March - 12 of 12

Can you believe it's mid-March? It's hard to believe. Here in SoCal our weather doesn't change much so months and days just gel together and the next thing we know school is out or it's a new year. My days are like Groundhog Day. It seems we do almost the same thing over and over again daily. But some days there are small differences. I tried to find some yesterday as I did this challenge.

01.Grace fell asleep this morning by the time we got to Target. Daylight savings is really messing with her schedule. Oh wait, she doesn't have one... life of the fourth child.

02.I drew army guys, police guys, tanks, police cars, guns, rockets. He has a thing for the military and weapons. This is how we keep him occupied during sacrament meeting on Sundays. It now has carried over to a weekday activity.

03.When I go to Target and have a ton of stuff to buy I put David and Grace in the stroller and pull the cart. Why do I do this you may wonder? It is because Grace can squirm her way out of the seat belt in the cart and that makes it difficult to shop if I'm holding her.

04.Changing diapers. That would be one way to describe the whole day. It started out with Grace having a blowout with her sleeper still on. When I took it off she had poop all the way down her leg to her toes. Gross. She had a bath which she hates passionately. I think she must be teething again since she did the deed 5 times and now has diaper rash. Plus she is biting everything and everyone.

05. David has decided he likes turkey and cheese sandwiches. This makes me so happy that one of my kids likes a sandwich with meat on it.

06. Grace sharing the ball with her best friend.

07. I took a picture of me in the van while I was waiting for Grace to get more than a 10 minute nap. Don't you love how great I pose:) hehe.

08. SpongeBob. What more can I say. I use to hate this show. I did not let my children watch it. In my early mothering years I would actually judge other mothers that let their kids watch it. After 4 kids I gave in. The show is hilarious. I actually audibly laugh. Maybe because I'm more sleep deprived or maybe I have learned there are worse things kids can watch. I don't know, but the show is hilarious.

09. I have decided to paint two walls. Or at least I am thinking about it. Most of the taping is done. I bought a gallon of paint. As you can tell, I let Micah paint a small part of it to see if we like the color. Honestly, I don't know if I do. It is bright which I was going for. It is coastal which I like. But I just can't make up my mind. I don't think Jon likes it. So we'll see. I'll post pics of what we end up doing.

10. Grace woke up from her afternoon nap. She wanted to chill on the couch with me and play with my hair. She has a hair fetish. I think this is why she loves the dog so much.

11. Funny story. I have sheltered kids. Really I do. Lucas has a solar system research project he is doing for school. He decided to chose Uranus. When he chose it some of the kids started laughing. When I asked him why he picked that particular planet he said "I liked the way it looks." We asked if anyone laughed when he chose it. He said yes but did not understand why. We educated him and now it's just so dang funny to ask him questions about it. ex. "How is your Uranus report going?, Let's work on your Uranus project." So funny and yes I am juvenile. As a side note it is a very cool planet. I'll post a pic of Uranus when the project is done. (hehe -- ok Jon wrote this last sentence)

12. I got some new shoes for church. Do you think I'll be able to run after Grace in them? Hope so. Also, it opens up more church attire options. Why is it so hard to find clothes to wear for Sunday? I'm just lucky I have shoes on when I leave the house. Once I got all the way into the van and put my seat belt on with my slippers on. Thankfully I noticed before we got out of the garage.