wallpaper

Today I told Alan I was going to take down the wallpaper in the bathroom. I had a cool swirly gig that poked holes in the existing wallpaper and some spray gel that would saturate the paper for easy removal. Yeah right. I have spent 2 hours and have barely made a dent. There must be an easier way. The spray stuff soaks only the vinyl layer and leaves the paper which must then be soaked again and pealed bit by bit. Spraying it with hot water did about the same as the gel. Maybe I am just meant to really appreciate all the work Coralee and Dawn have done with their homes and not to actually try it. I feel like I missed the disclaimer from them, "Don't try this at home." Or at least, "Don't try this at home without adult supervision." What am I doing wrong?

Sarah looks so cute with her hair in two braids in this dress I just had to record it. 

cooing at Daddy 

As soon as I took this picture Emmie insisted I take out the pony-tails. She loves to have me do her hair, but hates to have it done. 

Alyssa in a happy mood. 

vacation

We did it! We rented this beach house in Florance, OR for the last week in July. We are actually going on vacation! I can't hardly wait. Hopefully Alyssa will learn to like car rides by then. At what age do babies learn to grasp things and can play with toys? I can't remember but I hope Alyssa adjusts to traveling better by then.

Interesting

Today I figured it all out. The hospital billed our insurance $45,043.15 for Alyssa. That includes the ambulance and home health care (her oxygen). It's times like this that I am really glad for insurance. And get this, even though I was only at the hospital 1/2 the normal time they billed our insurance $9266.48 for me. Yikes! That's some seriously expensive orange jello.

Alyssa's check-up

Alyssa at 2 months: 11 lbs 4 oz
She started at birth in the 5% for weight
At 2 weeks she was up to the 25%
Now she is in the 75%, but only for weight in all other areas she is still tiny. But still the doctor was very pleased at her growth and commented on both her redish hair and her wee wittle footins. (only of course he didn't use quite those words) He suggested giving her accidopholis (I shalt be able to spell that one) for her tummy problems and to help stabalize her abundant poopies. (She has been having a poopy diaper every hour.) So far it seems to be helping. She had been quite cheerful today and slept really well last night.

are they like me or am I like them?

The girls want to watch a movie and I've told them all yesterday and today that they have to clean up the playroom if they want to watch a movie. So they procrastinate and find other things to play with, books to read, anything that would let them avoid cleaning the playroom. I think to myself and tell them that if they would just get started and focus on it for 10 minutes they could be all done picking up and so whatever they want but they instead spend hours avoiding it. And by thus avoiding it they make more messes they will have to clean up. Then I thought to myself I'm just like that when it comes to making dinner...maybe I should take my own advice...or just spend another day feeding the family tuna sandwiches.