The Importance of Overnight Diapers

We currently have three types of diapers at our house, regular Luvs, Swimmers and the Huggies Overnites.  Last night I got quite the reminder of just how important those Overnites are....

Lets start this story with the fact that we got home later than usual.  We were trying to just get dinner done, then Lyla needed a bath then I was taking her up to bed.  Well she just didn't want to cooperate with any of my plans.  After we finally got some dinner in her we went to the bathroom.

She is really hit and miss right now when it comes to peeing on the potty.  Some days she wants to try, some days she wants nothing to do with it, I'm not pushing it right now.  Honestly, having her potty trained isn't something I'm striving for at this moment, so when she is 100% ready, I will be too.

So I have to fight with her to get her clothes off and her earplugs in.  Then she decides she wants to sit on her potty for a little while.  She didn't pee and I finally put my foot down and said it was time to take a bath.  We were on a tight schedule, no time for messing around with this. 

Well she was acting all crazy in the bath, just total chaos.  But I got her clean and started draining the water from the tub.  She then stands up and pees....  So we had to have a talk about if she is in the tub and needs to pee she needs to tell me to put her on her potty.  Blah blah blah... So I take her to go put her pjs on.

At this point I'm exhausted and flustered and just want to get her to bed so I can go to bed too.  I throw her pjs on, take her upstairs and we read a book in our chair.  She was so tired she fell asleep on my lap (which rarely happens anymore), so I pick her up and lay her down in her crib.  And that's when I saw what I did...

Her diaper was sticking out of the top of her pj pants... her DAYTIME DIAPER....  SHIT!

So then I was faced with what to do.... Do I dare wake her up to change her in to a nighttime diaper?  I was so tired and just wanted to take a shower and go to bed myself.  I mean, she just emptied out in the bath tub, how much could she really pee during the night?  And really, aren't those nighttime diapers just a money scheme anyways?  Do they really make a difference??

YES, YES THEY DO!  For the record the Nitetime diapers are worth every freaking penny!

Because I decided to just let her sleep. 

I woke up to her crying at 4:00 this morning and I just knew.  I had to go in, get her changed and cleaned up and I brought her back to bed with me.  Then when I got up this morning I had to go strip her bed and do laundry.... 

What a great way to start a Thursday morning!

Memorial Day Weekend Highlights

Gary worked on this all weekend:

No, I don't have a before picture.  Imagine lots of nice bushes and plants when we moved in - I did not take care of them - so they were taken over by weeds.  Trust me, this is a huge improvement! 

I spent Sunday evening like this:

Lyla decided she REALLY likes corn on the cob... sadly I did not get a picture, it was pretty fantastic though!

Other than that we ran lots of errands, met Ashley for breakfast on Saturday, had Gary's friend and his wife over Saturday evening, and spent lots of time in the backyard Sunday and Monday. 

Now its back to work and prepping for Lyla's birthday on Sunday!

5 Things Friday - Favorite Summer Songs

5 Things Friday - 5 Favorite Songs that just make it feel like SUMMER!

1.  Summer Girls - LFO
ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE SUMMER SONG OF ALL TIME!  I don't care how old I get, how bad a mood I might be in, you put this song on and all is well with the world again!

2.  Still Not a Player (I Just Crush A Lot) - Big Punisher
I remember one summer when I was at the beach, it was the year this came out and your heard it everywhere you went.  Therefore it always feels like summer to me when I hear it!

3.  Bye Bye Bye - NSync
I have no explanation for this one.... I just love it and I love it more driving in the car with the windows down!

4.  Young - Kenny Chesney
It reminds me of summers when I lived at home.  Or all the concerts I've been to sitting outside on a hot summer night!

5.  Kokomo - Beach Boys
This song just makes me want to sit on a beach somewhere.  I love this song and the Beach Boys!

Please let me know what your favorite summer songs are!  I know there are tons that I can't think of right now!  Happy Memorial Day aka Start of Summer!  :)

Lifelong Friends

There is something to be said for a lifelong friend.  My lifelong friend is Miss Erin Ree.

I've been feeling just "off" lately.  Stressed out, not happy, just generally not feeling right.  Then I got to spend ALL DAY Saturday with Erin.  Just me and her and nobody else.  It was the most fantastic day I have had in I can't tell you how long!  And since then, I am feeling so much better, its like I got to reboot!

Erin and I have known each other since a very young age, I can't say exactly how old, but I can't remember a time when she ever wasn't in my life.  We grew up on the same road, out in the sticks where there weren't a whole lot of kids to pick from to be friends with!  So who knows, maybe we turned out to be best friends by default - lack of any other options!  But I don't think that's the case, because if it was, when we finally moved out and got in to the real world we would have moved on from each other and we didn't.

We have been through it all together, boys, deaths, graduations, weddings & births (mine, hers are coming soon), we know all there is to know about each other.  When we are together there aren't any background stories that you have to give to tell a current story.  We don't have to give any kind of explanation for why our families are the way they are.   We are just honest and we understand each other.

We find the same stupid things hilarious and we understand why the other gets upset.  We have changed a lot from the little girls we used to be, but we are changing and growing the the same direction and I couldn't be happier about that!

I spent over 12 hours with Erin on Saturday.  I was so sad to see the day come to an end and I genuinely can't wait until we have the time to do it again! 

5 Things Friday - Stupid things people do to their cars

Top 5 Stupid Things People Do To Their Cars (in my opinion)

1.  Stick People Family Stickers

I notice that this seems to be the new cool thing to do for all the soccer moms out there.  I think they are ridiculous!

2.  Team Flags Hanging Out The Window

Gary has WVU ones... I hate them!

3.  "In Memory of Mom/Grandpa/whoever"

I have never understood these.  People get those stickers on their back windows dedicating the car to whoever passed away.  Unless you used your inheritance money to buy the car, this just makes absolutely no sense to me.

4.  Lifting Your Wipers Off of the Windshield
Whenever there is a chance of the windows icing up some people I know will go out in the parking lot and lift the wipers up off of the windshield to keep them from freezing to it.  I get it, it protects the wipers, makes them last longer and all that.  But really all it makes me want to do is go and smack them down!

5.  Sunshades

Along the same lines as lifting the wipers, I understand the purpose of them, but I still make fun every time I see a car with one.  My favorite are the ones that look like big sunglasses!

Heard Around the House #10

Me:    Lyla what would you like to have for dinner tonight?
Lyla:   2 Chicken
Me:    Ok, and what do you want to have with your 2 chicken?
Lyla:   (looking at me like how stupid are you) DIP!

Duh... I mean, what else do you have with chicken?!?!?!

I like to pretend I'm a photographer!

I like to pretend I'm a photographer and I'm cheap.  The result of these two thing is me dressing Lyla up, taking her to the park and doing our own 2 year pictures instead of going and paying for a professional to do it!  I took 37 pictures, these are the  best ones:

I think we have a couple that will work!  And I'm positive she had more fun than she would have at a studio!