My Everyday Miracles

I have a love/hate relationship with long weekends. I love having my husband home all weekend and getting to spend time as a family but I hate thinking it is Monday and then realizing it is Tuesday and I am a day behind and the worst part is that one or both of the kids tests me all day to see if anything else has changed. Today it is Little Princess.

To be fair she has been testing us for some time and in the process her brother has been the bain of her existence. If he has something she insists on having it. She will forcibly take said item from him as he watches and does nothing (even though we have made it clear he can take it back at that point). We have been trying to take the toy from her, give it back to him and put her in time out. When she leaves time out she has to give her brother a hug. That works 90% of the time.

The other 10% of the time we have to take her up to her crib and let her scream it out by herself, telling her to let it all out and when she has been quiet for 2 minutes we will come and get her. This method worked so well with Little Man the amount of his fits went down to one a week a few months ago. She can scream as much or as little as she likes, we can hear her through the monitor and typically when she does this and ends up in her crib, she screams for 10-15 minutes and then is quiet. When she is done her mood is 200 times better and we usually don’t have to do that again all day. The last two days she has been testing us to see where our limit is with her having time to let it all out. It blows my mind her night and day attitudes in 20 minutes….makes me wonder if sometimes I need 20 minutes to let it all out in my bed!

Also, thanks for the kind words about my eye. It still hurts VERY badly but still feels better than it did so I am pretty sure I am on the mend. I have been taken care of by Aaron so well! Yesterday he went to one of my favorite places and got me lunch because I felt so bad. He has been great about taking care of the kids and not begging to watch sports on TV. Yesterday for the first time ever, when Little Man and Little Princess woke up from their nap he got them ready and took them to the zoo on his own ~ no input from me, I was out cold and didn’t even realize they were gone until 10 minutes before they returned! I have A LOT of blog reading to do but trying to do things with one eye made everything take 200 times longer and made me so much more tired than I am used to.

Today, Alison and I decided that we would take all three kids to the splash park for an hour and a picnic lunch. I can walk to the splash park (it is in the park a block from our house). I took the patch off my eye an hour early, prepped the kids and we left. I wish I had Alison’s bike and trailer hook up but still it was nice to get there and all of the kids had a great time! It started off a bit rocky as there were a lot of strangers there that the kids were not so sure about but when Alison and her little girl got there,the daredevil came out in Little Princess and she was all about the splash park! After a break for lunch they played some more and I told Alison I had to go ~ my eye was killing me (I so need to get the rx sunglasses ordered). So we came home, the kids have are still napping 3 hours later! I called Aaron who was concerned about me and I told him all was well but he said he would take the kids back to the splash park tonight while I relaxed at home! So it looks like the splash park will be a part of our routine every week…is 2 or 3 times a week too much?

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Written by Carissa on June 1, 2010 under Little Man, Little Princess, Mommy.

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