The weekend

Friday was a very exhausting day. The girls and I worked from 7:45-4:30. The kids in my class at school were all very cranky, and it was a stressful day. Luckily for me Ryan got off of work early and came and picked the girls up. It's so fun to see them with their daddy. It was really weird to have no kids at school with me, I felt like I should have been at home. After that I came home and made dinner. Later that evening the missionaries came over for dinner and then to spend the night. That was fun. We have sister missionaries, and I love it. During Dinner Ryan did something to make Kaitlyn mad (I don't remember what) and Kaitlyn said "NO... twooo". It was hilarious. She was counting for her daddy. I guess I count a lot when she's in trouble. It just made me laugh so hard. After we had dinner the girls went to bed and the sisters and I played games while Ryan went and worked on his desk project (it's almost done!). The sisters and I had so much fun. We played scrabble, and used all the letters in the box! I thought that was pretty cool. Here's our board and a picture of the sisters:




The sisters and I had fun turning our game into a gospel activity. Most of the words worked, but I don't think we could have found Goon in the bible. lol. After that we played 2 truths and a lie. I had such a great time. Other than enrichment night, I don't get adult girl time, so I really enjoyed the evening.
Saturday morning Ryan went out with the sisters. He's the branch mission leader, so he works with them a lot. Most of the rest of the day was spent with me resting. I was so worn out after Friday's busy day.
On Sunday we had stake conference, which means no nursery for Kaitlyn, just 2 hours of sitting. That is always hard for her. Plus stake conference is in Madison, about a 2 hour drive. So Sunday was rough for Kaitlyn. She only took a half hour nap all day. That meant an incredibly cranky 2yr old.
Guess what!!!! On Monday Kaitlyn had a GREAT day at school! YAAAAYYYY! No listening to my little girl scream and cry for her momma for hours on end. It was wonderful. I can't believe how much of a better day I had because she was doing well. Yay for my baby FINALLY adjusting. Hopefully she will do as well on Friday.
And for a new Kaitlyn story. She defiantly keeps me on my toes. Kaitlyn has discovered the microwave. She LOVES the microwave. She can open it, close it, turn it on, and set the timer. She is very good at using it. That means I am constantly running to the kitchen to see what new thing she has cooked. Besides a few food experiments the first object she cooked was a spatula, a plastic spatula, which melted. Due to the intense, HORRIBLE smell I didn't get a picture. The second was a CD. Yes, a CD. In case you didn't know it's made of metal. The CD was only in there for 2 seconds before I could get to it. In those two seconds sparks were flying! It looked really cool, but I like my microwave, so I took it out as quickly as possible! This is what a CD looks like after being defrosted in the microwave for 2 seconds:




That story reminded me of another. Kaitlyn also loves the stove, oven, and the dishwasher. She knows how to put a pan on the stove put food and water in it, turn the stove on (although she doesn't know which knob goes to which burner, making it even scarier), how to turn the oven on, how to open the oven, how to open the dishwasher, how to close and lock it. I once found a towel she hid in the dishwasher. After I do a load of dishes she likes to help unload. (yay) The bad thing is she sometimes starts with out me, and invariably finds the sharp knives first. It's a miracle she hasn't yet cut herself. On to my story. The other day I was making a batch of cookies. I had never made this kind before and they were dark, so it was hard to tell when they were done, because they were already brown. So I set the timer, cooked them. Timer rang, I checked the cookies not done, put them in for a few more mins. Set the timer, timer rang, still not done... I repeated this like 3 times before I was like what the heck why aren't these cookies done yet!! (picture me ready to pull my hair out) I had set the oven on 350, and even preheated the oven (a rarity for me)but little miss Kaitlyn had at some point turned it down to 100. No wonder the cookies weren't cooking.
As you can probably tell Kaitlyn's FAVORITE room is the kitchen. I just keep telling myself, maybe one day she'll be an extraordinary chef, and she'll make lots of meals for me. Maybe, hopefully. lol. Now maybe your 2 yrd old won't sound so bad, or you'll have some similar stories and know your not alone. I love my girls!
P.S. I heard there are microwave and stove locks at Wal-mart. I'm defiantly going to check that out!