Running when we should be sitting down
With the two little people, I must admit we stay in a lot, or we (used to) go in the backyard and play when it's nice. To combat insanity I try to get us out of the house most days. Usually it's drain away Dada's paycheck at the grocery store or to meet up with buddies for a playdate. But almost always I limit our adventures to one destination per daylight hours. To venture out more invites complications and unwanted baggage like extra snacks/diapers/blankets/sippy cups, and I have only so many hands to take these things out to the car. It's sort of embarrassing how often I get stopped in public and asked if I need some help. Do I make it look that bad, really?
Today was quite possibly the busiest I've allowed myself to be since Jacob was born. We went ran three errands, all before lunch. First we headed out to Old Navy to get Isaac a winter coat, since it is suddenly freezing cold here and he doesn't have one. We got there early enough that the store was almost empty and I let the boys chase each other around the toddler section while I tried to wrap my poor, slow brain around the fact that Isaac no longer fits in a 2T. We got this one, on sale for $17.50. Can't beat that, though I was slightly disappointed that we had to settle for a camo green color and not something more visible or trendy like red. Note to self: do not take boy deer hunting.
After that, I had resolved to take the boys to a local Christmas tree farm (with live reindeer!), not to buy a tree, but to artfully pose them in front of trees in hopes of getting a good snap for our family holiday card. So we drove a short way into Pennsylvania, only to find out that these losers don't open till noon. I was sad. How often do you get to meet reindeer, really?
But onward and upward, since we had one more errand to run -- visiting Dada at work to bring him his lunch. After that, it was home for us, and time for some English muffin pizzas.
I was even more proud of all the running we did given that, over the past two weeks, predating the flea explosion, something seems to be wrong with our family. Isaac and Jacob have been complete and total pills most of the time. Jacob whines and fusses almost the whole day unless he is perched on my hip; Isaac is unusually argumentative and contrary. Worse still, neither are sleeping well. Jacob has awoken (for good) before 5 AM at least 5 times in the last two weeks; several of those times Isaac woke right up with him. Today was the first day I can remember that I slept until 6:05. I'm hoping it's the lack of sleep, but I am also not doing too well -- I spent most of yesterday feeling weirdly dizzy. Nothing else -- no headaches or fever or anything -- just dizzy. I hope we're not all coming down with some secret bug just in time to head home.
Today was quite possibly the busiest I've allowed myself to be since Jacob was born. We went ran three errands, all before lunch. First we headed out to Old Navy to get Isaac a winter coat, since it is suddenly freezing cold here and he doesn't have one. We got there early enough that the store was almost empty and I let the boys chase each other around the toddler section while I tried to wrap my poor, slow brain around the fact that Isaac no longer fits in a 2T. We got this one, on sale for $17.50. Can't beat that, though I was slightly disappointed that we had to settle for a camo green color and not something more visible or trendy like red. Note to self: do not take boy deer hunting.
After that, I had resolved to take the boys to a local Christmas tree farm (with live reindeer!), not to buy a tree, but to artfully pose them in front of trees in hopes of getting a good snap for our family holiday card. So we drove a short way into Pennsylvania, only to find out that these losers don't open till noon. I was sad. How often do you get to meet reindeer, really?
But onward and upward, since we had one more errand to run -- visiting Dada at work to bring him his lunch. After that, it was home for us, and time for some English muffin pizzas.
I was even more proud of all the running we did given that, over the past two weeks, predating the flea explosion, something seems to be wrong with our family. Isaac and Jacob have been complete and total pills most of the time. Jacob whines and fusses almost the whole day unless he is perched on my hip; Isaac is unusually argumentative and contrary. Worse still, neither are sleeping well. Jacob has awoken (for good) before 5 AM at least 5 times in the last two weeks; several of those times Isaac woke right up with him. Today was the first day I can remember that I slept until 6:05. I'm hoping it's the lack of sleep, but I am also not doing too well -- I spent most of yesterday feeling weirdly dizzy. Nothing else -- no headaches or fever or anything -- just dizzy. I hope we're not all coming down with some secret bug just in time to head home.
posted by Claire at 9:31 PM
3 Comments:
Gma -- I think he has. Dude is wearing a 3T now. That suit, if I recall, was 18-mo-sized, but it was big. We'll have to get it out and see if the bibs are too small, or perhaps even if they'll fit the fatty little bro.
i hope you get to feeling better soon!
as for your errands, you've done well! we have to rely on public transport and so don't go out too much!
Um. I'm hoping you're not pregnant. unless you want to be, that is.
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