This is a story about poop.
Rather the wierd pooping habits of a one Miss Ruth Catherine.
She has been in big girl pants for about 3 weeks with no accidents. The poop party and the trip to Chuck E. Cheese I am sure had alot to do with it.
She has developed a wierd habit that I am not quite sure how to curb.
When she has pooped on the potty she insists on taking a picture of it. I mean, she comes running and screaming from the bathroom "mom, get the camera" She then proceeds to insist on taking a picture of her poop (then of course checking on the screen to make sure she can see it) quickly followed by posing next to the potty and insisting that I take a picture of her with her poop, (this too is quickly followed by a verification on the camera screen that the picture is acceptable, yes we have had to do re-takes). The whole routine is then followed by a flush and a one miss Ruth Catherine screaming into the toilet bowl "SEE YOU LATER POOP!"
Now I know this may seem hard to believe but yesterday while we were not near the camera to stop the massive meltdown that started because the camera was not near I took a picture on my cell phone and then proceeded to insist on flusing and since the phone is not really a camera so Ruthie says, she wanted me to save the poop until we got the camera at a later time.
So there you have it, we now have an entire collection of Ruth Catherine original's. I am sure that her children will love these pics as I am certainly going to make an album. Otherwise nobody would ever believe me.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Updates
Well, alot has happened since our last post.
1. We spent many hours working with the insurance company and the disaster team on their many bills and estimates. It appears that as soon as someone hears the words..." this is covered under insurance" everyone starts padding their bills to stake a claim at our miniscule insurance payout. Seriously the disaster team claimed in their estimate that there were 12 fans in our basement at $155 a day. And let's be honest, even Ruthie and Lulu can count to 12 but there was really only 8! COME ON PEOPLE!!!! That wasn't the only thing that they totally tried to hose us on.
2. The insurance company has finally closed the claim on our basement and we can hopefully get a check in the near future. Good thing since we already have workmen trying to put the pieces back together again.
3. The basement is under construction. We have a great little workman that is fixing all the drywall and baseboards and such.....Let's hope that number 2 is really for sure because I am sure he would not be really nice when we tell him we can't pay him.
4. All the toys and stuff that was in the basement is now all over the house. Causing everyone to be extremely uncentered in their beings.
5. Still don't have a working computer so I have to use Simon's at night. I all but tackle him when he gets in the door for his computer. I feel like it is not bad enough that I am stuck watching the Sprout channel all day (Seriously, I can't even watch the news these days without causing the girls to get nightmares) so a computer is our connection to the outside world.
6. We still haven't been able to get any of our thousands of pictures off the computer or have been able to obviously download any new ones that have been taken. I know everyone is really bummed about not seeing updated pictures but you'll just have to wait.
ON A MUCH BRIGHTER NOTE - - POSITIVE STUFF
1. Ruthie has been in big girl pants for 6 days. And while alot of you may not understand this as being huge it is not only huge it is TOTALLY HUGE! She has been on strike with pooping on the potty and we had a huge breakthrough last week. With the breakthrough came a wonderful big girl panty party! Way more politically correct than "The Poopy Party". She picked out a beautiful princess dress and princess slippers and there were balloons, pizza, and cake as well as a whole clothesline of panties strewn through the dining room.
2. My roommate from college Meredith came to visit for the night with her boys and was in attendance for the "Panty Party" We kept telling her 5 year old son that when he is 18 he would be dying to go to a panty party. We had a great time and it always wonderful to spend time with her.
3. Our dear family friends Bridget and Jennifer came for the weekend to visit. The girls had so much fun playing with them. We played playdoh and blocks and dance parties and all the wonderful musical instruments that we got for Christmas. Bridget is also a fabulous decorator and she picked out paint color for our basement along with new carpet. We all went to dinner on Saturday night (while the girls were with a babysitter) and then Simon went home and we went to see 27 dresses. I haven't been to a movie in a movie theater in over 2 years! Gosh, I forgot what that was like. I figure that if I have to pay a babysitter I would rather have someone cook me a meal and wait on me rather than go to a movie when I can sit in my pajamas and do that at home.
4. We went to Chuck E. Cheese tonight as Ruthie continues to amaze us on the potty and she really wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese because isn't that what all big girls do so, Simon came home early from work and we all headed out to Chuck E. Cheese. We had a great time. We took tons of pictures which we will have to post whenever we can get up and running.
So there you have it.
1. We spent many hours working with the insurance company and the disaster team on their many bills and estimates. It appears that as soon as someone hears the words..." this is covered under insurance" everyone starts padding their bills to stake a claim at our miniscule insurance payout. Seriously the disaster team claimed in their estimate that there were 12 fans in our basement at $155 a day. And let's be honest, even Ruthie and Lulu can count to 12 but there was really only 8! COME ON PEOPLE!!!! That wasn't the only thing that they totally tried to hose us on.
2. The insurance company has finally closed the claim on our basement and we can hopefully get a check in the near future. Good thing since we already have workmen trying to put the pieces back together again.
3. The basement is under construction. We have a great little workman that is fixing all the drywall and baseboards and such.....Let's hope that number 2 is really for sure because I am sure he would not be really nice when we tell him we can't pay him.
4. All the toys and stuff that was in the basement is now all over the house. Causing everyone to be extremely uncentered in their beings.
5. Still don't have a working computer so I have to use Simon's at night. I all but tackle him when he gets in the door for his computer. I feel like it is not bad enough that I am stuck watching the Sprout channel all day (Seriously, I can't even watch the news these days without causing the girls to get nightmares) so a computer is our connection to the outside world.
6. We still haven't been able to get any of our thousands of pictures off the computer or have been able to obviously download any new ones that have been taken. I know everyone is really bummed about not seeing updated pictures but you'll just have to wait.
ON A MUCH BRIGHTER NOTE - - POSITIVE STUFF
1. Ruthie has been in big girl pants for 6 days. And while alot of you may not understand this as being huge it is not only huge it is TOTALLY HUGE! She has been on strike with pooping on the potty and we had a huge breakthrough last week. With the breakthrough came a wonderful big girl panty party! Way more politically correct than "The Poopy Party". She picked out a beautiful princess dress and princess slippers and there were balloons, pizza, and cake as well as a whole clothesline of panties strewn through the dining room.
2. My roommate from college Meredith came to visit for the night with her boys and was in attendance for the "Panty Party" We kept telling her 5 year old son that when he is 18 he would be dying to go to a panty party. We had a great time and it always wonderful to spend time with her.
3. Our dear family friends Bridget and Jennifer came for the weekend to visit. The girls had so much fun playing with them. We played playdoh and blocks and dance parties and all the wonderful musical instruments that we got for Christmas. Bridget is also a fabulous decorator and she picked out paint color for our basement along with new carpet. We all went to dinner on Saturday night (while the girls were with a babysitter) and then Simon went home and we went to see 27 dresses. I haven't been to a movie in a movie theater in over 2 years! Gosh, I forgot what that was like. I figure that if I have to pay a babysitter I would rather have someone cook me a meal and wait on me rather than go to a movie when I can sit in my pajamas and do that at home.
4. We went to Chuck E. Cheese tonight as Ruthie continues to amaze us on the potty and she really wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese because isn't that what all big girls do so, Simon came home early from work and we all headed out to Chuck E. Cheese. We had a great time. We took tons of pictures which we will have to post whenever we can get up and running.
So there you have it.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Bad Luck
Yesterday we had the pleasure of having our sump pump break and having back up of water in our basement. Just an inch or 2 in some places. Luckily, our neighbor is Mr. Johnny on the spot and helped us out of the situtation by taking out the broken one, going to the store and buying a new one and putting it in. By the time he had the new one working the ""Disaster team" was here assessing the situtation and putting together an action plan.
We had about 400 square feet of finished area that was ruined. Carpet pulled out baseboards removed, toys wet. A whole wall of bookshelves that happily soaked up the water and are drying. Then the unfinished part whish is about 1000 ssquare feet was under water but this is the time when you are glad that your husband had a clean out over New Years and did some organizing and not alot was sitting on the floor.
It was kinda a bummer when I had to go through boxes of stuff from the girls when they were babies and salvage stuff. Of course, I ran to Target and bought tons of rubbermaid stuff which we already had most of everything in. I know I guess I wasn't paying attention when I put the most important things (Great Aunt's handpainted bone China, Girls baby stuff, Simon and my memory box) in brown boxes. But I guess we just move on from there.
So, as I type this we have about 8 Indsutrial turbo fans in our basement running trying to dry everything out. Kinda sounds like you are behind a jet on a runway. 2 huge dehumidifiers soaking water up and tons of stuff relocated throughout our house. Which of course is freaking Simon out because he finds calm in everything in it's place.
Oh, and did I forget to mention that we woke up this morning with the furnace broken? Maybe it had something to do with the water? Nobody even our "disaster" contact guy noticed. Well, yesterday was not a normal day as in the fact that doors were open, windows were open, everyone was just damp and it was raining so it easily could have been overlooked. (The disaster team is quite funny. Full with Knee High boots, tubes snaking all through our house. If they only had the masks on I would think I was conveniently located in the middle of the ET movie. So a quick call to some people and hopefully we will have the furnace up and running since it is getting to be pretty cold in our house even with the gas fireplace running. Seriously, our house is only 5 years old. This should not be happening.
And last but certainly not least... Our computer officially died. We haven't had the time to bury it in the backyard as hopefully our neighbor again, Mr. Johnny on the spot can retrieve the thousands of pictures off of it before we officially say our goodbyes. This actually has been a slow and painful death for all of us as it started back in Novmeber and we have been rigging it to get just a little bit more life out of it. So, therefore no pics at the moment of all the fun that is happening at our house. Hopefully I have painted a pretty enough picture.
So, updates to come but for now we are just rolling with the punches with laughter, dance parties and hot fudge sundaes during family night out last night.
We had about 400 square feet of finished area that was ruined. Carpet pulled out baseboards removed, toys wet. A whole wall of bookshelves that happily soaked up the water and are drying. Then the unfinished part whish is about 1000 ssquare feet was under water but this is the time when you are glad that your husband had a clean out over New Years and did some organizing and not alot was sitting on the floor.
It was kinda a bummer when I had to go through boxes of stuff from the girls when they were babies and salvage stuff. Of course, I ran to Target and bought tons of rubbermaid stuff which we already had most of everything in. I know I guess I wasn't paying attention when I put the most important things (Great Aunt's handpainted bone China, Girls baby stuff, Simon and my memory box) in brown boxes. But I guess we just move on from there.
So, as I type this we have about 8 Indsutrial turbo fans in our basement running trying to dry everything out. Kinda sounds like you are behind a jet on a runway. 2 huge dehumidifiers soaking water up and tons of stuff relocated throughout our house. Which of course is freaking Simon out because he finds calm in everything in it's place.
Oh, and did I forget to mention that we woke up this morning with the furnace broken? Maybe it had something to do with the water? Nobody even our "disaster" contact guy noticed. Well, yesterday was not a normal day as in the fact that doors were open, windows were open, everyone was just damp and it was raining so it easily could have been overlooked. (The disaster team is quite funny. Full with Knee High boots, tubes snaking all through our house. If they only had the masks on I would think I was conveniently located in the middle of the ET movie. So a quick call to some people and hopefully we will have the furnace up and running since it is getting to be pretty cold in our house even with the gas fireplace running. Seriously, our house is only 5 years old. This should not be happening.
And last but certainly not least... Our computer officially died. We haven't had the time to bury it in the backyard as hopefully our neighbor again, Mr. Johnny on the spot can retrieve the thousands of pictures off of it before we officially say our goodbyes. This actually has been a slow and painful death for all of us as it started back in Novmeber and we have been rigging it to get just a little bit more life out of it. So, therefore no pics at the moment of all the fun that is happening at our house. Hopefully I have painted a pretty enough picture.
So, updates to come but for now we are just rolling with the punches with laughter, dance parties and hot fudge sundaes during family night out last night.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Black Nail Polish
Ruthie woke up from a nap hysterical and it went something like this....
"My nail polish is chipped" (Ruthie)
"Well, we will just paint your nails again" (Molly)
"But my nail polish is at Gammy's" (Ruthie)
This conversation occurred all through Ruthie's sobs. Needless to say, we went to the mall to buy her new nail polish. I don't know where this obsession has come from since I don't have nails at all let alone polished ones.
While in the store I pick out the usual OPI nail polish and Ruthie asks if she can pick out a new color. She comes back with a dark purple that just isn't that pretty on a 2 year old's nails. So I try to tell her no and she says fine and she goes to put it back, with that she brings back a BLACK nail polish. The woman behind the counter is totally laughing at me at this point. I bribe her with a lipstick (chapstick) and tell her that only REALLY old people like Great Grammy Ruthie can wear black nail polish. (It has to be something totally unattainable)
I seem to bypass the meltdown with the bribery lipstick and she is so proud to walk out of the store with her bag and immediately applies her new lipstick. We get in the car and we pull away from the mall and all I hear from the back seat as she is rifling through the bag is.....
"Where did my black nail polish go?"
"My nail polish is chipped" (Ruthie)
"Well, we will just paint your nails again" (Molly)
"But my nail polish is at Gammy's" (Ruthie)
This conversation occurred all through Ruthie's sobs. Needless to say, we went to the mall to buy her new nail polish. I don't know where this obsession has come from since I don't have nails at all let alone polished ones.
While in the store I pick out the usual OPI nail polish and Ruthie asks if she can pick out a new color. She comes back with a dark purple that just isn't that pretty on a 2 year old's nails. So I try to tell her no and she says fine and she goes to put it back, with that she brings back a BLACK nail polish. The woman behind the counter is totally laughing at me at this point. I bribe her with a lipstick (chapstick) and tell her that only REALLY old people like Great Grammy Ruthie can wear black nail polish. (It has to be something totally unattainable)
I seem to bypass the meltdown with the bribery lipstick and she is so proud to walk out of the store with her bag and immediately applies her new lipstick. We get in the car and we pull away from the mall and all I hear from the back seat as she is rifling through the bag is.....
"Where did my black nail polish go?"
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