10 on Tuesday!

1. It is amazing that my flowers are still alive after the stupid snowfall. Seriously? Snow in June? I need to move.

2. Our grass is in!! I would have preferred precipitation in the form of rain, but moisture is moisture I guess. Now bring on the SUNSHINE!!

3. I love my stand up shower but I hate cleaning it. I can never get the hard water stains off the glass so it always looks dirty. We bought the scrubbing bubbles shower cleaner because someone told us it worked pretty well. HA! Ralph actually reacted to the chemicals and had a burn on his feet! They were a disgusting peely mess. This is why I have always used "natural" cleaners, but I find that Method, which I LOVE, isn't cutting it. Maybe I should try CLR. Hopefully Ralph's feet survive.

4. We shaved off Olivia's mullet today. It looks much cuter. Except for one thing.....there's nothing to keep her neck fat roll warm.

5. Olivia has started belly laughing the last few days and its usually at Hayden. I was crying and laughing at the same time the other night as Olivia and I watched Hayden splashing in the tub.....she was in stitches! By the time I grabbed the video camera, the humor had passed. Crap. I need my Flip so that I can keep it in my pocket for moments like those. Often, Hayden isn't doing anything especially goofy, in my opinion, but she sure thinks he's funny! It's very cool to see how much she absolutely loves her big, silly brother.

6. Isn't it funny that you, or maybe just I, never think to clean the oven until it's warming up to actually cook something and it stinks up the place?! Mine has a few spills in the bottom.....time to turn on the self-clean feature and open all the windows!

7. Ralph has to go to Germany again. Another week solo with 2 kids. 'nuff said.

8. Does anyone else feel like their house teeters on the delicate balance between looking neat and being over-run by kid stuff? I never want my house to look like a museum but I also hate the mess of toys everywhere. I thought the answer to this was having a playroom downstairs. Wrong. Hayden isn't fond of playing there all by himself, and I can't always stay with him. I think the perfect answer, Ralph, is to build me a scrapbooking room so I can always be nearby :)

9. Olivia's sleep schedule is totally screwed up. I was doing her last feed at 10p, then bath, then top up for bedtime at 10:45 or 11p. I changed her bath time to 8p (right after Hayden's bath) and everything went down hill. She was waking up for one feed somewhere between 3a and 4a and then sleeping until 8a. Awesome. Pretty good for 3 months old. Now, she has been waking up at 1a, 3a and 5 or 6a. BRUTAL!! Needless to say, we are going back to the old routine. Cross your fingers I haven't caused permanent damage.

10. My uncle Lyle was visiting from Vancouver this week with his girlfriend Andrea. (This is the first time we have met her and she is fabulous!) We had a BBQ at my Uncle Greg's house (with his wife Judy and my cousins Shaun and Amy.) We had a great chance to catch up and we had a really nice evening together. Uncle Lyle had not seen Hayden nor Olivia until Saturday night so I was happy they could meet. I think it was pretty awesome that I could take my husband and my kids to hang out with the cool Uncles I grew up with. One of those moments when you really feel like a grown up. I'm not their little niece anymore!