My 4 1/2 Year Old Enjoying Spring

My Child Loves Sinks and Will Use Any Excuse to Climb Into One!

She's growing up so fast!

This is the Geomag set...notice the color of the top right ball. Not quite as bright.

Magnet Poop Scare

It has been quite some time since I've had the energy to document our life...and I have much to fill you in on. A few weeks ago Chloe got that nasty stomache bug. So she spent one entire night throwing up more than she ever has in her entire life. "I throw up 5 times and I don't want to thow up anymore".-Chloe. It was not fun. Anyway...while Chloe was sick on the couch or in her bed, entertaining Lily became quite fun. She asked to play with Chloe's Geomag set. So, I decided we could do that and we proceeded to make all kinds of triangles, squares, diamonds, pentagons...you get the picture. We had a lot of fun. Well, then I had to attend to Chloe and forgot to put the magnet set away. About an hour later, Lily comes to me quite proud of herself and says, "Momma, I ate da ball!" She was pleased as punch about this until I said, "WHAT BALL?" Then she ran away and wouldn't tell me anymore. As I rush over to where we were playing with the magnet set, I blurt out, "Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. Please not that ball!" I frantically put the set back together looking for the balls specifically. Under the pillows, cushions, sofas, -everywhere! And...there is one magnetic ball missing. Then I decide to read the label on the box. It reads, "WARNING: Toy contains Small Balls and Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years. (Lily is 2 1/2). This product contains small magnets. Swallowed magnets can stick together across intestines causing serious infections and death. Seek immediate medical attention if magnets are swallowed or inhaled." So now I'm weighing the options in my head. It's only one magnet...she should poop it out, right? I called Caroline and she called her friend who is a pediatric P.A..
The consensus was that because it was only one magnet, she should be fine. Okay, that's good because Lily is now asleep. Apparently all the fun wore her out. So, the next day I check every single poop that comes out of her little body by picking it out of the toilet and mooshing it to try to find the ball. The things you do as a mother. Apparently, I still missed it, or she pooped it out separately because I found it in the toilet bowl after many flushings about 24 hours later. So I'm not entirely sure of when it passed. All I know is Lily had a lot of poop that day. And she's just fine now! Thank God! The magnet set is now on a very high shelf and she can't play with it until she's 16.

My Curious George

My oldest child has always been into Curious George and now she is starting to turn into one. Her latest quest for knowledge is in figuring out exactly how the toilet works. She is always taking the lid off and playing around with the inner workings. She's taught me a few things by doing this. I came into the bathroom one day and she said, "Mom, if you pull this part the water stops. Just watch it's so cool!" She then proceeded to flush and watch the water rise about 5 times before I told her the toilet was now closed and needed some alone time. This is language Chloe understands very well.

While The Hubby is Away He Invites His Friends Over To Play

(This happened a few weeks ago.)

One Sunday last month, after church, my hubby decides to tell me that the Elder's Quorum is coming over for an X-Box night. In my head I'm thinking, okay that's fine...I'll go hybernate in my room and read or blog and the guys can play downstairs. No problem. But then he tells me that he is going to be in Syracuse for the next 7 weeks. In other words, he is not going to be here for his own little gathering. So all week long I stew over this trying to come up with ways to get out of it. My kids are sick, my dog is sick, I'm sick....none of which was true...so I just tried not to think about it. I called my hubby the morning of and said, "You owe me one". We had the party and it was fine. I took the kids to the mall, tired them out, and got them to bed by 7PM. (A rare occurance, but one that I've been trying to uphold ever since). The boys had fun downstairs and I got to hybernate in my room. I did laundry and took a nap. I woke up as they were all leaving at like 10:30 or so...went down and said good-bye. They were very good! They even cleaned up after themselves! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. And it was my home teacher's birthday...so Happy Birthday Adrian! I told them they could use our house again if they needed to. Hopefully next time my hubby will be there! It was just slightly awkward being the female host at an Elder's Quorum activity.

Sheba really enjoyed it! She found the dog lovers in the group really fast.

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Windy, Not Peter Pan!

Tuesday morning the youngest and I went out shopping. As we got out of the car in the Wegman's parking lot I said, " Wow! It's windy out here, babe! Hang onto your hair tie, or it might blow right off of your head!" So as we ran into the building she was holding her hair and mine. Yelling, "I got you Mommy! It'll be okay!"
Then we went to another store and it was just as windy there. She did the same thing as I carried her into the store and said, "Mommy, it's windy, not Peter Pan!"