Random Pictures

It's finally park time!!!

Everyone loves park time!!!

Park time is even better when you can con all your friends into going to the park too!!!

This is/was a common scene in our upstairs hallway. This is probably a little worse than usual but there are/were clothes just everywhere. The clothes at the bottom of the picture are due to me being in the process of laundry and not having a laundry room but rather a laundry closet in the bathroom.  Miss M has gotten really good (bad) at getting dressed (sometimes multiple times a day) and just throwing all her clothes in her basket or drawers all over her floors.  I finally lost my mind and freaked out on her. I was tired of picking up her messes and then seeing the same mess hours later.

I got out an empty tub and made her pick her favorite 5 shirts, pajamas, pants she wanted to put in her drawers and put the rest of it in the tub. I knew she would end up with more than 5 articles of each category of clothing b/c the laundry hadn't been completed but it helped weed out stuff that didn't fit, had holes in it, and was the wrong season. Overall, it made her drawers much more manageable for all of us. She cried and freaked out on me and told me I was the meanest mommy ever and all kinds of other things that I can handle b/c of my broad shoulders. I told her she could have the other clothes back when she started taking care of her stuff. I walked into her room the next day to find the minimal clothes in her drawer on the floor.  I don't know what it will take to get her to not throw things everywhere.

Bertha. She's gone. This was right before I took the boot off for what I hope is forever. If I am honest with myself I should probably still be wearing it b/c it provides so much more stability than my shoe especially when I am navigating eight gazillion toys. The pretty yellow splash of color is due to my painting of the baby house turned play house which I will post about when it's complete.

And there's a woman with two shoes on her feet. I felt like I was on fire. I came home and spring cleaned the heck out of the house b/c I wasn't limited in going up and down stairs or squatting down. I was rather impressed with myself. The left foot looks fatter b/c now under the shoe insert is a carbon fiber insert which is to act like a boot and not let me completely bend my foot.  The right foot just looks worn and dirty b/c I have been wearing it non-stop for 5 weeks. The only time I take it off is to shower and sleep and sometimes I sleep in the shoe b/c I am so tired.

We've moved Big Willie back to the high chair. He's sort of decided it on his own and we've sort of forced him into it. He is eating so much more b/c he's strapped in and not running around the bench and getting distracted by Miss M.

The girls.