day makes, 24 little hours brought the sun and the flowers, where there used to be rain" (lyrics of a song, that played on a scrubs episode)

yeah, i just kept thinking of that song all day. and the episode i heard it on. but needless to say, my crazy day yesterday, was flipped around, and i got a nice decent kathryn and daniel today. kathryn was exceptionally good. she ate well, she wasn't whiny, she helped put the dishes away, and feed daniel, and put the dirty clothes in the washer...she even read my mind and got me a bib for daniel before i could even ask. she was quiet, and gave me time to get stuff done... i was so pleased with her. 

we had another toddler group. it was so nice! it was at Holly's house, and as far as i could tell, the mom's enjoyed talking, and the kids played really well, and it was really nice! thanks Holly for hosting it! i had a lot of fun, and i think the kids did too! kailey, Holly's daughter, is so sweet. she wanted to hold daniel, and play with him, and she was very talkative to a few of the other moms. she had such good manners. =) Holly, you have such a good little girl! i know she probably isn't always that way, but it's the impressions on other people that count!

a few interesting things about my babies

- kathryn's new favorite thing to do is "press play" on her movie, as soon as she wakes up, she turns on the tv and the dvd player and "press play" and then proceeds to shout it out while running to come tell me. she never lets the thing take a break. even when the movie finishes (she doesn't actually sit through most of the movie when it plays) if she hears the menu music, she runs and presses play again. she's hillarious.

- daniel hates being left alone, and will come find me if i leave him in a room...once he gets to me, he slobbers all over my feet until i pick him up...he has pulled himself up while grabbing my legs...

well, that will be it for now. i need to make my hubby some yummy sandwhiches for lunch tomorrow!

the boiling point

have you ever noticed how much energy it takes to stay calm when something really annoying or stressful is taking place? it seems to happen to me quite a bit with a toddler and a baby. i find myself taking deep breaths, trying to stop my impluses of screaming, or whatever else... but sometimes, i just don't have the energy, and i reach a boiling point. where everything boils over and i get outside to calm down before i do something i might later regret. it never fails that when that boiling point comes, and i finally calm myself down, i feel like i am utterly exhausted, winded, and light-headed... i guess all that adrenaline will do that. 

well, today was one of those days. i invited my friend Amanda over (with her boys Michael and Ben) and thought Michael would play with kathryn, and the babies would entertain themselves. and we could get busy on making diapers... kathryn just wasn't being very good. she was the one starting the trouble, and doing everything she knows she's not supposed to do...flushing the toilet paper down the toilet, throwing toys/things at the babies, throwing her books all over and, yeah, just generally trying to make a huge mess...i finally just gave up! timeout after timeout, and she wasn't getting it. oh well, we went out to feed the ducks, which calmed her down a bit, then once daniel fell asleep on the floor after finishing his bottle, Amanda decided her boys needed naps too, so she was leaving, and kathryn lost it, she started crying really loud, which woke daniel up, which made me mad (there goes my break, and now i have 2 crying kids) and kathryn wants to cuddle??? GRRR. she wouldn't stop crying after my best efforts of calmly trying to calm her down, so i boiled over, she went in her room, daniel back on the floor and i went outside... of course once i calmed down i felt like a terrible mother, and kept thinking i could've handled that better. so i cuddled with kathryn and read her stories to make it up to her and let her know i loved her. later on when she woke up from her nap...i can only conclude that she must have had a bad dream, because she would not calm down...i would coax her in to stopping the crying, but as soon as i would ask her what was wrong, she would start it up again. after about an hour of her screaming no matter what i said, i gave up, boiled over, and went to lay down in bed. i had a headache and i was out of energy to deal with screaming toddlers. UUUGH. but john got her to quiet down for a bit somehow, and held daniel too so that was nice of him. my friend Amanda let me know that i am not alone in feeling the way i do sometimes. that makes me feel better. to know that someone else goes through those exact same emotions with their kids. i'm not perfect, but i keep trying.

on an up side...daniel has 2 teeth now! i still haven't been able to get a very good picture of them, he hates when you put your hands on his face to prod at him...lol. 

oh yeah, and happy birthday lydia!