Updates:

Kylie- After an especially few hard days of pulling my hair out trying to deal with her constant, never ending whining to play with friends, do this for me, do that for me, never ending list of demands of "me me me" I made a plan. It was high time that she start having some chores to do around the house everyday. So we are five days into this and so far things are going well. She gets to do three chores everyday. First chore is making her bed/ cleaning her room. Second is putting the dishes in the dishwasher away and the third changes. I've had her mop the floor, clean a dirty bathtub, put a load of laundry away etc. It's going well so far and only one day this week have I really had to get on her tail to finish them. It's been taking her about an hour do get them all done and not being able to play with friends in the afternoon until she's done with them has been a good motivator.

Among other news is that Kylie made the lottery into our local charter school. I could hardly believe it. Her going there hadn't even been on my radar really. I have mixed feelings about it though. Some of my friends who have children that attend there seem to love it but to be fair I also have heard good things about our local public school too. The local elementary is just down the street from us so at this new school I'll also have to carpool as the charter school is probably a 5-7 minute drive from our house. I'm not as thrilled about that. They also have a pretty specific dress code/ uniform look that our local elementary doesn't have. She will have to wear white, red, or navy tops that have collars, plain cardigans and navy, khaki or black pants or skirts. No logos, lace, prints, ruffles or colors outside the approved school colors. I think it's kind of overkill to have a dress code for Kindy but I think once kids hit those 4th, 5th, 6th grads on up it will be helpful.We will give it a try for the year and see how we like it.

Kipton- His latest favorite activity is watching random you tube video's of garbage trucks. Who knew there are video's that people have made of garbage trucks doing their thing. But this three year old little boy thanks you. Several weeks ago I couldn't get him to watch anything besides Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. He's also enjoying filling his dump truck in the front yard with my bark mulch.

Carter- My little stinker still isn't sleeping through the night. He's just a little peanut of a thing- he was in the 17% percentile for weight at his last check in. He's three months now and I'm guessing he's about twelve pounds or so. I call him my little peanut, or my pup. I've really never done this with the other kids, but I can't help myself but give narrative about what he is thinking to whoever will listen when I'm holding him.

Me- Jared and I have been trying to figure out how to deal with the constant mess in the garage of bikes, scooters, wiggle cars, strollers, wagons and other random items that make it hard to park our cars in there. At the H.D. I stumbled upon a Rubbermaid Fasttrack system that is pretty cool. I mounted a 84" bracket onto the wall and there are different type of hooks that attach onto it. You can slide the hooks around or take them completely off without having to screw them on/off individually. I'm loving it and plan to install at least one more smaller bracket onto our other wall. It's been so helpful getting some of these items off the ground and out of the way.

I bought a sectional and ottoman today for the basement. I will be thrilled to have some additional seating in this house. I feel like I'm pulling my hair out trying to decide on light fixtures for the basement. Light fixtures aren't cheap and they sure add up. Trying to have a nice matching, cohesive look is also proving more difficult than I thought. Carpet should hopefully be here in a week or two. I finally got the cabinet leveled and screwed into the studs. Just need to get that tile down. I am SO ready to be finished down there. It's been dragging on forever.

Stitches

I have lots to update! My laptop is being fixed so pardon the lack of pictures.

Last Friday Kipton became the first in our family to need stitches. I was in my bedroom when he fell but Kylie is always quick to give the report. From what I can piece together he was in the garage standing the workbench trying to push the garage door opener. We have a workbench that is the same level as the first stair when you go out in the garage so the kids usually step on it in order to hit the garage door opener. He must have slipped or lost his balance. He came in crying and his entire face was covered in blood. Kipton usually bleeds forever so when I saw how much blood there was I knew I was in for it. I cleaned him up in our bathroom as best I could and was surprised when the wound stopped gushing about two minutes into it. I could see that his skin was drooping where the cut was and you could see some of the fatty tissue underneath but had my neighbor Jen come look at it just to make sure. By that point it had stopped bleeding and Kipton just wanted to lay in his bed.

Carter and Kylie went over to Jen's and I met Jared at the Instacare. At first I thought it was overkill to have Jared come home from work. He has tons of sick time he's wanted to burn up and in the end I'm really glad he came. Kipton didn't want to leave the house though- he's a tender heart just like Jared and he said that he was "scared". Kipton perked up in the waiting room and was playing with Jared quite a bit. The nurses cleaned his wound and put a patch on his head with a gel type version of Lidocaine. That stayed on his head for a half hour and then they also numbed him up more with two more shots. I felt awful for him while they were doing the stitches. Kipton was screaming like c.r.a.z.y the entire time. They had to restrain him in a swaddle type of blanket. Jared and I were both holding his arms and legs down, two nurses were holding his head still and the doctor was stitching him up. I know the process was terrifying for him. He cried, screamed, fought and pleaded with us the entire time :(. It took the doctor a good twenty minutes or so to get those stitches in. He will have to wear a hat when outside for the next six weeks to try to limit the scaring. He needed eight stitches and a few additional stitches underneath.