Bath shower what?

Our little girl LOVES the shower. As soon as you turn the water on she's trying to climb in and usually is successful. She's young and fast, we're old and slow. She doesn't care how cold or hot the water is. Our shower is a pretty good size and I'm pretty sure she thinks of it as her own personal splash pad. I may have contributed to this because when she does shower with me I let her play in there while I dry off, get dressed, brush my teeth, brush my hair, put on make up. Ya know what don't judge me. It works.

Yesterday I didn't want her to climb in the shower as we were getting ready to leave the house so I had the bright idea to put her in the tub.

She had a baby with her and everything was going well until I felt a change in my water pressure. Uhh I looked out and Emma apparently had decided her baby needed a bath because she turned on the water.

Sigh. I turned off the water and quickly finished my shower. I'm certain that little stinker was thinking that she got me. Good thing she's so cute!

Bath tub baby containment fail.

The Great Pumpkin

All I have wanted for 3 years was to grow pumpkins. I constantly tell Paul and everyone who'll listen that my plan for when Paul retires is to open a Christmas tree farm, pumpkin patch, and petting zoo. Oh and did I mention I want to keep bees and maybe some alpacas (federal tax credit ya know).

So my pumpkin vines have been out of control growing, tons of flowers, but no pumpkins. Sad!

Then yesterday I went out to pick tomatoes and saw it. What I thought was a watermelon is actually a pumpkin! Praise Jesus I'm so excited! Of course there was a happy pumpkin dance involved.

Pumpkin patch here I come!!!!!

My arch nemesis

Emma has been super into her "babies" aka dolls lately so we decided to order her a couple more off of Amazon along with the bottles that have the milk and orange that disappear.  While searching for doll accessories I came across the following baby bed, high chair, and sink.  It was only $15 and I thought Em would enjoy it.  For some reason I expected it to come in one piece, but it wasn't.  You know how plastic toys come attached to each other so you have to twist them or cut them to seperate them.  That's how this came, but I thought I have my masters how hard can it be to put together.  Hahahaha

It took me 30 minutes just to get all the pieces separated.  The next 30 minutes I spent trying to assemble the ends of the cribs to the front and back of the crib.  The directions that came with it was just pictures, no words.  Beyond impossible to understand.  After much swearing and sweating and failure, Emma woke up from her nap and I gave up.  

We came back from running some errands and I was determined to finish this project!  I could not be beat by a $15 piece of plastic!  I got a different screw driver.  Did I mention there were 16 screws and no screw holes, only holes in the plastic?  I finally got 2 pieces screwed together and started to understand the pictogram that I was following.  When I say understand I meant that I just kept looking at the picture of the assembled product on the box to see what pieces went where. 

Em decided she should help me and/or play with the doll bed as I put it together.  Super helpful that girl of mine.  When she wasn't trying to steal the screw driver or throw screws all over the room, she actually did help by pulling the small plastic pieces apart.  Probably safe and child friendly I'm sure.  Mother of the year right here.  At least I stopped her from stabbing our Boston terrier with the screw driver. 

After much more sweating and another hour I finally felt done.  It was no longer falling apart except I had 1 screw left over.  1 screw.  Hmmmm...I examined the toy and 20 minutes later found the final screw hole.  My arms were shaking from the effort of getting those stupid screws into the non screw holes.  What did I expect for $15 is the question I should have asked myself during those whole process.   



But to watch Em play with it and see how much she enjoys it, well, it was all worth it.