Complete and Utter Lack of Excitement

[morningdozer]

Spent today cleaning the house.  How I miss the days when I didn't have to work and I could just run around the house in 15 mins or so tidying a couple things and the place looked spotless.  Now it always seems like a constant battle to keep up with it.  And with Maddie cruising around like a little maniac, it really has to be done.  She finds freaking EVERYTHING and shoves it in her mouth.  Plus it's really hard to gripe at Elias about the condition of his room, when the rest of the house isn't much better.  Tomorrow I'm going in there with garbage bags and boxes though.  He's had all day to make some headway, and he hasn't done a damn thing except make his bed.  I tried to give him some really specific directions ("Make your bed with clean sheets.  Pick up all the books and put them neatly in the bookcase. Pick up your CDs and put them in this folder.  Put all your clean clothes in the laundry."  But it takes him forever to do the simplest task, because he gets so damn distracted halfway through and finds a toy he wants to play with.  So he sits and messes around and then comes out to tell me he completed whatever specific task I gave him.  Well, I'm trying to sweep the floor, or scrub the table or something, and so I don't go check and I give him the next assignment, only to find a few minutes later that he never completed the other one.  The kid has the attention span of a squirrel, I swear to you.  No, that's not true.  A squirrel is able to spend the year gathering nuts rather single-mindedly.  Okay, what creature has a crazy short attention span?  A cocker spaniel I guess.  Or a chihuaua.  However you spell it.  Blegh.
At any rate.  It's safe to put Maddie on the floor again.  Although she has been pulling herself to standing on all the furniture.  So I suppose we aren't so very far from the next great adventure..... walking.  Wheeeeeeeeeeeee......