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Poop Travels

Because of previous poop incidences involving our Jumperoo I don't put Wendy in it till she's had a significant bowl movement, but this morning she was in one thing after another, slowly destroying our lives, so with the thought in my head of her poop less morning diaper I put her in the Jumperoo "Jail". After finishing my morning chores I sat down for some computer therapy when I smelled something icky, "WENDY POOP!!" I picked her up immediately, smelled the bum and indeed there was fecal matter present. I laid her down, took off her diaper and there was poop on my hand, "What? Where did that come from?"............then all the sudden IT WAS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On my hands, on Wendy's hands, Wendy's feet, Wendy's legs, the Jumperpoo, the carpet under the Jumperoo, the carpet where we had walked, the carpet under her diaper and inexplicably on Ruth's shirt. AND THE WIPES WERE GONE!!!!! I just screamed, "RUTH! Don't move!!" So she froze in the Universal Child Freeze Pose a large X. It's like, "If I can't move I must take up as much space as is humanly possible." I also froze in sheer panic. What to do?! How do I deal with this?! All the while watching Wendy rub that poop into her hands like it's some gourmet hand cream because my hands are currently holding her poopy bum/legs/feet off me and the carpet. Where are the closest wipes? My bag. In the hall. Holding Wendy by one ankle, she's cool with it cause there's poop to play with, I help Ruth take her shirt off and instruct her to get on the couch and stay there. Rummage through the bag trying not to spread poop on it. Wipe, Wipe, Wipe and then quick bath.

My hypothesis is Wendy pooped, it leaked onto the carpet where she jumped up and down vigorously. I picked her up, it dripped onto the carpet, I layed her down removed the diaper during which she grabbed her feet transferring poop to her hands. Poop from the legs transfers to my hands, diaper poops the carpet. Ruth lays on the Jumperoo somehow getting it on her shirt. And there you go.

Thank you again Lyle and Susanne for the Christmas of Amazon Cards, with out which we would not have our carpet shampooer:)

the end.




Update:
I figured out how the poop got on Ruth's shirt. About an hour ago she said, "Mom, what is this?" and handed me what looked like a piece of dried up avacado. Smelled it. Nope. It's poop. "Where did you get this?", "On tha beer." When I picked up Wendy a poop droplet landed on the Jumperoo Bear toy thing, so when Ruth jumped on it......and so on.

I shampooed, washed and cleaned everything with poop on it, and yet I feel like at any moment poop could appear out of nowhere to destroy my life.

The Happenings

-Mike and I are in the market for a new real estate agent due to an unfortunate incident with our ex-real estate agent. Get us in a house!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Wendy's pulling herself up into a standing position on the couch, in her packnplay and pretty much anything that will hold still long enough.
-Ruth's talking gets clearer everyday. Her knew favorite saying is, "No thanks." Which she thinks should get her a pass on anything she doesn't want to do. "Ruth, you need to eat your sandwich.", "No thanks!" How polite.
-Wendy is an octopus!!! It takes my entire body to pin her down so I can put on a sock! Forget about diapers.
-Mike starts school this week. I think he may be a life long student.
-I ruined a brand new shirt I was altering. Thankfully it was $5.
-I introduced Ruth to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers this week. Now I want every musical ever made! Much more preferable to cartoons.
-What's happening with the Colbalt you ask? NO IDEA! (wrecked months ago, no news from insurance agent)
-Wendy's currently perfecting an impression of Popeye. I'm trying to catch a picture of it which will be posted.
-Why why why does Ruth think the day starts at 6am? I'm blaming it on Day Light Savings.

and that's it.

Tantrums and Prayer

So thankful for Prayer. I was holding Ruth this morning after a particularly terrible tantrum, not knowing if I should laugh or cry. I asked Heavenly Father for some help, that I didn't know what to do about this, but that I knew some of her tantrum was my fault. 30 minutes later I hopped on pinterest for some kids craft searching and came across this article about Tantrums. It was exactly what I needed:)

http://www.parenting.com/article/toddler-temper-tantrums?page=0%2C0

Crafts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the things I love about getting together with the Anderson Women (Mike's side), is that we do a craft. Susanne and I made these at Emilee's house. She is part of a craft group, I forget if this was her craft or someone else's, but she set this up for us. It's a flip flopper so there's no removal after Halloween. You just flip it:) Love.

-wood

-stain

-blk paint

-sandpaper

-mod podge

-paper

-vinyl letters

Utah in September

Last week my niece Mariah was married and we went to Utah to attend.....unfortunately I didn't take a single  picture cause I'm awesome that way. But, I was able to take a few pics of Ruth with some Anderson cousins, while we visited our hearts out. That's Bella on the left followed by Ruth and Maddie. Both girls belong to Mike's sis. Emilee. Ruth had a BLAST!!!!!!! While at my parents house she ran wildly with her cousins. Then it was off to Em and John's where she ran wildly with more cousins. I really don't think she's had more consistent fun ever. What I mean by that is, it was day after day after day of little kid play MADNESS!!!!

 Cute cute face!!!! I can't get enough of it!!

 When Ruthie has stickers.

 When Mommy has stickers.

 Ruth's Baby Doll.

 All shopping carts should have drink holders.

Had to Share

I call these Busy Work toys. They are mostly for Sacrament Meeting but occasionally I pull them out when Ruth's bored or I need her attention elsewhere. The first 2 ideas I stole from a friends Mom, who in turn stole it from someone else.

1. That is an old Parsley container. It needs to be Parsley so the holes are big enough for the Pipe Cleaners. It cracks me up to watch Ruth put them in the hole then carefully and sloooowly push it down and in.
2. That's a Take and Toss cup (the bowl w/lid is nicer because it's a wide base) with a hole in the lid the size of a dime. You want the hole to be just big enough that the fuzzy's fit, but small enough that it takes some effort.
3. 1 size fuzzy for each container. It's a Dump and Sort thing.
4. I call this one Sewing, but Ruth calls is Cookie. 2 shoe laces (I think I'm going to switch to ribbon) and the shaker tops from all the spices in my cupboard. I have to take those off every time I measure something out, and it was bothersome, so I took them off, washed them up, used permanent marker on the rims and SHAZAAM! Sewing for Ruth.

If you girly's have any Busy Work ideas PLEASE share them, I need more.

ENJOY!!!

Wendy's Blessing Dress

 This Dress gave me heartburn.....okay, I don't get heartburn but if I ever did this would be the cause.

 "Guten Tag! My name is Greta and I'm Amish." :)

 "Mmmmmm.....Blessings taste good." There was some residual Blessing in the fabric.

My Mom is soooo talented! She made the Bonnet, Blanket and Booties which I LOVE.

What a Day

1-Today was the end of week three of weight training, and I can't believe how much I like doing it!!!
2-When I got home from working out Mike informed me that Ruth had taken off her diaper and scattered Marble Poos all over the floor.
3-Mike and I went on our very first Paid Babysitter date today and it was GREAT!!
4-Ruth went potty for the first time tonight!!!
5-Introducing Potty Treats may have been the worst decision ever, since 2 year old's don't understand why Potty Treats are only given after a successful potty experience, resulting in a complete melt down.
6-I'm still thankful to Em for teaching me about Paper Lunch Bag Popcorn:)

A First

Ruth's First Prayer with my help:

Me: Bless Josh on a Mission.
Ruth: Missin.
Me: Bless us.
Ruth: ........
Me: Help us sleep well.
Ruth: Seep.
Me: Help Daddy be safe.
Ruth: Safe.
Me: We love thee.
Ruth: Nope (clear as a bell).
Me: We love thee.
Ruth: Nope.

We have failed.

Lets do this Bullet Style
-Ruth is using more and more words everyday, REAL words:) Her most recent is help and happy:) So darling.
-I bought a new sewing machine and I LOVE it. However, it does have a lot of buttons..........class please!
-I've been called to teach the 16 and 17 year olds at Church and I'm not so good at it, but as long as they gain a greater love for the scriptures that's all I care about.
-Mike's on a soft ball team but hasn't played a single game because of bad weather:( but at least he got a tank top with Patrick Swayze on it.
-I've been speed walking for 2 weeks and now I've added in weight training. My goal is to loose 10 pounds by Sept. 19 which is when I leave for Utah to attend my nieces wedding. HARD but doable.
-Lauren, Dave and the kids were here this weekend and we had sooo much fun. Ruth was disappointed to find Quinn not here this morning.
-People keep getting confused because I call the baby Wendy and Mike calls her Ruby......

......and I just realized I missed the girls doctor appointment this morning.......ugggg.

Epic Sesame Street Fail

Ruth learned something unexpected and unwanted on Sesame Street this week. It was an episode on sharing but this is what left the biggest impression with her.

Where's Daddy?

Okay. Since gaining weight this last pregnancy I have been involuntarily snorting. Not loudly but just enough to be embarrassing. Even when I'm by myself and it happens I look around to make sure so one heard.

The Cub Scouts in our Ward had a Fundraiser and it went like this:
1-Donate the food for breakfast.
2-Give us a $ donation after you eat it.
3-Bake a Desert for us to auction off.

So, we first paid for the breakfast items, donated them and then bought them back. Then we paid for the items to bake, baked them, donated them then bought them back at exorbitant prices.........Did I just get taken?

1-If Babies miss a day of pooping it is inevitable that there will be an explosion the next day.
2-It is also inevitable that you will notice it right when you're going to put that baby down for a nap.
3-It will result in an entire body immersion bath waking up baby who had been sleepy.
4-Poop will get on Baby's face while taking off the onesie.
5-.......you will get to swaddle Baby in a towel and they will look like Baby Jesus which will make you feel better:)

A Breast Feeding Vent.

I'm not Breast Feeding. When people find out I constantly get the "I'm judging you look".

A-You have no idea why I'm not. For those of you that think "Woman have been doing this for thousands of years. This should come naturally right?" WRONG!!!!!!

B-I don't have to explain myself to you. This is my body, My child, and back in the day Formula was Sweetened condensed milk so we've come along way in the Formula department.

C-My baby will still bond with me thank you.

D-I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ANYWAYS YOU HIPPIE, Organic Produce only, "I only use cloth diapers." FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Kelly

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