Piper overload

This is Piper showing us how she blows her nose. This should be her 'bunny' face, but for that she just closes her eyes instead of wrinkling up her nose.

This is Piper with her 'Are you kidding me?' look.

Playing on the steps. Presley didn't really know how to go up and down steps until she was almost 3, b/c she was never around them. Piper on the other hand, has had these mastered for months now.

She is weird. Walking around holding her pant legs up.

Trying to put on her boots

Trying to put on MY boots

I broke down and help her put on Presley's boots! And she sat here multiple times and read her book.

Shaggy hair, with a cheesy smile.

and growing a slight baby mullet.

Love this crazy chicken!

Hump Day

Last night we got Holly, Jerry and Mary to come over and watch the girls while we went out to dinner with my parents. We went to Irina's, I've been wanting to go there and it was good! Great company, food and service! I had a passion fruit martini and raspberry martini, both were really good! We think this is the first time that Steve and I have had dinner (or anything else) with just my parents since Presley was born! So it was nice!

Tonight Steve took Presley to another preschool birthday party at Chuck E Cheese! This is party #6 since November and we have another one in a couple weeks. But like I said before, it's just good for her to be social outside of preschool. And I was lucky enough to have Piper poop in the tub tonight. UGH. We really should learn to NOT give her a bath until she has gone #2, but this does get me to clean the bath toys and bath tub so I will look at the positive side!

They are having Dr. Seuss week at school, we never know what Presley will feel comfortable doing. Being my kid, I don't blame her....I would've be too afraid I would show up and be the only one with crazy hair or backwards clothes, but she had done everything this week so I'm very proud of her, stepping out of her comfort zone!

You know why we are already bad parents to Piper. She is already experiencing 2nd child syndrome....for Valentines Day, we didn't take valentines to daycare (in our defense, she only goes there on Mondays and Vday was Friday....so we didn't really KNOW!). And now this week, each different room was supposed to wear a certain color on Monday for Dr Seuss week....we had NO idea what color she was supposed to wear. Oh well.

On a side note: Did I mention that a couple weeks ago Presleys room was learning about braille and about what being blind and deaf mean....on the sheet they sent home, TWICE they wrote 'here', instead of 'hear'! This week.....multiple times they wrote Dr Suess....instead of Dr Seuss! OMG! They are teaching my child, please spell write right! (Don't get me wrong, I know I'm not a great speller, however I am not a teacher either)

They laid off 5 people from my department last week, 15 total for our division in WF. Sucks. We know we aren't as busy as previous years but it still sucks. Then this week Steve's company had a meeting and said they might have to layoff a couple people (Steve would be safe, for now)! Just makes me nervous....however this is the time of year that both of our employers should be getting busier, so fingers crossed!

Lent

I am not a good Catholic, but this will be the 2nd year in a row I have actually given something up for Lent. Facebook. I'm a little relieved and a little sad.
Honestly there are so many things on FB that I just don't care about. That I shouldn't care about. I don't need to see cartoons, Pinterest crap, couples confessing their ever-lasting love for each other (as they sit next to each other on the couch).
There are alot of things I'm going to miss....people having babies, people announcing they are having babies, my sister getting MARRIED. Not that I'm technically going to 'miss' any of this but you know what I mean.

So my blog might be updated more with my random comments, feel free to become a 'follower' of my blog (I know there are many of you out there! You closet blog readers!) and comment if you like!

Weekend Update

 Thursday we had our work outing (social committee as we call it!) at El Bait Shop, it was a good, funny night with coworkers. We don't get too crazy and we are all still home by 9. Then Friday I got my mom to watch the girls so we could go to dinner with some friends. It was so nice to be able to hang out with all of them since we don't see them nearly enough! My mom volunteered to watch the girls overnight, so we had one more beer at The Boat House on the way home and were still home by 11:30!

Saturday we didn't do much, cleaning, shopping, laundry, playing...poor Piper put on Presley's boots and just sto0d there looking outside. Sorry sweetie, 0 degrees is just not warm enough for outdoor play time.

Even this morning she wanted me to put her shoes on (though she only brought me one shoe), I put it on her...she walked over to her coat. She wanted to go outside. UGH, maybe next weekend!
So we brought the snow inside! I put down a towel and got 2 bowls of snow for them to play with, this kept them entertained for a good half hour! :)

Right now, Piper is napping (she was SO tired by 11 am), Presley is in her room playing by herself, Steve is watching Iowa basketball and here I am, doing nothing. Maybe I'll go veg out with the rest of the Girl Scout cookies!

Hump day

We always get nervous on Mondays to see how Piper does at Generation. She cried like normal at drop off. Her daily sheet said she 'had a good day', but once again when I got there she is being held by a teacher with (not her) pacifier in her mouth. UGH! Seriously? She only napped for an hour (11:30 -12:30 and sometimes she doesn't go down for a nap until 12:30 at grandmas!) and it sounded like it had been a rough hour for her (from 4-5). But on the bright side, Presley wasn't throwing up this Monday so this week was looking up for us! LOL!

Last night was my late night, so I got home about 7:40. Steve was frazzled and worn out from a not-so-successful night with the girls. Presley was good, Piper was a maniac. The girl is literally a lunatic. She is crazy, full of energy, SO weird, so funny and out of control. Monster, crazy chicken and nut job are some of the names I call her....nice huh?
This was also the night that Piper first fell out of her crib. She just wasn't ready for bed, Steve heard a thump and she came walking out!

For the last month I have been getting really intense tension headaches, I even asked the doctor about them and basically she said to watch what I'm eating to see if anything triggers them and that they are a type of migrane. Lovely. Well I noticed they start in my neck and recently my neck has been killing me so I went to the chiropracter today. OMG. It felt so good but all I can think about right now cracking my fing neck! I don't want to mess up any adjustments he has done but I just want to turn it and crack it and make it feel good, just for a second.

On a side note : Presley was mad at Steve about something last night and she told him 'Fine, I'll go to preschool tomorrow, only talk to the boys and say bad words!' Ummm, really? That is how you are going to 'get back' at us? The sarcasm is out of control.

On another side note : Presley was the first kid in her class to 'earn' $20 in one week. They get 'dollars' for different things (sitting good, listening, participating, helping clean), she views this as a competition! One of the boys in her class even told his mom how 'proud' he was of her for getting $20 in one week! Well it is only Wednesday and she already hast $15 this week...so I'm kind of hoping she can break her own record! LOL!

Backfire

So here is the backfire conversation with the smart ass daughter I have.

Me : Presley you need to pick this toy up.
P : I'm never going to play with it again.
Me : So we can just throw it away?
P : Sure, I don't care!
Me : If I pick it up, I'm throwing it in the garbage then! (then I proceed to pick it up and throw it away)

She never mentioned it. So when Steve got home I brought it up.

Me : Did you pick up your toy?
P : Yes
Me : Really? Where did you put it?
P : In the garbage!
Me : Really? Why?
P : b/c you wouldn't help me pick it up!

Goodness....really? I like how she turns the entire story around! What am I going to do this girl?

I was going to take it out of the trash and give it to a less fortunate kid or to Piper. However, Steve took out the trash not really realizing this...so we truly did throw away a perfectly good toy that had only been played with once! Lesson learned.

Buddy Bear

Buddy Bear came to visit us this week. Preschool sends Buddy Bear to a different home every week and then each family documents Buddy Bears visit in this book. It's pretty cool to see everyones families and such over the year!

We had a dance party!

 Piper gave sweet hugs to him!

 Buddy Bear helped Presley feed Skylar

 She bundled him up to play outside during the snow storm!

 I think he enjoyed his time at our house and I know the girls liked having him visit!

I'm guessing we might see Buddy Bear again when Piper is in the Senior class! :)