Has a week really gone by since I last posted?  Geez!  Well, it has been crazy. 

Many Projects 

I have a lot of projects that are commanding my attention right now.  I am stripping wallpaper and have been cursing the previous owner of our house because when I began stripping the first layer of wallpaper, I found another layer of wallpaper. Nice.  One the positive side, this is a project I can work on during the day in small stints.  I simply use a steamer, so as long as the kids are away from that, they can help me tear or they just play around me.  I am still determined to get all my painting projects wrapped up before Christmas.

Quinn Back to Her Old Tricks

Now that swim lessons are over, Quinn is back to her old tricks of staying up until 9am or later.  So that leaves me with little time in the evening and I am usually too tired to do much.  I know this is a phase and once she is walking I feel confident she will settle back into a good routine. 

I mentioned a long time ago that I was going to run with her since her bedtime was later.  She didn’t like that plan very much and would cry while I ran so that was quickly scrapped.  I think the hardest part is that after a long day, I just want to relax and putting her to  bed is a very physical thing.  I am either walking her or if I am trying to nurse her to sleep, I have to stand up and rock her.  I like putting Tyler to bed some nights because I get to lay down!  How nice is that?? 

I just need to get her more activity in the afternoons.  I used to have to do the same thing with Tyler - get him to the pool for an hour or the playground.  I think a good hour outside before dinner will make a huge difference…I hope anyway.  At any rate, the days are slowly but surely getting shorter and I am hoping their bio rythms might follow suit..

Awake at 7am

I commented to Chris that our kids both wake up around 7am.  It took us almost 3 years to get to this place.  Tyler woke up early for years.  Quinn was waking up at 5am, then 6am, then 6:30am for the longest time.  It is nice because I can go to bed at 11 and so long as Quinn has a decent night, I am up at 7am feeling pretty good.

Wrapping Up August

The month that always seems to move the slowest is coming to and end and my little family prepares to ride our September “slip n slide”. 

I call it that because we have Labor Day Weekend, the next Friday Chris heads to Montana for 5 days, then right when he gets back it is ACL Fest for three days, then the next weekend we are headed to the beach for the weekend. 

Then I will wake up and it will be October and I will have to start thinking about Halloween since the last two years we haven’t really done much on this holiday for the kids.  This year I am determined to get costumes for the kids.  

It has been a nice summer…if you call it that.  I would almost say that we haven’t REALLY had a summer this year..not for Texas anyway.