Apartment Hunting Update

We signed a lease on that townhome yesterday!  I'm so excited to be getting out of here, and we feel really good about the decision.

In less than a month, we'll have easy-to-clean bathrooms, a garage, and a backyard.  It's going to be so awesome!  I'm also going to have a stove that isn't glass top, so I can use a cast iron skillet again.  This may not seem like a big deal to you guys, oh, but it is.

Also, even though this place is super boring, it does have one thing going for it: an amazing master bedroom!  It's going to look so great with our new Ikea bedroom furniture!  I really love this set, it's super sturdy (something I was worried about), and I love the simple lines and the grey-brown color.

It's funny, though, every time I move I think, "jeez, I hope I don't have to move again for a long time," but then by the time it's time to move, I'm really excited about the change.  I'm not sure what that says about me.

Anyway, I have my 'rents-in-law coming tomorrow to celebrate Mother's Day early (we haven't lived close enough to my Mother-in-law to celebrate with her in years), and then the tots and I are going back to Utah with them to escape the apartment showings here next week.  I really love my in-laws, so this isn't a  stressful thing like some of you are probably imagining, it's actually going to be a blast!  We are going to Ikea and World Market to get some stuff for the new place, and we are going to take the kids to this indoor play thing they love with bounce houses...

...and go get In-and-Out Burgers...

...and let them snuggle their grandparents...

...and take them to this park Sammy loves with a swinging thing on a track he can actually reach...

Long story short, I need to start cleaning.  My devoted fans (all 5 of you, you know who you are) will be devastated to know that I won't be blogging for the next week or so.  Rest assured, though, I'll be back, with lots of toddler pictures and stories about kids pooping in their pants in the middle of Ikea, or throwing Swedish meatballs at each other, or eating the buttons off throw pillows, or something like that.

I just realized how many of my stories involve toddlers pooping, not eating what they should, or eating what they shouldn't.  I apologize sincerely, and will try to convince my kids to do non-digestive things that are noteworthy.

Hobbit Feet and Chocolate Pudding

I feel like someone needs to address the elephant in the room:

What is with Sammy's huge hobbit feet?  I know, right?  I need to grow his hair out all floppy again and start calling him Samwise, people won't even be able to tell the difference.  Of course, I may need to break out the Sharpie to draw in some fake hair on his feet...it'd be embarrassing to be a bald-footed (feeted?) hobbit.

We've actually been experimenting with hair drawn on with Sharpies.  Sammy walked up to me yesterday before Cam got home from work, put his fingers under his nose, and said he was daddy.  I thought that was so funny, I drew a little mustache on his fingers.  He thought it was funny, too, until he realized his fingers were "dirty," and demanded I "clean up, mommy."

In other news, the tots and I made chocolate pudding for breakfast.  Yeah, it was pretty much the best breakfast ever, and, considering we ate two avocados between the three of us, pretty healthy.  Of course, it was totally caloric, and now I feel a little sick.  You know what would be good in it, though?  Some orange zest.  I love a chocolate and orange combo.  Oh, or ginger, chocolate and ginger is a great combo, too.  Or almond extract.  Or mint.  Or maybe a little rum for a post-toddler bedtime dessert.  The possibilities are endless.

A Naptime Adventure

This afternoon something amazing and wonderful happened: Sammy took a nap.

Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles.

I'm not really sure what happened, I told him to lay down when Jubee went down for her nap, he asked if he could lay down in my bed, I said, "why not? As long as you're quiet," and then he was asleep.  It was pretty much the most amazing thing that could've happened to me today.  No, I'm serious, I could've won the lotto and been less excited.

This is Sam at 12:45pm, when I noticed he was asleep:

This is Sam at 1:45pm:

This is Sam at 2:45pm, which is when I started to get a little nervous about bedtime this evening:

This is Sam at 3:05pm, finally awake:

So, what did I do with all this blissful free time while both kids napped?  I did what every good housewife would do...I cleaned the bathrooms and then watched House Hunters.  That is, I watched House Hunters until about 2pm, when Jubee: 

1. woke up

2. took off her pullup

3. pooped on her bedroom floor 

4. walked into the living room 

5. crawled onto my lap

Bliss gone.  Well, that was the bad news.  The good news is she didn't poop in her pullup.  That's what you call a successful potty training day.

You guys should consider yourselves lucky, I very nearly posted pictures of poo incident, but decided against it last minute.