5 Things Friday - 5 Emotional Things from this past week

First off I would like to start this post with saying that I have majorly sucked at blogging lately.  I feel like my life has been a bit helter skelter lately and I'm trying really hard to just plant my feet on the ground and breathe!  Everyone who knows me well knows that I don't deal with change or anything unexpected very well.  I like my routine, I like things to be boring, I don't like changes in my every day life.  And God help Gary because Lyla seems to be the same way.  So in honor of it being Friday, I will give a summary of what has been happening lately as a "5 Things" list.

1.  Daycare.
Oh daycare.  Daycare has been an extreme headache to me the last couple of weeks.  I never dreamed to be a stay at home mom and that hasn't changed, but its been hard lately to send Lyla to daycare every day.  They move rooms at daycare as they have a birthday.  So her birthday was on Sunday and the next day she moved to the Twos Room.  And she was sick that week.  And getting her molars in.  It was a bad week and not a fair way to get introduced to a new room, new kids, new teachers.  So I had hopes this week would be better.  Its not.  She doesn't like it at all.  And I honestly don't know that I like the way they do things in this room either.  They expect them to be very independent and she isn't at all, I mean, she's two.  So every morning she bawls her eyes out when I get out of the car and she begs me not to make her go.  Its a good time.... not.

So I'm not loving daycare this week anyways and Wednesday when we pick her up there are letters in every one's bags.  They are raising their rates in September.  Not $1 a day like they have in the past... $35 A WEEK.  Ugh... we can't afford it now, how will we afford it in September?

We have an appointment to check out a new daycare on Tuesday.  Its close to where we live now and I think it might be a good match for us.  I figure might as well move her while she is transitioning anyways.  It will only be worse if she gets all settled in to this new room and then I make her do it all over again.  Which with my luck is probably what will happen anyways... but what can you do?

2.  Lyla's Health.
As my mom keeps says "Lyla is making us earn that parent badge".  Nothing is ever easy.  We have had some concern about her right eye.  In the evenings when she is really tired it will sometimes roll around and not focus.  So we took her to a pediatric optomologist this week.  He did an exam and isn't overly concerned at the moment.  I need to get a patch and we are supposed to put it over her good eye for a couple hours a day to try to strengthen the bad eye.  And he said it looks like she will need glasses soon, but not yet.  Which is not any surprise with the terrible eyesight that Gary and I have!  We have to take her back in a few months to get checked out for that.

Also when she was sick last week part of it was an ear infection.  Her tube came out of one of her ears.  So she has her ENT appointment next month and I don't know what he is going to say.  We might have to get it put back in.  This will be the third time...

3.  I just found out that one of my dearest friends and her family may be moving far away.  I'm so excited for her and I know that she will be so happy if they do, but I'm sad for me. 

4.  Its Father's Day weekend.  I love my dad very much and I'm so thankful for all he has done for me and all he continues to do for me.  I'm so happy that Lyla gets to have Gary for a daddy.  He is wonderful to her, she is a very lucky little girl!  And my heart breaks for Gary because he doesn't have his dad here this weekend and I can't imagine what that feels like.  I can be supportive, but when it comes down to it, I (thankfully) don't know what it feels like to lose a parent and its not fair to pretend like I know exactly how he feels, because I don't.

5.  And to round off this list of emotional things - something with good emotions attached!
ASHLEY GOT ENGAGED!  :)  Jeremy went all out and its a great story!  I'm so so so happy for them!

5 Things Friday - 5 Things that have sucked this week

5 Things Friday
Top 5 Things that have SUCKED this week:

1.  Lyla has been sick.
2.  I have been sick.
3.  Gary is out of vacation time at work.
4.  I am out of vacation time at work.
5.  My stupid phone finally died after going for a swim in the washing machine so I had to replace it.

For the record I'm super cranky and in a bad mood.  So if you talk to me today and I bite your head off, well you have been warned....

Lyla's 2nd Birthday Celebration!

Hi all!  Today was my little princesses 2nd birthday!  I fully intend on writing a post about all that has happen in the last year of her life and how I truly love her to pieces (or m&ms, haha), but at this exact moment I am totally exhausted!  So I'm just going to throw up a quick post up for everyone to see the pictures from her special day and a quick video!  She had a great day!  <3

5 Things Friday - Things I like to see first thing in the morning

On this rainy Friday, let me share with you things I like to see when I wake up in the morning (no, rain is not one of them):

1.  My two favorite people!

2.  A nice cup of coffee.

3.  An alarm clock with a time past 6:00 because that means I got to sleep in...

4.  The beach.... this one hasn't happen in a REALLY LONG TIME...

5.  A calendar saying that its the weekend!

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!  :)