A look into my life

I just had to share this picture of Alysa. It is embarrassing but a perfect example of what I'm dealing with on a day-to-day basis.

From head to toe:

Hair - A MESS! No matter what I do, it will not stay out of her face. It has a rubber band holding it back and a clip that I have to readjust every 15 minutes to grab all of the loose hairs that fall down.

Face - snotty. I can't stand snotty-faced kids. It's just gross.

Clothes - don't match. She HAS to wear a onesie - ALWAYS! If she's not wearing a onesie, her diaper is off and she poops on my floor. So since it's hard to find onesies in 2T, we have a limited supply and I just have to grab whatever is clean. The red sweat pants I just threw on her to try and warm up her legs before she realizes she's wearing them and takes them off. Her feet are freezing because she won't wear socks. This kid would love to run around butt naked all day long which I wouldn't mind so much if she was potty trained but I'm getting tired of scrubbing poop and pee out of my carpets. Thank GOD she is almost ready for potty training!

Sitting on the wall - she will NOT stop climbing over the wall from the living room to the kitchen! This drives me insane! Not only does she not care that I tell her not to do it but she will sit there and smile at me while I'm yelling at her to get down. This really drives me nuts. Pat started the counting to three thing with Jocelyn and it works great for her - as soon as you start with "ONE" she stops whatever she is doing. But Alysa on the other hand...she waits until you get to three and you start to get up before she even thinks of doing what you say. I've resorted to rearranging my furniture several times to try and avoid putting a couch there but there's just no other way to arrange it so right now, the couch is pulled out to the middle of the living room so I can get through writing this without having to get up 50 times to get her down. I'm still having to get up a bazillion times to get her out of the bathroom where she unrolls all of the toilet paper or grab whatever she can out of the cabinets (even with child locks, she manages to get in there). I've also had to get her out of my bedroom a couple of times because she likes to empty ALL of my drawers. And now she's torturing the cat. I just don't know how much more I can handle. I'm telling myself it's just her age but I don't remember Jocelyn ever being this hard to handle. Maybe it's just harder because there are two of them now or because I'm trying to do so much with my business or because I'm completely alone. I know it will get better eventually but right now, it's just hard.

Maybe it's not so bad that my child has messy hair and doesn't match and my house is a mess...should I just accept that I can't control everything? Or do I try harder to get things back in order? I just don't know what to do anymore.

Here are a couple more pictures

She's lucky she's cute.

They are both crying from throwing mega blocks at eachother. I should probly go separate them and then make lunch so Alysa can take a nap and Jocelyn can have her quiet time...and I can have my sanity for an hour =)