This morning started out with Calista waking up first. They both wake up so happy these days, when they lift their heads up from the crib and spot you, you get the most wonderful toothless smile. I changed Calista and gathered her bath items, bibs and clean burp cloths and headed upstairs for our breakfast. This morning I decided to try the Peaches and Rice Cereal on them. For the life of me I don't understand it, while I was pregnant me big craving was peaches. We couldn't keep enough of them in the house! But this little girl wants nothing to do with them. She took a little taste and wrinkled her nose right up at those peaches. Before I could decide what to feed her next I heard Alex on the monitor, so I went downstairs and gathered him up with bath items as well.
Now Alex ate his peaches and rice cereal. He wasn't his usual 'shark' about eating them, but he ate them. I dug out a jar of banana's for Calista and she gobbled them right up.
After breakfast it was bath time. Since Calista is rolling all over the place these days the only way I can do bath time by myself is to leave her in her highchair or put her in the play pen downstairs while I bath Alex. I gave Alex a quick bath and got him dressed in his shark shirt. But before I could get a picture snapped of him in it he puked peaches up all over it. Then he went down on his play mat in the living room while I grabbed Calista, striped her down and gave her a bath which she really enjoyed.
Then we were all off and running. First stop was mother's little helper, my friend Starbucks for a nice big cup of 'Go Juice'. Then off to Grandma and Grandpa's to say good bye to their English friends Mac and Nicol, pick up some patterns that I had left there and see if we could get one of them to go with us to the grocery store to pick up baby food.
At Grandma and Grandpa's they had a quick lunch of green beans on the patio outside. I'm not sure how it happened, but I think Calista got a little sunburn on her face, just on one side of course. She's not screaming about it, so it must not be too bad.
After lunch we loaded the kids up in the car and I followed Mom and Nicol the King Soopers in Loveland, where they apparently have an IQ requirement of below 50 to work there. I was already in a rush since it was 12:30 and Jessica was supposed to be at the house by 1 p.m. to work in at DJBeads. I left a message on her cell phone that I would be late and started on the power shop. We had three carts for this little adventure. Mom had one with no one in it, Nicol had one with Calista in it and I had one with Alex in it and mountains of baby food. Once up at the checkout stand though I noticed that my carton of milk was leaking all over my bags. So when I reached the cashier I told her I needed a new milk, she then handed it to the bag boy, Micah who proceeded to argue with me that the milk was not leaking. I told him that my bags where the milk was sitting were all wet with a white liquid so it must be the milk. And off he went with the leaking milk. About this time I find out that Calista is throwing a fit on the other side of the store with Mom and Nicol, so I tell the checker that I'm in a hurry and to just forget the milk. She says Micah will be back in a minute with it, so we wait. I tell her again after a few minutes that I really have to go and to forget the milk and she says, 'Oh wait there he is'. I looked over and if this guy was moving any slower he would've been walking backwards! And to top it off, he has no carton of milk in his hands. ARGH!!! I just want to give this woman my money and walk out the door with my groceries, is that too much to ask?
Finally rung out I get to the parking lot with the three carts, Mom and Nicol and my groceries. We get Calista in the car and when I go to the other side to put Alex in the jerk parked next to me parked so close that I can't even get my car door open. So I have to back my car up into the middle of the isle, park it and go and put Alex in. I don't know what I would've done if Mom and Nicol hadn't been there to watch Alex while I moved the car.
For all you childless people out there, or those that have children older and don't remember, this is my plea. If you're parking next to a car and you see the car seat bases in the back seat... please remember to give us enough room to get that huge car seat in through our door. If you don't I can't promise you won't come back to a vehicle side full of dents.
Finally done with our adventure and heading home. I get in the door and Jessica is back in the office working away on 6,000 4mm Aqua Pearls... bless her nimble little fingers! I raced through the house changing diapers and getting 2 bottles ready. Alex got fed first and I figured he would be really tired, but I put him in his crib and he just talked to the walls all afternoon. Calista got fed and you could see she was really drowsy, so she moaned a little in her sleep, but ended up sleeping almost 4 hours!
Alex on the other hand just wouldn't go to sleep. I came upstairs to put our new Variety Packs together to ship out and just kept hearing the talking mixed with fussing. I ended up going downstairs and got on my knees next to Alex's crib and just patted him on his behind and rubbed his back for at least a 1/2 hour. Only when I heard snoring did I feel ok to leave and go back to work. But he only slept for about an hour. Once he was up I gathered him up to go to the post office, Ed got home and took over listening for Calista and Jessica finished up the pearls. Everyone had a job to do.
At the post office Kari got to see Alex for the first time in about 3 months. She came out from behind the counter to hold him. He sent her home with a little reminder of himself with some slobber on her postal uniform.
Back home after that, Ed fed Alex while I wrapped things up in the office with Jessica. We made our dinner and ate all while Calista slept away. When she did finally wake up we fed her and made it downstairs by 8 p.m. I had Calista tonight and she thought it was a ton of fun to yank at my hair. She was standing up on my lap facing me and proceeded to grab at my hair and pull back as if she were throwing handfuls of confetti.
I was worried that because she slept so long she wouldn't go down at 9 p.m. But she started dosing in my arms and went right to sleep for me.
After they were both down Ed promised me he'd give me 15 full minutes of folding laundry. He gave me 3 minutes then started playing with his phone and complained asking how much longer he had.
Once he went to bed I have the house to myself and worked on a little bit of sewing. I'm making a romper outfit for Calista that is pink with butterfly's all over it. At this point I have the piece all put together, it's just the finishing touches, (i.e. hemming that I really suck at by the way), that is left to do.
So the worst part of motherhood today was having an idiot park too close to my car so that I can't get a car seat through my back seat door.
The best part of motherhood today is those big toothless grins when the cubs see me first thing in the morning.
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Cute, cute, cute pic! And look how big already!
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