Butwin Family Adventures

Oh My...It's Been Too Long

Posted by Ida , Saturday, August 21, 2010

Busy, busy, always so busy.

Long story short:

Madelyn started crawling on Thursday, August 12 at 4:44. Yup, Jessica's birthday. It is bit of a modified crawl. She lunges forward and crawls for two steps then sits up and repeats. She does this to get to where she wants to be. She is pulling herself up on EVERYTHING. Mommy can not turn her head for a second before she is standing. She is even trying to attempt the stairs! The other day she "crawled" from the fire place to the end of the family room going towards the steps. Accomplishing much is difficult when she is awake.

William is still going strong with big boy potty. Still a little tricky with the pooping. He has greatly improved though. Instead of going to the bathroom 20 times before he eventually goes it is down to maybe 5. The problem now is when he goes pee he doesn't pull down his shorts and under pants far enough and he dribbles on them. Cleaning the bathroom has taken on a whole new meaning!

This past weekend Laura and Pete were here. Mommy and Laura met Nana downtown for dinner and then Mommy and Laura stayed out a little while. They realized which bars NOT to go to!

Saturday Daddy and William got up and went to the dump to sell scrap metal. William loved it! Later in the afternoon was the Walton Dr. (first annual) block party. William enjoyed himself and Mommy and Daddy met a few neighbors. Jessica and Chris stopped by too. The Butwin's appearance was a bit short since Mommy and Daddy had to get Madelyn and William into bed. Jessica and Chris stopped by too and witnessed an awesome screaming match between Madelyn and William!

Sunday Mommy, Jessica and Mimi went to breakfast up in Lewiston. Then they headed over to Barton Hill Spa and had facials and pedicures. How nice! Then everyone met at Mimi and Papa's for Jessica's birthday dinner. Laura and Pete even stopped by!

This week Mommy has been super busy! She is having a big purge of a garage sale Saturday so she is going through tons of stuff and getting them ready. While doing that she is organizing closets, the basement and the office. There are a ton of projects she wants to start on:

1. Make photo/art display for Madelyn's room
2. Make tie for William (for Alainna's wedding)
3. Make hair band and flower for Madelyn (for Jessica's wedding)
4. Refinish night tables in Mommy and Daddy's room
5. Make a mesh bathroom toy bag
6. Make curtains for Madelyn's room
7. Get the basement super organized, paint walls and scrape and paint concrete floor (the current paint is chipping and Mommy is finding it all through the house - driving her NUTZO)
8. Paint the blue wall in the family room

There are many more, but they are all little projects that don't NEED to be done. As the purging, organizing and cleaning progresses Mommy keeps adding projects to the list.

As a result of all this crazy, over-ambitious planning Mommy has totally fallen behind on Butwin Family Adventures, as well as Facebook (to Daddy's enjoyment). Once the garage sale has happened time will be better managed.

AND...Mommy and Katie are working on a "project" blog. It will be revealed soon. They are super excited about it.

Daddy has been uber busy at work. We are all just getting through this week and things will slow down.

More updates with photos and videos soon...promise!