Pros and Cons of a Day

Bad things that happened today:

1.  I had the kids help me make heart shaped cookies for Activity Days tonight and I thought Cooper could help too.  He made ONE heart shape and then grabbed a handful of dough and shoved it in his mouth.  I yelled, "Cooper, NO!" to which he immediately grabbed the gob out of his mouth and put it back with the rest of the dough.  This brought on even more yells and I gave him back the gob and told him to just eat it and then I washed him off and gated him in the living room . . . he cried and cried because he wanted to keep making cookies.  (Just so you know, I always let the kids eat some of the dough, just not until the end of the process.)

2. I burnt one of the batches of cookies.  Lesson learned: don't bake cookies of different sizes at the same time.  Haha!

3.  Olivia spit up all over my shirt and pants and I had just washed those pants and they are the only ones that fit me comfortably right now.  (I'm in between maternity clothes and my regular clothes so I'm quite limited on wardrobe options).

4.  Olivia needed to eat right when I was getting the kids lunch so I didn't get to eat lunch myself until awhile later.

5.  While cleaning up lunch, I heard a yell from the bathroom that a butt needed wiped.  I thought it was Gracie so I yelled, "You gotta wipe yourself this time!" only to find that it was Lindsey who had been yelling. I walked in the bathroom to find her with poo all over her hands and on the toilet seat, and big tears streaming down her cheeks.  Poor thing! She did TRY to wipe herself. She was about to go down for a nap and she sucks her thumb.  Even though her hands were washed, the thought grossed me out, so I put a bandaid on her thumb, hoping it would keep her from sucking on it.  Bad Mom award.

Good things that happened today:

1.  I made heart shaped peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and had just enough squeeze cheese to give each kid their own I Love You wheat thins. (I never do fun things like this, so I was pretty pleased.)

2.  The cookies are done for tonight.

3.  I got our bedding as well as Cooper's washed this morning and I finally got some milk stored in the freezer for Olivia since formula makes her puke. (Too much information I know, but I've been wanting to get started on this for a long time.)

4.  I actually got to shower before noon. (Make-up and hair have yet to be done.)

5.  Olivia finally fell asleep for a nap so I was able to burn off pictures from my camera and work on the blog.

6.  I found this adorable video of the girls making cookies last year on Valentine's Day.  It seemed to be a lot better experience than this years so I wanted to share it.  I can't believe how much they change in just one year!