Catching Up

I am still behind from our stomach bug last week. I was looking at the laundry today-- in every room-- covering the loveseat, clean and waiting to be folded, all the piles in the den-- folded, waiting to go to their destinations, and all the dirty clothes, scattered on the floors in every room, and then the monster-- the pile of dirty laundry waiting to be laundered... Ugh, it never ever ends, and as soon as I catch up, something happens to back it up again. Anyways, as I was looking at this, I was thinking back to when Noah was first born, and I would do laundry with expensive specialized baby detergent so it wouldn't hurt his perfect skin, and I would admire and smell every tiny little article of clothing that came out of the dryer and perfectly crease and fold it and lay it so gently in the drawer, and think ahhh-- look at these precious little clothes, and now I go to Sam's and get the biggest, cheapest bottles of detergent they have, doesn't matter what it does to the skin, just as long as it gets the clothes clean-- and as these rash making clothes come out of the dryer, I no longer oooh and ahh over them, instead I sigh and think 'the end is not even in site.' knowing it's not now, and won't ever be until they move out, and then they'll probably just bring it home for me to do on the weekends... oh well, at least it's an excuse to come see me... Yeah right... Oh well...
Anyways, this blog is about the kids, not laundry, but I really feel like I am seeing more laundry than the kids lately....
Harper was hilarious yesterday. I told her yesterday morning that Cory and Jessie were having their baby and we would go to the hospital later to see her new baby cousin "Livie." So-- all day, Harper was so excited about her baby sister "wibbie" and told everyone we saw about her. Finally, after errands last night, we got to go see her. She was precious and beautiful and Harper really admired her. She was so gentle with her, rubbing her head and peeking under her hat. While we were there the nurse came in and gave her shots and bathed her, and that really distraught Harper, because she got hurt and their was red blood on her legs and she is in the hospital. Ohh... sweet girl, she is so thoughtful... She is also HIGH MAINTENANCE right now, along with her "Juddy boy" as she has so lovingly named him. Those kids are precious and I love them to death, but they are wearing me out right now. "Hold me, hold me" says Judd all day long and follows me around from room to room and cries and plops on the floor and flings his head back if I don't hold him right that second. And right next to Juddy boy following me around is Harp, "hold me berry much" is her line and she just whines and cries and grabs my legs if I don't pick her up. Noah is still spending his free time playing computer games and playing Wii. He played his truck game right after Christmas, but it's a little hard for him and he can't win, so he's not into that game anymore. He moved onto "Mario Daseball" and got all the "friends" he could on his team and now has gone back to "MarioKart Wii" were he wins every level.