Swimming Lessons cont......

Excited to jump in
Seth putting his face under
Sarah with her teacher

Here are some pictures from the second day of swimming lessons.

Why Mothers Don't Wear Makeup

Got up at 6:50 to get Seth some juice. Layed back down. Got up at 7:25 to Sarah screaming Mommm! Ran to her to find out that she wanted to show me the stars on her crib bumper so that we could sing twinkle, twinkle. Sang twinkle, twinkle. Layed Sarah on the couch and started Barney. She started crying for juice. Got the juice. Thought I had a second to potty...nope, Seth had now run out of juice. Get the juice, try to slip into the bathroom. Sarah starts crying and informs me that she is hungry. I tell her that mommy needs to potty and that I will get her food in a moment. She throws herself on the ground and has a fit because she is hungry. So, I start some scrambled eggs. While I am cooking the eggs, I remember that Sarah has a Dr Appt in an hour. Ok, I think I can get things together in an hour. Feed the kids there eggs and take a quick shower. Get dressed and start to put on some makeup. Seth starts screaming from the living room that Sarah has pooped. I go out there to find Sarah sheepishly standing next to her diaper (yes, NEXT to her diaper). I look up to find poop on our end table. I clean up the poop and replace the diaper. Back to the makeup. 1 min later it is too quiet. I check on Sarah to find out that she has found a pack of gum and unwrapped several pieces that she is now chewing on. Take away the gum (not without a fight) and go back to my makeup. Seth comes in and informs me that Sarah has "eaten" his teck deck (miniature skateboard). I find Sarah with all the wheels of the broken tech deck in her mouth. Pry them out and go back to my makeup. I quickly realize that I should check the time and wouldn't you know it....we are going to be late for our dr. appt. Get to appt and get through Sarah's shots just to find out that the Dr. would like me to take her to the lab to get some blood drawn. You know how that went. Not good. Anyway, that was my morning (this all happened by 11:00 a.m.) Now you know. So, if you see a mother in the store or the Dr office without any makeup on, just know that she earns the right not to wear it.

Swimming Lessons

Sarah and Seth started swimming lessons today!!!! I am a bad mother and forgot my camera, but they did so good! I must say, it was a little hard for me. Sarah is taking a mommy and me swimming class, but Seth goes away with his own teacher for an hour! It is the first time he has ever done anything that I could not be part of (besides nursery, which every mormon mother knows is quite alright). He did really good..(even without me), he already learned to hold his breath and get his body moving in a somewhat forward motion. Sarah learned to blow bubbles and kick :) Anyway, I will post pics tomorrow. (If I am still alive, I am attempting my hike again tomorrow).

Mel's Hiking Adventure

I went hiking yesterday. Ok, I will admit, it was beautiful to see the sunrise (we started at 4:45 a.m.), and it was a great workout (I think I burned seventeen thousand calories)., but it was HARD. I almost passed out three times, almost threw up about a dozen times, thought I saw snakes (sticks that look strikingly similar to snakes when laying on the side of a hiking trail), and ran because I thought a mountain lion was chasing me (turns out it was just the buckle on my backpack hitting the bushes). But I must say, I do feel good having acomplished something so out of my norm. A couple things I learned.... 1) Don't run down steep hills, 2) Keep your eyes on the trail....you will see strange creatures if you look into the bushes, 3) I am not an "outdoorsy" type of person.

Food Storage?

While I did the dishes the other day Sarah was playing in our pantry. She was moving around all the canned goods and seemingly looking for something. Every few minutes she would head off to her room and then come back a min or two later and start rummiging through the pantry again. Later on that day when I was picking up the kids room, I opened her refridgerator and came across this....



Yep, its tuna. All perfectly organized in her cute little fridge. I think she gets the organization gene from me....ha ha ha! Actually, my pantry is anything but organized...so it is so adorable to me that she searched through it until she found all the tuna.

Happy Day

It is a happy day for me.....my crappy camera is working!!! My good one is still broken, but what can you do? Anyway, here is some new pics of the kiddos that I took today. Sarah was playing with her dolls...and Seth was the "fixer man" that would fix her doll stoller whenever it broke (it tends to collapse a lot because she shoves about five dolls in it whenever she takes them on a "walk" around the living room). And because my son is three and going through a silly stage...he wanted me to take a funny one to put on the "comptudor".

Broken camera

Sorry I have been ignoring my blog...my camera is broken and it is just not the same posting without pictures. I am so upset, my good camera broke a while ago, and now my small crappy (is that a bad word?) camera is broken too. Poor me :) Anyway, the kids are doing great. Jimmy starts back to school in about a month, and I am going back to school too!!! I will taking some photography courses and I am so excited!