Day 8

So it is 9 AM! I have been up since 7. I walked Chanel and watched a little morning news. I am now starting to get a little hungry so I think I am going to put some water on for tea and figure out what to eat for breakfast.
Catherine is here and sleeping away in the swing. I have to get her in the bedroom before Lauren gets here and Addison wakes up. Speaking of Addison, she was up at 7:30this morning, I never thought that she would have fallen back to sleep, especially for this long! I really think that she is going through a growth spurt. She was asleep by 9:30 last night and she took a nap from 1:30-4 yesterday. Strange! Heck, I should not complain! LOL!
Well there was no gym for me yesterday, and it is impossible to get out for a walk with 3 little ones, especially where I live since the only sidewalks in town are on busy roads and to get to them we have to walk in the street. Sorry but I will not let Addison or Lauren walk in the street. We all know toddlers and they can let go of a hand at any moment and try to walk or run off. I also can't see going for a nice long walk with the 2 bigger ones in the double jogger and me having to have Catherine strapped to me in the front carrier for that long. That would just mess my back up too much.
I am planning 90 minutes to 2 hours at the gym today though. All the kids should be gone by about 4 PM so I will pack up Addison, a change of clothes and whatever else I need and head to the gym. If I am done working out and showered by 6:30 that gives me plenty of time. I will run back home with Addison, feed her dinner and then pack her in the car and head off to the airport to pick up Misty-Jo! Her flight lands at, just about, 9 PM so if I am there by 8:30 that is plenty of time. I will just park the car and go into baggage claim and wait for her. The airport should not be crowded so Addison can run around a play a little bit.
OK, Catherine is up and looking for a bottle and I am really starting to get hungry now. updates to come throughout the day....
So today was a VERY busy day for me. I started with just light dusting and vacuuming, well that turned into a 2 1/2 hour deal. I dusted EVERYTHING in the house and I vacuumed everything. I pulled out all the furniture, went along all the baseboards and the ceiling corners to get and cobwebs (I live in the house of spiders!) I had to do 2 washes around back because it would not fit into my small washer and dryer. Addison must have taken her diaper off at some time last night or early this morning and Michael and I did not notice because when she finally woke up this morning (10:45) she was all wet, as well as a blanket, a pillow and the sheet and mattress cover. So I had to strip her bedding, gave her a bath and then decided that I was going to strip our bedding too and wash it. So I did that and headed down to the laundry room with the 3 girls. Not an easy feat. LOL!
Nathan was getting out of school at 11:00 so I knew that I needed to make lunch for 4(Addison, Lauren, Nathan and myself) so I started on a small marinara sauce and boiling water for whole wheat pasta. By the time that was done it was 11:45 by 11:45 the kids were all eating lunch, I was cleaning up from cooking and straightening up the living room for the third time (gotta love toddlers!). After lunch I had to wash up Lauren and Addison, clean the dining table, Addison chair, the high chair that Lauren used and all the dishes.
By about 1 PM Nathan went out to play with all the kids and Lauren went down for her nap, I , once again, cleaned up the living room. LOL! Addison was up and playing with Chanel and her Baby Ruby doll. I decided to go into Addison's room and start to reorganize things. I was actually just looking at things that needed to be done in there. We need to buy her a new dresser. The dresser we bought her was good for small baby clothes but now her clothes are getting too big to all fit. I guess we will go to Ikea soon and buy her a new dresser and keep this one for the new baby. My mother is also going to buy her storage bin type shelving for Christmas which will be great for her shoes, stuffed animals and other toys. I know where I am putting her toy box, so it gets out of the living room, that will be great to me. By then it was 2PM and I decided to take a few minutes for me. I sat down at my scrap space, journaled on the last LO that I did last night and put together another one that I had planned to do last night. After that Catherine woke up so I changed her, fed her and played with her for a bit.
At about 3PM I had to go to the bathroom so I put Catherine in the swing and headed off to the bathroom and that is when Hurricane Addison hit!! By the time I got out of the bathroom (not 5 minutes later) Addison was covered head to top in tomato guts, as well as my living room carpeting and ottoman (that poor ottoman goes through hell!!) I was LIVID, to say the least.
I stripped Addison down. gave her, ANOTHER, bath, dressed her and put her in her crib (she actually fell asleep and slept until 6!) Once I put her down I pulled out the steam cleaner (because I hadn't done enough already) I steam cleaned the carpeting and the ottoman, it must have taken about 45 minutes to do in total. In that time Anna, Nathan and Catherine's cousin, came to pick them up and Lauren woke from her nap. I left Lauren in the pack and Play until I finished cleaning. After that I took her out, changed her diaper, gave her a snack and then we played for a little bit.
Mike came in not too much longer later and he told me to sit and relax and he would entertain Lauren, so I sat and read my Parenting magazine. Lauren's mom came at about 5:15, I ate me dinner and Mike then left for the gym at about 5:45. No gym for me, I need to feed Addison, take a shower and get ready to leave for the airport to pick up MJ!

Daily Food Intake
12oz black tea = 0
1 serv apple & cinnamon oatmeal = 2
1 serv yogurt = 2
1 c pine apple = 1
20 oz water
Daily Point Total = 5
Whole Wheat penne = 3
1/2 c marinara sauce = 1
20 oz water
Daily Point Total = 9
1 serv Swedish Fish = 3
3 oz chicken = 3
1/2 serv Sheppard's Pie = 4
1 egg roll = 4
20 oz water
Daily Point Total = 23

Daily Exercise
Well there was not exercise at the gym today but with all the moving of furniture, carrying of kids and just plain moving for 95% of the day I would have to say that I burned enough to equal 5 AP, easy!