walking, school and aloe

Hola. Its my dad's 50th birthday today! Happy Birthday dad. We are going over there tomorrow...

Spencer has been working new hours and we both really like it. He will be switching to 2nd shift soon-ish though & well have to change our schedule a little. But Im looking forward to 2nd shift, I think it'll work for us. 

Harper is walking all over :) 

Its funny because I know when Alikah was learning she would hold both arms out to the sides to balance and take it very very slow. She gradually sped up and went farther distances.
Harper though, he thought about this whole walking thing A LOT in advance. The week or two that he would take 2 steps then drop he was always so concentrated. Its like he was taking his time and figuring it all out in his head before he attempted it. So now that hes decided hes got it? Instantly a little pro. 

He walks so confidently. Over this toy? Sure. While drinking my bottle? Easy. 

I love seeing him out of the corner of my eye just walking around. Im definitely not used to it yet. Hes such a big dude. 

Weve been saying this for months but we are going to look into preschools for Alikah. She wants to go to school. She wants to meet friends. Originally I only wanted her gone one day a week, and Id still prefer that but Heather said that might change after Boden's born and I think shes right. 

I know Alikah will absolutely love it, but I will really miss her. I probably need to get used to that though haha. 

chalk toes

On Monday Harper has his 1 year old check-up and I have a midwife appointment, so Ill probably do my next pregnancy update then :)

Ill leave you with this...Ive mentioned on here before that I have OCD, but just like in real life I very rarely talk about it. Truthfully, it fucking sucks. Im not going to go into details, but the other day I was obsessing over something and the end result is a chemical burn across my neck. Thankfully, it has gotten much better.

Wanna see? Dont worry I wont show you the worst of it. This is last night & from a webcam, so its the worst quality/least gross. It doesnt hurt, but the itch is like torture. Aloe + ibuprofen help but I cant wait for it to be fully healed. 

It also helps when Alikah watches me clean it and then goes, "You should put some aloe on that."

Spencer suggested we take the kids to Dairy Queen for supper (they have a play place) so I might have to go out in public with my neck wrapped. Im so dumb.

yes it is

Ahhhhhhhhhhh. This morning I woke up and was like, "Wow. Im not going to do shit today." 

-Right after that, Alikah put way to much toilet paper in the toilet again so when I peed & flushed this morning half-asleep I found out that I had to dig a pound of toilet paper out and try again.

-Ive been wanting to fix the pictures going up our staircase. I decided to do it today. I got a few moved, went to hammer in another nail, and hit a stud. I was hammering so hard two other frames fell off the wall. Thankfully the glass didnt break, but both frames did. I stopped.

-We move our VCR all over and its really annoying so I wanted to move it to the living room for good. I decided to do it today. After finally finding a place to put it where the cord would reach, I couldnt find where the fuckin cord hooked up to the TV. My fault, huge waste of time. So I stopped. 

-I mentioned awhile ago that I ripped our cable outlet out of the wall and now have the TV stand pushed up against it to keep it in the wall. We didnt fix it yet, so of course I knocked it out during this. I knock it out at least once a week, but for some reason today nothing would work. *Plus side of this was that instead of watching Dr. Phil during nap time I finally got caught up on ordering pictures to develop.

Soooo I should have listened to myself this morning and not done shit today!

I got half way done with this post and decided I dont want to do this either, so Im just going to end here. 

-Im trying not to write about this until its over, but Moron's parents are so frustrating and I hate that I am trying so hard not to be mean when it doesnt matter and I have every right to think this is so ridiculous! The more I think about it the madder I get and I just cant wait for it to be done.

3am.

the end to one of the worst days of my life. no so bad..

Hey Lady

This morning I was laughing at something online and Alikah calls out from her room, "Mama! What are you laughin about out there?! ...Can I wake up?"
It was dark and rainy so she walks out and then says, "I cant see! Its dark in here! Were having a storm!"

It was a great way to start my day.

But I just cant win today lol.

Harper screamed for over an hour straight. He'd suck on his bottle but never actually drink it. He wouldnt take his nunu. If I set him down he just cried even louder. I gave him mylicon and gripe water.

Finally I was like maybe somethings wrong with this fucking bottle, so I tried to drink it (lol) and sure enough, there was like a tiny fuzz blocking the damn hole!

So he had been trying to eat but couldnt :(
I felt so bad.
I felt like I was starving him.

And of course I was so frustrated and Alikah was just trying to help but really just making it worse so I yelled at her and then I felt terrible about that too.

And then I made Alikah her rice and got in the shower.
When I got out it was EVERYWHERE. She said it just fell but it looked more like she threw it. So then I had to clean that up.

And THEN I put some carpet cleaner down and went to the dishes while it settled in.
Well, Alikah was playing stamps.
She took the stamp pad and made giant red circles right in the middle of both of the places I put the cleaner down.
SO THAT WAS FUN. And it ruined the stamp pads too.

SO now I am rushing to write this because Amanda is going to stop over in a half hour and I completely did not remember that until Spencer just called and told me she texted him.

Such is life.
I have like 3 draft entries I need to finish too.
Maybe tomorrow...

Killer Ant

So. I was just about to get in the shower and Alikah started screaming.
I grabbed a towel and ran out to her.
She was flipping out.
Why?
"AN ANT. I TOUCHED IT. I TOUCHED THE ANT."
So I calmed her down then got in the shower.
She screamed.
and screamed.
and screamed.
I was trying to just hurry and finish but seriously,
she was screaming like she was DYING and I didnt know it any neighbors were home.
So I walked out with conditoner in my hair, naked.
She was on her couch, boogers and tears everywhere, SHAKING and
she wouldnt move.
She said she couldnt walk. (So dramatic)
Like I said, I was naked and the blinds are wide open so I was like Alikah I CANT come get you just get up and come here!
She did.
Then she came in the bathroom with me
and cried and cried while I finished showering.

I got out and picked up the towel off the floor
and a huge ant was under it.
I laughed. What are the chances. Seriously!!
I couldnt be the same ant unless it was on Alikah when she came with me.
I told her it was a daddy ant.
But anyways...we flushed it down the toilet.
She kept asking where it went and I said home to his family.

Thankfully she calmed down. I was worried she wouldnt forget by naptime but I just put her down and she seems fine.

An ant.
*sigh*