Crazy Courtney!!!!!!

Like most children when they are quiet you know that they are up to no good. Today was no exception. I found my sweet little girl on the floor of my bedroom putting my black eye liner on her face. Notice the picture below... no smile. She knew she was in BIG trouble!!!

I know you shouldn't compare your children but I have to say that it has been quite an adjustment going from Jake who would hardly get into things or make messes to Courtney whom if you leave the room for 30 seconds she has either emptied a drawer, dumped a bottle of lotion, found something she shouldn't have gotten into... the list of her mischief goes on and on and on. For example; last Sunday morning as I was doing her hair in her bathroom, I left her for maybe 45 seconds at the most. When I returned I found her with Jake's bottle of gel opened and dumped all over her hands and dress. She was then wiping the bathroom mirror with her sticky geld hands. What the heck????

This picture is after I found Courtney emptying every drawer in her bedroom. Yes, I said EVERY drawer. After completely trashing her room she picked out this outfit and insisted on wearing it. Of course I let her because I am such an Awesome Mom but I also knew it was a day we weren't going anywhere. Haha!

This is Coco playing in her little play house. I bought this play house at a garage sale this summer for $20 (they retail at stores for over $250) She absolutely loves it. No crazy story about this picture, I just thought it was a cute picture. LOL!

This is a picture of when I found Courtney eating marshmallows which she got out of the pantry all by herself. I have no idea how she did this as I keep the marshmallows on the 3rd shelf?? As you can see in this picture, she was very proud of herself. What a ham!

Deep thought from Sarah...

This past month I cut back my work hours, this was very huge for me & quite scary as I have always worked. I was worried about what I was going to do at home, how I was going to handle all the changes, especially the change of not seeing my family every day? I will be honest and say it hasn't been the easiest and I am still adjusting but the positives definitely out way the negatives. Definitely the biggest positive are my kids. Each morning Court and I hang out together when Jake is at school. We have our fun routine of cartoons, breakfast, bath, hair time, quiet time, play time, YouTube (she loves watching little kids sing I am a child of God) run errands and many other things. She especially loves the walk to the bus stop to pick up Jake. The afternoons I get to spend time with Jake. Court usually takes a 2 hour nap so in that two hour gap Jake and I have our one on one time where we, play cards, read books, make cookies etc.. I love this new time I have with my kids, time that I seem to never have had before. I have always been scared of change but these past weeks I have realized that change is not always bad sometimes it is a blessing!