Pictures

Well we did get marissa a jeep car..found it at the resale shop. she loves it, however has a hard time remembering to switch to backward and use the steering wheel. She wants to sit back and the car steer itself.
I finally was able to put marissa hair up in a pony tail.

Now her bed..this was right after we converted it into a day bed. Her legs hurt everytime she tried to get off the bed. So we fixed that. The second picture here is of the finished bed.

I am going to buy a cute bed set but just haven't had the money...I did get girly colored sheets but haven't gotten the pillowcase.

That's pretty much it in a nut shell. Have a great week!!

Marissa's Weekend

Sorry for not blogging...Not much was going on but that all changed on Friday. Marissa climbed out of her crib during nap time. I didn't even hear her get out. She had gotten all the wipes out of the refill package and was playing with them. A huge mess, it took me 15 minutes to salvage wipes. I had her show me how she got out Seemed pretty simple to me. So this weekend has been fixing her room. Made the bed into a day bed...fixed our own rail type thing on the side with some bumper for no "owies" Friday night she slept in the living room because her room wasn't ready and she of course woke up the in the middle of the night. I think I got 3 hours of sleep total. Sat during the day she keeped falling asleep on the floor here is a pic of one of the times.
Then Sat night peter slept in the room with her because some of her room was done some wasn't. He got off and on sleep. she would sleep with him on the floor and then in the bed. Up and down. Not sure how much sleep he got but since he ended up sleeping while i went to church...it was likley he didn't get much.
Last night the room was still lacking two locks on 2 drawers but that was it. So i got her to go to sleep took 30 min. Then left the room went to bed. she got out once and i took her back to bed. Stayed there until she was asleep and left. She woke up this morning at 530am. So we aren't quite there but it was better last night.
Today....she has a been a pill....so nap time i knew would be hard...she wasn't going to sleep at all so i gave in and rocked her. I needed some quite time and it was the only way it was happening.
so your wondering any pictures. I do but there aren't on the computer . i will add them soon.
Long weekend.
Ranger game tonight hopefully my husband can get off of work in time.

New kids on the block concert

As some of you have heard New kids on the block is coming to town.
I am planning on going but need someone who would want to sit with me.
Some are getting their own tickets but i didn't want to buy 1 ticket and sit by myself.
Tickets go on sale June 9th
Concert is Oct 19th.
Let me know Thanks!!

Zoo Time!!!

Well Peter and Marissa and I adventured off to the zoo on Sat. This was the first time taking her and the second time in many years (1995) since peter and I went together(when we first met). We were all prepared.(diapers, wipes, food, water etc) however nether one us remembered where the zoo was. Mapsco you say well it wasn't in the car. I had to call my mom to help. Yeah parents of the year. Marissa was patient for a little while but got upset and then fell asleep. Well we made it there finally and it wasn't really crowded yet. I took pictures some came out good others well its only because it was of me that i feel wasn't great. The cottonwood was horrible out there and Peter and I were miserable the whole time. Marissa felt fine just got tired. Overall a great day, but we learned that we should both take more allergy medicine before going again.

This was our first stop!

Her first reaction Yeah she wasn't as excited as we thought she would be not just here but overall.

Now here is her fav and i think it was the most reaction we got all day. Its the "af" as missy calls it.

See the excitement...ok well can't do justice with pictures..video would have been better.

Papa lion! after i took the picture the mama can over and they started to lick each other very cute but no pic of it.

Pretty Zebra

My favorite 2 people in the world!! ok well i have a "like can we leave now" look on my face and she looks tired. I took the pacie out right before peter took the picture.
Ok so like 2 minutes of leaving this was her in the car. She is holding her "af" that i bought her on the way out. She has 2 pacies because one was lost in the car and she found it when we got there. So attached to pacies or "bicies" as she puts it.

Cleaning revised

Ok so i mentioned in the last blog about cleaning well today has been great for cleaning. Marissa has played awesome today and took a great nap as well. Now my only problem is getting her to sleep longer in the morning although today she slept till 620am which is later then she has for the last 2 weeks. Time shall tell if maybe this will now be a habit for her. The Ladies Retreat was great. The speaker was really good..i enjoyed and took away alot from our small group at the retreat. I got to know Joanna more riding there and back which was great. I will have pics of Marissa next post, I promise.

Questions

Not sure if anyone could help but here is my plea.
I can be lazy with the best of them but i am having a diffiult time cleaning my house. Finding time to clean with marissa. I will say that she sometimes plays well alone but is at the stage that she is doing something she isn't suppose to be doing and I have to watch more closely now.
So i guess i have two questions.
How to clean a house with a 2o month daughter around 24/7?
How to schedule cleaning? what's your secret or way of getting it done. Please share your ideas and suggestion because i am going crazy.
I know I listed clean kitchen and living toom today but its alot more then that.
I know I should have figured it out by now but no such luck.
Thanks

No More Sickness!

Well Marissa is over the croup now just a cold. I am glad that last week is over. I found some pictures i took in march. She realy enjoys "Roll the gospel charriot" song so i have some pics and one video. Be aware on the video I sound horrible and I say we will be singing this forever at the end..didn't realze i said that. Its so true though.

anyway on to the pictures and video.

Ok so funny on this video when the devil is in the way part she picks up the phone...priceless!!