Even Jesus thinks it's disgusting!

I'm sure you're wondering about the title...when I have to ask Rhay to stop whatever it is she is doing that is gross (like her hands in her mouth) she will always respond with "Jesus thinks it's disgusting, mom!" I know, she is just something else! :) Anyways, on to this crazy story!
It was the day before Thanksgiving and I had the oven on getting ready to make lunch for the girls. Taelyn, the one who never plays in the kitchen, decided that she would stick her hand between the broiler and the oven! Luckily I was standing at the sink doing dishes. She starts to scream and I have to pull her little hand out as it was stuck :( After seeing the results she surprisingly wasn't in that much pain! This part of the story is definitely not the funny part. So, needless to say, I called the doctor to see if I could get some advice before a lovely trip to urgent care. The doctor fit us right in and I had to rush through the day before Thanksgiving traffic to meet her during lunch and then realized they were backed up over an hour! One last thing to top it off is the girls were eating lunch and now, according to schedule, they were missing their naps to sit in the doctors office. Which can be a nightmare for, if not all, most mothers! So we barley made it through the first hour. You know when you start looking around to see who was there before you and count down until your turn? That's the mind set I'm in and not even paying attention to the pee pee dance in front of me! Oh geez...so I run to the door to get to the back and it's locked and the receptionist is MIA. Finally she comes to the front to open the door and we rush in to the bathroom! Mind you I have Taelyn and a diaper bag along with 2 jackets and lovely Rhay who cannot reach the toilet seat! There is no place to set anything! So rushing I throw my stuff close to the door and set Taelyn free as I put a potty cover on and put Rhay on top of that. You think a doctors office would have a clean bathroom, right? NO! There was no toilet paper and I'm pretty sure they don't own a mop! Well as Taelyn begins to touch everything and I see her tongue come out of her mouth (yep the gasp is needed here) I let go of Rhaylee to grab Tae! What happened next you ask? Rhaylee falls into the toilet and screams and the top of her lungs!!! This bathroom also shares the wall with the waiting room! Now that I have Taelyn I stick her between my legs to hold her from going anywhere and try to get Rhay out of the toilet! As I pull Rhay up, she is soaked and so is the potty cover all over her booty! Yep, there is still no toilet paper....

I go over to get my bag and grab some wipes to do the best that I can (yes, still with Taelyn pinned) :) We manage to get both girls clean and I bust out my sanitizer and we pretend it's lotion! hahaha I know I may be a germ freak but you can 100% blame it on Rhaylee falling into the toilet and Taelyn licking those walls!!! YUCK! I'm positive that Jesus thinks that is DISGUSTING! In the end we walk out to a laughing waiting room! So what am I suppose to do? LAUGH Sharon, just LAUGH! :D
I'm sure some are wondering...the appointment went well and Tae had a bandaged hand for a little while to prevent infection and she is just fine :) She even walks straight up to ovens like it never happened! I tell you what, these girls keep me on my toes 24/7!!! Good thing she has this adorable smile...^^^^^^ ;)

Halloween 2011 part 2

At my mom's request...

It's Halloween night and my girls are dressed up and all set to go. My husband's birthday is also shared with this eventful night! So the girls are waiting very patiently for a dinner that he decided to make for us! I know, spoiled...right??!! Which by the way was absolutely delicious (his famous ribs)! Well because the girls hadn't had dinner we were rushing trying to get them some real food before they finished the night off with loads of candy.  I was just talking to Kenny and my parents about how we haven't had and trick or treaters yet and start practicing with Rhay to say "TRICK OR TREAT" so she can get some candy. Well my first, out of 4, neighbors came and as they screamed "TRICK OR TREAT" I couldn't even reach down to give them candy before Rhay runs up behind me and says "OH THANK YOU!"
Are you laughing yet? :D She carries on with holding her hands out so that they can give her candy, the poor little boy just stared at me with confusion! I gave them their candy and my mom and I just shared a good laugh together ;) Oh that girl!  We then explained to her she has to go to a door and say "TRICK OR TREAT" and then she will get candy, of course after she eats her dinner....
She scarfed her dinner and ran out the door with her dad only to find about only 6 of the neighbors were home :( So even though they didn't go far the neighbors generously gave (way to much) and dumped candy into my 2 yo and 18mo olds' bags! Are you kidding me? So not only do I have all the neighbors candy but the 300 pieces I bought!!! I have never seen my children intake so much sugar and the effects are crazy! Taelyn went into a sugar coma at about 9 o'clock. Yes, you guessed it Rhaylee was up ALL night. That girl couldn't sit still to save her life. I went to check on her at 12am and she had just passed out on top of her blankets with one wrapped around her head and backwards with a leg hanging off the edge! NEVER again will I let her consume that much sugar. Because of that night I now have a 2 year old that will not sleep...3 days later....! So the plan for next year is...let the girls go a little earlier and then pass their candy out except for 3 pieces! LOL
P.s. can somebody come take all this chocolate out of my house? PLEASE!

This one is for GiGi and Papa... yes Jessie did turn into a fairy, surprisingly it wasn't that cold this year :)

Halloween 2011

Here they are! In case you can't tell those are Bert and Ernie pumpkins (minus the hair)! They started dying so quickly before I even got to the store...why waist money on hair for dying pumpkins (or alive for that matter)? :) Anywho, Princess Tiana (Rhay) is one heck of a character when she puts that dress on! She smiles and twirls for the camera, is super nice to her sister, and just obeys every little thing I say! It's amazing what a difference there is between Rhaylee as a 2 year old and Rhaylee with a crown! Maybe I should let her be a princess every day? Don't answer that mom! ;) 

Jessie (Taelyn) on the other hand HATES playing dress up! Ha! She was so irritated and wanted to wear a princess crown. I tried to get her to say Yee-Haw and cheese for a nice picture and this was the best I got! Man, she is a little fire ball! I can tell Rhay is just going to love Trick or Treating and being a princess for the day, but I have a huge feeling little Miss Tae Tae will be a handful and we wait in lines for candy she can't eat, in an outfit she hates! 

The best part of this is...I get to stay home and pass out candy while Daddy gets to take them on their adventure around the block! 

Awwww finally... alone with a huge bowl of chocolate! Is it Monday yet???

Tangled Tae Tae

Well it has been a while since I wrote on here! Not much funny going on either! Recently I discovered Taelyn's singing ability. When she doesn't have that darn sucker in her mouth you can actually understand what she is saying/singing. :) The girls are in princess mode and boy oh boy are they into it! I never thought that I would be a mom to two lil' princesses! Picture this....the girls are watching Tangled...

Taelyn in her lime green tutu standing directly in front of the TV (which is right at her level). How do kids even see that close anyways? Well, she is standing with her nose touching the TV as I'm doing my study. All of sudden the "I Have A Dream" song comes on and she is singing every other word and doing the moves with Rapunzzle (how the heck do you spell that?). It is the cutest thing ever! So I turn to watch her and don't even bother to get the camera because each time I do the performance stops! But the funnniest part of it all is that she sang with the "bad guys" and her personality changed to ruff and tuff and her voice got deeper. I was rolling at this point :D

Taelyn is now memorizing the words of the movie, clapping, and singing along! Too dang cute! MMM I just love that girl :) So now that Halloween is coming I have 2 princess's and I wonder which princess we will be fighting over to dress up as? :)

Hope this put a smile on your face as it did mine!

Princess Purple Chicken!

This one is just a short and sweet one :) But it pretty much made my day! Yesterday after a drive to the lovely Lucerne to drop Kenny off a work Rhaylee and Taelyn just about died from starvation! lol  We ended up at Panda for dinner even though I had a million other things to do!:)
Anyways, Rhaylee and Taelyn usually share a kids meal and I asked Rhay what she wanted. In the car it was noodles and orange chicken so that made the decision on where to go pretty dang easy! Well when we get inside everything changed. From the walk in the parking lot my lovely daughter literally turned into a princess (I missed that transformation)..... back to the "What do you want?"
Rhay first asked for noodles and she got them. Rhay then asks for purple chicken....I said "do you mean orange chicken?" "No! Purple chicken!" Rhay chicken isn't purple." So I went ahead and finished her order asking for orange chicken. Talk about melt down.... Rhay said that she was a princess and a princess LOVES purple chicken (this convo is starting to turn into a "princess" fit) lol Everyone is staring and I'm just cracking up laughing because if you know Rhay when she is set on something she isn't going to give up and I just couldn't help myself. I'm sure I looked like that single mom who couldn't control her children! lol :) In the background there was also "more, more, more, more, more" from Taelyn! So needless to say my girls and I just put on a dinner show for all of Panda :) We sat down to eat and I then explained to Rhay that chicken isn't purple and if it was it would make us sick...even a princess! Let's stick to the orange chicken....Rhay added "Princess Rhay LOVES orange chicken!" OH GEEZ KID!!!! :D


p.s. Princess Ty if you're reading this...doesn't this sound a little familiar? ;)

The moment we all want to forget...

Potty Training! Scary music in the background is totally appropriate to set this mood. I'll be honest there isn't much laughter going on as of now. This sucks!! And with my hard headed, strong willed, insane, and grumpy 2 year old it only makes matters worse :( There should be a warning label for potty training! As of Monday Kenny and I began the adventure based of the 3-day potty training manual that apparently works for everyone but us! I'm on day 4 and I am practically bribing Rhay to pee in the toilet! Kenny was on a 6-day vacation and he was forced to work 2 days into this crazy thing called "pee in the dang toilet" so needless to say, I'm on my own! :( Now that I am on my own my shadow named Taelyn follows us to the potty and insists on eating all the M&M's (Rhay's pee pee treat). As I am encouraging and bribing Rhay to just pee already Taelyn is at my feet, and if you all know her this will make perfect sense, "more!, "more!, more!, more!, more!, more!". I'm stuffing Taelyn with candy just so that she will be quiet enough for me to kindly and patiently ask Rhaylee to "PEE in the POTTY!" Once we get a tinkle (this girl can hold pee up to 4 hrs) it's "YAY" and we say "bye bye pee pee" Taelyn easily gets this and I'm thinking at this time that I'm totally training the wrong kid hahaha :) Anyways, I'm glad that I took the time to write all this out because I'm finally getting a giggle as I actually read it! Now it's a plea for prayer...please pray for Rhay and I. Pray that we have patience with each other and that we can be successful very very soon and that I can make just a few more days without turning into a Pee Pee Nazi :/

Potty Training Side Effects:
Migranes
Break outs due to stress
Sleepless nights
Hair loss due to stress
Weak stomach
Dry hands due to excessive washing
Irritability
Exhaustion
Weight gain due to the M&M consumption

Please consider before taking that journey! :) I'll let ya'll know if we come out alive!

Jo and the Whale

Now I'm laughing....

Each weekend my family attends HDC and of course the girls go to their own classes to learn a little about Jesus. I must add that every time we reach the street it's on my ears are pierced with this loud screaming and cheering to show their excitement to go to church (absolutely LOVE it) wouldn't you??
Any who, before Rhay reached the "big girl" side I was just used to coloring pages or sometimes a craft here and there that wouldn't even make it home, as every sticker was pulled off and occasionally eaten by Taelyn! Now that Rhay has entered her new class we have had so much fun seeing how much that brain of her's just soaks up. If you don't know the story of Jonah and the Whale then let me first give you a brief summary.
God had a command for Jonah and he was stubborn and ran away from God and his command.  As Jonah was "running" he was on board a ship. God cast a storm and told the crew to throw Jonah over into the water, and they did, as they feared the Lord. When Jonah was thrown into the water a large fish ate him and he remained 3 days in the fish belly. This is when Jonah repented and finally complied with God's command and the big fish puked him out so that he was able to complete the task God had for him.
Ok, so there is the basic story of Jonah.... here is the funny part! Below is Rhay's brief summary of Jo (she gave him a nickname) and the Whale!
Me: "Rhay, what did Jonah said to God?"
Rhay: "NO GOD!"
Me: "What happened to Jonah?"
Rhay: "Jo ate by a fish!"
Me: "Did Jonah say yes to God after that?"
Rhay: " Jo said YES and he SPIT him out...(insert puke noise here)
Me: " What do we say to God, Rhay?"
Rhay: "NO!!!"
Me: "We are suppose to say YES to God!"
Rhay: "No! Rhay ate by fish!"
So if you are not laughing by now, I don't know what will make you laugh! Funny that they teach this story so young! As a 2 year old must think it is totally awesome!!! I mean who wouldn't want to get eaten by a whale? Or get puked out by a whale? right??? uh, right?

On the more serious side isn't this story amazing?! God showed so much patience and mercy towards Jonah! Maybe they teach this in Sunday school so that the kids can bring it home to the mothers! It's funny how God speaks to me, sometimes through my girls....very much thankful it's not supernatural and by a hungry fish! ;)

It begins...

Hello!
I should probably share a little about myself before I start this journey of blogging. My name is Sharon, I got married in September of 2007, nine months later we found out that I was pregnant with our first daughter and then 6 months after her the second one was on the way! Yep, you guessed it! I thought I would start blogging about my adventures of daily life. My oldest is now 2 1/2 years old and my baby is 16 months. I have read many blogs written by mothers and 'my oh my' do I have my share of stories! 


What started this whole blog....
We just moved into a new home and you would think there wouldn't be much to stress about it since everything is new but something as small as sprinklers can ruin everything! So apparently no one can program a sprinkler system around here, including the gardeners who installed it. Ha! Anyways, this isn't a chance to vent about that....but that is to blame for what's next! My daughters have a routine to sit at our nook table and have a cookie before bed time and I happen to notice that our back yard is flooding. So I run to the garage to shut off the sprinklers (literally run) because Tae, my 16mo, likes to kick the table and push herself backwards. Mind you, they already had a bath and were in jammies by 7:20pm. Bed time is at 8pm and I thought I was doing so well and was counting down the minutes until my Skinny Cow dessert ;) As the girls were getting their stuffed animals and blankets and every other excuse not to go to bed I checked on the system to make sure that I had it back on for the morning flood. I was gone no longer than 7 seconds and I come in to a smell of baby powder. A very STRONG smell of baby powder. My oldest, Rhay was standing in the hallway as I noticed the powder on the floor...she took off running before I could ask her to come back and find out who was guilty. (Enter drum roll here) Tae came around the corner with WHITE hair! Tae was covered in baby powder!!! Ok, so this wouldn't be that big of a deal except for now I have to give them another bath, 4 unnecessary items of clothing are in the hamper, 2 clean diapers in the trash, and 1 whole bottle of baby powder to replace. I strip them down for bath #2 and before you know it Tae is now peeing on the bathroom floor. I throw them in the tub, clean up the pee, wash Tae's hair (powder down to her scalp), dry them, lotion them, dress them, and put them to sleep. After all that, there was just no laughter yet. I decided to share with my husband and sister via text and photos as I sat outside eating my Skinny Cow thinking I have got to blog this stuff! (Enter laughter here) :D