my weekend so far

so what have i been doing this weekend? baking bread. i made 4 mini loaves this afternoon. then i went to my mom's house for a couple of hours. then i went to wal-mart and got some groceries. then i came home and baked 4 more loaves and i have 4 more loaves getting ready to go into the oven. thankfully the dough is made in the bread machine and i have two of those, so the time factor is cut in half. i am baking bread for the people who helped us move. i owe them big time! :)

so in between baking loaves of bread today, i had to sanitize hannah's bathroom from top to bottom (literally) twice! this morning i was ironing thomas's shirt and hannah said she had to poop. so i put her on the potty and went to iron thomas's shirt (i can see her the entire time). last time we did that, she pooped in the potty and all was successful! not so this time! she turned herself around sideways on the seat and got the decorative toilet brush, somehow stuck it in the toilet while she was sitting on it, then pulled it out and flung toilet water all over the place. then she dropped the toilet brush and told me that it fell. now how did she do this when i was watching her? she did it when i went to hang thomas's shirt up. that'll teach me to be a good wife. so i cleaned her little bum, and put her in the bathtub while i bleached the toilet, sink, floors, cabinets and walls. we talked about why she was in trouble and i asked her if she was going to do it again and she said "prob'ly". monstrous child! but, meredith, why did you have to clean it twice? i can almost hear you asking that question. because hannah is a monstrous child! at least lying isn't one of her issues! because guess what hannah did about 5 hours later! the same darn thing! that's right, folks! i turned around to put her poopy diaper in the garbage and hannah got ahold of the toilet brush again. not quite as much toilet water made it out of the toilet, but there was enough! so i cleaned hannah's little bum and put a pull-up on her. we talked while i cleaned and she told me "i'm in trouble because the ducky falled. it falled out of the toilet and maked messes on the floor. really, mom. " she completed her explanation with the biggest sigh. i told her that if she did it again she was going to get her bottom spanked. i asked her if she was going to do it again and she said "yeah, mom. i like to clean the toilet with the ducky." if only she was cleaning and not spraying toilet water everywhere.
so, about an hour later i am trying to sort paperwork and decide what old bills and papers we can shred and i look at hannah who has been suspiciously quiet for about 2 minutes. she was sitting on the floor butt-naked! she had taken off her Cinderella pull-up and was just sitting there watching dora. i asked her why she took it off and she said "can't see chickarella and jazin mommy" I wish these dang diaper companies would quit putting pictures on the pull-ups that the kids can't see when they are wearing them. Hannah can't stand that Cinderella and Jasmine are "upside-down" on her pullups. they are only upside-down to her. she wanted to know where mommy's Chickarella underwear were... hmmm... how do i explain that one to a toddler?

so that is my fun adventure for the weekend. she also decided that she can swim alone now. we were sitting on the pool steps at my parents' house and i don't usually get in the pool because i get too motion sick when there are a lot of people moving around making waves. So i sit on the edge of the pool to watch hannah on the steps. so today, hannah was sitting there playing with me and she turned around and just pushed off the steps. she got halfway across the pool before my dad caught her and hauled her back to the steps. i asked her what the heck she thought she was doing. she looked at me and said "i'm just swimming, mom! i'm swimming by myself!" she's growing up and getting more and more adventurous. i'm not ready for this...