Best Day EVER!!!!

Best Day Ever!!

Let me just start with saying that I had gotten about 2 hours of sleep in the night because Scarlett was having belly issues.. poor little thing, she just couldn't get comfortable :( - So Boston was going crazy, I think that he's so sick of being stuck inside the house and not doing really anything but listening to Scarlett cry and playing games with mom when she has a second. So I decided to save both of our sanity's that we would go to McDonalds to let him play and get some of his energy out. The plan was to go there after his nap... So I got him all ready for his nap at 11:30 am which is a little early for him. But he was so tired that I thought it would be alright. I got him in bed and everything and he came out 4 times saying different things like I slept ... after 2 minutes of being in his room.. he did that twice and then the other two times were to either go potty or to get a drink. UGHHH, so I gave up on the nap because I was already so frustrated with him that he didn't just stay in his bed.. so I decided that he would have to take a nap after McDonalds because I had clearly excited him to much about going to McDonalds when he woke up that he couldn't relax and sleep.. Note to self - when going to McDonalds, either go after the nap or wait to tell the child that we are going to go there after the nap has already taken place..

So we get to McDonalds.. he's all excited and runs to the play area and rips off his shoes throws them in the shoe holder thing and starts running around in the tubes.. He comes and finds me while I'm ording our food and is all smiles and looks so cute that I just can't help but forget about the napping issues. He is such a cute little boy.. He helps me take his drink to the table and then asks for me to help him go down the big slide. He has already gone down the big slide all on his own before but it had been a while so I think that's why he was a little apprehensive about going again.. I told him over and over again that he could do it all on his own and there was no way I was going to go in those discusting tubes BLECK!!! So I told him to make friends and to follow there and figure out how to go down the slide. So he made friends with two little boys there. There were also a group of girls probably 4 or 5 years old and there were about 3 of them running around pretending to be some form of disney princess.. calling eachother by princess names.. 'Princess Bell', 'Princess Ariel'.. hahaha it was was really cute and I then pictured Scarlett doing that when she was older and how cute I would think she was being.. haha silly girls. Boston was running around like a mad man with these two boys.. some how Boston had talked these boys into being super heros and they would go up into this room (see picture) and tell the girls that they weren't allowed in there because they weren't boys and then they would proceed to tell the girls that they were Batman and Iron Man and Spider Man hahah.. the girls were getting upset because the boys were literally not letting the girls enter the room so that they could go down the big slide. This was so cute to watch and funny and I had never seen him exclude girls before like that so it was pretty funny.

I called him down to eat some of his happy meal... he comes down and goes to sit my me and dumps all of our food all over the floor as shown here... this is after I had already cleaned up most of the food and cleaned off the chicken nugget sauce off the diaper back an my shoe :(

After all was said and done, we lived and actually I didn't have to go buy any new food because none of the actual food opened up or touched the ground.. just this sauce and the fries were all effected. The other parents around me kept giving me looks of sympathy so I'm sure that they have all gone through something similar. Accidents happen, I was just already so tired and stressed from a day of him not wanting to listen or mind or do really anything but chase Rex around all over the house screaming at the top of his lungs and talking back like a 15 year old teenager. I thought that came later and I thought only girls would talk back like that.. Boys are not void of this terrific talent, so be warned :)

Needless to say, this was him on the way home from there.. We actually stayed and let him play for about two hours. Scarlett slept in her car seat the entire time and the only thing I wished I would've done was take a book to read. Instead I watched the kids do silly things and wished that I was tiny like that again, to be so uninhibited and free to imagine anything and not look like a complete nut for doing so. I'm sure if you found a group of adults calling eachother by super hero and princess names, that they might get a few strange looks hahaha, can you imagine.

The ABC's of having a new baby!!

A - is for ALMOST, as in - I was almost able to get enough sleep last night and Scarlett Almost went down for a nap until Boston came in screaming about something.
B - is for BABY, Boston has decided to become a baby since we brought Scarlett home. He goes around speaking baby and searching for his binki and bottle - a common thing for kids to get new babies in the house.
C - is for CAREFUL, since Boston loves to get in Scarlett's face and talk to her and touch her eyes and nose and mouth.... BE CAREFUL Boston as become a common phrase in our house
D - is for DIAPERS, since we go through about 30 diapers a day with Scarlett. Unless you're dadda and then she will just pee all over her clothes and changing pad instead of in the diaper :)
E - is for ENERGY, which is what I wish I had :).... Boston is so active and Scarlett is so demanding right now that I wish I had just a little more energy to help me get some things completed before I have to go back to work.
F - is for FORGETFUL, since it seems that since Scarlett has been born that both Andy and I have forgotten so many things. Some of them include - losing our USB modem, car keys, books, tools, Boston's toys, etc.
G - is for GIRLY, it's been really fun getting all things girly.
H - is for HOW THE HELL... as in Boston, how the hell did you get water all over the entire bathroom floor and how the hell did you eat all of that candy in one day?
I - is for ILLUSIONS, I think that both Andy and myself will begin seeing Illusions if we don't get more sleep!!
J - is for JOKER, since Boston now likes to go around saying, "I'm so serious!" (I know that it's not the real saying, but Boston has made it all his own... one of the lines in the new Batman - Dark Knight movie
K - is for KINDNESS, so many people have helped us out with so many things and have come to visit us - showing us their support and love. There's nothing more that a family could wish for :)
L - is for LOVE, Andy said that he didn't know if he could love another kid as much as he loves the Boston and Scarlett already has him wrapped around his little finger :) We all love her so much and are so grateful for her.
M - is for MONEY, which I wish we had more of :)
N - is for NURSING, which I've been successful at this time around. Although it has been really challenging at times and worried me a little bit, it has been going well. One down side is that Andy can't feed her :(
O - is for "OOPS, it was and accident" - which is Boston's favorite new saying when he does anything naughty and intentional. He thinks that if he says, "Oops, it was an Accident" that he can get away with murder.
P - is for POOP, which Andy has become very familiar with since the birth of Scarlett. If you ever want a reason to NOT get a dog, then just imagine cleaning up poop and puked up poop from a dog named Rex every time you come home from spending time with your new precious baby girl.
Q - is for QUIET, please just give me some quiet!!!!
R - is for REFLUX, poor Scarlett has had really bad reflux which has caused her to be really sensitive, gassy, and sleepy.
S - is for SCOOTER, which is what Santa brought Boston for Christmas this year. Since it's been too cold and snowy to ride it outside, he's been riding it around the kitchen and running into walls, into Rex, and my favorite into my heels and toes!!! Thank goodness for Scooters and Santa :)
T - is for TIME, I really wish that I could slow time, it's already been a month since Scarlett was born and it's gone by so fast.
U - is for UNDERSTANDING, Andy has been so understanding through all of the crazy mood swings that I've gone through both during my pregnancy and after. It's hard to have a new baby and to have your body all broken and hurting. I wanted to give my husband and great big thank you for being so understanding and compassionate :)
V - is for VIDEO GAMES, which Boston is currently begging us to play with him.
W - is for WINTER, which I'm so entirely sick of that I could puke. The vacation channel has been viewed on more than one occasion so I could mentally get out of the snow and put myself onto a nice white sandy beach :)
X - is for X-MAS, Scarlett's first x-mas was extremely nice, we didn't do much or really get much, but having her here with us was really all that we could ask for and want this year. She is healthy and strong and soooooo precious!
Y - is for YELLING, which I've decided to work on as a New Year's resolution. I tend to raise my voice to get Boston's attention and I don't want to be known as a yeller - I need to take more time with Boston in talking with him and actually going to him to get his attention instead of yelling in his direction.
Z - is for ZOO, this place that used to just have one child roaming around being destructive will now have two. I love having two kids, but wow, it's a really big change. If it's not Boston crying or whining it's Scarlett screaming at the top of her lungs because her brother has just screamed or threw something and it startled her from sleep.