Playday with Lucy

Monday we spent the day cleaning and doing laundry.  Now you can decide if you want to keep on reading, haha.  The girls were super nice and slept in until just before nine.  Emily woke up twice during the night but the first time I just put her paci in so she only had one feeding and it wasn't until close to seven so that's pretty good.  We got up and I fed Haley breakfast and got Emily dressed and right about then, Lucy Caldwell arrived.  I told Amanda that I would take Lucy on Mondays so she could work on the house.  In return they will take our girls at some point.  I'm saving up my Lucy Mondays for a time when Dave has a big trip and I can go along.  Anyways, Lucy arrived around 9:15.  About five minutes later, the septic guy arrived to pump our septic.

I took Emily outside with me and showed him where everything was while Haley and Lucy watched from the doorway.  I am not positive that Haley had pants on, her shirt was long though so hopefully the guy didn't notice she was just in her panties.  I figured that Haley would probably have some accidents today since Lucy was here and I was right.  She had three but one of them was my fault.  The first one she told me about right away because she was in her pajamas and I think she was uncomfortable.  The second one I had to find myself but I suspected when she told me she had to go potty and then ran away to her room and went to the spot she had just gone.  The third accident was while I was in the shower.  I had put Emily to sleep in the swing and set up an Elmo's World episode for Haley and Lucy so I could try to resemble some picture of hygiene.  About two minutes into my shower Haley came walking in with the bucket from her potty, she had peed and wanted to cash it in for an M&M.  I got out of the shower, cleaned out her bowl and gave her an M&M.  She must have forgotten to put the bowl back in the potty because while I was drying my hair later, Lucy came in to inform me that Haley had gone potty on her chair.  I went out to the den and Haley was sitting on her potty nicely where she had peed on her bucketless potty.  She must not have noticed that without the bucket, she was peeing directly onto the carpet.

I did some dusting and cleaning before lunch and then I fed Lucy and Haley lunch and put them down for naps.  Emily had just gotten up from her morning nap so she got to hang out while I swept and mopped and then I put her down for a nap.  Amanda came around 2:30 to pick up Lucy but she was still sleeping so she hung out for a while.  Lucy must have known because she ended up sleeping almost three hours.  I folded laundry while we talked, it was nice to visit.  Amanda finally just went in and woke Lucy up.  Haley only slept two hours and she was very concerned when Lucy was not around after her nap.

After Amanda left I finished cleaning and started on dinner.  David came home at about 5:30 and played with the girls while I finished vacuuming and got dinner on the table.  He had men's Bible study at our house tonight so after dinner I packed the kids up and we went to the gym.  I kept Haley's panties on because she had peed on the potty right before we left.  She didn't have any accidents while I ran but I did watch her push a couple kids.  When I went to pick her up the lady said she had been a little mean to one little girl especially.  Basically she kept hugging her and then trying to push her down.  The poor little girl looked like she had just learned to walk so I'm sure a mean girl pushing her down was pretty scary.  I told them they were welcome to put her on timeout in the corner for long periods of time.  I admitted that sometimes I wait for her to do something bad at home so I can put her on timeout and get some things done...  I made her say sorry and then we left.  It was pretty embarrassing.  Haley only seems to pick on kids that are slightly smaller than she is.  I didn't have any problems with her and Lucy today, I think because Lucy is bigger.  I need to hang out with her and some smaller kids so I can spank her good whenever she bullies them.  She didn't have any accidents while we were there so that was good.

After the gym we came home and I put Haley on the potty where she booed and peed, a pay-off of 5 M&Ms!  David and his group were outside around a campfire so we had the run of the house until bedtime.  Emily was so tired so I put them in their jammies and put them to bed as soon as Haley had finished on the potty.  After I fed Emily and put her in the crib I gave Haley an applesauce snack and then she went to sleep.  When she was finished eating her applesauce she actually looked at me and said, 'all done applesauce, night night.'  I guess she was pretty tired because she closed her eyes as soon as I laid her down.

Haleyism:

Lucy calls me 'Ms. Katelyn.'  By the end of the day Haley was also calling me Katelyn.

Emilyism:

Today Emily was on her back on her tummy time mat and she was reaching for a toy.  She rolled over onto her side and was almost on her belly, then she rolled back over to her back.  I think she saw that I was watching or something.

   

Sitting on the potty and playing on her laptop

When I took this picture Haley was saying "no cheese!"