Yeah, Lil is not any better. Another rough night and now Mom has to go back to work. My mind vacillates between feeling like, this is great, we will do nothing at home and let the mountain of gak just grow and grow
vs.
I’ll never get out of here alive
Oh tricky weekend. Lily is kinda sick and teething up a storm on some molars. Haven’t had this little sleep in awhile. Plus mom has se work to do at home today, all spent.
I have not strolled aimlessly with the Bob at 7am in quite some time. All I know is that 98% of the people out in my neighborhood at that time as dad’s walking babies.
7am Whole Foods Parking Lot
On sunday I saw the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life. For real. Straight of a horror movie.
I was standing in the kitchen talking to mom, we both hear a scream from Luke that sounds truly like something is wrong. Luke comes running through the kitchen and all I can see is a small boy flailing wiht a large spider stuck to his neck.
The drawing below is hardly an exaggeration and we got the spider off and all is well, but man o man, it was truly a heart pounder. This is already from a little boy that claims there are black widos crawling on his pillows at night sometimes and it is a bit scary for him. We shall see how it all unfolds over time.
(no, it was not a black widow or anything even remotely dangerous, but spiders are just plain scary!)
Off to a rocky start, Lil just seems a bit off. Hard to tell with a fourteen month old whats going on sometimes. Last night was the calmest it has been in the house in a while at bedtime, Mom was able to come home and have dinner and able to have serious quality time with both kids at bedtime, still much later than it was a few weeks ago (or so it seems), but it was a quiet peaceful house by 8;30pm and for that I am eternally thankful.
Today is a Target and Trader Joes day, another contractor comes at nap time and then I think we will hit the Virginia Splash Park!
How can a house get so messy, so quickly by such small people? Oh well, guess i will be busy this afternoon…
I am a professional photographer by trade. I have asked another person to take a picture for me perhaps three times in my life. This one was too important to miss. The coveted Target Mobile photographed by an un named 12 year old boy in the Lego aisle.
In the afternoon the kids had a great extended play riff in the side yard. At one point I heard Lil making her exclamatory “Ha!” sound which means either “What is that, come see me, or just I am alive!!!”, I walked over and found her with a green plastic basket on her head, I acknowledged her, went back to my laundry folding, next thing I know she has scrambled up into the house and appears in the doorway with the new “hat” on. I picked her up and offered to take it off. She would have none of it. That hat was staying on her head all through bath time.
No time to post, full day. Went to do some errands in the morning, picked up copies of our kitchen remodel drawings, had amazing coffee at Bar 9 Collective. Met with a contractor at Lily’s nap time and off to the Santa Monica Swim Center.
It was amazing to see the difference with Lily at the Swim Center, we have been going to the MarVista Pool a lot, but the shallow end is three feet and basically Lily has to be held all the time in the water. Se he seemed a bit indifferent to the whole thing.
Cut to the SMSC, which has a shallow end with very shallow steps ending in like one foot of water. She was on fire. Refused to be held and spent Thirty minutes sitting on the top step, then standing upright, getting that crazed look in her eyes and then leaping forward into my arms. Stressful for Dad, but an awful lot of fun as well.
Back to the Bruder Truck Store. Last night as I was putting Luke to sleep he said Ina quiet calm tone, dad, I am really excited about going to the Bruder Truck store tomorrow, buff said.
Hope to have Pho afterwards as I feel we have not had a proper meal in at least 48 hours. It just gets more and more confusing when the kids just don’t seem to want to eat?
On another note, this morning we were sitting looking at the Harry Potter Lego instruction book, Luke spends quite a lot of time pouring over theses books. It was wonderful to hear him tell me about his come rely invented storyline to the final exploded view of the castle. Luke know nothing about Harry Potter.
He pointed to a guard with a sword and said, “do you know why he has that sword?”, no I say. “To cut the flowers”
