Mom of the year.

Adam and I were sitting at the table eating grilled Velvetta cheese sandwiches and Adam was saying it is too bad Eve doesn't like cheese because they were really yummy. Right after that Eve came over to ask what we were eating. I told her Velvetta sandwiches and she said she wanted a bite. We gave her some and she liked it. Then she asked what Velvetta was and I told her it was meat because if I told her it was cheese she would never eat it again. So now the joke is that we eat Velvetta meat sandwiches.

Other than that I have just been really busy with work and just don't feel like I will ever catch up. Work has had a lot of up and downs and I am trying to roll with the punches and keep a positive attitude.

Work Mornings.

So I head back to work tomorrow. I am not especially looking forward to it. I am going to have to drop the kids off at different places which means my already hectic mornings are going to be even more rushed. I did a trial run of how my morning would work. Here is what I think I am going to need to do. First of all everything needs to be packed and ready to go the night before and clothes need to be laid out because there is like zero time to mess around.

4:45-5:30-Work out.
5:30-6:00-Shower and Dressed.
6:00-6:15-Get Milo dressed and fed.
6:15-6:30-Get Eve up and ready.

My DH gets up at 5:45 to get ready and out of the house by 6. I foresee a little arguing that will ensue in the mornings if he doesn't shape up. First of all he gave me a hard time because I got the mirror foggy while I took a shower because he needed to get ready for work. Second Milo started fussing this morning while I was working out. Not a huge deal. A couple of quick jaunts to his room and a pacifier fix later and he is all better. Well as I am trying to finish my makeup Adam is getting ready to leave and Milo is fussing again. I ask Adam to give Milo his pacifier so that I can finish getting dressed. His response I am trying to get ready to leave. Really... and starting tomorrow what do you think I am going to do???? I seriously will bite his head off if he says that to me tomorrow. I am sorry that I need his help but for Pete's sake if you can't get ready because I need your freaking help wake up 5 minutes earlier. If it continues I am pretty sure that Adam will be going to work late one day and getting himself and both kids ready and off to their respective places for just one morning. It is a total freaking pain. I hate being rushed and I hate trying to get Eve ready in the morning. She will fight me tooth and nail the whole morning and it seems that Milo is going to do the same thing since he has done nothing but whine since he got up. And I swear if he cries the whole 30 minute ride to daycare I might just lose it. I honestly wouldn't mind going to work each day if my mornings weren't so rushed. When your morning starts off feeling like you are spinning out of control it makes for a crappy day all around.

He is getting so big.

I have to download the 3 month pictures from our other camera but I took this video this morning. He is developing so fast. Last week he was not grabbing for things at all he would only kick his legs to make them bounce well today I looked over and he was holding the oooooohl (as Eve so cutely called it before realizing it actually is an owl and the name has stuck ever since.)

We have a swimmer!

Way to go Eve! I am soooooooo proud of you!!!!!!!Milo's first time in the pool.

Milo's favorite toy.

Milo loves to kick so I went and picked up Eve's old kicking toy from storage and he loves it but he gets upset at the end when he kicks it too far away. Eve likes to play with it too.

A day in our life.

Most days having 2 kids is pretty much the same as having 1. There are times that having 2 kids can be difficult though.

Today I thought I still had some time before Milo woke up from his nap and decided to quick take a shower. I asked Eve to come tell me if Milo started crying so I would hurry and end my shower. She is usually really good at this. Today I get out of the shower and I hear him screaming. I asked Eve why she didn't tell me and she said she was being lazy and that he had been fussing since right after I got in the shower. Nice. So I quickly dry off and throw on my bathrobe and go make a bottle for Milo and then go to change him. So I have just taken Milo's diaper off when Eve comes running through the living room and trips over my yoga mat. She is bawling on the ground. She has become such a klutz these days it is ridiculous. I ask if she is ok. She cries but I am in the middle of changing Milo's diaper so there is not much I can do for her at that second. By the time I finish changing Milo and am about to go tend to Eve I realize she is standing at Milo's doorway in tears and holding her elbow. I set Milo down and try and substitute his pacifier for the bottle he really wants. Take a look at Eve and realize that her elbow is bleeding. I am now freaked out that she has a broken elbow or has massively screwed it up on the inside since it is bleeding and she fell on a yoga mat so it isn't like there was anything to make her bleed. I clean off the blood and realize it is from a small hole in her arm. By this time Milo realizes that he is sucking on his pacifier instead of his bottle and lets both of us know he is not happy about it. Eve is still bawling hysterically. I have her practice bending and unbending her arm. She seems to do it without wincing in pain although she still is crying nonstop. I now need to decided who to take care of...do I...1. comfort Eve or 2. Feed Milo? This is a hard one to decided. So I start by cuddling Eve figuring if I get a minute of really good snuggle time in she should be ok and then I will be able to reassess the arm situation on whether it deserves a call into the Dr. So as I am holding her (Milo is still crying) and ask her to explain what happened. It wasn't the fall on the yoga mat that cut her arm it was the tacks that hold the carpeting at a doorway that had stabbed her. After initial fall she was army crawling towards us and hit her elbow just perfectly on the tack. After she told me the story she stopped crying but still wanted to be held. So I picked up Milo with Eve still in my lap and somehow managed to feed him. Everyone was happy in the end but dealing with this made me wonder...How do people do this with more than 2 kids or people who have kids really close in age where both kids are needy all the time. I am in awe of those people because that is a lot to handle.

*Between the first fall and when Milo got his bottle was only about 5 minutes so it wasn't like I was neglecting him.

Cranker McCrankerpants

That shall be Milo's new name. He has taken to fighting naps during the day. Once he takes his nap he is awesome but getting him to fall asleep is a total chore. At least he still sleeps well at night.