So excited

I am so excited to share with everyone that I got the day off! I got Saturday, Sunday and Monday off as well! Now that's a 4 day weekend! I so need this. I had 7-9 kids every day this week and they wore me out. I started today by sleeping in until the phone rang at 8am! I guess 8am isn't too bad though. Better than waking up at 6:30 to the buzzing of my alarm.

Tonight Abby, Maddison and I are going to my sister's house. We'll attend a parade tomorrow, visit with Grandma and go play some games in the park (as long as us pregnant women can handle the heat)! I a sure we'll see grandpa too but he's such a busy guy and he don't sit very long.

Sadly our plans got changed a bit and Jade and Hubby are staying home. Jade was invited to another birthday party! It is for the daughter of a friend of mine. She is a year older than Jade and they go to dance together (the last 2 years they have). So Jade picked staying home and going to the party. I think it will good too though for her to be home alone and have some time with Hubby. She also has to go to the dentist later this afternoon (which she actually enjoys).

Sunday we are not sure on our plans. We wanted to visit the Como Park Zoo but its a much longer drive for us than I think I can do right now. So we might go to a really tiny zoo with a great park to play at. That is just 30 minutes from here! I can do that car ride.

Monday the girls and I will clean the house! They have eye apt. in the afternoon. Their glasses are very scratched and its getting time for new ones. Hopefully this time though they will agree to pick out ones that do not match!

What is it?

"Abby what is hanging from my lamp"?

"Its a beehive".

"Well, I really don't want a beehive in my living room".

"Mom, its not real. Its just pretend".

(Abby's beehive is made out of bendaroos)

Oh its hot out

I recall that I was complaining just last week to some other daycare providers that I wasn't going to have many kids to watch this summer. Now as most of you know no kids means no income. So I was a bit stressed. I was worried. Well what was I thinking? I have 9 kids here today. A family of 2 I thought was going to be done is still coming this week and today I also have 2 drop-ins. So that is 4 more kids than I was thinking I would have last week. This is crazy. By 11am I was worn out and ready for a nap! There is no way I can have 9 kids every day this summer. They are all little. My 2 big girls are the oldest and the rest are 2.5 yrs old or younger.

Did you know its hot! I have heartburn! I thought I had the heartburn under some control with the medication I am allowed to take and cutting back on my diet coke and chocolate. Well I read some information lastnight about heat and pregnancy. It told me to drink orange juice. I felt so miserable lastnight so what do you think I did. I went and got orange juice. Well, now I am thinking it's making the heartburn worse! Then today my hubby is home and was supposed to put the AC window unit in. ITS NOT IN. What he's waiting for I don't know. Its already 3:30 in the afternoon. He even had the nerve to ask me if I was hot today. I mean can he not see the sweat dripping off of me.

But anyways, I know the way I have felt the last few days that my goal is to make it through to the middle of July. If I still feel this way I am going to have cut back on my work. Its not going to be easy on the check book but I know that it might just be what's best. That or I need a maid. Somehow our underwear need to get washed!

Speaking of maids- Did you know my brother T has a maid! Yes, he is currently working and living with a farmer and his family. They have a maid! She is an older lady who cleans the house, does laundry and makes lunch! I wonder if I could barrow her for a few weeks!?! And why of all people to get a maid it would have to be him! He is so lazy when it comes to doing his laundry and cooking. He has it made- she even pours his milk at lunch!

Well, I am done complaining now! But I will say having to be pregnant in the summer gives me the right to pick my baby's name. Not my hubby!

Oh and p.s. Did I mention I had a lady call me today that I don't even know! She talked to me for 20 minutes like we were best friends. Then at the end of the conversation she mentioned how she got my number- she is friends with an older lady that I have known for many years. Most of my family has heard me mention Mary Q. Well I just finally spoke with Mary a few days ago because she has been in another state. It was supposed to be a short 6 month stay but she fell and hurt her foot. She has to wait for the doctors to ok her to come back to MN. She was thinking since I am pregnant I would enjoy talking with her friend. Ok nice thinking but all I really need is AC!

alittle bit of whatever

So not every day as a daycare provider is the same. Some days go by really fast and others you wonder if the clock is a bit off or if parents forgot to pick up their child. There are days we are able to spend alot of time outside and run around and days like to today that wet and we are stuck inside.

On Friday I took the kids for a walk. I had a few smaller children and my big girls and one other 5 year old. We were walking along and I saw a green thing hanging by someones house door. I pointed to it and asked the girls what they thought it was. I didn't know. I just thought we could use our imagination and take a guess! The 3 big girls looked at me like I was dumb for asking. They said almost at the same time "Its a hanging tomato plant". Now I hadn't heard about hanging tomato plants before so I said "What makes you think that"? Of course they had an answer. They looked at me again like I was nuts and said they knew it because it was on TV! I guess I don't watch enough TV.

Well, today is one of those days you wonder if it will ever end. I woke up at 4am not feeling the best. I couldn't sleep well with it being so hot. My Hubby bought me a house with NO AC. What was he thinking? Our window unit will be going in ASAP tomorrow on his day off. So I tried to sleep but then it started raining so I could hear the rain. Then at 5am I could hear Hubby getting up and leaving for work. He seemed rather loud today. By the time I got to sleep it was time to get up because the alarm was buzzing.

The day started out ok once I was up and made breakfast and kids played well. We made father's day cards. Then all of sudden 11:30 comes around and a daycare girl got sick all over my dining room floor. When things like this happen you have to stand back and just be thankful they don't happen every day. Well, it wasn't going well. Child was crying (she is only 2.5), the 11 month old was getting fussy because he wanted out of the high chair. So I went to grab paper towels and of course I started gagging. Jade tells me to leave it for dad.

Now can you imagine what he would have thought if he came home to "Oh Hunny the girl got sick, I left it for you and its been there for 2.5 hours"! I highly doubt he would have enjoyed cleaning it up any more than I would have. But anyways, as I was doing my best to stay cool. I got sick! Yes, all over the dining room floor. Now I have always made it to the bathroom but for some reason today there was no way around it. It just happened. So I had even a bigger mess to clean up.

But thankfully its all cleaned and the floor has been mopped. My feet are tired and I can no longer eat chocolate. Eating chocolate would be a great way to spend my afternoon (I have stopped eating so much chocolate and it has really helped with my heartburn as well as cutting back on my diet coke. It was caffeine free but I cut back to one can a day instead of 3. Yes, I drank about 3 cans a day. Now down to 1 and it has helped so much)!

Oh and to make things more stressful I went to call the mother in between getting the girl changed into new clothes and mopping and ended up calling my sister instead! Their cell numbers are almost the same!

On another note. What do you think of the name Dingbang? Yes, I read that is a name. Seriously would anyone use it? Its supposedly a really old name. It comes from a Chinese origin. The meaning of the name Dingbang is protects the country. Can you imagine your name Dingbang Wynn. Don't think I could do that to my child.

Pool Party

Maddison and Abby had a pool party on Saturday. Jade attended a birthday party, again!

Maddison had alot of fun in her new pool.

Both Maddison and Abby were trying to go for a ball at the same time.

Maddison trying to splash Abby.

sorry for the delay in posting. We had some computer issues yesterday and its not often I get on the computer during the weekend when Hubby is home (he don't share the computer very well).

12:40am

So at about 12:40 am after being sound asleep I wake up to hear this-

"Amy, Amy, Amy, Amy".

So I sat up and listened.

Heard it again, "Amy, Amy, Amy, Amy".

Maddison was awake. I went into her room and looked at her and she did it again, "Amy".

I gave her back her NUK which is only for in the crib and she went right back to sleep! No questions asked. Her eyes went shut right as the NUK went in her mouth.

Of course back to bed I went as well.

She is so funny. She did this the other night too. Why its Amy I dunno. I guess it could be worse.

The NUK thing is funny too. She knows its for sleeping only. She actually handed it to me yesterday morning when I got her out of the crib!

Littlest Wynn's bedroom

I am very glad we choose to keep Maddison on the same level of the house as Hubby and I. I very much dislike having to deal with the confusing of clothes for the big girls when it comes to laundry and them getting dressed. I have sent them upstairs more than once on a few occasions. And yes, I am lazy these days and don't want to climb the huge staircase! At some point their room might be clean enough for me to not be so embarrassed and I can share pictures. Until then here are pictures of the bedroom that the two littlest Wynn's will share.

Taken from the doorway. Maddi is laying in her crib!

In a perfect world the cribs would match. Maddi is the only one who has used the white crib and it will someday turn into a toddler bed and then be used as a headboard. The brown crib was used briefly at a daycare center that is located next to Hubby's work. It didn't turn out to be a good thing and they had to close the daycare center. So we go it at their silent action sale. We planned on using it for daycare but then ended up using it upstairs in our room when Maddi slept up there, which was every night!
I felt it was best to stick with the cribs we have and not purchase a new one.

Taken when standing at Maddi's crib.
You can maybe tell from this picture we went with the bedding for Baby Boy Wynn as planned (cars). I am a bit torn on the bumper pads though. They might be removed. I had them when I was little and I am just fine. However some studies show that they are not good when it comes to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (comments welcome on if they should be kept). So they might not be staying. We never had them for Maddi.

Maddi awake from nap. This is a view of her crib, cedar chest and rocking chair.

Taken when standing in front of the dresser. You can see the closet door and the bedroom door (the yellow is a blanket and under it is a daycare child sleeping)!

Maddi's shelf and name on the wall.

These are two white shelves that we got for Baby Boy Wynn to display his trinkets. He has 2 small toy cars for now and a blue picture frame. No name on the wall yet but it will go by his shelves once its chosen.

These are 2 pictures that hang by Maddi's crib.

There are also 2 others to the set that hang by Baby Boy Wynn's crib.

Now you may have noticed that my sweet little Maddison is standing in her crib. Please don't let her fool you. I put her like that. She is not walking on her own yet. She also does not pull herself up on things. She is a 100% scooter. She can scoot faster than I can waddle right now (yes, I do waddle right now). We are working with her and trying to take time each day to stand her up by things and she does it. She also seems to enjoy it. Jade has been a big help and has held Maddison's hands and helped her walk. She loves that also. Maddison goes in at the end of the month for her 15 month check up and we will talk to the doctor then about where she is at. I didn't walk until I was 17 months (from what the baby book says) and last month the doctor said to give her another month before we look more into it. She is still precious and hey I can carry two kids by fall right?