in no particular order

I should be packing.

Or sleeping.

But instead I thought I would share with you in no particular order:

1. We're still trying to teach Rivers that while it might work for Daddy, head-butting is not an appropriate way to show affection for a baby.

2. Sidon has been laughing at us occasionally for a month or so now. But today he was laughing so hard at Rivers, I could hardly believe it. I caught a tiny bit of it on video. It's a long video. Sorry.

2 1/2 . Sidon is a big time snorter. I've had people make comment concerning his snorting. I told you he was good at snorting.

3. Remember when I said that while folding the laundry I said that there was an absence of Rivers' pants. Well then came the time where there was an abundance of her pants. Now she's back to an absence of pants. In other words, pants get peed on. Often. We're back to nakey bum. Every once in a while she tries a diaper. But then she walks around like a bowlegged cowboy that's been sitting on a horse for a month and a half if it's the slightest bit wet. She never goes poo in a diaper only in the potty.

4. Sidon is a good baby. He's cute and cuddly and happy. I like to kiss him and squeeze him. I can truly say that I have been enjoying his baby-ness. I haven't been getting anything else done for the last four months, but I am enjoying my baby while I've got him. He's been sleeping from 8ish until 5 or 6ish since he was three months old. So nice. Now if only I could figure out how to get myself to bed. For a long while we were really struggling with a daytime schedule. We couldn't figure out how we wanted to do things. But just a couple weeks ago everything fell into place.

5. I have a free nap time again. Yeehaw!!! It's so so so so nice. It used to be that by the time I got the girls down Sidon would wake up. But two things happened. First, I realized that naptime for the girls should be 2-4 in the afternoon. I used to stress every afternoon about getting the girls down closer to 1. Never happened. Way stressful until I realized, why not schedule it for 2-4 since that's what happens every day anyway? It was one of those lightbulb moments. And then I discovered that Sidon could go four hours between a feeding at that particular time. I have to make up for it with 2 two hour stretches in the evening but to me it is so worth it. He eats at 6, 9, 12, 4, 6 and 8. So he sleeps from 2-4 as well. It is so nice having a predictable schedule again.

6. The snow melted. Well, not all of it but definitely a majority of it. Our sump pump turns on every once in a while and we got the normal trickles running through the basement today. A lot of water is in the ground with all the melted snow and rain as well. Our snowmen, after months of sometimes grotesque metamorphosis, have finally melted away to nothingness. Everytime there faces fell off (or their heads) Brian was sent outside by his daughters to fix them. I'm just amazed at how long they were out there. The first morning we woke up to the snowman out our living room window Rivers came running to me saying, "It's scawwy, it's scawwy." And indeed it was. At one point it had big floppy pipe insulation arms. It's mouth has never been for the faint of heart made out of a bright yellow plastic lid with a gaping mouth and teeth drawn on with black sharpee. And for quite a while it had huge round pupiless empty rings for eyes. Creepy. But we loved it anyway.

7. My girls have discovered starfall. They LOVE it. Cumorah is the one who does all the clicking but they'll spend forever doing it. How do I know? Ummm, they've been a little neglected this week, what with the packing and all. Yep. Cumorah asked to play with Brian's phone this evening. I watched her. We are so totally NEVER going to have video games around here. Sorry. Well, really I'm not that sorry. But watching the way my husband and my daughter can get so completely absorbed and zombie-vegetablized is scary.

8. Our friends lent us a Tinkerbell movie. We're obsessed with fairies now. Well, maybe not Brian, but the rest of us...