Shopping, potty training, hair, and yoga

Tuesday Matt, Mom, me and the Gs went shopping. We needed to get some jeans for all the Gs and other clothes for this fall/winter. We went to this really cool shopping center (I think that's were I need to go anytime I feel the need to shop, I loved it that much) that had a couple play areas; which the Gs loved of course.









G2 and G3 are finally are starting to get enough hair that I can play with is a little. If I don't do anything with the top they look a little funny sometimes. They have practically no hair on the top front part of their heads, but it is really coming in on the back of their heads.

This is me trying to really play with what little hair they have (G2 is the only one to let me do it):

This is our normal, almost daily hairstyle:


Yesterday G2 and G3 once again got out of their duct taped diapers and got poop EVERYWHERE in their bedroom. It was the absolute worst mess I have ever had to clean up. It, however, was not the worst that has been done in this house. No that mess was made by G1 and Matt and Marcia cleaned it up. So, anyway, I decided right then and there I was going to go to the store (after G1 was up from his nap and everyone was cleaned up) and buy the girls underwear and get another potty chair. The girls picked out their own underwear and seemed pretty excited. They each have their own potty chair, all 3 are different. I didn't plan that it just worked out that way.
Today I put them all in underwear and we are starting potty training. G2 probably isn't ready but if I am working with only G1 and G3 she would throw a fit. That is a fight I don't want to mess with. G3 did really well. She only had 1 accident today. Right now they are down for a nap (and G2 and G3 are actually asleep!!) and once they wake up we will be going at it again. Wish us luck! I hope this process doesn't take too terribly long--but if it does I know it will be my fault so I won't be able to get mad about that.

The other evening I got down on the floor and did what little bit of yoga I actually know. The 3 "big" Gs got down on the floor with me and did yoga too. Yesterday they were practicing their yoga skills again. It was so cute. G1 calls it "Yoda."



Here are some pictures of G4 and some sleeping pictures of all the girls and G3 in the exersaucer:

Toddler Beds

We decided to change the big girls from their cribs to toddler beds. Since they are climbing out of the cribs anyway we figured this is going to be safer. So, Tuesday evening Matt and I got their toddler beds set up. When I talked to them about what we were going to do they seemed really excited. But once we moved the one crib for G4 out of the way and started turning the other crib into a toddler bed they didn't seem to happy. At first G1 was not happy that we were giving "his big boy bed" to his sisters, but he got over it quickly (the white bed is the one we got for his 1st birthday).

After we got the toddler beds all ready G1, G2 and G3 jumped around on the beds for awhile. Once it was time for bed G2 was not happy at all. She screamed for quite a while. G3 did like she always does at bed time and just laid there looking around, chewing on her "Happy" thing.

This is what I found when I went up to check on them before going to bed myself (G2 fell out of bed right after I took this picture):
This is what I found when I went up to check on the girls tonight. I couldn't even get the door open wide enough to get through. (This is G3 by the way.)
After G1 and I's eye doctor appointment Thursday we went into the optical part of the office to order my new glasses and pick out Matt's safety glasses. G1 helped try some on.
G1 and I both got our eyes dilated. G2 and G3 enjoyed playing with the sunglasses things that I got to protect my eyes from the sun.
Oh, yeah. Aunt Marcia came up for the day to watch the girls so Matt could drive G1 and I to the eye doctor. We had a lot of fun with her.




This is what Matt found when he got home from work last night. Normally the kids are in bed no later than 8 but last night I needed to get Marcia to the train station and when I got home and got the kids in G1 wanted to cuddle on the couch. I was okay with that so he went and got all of their blankets and "Happys" (yes I know that isn't spelled correctly but "Happy" is the name) and we all laid on the couch and fell asleep. (The above picture ^^ was taken after Matt picked up G2 and then decided she needed a diaper change. Her legs are filthy because they had suckers and got all sticky and I just didn't get them cleaned up.)
Matt decided that was a perfect opportunity to take a family picture. He's a silly guy. :-)

Somebody help PLEASE!

NONE of the 3 will take naps now. It doesn't matter if we have them all in the same room, same bed, different beds, different rooms they won't take a nap. I can't take it anymore! That is the only time I would be able to get ANYTHING done because by the time I get them in bed for the night I am totally pooped and can't stand to be on my feet any longer. Bedtime has been coming earlier and earlier but I cannot put them to bed before 7 PM. With Matt not getting home from work until 11 PM there is no way we can get up before 7 AM (and that is hard sometimes). They are all so cranky by 6 PM and then I deal with screaming for the next hour or so. How do I get them to nap??? I have always had really good sleepers. I've never had trouble getting them to sleep. So what's changed? Why is it so hard now? I am at my wits end and need some advice. So if anyone has any ideas on how to get them to take their nap I would be very grateful!

Misc. pictures from last night and today

G3 sleeping on G2

G3

G3 eating a donut (she would NOT look at the camera for anything!)

G2

G2-in person she did not look angry so I'm not sure why it looks like she's angry

The girls getting ready to kiss

G2 wanting to be in the picture too

G3 being goofy

Matt taking a goofy picture of himself (he gets bored while I'm driving so he has to do something to keep entertained...lol)--in the background you can see G1 "reaching"-I think for the ceiling I don't know. He just kept saying he was "reaching".

G2-loves getting her picture taken

G3

A train

A tree

G2

There is a picture of G1 missing. But blogger is screwing up for me so I'm not even going to try to put it back on here. Maybe another time....maybe not.