Today I lost my mind, at least I had the camera to document it

Oh people of the interwebs, I can't put into words the type of day I had today. Just when I started to get confident about adding another child to the mix, I had the wind knocked out of my sails. Zachary has growing independence, he's 100% potty trained and he's been doing awesome with listening and following directions. Well, until TODAY.

Everything started out normal this morning. We had our breakfast and cartoon time and then headed out to story time at the library. He was a MANIAC. He literally annoyed the 2 sweet little girls that we were sitting next to, he kicked me, he threw his mat around and he disrupted the story about 98 times. I had to keep pulling him away to talk to him, only to have him thrash and kick at me. Finally, I yank his butt out of the library with him kicking and screaming all the way outside "I WANNA HEAR THE STORY!!!!!!!" Well, that was embarrassing and I will never show my face in the Shrewsbury library again.

The ride home was a mess of tears (mine) as I had shoes thrown at me. If that wasn't enough when we got home he had meltdown after meltdown. Around 11:30 I declared an early nap time to save his life. For real.

Miracle upon miracles he actually went right to sleep! I chalked his insane morning behavior to being tired and declared that when he woke up we'd start fresh. Too bad he was up a whole HOUR later and when I went to get him he had emptied the entire contents of his dresser drawers all over his floor.

After giving myself a 5 minute time out and letting him shove his clothes any which way into whatever drawer, I decided that fresh air was in order. Off to the park we went!

Yes, this angel can cause trouble

The park was short lived because we were both freezing. We headed home to warm up and play. As soon as we got home my house turned into a water park. Zachary decided he wanted to have a tea party and while I was in the bathroom filled up all of his kitchen cups with water. I can officially say that at 33 weeks pregnant I enjoyed a slip n slide INDOORS.

I decided sitting down for a minute and sobbing would clean up the water. Zachary came up to me and said "What's wrong?" I told him I was having a bad day so he made silly faces to try and cheer me up.

It worked.

After a couple of minutes to catch my breath Zachary came running up to me totally naked, holding his apron. "Mommy, put dis on me."

Voila - naked chef.

I suppose cooking naked was boring because about 10 minutes later he was covered head to toe in lotion and screaming that he was itchy. Seriously?????? Off to the bath he went at 4pm.

At this point in the day I'm waving the white flag and begging Rich to come home. All in all the events of the day weren't unusual for us (well maybe the naked cooking). However, dealing with all of these wonderful antics weren't very enjoyable when I'm walking around feeling like the Hindenburg.

If someone would like to pass me a magic clock that stops time for a few weeks I would appreciate it. I'm not feeling very confident about bringing a newborn into this crazy life!!!

Is This Thing On?

We're alive and well!  I have actually had nothing to say (shocker!) and I haven't taken a picture in weeks (big shocker!).

Ok, I lied, I do have something to say!

Z went to preschool all by himself today!!!! I hadn't planned on leaving him since last week was a bust. However, when I walked into the classroom this morning one of the parents told me to leave. She said "Go home, now!" I was a little scared so I listened to her!

Actually, I think this approach was best. It was definitely like pulling off a band-aid. I just had to do it. So I got Z all settled, told him I'd read him a book and then I was going home. He didn't seem to care. When it was time for me to leave he was getting out some blocks and I simply said "Ok, I'm leaving." He looked up at me and reached up to give me a kiss and went back to his task. Pretty easy, huh?

I went to Walmart, scrubbed toilets, vacuumed and laundry in my 2 hours of free time! I did have the parent helper texting me with updates the whole time and he did cry for 10 minutes and then he was fine.

When I went to pick him up he was playing on the carpet with the rest of the class and looked up at me and said "Oh, my mommy is here," and went back to playing. I was so so proud!!

The teacher actually said it was like meeting a new child. He was super chatty and outgoing and apparently very interested in the bathroom door...

Of course I know the chatty and outgoing Z so I wasn't really shocked by the revelation but I am glad to hear that I apparently make him a recluse when I'm around. Sheesh :(

When we got in the car I asked him if he had a fun day at school by himself and he grabbed my face and gave me a big kiss and said "Yes mommy but I got a little upset." 

I am so proud of him and happy for myself. I knew the day would come when I had to break away so that when Olivia comes he'll be prepared to attend school alone. I just didn't realize it would be so easy!!!  Yay Z! 

The Big Ten

We're at the final count down! 10 more weeks to go (+/-)... wow!



Nothing new to report as I opted out of going to the OB this week for my 2 week check-up. I'm going to start those in 2 more weeks. Such is the way of being pregnant with your 2nd I suppose.



I can say that Olivia is enjoying burrowing herself into my rib cage and keeping me up half the night bee boppin around. I'm starting to worry that she NEVER sleeps because I feel her nonstop. Of course I'm not complaining because I'm going to miss these special "just us" moments when she's here!


Here I am in all my largeness. No comparison picture this month but I'll have one next time :0)

Here is last months picture 25 weeks