Just to get a good picture in your mind of what a typical day looks like for me:
After
being up most of the night...the only thing that gets me out of the bed
in the morning is the thought of a huge cup of coffee, or the screaming
kids, or the crying baby who wants to eat. but mostly the coffee. Once
I'm up its rush rush rush to get Zachary to preschool. With that being
said...i take him in my pajamas 9 times out of 10. For the 3 hours that
I am home I am changing diapers, nursing Gavin, or cleaning up after
Lukas. Lukas is my busy, stubborn, 2nd born child. He gets into
EVERYTHING! Seriously the kid does not play with many toys. His idea of
fun is climbing up on the counters, the table, or the pantry shelves. I
try to bounce back and forth between him and Gavin but its close to
impossible to watch Lukas 24/7.
So that is usually when most of the incidences happen..usually this includes but not limited to him throwing a whole bowl of dog food that was just soaked in the dog water all over the kitchen. Or when he pushes the kitchen chairs all over the house to get what he can't reach and break it. Or when he gets the bag of pretzels out of the pantry and dumps the whole bag, salt and all, on the floor. This morning I found him sitting on the kitchen counter, going through the bag of clementines, biting into them and throwing them when he discovers that the peel does not taste so good. I took him off that counter close to 100 times and he just goes right back to it. So at that point I'm so over wrestling him while I also have a baby literally attached to me, that I let him do it. Then this way its more of a clean up game later.
Once Zachary is home from preschool, the fun continues
with " I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm bored, poor me I have no one to
play with." After I get all those demands met, 4 o 'clock comes rolling
around which is my least favorite time of the day. It never fails...
everyday at this time (which I like to call "the witching hour") as I
start to make dinner, Lukas decides to have a meltdown. Maybe I am
alone on this or maybe it is a universal thing with most kids around
dinner time. How do you make dinner when you have a 1 yr old screaming,
crying, and pulling on your pants? Curtis tells me to ignore him, but
how do you ignore someone who is hanging on to you, screaming your name?
Just as I think my day is almost over, I get the kids in
the bathtub thinking this is the second to last stop before I get to
have a nice date with some dessert and my couch until something
unexpected happens...just like last night. The bathtub was almost
filled, the boys had climbed it, and I was undressing Gavin to put him
in his own little tub, when "Ahhh!! mom! poop!! Lukas pooped!!" Sure
enough, there was Lukas sitting in the poopy water trying to play with
it. Bath time quickly turned into shower time.
Silly boys |
Sweet baby Gavin |
I keep hearing from people that they are surprised I am handling this so well, and that I seem very strong. Well I am here to tell you that I am NOT strong, and I am not handling this very well, but I have no other choice... I just do it...I handle it the best I can. I have 3 little people who look up to me and NEED ME, so I have to try and be strong for them.
Love these boys |
Saw this and thought it was hilarious and also appropriate for this post |
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I admire you. I have two little ones that are 11.5 months apart and every day at that dreaded 4 o'clock hour my kids too break down. This is usually the time we are getting home from day care and they think they are starving to death and dying of thirst. I admire you bc these two precious beings that I love more than my next breath drive me crazy. I don't know what I would do if there was a third one, disability or not. You are super mom in the truest since of the word. Praying for you and your BEAUTIFUL family.
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