What a Day!

Will has gone to bed, so it is my time to blog, even though I have a million other things to do. Hey, I have to keep you updated! As I was reflecting upon the day I couldn't help but laugh. It all started out pretty normal. We woke up and I even got a few chores done before we went to waterbabies. I was thinking it might be a pretty good day. We put little float devices on the kidlets during class and Will howled. What do you do? He doesn't enjoy floating on his back anyway. He usually just wants to flip over. Eventually he calmed down. As we were making our way out of the pool one of the instructors tells a kid to get out of the pool because there's poo in it. Will and I booked it out right away--gross! That was a sign of things to come. Now, I'm not complaining because I did actually take all of this in stride and even found myself chuckling over it all. Will was rubbing his eyes as we sanitized ourselves to the best of our ability in the shower. Great! Will is going to go right down for a nap. We get home and it's party time. Okay, so I figure I will get back into the car and go run some errands and shoot for a 1 o'clock nap. Maybe that 1-3 time slot all the moms keep talking about. We're in Safeway and of course the little straps that you use to buckle your toddler in do not hold Will. He managed to finagle himself right out. Now he is wanting to stand up in the cart and is reaching out for me with a great big grin on his face. There was no way I was going to try and hold Will in my arms while shopping and trying to navigate the cart. So I go into tough mom mode and tell Will all about safety and force his locked little legs into the holes of the cart. Again, another howl. Hmmm...twice in one morning, I must be going for mom of the year. I chuckle to myself and proceed forward like it's perfectly normal to be shopping with a screaming child. This happens three or four more times and at the end I was avoiding eye contact completely with all of the other shoppers. Still two women managed to make comments. Grrrrrr, I smiled politely and tried not to think violent thoughts. By the time I get to the cash register I am feeling a little better because I managed to grab myself a York peppermint patty. Chocolate will make things right again and a peppermint patty was a low cal choice, at least as far as candy bars go. We get through the checkout line and I make a bee line for the car. When we get there I take Will's hands and raise them in the air and say out loud, "yes, we made it!". I felt so victorious that Will hadn't made a flying leap out of the cart and split his head open and I hadn't pulled out any of my hair, but maybe that's because I had to keep my hands on Will the whole time I was shopping! By this time Will is acting like a total wild child because it is 1 o'clock and he needs a nap. He fell asleep in the car. Next item of business was to make the transfer from car seat to house. Amazingly, it was successful and Will took a snooze on the couch. I think he might have gotten at least 45 minutes in when Daisy woke him up. Another howl. Oh man. No matter what I tried I could not get that kid to go to sleep. Poor Will. Did I mention it is awful outside, so we were both getting a little stir crazy? To get Daisy back we gave her a bath and antagonized her the rest of the afternoon, heh heh. I think I've already dragged out enough of the minute details of this day and I will spare you the rest. It's been another great day taking care of my crazy little munchkin. Now I'm going to bed so I can be ready for more tomorrow! :)