Phelan quote

The other day Phelan was trying to climb onto my desk to get to my sewing light and he said he was trying to get to the light because, "The light will help my brain get big, so I can get on the computer and TV."

Now, mind you, he has pretty limited TV time. Only a movie here and there when I leave him with his papa (sometimes) or once or twice when we were both sick. But, he knows that his papa watches TV at night, and Jilli and Sissy have TV's in their rooms. And, well, only grownups have computers too.

Oh, my.....

...my, my, my.....
My cousin, by way of my lil' sister has dragged me into Facebook. So far a great big timesink.
Ah, the wee-ist is awake.

Yesterday was a good day

...despite being woken up at 3:15am by the rain. Then, of course, Phelan was up at 4am, Cleo was up at 5am. I got Cleo back to sleep and made Phelan lay down and try to sleep. (I think he may have dozed a bit... I dozed a bit.)

Made coffee in one of my new coffee filters. My hubby asked me where I got the idea for them. I said, "Well, I was making a grocery list and we were out of coffee filters."


I used some 30 year old fabic that I have been carting around with me over all these years, and now I don't ever have to pay $2.00 for coffee filters again!


So, on top of finishing a total of 5 coffee filters, I mended all four couch pillows, a bed pillow, and made three pillowcases while Cleo was taking a nap. That's it for the quick stuff. Next I'm going to work on some wool pants for Phelan and a sleep sack for Cleo using some old wool sweaters picked up at goodwill. But first I need to do some shopping! Pinking shears, a zigzag foot, zipper foot and a zipper.

Yesterday I also did my first massage in four years! I've been lookng at ways to work from home to earn some money and getting back into massage on the weekends seems like the perfect job. Rick stayed home with both kids and did very well. It felt good to earn a little money on my own. Probably just enough for my pinking shears! ;)

Giddy

Absolutely Freakin' GIDDY!!

I got my sewing machine all set up and Phelan and I made a quick coffee filter and I can't believe how freakin' GIDDY I am! I have missed my machine for the last few years. All the things I can now make..... buhwahahaha!!! >:)

First Tooth!

Yesterday my little angel baby got her first tooth!!

I have a rule, "No teeth. No Food." So now Little Miss Cleo can have all the food she wants. We had been 'tasting' things before.... banana, rice, peas, apples.... but last night was her first 'real dinner'. Cleo dined on a delightful selection of organic brocolli and brown rice freshly made by her dear mama.

Rick and I took Phelan and Cleo to Kidspot in Sebastopol yesterday. http://www.kidspotimaginationcenter.com/ It was a little over stimulating, but Phelan had a great time running around and playing on all the stuff. Cleo got to meet other babies like her.... very much like her. There was a baby one month older than Cleo and one younger than her. When they all were together, it looked like a little pink bald tea party. (They all had pink jammies on!) It was great fun till one baby thought Cleo nose was just to interesting and grabbed it and the babies finger nail caught Cleo and gave her a little owie. :(

I'm getting some things done around the house. I finished painting my belly mold and got it hung up yesterday. (Tired baby=long nap!) And that was the final step to getting my desk cleared off so I can set up my sewing machine! I'm very excited to finally get back to sewing. I think the first thing I'm going to make are some coffee filters. Then a shawl for a friend and then I have a ton of kid projects!

Getting back to sewing is part of my 'getting back to basics' that is my theme for this year. The kids need clothes, I can sew them. And even more enviromentally concervative, I can sew them out of old clothes. And it even more cost effective, saving my hard working hubby lots of money.

And some mornings suck

2:30 am the baby wakes, nurses goes back to sleep.

4:00 am Phelan wakes, pees in the potty (yay!) and doesn't go back to sleep. I take him back to his room and sit on the futon in there (and doze as much as I can) and try to get him back to sleep. He plays, cries, fusses, says "I want to go downstairs." a hundred times. I am firm and do not relent till 6:30 when I hear my husband getting up for work and Cleo waking again.

So, I'm grumpy already.

Then Rick tells me that Jill (our 46 year old roommate) has taken my car (with the carseats in it!!!) to work (she works nights at a hotel) because her's wouldn't start.

I don't like her driving my car. We only have liability on it as most of the week it sits in the driveway and only does local trips. Plus, the CARSEATS! She should have been home by 8am but didn't get home till 10:30.

Her cats attacked my peacock feather smudge fan that I made about 6 years ago because they didn't have food again. I told her the next time they attack my fan because they don't have food I'm putting them all outside. They are indoor cats even though they want to be outside.

Yesterday it hailed, and I mean it hailed really hard!! Here is a pic of Phelan playing in it a bit. He thought it was really fun, but did not like how cold his hands got. Then I gave him the idea to use a shovel. ;)

Ahhh.... Coffee...........

Some mornings are lovely.
Cleo goes right back to sleep and Phelan plays by himself and I get to sit and twiddle away some time on the computer sipping my much loved morning cup of coffee. Some days I slurp half of it down while getting breakfast ready, then run upstairs to take care of the baby then don't get to finish it till it's cold.
Ah, he's 'found' me. Jibber, jibber jibber. He never stops talking. :) Sweet and endearing and yet annoying at times. (Heh, he's building a long pole by sticking together all the highlighters in my desk drawer.)
And the lil' one wakes...... it was a lovely 15 mins while it lasted. ;)

And the colds continue

Day 4 of the three of us being sick. At least it's a mild cold.
I don't know if I was brilliant or psychotic on Wednesday when the three of us woke up sick. I wasn't feeling too bad and was afraid of the house mess getting out of hand while I was sick with two sick kids, so I cleaned house and washed diapers and prepped meals. Even got the coffee all ready to go for the morning.
And so far the misery hasn't hit.
And my house is all tidy! :)
It's been kind of a twilight zone experience for me.

My husband has been really trying this last week or so to be more "engaged" with the kids and it has been really really nice. He had Phelan help him fix the dryer this morning and Cleo and I got to go to the grocery store all on our own. And I think, missing one kid, my brain wasn't functioning right (I'm so used to having them both all the time!) and I went over my budget by $10 and had to run out to my car to get my debit card. Of course it's the only time I actually left my card in the car.

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Trying to keep up....

... with this journaling thing. I actually got around to doing some journaling in both kids books recently. And even added an entry to my personal journal. Somehow I feel like I'm still not capturing the essesnce of my existance. I guess that is what I am tryign to do.....

Phelan and I both woke up with the start of a cold and little Cleo has been teething these last couple fo days. Phelan has also been getting up at 3 or 4 am to pee. Great news-he is getting up to pee and not peeing in a diaper. Bad news-he has a very difficult time getting back to sleep. So I have been up at 3 or 4 am the last few days. :( But, no diapers!! :):)

Off-Shoots. There is some politics/drama going on with Phelan's play group, and I'm a little at a loss about it. I'm usually with the kids at group and miss out on a lot of the grown up conversations, but I guess there has been a little dissention for a while now. It looks like our group is going to change and, unfortunately, I think one mom will not be coming back.

I had a great brithday weekend. Candlemaking with OSG. Left Phelan with Rick for almost a whole day and they had a great time. Rick and Phelan sometimes have issues together and Phelan is such a mamma's-boy that I was a little concerned about it. But Rick mentioned going to the hardware store and I told Phelan I might not be home when he got back and he said, "I don't care." :) They ended up going to TWO hardware stores, a little shopping, and the park. The BIG park with the train. They had a blast. Sunday, we were going to go out to breakfast, but the kids were a little spun and I was TIRED so I had my hubby pick some up. Later that day mom and dad came over and brought the latest bags of loot from Goodwill. Mom is a Goodwill Diva. :)