WAR

This mouse has declared war. Nothing in either traps set out for two days... and he pooped ALL over my countertop last night.

Today we go out to buy some SERIOUS mouse traps.

I tried to play nice....

...but this is WAR.

I've had sooo many photo shoots lately; two yesterday, and one today! Man, I love my job!

Evasive Little Booger....

So I should have taken the big hint when we moved into our house when I found a set of glue mouse traps on the shelf in the closet. I remember thinking "Oh how nice; just in case we need them..."

When really, I should have been thinking "Mouse traps??? Why????"

So when we went away last weekend, we came home to find 'evidence' of a mouse on my kitchen countertops... and trust me; those countertops were clean and food-free... but the little booger must have found something yummy.

Usually, when you come home from a trip the first thing you want to do is sit down on the couch out of sheer exhaustion... but despite that urge, the urge to strip everything off my countertop was greater, so I did!

I'm not super surprised that a mouse exists in the house; it was built in 1901, after all... old houses are bound to have old live-in guests... Not that I'm OK with it.... I just know it happens.

Two nights ago, Michael set out one of those glue traps, but didn't put anything on it because the package said it was 'baited'.... but no such luck. No mouse.

Last night, I put some peanut butter on the trap just to entice him just a little bit more.... So this morning, I was extremely satisfied when I came into the kitchen to find no trap!

'Awesome,' I thought.... 'We got one and Michael threw it out already before leaving for work!' So I called Michael and said "I assume we got one?" He said "Nope. The trap was GONE this morning." "You're joking." "Nope." "No, really....tell me you are joking..." as I frantically look around for a dead mouse in a glue trap.... but nothing.

Oh no.

Where is he?

So now, I'm super paranoid that I'm going to find a mouse stuck to a glue trap, rotting somewhere in my house. I'm even MORE paranoid that he's mixed himself amongst the toys, and Liddy will find him.

Ew.

8 ALREADY???

And there you have it. 8 teeth before she's even 8 months old...

I am SO BLESSED to have the best teethers; both of my girls aren't bothered by teeth punching their way through the gum line... most of them I don't even know they are coming until they are all the way through!

Thank you Lydia for being such a big girl with such a big milestone!

Such a BIG girl...

Big girl cup: CHECK

Big girl bed: CHECK

Big girl panties: CHECK!

Potty training started out super easy; she did it on her own at around 18 months... crazy! I still say that if I had not had Lydia when I did, she'd be done already... but alas, I got to be too pregnant to chase her and then once Lyds came, I was too tired or concerned about caring for an infant to put her on the potty.

But the time has come.

We have gone through potty training boot camp and just went cold turkey with big girl underwear... She's still not TELLING me so much when she has to pee, I just put her on the potty myself every hour or so... but she's holding it and staying dry!

She's been completely dry for 48 hours now; INCLUDING nap and night time... Amazin.

My CVS runs this week

I'm making SEVERAL trips to CVS this week... they have Huggies diapers on sale for $8.99, and you get $3.00 in ECB's back... that makes them $5.99/package. My Mother In Law and Momma help me out with their CVS cards as well, since you can only purchase one per CVS card...

I have several $1.50 off coupons, so that makes each package $4.49 each.

Not too shabby!

Wishing Huggies had out a $3.00 coupon out like they often do.... Let me know if you find one please!

New blogging time

So I haven't had a personal blog for quite some time now.... I've got my old blog; and my photography blog.... but I got tired of using Xanga.... and I don't really want to put too many personal things on my photo blog.

So here we are!

I've actually had this blog for a very long time. I only used it to comment on other people's blogspots, but now I'm going to open it up for thoughts, fun kiddo stories, great deals that I love to share, and just downright entertaining things.

We just went to my family's cabin in Mt. Vernon, Ohio this past weekend. I basically spent my summers up there on the weekends when I was little, and I'm so excited that my girls can do the same! Megan had a BALL going to the beach and 'seeing boats'... Lydia couldn't care less, but had a good time splashing all the same.

I took a ton of photos on my point and shoot; didn't even take my 7D with me... it's liberating sometimes not to lug it around! Boy do I love having that point and shoot though.... especially with kids! I'll upload some photos later. Right now, I'm going to go lay down and relax... somehow I found the energy to clean my kitchen from top to bottom as soon as we got home... and darnit, I deserve some relax time for that! :-)