Well, here we go,
another busy week! On Monday, we didn’t
have a sitter for Eliza, so Christian stayed home with her. I was super
jealous…it’s hard enough leaving her every day, but I don’t like when he’s the
one who gets to stay home with her! “Luckily”, he had a pretty rough,
exhausting day. Sorry not sorry, it’s nice when he can see what life is really
like! I picked the big girls up after work and we stopped home to get ready for
ball. Then, finally, a late dinner, some baths and everybody was off to bed.
Daddy teased me with a picture of my baby at breakfast.
Softball Night
Tuesday started off
pretty normal. Everyone was off to their appropriate place for the day...work,
daycare, school. I settled into work, had a meeting, then almost immediately
got a call from daycare. Eliza had been throwing up, and needed to be picked
up. So, I quick finished up some stuff, and made my way back to pick her up.
She seemed pretty exhausted when I got her – they said one of the times she
threw up was when she was sleeping, so she was just worn out and not feeling
well at all. She passed out almost immediately when we got home. I ate some
lunch and got in a few hours of work. She was definitely tired…I finally had to wake her up to leave. She seemed to be
doing just fine when I woke her up, so hopefully she’s on the mend. We stopped
at the UPS Store to return the couch covers we’d bought, we picked the big
girls up from daycare, and then stopped to meet up with Amelia’s baseball team
for her team pictures. My little pro, she did great! Finally, we met up with
Christian back at home and settled in for the night. The girls swam for a while with their BFF Bella, we had dinner and just
relaxed, hung out…had a quiet evening. I started watching the last season of
Pretty Little Liars tonight – FINALLY on Netflix. Yes, I’m a teenage girl,
still in love with PLL. I’m excited because the new season will finally be on
Hulu again. Woot! I received an e-mail today from the mom of one of Olivia’s
friends from school – who also plays on her softball team, inviting her to her
birthday party. Olivia is so excited…but, this little girl has a twin
brother…so, obviously it’s a joint party. And, now I’m all confused on what I
should do. She made it clear that Olivia was being invited by the little girl,
but can I really show up without a gift for him too? Oh boy, decisions,
decisions! We ended the evening with quite the funny from Olivia…we were just
sitting around, hanging out, when Olivia – serious as can be, looks at
Christian and says “Daddy, am I made out of Mexican?”. Haha, we could not stop
laughing. It’s so funny the things they come up with – the way they think.
Snuggles with my sick baby
Her new favorite thing, watermelon - YUM!!
Team Pictures
Swim Time!!
Wednesday was a rainy,
gloomy day. It was gray and dark and rained all day long. Makes for a sleepy,
sleepy day! Christian brought the big girls to daycare while I stayed home with
Eliza. Because of her throwing up yesterday, she had to stay out for 24 hours.
She was doing really well last night, slept good, ate a little bit this morning
and had a bottle. After a good nap, I brought her to daycare. Once back home, I
put in a few hours of work – trying to preserve as much leave time as I can. I
did some cleaning up around the house before picking the girls up from daycare.
Christian met us there, and we split up and took the girls to ball. FINALLY, we
all settled in at home…had some dinner, played for a while, the usual. I spent
most the day catching up on PLL – I’ll be done with this season in no time!
On Thursday, I was
back to work. Everybody seems to be happy and healthy and right as rain. I had
a crazy, busy day catching up at work. I say it pretty much every week, but I’m
so overwhelmed at work. My box is just constantly overflowing, I cannot get my
head above water. With my week off coming fast, it’s just going to get worse. I
just don’t even know what to do anymore. Christian received a Menard’s gift
card from work for doing some deliveries last week, which is pretty cool. That
will definitely come in handy with some stuff around the house. I picked the
girls up after work and we made our way home. The big girls played downstairs,
while Eliza was super clingy all night long. I had to wait for Christian to get
home to make dinner, so we ate pretty late. While I was out checking the
gardens, I noticed a big hold in the fence…two of the posts had come loose, so
there was a huge gap…thankfully Chuy didn’t find it first! So, after dinner,
Christian fixed that and cut the grass. Meanwhile, one by one I got the girls
to bed and cleaned up. Olivia had a pretty exciting day at school – she got
recognized in a little program at school for her Jump Rope for Heart
fundraising a couple months ago – she was one of the top fundraisers and got a little
pin. So cute, she was pretty proud AND, she lost another tooth today. Pulled it
right out this morning. So crazy!
Finally
Friday…FINALLY! Never soon enough. It was Olivia’s last day of school. Last day
of Kindergarten. I can’t believe how fast this year went, and how much she’s
grown. She can ready, her writing is so wonderful, she works really hard at
spelling, her math skills are getting better and better. She just amazes me. I
got her report card and she’s officially passed onto 1st Grade. So
dang proud. She came home today with more paper than I’ve ever seen in my life
and so excited over all of the fun stuff they did all day – following the
school’s facebook page, they had quite a day of celebration. She was pretty
upset that she wouldn’t be seeing her teachers anymore , which made me pretty
sad for her, but I know she’ll have a blast with all of her friends at daycare
this summer. It’s hard to believe we’ll have another heading off to
kindergarten in a few months. And, speaking of that a one…Amelia has been a
terror at school lately. She has been getting in trouble, getting written up ,
CONSTANTLY! I’m so frustrated with her, and I’m worried about how she’s going
to do this summer with the more lax summer curriculum…and more kids. I hope
it’s just a little phase, and she can get it out of control. I was really
hoping she’d move up to the schoolage room for the summer…but, apparently they
have too many kids for the summer, so she can’t. It upsets me a little…I think
the kids that are already at the center should get first option at moving up,
before they take in new kids, but that’s the “business” side of things I guess.
Hopefully she’ll calm down a little and start behaving. Meanwhile, Eliza is a
total walking machine now! I cannot believe in the last month she’s gone from
just plain old crawling and a little cruising, to not only full on walking –
but she even stands herself up! WOWZA, growing up way too fast, all of them! Outside
of their chaos and milestones, it was a pretty standard day. I picked the girls
up after work and we made our way home to hang out and wait for Christian to
get home. We had dinner, watched some shows, played for a while. Had a pretty
quiet night. The night ended with another funny…every night, we put the girls
to bed, while I give Eliza her bottle and get her to sleep. Every night, as I
walk down the hallway to bring Eliza into their room, I can hear the other two
laughing and giggling, talking away. As I grab the doorknob, I usually hear one
of them whisper “shhhh, she’s coming!” Usually they pretend like they’re
asleep, I tell them to be quiet because baby is asleep, they realize they’ve
been caught and they go to sleep. Tonight when I opened the door, Olivia rolled
over and pretended to be asleep, but Amelia hopped out of bed, looked at me
stunned and serious as could be asked me “Mom, where’s my pants?!” I almost
died laughing – I mean, she went to bed with pants on, so what the heck
happened is beyond me. Seriously, they just crack me up.
Here's to Kindergarten!
Love This Squishy Baby
Saturday was a
super busy day. Christian was off to work. I was up early to shower and get
ready before the girls woke up. First up, the girls and I were all off to swim
class. Today was the last class of this session (they start up right away again
next week though). Amelia still isn’t really swimming, or learning, but she’s
getting more and more comfortable, and, for the most part, listening better as
time goes on. She should be there soon. Olivia is doing great in her
intermediate class, and she even got to jump off of the diving board today!!!
Oh my gosh, she was so dang excited, and I was so proud. It’s been so hard to
deal with Eliza at swim classes. I have to bring a stroller with to keep her
contained, or she’s just all over the place, and I can’t even pay attention to
the girls. The school where they swim doesn’t have an elevator, so I have to
carry her and the stroller upstairs to watch class, then back down after. It’s
always so hot, like a dang sauna, so we both just sweat. It’s exhausting, and
I’m not sure how much longer I can do it. They usually take Sunday classes in
the fall because of soccer – I might have to look into just doing that all of
the time until Eliza is a little older so that Christian can be there to help.
After class, I got the girls showered and cleaned up. We stopped home for a
quick lunch, then loaded back up into the van…we were off to the salon for the
girls’ haircuts and surprise nail appointments. We arrived at the salon, and
when I went to get Eliza out of her carseat I found that she had thrown up all
over herself. Her clothes, her chair, everywhere. We were already running late,
so I was stressed out. I quick got her out of her clothes and into the
stroller, did a quick clean up of her chair and husstled everybody into the
salon. Once the girls were settled in for their nail appointments, I finished
cleaning up Eliza and got her dressed. I don’t know why she keeps randomly
throwing up like this all of the time. It’s so frustrating. Luckily, she was
perfectly fine the rest of the day. The big girls loved getting their nails
done, and laughed like crazy when they got their pedicures. It was too
cute…they were so happy and excited, it was definitely worth the money. Next
up, was haircuts. It was time to chop, chop, chop their hair off. It had been
over two years since Olivia’s hair was cut, and quite a while for Amelia as
well, so they were in for some drastic changes. Amelia didn’t really seem to
care, but Olivia was a little upset about cutting her hair. She got over it
pretty quickly, and hers was long enough to donate – after I explained that to
her, she thought it was pretty cool. So, they look like brand new girls, it’s
so crazy how different they look with a new haircut! After we checked out, I
finished cleaning up Eliza’s chair the best that I could, loaded them into the
van and we made our way back home. Christian took Eliza’s chairs out of our
vehicles so we could wash the seat covers and clean them out good, and Olivia and
I were off on our next adventure. Tonight was the twins’ birthday party she was
invited to earlier this week. I did end up just getting her a gift, but I got
her some fun outdoor toy kind of stuff, and spent a little more than I usually
would, so it was more of a gift for both of them. It turned out they had
invited some mutual friends and then each got to invite a few individual
friends – and Olivia was the only one to show up for her friend, so I’m so glad
we were able to make it. The party was at a local place called “Grand Slam”…they
have arcade games, bumper cars, laser tag, mini-gold, batting cages…there is a
TON of stuff to do, but there is also a TON of people there, and it was
completely chaotic. There seemed to be a million birthday parties going on, and
it was quite overwhelming. But, the kids had a great time, and that’s all that really
matters. After some playing, gift opening, dinner and cake, we were on our way
home. We got home around 6:00 and I felt like we’re been running around for
days. I was beyond exhausted. BEYOND! Luckily Eliza didn’t have any more
issues, so, like usual, we have no idea what was going on with her. The big
girls played outside with Christian for a while, and were off to bed a little
earlier than usual…as was I. What a day!
Swim Session, Done!
Getting Pampered!
Birthday Party Fun!
Thankfully, after
yesterday’s chaos, today was a very low key day. No plans, no running around. We
did some of our usual chores around the house…laundry, cleaned up the kitchen,
picked up the living room. Overall, we just hung out and relaxed. MUCH needed
for all of us. Today’s big even was Eliza turning 13 months old! I can’t believe
it’s already been a month since we celebrated her birthday. Seriously, time
just needs to slooooooow down! I didn’t take any measurements of her this month,
completely slipped my mind, but I’d guess she’s around 25.5lbs and 29.5” based
on history. As I mentioned earlier this week…she’s walking like a pro and she’s
standing herself up. Her personality shines through more and more every day,
she’s really coming into her own (and, I think she’s going to be quite a
handful!). She’s still clingy and dramatic, but really, it’s party of her
charm! Growing up, way too fast! And now we’re really in trouble with a super mobile
baby, that’s for sure! Other than that, we were just dreading that fact that
Sunday was ticking away, and Monday was knocking on the door. Like every week.
However, I was heading into a 4-day week, then 10 days of vacation (9 for
Christian), and that is pretty dang exciting!
Until Next Week! XOXO
