The case of the missing phone

I'd really like to title this "You're an asshole, but I love you' but since I'm writing about my two year old, I guess that would put me in the bad mommy category. Though she really has been being an ass lately. I've got tons of examples but I'll try to stick to just one. Riley is obsessed with my phone. Nobody else's just mine. I've woken up many times in the early morning hours to find her either unplugging it or sitting on the end of my bed trying to play on it. This is exactly why I keep a lock code on it. I've gotten into the habit of waking up at some point and shoving it under my pillow. Evidently she's catching on to that trick. I don't know how many times I was up with her last night, taking her back to her bed. I think her goal was to wear me out. She succeeded. I woke up at five something this morning when my fiance, Josh, was getting a work shirt out of my nightstand drawer. I instinctively reached for my phone. It was missing, I knew I hadn't put it under my pillow yet but I checked there anyways. Wasn't there. My first instinct was Riley but we checked everywhere else first. Couldn't find it. So we went to look in her bed. She wasn't there. She had crawled into bed with her sister Holly. It was kinda  cute but I was sleepy and irritated. Looked around a bit and still couldn't find my phone. I finally had Josh call it. It was under her ass.

I keep threatening to make this song Josh's ringtone. I guess I should have already. It would have been totally appropriate this morning! LOL

Bath Time Woes

Wow, I've really been neglecting my writing this last year. Longer than that actually if you consider that I have more than one blog. It sucks too cause when I was writing on a daily basis I had so much less stress. With our crazy household I should have plenty to write about. The trouble is formulating the words. I didn't use to have this problem. I just spewed out whatever bit of randomness I was thinking at the moment. Kinda like I'm doing now I guess. LOL. So here's today's random.

Today, I made a huge mistake. I decided to give both 4 year old Holly and 2 year old Riley a bath, at the same time, when I was the only one home. Now I know this may not sound like much of a mistake but Riley has a been sick the past few days with a double ear infection. This makes her normal sassiness about twenty times worse than usual. Usually when it comes to bath time, either me, the teen Lexi, or their Aunt Dani bathe them one at a time. When one child is finished, we pass them off to the next person who then dries, diapers, lotions, dresses, and brushes the kid's hair. All depending on which child is it of course. While the first person goes back to bathe the remaining kid. This is a proven system that works. So WTH was I thinking to under take this myself?!

After Riley repeatedly tried to drink the dirty soapy water, climb out, stand on Holly's butt and drown herself, I had had enough! She of course didn't agree. I chased her all over the tub trying to get her washed as she yells at me "NO Mama! I wanna play!" So I finally get her washed and wrapped in a towel. I pull the plug in the tub, turn the shower head on and tell Holly to get her hair washed that I'd be right back. In the time it took me to dry off, diaper, and clothe Riley, plus put her in the bedroom with a movie on and the baby gate across the door, I go back into the bathroom to find the tub about half an inch from overflowing. Holly had plugged the tub back up because she wanted to measure the water! It's safe to say that after all of this, mommy badly needed a time out!