A Proper Update

So, I haven't updated in quite a while, we have had tons going on, my mom was here for 2.5 weeks and then Olivia caught another cold (besides those 2 year molars coming in).

So, things are awesome with Karl and me, we took the kids to the hayride this weekend (Karl is such a city boy that it makes me chuckle when he has to sit down in some hay, I got some great pictures so I will post those here.

Olivia rocks, she cracks me up on an hourly basis but she drives me nuts half of the rest of the time left in our days. She is so incredibly spoiled that I am more shocked when shes NOT yelling at me (the terrible twos have clearly arrived)...lol She is the funniest little person I have ever met. Her favorite show is wow wow wubbzy, shes going to marry him kind of Nora and Caillou relationship here, and so last night we let her watch him while we were relaxing before taking her up and she was sitting in between Karl and me on the sofa naming all the characters over and over..weeegeee (widget), walllon (waldon) and wow wow which is very clearly spoken! As most of you that read this know Olivia doesn't speak a lot Even Karl was chuckling because it was so cute. I swear I just adore this child with everything in me and I am happy with just her, as much as I love newborns they all grow up. OJ is doing dance and music classes right now and she loves both, although music she is much more interactive with. Dance is really more interpretive and she does more of her own thing there so its not necessarily as good for her development. I am considering taking her to a coop nursery school for one half day a week just to get her around other kids without me to see if that helps to socialize her a bit.

My house is a disaster most of the time which drives me absolutely batty..this is the part I can't take about having a 2 year old plus the *somtimes* children aka my "bonus kids" (HA!) whoever came up with that didn't have the kind that can't bother to take the underwear out of their jeans (yes this is common in our home - gross isn't it?) Why on earth do I have to pick up after these kids? Its so not my responsibility and it pisses me off to no end. I am seriously considering having a family meeting about it all and seriously putting my foot down. I have already done a laundry stop, I refuse to do someones laundry who won't pick up after themselves and would rather trip over the clean laundry basket that I filled with clean folded clothes than take it up the stairs. Ok, that really turned into a rant.

I honestly am torn on voting this year. The last election I voted in a vein attempt at keeping Dubbya out. I really am disgusted that this country is unable to give us good candidates to vote for. Its truly amazing..

Well, thats about it from here. I will post pictures once I get them uploaded to my computer.