Crazy Weekend

I didn't get any more posted yesterday and there is so much that I want to post. I really shouldn't be taking the time to post now but I haven't scheduled out my week yet so I thought that I would quickly blog about our weekend before I figure out how much I really have to get done.

This weekend was pretty great. Joseph watched the kids for me a TON so that I could get some much needed uninterrupted work time. Then on Saturday, I went to the Redbox and rented a movie for Paige and a movie for Joseph and I. The movie that I got for Paige was Barbie. She loved it. Problem was, she loved it so much that she never told Joseph and I that she had to go to the bathroom. We had made her go before the movie started so I didn't think it would be that big of a deal. She can usually go two or three hours in between bathroom breaks. However, I didn't realize that she had had two full cups of milk and one full cup of juice. By the time the movie was over, she had peed so much that it had come out of her pull-ups and through her jeans and left a nice big wet spot on my carpet (at least it wasn't the couch). I wasn't very thrilled that she was too busy watching Barbie that she didn't PAUSE the movie for a bathroom break. This is just one of our many potty training frustrations. Thank heavens for a little green machine called a SpotBot. WELL WORTH the money!

So Joseph took her up for a bath and I cleaned the carpet. Then I went upstairs to take over on the bath and Paige's cheeks were pink and her ears were bright red! Temperature read? 100.5! What?!? She had been normal all day and she said that she felt fine. Of course, this is Saturday night and we have church at 8:30 Sunday morning (which I LOVE, will write about that fun, exciting day in a minute). Joseph thought that it could be a fluke thing so after I got her out of the tub I took it again.......99.4. Then in another half an hour, right before she went to bed, I took it........98.6. So we decided that she was well enough for church.

So Sunday morning we get up and get going for church. Did I mention that I LOVE our 8:30 time slot?!? Before, we were at 2:30 PM and by the time we got out of church and home, dinner consisted of cereal or a jelly sandwich. I felt like we waited ALL DAY for church to come and then I was so tired by the time we got home and the kids were so CRANKY.

We were 2 or 3 minutes late to church but I was so glad that we had done baths on Saturday night so that we didn't have to worry about them Sunday morning. Sacrament was great....then Primary started. I was sitting with my class in opening exercises and Joseph had Lexi in the hall. All of a sudden, I hear her screaming. I go out there and she had PUKED EVERYWHERE!! All done the nicely upholstered church chair, all on herself, all on the diaper bag, everywhere EXCEPT...........Joseph. Somehow, she completely missed him. Honestly, I wish she would've puked on him rather than the chair. I scrubbed the chair but I don't think that I was able to get it all out. I better pay some money to the building fund so that they can get a new chair. My mom made me feel a little better when she said that Lexi wasn't the first to puke on a church chair and probably wouldn't be the last. GROSS but comforting.

So Joseph takes Lexi home and I teach Primary. After I get done teaching, I go hunt my parents done (they are in the ward that starts at 10:30) and pull my mom out of Sacrament to find out if my dad can take Paige and I home after their Sacrament is over and after our church is over. I love that we overlap with my parents. Thankfully, they could and have a car seat. So after church Paige and I go wait in the foyer for my parents to get out of Sacrament. Paige decided that she wants to run around in the foyer. I warned her not once, not twice, but THREE times that she couldn't run and that if she continued she would have to sit on my lap. Did she stop running? NO. Did she just nicely and obediently sit on my lap? NO. Instead she started screaming and physically fighting against me to put her down. She has NEVER thrown a fit like that. I was SO embarrassed. I just kept whispering in her ear that she was getting a spanking when we got home. So she screamed for about five to ten minutes while we waited for my parents, fighting to get off my lap the ENTIRE time.

After we got home and she spent a good three minutes with her nose in the corner and got the talking to of her life, she went down for a nap. Joseph had cleaned the kitchen while we were still at church so I came home to a clean house!

The rest of the day was pretty fun. I pulled out a tupperware of toys for Lexi we had when Paige was a year old. Lexi thought they were all great and so did Paige. That kept the girls playing happily for several hours. We didn't turn the TV on all afternoon (big accomplishment for us since my kids watch WAY too much tv). We did watch the last hour of Extreme Makeover and the series premiere of Oprah's Big Give. I will have to write more about that later. The Big Give was amazing!

However, I really need to get back to work since the girls are still sleeping and my to do list is ENDLESS. I have pictures and my thoughts on the The Big Give to post later. This will have to do it for now.