a week in my life: Wednesday

6:47 Amelia awake crying from her crib, woke Aiden up
7:00 downstairs, kids find box to play with, Aiden asks me to draw a lizard and a dragon, I love that a five year old thinks I'm so artistic, breakfast for the kiddos
8:00 debating a note versus going in to talk to teacher about another child's' behavior, consult teacher friend on phone,
8:20 leave early for school so we can talk to principal, principal not there and substitute teacher in Aiden's classroom,
9:00 back home, breakfast for me and a little computer time
10:00 vacuum and tidy kids room and bathroom, strip our bed, bleach and wash our mattress pad in hot water (watched Ocean's 13 last week and the scene with the bed bugs in the hotel freaked me out {also it's on my October cleaning list})
10:50 talk on phone with friend instead of cleaning our bathroom
11:20 hop in shower
11:50 pick up Aiden from school with wet hair, (wonder if I'll ever be a 'put together' Mom)
12:00 lunch and Aiden's anxious countdown to his play date's arrival,Amelia down for nap
1:00 T arrives to play, he's a classmate from school and they play wonderfully together, send email to principal
1:45 break out the latte machine from it's summer basement hiding place (we 'borrowed' it about 4 years ago from my parents { I don't think it's coming back Mom)
2:00 sit on the deck with coffee and magazine, enjoy the beautiful sunshine and listening to Aiden and friend play in his new fort (definitely worth all the work Dale!)
2:45 Aiden's friend goes home, snack time
3:15 outside for a quick scooter ride and shopping cart push( see the picture with Aiden in his helmet he has peanut butter on his face everyday that he comes home from school since preschool today I gave up wiping it off)
3:30 run errands, return library books, drop off at Goodwill, pick up jeans at mall ( would recommend the new alteration place in the mall) sit in construction traffic on the way home
4:30 Dale's home from work and takes kids for a bike ride while I make dinner
5:00 try to fix too salty chili with a potato (kind of works)
6:30 head to my first pta meeting
9:00 home, visit and catch up with Dale

a week in my life: Tuesday

1:30am Amelia crying in her crib, shuffle to her room in the dark pick her up, crying stops and we shuffle downstairs, turn on the tv and snuggle on the couch for an hour, too cold to get up from the blanket and find my camera, must get flannel pyjamas unpacked
2:30am Amelia back to bed, I lay awake until Dale's alarm clock goes off at 5:00am, then I fall asleep until..
7:23 Aiden crawls into bed with me, dressed for the day, I love that he can tell me the numbers on the clock so I know if we're running late, not so, little cuddle time with my boy, we head downstairs for cheerios for him and coffee for me
8:00 Amelia happily calling from her crib, jelly toast for Meelers, make beds, Amelia and I dressed, super windy this morning I think we'll drive to school this morning, make Aiden's lunch
8:50 back from school, oatmeal for Amelia and I, make white chicken chile for dinner, Amelia watching Elmo (her new favorite)
9:30 cleaning kitchen, vacuuming main floor, finishing laundry from yesterday, Amelia following 2 steps behind me, undoing most of my work
11:50 pick Aiden up from school, his book order arrived from school
12:30 lunch for Amelia and I, Amelia down for nap, shower and get ready for work
1:00 so tired from being awake last night, lay down on the couch for a quick power nap, Aiden snuggles beside me and reads his new book
1:30 babysitter arrives and I am off to work!

a week in my life: Monday

Warning boring, poor quality photographic content to ensue: I tried to do this last week and failed miserably. Hopefully, putting on the blog each day keeps me honest.
- woke up 7:30 to Amelia calling for Daddy, downstairs for super juice and cheerios for Miss A and coffee for me
- hop on the computer and try to remember where my camera is
- 7:54 Aiden awake and downstairs and wearing one of three shirts he always wears and a pair of shorts, hungry, cheerios
- 8:00 shower, make beds, make Aiden's lunch, pb and j every day, find a more suitable outfit for Aiden for school
- 8:35 walk to school
- 9:03 back from school, make oatmeal for myself, unload dishwasher
- 9:40 leave for Amelia's music class
- 10:50 leave music class and head to mall to drop off jeans to hem and errands at Target
- 11:50 pick up Aiden from school
- 12:00 back home, make lunch for Amelia and I
- 12:30 Amelia down for nap
- 1:00 Miss N arrives , organize tupperware drawer,
- 1:30 review and plan budget for October, pay some bills, Aiden and Nat play outside
- 2:30 Amelia up from nap
- 3:30 Natalie home, kids watch "Max and Ruby", snack time
- 4:00 story time
- 4:30 Dale home from work
- 5:00 make dinner
- 5:45 get Aiden ready for soccer practice and pictures
- 7:00 back from practice, quick snack of cheerios before bath and bedtime
- 7:30 bedtime story " Quick as a cricket" and lights out
- 8:05 Amelia crying from her crib.... It's only been 5 days since her tubes could she possibly be getting sick.
- 8:30 Amelia back to bed, a lil tv time for adults and me on the computer...
right now this seems terribly unimportant and boring but one day I will look back and smile.

ha ha

Walked by a bumper sticker this morning that read " Just me pretending to listen to you should be enough." It made me chuckle.

talking the talk

Amelia's vocabulary has really taken off over the past few months and I love her little language.
bish - goldfish
wheeul - whale
tb- tv
help you? - help me?
catch ( and she'll throw something)usually food
hungy - hungry
side, side - outside
so we- sorry

apple pops

This was a fun, easy quick afternoon treat to make with Aiden.
take a melon baller to an apple and make approx 8-10 'apple balls'
break sucker sticks (you can buy at Michaels) in half
melt vanilla chocolate wafers or butterscotch chips or peanut butter
dip apple balls on a stick into mixture
next dip in sprinkles
kid sized apple pops!

turbo tubes

We are back home just an hour after the tubes were placed. Everything went well and hopefully we can both enjoy a nap!
updated: It was an early morning. I woke up at 1:00 am thinking it was morning. I couldn't fall back asleep. I don't know if I was worried about sleeping in or more nervous than I thought about the procedure. I finally got out of bed 3:00 and started tackling some items on my to do list. At 5:00 I made some coffee and had a shower then I was really tired (I hate how that happens). I woke Amelia at 5:50 and she was pleasantly chipper. I grabbed a familiar blanket and couldn't find her favorite bear so she settled on 2 dolls. We were all checked in at the surgery center at 6:15 and her procedure wasn't until 7:30. They brought us to a tiny (4ftx4ft) room with a blanket on the floor and a basket of toys. It was really long 75 minutes. There was a little hospital gown for her to change into which she wasn't interested in. After a while she did change but insisted on wearing the slipper socks on her hands instead of her feet. I really wished I would have brought my camera she looked really cute. At 7:00 they gave her some versed( sleepy juice) to make her sleepy and not remember being taken to the OR with out me. The medicine started to kick in while I was talking to the doctor. She was trying to kiss my face and lick my sweater and kept saying "Hi Mommy, Hi Mommy" over and over. She also would call out loudly "Hi and Bye" to anybody that walked past the glass doors. She was insisting on trying to walk but couldn't really stand on her feet.The staff was really great and I didn't get upset when they took her away. It was so fast (15 minutes start to finish) and then they brought me back to the recovery area. I could hear her screaming ( she just woke up really cranky) and after 20 minutes we were ready to leave. They give her a sippy cup of apple juice that was the highlight for Amelia after having nothing to eat or drink for 14 hours. She was a little unsteady on her feet and a little irritable but happy to be home. We made it home before Aiden left for school and I think he was a little disappointed about the tubes. In his mind, he would be able to see them and they would have been alien- like. By afternoon she was back to herself and I am just hoping this will be end of her ear problems.