Lex has been experimenting with what he
calls us these days. When he was a baby it was “mamma” and
“dadda,” like most babies. For quite awhile it’s been “mommy”
and “daddy.” Then, a few days ago, Alan became “dad.” We joked
about it and yesterday I became “mom.” This morning, for a few
hours, I was “Tessa” as in “Oh, there you are Tessa.” :) It was
funny. I think it’s because we had a full house today and the
little girl calls me by name a lot. Lex decided he wanted to
try it too. Apparently he didn’t like it (or just forgot)
because I was “mommy” again by this afternoon :)

Speaking of full house, I had two small scares
today. At nap time I had the toddlers in bed and I was feeding
the babies when I heard Lex making noise upstairs. Based on the
amount of movement and high pitch to his voice I was guessing
he had a dirty diaper. Both babies were fussing though, so I
decided to finish with them first. After a few minutes he came
to the top of the stairs and started calling me, saying he had
a dirty diaper. I went up to change him and found him
completely naked at the top of the stairs, Huggies Overnight
diaper in hand. Ack!! In his room I found all of his clothes
and his diaper (very fortunately it was just wet!) on the
changing table. He had soaked through his pants and decided to
take matters into his own hands. I was soooo relieved to find
the diaper just wet. I’ve heard about disasters of this sort
before and did not want one of my own!

The other, more important scare of the day was in the
afternoon. I was doing a round of diaper changes (5 kids today,
all in diapers) and I came back into the living room after a
few minutes and had an instant feel that something was wrong.
Quick scan showed no baby gate on the stairs, no Eve to be
found, and then I heard noise upstairs. I ran up and found her
standing in the bathroom throwing toys into the tub!! Guess she
wanted a bath. I was freaked out though and really have to be
more careful about keeping that lower baby gate in place!

I guess it counts as a good day when
you go through three names and two scares and everyone comes
out safe and sound (and clean!).