What I learned today....

Today I learned....
1) Plans change, no matter how prepared you are.

2) Changing of plans screws up all your plans.

3) Changed plans still can work out with enough planning.

4) Giving your daughter crackers and cheese in the living room makes a mess.

5) Not having your daughter in front of you every second of the day (or taking her to daycare) will teach you how to scrub toothpaste off the walls and sink and that baby wipes will take black shoe polish off of your walls, carpet and cabinets, but not off of a veneered dresser. Also that toilet paper can stretch from one side of the house to the other, and crackers given to a 4 year old in the living room somehow travel to her bedroom and all over her carpet.

6) A 4 year old punished to her room for the rest of the day so I don't beat the every lovin' life out of her, can scream REALLY REALLY LOUD.

7) You can not get it through a 4 year olds skull that playing with chemicals and things that aren't hers is dangerous and destructive.

8) Ignoring a 4 year old while they are screaming really really loud will eventually put them to sleep.

9) When you think she's asleep, listen harder, she's not. She's upstairs going through the other room and playing with their shoes (touching others things).

10) What you thought were crackers on her floor were actually muffins she stole from the other room.

11) That I am about to go freaking insane!!