Oh to be one!

Today I decided to take a nap with the girls, so of course my usual good napping 1 year old wakes up 45 minutes into her nap. I had just fallen asleep of course. So now here I am, debating on whether or not to have yet another cup of coffee and watching this little turkey run around and do all sorts of things she knows she isn't supposed to do.

I saw a quote from Roseanne Barr recently that pretty much sums up today, (and a lot of other days I have as well) "As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job." Ha! So true! I mean most of the time I try to do a little bit better than just keeping them alive, but some days we skim by!

For fun, I'll give you a little peek into Maeli-land! The girl is smart! Sure I'm her mother and I would think that even if she sat around and stared at me all day, but really she is! She stays on good terms with our dog Zoey by feeding her bites of food at every meal, and then she chases her around the rest of the day mumbling zozozozo. She adores her siblings, but since Braden is in Oklahoma for the summer, Kayla gets all the "adoration"! Maeli terrorizes her every chance she gets. Today she scaled Kayla's bed (no easy feat since we moved the step stool away from it) and disrupted a tea party with stuffed animals. Kayla wasn't very understanding about it either, let's just say Maeli is currently banned from their room!

I also thought it was very smart when Maeli started throwing her diapers away after changings...until this week when I had to dig out a hair brush and a fake cupcake. She has become obsessed with the toilet and I've also been forced to retrieve a pencil and half of the toilet paper holder ,which I still don't know how she managed to pull off the wall. She likes to build and stack things from cabinets and drawers she isn't supposed to be in and parade around and yell at me when I attempt to get housework done during her waking hours. Her dad tells her often she should be glad she's cute, and I think he's right.

She really isn't just a terror, she's also a sweetheart. She enjoys being cuddled and giving giant kisses complete with the MUAH sound and an abundance of slobber, they do have to be at her convenience though. I love watching her learn and explore, 1 has got to be the most fun age...it's still cute when they do things they shouldn't because they don't quite understand, they babble enough to form words but not repeat bad words mom said or sass you, and let's not forget that you can run around in your diaper with your fat belly hanging over and your leg rolls showing and everyone thinks it's cute. I'm pretty sure life goes downhill after that ;)