She's humming....

Taylor has ALWAYS loved music.. She stops & dances immediately upon hearing music, doesnt matter if its the radio or an advertisment jingle, she will stop what she is doing & dancing for the duration.

She loves to play with a harmonica, recorder, toy drums, her little piano, anything that makes noise music.
Nothing makes her happier.... or makes me happier to watch!

So we bought her this kids song dvd with the basic childrens songs on it for christmas. Since Taylor was never one to watch tv I thought I would put it on for background noise so she could twirl, clap her hands & dance to.... yeah right...Can we say addicted much??

This video is on probably 4 hours a day.... Its the first thing she wants after her diaper in the morning... everytime we have a bottle we have to watch it.. She will run to the tv & screech, tapping on the glass doors where the dvd player is until I put it on.... Then her eyes light up & the dancing begins... It is adorable to watch her, though I want to stick pencils in my ears after 5 minutes...

This morning she was sitting in her chair drinking her bottle, with her blanket & her baby, watching this video AGAIN... & I hear someone humming the songs...
So I look around the room, no one is around but me & Taylor.. I know everyone is sleeping...

So I look at Taylor... & there she is humming the song almost perfectly while drinking her bottle... I was amazed... Of course I had to run into the bedroom & wake Pat up to tell him...

Pee Pee in the Potty....

The fun of potty training has begun in my house...

Taylor knows now when she has gone to the bathroom in her diaper... She will walk up to me with a diaper, the wipes & lay down on the floor so that I change her. When she did this last night, Pat & I asked her, " Tay where's the potty?" to which she immediately got up & ran to the bathroom. We were both amazed. So Pat went & got her potty seat and when she saw that she ripped off her diaper & ran after him. She is only 14 months old! She sat on the potty no problem & was mad when we took her off.

So this morning when she did the diaper routine, I said want to go to the potty? She ran right in there & waited to be placed on the seat. Yessss!!!!

This is going to be sooo much easier than I thought!

My New Blog Adventure...

So I started a new blog for everyone to follow that has to do with the house, the renovation & all the craziness that comes along with it... So here it is....Out of the Ashes.....

http://fromashestohome.blogspot.com/

Oldie, but it Makes Me Giggle...

 My top aggravations....


1. Changing Taylor's diaper... I need her to stay still she needs to roll. She gets the urge to roll more so when she has poop then when its just pee. It must hilarious to watch, but it is impossible to do. She is very strong, I think she could take me.

2. Pat & the toothpaste... Every morning without fail! I go into the bathroom, he has the cap on one side of the sink and toothpaste open on the other. Every morning I put the cap back on & put the toothpaste away. I think he does it on purpose, I bet he thinks its funny.

3. Spiders, specifically Daddy Long Legs... I know spiders are supposedly a sign of a clean house, but come one man, my house isn't that clean. I kill about 6 a day sometimes more.... A DAY!

* did you know that Daddy Long Legs carry a poison that can kill a human.. the deadliest to humans but there mouths are too small to bite us* Thank god for that or my whole little family would be gone!

4. Laundry... I think they wait and watch, then wait some more & just when I have the last little piece of laundry done & put away, here they come, almost prancing like they are sooo funny with an armful of dirty... Even though I just asked anyone have any dirty laundry I didn't get? Noooo, but I am learning that Nooo means we have it hidden so we can do the laundry prance... I think Pat & Lissi are in co-hoots.

5. The living room area rug... We have a rug in the living room that wrinkles when you walk over it. I hate that. It pisses me off. I don't know how to make it stop. I have tried everything short of nailing it down.

6. Dishes... You know what a sink is right? In my mind or how I understood it, that is where you put the dirty ones that need to be washed. IN the SINK, not next to it, not near it, not on the counter across from it... IN IT! It must take too much energy to lower the arm into the sink, I don't get it. DIRTY = SINK, maybe my mother had it wrong, I will have to ask her.

7. Alyssa & Scissors... Every time that child has scissors you would think we just yelled Happy New Year & threw confetti, it doesn't matter what she is cutting or where, it can be 5 seconds or 2 hours and I feel like the clean up crew for a ticker tape parade.

8. Socks... I don't know what I do wrong. I use bleach, I use detergent, but I can never get them clean clean. WTF? I have even been so desperate that I researched it online to make sure I am doing it right. For some reason I am being punished by my whites, I want them whiter they like dingy... I am going to have to get that lady from the cheer commerical here.

9. The Night Time Mess Fairy... I don't know who this S.O.B is but when I catch it, mother's everywhere will rejoice & sing my name in praise. I am the last one to go to sleep ALWAYS. I am the last one to see the house, every night. Somewhere between my last waking memory & the time my brain is jolted back to life by Taylor, someone has come into my home & trashed it. I am setting up a video camera.. I will prove this theory to be true, maybe this fairy is friends with the sock stealer and I can get both at once.

10. The Lady Across the STREET... I hate the fact that we even live close enough to people to be able to say that... But this whack job, um I mean woman, has 4 maybe more dogs.. She lets them out whenever Taylor is sleeping, it's like she waits for it. These things bark like mad which then warrants her to scream like a banshee at them telling them to "shut up". This of course always wakes up Taylor. I want to walk over there & open her gate sometimes. I think they are barking for help, they want to get away from her, I might assist them in their plea. The dogs told me to, that will be my insanity plea.

11. Breaking News... If I am watching something I am invested. I want to see it through. It is very rare that I get to sit & enjoy any sort of show lately without having my own "breaking news" to interrupt me from it every 3 seconds. So unless my life is in eminent danger, break it during commercial. I don't care what famous person overdosed today or who tiger woods is sleeping with this week...

12. Taylor with the cheerios... I love that she loves them. I love that she wants to eat them in a bowl like her sisters, but why does she love to put them on the floor & stomp on them? Is it the popping noise, the crumbling of that perfect circle or do it amuse her to watch me take out the vaccum 26 times a day?

NEW MOON

So I just finished the second book in the Twilight series...

Lets say I read about 600 pages in about 12 constantly interrupted hours...

After everyone went to sleep last night I had to fight to keep my eyes open. My brain would NOT let me put this book down, I HAD to know... I fought exhaustion till about 1am. It was no longer a one more page fight in my head, it had become a one more word, till I passed out book in hand...

But around 10 am this morning once I was settled from the normal morning routine, I curled up with the remaining 2 chapters... I am in love with these books...I want more.

I was going to start the 3rd book today but I have kind of neglected the house in my wild reading adventure, so I will be taking the rest of the evening & the day tomorrow to get caught up.

I can wait to disappear into their world again....

TWILIGHT

So I am not normally one to follow the trend, as far a reading goes anyhow. I didnt jump on the Harry Potter band wagon, it was not my kind of fiction. I dont tend to like or respond to books that have all that much make believe in them, not since I was little anyhow.

I prefer a good love story, and by love story I mean exactly that, not book porn. I love biographies, I love challenging reads for example my proudest read to date was making it through Plato Republic, it took FOREVER, but I did it & I understood it. I am also guilty of taking Oprahs book club suggestions from time to time... I hate it but the woman knows books! It's would be like denying Martha Stewart knew anything about being crafty... You cant!

So of course when the whole twilight craze started, I was adament that I was NOT reading this. I dont like stories of vampires - make believe. Mind you I have seen the movie, about a thousand times thanks to Alyssa's obsession, but it still left me with no desire to read the book.

That was until I needed to find a way to ignore Pat for an afternoon... He was cranky &  I wanted to just block him so I had to occupy myself.  I looked all around & noticed I had read every book I have in the house at least twice, except Plato, I think a second time would kill me.... but I couldnt find anything, all the magazines I had also read a million times, and I read the paper this morning. This left me in Alyssa's room saying, " Where are those  twilight books we got you for christmas, I was to read something & I guess that will do for now" to which she replied... " No, you called twilight stupid, you cant have them. Plus I am in the middle of it now & you will lose my place." This went on for about 10 minutes before she finally handed it over with strict instructions like I was stealing her bible. The twilight rules were as follows

1. Dont lose my spot - I will kill you.
2. Dont let Taylor even look at it, she can destroy my stuff with her eyes, she is a beast.
 ( Her nickname for her baby sister, nice right?)
3. No food or drink anywhere in the area of the book.
4. DO NOT fold the pages like you do in your books, here is a book mark you can use.
5. You are not to take it in the bathroom ( this one made me laugh which was followed by a Mommmm)
6. You have ONE day, then I am taking it back.
7. If anything happens to the book you must immediately take me to the store to replace it.

Finally after signing a contract in blood, she gave it to me.

Within minutes I could feel it. There are certain books that I know within one chapter they are about to consume my attention till it is finished. Normally they are only about 270 pages, easy for me, about 2 hours pre-Taylor days. This book is easily about 500 pages, I have Taylor constantly Mom-ing me every 5 seconds plus Alyssa & Tori running around. This was going to be a challenge but it was too late, I was already hooked.

I started reading it around 10 am on saturday morning, I read it all day, in between getting the kids dressed, naps, lunch, chores, everything. As soon as I was done doing what I had to do, it was right back in my hands. We even went to the stores & I brought the damn thing in the car and read it the whole way there & back. I honestly could wait to get out of the store so I could get back to it.  I stayed up till about midnight having to force myself to go to sleep with only 4 chapters left.

I woke up before Taylor, this would normally prompt me to immediately go back to sleep, but not Sunday... I knew that book was there, I knew I couldnt fall back asleep while it was on the night stand.. So I laid in bed & finished it. It was fantastic...  it left me wanting more.. so I snuck into Alyssa's room while she was in her pre-teen Sunday morning coma, to avoid another blood contract & took the next book out of the saga... Twilight New Moon... I havent seen the movie so I dont know what to expect... but I am looking forward to it!

A new blog to come

Once we sign on the dotted line & the house is offically, offically ours....

I will start a new blog on our adventure of 1st time home buyers, renovations & keeping our sanity through it all....

I little way to let all of you be there with me through it all....

I will post once it's "offically offical"