Very Random Post

I'm throwing out all of Addison's after watching this SEGMENT on the Today Show this morning!  Gross!

Addison is great at telling me 'bye' when I drop her off at MDO!  It cracks me up how excited she gets & starts waving to me.

Addison was watching Little Bill the other day (because I wasn't giving 100%) & saw he was wearing a hat.  She went over to the coat rack & started saying 'hat..hat'! 

Blake felt the baby move last Friday right before the ultrasound!  This was the first time :)  The movements are just as incredible as I remember.


I have a routine OB appointment in the morning. Wonder how much weight I've gained so far! Surely, 3 bowls of ice cream a day will catch up with me eventually!

Okay, I've been trying to link a video in this post, but something isn't working! So, Google Darius Rucker - It won't be like this for long. Such a sweet, sweet song. Thanks to my neighbor for bringing it to my attention. It will make great background music to a picture slideshow.

Here is something that I've wanted to share for a while, but never got around to it.  For those that have ever been asked 'what did or do you do all day' or 'why didn't this or that get done today'?  What happened?  Well, I came across this gem in a BOOK I've been reading & just had to laugh out loud!

For instance, imagine you're sitting in your kitchen at your computer, trying to pay bills online while your toddler is entertaining herself nearby with toys.  About five minutes into your task, your child approaches you with a runny nose:

• You see your child has a runny nose.
• Before she can wipe her runny nose on your pants, you get up from your chair to get a tissue.
• You return to the child and wipe her nose.
• Now you see that the child's shirt is wet and messy, as are your fingers.
• You remove the child's shirt.
• You go to the kitchen sink to wash your hands.
• The sink has dishes in it, so you rinse the dishes to put them in the dishwasher.
• But the dishwasher is full of clean dishes.  You empty the dishwasher and then fill it with dishes from the sink.
• You tell your child to play with her toys while you go upstairs to get her another shirt.
• When you get upstairs you toss the shirt into the laundry room.
• Passing the bathroom on your way to your daughter's closet, you realize you actually need to use the bathroom.  You do, and you use up the toilet paper.
• You go to the hall closet and get more toilet paper.
• You return to the bathroom to replace the roll.
• The bathroom trash is full, so you grab the bag and replace it with another.
• You go into your child's room to find a new shirt.
• While there, you see that a sippy cup, full of milk, is in her bed, and that she's left her wet overnight diaper on the floor.
• You put the diaper in the trash bag you're carrying. (Wow, that was efficient!)
• You make your daughter's bed and gather the sippy cup.
• On the way back downstairs, you catch another glimpse of the laundry room and realize you have enough dirty clothing to do a load of wash.
• You open the washing machine to discover there's already a wet load inside.
• You start to put those wet clothes into the dryer, but the dryer is full.
• You pull the clean clothes out of the dryer and put them in a basket.
• You put the wet clothes in the dryer.
• You put the dirty clothes, including the yucky shirt, in the washing machine and start the washer.
• Since you really don't have time now to sort the clean clothes, you leave the basket of clean laundry on your bed.
• You return downstairs and search for your shirtless child.
• You pass the sink, so you rinse the sippy cup and put it into the dishwasher.
• You try to shove the bathroom trash into the kitchen trash container, but it's full.
• You take the trash out to the garbage cans in the garage.
• You come back into the house and put another bag in the trash container.
• You find your child.
• Her nose is running again, her face and chest now need to be cleaned, she has gotten into the bills and papers your were working with, she needs a diaper change, and it's lunchtime.

How much time did it take you to wipe that child's nose?  Fifteen minutes?  Twenty minutes?  A half-hour?  Imagine variations on this scenario playing out DOZENS of times a day.  Imagine that same scene, except with additional offspring in the house.  You don't have ADHD.  You have children!  Written By: Melissa Stanton