Our Day

I sat down at the computer to plan my Young Women's lesson for tomorrow (what? doesn't everybody save that for 9:00 Saturday night?), but then I thought that first I should write down some fun experiences we had today, in case I forget to later. I was telling a friend about some of our day this evening and I realized that, once it was in the past, it was pretty humorous! Just not in the moment, of course! ha ha! Not that this is anything super hilarious. I don't want to get your hopes up!

Anyway, we had been planning to stain our fence for our backyard for a few weeks now. Collin has already been chipping away at it throughout the past week, man we have a lot of fence in our backyard! I will post pictures when it's finally done. That may be a while! But anyways, the plan was for both of us to just work on it pretty much all day. Thankfully one of Collin's former wrestlers also came to help for about 3 hours this morning! Even with 3 of us working it was slow going! Plus I haven't been feeling 100% the past few days and woke up the same today, boo. So I was trying to "sort of" work while also keeping my eye on who this is really all about--Ashlyn.

So I had this great idea to keep her "busy" while we painted--I got out one of my craft paintbrushes and put some water in an extra paint cup we had, and showed her how to "paint" just like we were. (I got a cute picture of this I'll post later!) It was a great project for her... for about 5 minutes until she started "painting" over some spots that were actually still wet with real paint, and therefore when she dipped her paintbrush into her water it spread the stain into the water. So what did that look like to her? Juice of course! So the next thing I know I looked over and saw her about to take a big gulp of stain-water! Ahh! So there went the "painting" activity.

Then she was just left to her own amusement devices. Of course she ended up playing "near" the dirt in the garden and I swear I looked away for like tops 2 minutes and when I looked back at her, from across the yard, I could see something wasn't right with her hair! (the hairdo I posted on facebook that took me 3 hours spread across 3 days to complete...just 2 days ago!) As I got closer, sure enough, there was dirt literally piled on top of her head. Like, not just sprinkled. Piled! I held back my scream of horror and just called for Collin to come see---to have a witness that I stayed calm, I guess! ha ha ha! Ashlyn was just happy as can be, spreading it all over her clothes and herself. I had to tell her that we don't put dirt on ourselves. (I bet she'll remember that--not!) I tried to brush the loosest out of her pretty little flat rope twists that I spent painstaking hours on....but the rest got the vacuum! That's right, we took her inside and vacuumed her head. She was not happy, but also not hysterical just so you know.  But I'm here to tell you, it worked like a charm! I had read about it in several occasions of people with kids with chocolate hair getting the dreaded sand-in-the-hair so I figured the dirt was worth a try too--and thankfully it worked! Just to tell you. We had to vacuum our child's head today.

And apparently, when Collin was continuing the staining project with her out in the backyard this evening while I was out with some friends, she somehow found some other dirt (since she was of course forbidden from the garden area for the rest of the day) and ended up with more dirt smeared in her hair..... so guess what Collin did, all on his own? Yep, more vacuuming! Oh man. I was really dying when he told me that. What a day our kid has had.