April showers bring.....Dead flowers, and a flooded basement!

Ok, so it's not quite THAT bad, but close. This week started out with a bang! I knew something was up as of Sunday night, I was getting winded just bending over spreading grass around all the newly planted flowers outside, so I came in the house to take it easy....Monday wasn't a whole lot different, just really TIRED! Then came midnight.....I started off so cold I couldn't find enough blankets, wanted to turn the furnace back on, and no sleep for the sick! Tuesday was even worse! I officially caught the flu! I won't even begin to say the ways it happened....I was so miserable all day Tuesday Syd was 100% in charge of the house, I couldn't keep my eyes open long enough to form a sentance most of the day, so other than feeding her and making sure she wasn't going to kill herself she was on her own with the dog and cat hot on her heels! Hence the dead flowers.....it was so hot Tues and Wed that the flowers really should have had a drink, but the energy just wasn't there to get up and tend to them along with the 2 critters and Sydney, so they were forgotten....hello brown half dead flowers! I now have enough energy to try and salvage what's left of the ones that are turning brown!

On to the flooded basement...I walked down the steps many times yesterday, and felt water, no big deal, threw a towel over the wet spot and soaked as much as I could up, just thinking it was residual from Syd's reign on Tuesday....only problem is it keeps getting worse! Every time I soak it up, it just comes back....can't be Sydney, even though when I asked her if she dumped water on the floor she said yes, I really can't blame her for this one! I've spent the whole morning searching for any kind of leak in either the sump pipe or the water pipes, and to no avail, so I've narrowed it down to either up through the floor, or *crossing fingers* the washer....and that's a crossing fingers that I'd rather have it through the floor....you see my nice pretty front loaders happen to be under a new shelf (not so easily removed) and on top of a home-made pedestal (even less easily removed) which means to get to the bottom of the issue the washer and dryer need to get moved....aiyiyi! Unfortunately I think  I have determined something down there is the culprit, just waiting rather anxiously for hubby to get home and add his two cents and tell me the washer and dryer are coming out! (I already cleaned out 99% of the laundry room in anticipation of this!) Please oh please give me the hail instead of all the rain! Looks like life in this house won't ever slow down!

Syd has won the lottery twice this week! Her table is almost finished....just staining and sealing the top, so pictures will be coming. She waited patiently all weekend and watched while mommy painted and painted and painted! 

Her other lottery win is what we promised her for being potty trained. Mommy sold her little power wheels at the garage sale a couple of weeks back and she almost had a breakdown right there in the garage, I told her we'd get a bigger one as soon as it was summer, and she was out of pullups all day. Both daddy and I decided she'd been doing absolutely amazing using the potty, and mommy just happened to find the power wheels she was drooling over ON SALE!!!! Like the kind of sale that puts the power wheels that is normally twice the price of the ones wal-mart and so forth carry within 10 bucks of their price. Daddy and I talked it over after Syd was in bed one night and decided to bite the bullet....bye bye garage sale profits, along with a little of daddy's paycheck! And HELLO one HAPPY little girl! So here's what we've been waiting for and talking about daily for the last week and a half....

and this is how big the box is....

and this is what made me say YIKES after daddy told me I could try it on my own....

and it only got worse....

so about 4 hours later....of which Syd slept for about 3 we get this....

and the first "yes" answer to do you love mommy and daddy!

In 2 short days I'm sure she'll be buzzing around the back yard, until then the box should have some kind of warning for parents that the battery must be charged for 18 hours before its' first use! Mommy didn't make any brownie points there! So until then we will sit in it, eat in it, and fiddle with everything we can find in it! If mommy goes on a crash diet after baby she just might be able to try it out too, one of the benefits of this one is it holds 130lbs....two toddlers easy! 

Just to show you we knew it would be a hit....at the Brandon garage sales 2 weeks ago a buyer needed a test driver for a boys go kart that was for sale, so we stuck Syd in it, and couldn't get her back out. We then stopped at Toys R Us to see if they had the baby swing I wanted since we had no luck hunting one down garage saleing....and we decided to see if she'd bite on the Escalade....

In she went, and out, she wouldn't come! 

And here's what I promised....

the front yard before...

Old picture, especially since the for sale sign is still there! 

And what I did last week, with a little help from gramma, and 4 times re-doing the far end....

It's a side view because the other way is completely blocked by a very LARGE pile of dirt. It's getting ever so much closer to holding flowers....And it looks like someone actually lives here! I figure by August we should have grass again and the dog will be able to come in without leaving black footprints across the floor. This is just one of 5 or so current projects....no rest for the pregnant! I'll have pictures of my very first solo wood project as soon as it gets painted so you can see before and after...and I've already got plans for about 10 more wood projects before the baby comes, want to place bets on how many of them are finished? 

We had a nice productive 2 days of garage saleing also....came home with all kinds of name brand baby clothes, found out it's quite difficult to find 4's in good shape, and Syd caught the flu from her only day in daycare! I knew there was a reason I fought to stay home with her so many times! Lucky for me daddy is feeling it too, he won't be using the word daycare any time in the near future either!