Fun Day Saturday

It's so nice to have Paul home. He got to come home early (Friday afternoon instead of Saturday afternoon). I loved having the whole day with him. We spent some time at Monkey Joe's. I thought it would be fun for Paul to get to do something we do during the week while he is at work. We had a good time and did not get injured or yelled at this time. Though I did have to kick some older kids out of the 3 and under area. It's not really my style to say something but when the safety of my kid is at stake I have no problem kicking a few rule breakers out. After jumping and sliding we dropped Jack of at the Lyons' house and put him down for a nap. Then we left and went to the shooting range. Paul got a new gun recently and has been wanting to take me shooting. I've only ever shot a shotgun, so I wasn't sure what to expect with a pistol. It was a little scary and also a little fun. Though I did not like the gun some guys were using in a nearby stall. It was so loud. I jumped every time they took a shot. I thought I would be really bad, but I actually hit the target on my first round, mulitple times. And over the course of the half hour I hit a few bulls eyes! I was pretty impressed with myself and I was very glad our pistol wasn't nearly as loud or bone rattling as the one being used nearby.

Girls Night Out

Last night was such a good time. I went out with my playgroup friends sans children. There are six moms with 9 kids and 3 on the way. When the kids are all around there isn't really much grown up hang out time. So we planned a little night out for ourselves and went to the Melting Pot for some delicious fondue. We had such a great time laughing and enjoying each others company. It's such a blessing to have these women in my life.

2 Major Explosions: Proceed with Caution

I'm not sure why I haven't posted much this week, possibly because we haven't done much. It's been a pretty low key week, Jack seems to be a little off for some reason so we've been kickin' it at home a lot. Tanya and I made curtains yesterday for her nursery. You won't be surprised to hear that what seemed like a simple project turned into something complicated. Though I can't say I'm to blame. I blame the manufacturers who say their product is one size, but in reality it is 2 inches longer. But we finished them up last night and I'm excited to see them hanging in the room. I think they turned out really cute. It was a fun project and it was even more fun to see how little Tanya knew about sewing. For instance, I asked her to set the sewing machine on the table and she picked up the peddle and said what's this? do we need it? He, he makes laugh. (sorry, Tanya). But she did a great job and even did some of the sewing and most of the ironing.
Here's a funny story about Jack from yesterday. Brace yourself it's a disgusting poop story, so feel free to skip this part if that sort of things doesn't interest you :-) As I mentioned, Jack has been a little off lately. Yesterday he was particulary off, just seemed cranky and uncomfortable all day long. During the morning sometime while he was playing I heard from across the room a liquid explosion. It sounded like a newborn when they really fill their pants. Super load and squirty. I knew we were in trouble, especially when the stench quickly made its way across the room. I quickly grabbed a diaper and wipes but in no time the horrendous mess was oozing out his diaper, up the back, out both sides, it was even creeping around his waist. Disgusting!!!! Later in the day we were at Hobby Lobby when of course I heard the same liquidy explosion go off in Jack's diaper. Naturally I had brought no diapers or wipes with me, so we went to check out. All the while this stench followed us. It could bring tears to your eyes and make you cover your nose instinctively. I felt so bad for all the people he kept walking around at the checkout counter. I could tell everyone could smell him, so I just kept apologizing. Those poor people.  Thankfully we made it home without oozing all over and after that Jack did seem a bit better. Hopefully we have no more incidents.

Mounds of Clothes with a Side of Peas

We had a pretty laid back day today. I got the organizing bug from helping Tanya yesterday and went through all of Jack's clothes. Managed to get through it all and found it interesting that the clothes that made the cut to be rehung and redrawered included every size from 3-6 month to 12-18 months. And I'm not talking just one or two pieces in 3-6 months, probably 3/4 of the onsies. Not sure if that means Jack is "shaped" or "sized" wierd or if clothes manufactures need to do a better job of sizing their clothing. I lean towards the latter, but one kid doesn't really qualify as a test market. You can all take bets on how long it will take me to actually box up the clothes that didn't make the cut and donate some others. My goal is to have it all cleaned up before Paul get's home on Saturday.
Oh yeah, and I have a sorta funny story about Jack from today too. Around 4:30 this afternoon I was trying clothes on Jack and he was running away from me. After him being in the dining room for an extended period I got up to check on what quiet activity he had found. Turns out he figured out how to climb up on his boosted up chair and was reaching into the bowl of leftover peas from lunch. Just sitting enjoying himself a snack of cold peas. Yum! I thought it was pretty funny. And no comments on why I still had peas sitting out from lunch...I mean how well do you know me? :-)

Paul leaves today for a week. Sniff, sniff. Looking forward to helping Tanya organize her baby stuff and saying a prayer that Jack takes a good nap at the Roth house this afternoon.

Swims Like a Fish

Couple things to tell you about this evening. Jack still has a fever according to the thermometer, but I can't tell it by touching him or by his behavior. So I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings. In "Mommy of the Year" fashion I took him to swimming lessons yesterday morning depsite his low fever. I figured we weren't touching anyone and we were in chlorine, plus he was not acting sick. So we went and I'm so glad we did. He had a break through swimming lesson. He learned how to keep himself upright while wearing his swim belt. I let go of him and he stayed up and even moved around quite a bit. It as a little frightening and really exciting. Today Jack and Paul hung out most of the day while I went to a baby shower for Tanya. They apparantly had some good bonding time at McDonalds and Chucky Cheese. Jack loves to spend time with his daddy. Paul leaves for California again tomorrow for a week, so it's nice that they got to spend a lot of time together.

Jack helping me in the kitchen.

Tanya's Baby Showerers

Sick Baby

So one really fun day, followed by one fairly cruddy day. Such is life sometimes. Jack had a miserable night last night, he was up for hours of and on with a lot of tossing and turning. Unfortunately, he got a fever sometime after he feel asleep. Poor guy was burning up and so uncomfortable. So I spent the night holding him, sitting by his bed holding his hand, letting him lay on me in my bed, trying to sleep in the recliner together and so on. As luck would have it, about the time one of us got comfortable and fell asleep the other one got uncomfortable and woke the first one up. It was a long night that even included me crawling out of his room on my hands and knees so he wouldn't realize I had left and closing his door only a smidge at a time so he wouldn't realize that his room was getting darker. Oh the things we do to keep a child sleeping. Or perhaps just the things I do.