Lexi, I Owe You Some Cottonballs...

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During the FEROCIOUS game of Pictionary at the Halloween party I HAD to go to the bathroom. Laci offered to cover for me on her turn by stalling just a little. I ran to the bathroom and peed, only to look around and find no toilet paper.

At first, I just thought I wasn't sure where the toilet paper was located and then I saw it...

...the empty roll. Confirmation that I was really without.

No big deal. I am close with Lexi and I know she won't mind if I look around. I am also close enough to the cabinets to reach them so I start to open them one by one, but I don't find any toilet paper.

I do find some insanely large cottonballs.

A handful of those did the trick.

So Lexi if you were wondering about those cottonballs in your trashcan...it was me. I didn't know if they were flushable.

I was back to the game quite quickly, and on went the night.

Little Dancer

Kenzee loves to dance so much. We ask her if she wants to dance and her face lights up and she shakes her arms and runs to the computer. She likes hip hop music the best...even though they are mostly not nice songs. She has lots of different moves as you can see on the video. She just started the head shaking recently all on her own. Of course, I am quite proud of my dancer girl and her Daddy is too.

Football Games

Both of my cousins play football for Springtown. They are in the 8th grade. Mckenzee loves going to sporting events. She sits and actually watches the game and points at birds and airplanes. Her first sporting event was when she was 6 months old. We took her to one of my cousin's basketball games and she had the best time. She watched the whole game and followed them back and forth across the court and was ready to fall asleep by the end of it.

Anyway, I took some video clips of my cousins playing and they are pretty cool. The first one is Colten. Colten is my mom's brother's son. He plays running back and safety and special teams. This is a clip of him at running back. I was proud of him:

The next one is Jacob. Jacob is my dad's brother's son. He plays quarterback, but this was not a passing play. I believe it is called a 'quarterback keeper.' He did a great job!

And now for my sweet Mckenzee. It was chilly at the game, but she didn't seem to mind and she kept her hood on. We had a great time!

A Great Day!

I have been keeping a little boy at my house while his regular babysitter is on vacation. This is the third week. He is soooooo good, but I have felt very trapped here at home. Not that I usually go out and do stuff during the day, but I don't like having the option taken away. Sometimes I just go over to my parents house to see my mom. This requires no planning or getting ready. She has food, diapers, crib and she doesn't care what I look like.

Back to the point...yesterday he stayed with his grandmother and I was free for a whole day!

Chris called and asked me to pick him up for lunch because it was Taco Tuesday at Rosa's. I found out later that he knew some women from his work would be there and he wanted to show Mckenzee off. It was a nice lunch and it was fun to be out with him and Mckenzee acted so nice.

After we took him back to work Mckenzee and I went to Kohl's. Chris told me I could spend all of my babysitting money on clothes for myself. Part of it I am spending and part of it I am putting in the Christmas cash. Anyway, we had shopped for me this weekend and got a few things so I was already feeling good about myself in my new clothes and my daughter was behaving like a little angel and then we went shopping together some more.

I found a shirt I loved on sale regular $40 and I got it for $17.50 and I got Kenzee two cute little outfits. It was so nice just to be out.

When we got home she played for a little bit and then it was naptime.

When she woke up we went to watch my cousins play football. It was a lot of fun and it will get it's very own post.

Hairbows

Connie and I had a hairbow conversation just the other day. I am just going to throw out my opinion here because that's what blogging is all about.

Part of being a little girl is getting your hair fixed. That means learning to sit still and let your Momma put your bows in.

Little girls feel good about themselves when they get fixed up. I always tell Mckenzee how beautiful she is after I fix her hair and then we go show her Daddy and he gushes over her too. The other day I made her some pig tails and then she looked in the mirror and smiled at herself real big.

I am helping to build her self esteem.

That doesn't mean that I fix her hair everyday for just being around the house, but I do fix it when we go out.

I LOVE hairbows and I LOVE fixing up my little girl!

Okay...this blog might have been about me wanting to post that picture of my blue-eyed baby with her new hairbow in!

HALLOWEEN............

....................should ALWAYS be the last Friday in October. It could be like Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday in November. It would be so much easier on EVERYONE!

From a teacher's perspective: You do not want to spend all day with a bunch of kids that got sugared up the night before, went to bed late, and then conned their parents into a few more pieces of candy after breakfast and in their lunchbox the next day.

No thank you, not me!

When are the holiday making/changing people going to wise up to this?

Going Stir Crazy!

I believe this is a by-product of being a stay-at-home-mom. I'm just going to jump out there and say that I think probably 90% of stay at home moms suffer from this.

Sometimes I just feel like I could jump out of my skin because I have been in the house for so long for so many days in a row with my precious child who sucks out all of my energy.

I LOVE being a stay at home Mom!

...but I do go crazy from time to time.

Running errands for a couple of hours in the evening does not seems to fix this for me. I need to be out of my house all day every now and then. I need to not have to look at the unfinished home improvement projects we are working on.

"Why don't you take Kenzee to the mall and walk around?" This is what Chris always suggests to help my stir craziness.

Easier said than done.

For me to jump up and take Kenzee to the mall I would have to get myself ready...because I do not do this before she wakes up at 7 am. To get myself ready by means of taking shower and getting dressed I would need for Kenzee to be taking a nap. If I had sense enough to plan for this before her am nap it might work. When she wakes up from her morning nap she needs to eat lunch and then I would have to get her dressed and fix her hair, along with diapers, wipes, snack, drink, start the car so it won't be so hot, don't forget her special pillow, take the dog out so she won't pee on the floor while we're gone, fight her to get her in her car seat and take off. Get out her stroller out when we get there and strap her in, have to change a poop diaper in the car when we return, fight her in her car seat again, put her stroller back up. Now we can't be gone too long because I don't want her falling asleep before we get back because then she won't get a good second nap and if she's asleep in the car I might not be able to get her to her bed without waking her.

Sometimes it just doesn't seem worth it to make the effort to go somewhere by myself. I also cannot stand to go to the mall for no reason. If I am going to go to the mall then I am coming home with something. If it is not a shopping trip I do not want to go. Chris is perfectly happy going to the mall to look around. Not me!

I really need a vacation! When I say that I always think of this song:

"I need a vacation from my life,

Me and my husband we need a wife,

Somebody whose sole ambition is laundry....."

So right now I am feeling the desperation of stir-craziness, but at least it is Friday. Having Chris here helps and we always do lots of things out of the house on the weekends and this weekend we have plans to shop for ME!

Bath on Sunday

So, the Last time Mckenzee had a bath was when her Daddy gave her one before church on Sunday. I was thinking today that I should give her a bath, but part of me really just wants to wait until Sunday again and let Chris do it.

Awful...I know. She likes taking a bath and she's very good in the bath, I've just had a hang up about it the last couple of weeks and I don't want to give her one. She doesn't stink and her hair is not greasy and she's not asking to take a bath so I think she will be fine if she doesn't get one.

I'm not being lazy. I never really get much opportunity to be lazy around here. If you're a mom you know that if you are lazy for even a couple of minutes your house just might turn on you and explode. In fact, you might have taken the chance before and you know for sure that this happens. There is always something to be done...you can never finish. It's exhausting, but fulfilling at the same time.

So if Kenzee gets a bath on Sunday that will just be good enough for me.

Pumpkin Patch

Chris' Embarrassing Moment at Work

I have to blog about this. It is just too funny.

Today at work Chris received an e-mail about his new softball season. It told when the first game was, cost...things like that. It was to the whole team. At the end of the e-mail was a note for Chris that said "Can you forward me Amanda's email? (She is a girl from church who plays on his work team) Chris doesn't have her e-mail so he wrote an e-mail to me asking for it. He also wrote this in the e-mail...

"I love you! I had a great time this weekend celebrating our 5 year anniversary! Can't wait to see you tonight. Tonight is a really good episode of The Hills, can't wait!"

A few minutes later he received an e-mail from one of the guys on his softball team that said this...

"This is meant for your wife isn’t it?"

Instead of clicking the forward button before typing that e-mail to me he clicked REPLY ALL and sent it to the whole softball team.

Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee!

He had a hard rest of the day at work!

Special Day

We had so much fun on our anniversary! Chris did a very good job! Flowers arrived for me around lunchtime and they were beautiful! I LOVE getting flowers! If we had done nothing else the rest of the evening I would have been happy.

Then we went to dinner at El Rancho Grande. We have only been there a few times, but it is a special place for us. Yes, Mckenzee was with us, but it was great! We were glad she came. She was very good. The rest of the date was a surprise for me.

Chris took us to Travis Avenue Baptist Church where we got married. We went inside and walked around in the sanctuary and took pictures. It was fun to remember our wedding day there. It is such a pretty church.

Then he took us to the Botanic Gardens. We enjoyed walking the trails and taking pictures. It wasn't too hot outside and the flowers were pretty. We met a friendly squirrel.

Finally, we went to Blockbuster, where I chose the movie, and then to Sonic and home. I loved our date! It was perfect.

Happy Anniversary! 5 years!

Pretty Morning

This is an actual picture of sky seen in my backyard this morning. Kenzee and I have started spending some time outside in the mornings. We take a blanket out in the yard and she won't get off of it because she doesn't like for her feet to touch the grass. She is so calm outside. Today was so pretty and we had so much fun. I picked a flower (weed) for her and she held on to it for so long and didn't squish it.

My Little Dreamer

I wish it would feel like Fall. I get unhappy with Texas every year around this time. My favorite season is Winter (which never comes) and Fall is a close second. I like to wear long sleeved t-shirts and my worn out polo boots that I've had for like 8 years. I like it when it is chilly and you get to snuggle up on the couch in a blanket and build a fire in the fireplace.