A Day In The Life of Miss Ashlyn.

I have decided that I think Ashlyn will be my most challenging child. She is very independent, full of spunk, and hilariously funny. Are you wondering how those 3 words result in a challenge? Let me walk you through a typical Jorgenson Family Day:

-8Am (yes I MAKE my kids sleep in) I go into the twins room to get them out of bed only to find Ashlyn completely naked, that includes no diaper. It is only really bad when poop is involved.

-Time to get dressed which requires me to make a big deal over how pretty her outfit is in order for her to let me put it on her. Sometimes it doesn't work and she picks out something else and at age 22 months she doesn't understand when something matches or is weather appropriate.

-Breakfast time. Always a fight to get her into one of two booster seats. She feels the need to pick which seat she wants for that meal (it is always changing), she doesn't think she needs any assistance climbing into it or hooking the straps (it takes FOREVER but no one better help her). She likes cereal. During her eating process she decides the cereal would make great shampoo for her hair. That's right, nasty milk in the hair.

-Clean up time, which sometimes requires a full bath, and then we are out the door.

-Back home for lunch and the fight with the high chair resumes again (you may be asking why I even bother with the booster seat, well, she is short and can't sit in a normal chair and reach the food).

-Serve lunch that she never eats (I REALLY don't know how she survives because the kid barely eats anything).

-Nap time is great.

-Wake up from nap and once again she is naked. If poop wasn't involved in the morning, it is now.

-Clean up for the 3rd time.

-Playing and causing havoc. Here are a few things she likes to do: She pushes a chair over to the counter, climbs up to feed pennies to Dorothy The Fish. Searches the pantry for junk food (she will eat that). She does like to clean which means she opens the wipes and continues to pull them all out until she has a sufficient number to wipe off her face, toys, other people's faces, the walls, the couches, you name it. I do hope that trait sticks with her. She jumps from the coffee table to the couch and somehow makes it every time despite how little she is. Sees a toy Andy has and HAS TO have it which results in a biting match.

-Dinner time is a fun time. She will take all her food in both hands and release it over the floor and then decide her hair once again needs shampooing. By the way, I am not EXAGGERATING any of this.

-Clean up for the 4th time.

All of this is the reason she is in bed at 7:00 where she will talk and jump and occasionally strip off her clothes until she decides to close her pretty brown eyes sometimes over an hour after I have laid her down. Good thing Andy can sleep through it. She is BY FAR my best sleeper though.

Now one child doing all this can be bearable on some days, the problem is she does it EVERYDAY AND has a brother that copies her so he shampoos his hair with food, throws the food on the ground, and feels the need to give Dorothy pennies for a meal. Problem with the climbing thing is that he is not as good at it as she is so today he fell off the counter. On a positive note, he has not yet decided to copy her in the bare bum department, thank goodness.

In between bouts of wanting to pull my hair literally out of my head, she makes me laugh. She walks with spunk, talks with spunk, and is just crazy. She definitely brings sunshine into our lives and keeps us on our toes.