One of "THOSE" Days

 This is just down the street from our house.  It didn't turn out as well as I'd like, but I am seriously loving how long the fall leaves have been here!

We're in our new house.  It's awesome.  I'm loving every room and putting everything I love into place.  It is such a fun experience.  And Ben and I are super duper happy.  I have had a few requests to put up pictures of the house, but I don't feel quite ready to do that.  I still have junk in random places and we have one picture hanging in the entire house.  Give me a few days and maybe (MAYBE being the key word here) I'll have a few pictures of just a couple of rooms.  No promises, though.  Sorry.

 Saturday morning snuggles

 I think Seseme Street has taught Lily well about patterns: lettuce, noodle, lettuce, noodle.... now if I could get her to eat them, then that would be even better!

I thought he looked like a mini storm trooper when he did this.

The kids' new play room!  Seriously, they spend more time in here then they do in their toy room.  I figured something like this would happen.  I'm going to leave this cabinet empty and unchildproofed for them. 

So yes everything has gone beautifully until today.  Today was not such a good day.  Here's the story:  We were all sitting in Lily's room playing when Lily ran out into the hall and got two night lights and started banging the bulbs together.  As soon as I yelled for her to stop the glass had shattered all over her floor and I freaked out.  So I pulled out my weapon of choice (yelling) and told them to climb onto Lily's bed so that I could pick up the pieces.  I'm ashamed to admit that I yelled more than I should have.  Now that I look back at it, really is it that big of a deal that she broke a night light???  No.

So I thought fast of where I could put the pieces of glass.  I didn't want to go far so I decided on the master bathroom since I leave our door locked and they wouldn't be able to get into it and cut themselves.  Then I did some personal business *em em* and was in there for maybe a minute.  When I came back out I was surprised that only Skyler was still in Lily's room because I had told them both to stay on the bed.  Then I noticed the bonus room door was closed.  I ran inside to find that Lily had chosen (for the third time ever) her weapon of choice, that's right, vaseline.  WHAT?!  NO!!!!  THIS IS A NEW HOUSE!!!  WE JUST MOVED IN WEDNESDAY NIGHT!!!!!  But what does that mean to a toddler?  So we now have three nice spots of vaseline all over the carpet upstairs.  Goody.  I originally thought that I had put it in a place where Lily couldn't reach it, but now I think I'm going to have to build a secret passageway that leads to a secret stairway that leads to a guard dog that protects a vault with a 25 digit password that holds the vaseline.  That is my next assignment for Ben.  (Good luck, hubby!)

So I got even more upset with Lily and then I had to regain control of myself and think of cute memories of her.  I also had to think of when I looked at the + on my pregnancy test and how Ben and I were bouncing up and down with excitement.  Didn't I want this?  Of course.  And so I'm trying to control my emotions and I made a batch of brownies.  

Then I thought about my life and the billions beyond billions of second, third, etc. chances Heavenly Father has given me.  So today was one of the many times that I looked at Lily and saw myself and realized that we are not so different from each other.  Not always doing the best thing but always offered second chances because we are unconditionally loved.  

So with that thought in mind I am going to get myself a rather large piece of brownie and remind Ben to bring home some Spot Shot.  Aaahhh..... this house is going to be full of adventures.