Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Good Morning to You!

As much as I appreciate the company, someone give these and all of their counterparts a homing device.

It has been a harried few days where I have been harrassed by a certain giant mountain of a laundry pile every time I walked into the laundry room until yesterday morning when I moved it to our bedroom. What is that saying? "Let her sleep for when she wakes, she will move mountains." Well, I do move mountains. Laundry mountains. How profound.

"But can I fold mountains?" I asked myself. Ye-es, mmmHMM, Ryan affirmed. It's nice to have a laundry folding cheerleader ... even if he is also the laundry un-folder. 

It has also been a few days of lots of bathroom company, but what's new. Always a toddler, sometimes a nursing infant because if anything can show a potty-training boy that, YES, you can in fact take your own underwear off if your mom can go to the bathroom successfully with only one available arm. He still isn't convinced. 

Side note (let's be honest ... this whole post is a side note) - do all little boys' big boy underwear automatically steer them toward the plumber vocation? I think we have four different varieties, and I see more crack than when Ryan was waking up before dawn. You would think the head start in the sag department would help Ryan take them off on his own, but ... no. 

I set out to post about my successful morning because Jenny told me to. She's a good one. This morning I actually woke up at six, completed about half of my computer tasks for the day, Ryan sat cuddly on my lap for the last five minutes in a way that I could type with two hands which never happens and then I managed a shower and makeup. Picture a lip stained/glossed smile. Color us ready for the world ... or at least another day of company in the bathroom whether it be children or Legos or both. 

Well, have to run. The toddler armed with crayons is about to loosely interpret the wall as paper ... as the young Picasso exhibit in our hallways shows has occurred many, many times. Patrons of the art, we are. 

Good morning! 


6 comments :

  1. Sounds like your day is off to a good start! And as pretty as you are, you only need a little gloss and you are good to go!

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  2. I am currently staring at my own mountain of laundry...debating on whether to make the trip down the street to the laundromat in the below zero temperatures to get it done!

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  3. I second Beth on the lip gloss. And how old is your potty trainee? Inquiring minds want to compare (and coax their 3 year olds out of night time pull-ups…)

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    1. Ha, I don't think I'll wean him from night diapers for a while because he just started sleeping through the night again after quite a relapse at the end of my pregnancy and right after Conor was born. Nighttime diapers forever. He is two. During the consecutive days of negative weather and no chance of leaving the house, we decided to just jump in and do it. I wanted to put Conor in the cloth diapers/didn't want two in cloth so we cut diapers cold turkey (except night). So far he is about 60% pee trained and batting zero with #2. Boo poo.

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  4. Oh, your laundry mountain line made me chuckle!

    I am super impressed that you are starting potty training. My girls are similar ages to your little men (#1 turns two in March and #2 was born in late October). I kinda love having them both in diapers! My goal is transition to only one in diapers sometime before the baby's first birthday.

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    1. It kind of just happened because of the cold weather/being home all the time and then I didn't want to keep adjusting the snaps on the cloth diaper ago fit both Conor and Ryan! I think it will be a while until he is completely potty trained, but the accidents don't bother me too much I think because they are similar to cloth. We still use disposable at night :)

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