Bleeding Owies, Army Crawl and Stinky Babies

Yesterday it was some sort of teacher day so the kids had a day off from school. We all had a very lazy morning which was nice. I laid Sarah and Noah down for a nap after lunch. When they woke up I went to get them and it was very smelly. I hate it when they dirty their diapers during nap time because it makes the whole upstairs stink. Anyway judging by the size of the stinky diapers I thought we would be ok to head to McDonald's for dinner because we wouldn't have any stinky diapers to worry about. When we ordered our food Noah surprised us all by inhaling a ton of french fries. I didn't know he was just throwing most of them on the floor instead of eating them--the little stinker. While we were there Noah learned how to drink from a straw somewhat. Once he discovered how to suck on the straw, he got a huge mouthful at first. It took him a few minutes before he wanted to try it again, but he did and he did get a little bit better the longer we were there. Hopefully he will remember it for next time, but I don't know if I want to share my drinks from now on, hmmmmm.


During dinner it didn't take long for Sarah and Noah to find their happy places and dirty both their diapers again. What the heck!? I thought we would have been safe since they took care of that during nap time, but I guess they both found their "happy places" at McDonalds and decided to take care of business AGAIN. After that we left.

Later on that night we had put all the kids to bed and Aaron and I were watching some TV when Daniel came upstairs quite upset. He was crying and told us he was bleeding from his bum so he got some toilet paper to clean it up with. You can see his nice toilet paper tail in the picture. I was a little concerned since our family seems to have a lots of unusual things happen to us. I asked Daniel more about it. That's when he showed me where the bleeding was coming from. I guess he had scratched his bum cheek and cut it. It was a small cut mind you, but once he saw the blood it freaked him out. He insisted on a bandaid and then of course he needed lubs (loves) for a while. I am glad that it was just a cut and nothing else--whew!! I must admit Aaron and I had a hard time taking him seriously after seeing the long toilet paper tail hanging out of his pants, though.

Something has clicked with Noah. In the last day Noah has discovered the army crawl. He spent all of today perfecting it and has gotten pretty fast. I am happy, but sad too. That means my baby is getting too big too fast!! Also don't you love how that after Noah happens to brush Sarah's toe, she tattles on him saying, "Noah hit me!" Kids learn how to tattle way to easily!!

Sarah has really been into pretend play lately. Today she kept telling me her baby was Peeee Ewwww. Then she would just say her baby farted. With her either term means the same thing. (Of course I didn't have the camera going when she was doing that so in this video I was prompting her a little bit.) She has used quite a few wipes to clean her baby. Enough that her cloth baby actually has a wet bum from all the diaper changes with wipes. I love how she will wipe her doll's bum and then put the wipe back into the wipes container. Lovely. What a funny girl. Her doll gets pretty clean except when Sarah gets distracted with the TV. All of my kids are like that. If the TV is on the whole world would explode and they would never notice. Good thing we don't have it on too often.