Picture Round UP

 Harper @ preschool open house

 Lily working hard on homework

 Butterfly PB&J

 Swingset  canopy and flags I made, not perfect but way better than spending 300.00 on a new one!

 Last beach day on Labor Day

First day of preschool!

 Sure, she eats screws, smears lipgloss all over the carpet, colors on the walls and obviously just emptied a whole container of wipes in front of her BUT she also read Bible stories to her baby doll so who cares about the other stuff?

 I found this note Lily had wrote to me on her table at school for Open House

Dear Mommy, I bet your going to like my teacher. I will miss you alot. Your the best Mommy in the wourld. Love, Lily 

 Is this the face of a kid that cares she has a screw inside her? Nope. Waiting for the xray

 Blessed, our girls are so blessed to have him for a Daddy.

Haley & Jason playing roll the ball with your elbow, your chin, your thumb, your toes...it's pretty complicated..

The Rules

 

After the gum saga of a few days ago, Lily & Lacy have decided to lay down the law. They called Harper & Haley to a meeting in their room yesterday to talk about "Consecrences" which I think are like consequences. Here's what was discussed:

 

 

 I think those are the consequences for taking gum or other items from their room. I'm not sure if #2 & #4 mean that Haley & Harper will be pinched or scratched if they steal gum but seems pretty serious. I think #5 is scare 10x which they must have gotten from Jason who loves scaring people.

Here's whats so funny about this sign, besides the pretty hearts that Lily added to make it not look mean. I said, "Lily, I love the sign you made but Harper & Haley can't read"  Lily then gives me that awesome look that girls have that says "You are an idiot Mom" without saying a word and then replies:

"I know Mommy, that's why I wrote it so BIG"

The Screw Saga!

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You know those shows or a news report about someone's kid swallowing a battery or a nail or a matchbox car? And you know how you think, "Gosh, don't people watch their kid?" and you judge just a little because your kid has never done anything like that? I mean, yeah, one shoved a fuzzy craft ball up their nose but they didn't swallow anything. Judge no more, Haley swallowed a screw, actually an eye screw to be specific. One Sunday, after lunch, girls were acting crazy, Jason's packing to go overseas, I'm upstairs putting away laundry, the stair basket gets knocked over & Haley finds two screws which looked tasty, puts them in her mouth. Lily starts yelling for me telling me Haley has screws in her mouth, I sternly tell her to "SPIT THEM OUT!", she did but only one. Lily stuck by the fact that Haley had two in her mouth and only one came out. Bless that child and her tattletale, nosy ways! We looked for the other screw, couldn't find it, Jason's getting ready to be picked up for the airport, I call the pediatrician, tell the other girls to pack some toys/snacks/books because I think I'll be sitting in the ER with my 4 kids while they extract a screw. Nope. Dr. said it's super common, should pass within a few days, call back if it hasn't. At that point, I really didn't think she had swallowed it but I still dug through her diapers all week.

 

 

Friday came, no screw. Jason was more insistent we go & get an xray. There was no radiologist to read the xray but they gave us a copy to keep. We got home, I gave it to Jason and I'm out mucking out the car and Jason yells, "Jenny, get in here" and my mouth fell open as I saw the screw in our little girls gut. We were much more worried than any Dr.! Dr. still said it should pass on its own, it was stuck in some stool. Tuesday xrays showed it hadn't moved much so we did Operation Clean Out for Haley. Giant doses of Miralax for 2 days + a liquid diet = one grossed out Mom. And still no screw! Friday's Xray showed it had moved & Dr. said another day or two. Great, that meant Jason would be there to dig through diapers! Of course not. Monday was the big day, said her bottom hurt a few times and then after one more diaper dig, there was the screw. No, I didn't save it.

 

 

Some of Haley's reaction to the screw:

Me, "Haley, we never ever put anything in our mouth, except food"

Haley, "And suckers!"

 

Jason, "Haley, it scares Mommy & Daddy when you do things like that"

Haley jumps and yells, "BOO! I scare you!"

 



Importance of Gum

Gum in our house is a valued commodity, I have no idea why but it's a ridiculously big deal especially to the little girls. I used to ban gum from their little mouths but quickly gave up on that idea when I unsuccessfully tried to potty train Haley & gum was her reward. Not only does she love to chew gum, she prefers to chew at least 7 pieces at a time. Whenever we're out and about, the older girls will ask for their own pack of gum, they will store up gum in their backpack for the 7 minute bus ride home in the afternoon and spend alot of time finding gum hiding spots in their room so the little ones don't find it. So, today while the big ones were at school, I hear Harper & Haley run in their room, close their door and then here them close their closet door. They're horribly bad about being sneaky! Ran upstairs, opened their door, their closet door, Haley immediately yells, "GUM!" and then shows off a whole pack of gum in her mouth.

Lily & Lacy get home and after homework, head upstairs to check their super secret gum hiding spots and alas, no gum. Lily starts sobbing because, well she's Lily and with that, goes alot of drama, even about gum. She then starts to interrogate Harper,

Lily, "Why did you take all the gum?"
Harper, "Because I love gum so much"
Lily, "Don't you see how upset I am?"
Harper, "But I love gum"
Lily, "DO YOU SEE HOW UPSET I AM?"
Harper, "Well, yeah, but I love gum"
Lily, "But we hid it from you"
Harper, "Well maybe you should put it up real high next time"

Harper's QPM

 Jason's term for Harpers' excessive question asking is "QPM", so when I told him that Harper's question asking has greatly increased with Lily & Lacy in school all day he said, "So her QPM is up?" Yes, her Questions Per Minute rate is at least double when she's not being interrupted. She also told me "Mommy, I can talk so much more when my sisters are not interrupting me!" Me too Harper, me too!

1st day of preschool!

My crazy girls' first day of preschool..Harper was unbelievably ready for her first day. Backpack on, waiting on the sidewalk with the big girls like she she was getting on the bus even though I explained to her several times she wasn't riding the bus. She hung up her backpack on her hook like she's been doing it for weeks, barely gave me a hug but did run back out the classroom door to give Haley Mae a big squeeze. Haley started to cry because she wanted to go with her!

I did shed a few tears on the way back to the car with Haley, what to do when all I had to do was walk with Haley. So many experiences with the girls are becoming bittersweet...I love that our girls are secure enough to walk right in to a new class & jump in but it hurts my heart to let them go, even to preschool.

Here's some Harperisms for this week:
When I told her she needed to go potty before we left for school, "No Mommy, they have potties at school. Really clean potties, not like a port a potty at all!"

"Mommy, why does everybody just think I'm so awesome?"

Harper tried to blame Haley for some writing on the back of the play kitchen, it was done a long time ago and it was actually probably Lacy but.."Mommy, Haley colored on the kitchen"
Me, "Umm...no, I don't think so"
Harper, "She did"
Me, "No, because those are words and letters, Haley doesn't know how to write her letters yet"
Harper, "yes, she does because I teached it to her. I teached her numbers & letters"
Ok, so now she's trying to blame something on her sister AND lying.