day at the museum

on any given day, you will find most of the rooms in our house to be fairly tidy. in contrast, on any given day, you will find my bedroom and bathroom in complete disarray. as much as i would love for my bedroom to be a peaceful sanctuary for the husband and me, it runs low on my list of things to do. i really prefer all the rooms in the house that we use, mainly meaning that others can see, to be clean. the living room, kitchen, play room, and sweet cheek's room must be clean for me to sleep well at night. how crazy is that. and that is just a small sampling of what goes on in this neurotic head of mine.

some how last week, i was so off schedule the entire week. every room in the house was a mess. seriously. right down to the guest room. GASP. the house was a wreck from top to bottom. unlike me, but i let it happen.

the husband, as wonderful as he is, took sweet cheeks out for the day on sunday so i could spend 4 straight hours cleaning the house. what an amazing change it made, to the house and to my mentality!

a museum near by was having a free family fun day on sunday, hosted by target(sweet cheeks favorite store EVER). so the husband and sweet cheeks spent a good couple of hours together there. sweet cheeks kept referring to the museum as church for some reason. wonder what the connection was for her? they even made it to the bowling alley after the museum to bowl a game together.

(photos taken with the husband's phone. did i mention how good he is!)

here she is coloring a backpack at the museum



she was really proud of this backpack and it was the first thing she showed me when she got home-



outside the museum-

her choice, not mine

sweet cheeks is so independent.

i already miss the days when she would let me pick out her outfits for her.

i knew from the beginning though that i did not want getting dressed to be a daily issue for us, as there would always be bigger issues to deal with. in sum, i wanted to pick my battles. of course, that being said, we still have plenty of issues in the morning when sweet cheeks picks out her outfits. "it's too tight," "it's itchy," "it's too big."

if i had more of a say in what she wore, i would get sweet cheeks some tees from crewcuts. i won't waste my money because i know she would never wear them. she has a closet full of clothes with tags still on them but she always wears the same 3 shirts.

crewcuts has the cutest things.





this one is super fitting for my creative girl-

wordless wednesday

bye bye stickers, hello studs!

i have always been of the mind set that i didn't want to have sweet cheeks ears pierced until she was ready and asked for it herself. it would be her decision, not mine or the husbands. when sweet cheeks was 1 month shy of turning 4, she told the husband and me that she wanted her ears pierced. we were ok with that. so on the day of her birthday, we took her to claire's and she opted for a purse and hair brush over the earrings. since that day, she has said that maybe on her 5th birthday she would do it.

cailyn, sweet cheek's cousin, was going to have her ears re-pierced and asked sweet cheeks if she would do it with her. i was amazed that she agreed to this. so last night we went to claire's with the intention of both girls getting their ears pierced. sweet cheeks, of course, insisted that her cousin go first. turns out though that cailyn could not get her ears done due to having already been pierced and scar tissue. i knew for sure sweet cheeks was out by default.

well she surprised us all!

she sat so still in that chair, on my lap, and was ready to face it head on. she was brave as they cleaned her ears and prepped everything. she did say flinch and say "ouch" when they dotted her ears with marker where the earrings would go. but then the moment came that i had anticipated. she said she didn't want to. i didn't know what to do. she had made it this far and everything was ready to go. do i take her and just walk out knowing there is always another day for ear piercing, or do i tell her she can do it? my sister, 4 of sweet cheek's cousins, and i all cheered her on and she did it. thankfully there were two people working that night and did her ears at the exact same moment. and what a moment it was.

no tears. no screams. no nothing. just a shocked, white face at first, followed by a million smiles.

she was more than proud of herself. she asked all of us several times if we were proud of her. it was the absolute sweetest moment.

my sweet cheeks is such a brave girl.

the lazy in me and the boots on her

today i am a lazy blogger.

over the weekend, sweet cheeks picked out some cute boots for herself. i thought she looked like a mini teenager in this outfit with her boots, sweat pants, and awesomely green sweat shirt.

here she is making a sand cake in the driveway.

wordless wednesday

what's in a name

my retro baby has personalized retro lunch boxes that i thought were pretty sweet-

cute gumball machine


love the red car on the blue striped ground


great polka dots on a green ground. i like the white area for the name as well. it stands out nicely


love the wide/thin pattern of the blues and browns


super cute supergirl lunch tote-