I will be MIA this week. With four photo session waiting for processing, 6 orders that need placed this week, the babies third birthday and family party, and our first family vacation this weekend I am running around like a crazed loon.

Masks Edition:

Meowwwwwwwwwww

Bo0o

Crazy Hair Lady

One of our art projects last week - painting Halloweenie Masks. Shenzie LOVED it, Heaten was rather eh about it.

I’m headed out for my CAT Scan to get to the bottom of the crazy. For maximum 2 year old cuteness you can visit me here.

*Another Disclaimer - this post contains talk about poop - read at your own risk*

The entire business of going potty is apparently pretty cool and gets Mama lots of laughs. The other day Shenzie was going #2 on the potty which turned into a laughathon complete with cheering and yelling. I usually ask Heaten to give Shenzie her privacy while on the potty, but they were both laughing so hard that I let them be. It starts out innocently enough with Shenzie on the potty and Heaten playing in the bathroom. It turns into Shenzie looking into the potty and yelling - DADDY POOPOO, MAMA POOPOO, BABY POOPOO. Heaten runs over and wants to see this as well so they are both all up in the toilet (gross I know) laughing like loons. I realized that she is calling the big poopoos Daddy and the little ones Babies. I guess Mama’s are the middle sized poopoos. When I told Jeff this story he just thought it was beyond gross and ick and gross. Me, I find it hilarious and am going to start calling him Daddy Poopoo!!!

My little Poopoo heads

New Chucks Edition:

Last year I was SO excited to get the babies their first Converse. This is my shoe of choice and I own MANY colors. This was last years line up.

Sadly the babies have outgrown their old shoes so it was time to head out for some new ones. When we got to the mall all Heaten wanted to do was go get his new shoes. I let them pick out their own and this is what they came up with.

Shenzie Weather’s Roller Skate Shoes.

She must have seen those roller skate shoes at some point, because these shoes are now known as her roller skate shoes. She pretends to skate around on them and loves her new Pink Tars shoes VERY much!!

Heaten picked out the cool black and black. Tell me, is my little boy a stud or what?!?!!?

And of course I can’t forget the twin love that I am so in love with . They really do love each other and will now kiss and hug on their own without any asking on my part ( well, I’m not sure Heaten LOVES this since he is all like “SISSY GET OFF OF ME, I’M CHOKING ), but I still love it anyway!

{sigh} Life is really, really good.

Is it sad I wrote all the TV season premieres down on my calender. I can’t wait for the return of fall tv!!!

My fall tv lineup:

Monday - How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and House
Tuesday - When I’ll actually watch House from TIVO
Wednesday - America’s Next Top Model (even though Tyra is SO lame), So You Think You Can Dance, Criminal Minds (still undetermined if I’ll watch this season or not)
Thursday - The Office, Fringe, So You Think You Can Dance, Private Practice, Grey’s Anatomy
Friday - When I’ll actually watch SYTYCD from TIVO
Sunday - Desperate Housewives

I also TIVO Ace of Cakes at watch it randomly. Man, when did I become such a TV Junkie?!?!?

*Disclaimer - this posts contains talk about Little Girl Privates - Read at your own risk*

Since Heaten started going peepee in the big potty Shenzie has noticed that his privates are different than hers. She always wants to pee standing up and doesn’t understand why she has to sit and Heaten doesn’t. A couple of weeks ago while sitting on the potty she started yelling and almost crying - OUCHIE AWA, OUCHIE AWA MAMA. I go running in there thinking she fell in the toilet or something and she is holding her privates saying HOLE HOLE. At first I don’t get what she is saying, but then it clicks. She thinks her privates were broke with a hole because Heaten doesn’t have one. I am trying not to laugh when I explain that boys and girls have different privates and Mommy has a hole too. I tell her we’re not broken and she doesn’t have an ouchie awa. To make matters worse I was having my monthly girl time and she saw me use a tampon. The next day she had a play syringe and was holding it against her privates. I was freaking out and explained that only Mama’s put stuff in their holes. OMG, just typing that is cracking me up. I’m sorry Shenzie to embarrass you like this, but I really want this story in your book - one day in the far away future you’ll laugh along with me (or not since it means you’ll have your period which just SUCKS!).

And since I’m so nice and don’t want Shenzie to wallow in embarrassment alone I thought I’d post all about my pee issues too. =) So here is your official disclaimer - if you don’t want to read about a grown lady going pee in the back of her car click the x button now.

I was on my way to a photo session this weekend and had just downed a cup of coffee to get me going. Bad idea since I knew I would have to pee, but the park we chose has nice bathrooms so all was well in pee world. Until I found myself almost late for our appointment and I didn’t want to get there and then right away be like - ummm, excuse me, I realize I’m late, but I need a few more minutes to pee. So I did what any person carting around a potty in their car would do, I climbed in the back of my SUV, closed the hatch, pulled out Shenzie and Heaten’s emergency car potty and peed right in it. I hopped out, dumped my pee in the gutter, climbed in the drivers seat, sanitized my hands, and fled the scene of the crime!! I was 2 minutes late and the shoot went fantastic with no more pee emergencies. =)

I’m over here today with some of the cutest newborns you ever did see!

I’ll leave you with a video of Shenzie singing the ABC’s, Twinkle Twinkle, Rock a Bye Baby, and Row Row. I love that she knows the sound of the word but not the actual word so she just makes them up.

I like sleep. Like, a lot. I really, REALLY like sleep. I LOVE reading in bed while cuddling Jeff and then curling over and falling into a nice deep slumber. Ahhhh, pure heaven. I DO NOT like to wake up in the middle of the night. I really, REALLY DO NOT like to wake up in the middle of the night. I have sleep/anxiety issues so if I wake up I am awake for an hour. My mind just won’t shut down and I make up noises that I thought I heard and stories of people breaking in or I think I hear one of the kids or I think about work, or, or or. We have been VERY lucky in the sleep department. With a lot of hard work our kids are great sleepers and have been for quite some time. Maybe that is why I am finding this new phase of crazy sleep so unbearable (I’m sure the daily migraines are not helping here).

Enter Peepee in the potty and it opened up a whole slew of waking for Heaten. We try to do our last milk at 7:30 which means Heaten is going pee at 8, 8:15, 8:30 and sometimes even 9. This little boy really likes to pee apparently. He then wakes at least 1x a night, usually between 2-5am yelling PEEPEE IN THE BIG POTTY. It is AWESOME that he is already night trained, but sucks that I have to get up. The other night, I kid you not, he woke at 5am and went pee. Yelled again at 5:15 and went pee. Yelled again at 5:45 and went pee, and then yelled out at 6:15 for me to blow on his eye. I was NOT a happy sleeper. Especially since the night before I sat on Shenzie’s floor for 45 minutes for her to fall back asleep after a bad dream and then lay awake in bed for another hour and a half.

To add even more crazy Shenzie is now skipping every other day of naps. This is NOT a good thing. Naps are the only time I have to work and since I am booked solid for work and then took an additional 3 sessions this week (what was I thinking, somebody kill me now) I really need this time to work. I’ve been looking into preschools, but holy moly they are like $600 a month! That is insane! And that is only for 2 half days. Craziness I tell you, crazy!

My little mischievous boy.

Sweet Undies Hugs Edition:

For more extreme sweet you can visit my other blog and see two of the cutest newborns ever! Did I mention I have the BEST job ever!!!