According to Blogger I've only posted twice this month. At that rate I'm going to loose my faithful blogging audience. It is on my list today, along with:
clean house
read my Bible
make a sample quilt square for Mr. Wiedz's opinion
find my glasses
finish an application I've had on my desk for over a month(!)
go through #1's clothes
LAUNDRY
get dressed
upload photos to memory manager
post
I'll be back later. We'll see how the list goes by the end of the day...now that I'm done with my computer/planning my day time the breaky dishes are calling.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Toilet Paper Man
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Toilet Paper Man is a super hero that comes to our house.
When wrestling starts around our house every so often Toilet Paper Man sneaks out too. There is a lot of screaming and excitement. Some chasing and trying to unmask this super hero. Toilet Paper Man, it is said, lives between the toilets in our house so you never know when or where he'll appear and there is always a flushing sound as he leaves.
A couple times Toilet Paper Man has brought a sidekick with him, Toilet Paper Boy.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Training who?
I decided this weekend I would work on re-training #4's sleep pattern. He had been waking a number of times in the night. Like 12:30, 2:00, 3:30 and 6:30. I was tired!
Oh. So. Tired.
So this weekend I figured with Mr. Wiedz out of town I could let the older boys sleep in my room and the re-training wouldn't disturb them.
#4 woke at 3ish that first night. And cried and fussed for a little while. He was just settling down and it had been quiet for a bit...I got comfortable again in hopes of that being the only protest and I could get back to sleep. Until #4 was standing next to me.
Disoriented I put him back in his crib and everyone slept the rest of the night. The next morning #1 came to my room to let me know it was morning...#4 was right behind her. I scooped him up, took him back to his crib and explained that he was supposed to stay in bed and call for me to come get him. He needed to stay in his crib!
Nap time had the same result. When he woke up he climbed out and came out to find me.
Saturday night when I laid him down I was clear that he was to stay in his crib. And he did. He slept well all night (a full nights sleep) and I got him out of his crib when he woke up in the morning, I heard him talking. Sunday, while I was enjoying the Kit Kittredge movie with the older kids I heard the obvious thud that is the sound of a baby climbing out of his crib...and falling to the floor.
Last night I took the mattress out of the crib and put it on the floor until Mr. Wiedz can convert the crib to the toddler bed. #4 is not sleeping in a crib anymore!
What!
How'd that happen? When did my baby get so big?
We've never converted the crib since 1) the older kids were, well, older when they stopped sleeping in the crib and 2) by the time the older kids were out of the crib I was pregnant with the next one and we'd be needing it as a crib.
#4 is doing pretty well with his mattress and hopefully this afternoon's project will be trying to convert the crib without an instruction manual for a 7 year old crib.
An interesting training session, indeed. I think we both got a little bit of training this weekend.
Oh. So. Tired.
So this weekend I figured with Mr. Wiedz out of town I could let the older boys sleep in my room and the re-training wouldn't disturb them.
#4 woke at 3ish that first night. And cried and fussed for a little while. He was just settling down and it had been quiet for a bit...I got comfortable again in hopes of that being the only protest and I could get back to sleep. Until #4 was standing next to me.
Disoriented I put him back in his crib and everyone slept the rest of the night. The next morning #1 came to my room to let me know it was morning...#4 was right behind her. I scooped him up, took him back to his crib and explained that he was supposed to stay in bed and call for me to come get him. He needed to stay in his crib!
Nap time had the same result. When he woke up he climbed out and came out to find me.
Saturday night when I laid him down I was clear that he was to stay in his crib. And he did. He slept well all night (a full nights sleep) and I got him out of his crib when he woke up in the morning, I heard him talking. Sunday, while I was enjoying the Kit Kittredge movie with the older kids I heard the obvious thud that is the sound of a baby climbing out of his crib...and falling to the floor.
Last night I took the mattress out of the crib and put it on the floor until Mr. Wiedz can convert the crib to the toddler bed. #4 is not sleeping in a crib anymore!
What!
How'd that happen? When did my baby get so big?
We've never converted the crib since 1) the older kids were, well, older when they stopped sleeping in the crib and 2) by the time the older kids were out of the crib I was pregnant with the next one and we'd be needing it as a crib.
#4 is doing pretty well with his mattress and hopefully this afternoon's project will be trying to convert the crib without an instruction manual for a 7 year old crib.
An interesting training session, indeed. I think we both got a little bit of training this weekend.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Laundry and Sickness
I've been working hard on laundry the last few days. After another all house clean on Saturday and cleaning out the car this weekend the piles were immense!
On top of that #4 and I got the sinus cold that Mr. Wiedz's cousin brought with her to Easter. So much of folding on Monday was done like this...notice those nice folded piles on the table.
If you kept up with my twitter updates yesterday (conveniently located in the sidebar) you were kept up to date with my emptying laundry baskets.
Even rebooting the laundry at 11pm last night so I could take this beautiful photo this morning.
Though I do have disclose that rebooting laundry at 11pm results in this.
I was thrilled to have empty baskets as this is the scene this morning around the house and who knows how long it will last.
#1, who completely avoided all the sickness last time around, came in our room at 12:30am and before she could tell us she wasn't feeling well she let loose all over the carpet. It doesn't matter how many times I've told her, like my father told me, to throw up in a blanket or on a floor I can clean and to try to avoid the carpet. So at 1am I was scrubbing the carpet, rebooting laundry AGAIN and cleaning the bathroom floor and walls which were also hit. Mr. Wiedz doesn't handle sickness too well but he's a champ at making a sick kid feel more comfortable so he set up the sick bed and got #1 all settled.
Hopefully the rest of us will be spared. I'll keep you posted!
On top of that #4 and I got the sinus cold that Mr. Wiedz's cousin brought with her to Easter. So much of folding on Monday was done like this...notice those nice folded piles on the table.
If you kept up with my twitter updates yesterday (conveniently located in the sidebar) you were kept up to date with my emptying laundry baskets.
Even rebooting the laundry at 11pm last night so I could take this beautiful photo this morning.
Though I do have disclose that rebooting laundry at 11pm results in this.
I was thrilled to have empty baskets as this is the scene this morning around the house and who knows how long it will last.
#1, who completely avoided all the sickness last time around, came in our room at 12:30am and before she could tell us she wasn't feeling well she let loose all over the carpet. It doesn't matter how many times I've told her, like my father told me, to throw up in a blanket or on a floor I can clean and to try to avoid the carpet. So at 1am I was scrubbing the carpet, rebooting laundry AGAIN and cleaning the bathroom floor and walls which were also hit. Mr. Wiedz doesn't handle sickness too well but he's a champ at making a sick kid feel more comfortable so he set up the sick bed and got #1 all settled.
Hopefully the rest of us will be spared. I'll keep you posted!
Monday, April 27, 2009
I just entered a give away for what looks like a fun book over at Crafty Crow.
I've visited Crafty Crow before but never used the site for anything other than insipration. With summer coming I think I need to spend some time over there making lists of activities to keep the littles busy!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Whew!
The quilt for the auction at school tonight is finished! I stayed up way too late last night so my only responsibility to the quilt would be to photograph it. The kids that signed up for quilting for project day in January chose the designs and did most of the fusible webbing applique.
I embroidered the words to a song #1's 2nd and 3rd grade class sing. I asked the teacher who sung it and she didn't know...she learned it as part of a longer song at camp when she was growing up.
I also hand quilted around many of the elements the kids appliqued. It was a challenge to go through so many thicknesses, especially with fusible webbing between each layer but the result is really nice. I'm really loving the light blue thread on the brown background.
I'm glad to be done. On to new projects!Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Finishing and Starting
After Easter I mentioned the list I made in January. Another thing I started in January was a quilt project for the auction at the kids' school. Students at the project day made the blocks using fusible webbing applique. Then I've put it all together and quilted it. The auction is Friday so I'm thrilled to be finished with the quilting. Now all that's left is the binding which will hopefully go on easily the next couple of days.
Now that the quilt project is almost over I'm itching to work on some embroidery projects I've got brewing. The other night I was surfing and found this flicker set of beautiful and inspiring embroidery. I've been sketching, doodling and seeing pictures to embroider ever since.
On another embroidery note, this blog I frequent has an embroidery book coming out soon...I can't wait to get a peek!
Now that the quilt project is almost over I'm itching to work on some embroidery projects I've got brewing. The other night I was surfing and found this flicker set of beautiful and inspiring embroidery. I've been sketching, doodling and seeing pictures to embroider ever since.On another embroidery note, this blog I frequent has an embroidery book coming out soon...I can't wait to get a peek!
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