children

Today was a pretty laid-back day.

The only thing out of the ordinary was Lexi’s first filling at the dentist.  She didn’t like the laughing gas after a few seconds and kept saying “I’m done” but she was talked pretty easily into letting it sit there.  We waited FOREVER for the dentist but she laid there while watching Diego.  She did really good and never cried until the very end when they put the blue light on the tooth and for some reason THAT made her cry.  It wasn’t hysterical..just sort of squirmy and scared.  But that was the last step so it was all done really fast.  She went hopping out to the waiting room telling S and Emma (did I mention SIL and S happen to have an appointment at the same time?  I really felt like that was an answer to prayer…I was concerned yesterday about Emma seeing Lexi get hers done since Emma has to go Wednesday and in general what to do with Emma if Lexi freaked out.  Emma tends to get upset if Lexi does) she had eaten Cotton Candy (the scent of her laughing gas).  So I guess all is well.  She got to eat right away so all was back to normal this afternoon.  Just a trip to the grocery store, lots of watermelon and cooked cupcakes and then it was bedtime.

I’m smack-down in the middle of a bunch of season finales at the moment.   Back to it…

End of day 2 and we’re surviving.  In fact, my house is extraordinarily clean right now.  And I have no idea why I measure our survivorship by the cleanliness of my house but I do.  I guess when things go haywire, the cleaning is the first to go.  If you walk in and there’s dishes everywhere, toys everywhere, most likely, it’s been a crazy day.  But if I manage to get it all picked up, then the craziness must have ended at some point.

I guess.

But right now, it’s looking pretty good.  I did take the time to finally clean all our hardwoods.  My aunt and her family are coming in tomorrow afternoon and Mom warned me they’d probably make a visit.  Which I’m ecstatic about but I did have to do some cleaning.  Which, hey, I really just got a headstart on this weekend.

Anyway.

It’s not saying things have been perfect since he’s been gone.  Let me give you a little rundown of things that have happened just in the past 48 hours…really just in 22 awake hours that I’ve had them.

• Lexi spent time in the bathroom today with a sink full of water and half a tube of SpongeBob Toothpaste.  When I found her, it was in her hair, in her Barbie’s hair, smeared all over the entire countertop and on the handtowels.  Lexi had two baths today and really could have used three because…
• Lexi inhaled bubbles when she was blowing bubbles with this new bubble wand thingy in the garage which must have been pretty bad because it made her vomit in the garage and on her clothes.
• During her two baths, the floors was completely drenched in water.  It took two full towels to wipe it up which I’m now washing…again.
• Lexi decided she wanted to pour her own cereal in the sunroom into a bowl.  Apparently I didn’t have the eyes in the back of my head open because the next time I walked by, the feet part of the elliptical machine as well as most of the table and floor in the sunroom was full of SmartStart.  I’m guess she didn’t mistake that for the bowl and was just practicing pouring cereal wherever her little heart felt like.
• But my favorite is us at the post office…Lexi standing in her cherry silk jammies with American flag Crocs because I didn’t feel like fighting with her and Emma is putting on my lipstick.  Like dark lipstick.  Not the gloss kind. Lexi then gets my phone because she likes to see what’s on the camera.  She then starts taking pictures of the lady’s butt in front of us.  I think the lady behind us in line was chuckling while I literally laughed out loud while telling her to not do that.  Then Emma gets my phone while Lexi puts on lipstick and Emma starts playing Akon’s Smack That in the uber quiet post office where about 12 people are patiently waiting in line.  Yeah, we were the rednecks that day.

So while the house is clean, the last 48 hours haven’t been uneventful.

Did anyone else notice most of those started with Lexi??