Friday Quick Takes (54)

 

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I guess it's time to cut Anthony's hair again.  He got called a girl three times last night.  One lady insisted that "he cannot be a boy, he's just way too pretty!".  I don't know what shouted "girl" about the navy blue shark outfit and blue and orange tennis shoes he was sporting, but I guess people just can't get past those curls and eyelashes!

Yup.  He's always eating.

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During Mass last night, when the priest said , "with Francis our Pope", Anna declared "Yay Pope Francis Be Quiet!"  Everyone around us laughed.  What she meant was "Yay, I love Pope Francis!  Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be quiet in Mass..."  However, it sounded like she was shushing our Pope.

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Anna had some kind of weird virus or infection or something over the weekend.  She only got sick twice, but then her poop bottom was so raw that she refused to pee for like 48 hours.  She cried every time we put her on the potty, "Anna butt hurt!"  We tried everything and finally on Sunday afternoon (Happy Mother's Day to me...) I caved and took her to PromptCare.  Of course they wanted a urine sample.  I tried to explain that he hadn't peed in 2 days, did they really think that sitting on a strange potty with a promise of a silly sticker was going to do it?  

Well, after an hour and a half, a full on tickle fest, a promise of some ice cream and a piece of grandma's carrot cake, AND the sticker, she finally gave them the required amount for a urine sample.  Only to find out a few days later that it actually wasn't a UTI.  She's all better now, but for a few days, I felt like all our potty training efforts had restarted.  She hasn't had an accident in months and all of the sudden she'd lost control again.  Thankfully once her massive rash cleared up, she was back to her usual self.  I hope that virus never hits again! 

And every day since she begs me to take her to the doctor (because they give her stickers, of course) because she "needs mecine for my butt".

My sick girl.

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That was the stinky part of Mother's Day, but reminded me of why I'm so very thankful to be a mom.  But when I got home, Jeremy had cleaned the entire house top to bottom while Anthony napped.  He thought of everything.  And then we went to my in-laws for dinner and my FIL had gotten an ice cream cake, my favorite.  Yum.  All in all, it was a nice Mother's Day, a wonderful chance to spend time with family and enjoy being the person who my babies call "Mama" (or "Ommy" as a certain toddler still insists on calling me).  

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So I consider myself to have a "black thumb".  As opposed to a green thumb.  I kill everything.  Can't keep a plant alive to save myself.

So we planted some vegetables.  And some herbs (cause my last attempt at an herb garden was such a stellar succes...).  And lots of flowers.

We'll see how it goes.  But so far, things are looking good.  I have sprouts from all of my seeds and I haven't killed anything yet.  I think my success thus far has to do with a very enthusiastic 2 year old who LOVES to help water the plants.  It's now a daily activity (where it used to be something I ignored completely).  We recently got a rain barrel and she loves filling up her watering can.  We were also able to use some of our compost that's been composting for about 2 years now.

Filling up our watering cans with our new rain barrel.

She's such a good helper. 

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We are just loving the park weather around here.  It finally feels like spring/summer and we are eating it up.  Most waking moments are spent outside around here.  And the sleeping moments are longer because of it.  I forget how beautiful our yard and trees are in the spring and summertime.  All of the sudden everything has life again.

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Jeremy was on jury duty this week.  He actually got picked to be on a trial, a sexual assault case.  Yikes.  So anyway, every day when he got ready to leave, Anna asked her usual, "Daddy work today?"  But instead of our usual "Yes, daddy works today."  We said, "No, daddy has jury duty."  Anna walked around all week telling people that "daddy has duty today".  We got a few good laughs out of it.

So today we told her he was all done with his duty.  Jeremy took her to the bathroom when we were at the grocery store and she exclaimed, while in the men's room, with other occupied stalls that "Daddy all done duty."  And left it at that.  Jeremy was a little bit mortified.  I couldn't control my laughter.

And a completely unrelated but cute picture of my kiddos.  Anthony's so concentrated on what Anna's doing.  He just adores her. 

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