An Irrational Fear

I am really, really afraid of mice. They totally creep me out. When I think about them I involuntarily end up pulling these horrible disgusted faces.

The reason I bring this up is….we have some mice at work! I haven't seen them, they are mostly in another quadrant of the building, but I'm totally grossed out. They even found one in the toaster. Good thing I don't make toast at work! They've caught several and are working to eradicate the rest and it's supposedly going well. But, here are some of the totally crazy things I'm now afraid while I'm at work:

• When my feet are under my desk and I can't see them, I'm CONVINCED that a mouse is going to come and scamper across them…or worse, start to scamper across them, realize my legs are warm and run up my pant leg to get cozy!
• I'm totally afraid that a mouse is going to climb up into the toilet paper holder in the bathroom. You know, so when I go to spin the roll to get paper the mouse will come dropping out from inside and land on my hand!
• I'm afraid that if I open my desk drawer, there is going to be a mouse inside scurrying around trying to get out but being totally trapped by the walls of the drawer.
• I moved my garbage can today and I was afraid that when I did a mouse would come running out from behind it…so afraid that I actually had my feet up on my chair just in case it happened.

You can call me paranoid if you want to, I think it probably describes me well today! Yuck, I hate mice.

Hectic

Chaotic, busy, overwhelming, tiring, funny, exhausting, can't get anything I need to done. Those are all the ways I choose to describe the last 3 weeks. But, I still get these three to go through all of it with, so it's ok!

On another note, McKinley and Molly and I spend about 30 minutes together in the car each day. McKinley and I have some great conversations, she's hilarious. Recently she's told me that "clouds move because the wind blows and the wind blows because I (McKinley) sneeze so hard!" She also enjoys giving me Molly's play by play when we're in the car: "Mom, (giggling) Molly is pulling on her zebra and licking him. She's silly."

I Can't Get Enough of These Two!

The rumors are true, I have the two cutest little girls in the entire world! Here are a few of my favorite things right now:

• McKinley calls her thumb her thumbkin, I'm totally going to be sad when she stops doing that.
• Molly cuddles right up on my shoulder when I'm holding her and puts her little arms around my neck.
• Sometimes McKinley calls Molly MollAY and laughs hysterically and tells Molly she's funny for no reason at all.
• Molly smiles at me every time I get her out of her crib...I'm pretty certain there is NOT a better way to start my day.
• Each night at dinner McKinley says "Thanks for dinner Mom, that was good. Now Dad, you say it!"
• It's super easy to motivate McKinley right now, all you have to say is that you're going to beat her and she starts doing whatever it is as fast as she can all the while saying "hurry, hurry, hurry!

I just love my girls!

One Last Overnight Trip

I go back to work this coming Wednesday, so I decided that the girls and I would take one last trip while I'm still off work. My mom was going to Pocatello to visit all my grandparents, so we tagged along. It was a quick trip, we headed up Tuesday afternoon and came back Wednesday afternoon. We had a great time visiting, but of course I didn't take any pictures of that. I did however get a few pictures of McKinley and playing in the snow.

Pocatello had 5 inches of fresh snow that morning, so we made a snowman, she ate a lot of snow and we sledded down my Grandma's yard. We had a lot of fun!

2 Months Old

I took Molly in for her 2 month check up earlier this week. I can't believe how fast the time is going by. She weighs in at 10 lbs 9 oz (48%) and is 23 inches long (84%). She smiles a ton now and will talk back to us when we talk to her. I love the cute little baby noises! She's still a really chill little girl and loves to cuddle with her mom.

I love this little half smile:

Hooray for January!

January has been a great month at our house. Mostly because McKinley is potty trained. After we brought Molly home in November I would go from changing her teeny-tiny diapers like 400 times a day to changing McKinley's much larger diapers a few times a day. Going from seeing a tiny little bum to a big 2 year old bum I decided it was time to potty train....I should NOT have to change a diaper on a bum that big!

So, hooray, it worked out! It basically was a week of making her go all the time and she only had a couple of accidents. The second week we still had to ask her sometimes, but miraculously she started telling us and running her self to the bathroom. I LOVE that she uses the toilet now, it's so nice! What a big girl!

The second week was nice because we stopped staying home since I felt like I could trust her in public. Here is my potty trained girl watching a Utah gymnastics meet. Way to go McKinley!

Well, Molly is eight weeks old now. She's already changing and learning so much, I just can't believe it! For about two weeks now, she 's been able to roll from her tummy to her back and she really likes doing it, so she doesn't stay on her tummy much anymore. I have it on video, but it's a format that doesn't upload to blogger, so sorry, you don't get to see it. : (

She also is starting to smile at us, though I have yet to get a picture of it. She loves to make cute little baby noises and McKinley pretends the two of them are carrying a conversation. She usually says in a high falsetto "I love you to Molly".
Last Sunday we blessed Molly and it was a beautiful day.