Naps are overrated

*Yaaaaawn* Im so tired today!  I didnt go to bed any later, or earlier than usual.  And yet i cant stop yawning.  It seems like no matter how early i try to fall asleep, i cant.  Until at least 10.  You'd think it would be easier with how tired i am.  But i've always been a night owl, guess that doesnt change even when my sleep has been taken away for months! lol Ella and Aubrey are sleeping and i guess i could nap, but that would leave Madie awake.  And i kinda feel like i shouldnt be sleeping when one of the kids is awake.  At least until she is older.  But then again, how much sleep would it really be?  It would be that day dream sleep when you can hear everything but just cant fully fall asleep.  Either way, its to late now.  I past the point where i'd get anything.  Aubrey has been down for over an hour, which means she could be up any min. or sleep another 2.  The minute i would close my eyes, one of them would wake up and then i would be grumpy! lol

Ella has been dry all morning today.  She didnt chug 2 sippy cups of water this am either.  When she does that, she literally needs go pee every 10 min.  NO LONGER.  12 min. and she has peed her pants!  And that will continue all morning.  Literally!  Its so hard to not just put her in a pull up.  I have her in a pull up for nap time, but most of the time she will wake up dry if she has gone potty right before nap.  

The girls are getting excited for the hay ride on friday evening.  I should hear back sometime this week as to what time slot we got.  I asked for the 6-6:30 one, i think lol  It might have been the 6:30-7 one.  Oh well.  Either one of those will work.  Aubrey has a well child check up Thursday.  As soon as that is over, we will head to ballet/tap class for Madie.  Julia will be at school and i will leave Ella home with Jeremy.  She is just toooooo busy to bring there.  Next week i will have to bring them all though, besides Julia.  Jeremy is going to be training on a tool at work and they want him working a mon-fri shift from 8-5.  So he wont have to go in this Sunday, but in exchange will be working thurs. and friday next week. :/  

Saturday Julia and i have to volunteer to run her girl scout booth at the holiday bizarre.  Its only for 30 min.  I think this weekend we will go see the Zoo lights here.  Probably Sunday, because we never get to go do things on Sundays. 

Im holding off on Santa pictures until i get the cute matching skirts my sister is sending in the mail for my girls.  I hope they are cute!  I havent seen them, but since my sister and i have the same taste in pretty much everything, im sure they will be!  If we get them this week.  I might try and get the Santa picture out of the way too because i want to add it to the Christmas card i will mail out for the holidays.  I like to get those out by the middle of the month or so :)  Next weekend, on Saturday, at 3p, Madie has her winter recital.  I cant wait!  Im sure it will be adorable!  We will take a video of course!! Then on Dec. 19th, at 6:30p, we have Julia's 1st grade musical.  Havent heard much about it, just that they are designing their own snowman shirts to wear for the musical.  They will keep them and can wear them all winter, on fridays, for school spirit day.  Then Julia is off school from the 21st of December to the 8th of January!  Nice long break!

I'll leave you with some picture of the girls i took a few days ago.

Until next time...

Our Crafty December....so far

I dont have a whole lot of time to write a nice long blog, so i'll start with showing the crafts we have been up to this last week.  Its kinda hard to find time to do these when Ella is sleeping AND Julia is home.  So sometimes, its just Madisen, then Ella when she wakes up, and then Julia later after she gets home.  Sometimes i dont even want to do ONE craft, let alone the same craft 3 times in one day! lol  But i make myself so i have some of these things to look back at, or cry at someday :)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

So one of the crafts i did, was for me :)  I saw this on Pinterest.  The person's was better, but it linked to Etsy and wanted $24 dollars.  I was trying to create things i already had at my house, on a budget here people!!  And i had choose gray and the wedding date to be light green, but my Ink in my printer is being weird and wouldnt print the green.  So i went with pink.  Its my husbands birthday, mine, our wedding date, and our kids birthdays.  

Ella got moved to the table, since we need the high chair for Aubrey soon.  Ella thinks she is soooo big now.  I do have to admit that i have put her back in the high chair for breakfast and lunch sometimes, its easier! :)

Cutting out circles

Cutting her circles out

There is two pieces of paper here.  The girls made their own snowman, and cut them out and glued them onto paper.  This kept them busy for awhile!  Julia's is on top, she added clouds to hers.  Madisen's is the bottom, didnt she do great on cutting her circles and the snowman arms?!! :)

Made this the other night as a dessert for the kids.  They loved it!!  We didnt have ice cream, but this was healthier anyways :)

By Madie

Julia added snowflakes to hers

The other day i had them draw a Merry Christmas picture.  Madie draws her durning the nap time of the others and while Julia is at school.  It kinda funny that Julia's usually look pretty similar to what Madie chose to draw.  Which is true on almost everything she makes while Julia is at school lol.

100 squats by the 31st!

Decided to join a Squat-a-thon this month.  Someone posted it on facebook so i was like, why not? lol  Then i posted it.  So a few of my friends, including my mom, are going to do it with me this month.  Woohoo!! 

4 months old!

Aubrey turned 4 months old yesterday!!!  Shes getting big!!  Which also mean that tomorrow, Ella will be 21 months old.  Time is flying!  I cant believe in a few months i'll have a 7, 5, and a 2 year old.  Plus a 7 month old! 

I had to cut a lot of little hand prints out!

All my girls little hands :)

Instead of 4 wreaths, i made it into ONE!

My almost finished project!

The wreath looks good i think!  I have been debating on changing the little hand prints that are acting as the bow of the wreath to a different color.  Ive gotten the suggestion for White, i think i'll go with that.  Thank you Darlene! :)

Our wall Christmas Tree

The girls adding Ornaments

Yes we are going to get a REAL tree too!! lol  I just thought about this idea yesterday and went with it!  My idea was to have this tree on the wall and the girls would make ornaments to hang on it.  They made like 5 or something yesterday, and then i decided instead of trying to make a ton right then, why not make it more of a game that goes all month long.  So i told them they could each make an ornament every day and hang (stick) on the tree.  And by Christmas Day, they would have each made 25!! Not including the ones they made the day i put it up.  They are so excited!!  We are also excited to find out that my Nana is sending the older girls an advent calendar.  She tends to get them one every year and they so look forward to it!  So they were over joyed when i told them Nana is sending them one this year.  Julia was just asking about when we were going to go get one this year.  Now i dont have to!!  Thanks Nana!! You rock!!

On top of all the other things we are managing to do and keep up on this month,  we have our Elf on the Shelf too!  This is where he decided to be this morning when the girls woke up :)  I always like this idea until a week or two into december and then im like, Why did i start this?? lol  Sometimes i forget to move him until the am and have to hurry...or i'll remember right as im falling alseep. haha

Ok i smell a dirty diaper that needs changing.  Thanks Aubrey! lol  
Until next time....