So this morning, right after her breakfast (but before I could finish eating), Mara informed me that her tummy hurt. She didn’t make it to the potty in time. . . No big deal, right? Get new underwear, wash out dirty ones. . . She says her tummy still hurts, so I say, stay close to the potty, in case you have to go again!
Micah said he needed to go potty. I never know these days how to know whether he does or doesn’t, so I sat him there for awhile, but he never went.
We had some “sharing toys” issues to deal with, and I decided to get out the guitar for some special fun. I had to deal with Micah for some misbehavior, and Mara broke one of the guitar strings. I’m not sure how that’s even possible, unless it was strung too tightly. But in any case, I went to repair the guitar string, and while I was doing that I suddenly heard Mara shouting, “Micah has the orange one!”
At that point, I didn’t care what “orange one”–I knew that was not a positive comment–and found my son crawling under the easel with an open dry erase marker in his hand. Of course, he had marked up his shorts. So I deal with that one: google “dry erase marker stains” and start applying Murphy’s Oil Soap to his shorts. . . With a LOT of scrubbing, it worked! The dry erase marker came out! for which I was very thankful since those were his best khaki shorts!. . . I began to wonder if Murphy’s Oil Soap would work on Sharpie stains too? But I didn’t have a chance to experiment, because I heard Carissa fussing upstairs in her cradle, ready to be nursed again.
On the way, I rescued some slobbery chapstick from my son. (Okay, it is booktime!)
Daniel and I IM’d. I told him a little about my morning (it was only about 10AM). He said, “Sounds pretty simple. Should you leave plenty of time for pleasure reading too.” And I used to wonder what moms did with all that time!!!!!!
With the older two reading books in their beds, I got to sit and nurse my sweet Carissa and enjoy her smiles! And by the way, she turns four months old today! Happy four-month-birthday, little Carissa!