Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I was not like a little girl on Christmas when we bought and brought home a new vacuum last week.  This did not follow weeks of pouring and stressing over consumer reports and personal reviews of various models. I did not chow down my lunch in record time so I could get to work vacuuming.

I did not fail miserably once again at documenting each month with Jill.  I have not let over 2 weeks pass since her 10 month bday without doing a 10 month post.  The memories of what happened when certainly aren’t beginning to blur.  (btw, she took 3 independent steps last week, none since though)

As a parent I would never stoop to bribing my son.  I did not bribe him one two three days in a row in order to get him to actually sleep at naptime.  Bribes did not include going bowling, have one of my small group girls babysit him, and a lollipop.  I’m certainly not debating what to try as today’s bribe.

I was not “that” mom who drags her kids out after bedtime just to not have to sit at home alone.  It was not 9:30ish before we headed home from bowling with Student Edge Friday night.  I was not beyond amazed that my sweet daughter was able to sleep through the crazy noise in her stroller.

My goals for the week are not: a)  no one stays in pajamas past noon, b)  beds get made before going to be in them again, and c)  we get out of the house at least once each day.

I’ve you’ve been following the blog for a while, you know I change the header from time to time.  I like to keep it current and sometimes seasonal.  I took this picture a couple of weeks ago, but I just got around to messing with it today.  I’m curious to know your thoughts.  This is the first time I’ve attempted to put a poll on here.  Please, I’d love to know your thoughts.

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. . . is apparently a learned skill.  one which nate hasn’t quite learned yet.  we were heading back to “blue” (the van) today after a successful trip to village pointe when it happened.  about a half to one inch variation in sidewalk height caught him just right, or wrong i guess.  i saw it happen in slow motion though it was so fast there was nothing i could do to stop it.  poor guy.

smiling a few hours later, but he sure was shaking in my arms after it happened.

he wanted me to wash it off (as in get rid of, not to clean) before bed.

although nate didn’t find the following picture painful, brad and i sure did.  yikes.  if a pair only lasts 6 weeks, we have some major budget issues!!!

someone really needs to teach the guy to put his hands out when falling though.  it’s never fun to catch yourself with your face!

seriously?!?!?  as if raising kids wasn’t hard enough as it is, now another step has been added to the daily routine.  luck for us only for about a month though.  what is it you’re wonder???  well, i’ll share.

earlier today i was talking with my older sister ginny.  she asked me if i knew i was suppose to use cold tap water when making bottles and then warm the water.  i had no clue and thought she was making things up.  apparently it’s legit.  the epa talks about it on their website.  there was also stuff on our local water department’s site about it and the cdc’s site.  apparently you should use a bottle warmer to warm the water.  or in our case a cup of hot water we set it in and replace a few times.  lucky for us jill only gets formula once a day and should be making the switch to whole milk in about a month.  i don’t think i’d be taking this information quite as well though if i was my sister-in-law and had umpteen bottles to fix for triplets every day!!!  i’ve seen the results of lead in former students, and it’s not something i want my kids to deal with!

on the whole safe kid’s issue, there’s one other thing i’ve been meaning to mention.  i actually heard about it from a friend and her blog.  i don’t know about all of you, but i’m terrible about filling out product registration cards for every last thing, and then there’s everything else that doesn’t have one.  how in the world am i suppose to keep up with what’s being recalled.  sure they put the big things on the news and such, but what if i miss it.  anyways, you can sign up to get emails from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.  i opted to just receive the ones dealing with infant/children’s products.  there are often toys, cribs, clothes and such being recalled.  just today i got one for a million play yards which were being recalled.

back to cute kid pictures and stories now!

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Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

i never would have facebooked the following status: “the kids are on the back porch playing – time for me to make lunch. why can’t it always be this peaceful?”  i mean, what mother in her right mind does that kind of thing.  we know we’ve just jinxed it by announcing it.  right?  it was not less than three minutes later when i heard nate shouting for me and yelling at jilly.  she had certainly not crawled over to a potted plant to have a pre-lunch snack.  i did not learn to valuable lessons.  1)  keep peacefulness to myself – don’t brag and 2) put potted plants on top of grill when letting 10 month old loose.

keeping with jilly’s explorative nature theme.  she did not dumped the dog’s water all over the kitchen floor twice in a matter of 2 days.  the following picture was not her reaction to me removing some of maggie’s (the dog) food from her sweet mouth:

nearing the end of brad’s third 12ish hour workday in a row, i certainly was not ready to throw in the SAHM towel.  enough already.  in an attempt to have one fewer kid demanding my attention, i did not use the shower as a babysitter.  nate certainly did not spend 40 minutes playing the shower.  he of course was not begging me to let him stay longer when i told him we were going to run out of water if he didn’t turn it off.

lastly, the past week has not been a “crappy” (i find a different word more appropriate, but my usage of it would not be appropriate) week.  crappy in the literal sense.  since last monday, nate has not pooped on the bathroom floor twice (both accidental).  jilly didn’t not poop in the tub for the first time ever.  it was not while we were at my in-law’s house.  this is not the first my mother-in-law is hearing of the event due to much chaos going on at the moment.  (kay, we cleaned the tub.  it got a good scrubbing.)  and i will not mention why my husband prayed over our second bathroom toilet while holding the plunger last night when we had 25ish people over for a cookout.

{nate 10 months 0 days}

{jillian 10 months 3 days}

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

i’ve not been enjoying little by little this summer getting a bit of color through different outdoor activities.  i certainly would only get a bit of color with the utmost care.  so, you would not find me getting over a nice peeling sunburn.  and i certainly would have learned my lesson after that one small slip up – that is, if it had actually happened.  if you were to see me today, you would would not notice my arms are burned after sitting on the patio at the pizza place for lunch sunday.  even if this had happened to me, you certainly would not notice a slight pink tint to my, as of yesterday, ten month old baby girl.  i’d never be careless like that.

at his preschool summer camp program, my son was not “that” child.  you know, the one who is paying no attention or randomly asks the teacher to put his shoe back on in the middle of her explaining something.  i was not thoroughly entertained by him throughout the progam.  the former elementary teacher in me did not walk away assuring myself that he’s hardly 3 and has time to learn to sit for the teacher before heading off to kindergarten.  i will enjoy him being 3 and wiggly for now – thank you much!

the f-p little people have not been hard at work to cause humor once again.  (history:  santa’s summer job, wisemen getting wiser)  when nate informed me that the animals were riding in the car transporter, i did not envision animals headed off to, well, become dinner.  i did not find it even more amusing when i saw what was driving them there with a smile.

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