Some days are like this

I have barely slept the last two nights, which is only a slight upswing from the little bit more than barely sleep I usually get.  Dietrich has suddenly taken to uncontrollable, sobbing, choking, crying before bed, and then again about 30 minutes after he falls asleep.  This lines up perfectly with me finally getting to bed almost being asleep and Lenorah waking up.  The crying thing is freaking me out, he used to love going to bed, he would tell us, "go to sweep" and he would go crawl in his bed and fall asleep.  His staying asleep has always been an issue, but at least he went to bed easily.

Today I decided to go somewhere, silly me, leaving the house!  Have you ever invited Jehovah witnesses in just because it's nice to talk to someone during the day?  I have.  Anyway, Dietrich loves going to the store and Lenorah hates the car, so it's about 50% fun and 50% torture to go somewhere.  Since it's almost Christmas picture time I decided to stop and check out dress shoes and a black sweater for Lenorah to wear with her 5 (that's right, count them, FIVE) Christmas dresses. I found boring black shoes, not cute velvety ones with a bow, NO, just boring old black plastic feeling dress shoes.  And no sweater.  Sleeveless Christmas dresses are oh so cute, but seriously, we have snow here.

So then I head to the boys section, and this is the store I always go to for cute boys suits for Christmas and Easter.  I am not looking for something trendy with sleeves rolled up, I am looking for classic black pants, white shirt, vest and tie.  Preferably in Red to go with the "Red" Christmas dress (as opposed to the green, purple, black/red, and red/black dresses) to wear in Santa pictures and Church on Christmas Eve.  And do you know they had one, count them ONE, sort of red vest, pants missing, outfit in D's size.  O-N-E...and no pants.

So I'm annoyed, and they ask at the register when I am leaving and they just got a ton of new inventory and no, nobody saw any Christmas outfits.  Seriously?!?  Do only little girls dress up for Christmas because I saw like 5 bajillion GIRLS Christmas dresses and ONE boys outfit?  Come on people!  Dress up your cute little boys!!!

Then the alarm on the door goes off because I bought a movie for 3.99, yeah, better make sure that is alarmed.  Then in the doorway there is a stupid little vending machine with "balls" in it and Dietrich wants one and no he will not leave the store without one while I carry my stupid black shoes, alarm starting movie and Lenorah, who is slipping down my slippery coat.  Finally he agrees to leave the store if I promise to drive over every speed bump within a five mile radius, which I do, because he loves it and really how easy is it to drive over a speed bump while an excited kid screams "bump, bump!"

Then I get home and he promptly needs his shoes off which he screams to me while I try to lay Lenorah in her crib without waking her up (fail by the way).  So I take off his sandals that he wore with socks and shorts to the store in 40 degree weather with snow on the ground because that is how we roll, when he starts freaking out because "baby shoes off" is now super important.  Her shoes are soft leather, like socks, she can leave them on.  But NO, they must come off and this is the most important thing on the planet which he lets be known by throwing a major fit over the baby's shoes.  Finally I relent and take the damn shoes off because whatever I guess, and then I realize that although I remembered to put mascara on before I left the house I did not remember to put a bra on.  F-A-I-L.

New Carpet

Since we moved into this house we have wondered what the heck the previous owners were doing?  Not only did they have some interesting style choices but they also left us some interesting stains...GROSS.  I have cleaned the carpets repeatedly, and tried to wear out my in-laws carpet cleaner.  We've had it professionally cleaned, but in the end the stains came back, and our kids added new ones.  The carpet was too light and too old to keep it up.  

I threatened Bryce often with tearing the carpet out while he was at work.  Apparently my threats made him nervous because he agreed to replace the carpet in the living room, oh happy happy day!  Here are the before pictures, although most of the furniture was already moved out.

Oh yeah, check out those stains...

                                     Baby couch surfing in the kitchen...
                                     

 Dietrich helping Dad tear out the carpet and the old wood floor in front of the door.

 No more yucky carpet, yay!!!  But look at all those stains on the wood, yick.

                                                        And here it is...TA-freakin'-DA!!!

 Oh yes, Babies love new carpet!

And this is a good color comparison since the old carpet is still on the stairs.

We bought the carpet from our favorite place, Pro-source,  Bryce gets a free membership through work, SWEET!  It has a lifetime stain warranty and apparently if a stain is really bad you can use bleach to get it out, whoa.  I will let you know how that works if I ever have to try it.

It feels so good to have fresh clean carpet for the kids to crawl around on and lick.  At least now I know they are only licking our dirt, nobody else's.  And coming soon...new flooring on the stairs, YIPPEE!!!