Pantry and Bathroom Mirror

Last week I cleaned out and reorganized the pantry. So far the labeled bin system is working out well and looks so much better than before. We are in the process of weaning off of artificial dyes, HFCS and preservatives. It's a work in progress. At the suggestion of Logan's OT I'm reading a book about childhood disease and nutrition. I'll post a picture. I just started it, so don't have any comments about it yet.

Sunday night around 8pm I decided that we needed to finally frame out the bathroom mirror. Brian went to get supplies and, although it took longer than I promised him it would, it was done Monday night. I like it. Easy and cheap DIY project that really adds a lot.

 

 

We are still waiting to close on our refi. I think we're almost to day 100. They finally confirmed Brian's appointment at work on Friday and pinged our credit reports AGAIN. I know they are busy, but this is sort of ridiculous.

We (izzy, logan and I) played barbies today. Izzy and I play often, but Logan asked to join in and he actually got the concept and played with us! He was Merida, I was Belle and Izzy was (shockingly) Cinderella.

Logan still asks to watch 'Shark Tale' at least 5 times a day. I've seen the first 15-20 minutes of that movie about 800 times.

Waking up after naps.  No makeup, but at least I finally showered!

Art in Our Park

Logan had 'Art in Our Park' last week at school.  We brought in some snacks and goodies and both of the 2 year old classes has all of their artwork on display outside.  It was really cute walking around and seeing all of the creations and hanging out with Logan at school for a couple of hours.  His teachers are the best and I really hope they move up with the class next year.

CX works, Bye Bye Paci!

Glad it's Friday! Very grateful for family and friends and health and good doctors!

I was feeling like a beast this morning and did 2 workouts. Spin was amazing and I was drenched. There is a new class at the gym called CXWorks and it is thebomb.com (sorry about using that. Just had to). I did that after spin. It's an all core class and, as promised, I've seen huge gains in strength in a short amount of time. I try to do it 2-3 times per week. The first few classes were extremely challenging, but now I can get through the tracks (it's choreographed like Body Pump) and it feels amazing.

Last night we did something crazy. We put the kids to bed at 8:30pm. Isabel didn't get to sleep until around 9:00, but still!!! At 9:30pm Brian and I both commented that it felt like 11pm. We watched two 'The Walking Dead.' We're a little late to the party and are only on season 1 episode 4, but I LOVE it! I thought it was on HBO or some other premium channel, but it's on AMC! Woohoo! We have 30 episodes on the DVR to watch.

We went cold turkey with Logan on the paci. He was usually just getting it to sleep, but he was starting to bite them and that's a choking hazard, so they went in the trash. It was not easy. It's still not easy. Logan has skipped naps since we've done it.

Isabel is loving her big bed. She asks to go to a 'magical place' when I lay down with her before bed or when she wakes up. We tells stories about the bed being a carriage, magical carpet, cloud,etc etc. It's so fun.

This happened last night while we were in the kitchen.

Logan: I wanna go jump on bed.
Izzy: Ok!!! Let's GO!
Brian: You know we can hear you, right?!

IKEA!

Guess who was tall enough to stay at Ikea's Smaland (the kid play area)? Logan! He was just barely tall enough. Brian was measuring him and he was standing on his tip toes. It was so cute. He really wanted to play with big sister. We dropped them off for an hour of browsing. Brian just wanted to go sit down and eat their 99 cent breakfast, but I wanted to make sure we got what we needed as soon as we could in case the pager went off indicating that one of our kids a) pooped their pants b) beat someone up or c) all of the above. We picked up what we went for (storage bins) and walked around kid free for an hour. Nice!!!! I went back right at the hour time limit and they were in the process of paging us because Logan was starting to cry for Mommy.

Now I'm in the process of reorganizing the pantry and laundry room for the 100th time.

I'll leave you with pictures of the car seat box slide and what happens when Logan finds the red stamp pad.

Friday at McDonald's.

Back to the regular routine. We dropped Logan off at therapy and then I went to the gum with Isabel. She's been once before and really likes it. Unfortunately the gym has a new $5/visit / kid policy. It used to be free. After picking Logan up we headed to McDonald's for a quick bite and some play time on the play structure. It's actually pretty big and we had it all to ourselves. I'm not a picky eater. At all. But I just can't find anything on the menu that's edible. The thing I had today was so gross I tossed it after a couple of bites. What a waste.

Beds! Visitors!

I just said goodbye to M, big A and little A. :(. We had such a great visit. We did absolutely nothing besides go to P. Terry's for a burger yesterday. I felt bad, but just hanging out at home was sort of amazing. The weather was beautiful on Tuesday so we played in the back yard a lot. Her girls are so ridiculously sweet and well behaved. Big A was so great with Logan and really looked out for him. Of course Isabel was just excited to be around some big girls. She played well with them until last night when she was hopped up on sugar (M made cookies. If you didn't know- she makes the BEST cookies. 2nd only to GGB) and decided to give little A a nice push. Other than that it went great. M even froze cookie dough in little balls for me to bake later! Can she move in?

Before getting burgers at P. Terry's Isabel had dance class. It was cold and a little rainy out so I didn't take Logan to the nearby playground like I normally do. I tried to wrangle him and run around with him outside the studio while waiting for Izzy. M caught a catty bitch talking shit about Logan and almost threw down. It was so awesome. I had no idea what was happening. She was like 'if you didn't have to come back here next week....' Haha. That girl has my back! It was hilarious listening to her retell it to Brian. My favorite 'what? Are we training for the Olympics here?' The 2 classes going at the time are a 2-3 year old and 3-4 year old creative dance class. Real competitive.

We took a couple of pictures but I'm not going to post them because I know M is super private and doesn't like photos of the girls online. She looks exactly the same as she did when we lived in CA 5 years ago. When she tells me about a beauty product I immediately go out and buy it because I want her secrets to looking amazing! The girls are beautiful and have really grown up. Big A has always been super sweet and caring and seeing her reading and talking like a little lady is such a trip! I wish Viv was able to hang out with her and trade 1st grade gossip. We didn't make it out to the cemetery and I feel terrible about that.

Last weekend Grammy and Papaw came over for a visit. We spent almost the entire weekend looking for a bed for Isabel. We had the hardest time. There was no way I was spending $1200 on a bed and I wasn't about to pay $500-600 for a non solid wood bed. We hit up some resale and consignment shops and still didn't find anything. I found the perfect bed online at a store in Houston and my parents were nice enough to check it out for us. Unfortunately it was off white, not white. Long story long we bought one at overstock.com and it will be delivered on Monday. I think it's the same thing we have in the guest room, but in white and a full size.

I bought a mattress Monday. It was sort of a debacle. I bought a kind of cheapie one and then they didn't have it in stock so let me have the nicer one for the same price. Brian went across Austin to pick it up and while he was filling out paperwork the guy loaded it in the truck. We get home, unpack everything get Isabel excited about it, and we have a full size foundation and a queen mattress. Since it was Presidents' Day the store was open late. So Brian called and said we needed a bed that night since we were having company in town. They called around and finally called back and said he could come pick up a new one (across town again). So we ended up getting a pretty nice mattress when it was all said and done. Since they didn't have the one we purchased in a full we got a nicer one. Mattress sales are such a racket. The markup is crazy.

I'm looking forward to cleaning today while the kids are at school. So much to do. I decided to relax and enjoy the short time I had with the CA crew and pretty much didn't do any cleaning while they were here. It was so nice.

I'll attach a picture M took this morning before Brian took them to the airport. It's a great "you look nice and I look like shit picture." Also one of Logan because he's so cute I could just eat him up. And yes, those are princess heels. :)

DONE!