We have had a couple of nasty, almost-emergency situation here lately.  Warning:  Do not read before or after eating.  Anyway the other day, Avery decided to use a Q-tip all by herself, and not one of the safety ones.  She started crying and showed us the Q-tip which was missing the cotton on the end.  We thought it was stuck in her ear.  After much investigation (and freaking out!), we decided that the Q-tip must have already been missing the cotton and that she probably put it back too far in ear. 

Then yesterday, I was trying to take a video of Olivia.  She has started cooing at us when we talk to her.  It is so cute!  It is like she is trying to talk to us.  She couples the cooing with big smiles and it is almost too much for us to take because it is so adorable.  Anyway, this is the video that I got.



And then today, Mia fell down the stairs (again!).  She bumped her nose pretty hard and it is a little red on the end.  She started complaining that it hurt and I responded with "Yes, pumpkin, you hit it this morning and it is probably sore."  She persisted that it hurt and asked me to get the "purple thing" out.  I had no idea what that meant so I looked in her nose.  Low and behold, there was a purple bead stuck up her nose.  Luckily I could fish it out.

And so goes the life of a stay-at-home mom with three girls.  I cannot imagine what kind of nastiness might be involved if they were boys!