And now you know...

Useful Lessons
The water main is inside the house and not the thing in the yard stamped water. Turn it harder to get it to turn off.

When the plumbing supply store says buy both and see which one you need, it's a good idea.

When you start to lock your door and notice the key is bent at a weird angle, don't try to bend it back in the lock. It is hard to remove from the lock when the key breaks in half.

When you lock the baby in the car going to pick up the girls from Girl Scouts, don't do when your husband is at work. But if you do, make sure the neighbors are home and willing to bring you a spare key. Thank them profusely!!

The You Tube video showing someone unlocking their car over a cell phone to cell phone connection does not work. The guy at best buy was wrong.

Puppies really will chew on anything!! And keep the baby out of reach during a diaper change. Not even a puppy should lick there right then.

Don't even try taking pictures with a cranky baby. It won't be pretty!

Flip flop fan

Josh loves our shoes, Sunday and otherwise but especially flip flops. Tonight at bedtime he found a pair and trotted around the room wearing em's princess flip flops

Freezer Meals

I am on a mission to try stocking my freezer with ready to cook meals all in one big batch.  Having said that I just realized my sink is full of thawing meat.  Gotta run!  Meatballs are calling my name.

Homemade Playdough

I felt happy and domestic today so I whipped up a batch of salt playdough.  My mom was right.  It really dries out your hands.  It looks pretty, smells salty, and Josh would not play with it.  He had some little buddies come over and they like it though.  Sigh!  I want to try cornstarch playdough next.  That stuff is awesome!

If you want to make some salty goodness try this

2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 cup salt
1 Tbsp cream of tartar
2 Tbsp oil

Mix all the ingredients together in a pot on low/medium.  Stir until it forms a nice ball-maybe 5-8 minutes.  It is a good forearm workout.  Then mix food coloring gel into the dough balls.  Seal it up in airtight containers, and hopefully your child will want to touch it. We played outside instead.

Another fine parenting moment

On Saturday Karl and I were in the bathroom getting ready for the day, ok fine, it was already past 10am. My neighbor dropped by and rang the bell. Josh answered since we didn't hear the bell, and the girls were outside with the dog.

He said "hi", chatted with my neighbor, then said "bye" and shut the door. Thy repeated this twice, each time she tried to call my name and get him to go get me. She finally gave up and went home to call me. Ah the shame!

Did I mentioned the door was locked?? Thankfully my neighbors are very nice, but I'll need to work on the showering so it is speedier!

Lunch

"I've for fruit, sandwich, protein, and chocolate. What else am I missing?"

-Emily
Gotta love it!

Rain and potty training

Apparently Baxter is not a fan of the rain. All week it has been sunny and beautiful. Potty training is not a piece of cake. He goes every time I take him outside, which is great and I am taking home out at least 8 times a day, but and at least a few times I don't.

Today when I went to take him outside, he kept trying to run back up the stairs. So we used a lot of pee pee pads. Right now, he is curled up in his bed which is next to me on our bed. He had an episode of running or something in his sleep. It was really funny. he also sleeps with his tongue slightly out of his mouth. So cute!!