what i did today

This evening ended up being a big rearrangement of the girls rooms.  Dad and Scott brought my old furniture over which required Emma’s room to be flipped around to include the desk I wasn’t expecting.  I think Emma is still unsure of it.  Scott actually found her crying silently after we put her to bed, which she never does, complaining we had left her alone.  I think she’ll be fine tomorrow, just change is hard for her sometimes.  Her room wasn’t “right” according to her.  Lexi has yet to see her room differently which may freak her out.  All of Mom’s moving has her out of sorts.  Last night she pointed at Mom and said, “You’re house is a mess.  You’re biigg trouble.”  LOL

I went to the gym right after work.  I haven’t been since the week before camp when I had gone like 5 times that week.  It felt great.  I burned 350 calories on the elliptical and then did some free weights and ab work.  I really would like to lose 5 lbs and keep that off.  I’ve gained a few (literally like 2) recently which is on top of a few I had gained last year and now I’m about 5 lbs over what I’d like to be.  Sounds like nothing but now my pants are tighter than I’d like and I really don’t want to have to go out and buy new ones.  I really would just like to lose 5 lbs and it sounds easy enough but getting it off and keeping it off are two different things.  I’ve tried to eat less and I can make myself do that without too much issue but then I get really cranky.  And I’ve been working out but supposedly to actually lose weight instead of sustaining, you have to work out 5-6 times a week.  And that’s really hard for me to do.  I have to make a concerted effort to make it a priority every single day to make time for it.  Well, if anyone knows of a way to take off a few pounds easily, let me know.

 Lexi fell asleep around 6:15 and has yet to wake up. I have a feeling she will wake up in just a little bit and be up late or be up way too early in the morning.  Neither of which I’m looking forward to.

I really tried to spend as much time with Emma as I could after we got back from the gym.  I really think she needed some Mommy time.  She kept asking to do everything with me.  So I have a few Emma stories to share.

What comes out of the sink, falls out when there’s no stopper and you stir it in a bowl with tools?  Hopefully you’ve answered water.  That was Emma’s clues for me tonight, one game we like to play.  The next was What looks like a rainbow and is blue, pink, yellow and green?  You wouldn’t know the answer because it’s our hammock in our back yard.  Heather came over and even while we were in the back yard, she was stumped.

So I’ve mentioned Emma likes questions.  Tonight’s interesting question was Why do trees have leaves?  After trying to dodge the question to no avail, I finally give her the answer:  Well, when we breathe in we breathe in something called oxygen.  You can’t see it but it’s there.  And when we breathe out, we breathe out carbon dioxide.  The leaves on the trees give off oxygen even though you don’t see it.  So we need leaves on trees so we can breathe.”  Emma just says, “Oh.”  No more questions after that answer.  It’s amazing, sort of like she gets it and she really wanted to detailed answer.  And I’m not sure that’s exactly why trees have leaves but I guess it was close enough.

So I’m thinking Emma’s getting really close to be ready to read.  Today she says how do you spell Pochontas.  She’s trying to sound it out and I ask her what she thinks it starts with.  She says “P, I already wrote that down”.  And sure enough she had on her paper.  And then she says “Po” and I ask what letter she thinks is next and she says “O!”.  She got tripped up on the “ch” and gave up after that but I’m thinking it’s a good sign that she is understanding that letters make up words and is actually trying to write them down.

And then, I was reading her a book tonight and the first word of a sentence in a paragraph was “As” and she says, “Who is A-say?”  My girl was trying to read! 

So I bought that book teach your child to read in 100 easy steps or something like that and I really think it’s time to go through it.  Wow, what if she’s reading this summer.  She still has a year before she starts school!!

Still not good at making up titles.

 Well, today didn’t go nearly like I planned.  Except for the fact I didn’t forget Go Diego Go show.  The girls got up well before normal time at 7am.  I turned on my tv and brought them in my room to watch cartoons and play while I tried to stay in that keep-my-eyes-closed-but-still-awake-enough-to-listen mode until 8ish.  We were out the door before 10 for the show with SIL and her daughter.

The show started a little late and was way longer than the Dora show that was similar.  The girls loved it.  We were sitting on the highest balcony and Lexi kept waving hoping for someone to wave back.  I think Diego finally did and she was quite satisfied with that.  Emma says the Balbos (sp?) were her favorite and I think Baby Jaguar was Lexi’s.  Lexi sat in my lap the entire time and Emma sat next to me.  They were both well behaved.  The only bad thing is Lexi insisted in being carried so I had to carry her all around downtown.  I did convince her to walk up the stairs by herself though.  We stopped at McD’s on the way home and ate there since there were so many people in the drive-thru.  So by the time we did that and picked up SIL’s van at our house, dropped all the girls off at MIL’s and got home, it was 2:30.  And I was SO tired.  The whole gym thing was out the door but I really needed to clean.  So I put my hair up and really intended to do that but I laid down on the bed thinking I never am able to take a nap, but if I can, I’m just going to do it.  Needless to say, Scott woke me up when he got home after 5pm.  Yeah. No exercising and no cleaning.  We left as soon as he signed off from work and headed out for dinner and some Father’s Day shopping.  I’ve done some cleaning this evening but nothing major.  In the meantime, we’ve had a little house drama.  Apparently Scott saw a rat run behind our tv and go in a hole in the wall that he has some wires run through.   So he had to run out the store and get foam and traps and poison and whatever else he got.  Emma has obsessed about rats since then.  She genuinely seems scared.  But questions about how big they were and whether they could fit in doors or windows or whether Daddy had killed all the rats in the world and where rats live and on and on.  I’m getting back every question I ever asked my mother.

So tomorrow is church and lunch with my parents while Scott works and then we’ll do dinner with Scott’s family.  That should do it for the weekend.

Mom came and got the girls pretty early this morning.  She ended up keeping them through lunch so she picked up L and took all of them to her house for a little bit.  They showed up back at the house around 3 until 4 when L’s mom came to pick her up.  Emma and Lexi seemed much more comfortable with her today than even yesterday.  And L seemed more comfortable as well. 

While they were gone all day I worked mainly.  I went out at lunch to a Combi warehouse sale.  I was hoping to pick up another car seat for Lexi but they mainly had strollers there. 

This afternoon after work I took the girls to Target to get J a baby shower gift.  Lexi had a meltdown so we didn’t stay long.  Apparently she was tired from her long day because she fell asleep on the way home.  Soon after we got home, Emma and I left for the baby shower.  It was at D’s mother’s house so D’s kids were there and Emma played with them well the whole time.  I enjoyed good food and chit chat and stayed almost until bedtime while Emma played.

The girls are all in bed, very happy to wake up and get ready to go see ye-go, bah-pah, bih mah, and baby jawire (Diego, backpack, big map and baby jaguar in  Lexi’s language).  She’s pretty excited.  Emma’s question tonight was are we going where we saw Shrek or The Wiggles or Dora.  And when I said Dora, she knew exactly what place I meant.  That girl has some sort of memory!

Mom had a funny story from Emma today.  She showed her some blind at her shop this morning and Emma says “Now that’s something you don’t see every day.”  I see Pinky Dinky Doo has had quite an impact in her vocabulary.  The other day Heather asked her about some type of food and she says, “My mommy doesn’t prepare that food for me.”  Uh, yeah, I don’t ever prepare food, I make it.  Not sure where she got that from.  I don’t think I’ve heard that one from Pinky Dinky Doo yet.

So I guess I should get my sleep tonight after being up so late last night.  The good news is after the big Diego show MIL is taking the kids for the afternoon.  That means I get the afternoon to myself.  Maybe will head to the gym and then  come home and clean.  I’m not sure why either of those things seem like great things to do on a Saturday afternoon.  Sure wouldn’t have been even a few years ago.  Well, ok, maybe the cleaning still isn’t but at least if I have to do it, I can do it sans kids with the music so loud the neighbor can hear it 🙂