Just a funny picture

she weighs 30 lbs and thinks it's fun the "help" I don't know how much longer I can keep carrying her in slings but they still work so well when she is sleepy or not feeling so well or I just can't have her running around and need both hands like mowing the lawn or buying lumber at the hardware store and yes the guys at Home Depot think I'm all sorts of fun. FYI Billy has terrible allergies therefore I mow the lawn since he bought me a car and had to cut back on gardening expenses, so I guess I really don't mind because while I'm putting away the lawn mower I get to look at my beautiful durango that I love so much.

so sad

My poor Princess Buttercup died yesterday. I guess it was from the heat stupid global warming. The hardest part was hearing Holden start to cry when Billy came home to tell him, I didn't have the heart to tell him myself. I think it was a good lesson on the facts of life for him that all living things must die at some point and it wasn't anyone's fault it was just an accident. I don't think it took very long for him to get over it though, and by that I mean it didn't take very long for him to start talking me into letting him have a pet snake his reasoning was that they don't die for a really long time and it would stay in his room and snakes are God's creatures too so I can't hate them. I don't know what I'm going to do when he's a teenager, his reasoning skills are just way too advanced for what I am prepared for. I haven't desided if we will get another bunny or not we still have another one that was givin to us but I liked Buttercup way better she never bit me. So long buttercup sorry we accidently killed you .

don't tell mom I'm drinking coke

My cousin's daughter kacie is in town for the week and wanted to take all the kids in the family bowling it was fun they got to drink sodas and eat pizza and licorice. We would set the ball in front of the lane for Ashlynn to roll down but she thought kicking it would be more fun it didn't get very far they had to go down the lane and rescue the stranding ball. Holden did a pretty good job he even got quite a few spares. Ashlynn didn't last very long she was over it after 2 frames so Holden got to bowl for her so she got a pretty good score too. In the last frame she finally let Kacie help her and right after they rolled the bowl she laid down on her stomach with her head in her arms up on elbows kicking her feet back and forth watching the ball it was the cutest sight but of course I didn't have the camera out. Holden was so excited to get to drink soda just like all the other kids and somehow talked me into letting him get candy from the vending machines I told myself it was ok since it was a party and it's ok to do that every once in a while.

No more fluffy bums

After 20 months of washing diapers every other night I am so excited that I wont be washing anymore for a very long time. Making the choice to use cloth diapers was easy for me and I never minding washing them because I knew the benefits far outweighed the inconvenience, but boy am I excited to not be doing it anymore. We said goodbye to diapers and packed them in a box to send to another baby who needs them because my little girl is now a big girl and wears panties all day and all night and as of last week goes all by herself without even telling me. Last week I did catch her faking that she went potty to get a gummy bear, so funny. The best part is when she puts her underwear on backwards and pulls them up real high so both her cheeks are hanging out and wants to leave them that way, I should take a picture but I feel that it might be considered cruel when she's older. Of course I won't miss all the times she peed on my couch or the floor while learning or toilet paper unrolled just for fun or cringing every time I gave her a piece of candy really not wanting to but that was what worked for her so I did it, a little bit sad she is growing too fast but most of all love watching her becoming this little person and see all the fun things her life brings into ours. so here she is unfluffdified
p.s. you are very welcome my darling husband that you don't get to enjoy all the funness that comes with potty learning. Although you did get waken up in the middle of the night by being peed on I'm sure you'll never forget it.