Long time no post....

First I need to apologize to Ashley. I know I told you I would post and I failed. Please forgive me. My weak excuse, besides my 3 kids (CALEB, Aaron and Lydia) is that Caleb and I are building built in bookshelves. They are coming along very well, but are taking up A LOT of time. We have spent most of our free time over the past 2 weeks doing them. I have done tons of painting and used a power drill a ton on Saturday. Just a few finishing touches and final coat of paint and we will be all done. If I can say so myself...they look good! I will post pictures when we finish. Hopefully it will be real soon b/c I can't wait to cover them with Christmas decorations!!!

I have been sitting here trying to make a photo book that you can get online for free for the past 45 minutes and all I have to show for it are 3 photos uploaded. After much frustration, I have decided to give up. Free is nice...ok great...but there is so much I would rather be and should be doing right now. Only if the site wasn't stupid and slow. But here is a link to info if anyone else wants to try.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1688485

In other news, I took Lydia to the doctor today for her 9 month check up. 9 MONTHS...I can't believe it. Anyways, she is doing well. She weighed in at 16 lbs 7 oz. This brings her to the 25%tile. We are finally growing. But I am still putting 3 month clothes (read pants) on her. She is around the 40-50th %tile for height. She is a long skinny thing. She has mastered the army crawl and is getting into everything. Her favorite thing is to try to get Aaron's match box cars, crawl through Aaron's tunnel (pics to come), play with door stops (Aaron use to love these too), and go for any cord. Today (after I fell down the stairs...again...but I'm ok, just limping b/c my knee hurts) I found her under our end table between the couches trying to get the lamp cord. She is really cute now (when she's not screaming according to Caleb).

Aaron is also doing good. He loves Lydia still and gets excited when she wakes up until she tries to take his toys. He says "no Lydia" a lot. One thing I never expected before having kids is how much your life revolves around poop. I mean seriously, besides having to change dirty diapers you got to worry about when they last pooped, are they constipated (a common problem for our two...sorry TMI), and what does it look like. Its worst when they are babies, but the obsession continues. Anyways, to my point. Thankfully Aaron has been pooping in the potty for a while, at least most of the time. He went like a big boy yesterday then we sent him upstairs to get a clean diaper. A couple of minutes later he yells down that he went poppy. I responded with "I know you went poppy in the potty". He returns with "I go poppy in my room". As I go upstairs Caleb reminds me to "be nice" (which was a needed reminder) then I find a trail of poop in the hall and in his room. Luckily, he was a little constipated so they weren't too messy. I have changed way too many poopy diapers and clothes when the diaper was not enough. I really don't understand how they can get poop coming out of the neck of their clothes. I'm sidetracking again. So, now I add cleaning poop off the floor to my list. I have to admit...out of the tub was worst. At least he doesn't play with it like I've heard some kid do, but I will say a quick prayer for those parents.

Now that I have written a book I will try to get some pictures up too. I have a lot to blog about, I just haven't.