Cute

Last night, Patrick and I took Meredith and Michael on a bike ride. They love riding on the backs of our bikes in their little seats with their helmets (that don't really fit) sitting caddywhampus on their heads. While we were on our ride, Meredith looked up in the sky and saw the moon. She said, "Look Mommy, the moon is following us!" I need cute moments like this in order to balance out the other AAAGGGGHH moments.

Fun Day

Marky and Maddie and I rode that bus today. They asked me what it was like to ride the bus, and I said... let's seee!!!!! SO.... We rode Transport today. It was SO much fun. (note: the little ones were at babysitter Lisa's house, which was the first part of making our day successful and fun). Our first destination was the Mall. So, we walked up the street and caught the #1 bus. We rode that to the mall... did some shopping, then caught the #16 bus to downtown. I asked the girls what they wanted to do and they said "we want to eat outside". I decided that the Rio would be fun. They agreed that it was!!! We ate mexican food outside by the fountain. Then we walked next door to Walrus and had a treat. Next stop... Daisy Sport. I found a cute dress on CLEARANCE there. It is BEEYOOTIFUL!!!!! Our final destination was... drum roll please... The Goodwill. The girls had a BLAST there. I know... not the best shopping spot, but we DID find some cute things and some good deals. From there, we walked back to the bus station and missed the #1 by 4 seconds ( I swear!! - we were hollering at the bus driver, but Transfort obviously doesn't stop for hollering crazy girls) and so we had to wait for another 15 minutes for another #1 bus to roll around. It finally did and after about 30 more minutes on the bus, we made it to south Fort Collins to our stop. We had the BEST day and we might just do it again!!!

Poop Happens

OH MY GOODNESS!!! It was quite a night. I don't know why this is even blog worthy, however, I must tell SOMEONE.... so here goes.

We had a glorious day at home. Marky had a play date with her friend Cassidy, and Maddie was over at her friend McKenna's house (Cassidy's little sister). The girls played beautifully together, Michael took a long nap, 2 friends stopped by, worked a little, supper out with the kiddos, getting ready to put up my feet and relax when... Meredith comes to me and says that there's poop in the potty upstairs. So, I just told her that was ok, and that she could flush it. WELLL.... Minutes later, my entire evening began to unravel. The toilet and ALL of it's contents were all over the bathroom floor. I've never encountered ANYTHING so gross. I used up all of my towels and a roll of paper towels trying to clean the mess up. It was all over the rugs, the towels, my shoes, I think you get the picture. 90 minutes later, the bathroom was all cleaned up with bleach, bleach, and more bleach, and the towels and rugs were in the washing machine. In all my years of mothering, and this WAS a child-related incident, I haven't ever had to do anything worse.

Well, Marky and Cassidy helped me get over the incident with their sweetness and their laughter. Meredith fell asleep watching a movie and Michael laid right down for sleeping. So even though we had a disgusting interruption, the day ended glorious too. However... I think that I am going to have 2 very tired little people tomorrow morning because it is 12:30 and those girls are STILL up!!!

This mama is tired, tired, tired. No more work for me today. Nighty night.