I hate it when I can't sleep

Well, I woke up at 4 AM. Why? Who knows? 4 a.m. is the cursed hour for me. If I am ever disturbed for any reason at that time, forget about going easily back to sleep. So here I am at 6 still thinking, baking cookies, looking at photos, trying to figure out why the new San Disk I bought won't work in the computer, wondering if I should take back my new camera for a different one, and so on and so forth.

Stoyan just got up to get ready for work.

Saturday we went to Temple Square. Victoria really enjoyed it.

Babysitting

On Mondays and Wednesdays Victoria and I get to babysit our little neighbor, Matthew. Most days it is good and Victoria likes to help feed and change him and is always trying to get him addicted to the binky. She likes her binky a lot, why wouldn't every baby want to be addicted too? Other days are harder when she feels like her mom's attention is a little too stretched between the two of them and she tries to demand more for herself. We're hoping this babysitting stuff will get her a little more used to the idea of having a little sister soon.

Yesterday started off a little rough with both kids crying for attention and sleep. I actually had to rock Victoria to sleep, something I haven't done for months and months. Happily the day improved after naps and we ended up having a pretty good day.

Long Day

Yesterday was quite the day! It started off with a Primary Party.
We were supposed to start our Party at 10 AM. After staying up til 2 AM (Procrastination doesn't work) and then getting up at 7 to finish getting ready, I was a little tired. I thought I had it well planned, but at 9:55 AM when I still didn't have my help except one counselor and a neighbor, I didn't know what was going to happen. At 10 I called Stoyan, "Bring Victoria and get down here! I need help!!" Around 10:05 the kids began arriving and so did help in the form of both primary teachers and parents and Stoyan. I sent Stoyan to cut fruit, but wasn't clear about what I wanted and he thought I wanted him to leave. Good thing one of the teachers went to check to see if it was getting done. Needless to say with the kids and help arriving at the same time I wasn't able to inform the help what was going on as well as I had hoped. The whole thing came off a little unorganized and crazy, but hopefully a few of the kids had a good time.

After the party I came home to a disaster area. I don't know how we do it, but we can sure mess up the place fast. I couldn't even take a nap because it was driving me crazy. Luckily I have a good husband who told me he'd give me five hours of his time to clean up the house however I wanted. :) Hurray! Together we got so many things done that have been waiting for a good time. I love to move things around and am constantly changing where things go so we did a lot of reorganizing. We even washed windows... but we decided we need to invest in a good squeegee because leaning out of a fourth story window to clean the outside with paper towels just isn't very effective. After a good cleaning day I was definitely ready for sleeping. Wish I had some before and after pictures, but no one would really appreciate them except me. Here are some cute pictures of Victoria and her daddy playing together. They wear me out just watching them.

Keeping things clean

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Today wasn't very eventful, but I thought it was sure cute to see Victoria and her Daddy working together. First they made Banitsa (Bulgarian pastry) for lunch and then they mopped the floor together too. Victoria didn't stop there. I found her "washing" her duster in the bathroom and cleaning the sink with it.

I get stuck

Well, we had our 3rd anniversary a few days back. It was a lot of fun. I am amazed at how fast time goes. Okay, I know 3 years isn't really very long, but it went really fast.
Every day this past week I've intended to post something, but the days went way too fast, and now it's way too late. Enjoy the Memory Lane slideshow at the bottom. :) I'm trying to figure this stuff out, which is sometimes pretty hard since for some reason when I downloaded Picasa2 it downloaded in Bulgarian! I finally figured out how to get it in English, but when I try to put a web ablum on it goes to the Bulgarian google, and then I'm back to guessing what and where... this doesn't make sense... I'm going to bed.
Oh, we've finally started trying to get Victoria to sleep in her new bed. It is one thing to play on it, but she sure doesn't want to sleep on it.
Stoyan just came in and asked me if I realize that every time I start using the computer at night I get stuck. He's right.