Yesterday was a good day. It started off with Curious George in bed with my two babies. Colin yells, "GEORGE!" at the screen and talks jibberish and Joey smiles and coos while Mommy gets a few extra minutes of lounging before the day begins. After the show, we headed downstairs where I set Colin up with breakfast, set Joey in the exersaucer and I sat down on the floor to pump. I pump right after Joey's morning feeding so I can save up a supply for....ya know...when I go back to....SOB!!!!!!!! Anyway, Colin always gave me a funny look when I pumped. Sort of like a, "Mom....what're you doing? That's weird," kind of look. He usually stays away though. Today, he got down from the table, walked over to me, took one of the pump pieces and held it up to his chest. Ha ha! He looked down at it like, "Okay. I'm doing it. Not sure why. But I'm doing it."
He's just so sweet! After breakfast we packed up and headed to Courtney's house for the morning. Courtney has an almost 3 year old named Owen and baby Ethan who is only 10 days older than Joey! We love hanging out with them. Courtney also teaches with me so we will both be sobbing when it comes time to........WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
I'm going to fastforward to bath time at this point. My sisters Amanda and Allison come over to help me with the kids on Tuesday nights. We have ghetto dinner (something totally unhealthy and easy to make. ie. tacos, chicken patties, hot dogs, etc.). Amanda brought her boyfriend Greg who Colin absolutely adores and having Allison here is like having another me! It's wonderful! So anyway...bath. Colin is in the bath tub on this particular night. I washed him down and he was playing. And then....he started PLAYING....if you know what I mean. I felt like I should leave the room! I felt like this was inappropriate! I felt like this was HILARIOUS!!!!! Little guy was having a grand old time and I just tried my best to look away while supervising him.....oh, and I tried very hard to distract him. BOYS! What am I supposed to do with them! I grew up around girls. We didn't have these "parts" and we didn't do these things! My sisters love to tease me and insist that I'm only adding to the smelliness of the world by continuing to bring boys into it. :) Love my stinky boys!
Colin fell asleep easily as he usually does and Joey didn't - as HE usually does. Colin has always been the PERFECT little sleeper - since the moment we took him home. Not Joey....he's Colin's polar opposite when it comes to sleeping. We swaddled both boys but Colin weaned himself off of it by 4 months. Joey is pretty addicted to being swaddled, but I can't keep doing it! First of all, he's WAY too long for it now so I'd just be swaddling his arms. Second, he can roll over onto his tummy but has a hard time rolling back to his back - even WITH his arms being free. We started putting him in his own room but he wakes up frequently. Too frequently. Last night I just about lost it. I felt physically sick from lack of sleep and, I'll admit it, I'm a HUGE baby in the middle of the night when my sleep is disrupted. I've always aspired to be one of those moms who rises with a smile because she's so excited to see her baby no matter what time of day or night it is. One of those moms who thinks, "I LOVE being able to settle my little one down and to comfort him." Okay...I mean, yeah....I like these things. BETWEEN THE HOURS OF SIX AND MIDNIGHT!!!!!!! Of course I wake up and cuddle my babies and settle them back to sleep and smooch them, but inside I'm screaming, "GO TO SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!" The funny part is, I wake up in the morning, not easily, but I wake up in the morning and I'm ok. I'm not so tired that I can't function. Don't get be wrong - coffee is no longer an option and I'd love to look into getting an IV of it. But honestly, I'm ok. So why does "nighttime me" freak out so bad?
PHEW! Onward.....today was beautiful and Courtney and I took our boys to the zoo. They were all so well behaved and Colin actually understood the concept a little more this time. I asked him what the tiger says and he answered, "ROOOOOOOOOOOOAR." So cute! I got a great picture of his little face in a penguin poster:
And here's my little JoJo:
After seeing all of the animals we went to our cars and started to get everything and everyone back into the cars. As I put Colin into his car seat I smelled something a little....funky. I was going to let it go until we got home but I thought better of it because I didn't want my little guy to have to sit in that the whole way home. So I got Colin OUT of the car seat and layed him down in the back of the van. All I can say is, I have never, EVER seen nor could I ever IMAGINE that I WOULD see what I saw in that diaper. I'm not kidding....the biggest poop in the entire universe. Thank God the diaper trapped it all - but that diaper worked HARD. The diaper appeared to be brown. Like....as if I BOUGHT it that way. It soaked up SO much poop. I probably used about 55 diaper wipes and Colin, being the fabulous 2 year old that he is, decided that he didn't want to lay there anymore. So he began to thrash and lift and twist his legs. I found myself struggling with this stinky poop machine, thankful that I had put down a changing pad, praying that I wouldn't get any on the car or on myself and REALLY hoping that Joey wouldn't begin crying and break my concentration. I've concentrated less on final exams....this was a toughy! I got him cleaned up and sat down in the driver's seat. I couldn't even drive right away. I had to fully comprehend what just happened. Ha ha.....poop, poop, poop.....
Oh yeah....and to top it off....I got my period today. First one since June 2010....yeah...it sucks. Only one way to fix it.................................Brian???????? :-)
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