Crash Test Mommy

okay, who out there watches Crash Test Mommy? for those of you who don't its a show designed to let people know what motherhood is like. There is either a friend to the mom, a sister, cousin, sometimes even the husband, someone who thinks they can do her job better and is given 48 hours to prove that they can infact do her job with greater ease...they never can. I love watching it! There was one episode where the dad thought if he would be home the house would be cleaner, well he found out that it's not as easy as it sounds, he tried a simple task like vacuuming the livingroom, one he thought should take just a couple minutes but then he had his potty training toddler pee on the carpet so he had to clean that whole mess up and then he picked up the vaccum cleaner to give it another go and his baby boy pooped his diaper and while he was changing him on the couch some got on there and i think before he finished that "little 5 minute job" he had to go pick up his other kid from school. It's so funny that even a father would be oblivious to fact that you can't just do a job like that in peace when you have little kids and it does take a whole day of cleaning just to have the house look exactly the same as it did before they left for work. I know when I haul out the vaccum cleaner I have 2 little ones that always need to have a turn 'helping me' and then they all 3 love it when I 'suck them up' so I do their arms and cheeks and tummy, so doing the little carpet we have takes a lot longer then one may think. Or take for example the amount of time it took me to make a simple lunch today...I started at 11:00 with making some biscuts and within about a minute Lexi was in the kitchen wanting to help me so I gave her a very important job, to be in charge of the baking powder until I needed it and then she could help put the 4 tsp into the bowl, she was so happy and that made her feel so big. when they were on the baking sheet it was time to pack up the girls and take them to pick up Ryland from pre-school. When we got home Lexi went straight to her room because she was having one of her famous tantrums and I proceeded to the kitchen to make the soup, after that was started I went to check in on Lexi and she was hiding behind her door and thought it was so funny that i 'found her' since she was apparently hiding on me was laughing away so I said she could come out and she could play outside for a few minutes till lunch was all ready. By the time I was back in the kitchen which was hardly a minute and a half Sophia had already half emptied a cupboard all over the kitchen floor and was already at the patio door soaking wet after finding a water bottle that didn't have the lid on very tight and was now completly empty, so instead of just getting out bowls and plating up lunch I had to clean up Sophia, the wet floor and the scattered dishes she placed everywhere. After that I had her sitting at my feet and pulling on my pants and trying to pull herself up on my legs which makes it impossible for me to move so I then straped her into her highchair and gave her some finger foods to snack on till lunch was cooled off enough for her. I of course had a phone call from Ang and then my dad showed up wanting to pick up the farmer sausage he was storing in our freezer since last night. He was there at lunch so Robyn could help him but I found 2 spare minutes to load them up in his car before Robyn was back from school (my dad broke his foot so he needed some help). After that i called everyone to the table and we had an awesome lunch together. It lasted just a couple minutes before the kids hurried off and left me with a huge mess, but it was so awesome to be able to have that lunch with them, i enjoy it so much. The bonus today was that Lexi didn't have to go to the bathroom the second she sat down! I am not one little bit complaining here, I LOVE that Jordan's job allows me to be a mommy who is able to stay at home and I had an awesome day today with my little ones it's just funny that people without kids think that moms can just make lunch and do things around the house in the same amount of time it takes them and that is so not true. After Ryland and Lexi ran off from the table today Robyn asked me what was wrong twice and said that I looked like I was mad and I said both times absolutely not, I'm having a great day today and I told her all the good things that had

happened so far but the second time she asked me I just said no i'm just tired from today and making lunch was such a long process but i really am having a really good day today with the kids. And really I was in a good mood i was just thinking of how long that would have taken me to make lunch if I could have 'just made lunch' but in the world' of motherhood you can't 'just make lunch' or 'just vaccum' there is always someone that will need your attention in those moments and I was just thinking to myself while trying to get lunch ready how funny this is that I am constantly getting inturrupted and then the show Crash Test Mommy came to my mind so i thought i should blog it!

Lexi, Anika and a soccer ball

We were at my parents place about a week and a half ago and it was really nice outside and Robyn found a dead frog in the ditch (that will be a whole other post...with pictures of course!) so most of us were outside for awhile either disecting the frog, throwing rocks in the ditch or playing soccer. One thing you need to know about my awesome little neice Anika is that everytime my kids (especially Lexi) announces she is going to do something Anika has to quickly do it first, take peeing for example...when Anika has to go to the bathroom she goes but when my children have to go they for some reason feel the need to announce it first and then go. So whenever we're with the Kroekers my little Lexi will most likely be in the bathroom wiggling away watching Anika pee and waiting for 'her turn' I say 'her turn' because Anika wasn't even thinking about peeing until Lexi said she was going and then Anika litterally runs to the bathroom and starts going first, Lexi doesn't run because she is clueless to the fact that someone is trying to beat her to the potty. It's really a site to see and it gives me and Ang a little laugh every time.
Please note in the first picture that Lexi is playing with the soccer ball and I think you can see my dad's shadow on the side too as she was playing with him. My dad then decided to take the soccer ball and kick it across the driveway for Lexi to go run to and get back for him and then I think the idea was for the cycle to continue. Well, as soon as my dad kicked the ball and Anika saw Lexi start running towards it she starting running to it mummbling to herself something about no me get the ball and my dad kept calling after her 'no Anika, no, that was for Lexi' but she was completly oblivious to the sound of my dads voice. As you can see below that Anika did get there first and got the soccer ball before Lexi, please note the anger on my little girls face....

and then she tackled her. me and my dad were laughing pretty good here! I'm not even sure if Anika knew why Lexi would be mad at her and would want to tackle her for the soccer ball, papa just kicked the ball for them to go get right?