Lydia – Andelin Adventures

Stylists

Dinah, Chloe and sometimes Lydia, have taken a fancy to doing my hair. It is kind of a weakness of mine, and they may have figured that out. I enjoy having my hair played with, and so when they are doing my hair, it’s harder for me to put my foot down and insist that they go to bed, or clean their room (for example). Not to mention that when they are playing with my hair, its wiser not to move or get up because then they would end up pulling my hair and that would be painful. So I usually just let them. Here are some pictures of the better hair styles they have come up with:

Lydia’s Fourth Birthday

Lydia turned four today! I used my heart shaped cake pans when making her strawberry cake, and then I decorated it with skittles and green sour straws to make it look like a strawberry. The home made strawberry frosting seemed to be a bit runny and the skittles on the side of the cake kind of slid down.

Kyle picked out her birthday present a few weeks ago. He got her some Minnie Mouse dominos, since she has a Minnie Mouse obsession, and they just learned how to play dominos at cousins house in Idaho.

Sleepy

Seth fell asleep on my bedroom floor for a mid-morning nap. Later I walked in to find that Lydia, just wanting to be with him, had laid down next to him, and then she fell asleep too. 🙂

Human

At breakfast Lydia asked me “Mom, is grandma human?” I wondered why she would ask something like this and said yes. One of the kids told Lydia that she is human too, and she answered with “No, I am a kid!”

Then at dinner, I was telling Kyle about the mornings conversation, and I told Lydia that a kid is actually a baby goat. A few minutes later, Lydia told Kyle “Daddy, grandma is a human.” Kyle asked “Is mommy a human?” Lydia answered and said “No, she is a big girl.” Then he asked her if she was a human and she said “No, I’m a little kid, baby goat.” We all had a good laugh at that.

Totally stressful day

Today has been a completely crazy and stressful day. Adam took a piece of glass out of one of my glass top tables in the living room, then he dropped it though the hole it was supposed to sit in and it landed on one of the rocks I inherited from Grandma Shirley, causing it to break. 🙁

Later I caught him hitting another section of glass in another of the living room tables with a rock that he had in his hand. Then I found Adam and Lydia standing on the kitchen counter getting into the medicine cupboard. They were just determined to be naughty today!

This afternoon I had to finish collecting all of the order forms for Girl Scout cookies, from my girls. It felt like I had to hunt them down to get them turned in. I had given a due date and a time that they must be turned in by, and they weren’t all turned in by then. I had several that I needed to hunt down. Then a few of the parents hadn’t totaled up the numbers like they were asked to, so I had to do that to. I sent a message to verify a final number for one of the girls and her mom flipped out insisting that it was supposed to be higher than that. So after going back and forth we figured out that I was missing one of the order cards. So then she was freaking out and I am freaking out trying to find it. I eventually found it, and had to total up that card and come up with a new final total for that girl. And all while I was trying to work on hunting down order cards, and getting everything added up, I had parents harassing me to find out what incentives their girls were going to receive! I hadn’t even made our troop’s order yet and they already wanted to know which prizes their daughters were going to get! I finally got everything counted up, and I was ready to sit at the computer and put everything into eCookie to place our troop’s order. I went through one girl/family at a time and put all the orders in. I was just about done when I tried to save it, and something went wrong and everything was lost! 🙁 So I got to re-enter everything, stopping to save after each girl. I was having such a crazy time with the cookie orders that I didn’t make dinner tonight. Kyle had to help me get that figured out when I was done with cookies.

Later I went downstairs and found sunflower seeds all over the family room! It looked like sunflower seeds had exploded everywhere! I guess, when Kyle took the kids downstairs to keep them out of my hair so I could take care of cookie business, he passed out bags of some trail mix. Most of the kids don’t care for the sunflowers and so they just ended up everywhere. I am so ready for today to be over! 🙁