Canche Chronicles: Storage wars and long naps

Sunday night the girls were quite active. Haley woke up famished at 5:30 so David fed her some applesauce and she went back to sleep until 8:30. I think that was because she had a small dinner and then went to bed at 6:30 the night before. Emily was up at 2 something and 7 something and she was wet. At 2 I thought she was sweaty so I took one of her blankets off. At 7 I realized she wasn't sweaty, just so wet that her diaper was leaking. I had given her a bottle the night before and maybe I forgot to change her diaper right before bedtime or something. Whatever the case, she was so wet. I was glad that Monday is my laundry day because her sheets needed it.

Lucy arrived around 9:15 to play and we actually all got our shoes on and headed out almost as soon as she arrived. Our friend Richard from church had told us about a storage shed auction that was going on at some storage units a couple miles down the road. If you've ever seen Texas Storage Wars (I have only seen the original one so I haven't), the auctioneer and his wife from that show were conducting the auction at this one. Richard it was possible that some of the "actors" on the show would also be there but they weren't. Richard is getting married this summer so he was going to buy in case he saw anything. David and I were going just to look and David made sure of that by refusing to get any cash out of the atm on the way. He was glad that he did, I was super bummed, haha.

The way storage auctions work is this. People don't make payments on their storage unit rentals and the owners seize the property and sell it at auction. The whole unit goes to the highest bidder and must be emptied by 5pm on that day. The units that are going to be sold are opened right before the bidding starts and we were all allowed to file by and look at it. We weren't allowed to touch anything or rummage through anything. You must pay in cash.

There were eight units sold at this particular auction and I would have bought two of them, haha. I especially would have bought this one unit that was FULL of baby/toddler toys and equipment like a bumbo, high chair, tummy time mat, swing, exersaucer, outside toys, and a bunch of other stuff I couldn't see. That one went for $75! And the guy that bought it was so reluctant when he raised his hand, it had been on fifty dollars for so long I really thought it was going to go for that. Anyways, it killed me not to get that one! I held Emily the whole time and David kept tabs on Lucy and Haley who played ring around the rosey most of the time. I did think it was funny that everytime they opened a storage unit, Haley and Lucy would rush over to look in as if they were high rollers or something.

The low point for David came when Haley said she had to use the potty. The whole place was cement and we were caged in by a chain link fence. David went a couple units over and let her pee in a corner. That corner happened to be across from the next storage unit that got auctioned off. There were two guys that were standing right by/in Haley's pee pee puddle...oops.

After the auction excitement (for me at least) we came home and had lunch. Haley and Lucy split a grilled cheese sandwich. Then, since it was super sunny and a high of 87, we went to the splash pad. I put Emily in the stroller and pushed her back and forth until she fell asleep and then David and I sat and watched the girls play. The splash pad is so much easier when Lucy is along because then Haley has someone to play with. David and I were able to sit and talk the whole time and were hardly ever interrupted. We finally peeled the girls away around 2 because I figured I better put them down for a nap before it got too late.

While they slept I cleaned and David went out to the airport to update an airplane. When he got back Lucy was gone and we headed to the gym for a class. The girls did well in their class but they were ready to eat by the time we picked them up. That was good because had put dinner in the oven. We ate when we got home and then David went out and started a fire for the men's group they have every other Monday night. I had invited my friend Chelsie to come hang out during men's group because her husband comes. They don't have any kids and are new to the area so she's always open to just hang out. She brought her nail polish stuff and did her nails while I did Haley's nails. Then she helped me put the kids to bed which was super nice of her. She read Haley two books while I looked for her paci. She read her two books because it took me that long to find it! The girls went right to sleep which was convenient because then Chelsie and I could just talk.

TODAY David had to work all day and we had a MOPS planning meeting in the morning. The girls must have known that we had something because they were both up at 7:30! They cuddled for a little bit and then I got up and made them waffles (aka, put them in the toaster). They ate while I started my shower. Haley finished eating while I was in there and came to the bathroom and took of all of her clothes and got in with me just as I was finishing. I filled the tub up a little bit and threw Emily in there too and they played while I finished getting ready. I never did wash either of them but they had a fun time.

I kept Emily with me during the meeting since she just sort of sits and plays on the floor and the MOPs baby-sitters always seem like they're one child away from insanity or something. Seriously, it's ironic that a Mothers of Preschoolers group has that much trouble with watching children. Haley was crying when I picked her up but I think she was just done being in there. We went to the church playground afterwards with a couple other people. Haley is such a little climber. She was climbing up all the highest ladders and little rock climbing wall things with the best of them. I pushed her on the swings for a while too. We stayed for over an hour and then I decided to head out.

Haley had been eating Emily's cereal but it didn't hold her off enough. She was pretty hungry by the time we got home. I fed them and then put them to bed. Emily took a while to fall asleep. She had dozed off while we were at the playground and I think her brain thought she had already taken a long nap. She talked and played around in her crib for a while and then eventually went to sleep. Haley is a pretty heavy sleeper, she fell right to sleep, even with Emily's babbling. She ended up sleeping almost three hours too! When she woke up she had a snack and played outside for a bit. Then she and Emily played in the den while I finished vacuuming. At 5:30 we went and picked up Chloe to baby-sit because David and I had small group.

I brought Emily with us to small group since Chloe had a lot of homework and they were kind of a handful last time she had both of them. David went right to small group from work. Emily was pretty excited to see him, she may have been more excited to see the Creech's dogs. She did really well during the study, I was glad because I was kind of hesitant to bring her in the first place. I had told Chloe that she could keep Haley up if she wanted since she had taken such a long nap and hadn't gotten to see David yet. They were watching Dora when we got home. Chloe said she had read her a bunch of books and Haley hadn't seemed tired at all so she let her stay up. She was pretty glad to see her Daddy. We let her stay up a little bit and then we put the girls to bed.

Haleyism:
Haley and Lucy were being so funny today in the car. Haley kept trying to reach for Lucy to hold hands but she obviously couldn't reach. Then anytime Lucy would say anything Haley would say, "you are crazy Lucy." They also did a lot of singing. Their songs ranged from 'twinkle twinkle little star' to 'happy birthday' to the Doxology.

Emilyism:
We watched a thirty minute video for our small group and Emily was watching it like it was gospel truth...oh wait, it was!

Haley and Lucy at storage wars!

Yeah, they had even taken their shoes off at this point. I'm sure you're thinking how redneck we must've looked but you should have seen everyone else, haha!