Lessons

Parenting is a wonderful challenge, but definitely a challenge. Lately, Thomas has been making the hugest messes throwing his food off of his high chair. Yesterday I was running around like crazy trying to get the house picked up before Marc came over for the "home inspection" and left Thomas in his high chair with his breakfast watching Elmo. Big mistake. When I came back into the room, there was oatmeal absolutely EVERYWHERE. I almost had a stroke. It took me quite some time to pick up all that sticky gooey oatmeal. I guess that's what I get for using the oatmeal and the TV as babysitters. :-)

Emmett has been having the same problem with Thomas throwing food from his highchair and has been working with him to explain that that is unacceptable. He claims to be making some progress, which is great.

I made it back to the gym yesterday -YAY!! My workout felt good. The only hard part was that Tommy didn't want to be left in childwatch yesterday which made me sad for him. I felt so bad leaving him there, but finally one of the staff members distracted him and he seemed okay, so I went on and worked out. When I got back they said he had a lot of fun playing with a stuffed Elmo and dancing around. I think they got a big kick out of him. His dancing is absolutely adorable, I must say. I told him to say goodbye to Elmo that we had to go, but that I had some crackers he could eat in the car. He didn't want to leave the Elmo and got his pouty face on and looked like he was going to cry, it nearly broke my heart. I finally talked him into leaving it without throwing a fit, which was great. The next accomplishment was managing to get all the way home from San Mateo without him falling asleep in the car because I've learned this week that if he falls asleep in the car on the way home and I have to move him upstairs and wake him up, he will not be able to get back to sleep. So I sang to him and fed him crackers and a snack bar all the way home to keep him entertained. He went right to sleep when we got home and got a little more than an hour nap before we had to go to Olga's, so, all in all, I'd call it a very successful day. The house looks good because of the clean up and I finally got Thomas's toys put away and his room clean, so this day was, I'd say a 7, which is much better than the 4s and 5s I've been having lately. :-)

Well, that's all for now. I'm going to spend a little bit of time with my boys before I have to work a 12 hour shift from 11am-11pm today. Yuck!! But I REALLY can't complain, I cannot believe that on the next schedule I'm only working 1 weekend day!!! Amazing!! YAY

I'm taking tomorrow off. Have a good weekend.

Love
Melissa