Where is the Time Going?!?!

Here's Stella giving her best (almost) 3 month pose. I can't believe we are at the end of summer and Stella is only 3 months away from eating solid foods - crazy! I was feeling bad for her yesterday as the girls went off to Parent's Day Out and she and I went on errands. With the girls, I was a slave to their nap schedule (mostly out of a desire to have to happy babies - making less work for me)! However, as a mom of three - if an opportunity to get out of the house/get things done arises and doesn't involve me schleeping three children along - nap or not out I go! I had to wake Stella up from a nap to drop the girls off at PDO and again wake her when it was time to go to the gym later that afternoon. We are staying home all day today (with one outing this evening) in hopes to get give her some sense of routine...and of course she hardly wants to sleep at all now! : )


This is the typical scene whenever I put Stella on the play mat. She's immediately flanked by Sister #1 and Sister #2 who both usually push and boss each other around for the best position next to Stella on the mat. This usually ends up in Mom declaring a no toddlers on the play mat rule! The problem is Stella enjoys having them next to her - added entertainment - I'm just worried she's going to get squashed in the process.


The girls were riding their tricycles in the garage while I was busy with Stella. It got quiet for just a little too long and this is what I saw when I came out to check on them. They've been obsessed with this octopus since we hung it up in the garage. We hung it so we'd know how far to pull the car in in order to get the garage door closed. They'd tell us to "bang the applesauce" - translation "bang the octopus" when we'd pull into the garage. They'd ask us to lift them up so they could touch the octopus, and now it appears they've figured out how to get the octopus on their own. It was hilarious to watch their toddler aim 20+ strikes for every swat that actually made contact! Ah - but they were happily occupied for quite some time!!! The best part!