WHY EVEN TRY

So, today was just one of the days when you say to yourself what else can one little person do to make my life just a little bit more chaotic. Luke would be the little person that I speak of. Than on the other hand I have my other little person(I guess she is not soo little anymore) Ally who did everything her little head could think of to help me today. You would think that one would cancel out the other but I can't say that because the way the mind of the two year old works is unmatched.

Since we are leaving town this weekend I have been trying to get caught up on my laundry so we can actually pack clean clothes. So as I was in my closet sorting the 80 loads I need to do Luke decides to open my new box of laundry soap and not only scoop it onto my floor he tries to put some in the machine. He managed to get some of it in the soap drawer both in the soap side and the softener side. He than preceded to pour it all over the baskets of clothes I had sitting there and on top of the machine door. It was everywhere. I think I was only upstairs for like 5 minutes, 10 at the most and last I knew he was in his toy closet. I was almost impressed. So, I continue on with the million things I need to do and when I went back down a little while later to put in another load and at some point the little stink had gone down and pushed the buttons turning off both my washer and dryer. I mean why even try anymore right?? So I lost a whole hour there and even more if you add up the time it took me to clean up all the soap. Anyways, if I made a complete list of everything he did today this would turn into a novel. The highlight came tonight when I went upstairs to get a diaper to change him and when I came back down I could not find him. The silly thing is that I could hear him, it was the weirdest thing. I seriously did not know where he had gone. As if this should have surprised me because of the days events I found him inside my dryer. He had climbed in and shut the door behind him. Back to the amazing way the 2 year old mind works he actually turned on the light inside the dryer before getting inside. And you will want to remember that he got in there while I was getting a diaper so when I opened the door you can imagine what I smelled. I had to leave the door open for a while before I dared put any clean clothes in there.

I would be an ungrateful mom if I did not mention the bright spot in my day.....
Yes there was one!!

The morning started out with Ally trying to take control of the normal morning activities by getting Luke out of bed and putting him in the tub before I had even realized she had done it. She loves to pick out clothes for him and get him dressed. Just like he was a doll. A doll that kicks and screams at you the whole time you are attempting to put the clothes on. She is also bound and determined to figure out the diaper thing. We are not quite there on that. She than preceded to pour him a sippy of juice and get him a bag of cereal. She than tucked him into my bed after wrapping him up in a blanket. Again just like he was a doll. She set his sippy cup and cereal right next to him. Turned on Disney and he was set.

After watching Disney with Luke for about 15 minutes(this is about her limit for holding still) she hopped up and wanted to get her shower over with. So we got her all showered, hair done and clothes on. I than mentioned that her room needed to be cleaned. Ally is my.....how do I say nicely......well lets say that tideness is not that important to her. Jon calls her room a hog hole. Unless you tell her to clean it than she gets right on it and usually the end product is acceptable. She even dragged the vaccuum upstairs and took some wipes and cleaned up some marker on the carpet. WOW this is getting long. I must quickly go over the rest of her chores because I was totally impressed. After her room she had to make a sweep of the house and recover all her belongings and than she did the same with Luke's toys. She was still cleaning when I left for work. She was emptying the dishwasher.

So even though my day seemed really bad now that I have time to sit back and look at all that happened, there was a lot of good too.