"There's something brown in the bath...."

Oh dear, when I heard those words I knew it wouldn't end well. Olivia and Cassidy were in the bath. Olivia says "There's something brown in the bath but it's not poo" As I'm walking to the bath I'm thinking "what else could it be?" And sure enough as I walk in Olivia says "Oh ya, it is poo." And there it is in all it's glory- slowly breaking apart and floating all around the bath. Olivia can get out on her own and I scooped Cassidy out. I grilled Olivia "Did you touch it? Did she touch it?" hands were scrubbed anyways, bodies were washed outside the bath with a washcloth and lots of soap. Once I got the girls into fresh pj's I had then had to turn my attention to the bath tub. I will spare the disgusting details but let's just say I contemplated throwing all the toys away. They are sitting in bleach right now so I may still throw them away.
This is stating the obvious but CLEANING UP POO IS GROSS! And time consuming. Everything gets scrubbed twice as much as it would normally. But the funny part (not really haha funny but parenthood funny) is I had to clean up more poo the next day when Cassidy pooed on the floor. (Potty training-ones of those things you don't miss when it's done and gone.)
***This photo was taken about a month before Cassidy was born in Feb 2010; the only other photos I had of them in the bath someone was always flashing their nakedness)

36 more days...

***This is the girls last year. This was taken before Cassidy turned around....and (oh the horror!) realized she was sitting on a strange man's knee!!! She burst out crying. It was actually kinda funny.***

Oh ya, we're on the count down to Santa day! And while I'm at it, I only have 12 more working days until my Christmas holidays. (that's 3 days a week for 4 weeks) I'm itching to get my tree up and get all my decorations out. I think we're doing it next weekend.

Can you believe that we had snow already? We got out all the mittens, gloves, scarves, boots etc. Now we need to add at least 5-10 minutes to our morning routine so that we can get ourselves organized for the cold weather.

A sisterly story- Olivia was being difficult....insert sigh....as per usual. She is my "spirited child". I was going to give her a juice box in her lunch but she was so difficult that I told her I was now too tired to go out to the garage and that her behaviour wasn't appropriate for a treat. She got mad and said something about me sending horrible lunches. **defense- I'd like to defend myself here and say I send awesome lunches that get eaten up with no leftovers. *** So I make a crack about how yucky lunches should be her consequence for yucky behaviour. Then Lexie pipes in that Olivia should have squash for lunch. Ha ha ha ha!!! I totally crack up and add that I could send it in a baby jar b/c temper tantrums are for babies. Olivia was so mad but she calmed down. She was a little worried that she would get a jar of baby food for lunch but nope, I wouldn't do that. Tempting.....

Random Halloween pictures

Alexis as a fairy at Phoenix Gymnastics and a witch on Halloween night. She loved wearing makeup.

Olivia was a black cat for Phoenix gym and Halloween night. That's her hanging upside down on a bar.

Miss Cassidy insists on feeding herself. Pretty cool most of the time. Here she had gone to the fridge and asked for "yo- gur". I tried to feed it to her and she started to cry. So I put it down on the little table and sat her on the chair. She was a happy little girl. I gave her a spoon but she didn't
think it was necessary.

A rare sighting of mom in a picture.