Today's the day that I have 8 kids coming over. Lizzie and Charlotte aren't here until the afternoon but I'll have 6 kids in addition to Jack for the better part of the day. So naturally Jack decided last night was a good night to attempt an all night tantrum fest. We took turns dealing with him for like an hour and a half and then Jared fell asleep in there with him and that was the last we heard of him. Booger.

I'm making mac n cheese w/ cut up turkey dogs for lunch. I already cut up a package of turkey dogs and peeled several oranges. Thank you Warren for all the fruit!!!!!!! I even have enough chairs/booster seats/highchairs all set up around the table so they can all eat together. 

The forecast for today still doesn't include rain. Hallelujah!!!! 

Jack likes his new fort....aka "Jack's house". Thank you Lori and Rob!!!

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The double stroller that Jared brought home is in great shape! I'm pretty excited to not have to worry about getting one of those now.

We watched ANTM. I kind of think Anya is going to win but I can't see her doing Cover Girl commercials with her ridonkulous accent. I'm glad Dominique is finally gone. Nice how they acted like they were getting rid of her because she looks like a tranny. Um....she has the whole time.

I can't belive what a sucker Erik is on Survivor. That dude will fall for anything!

We all took nice long naps yesterday afternoon so that was good. Jack and Brooke played with his dumptruck and police car in the driveway for a bit in the afternoon. Rob, Barb and Brooke were all coming/staying for dinner.

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Jack slept all night. We swapped the humidifier in his room with the super noisy air purifier from the spare room. Some nights I know he only wakes up because he hear's me go the bathroom and our house is really creaky.

Tonight Jared is bringing home one of those Little Tikes play house things and a double stroller from a woman he works with! I'm pretty excited.

I have Brooke and Lizzie all day today and Charlotte this afternoon. It's not supposed to rain so we'll be outside for sure. Barb was going to send a teeter-totter thing with Brooke. She's also getting us discount tickets for Underwater World for Sunday! :O)

The forecast for tomorrow no longer says rain. YAY!! I'll be able to have all the kids outside.

Jack's been sleeping on the chaise for an hour and a half now. He didn't even wake up when Daisy was barking when Brooke got here. 

He's big into putting things to bed lately. He takes his little Elmo blanket that my mom made for him and will cover us up, or his Elmo, or his sippy or whatever and say "g'night....seep type!". He was following Jenky around this morning trying to cover him up and saying "g'night....seep type!". 

Yesterday he slammed Jenky's tail in the porch door and Jenky yelped really loud and then took off with his tail all puffed out. I followed him and picked him up and was petting him. He lost a huge chunk of fur from his tail. I told Jack that he hurt Jenky. Then for like the next hour he was following Jenks around saying "I sorry Jenky!". It was really cute. 

We watched The Hills last night. What the hell is Lo's problem? She's being such a snot to Audrina!  Why is Stephanie such a pushover? I'd have kicked Spencer out a long time ago. I can't believe he's going to go to Vegas and crash Heidi's business meeting. What a tool.

We watched Beauty and the Geek too. I'm so glad Joe's gone. Seriously...why did he talk with his eyes closed so much??? Hey Napoleon Dynamite....open yer eyes! Such a weirdo. 

Hell's Kitchen was interesting. Matt is such a doofus. He needs to go. Rosann too. 

Lizzie and Charlotte aren't coming now. They're not feeling well so their mom is going to take them to the doc. 

Jack's up now....and crabby :/

 Last night sucked. It was the longest night since Jack was a baby. His new sleep routine has been working awesomely when it comes to putting him down for naps or putting him to bed. He lays right down, doesn't even try to get up, doesn't cry and we can leave the room while he's still awake and he goes right sleep. The problem is when/if he wakes up in the middle of the night. He's not getting the hang of putting himself back to sleep. A couple of times we've caved and brought him to bed and that's really biting us in the ass. The last few nights I haven't even sat in his room while trying to get him back to sleep. Just put him in bed until he stayed and then shhh'd him a bit and then left. It seems like the nights that we have sat in there with him.....waiting for him to fall asleep.....he doesn't. The slightest movement and he pops up to see if you're still there. One of the main reasons we're doing this is because I can't sleep in there with him anymore. Just sitting on the floor for long periods of time is hard for me too. I won't do it anymore. Problem is....Jared will. We're not doing the same things and the inconsistency is blowing the whole thing.  

Not to say that the reason this isn't working is Jared's fault. He's doing what we're supposed to do....sit in there and shhhh  him and verbally comfort him until he falls asleep. It's just that I can't do it. It takes too long and it's hard for me to sit/lay in there that long. That and the fact that he will go to sleep without us in the room at nap time and at bedtime....I think means he can handle doing it in the middle of the night as well. I was ready to step it up a notch so I did.

So last night Jack cried from 12-5 and I was determined to handle it myself so I never woke up Jared to take a turn at it. From 12-2:30 I went in and repeatedly put Jack in his bed until he stayed and then I left. A few times he was quiet for a few minutes but then would start to cry again when he realized I had left. The first time I let him cry 5 minutes, the next time about 7 and then 10 minutes. Then I went in there every 10 minutes until 2:30. He would not stay in his bed. He would not calm down. So from 2:30 until about 4:30 I only went in there maybe every half hour. This is major crying it out but I really feel like he's old enough to handle it. He needs to know I'm not going to cave. Everytime I went in he reached for me to pick him up and I know he was wanting me to just give in and bring him to bed with me and it was NOT going to happen. 

By 4:30 I was kind of delirious and not really sure how much of the crying was real, how often I went in there or how much I was just dreaming. By this point whenever I did fall asleep, I was dreaming about trying to get Jack to quit crying and go to bed so it's all a blur. There were definitely quiet times when for all I know he was sleeping on the floor in his room. I heard him at 6:20 and decided it was time to get up. I opened his door and he followed me back into the bedroom while I got dressed and asked to "nuggle Mama?". We snuggled for like a minute and he was dozing so I made us get up. He's exhausted so today will be trying I imagine. I just hope tonight if he wakes up, he realizes I'm still not going to cave.  

I got the living room dusted and vacuumed and the bathroom cleaned and the laundry started and bathed Jack and showered myself and put clothes away all before Brooke got here at 9:30. I'm awesome :P I got a nap today too while they napped. It was awesome until my brother called and ruined it :P

Jack started singing a new version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star the other day and it's so funny. I have no idea where he got it. He says "tinko tinko tinko little star....I wonder what you are!" all matter of factly...not in the same tune as the original or anything. He's not even really singing. It's so goofy. I had to encourage him a bit but finally got a video of it while he was wrestling with Brooke.

I didn't even really take any pics at the zoo. My mom wanted one of her and the kids on this turtle so then I decided to get one too. That's it :/

Thursday I'll be watching Lizzie all day now in addition to Brooke and Jack! Busy 2 days for me. I told Jared I want to go to the Mall of America and walk around and go to Underwater World for Mother's Day. I think Jack would LOVE Underwater World. I like to walk around the mall too. Not really shop there. It's too expensive. Jack would prolly really like to see Lego Land too and maybe go to Nickelodeon world. Mother's day and I wanna do all this stuff that's moreso for Jack :P

 Well today started way too early. Jack woke up at 5 and I just kept putting him back in his bed and he just kept getting out. Jared tried getting him back to sleep for a bit too and it just wasn't happening. He went to bed easily and didn't wake up at all before 5 but still....I wanted to sleep a bit later than that. 

Sunday we ended up going for a very short bike ride. Jack did not want to ride in the buggy at first but once we got going he was fine. My mom wanted us to meet her friend Dawn and her little redhead. I forgot the name but Dawn was the only one home when we got there. She's pregnant too and due in like 2 weeks. She asked if I'd be interested in watching her baby this fall for a few hours in the mornings! I said possibly :o)

Then we went to Rosemary's birthday party. It was fun but we weren't dressed warm enough. I think the temp dropped 10 degress on our way there. Fortunately I packed pants and a long sleeved shirt for Jack. He looked pretty cute in his new sandals. At first he hated them and cried and just stood there and wouldn't even walk in them. But then I kept saying how cool they were and he got over it. He was even running in them before long. He took a couple of diggers at the park and scraped up his knee a bit but he was fine. He was pretty excited about the little wiener dog at the party. He had fun running around with Rosemary and her cousin Grayson. 

Sunday night he slept pretty bad. He went to bed easily but woke up at 1 I think. I was trying to get him back to sleep for close to an hour and but it wasn't working. He just kept sitting up in bed and crying. He didn't try to get out of bed but still.....I think maybe he didn't feel good. Jared spent about an hour and a half trying after I did. It was a long night. 

Yesterday morning my mom and I took Jack and Brooke to Como Zoo. It was a really nice day but kind of chilly in the wind. Jack and I both got sun but probably could have brought sweatshirts. I'm not really on the ball with dressing appropriately these last few days. I was really wanting Jack to ride the carousel but it's closed on Mondays for repairs I guess :( We walked around the zoo for like 3 hours! Jack really liked it. We haven't been to the zoo since last fall. I was telling him yesterday morning all the animals we were going to see that day and I'm sure he thought I was talking about in his books or something and not in real life :P Once we got there and saw a real live pink flamingo he was like "whoa!". The wolves were right up the fence pacing and howling. That was pretty cool. The tiger was pacing and kind of close to the fence too. He really liked seeing the monkey's and the gorillas and one even had a baby! It was really cute. I really want to take him to the Minnesota Zoo soon because they have a lot more animals. That would be a lot more walking though. We'll see. 

We got home about 2 and all napped until almost 4. Jack wasn't ready for bed last night until like 10. Today we'll be napping earlier since we got up so freakin early. Hopefully Brooke will be ok with that. 

Friday my Aunt Lisa and Uncle Gerry from Hibbing have a funeral to go to so I'll be watching my 4 cousins in addition to Jack, Brooke and Rosemary. I'm not sure how late they'll be here. I'll also have Lizzie and Charlotte in the afternoon! I'm not sure about their ages but I think my cousin Lucia is 8, Liv and Liisa are 5, and Leif is a few months younger than Jack. I think it'll be fun for Jack to have a boy over to play with. The older girls will be a big help so I'm not worried about handling that many kids. They're not coming over until about 10:30/11 so that'll be right when we have lunch and then Jack, Rosemary and Leif will nap. The other 4 will have a quiet time in the living room and maybe we'll have a movie for them. Once all the kids are up, I'm hoping we can be outside :o) 



 

Jared and his brother Chris were going to do the brakes on the Vue today but now I guess they're going to do it next weekend. So this morning I decided we needed to go to Old Navy =) I really wanted to take advantage of the 2 for $5 sale on flip flops and I'm pleased that they changed their design. Hopefully my feet will like the new model. I got 4 pairs and I was pretty annoyed that they didn't have more pairs in my size (amazon). They had like a google flip flops but I wear a 9 1/2 so I needed 10's and they had 10's in only a few colors :( Oh well, I got white, black, blue and grey. I wanted light blue or pink and I even had to get my black ones in mens! I could have just ordered them online I bet but I wanted em now! We got Jack some sandals on clearance for $4.99 too! He got a $3 shirt and Jared got 2 shirts too. So we got 5 pairs of shoes and 2 shirts for like $37. Awesome!

We didn't realize the mall doesn't open til like damn near noon on Sundays so we got there at 10:30 and only the big department stores were open. We let Jack play in the play area for a bit and then at 11 got an Orange Julius (as is cutom when going to the mall) and then went to Old Navy. 

We got home and Jack went right down for his nap! I laid him down and he didn't even try to get back up. He cried for like a minute and that was it. I even sat much further away while I waited for him to fall asleep. He couldn't even really see me because I was over by the door. Sweet!

We raked the yard while Jack napped. Fun times but now it looks much better. Jack's up now and is eating a late lunch and then he'll have a bath. At 4 we're going to Rosemary's birthday party. Jack and I are going to wear new shoes :o) My mom wants us to squeeze in a quick bike ride before we go. We'll see about that. 

Tomorrow I just have Brooke so my mom and I are going to take the kids to Como Zoo in the morning. I'm pretty excited. I hope it's nice out.

 

Jack's new sleep routine has been working awesomely! Night before last I put him to bed and he cried for about 10 minutes and that was it! I just kept laying him down until he stayed down, then sat across the room and shh'd him to sleep. He woke up once at about 2 and cried for about 5 minutes and then Jared went in and did the same thing. That time he cried for about 20 minutes. Yesterday for his nap he cried for about 1 minute. Jared put him to bed last night and it seriously took less than 3 minutes! I think he only cried on the way up the steps. I was going to get up with him last night if he woke up at all but he never did! This is going so much smoother than I thought it would! Now I think tonight when I put him to bed I'll sit closer to the door....out of his eyesight. 

Yesterday morning Jack and I went to Walmart and we were going to go to Cub too but he fell asleep in the car so I brought him home and he went right back to sleep in his bed! That would never have happened like a month ago. A few minutes of napping in the car would have replaced his nap for the day. Yesterday he napped for almost 3 hours though! So after I put him down I went to Cub by myself which was nice because lately he doesn't like shopping that much. My pelvis was hurting so much yesterday morning. It was hard to walk. Then when I got home I was starving because I'd only eaten some banana bread that morning. I sat on the porch and was too tired to get up and make something. Then I talked to my sister for almost 2 hours and didn't end up eating anything until almost 3!! 

In the afternoon we hung out in the backyard for a bit. Jared picked up dog poop and cleaned the garage and Jack played on his toys and finally mastered the ladder to his slide! I sat in the chair and did Sudoku's.  

We watched There Will Be Blood. It was kind of weird. I really hate the ending on most movies these days. Why is it so hard to put a decent ending in a movie? We still need to watch Grey's Anatomy, America's Next Top Model, The Riches, and The Alaska Experiment. 

Our computer's being wonky again. It's like the battery cord is loose again! GOD Dell....could you make bigger pieces of crap????

I got laundry put away, kitchen floor swept and mopped and some banana bread in the oven. Hopefully the POS oven won't burn it. 

I was going to have all 4 kids over today but now Rosemary's not coming. She hasn't been feeling too hot and is possibly getting teeth. Hopefully she feels better before her birthday party this weekend. 

It's supposed to be rainy all day so I can't even have the kids outside :( We played outside yesterday for almost 2 hours. It was really warm out.

We went to Applebee's last night for dinner. Then we stopped at Cub and got some cheesecake to bring home. It was delicious and I ate way too much :o) Jack loves cheese and wouldn't even try a mozarella stick! I peeled the breading off and told him it was a string cheese but he didn't believe me.

Tonight is movie night and we're watching There Will Be Blood. We also have Walk Hard but I don't think we'll be watching it tonight. 
We're also going to be implementing a new sleep routine for Jack starting tonight. We gotta start using some tough love and teach this kid to fall asleep without us should he wake up and to initially go to bed for either of us....and without physical comfort. It may be a long night but it's gotta be done. Hopefully it'll only take a few nights before he is used to it. 

The cast of this season's The Real World is a "hot mess". Especially Joey and Brianna. Yikes. Why would that dude even go on this show if he has a history of alcoholism? Ya ever seen this show dude? People booze it up quite a bit. His roomates are kind of dicks for peer pressuring him all the time too but he just shouldn't even be in that situation. Brianna is raunchy. Is she actually a stripper or does she just wear a lot of stripper clothes? We missed the first episode. Greg is a snob. And he calls everyone else stuck-up?

Last night's Survivor was pretty good. I'm glad it turned out the way it did :o)

Had my OB appt this morning. I've only gained 1 pound in the last 2 weeks!!! Hooray!!! I knew it was those damn malts :P I passed my glucose test too. They want you to be under 140 and I was at 84!! I think that explains why I get the shakes and feel light headed if I don't eat every couple of hours even when I'm not pregnant. I'm not sure how that all works though. Asked about allergy meds and she said Claritin or the new OTC Zyrtec so I picked up some of the Zyrtec on my way home. It seems to be helping much better than the Benadryl and I don't feel drowsy. Hooray! When I got home I picked up Jack and took him to get his hair cut. He had no interest in sitting on the booster. He sat in my lap though and watched clips of Yo Gabba Gabba and Big Big World on the camera and did really well. He looks pretty damn cute now and I think we got a better cut than we've gotten at the barber:

This is what I get when I ask for a "nice face" :P



30 week belly shot

Holy crap I'm pooped. We walked up to Yost Park and then from there walked to Cup 'N Cone. The kids didn't even really want to play at Yost that long. It's kind of a park for a little bit bigger kids I guess.
Jack had his very own ice cream cone for the first time. He loved it!

It was a lot of walking for Brooke so on the way home I rigged up a double stroller :P I reclined the seat and scooched Jack back and had Brooke sit in front of him. It worked out pretty slick. It was a lot heavier to push though.

Jack slept awesomely last night. I brought him in bed to snuggle at 6 when he woke up and we slept for another half hour =)
Got 2 loads of laundry done.
Ironed some shirts for Jared.
Vacuumed and dusted.
Jack and Brooke are napping so I'm going to try to as well. I think we'll go to Yost Park this afternoon and possibly Cup 'N Cone. We'll see. 


 

Well I feel somewhat better. My mom brought me some Benadryl this morning which made me VERY drowsy but gave me some relief. I was able to nap while the kids did so that was good. I decided to take them up to the park once Lizzie got here. They had fun. Jack attempted the wobbly bridge thing today and got the hang of it! He fell while crossing it once and got kind of scared. I was saying "I gotchu" while helping him up and then later, whenever he would stumble or almost fall, he would say "I gotchu". It was funny.  

I got 2 loads of laundry done today and just finished cleaning the kitchen floor and have dinner in the oven. I nominated Jared to give Jack his bath tonight though :o) I only have Jack and Brooke tomorrow so I'll save the vacuuming and bathroom cleaning for then. 

Thursday morning I have my 30 week appt! I'm anxious to see my weight gain in the last 2 weeks. I could weigh myself but I haven't been using our scale up to this point so it wouldn't be an accurate account of my weight gain. I had a giant DQ Blizzard that Jared got for me Friday night that was so big that I ate some of it Friday and the rest on Saturday. Other than that....I've had no malts! I haven't totally given up treats....but I cut out the malts. I haven't even really had much ice cream in the last 2 weeks. Some cookies and candy here and there but I can't just give up all my treats! :P 

Someone in my July 2008 community had her baby yesterday!!! That's pretty scary.

 This will be a post where I complain a lot. You're gonna have to deal or skip it. 
My allergies are KILLING ME!! Yesterday they were AWFUL. I sneezed all damn day, my eyes were itching and watery and I had a massive, throbbing headache that came and went but never totally went. I'm too much of space cadet to have thought of asking Jared to pick me up something on his way home. I'm not even sure what I can take. I'll call my doc at 8. My mom said she would bring me something. Thank god! Thanks to my allergies....my asthma has also been being a prick.

Jack had a rough night. That means I had a rough night. He woke up a few times and the last time was at about 3 and he was not falling back to sleep. I'm not sleeping on the effin floor anymore so I was sitting next to his bed trying to get him to fall asleep. My back was hurting, my legs were going numb and I was about to piss my skivs. He kept seeming to be asleep but the slightest movement or noise and his head would pop up. GRRR! Finally I got up to pee and came back to him having a meltdown. Sat with him a bit more and then said screw this and brought him back to bed with me. It took about another hour before he was finally out. He burrowed into my back quite a bit but at least we were sleeping. 

I'm so freaking tired lately. I go to bed at like 9 and get up between 6 and 7 and I desperately want a nap every afternoon and every early evening. Granted, I get up to pee 2-3 times a night and I toss and turn non stop so of course I'm not getting the most restful sleep at night. Jack is completely against my relaxing. He seriously gets mad when I sit down! He wants non-stop playing. I napped both days this weekend and yesterday I really really wanted to nap while Jack and Brooke were napping but I guess there was a miscommunication between myself and Kim. I thought Lizzie was coming at 1:45 but they got here at noon....just as I was laying down :(  DOH!! She's not coming until 2:15 today so I should have no problem napping. Although, for some reason Jack only napped for an hour and a half yesterday. Brooke napped longer than him. That's unheard of. 

My legs have been achey lately. I started getting shooting pains in my right leg yesterday. Awesome. My back hurts after the slightest bit of cleaning, bending, standing, anything. I don't want to do anything but then I think of all these things that I want to get done. I could save them for the weekend and have Jared help me but I don't want evey weekend full of chores. Neither of us are really in the mood to do them after dinner and lately Jack can barely finish his dinner because he's so excited to "go play daddy" or "climb on daddy". He wants to play with his dad all evening and I just want to lay down all evening. That and I like to clean the kitchen floor, do laundry, vacuum, and clean the bathroom like every 2 days.....so letting it sit for the weekend would drive me NUTS. 

Oh yea and the best part.....once I get some allergy meds in me....even if they're non-drowsy......I'll be GOOD FOR NUTHIN!


Ok....I'm done now :o)

 Happy 22 months to Jackson!!! I can't believe he's going to be 2 in 2 months! I hope I don't go into labor before his birthday. 

I have had allergies start up in the last 2 days. SUCKVILLE!! I've sneezed 1 google times. Jack says bless you each time and then I say thank you and then he says bless you about 3 more times just to hear me say thank you. 

Here's a pretty freakin cute pic of my sister, BIL and nephew Simon that I swiped from Amy's journal :



I can't wait to see them in July!!!!!!! :O)


So, this bugs the crap out of me. I saw a photo the other day of Tom & Katie and Suri and they were saying she just turned 2. She's always got a bottle in her hands. Isn't it about time to kick the bottle?????

 We cut our walk short on Saturday. It was so cold and windy. It snowed yesterday too and it's supposed to snow today. None of it's accumulating but still annoying. How am I supposed to justify flip-flop shopping? :o) It's getting REALLY hard to tie my shoes though so I need it to be warm enough to wear flip flops soon! Fortunately my feet aren't swelling at all yet....I just can't reach them so good.

Yesterday we got some chores done around the house. I got Jack's room looking like an actual room now! He loves it. He's got toys and books up there and I moved his roadway rug and cars up there. He likes to play in there. Now there's plenty of room in the living room for the baby stuff we'll be dragging out in a few weeks.

I went and worked at my mom's for a few hours and finished cutting the last of the ties. Thank god! I wanted to fist fight those ties. They're very frustrating to cut out and have been a VERY stressful job for my mom. Hopefully she finished them all last night as dude was coming to get them today. Jack napped on her bed while we were downstairs working and when he woke up, he got off the bed, opened the door and stood at the top of the steps and said "Mama!". It was funny. I had a feeling he might do that as opposed to sit in her bed and cry. Her doorknob is pretty easy to turn. He really likes being a big boy now. He gets mad when I break up food into little pieces for him!

Starting today I'm watching Brooke every day, all day! Barb got a new job and starts today. Her hours are regular hours now and her mom's starting to work full time too so she'll be spending quite a bit more time here. Jack already asks "Brooke comin?" everyday :o)


We watched the Big Brother finale last night. I really hate the whole juror aspect. I could care less what those people have to say. You lost....just vote. I would have been happy had either of them won so it wasn't too exciting. Kind of interesting though considering Adam had Ryan do all the dirty work. 

We started watching The Alaskan Experiment....I think that's what it's called. It's pretty interesting. 4 different groups of people are dropped in Alaska and have to make their way a few miles to their cabin or tent and then spend the next 3 months there roughing it. The father/2 daughter team is going to fight A LOT! I can't believe those girls sat around eating all the limited rations (sp?) while he was out fishing....and then fought over boot placement!

Jack's new favorite show is Big Big World. I tivo'd it for him a while back and he wasn't interested but now he loves it. He asks for it every morning!

 There's snow on the ground! And it's still snowing. And it's supposed to snow all damn day. Not cool. We have our walk today. Last year for this walk we were wearing shorts and sunscreen. Lame. Amy and Jazzy are coming with us. Amy is a friend that Jared went to school with and Jazzy is her golden retriever who happens to be Daisy's mom. Now I'm really glad I wasn't planning on bringing Jack! Barb's coming over to watch him because Jared's going up to hang out with Amy's husband Brent for some stupid football crap :P  

Jack went to bed very easily last night and woke up once about 5:15 and went right back to sleep easily. I guess night before last was just a fluke. Thank god. He totally doesn't want his dad involved in any of the bedtime routine now! If Jared puts him in his jammies and brushes his teeth, he cries the whole time and says "mama do it!" and if he even thinks Jared will be putting him to bed he has a meltdown. He won't even kiss him goodnight anymore!?!?! Argh. Hopefully that'll change once he's used to his new big boy bed. He NEEDS to let his dad be a part of bedtime. Hopefully he'll nap for him today :/ Napping hasn't really been a problem though. 

 I was just in the bathroom and the door was absolutely closed all the way and Jack just opened the door and came in. Good god :/

Jared woke me up this morning to tell me Jack had woken up and come down stairs and woke him up. O_o WTF???? How'd he get out of his room??????? He woke up one time last night and I went in and put him back in his bed and he was back to sleep shortly after that. I guess it's possible I didn't close his door all the way but I just don't know if that's the case. His door would have clicked loudly into place had it been slightly out of place when I was shutting it. It's happened many times and I've cursed myself for not shutting it more quietly and risking waking the boy. I can't imagine he can work a doorknob already though. I know he can get the screen door open but his bedroom door????? Holy crap. If that's the case.......that's a new development I'm not sure I like.

Putting him to bed last night SUCKED!!!! He was hating it! He didn't seem like he was hating being in his big boy bed so I'm not totally sure what his problem was but he laid in his bed and cried himself to sleep. I was sitting right next to him. I offered him my thumb a few times but he pushed it away. I sat there so long my leg went numb and my back was starting to hurt so I ended up laying down on the floor. That's when he sat up and tried to get out of his bed. Which confirms that if I were to have left the room....he surely would have got out of bed and been crying even harder. I laid him back down and he stayed laying down but kept crying. Half hour of crying. Good times. I think maybe he had a stomach ache since he hadn't pooped all day. Who knows. I even was trying to keep him up a bit later in hopes that he would poop....doing bicycles with his legs like when he was a baby. Eventually, I had to put him to bed. He definitely had a ton of poop this morning though :/ I hope he didn't spend too much time with it in his diaper.

We went to The Eagle's Nest yesterday with Barb and Brooke. If I had laser beams for eyes....I totally would have incinerated a little boy yesterday. There was a big kid area and a 3 and under area. We spent our time in the 3 and under area of course. There was lots of cool stuff and Jack was having fun. He was kind of playing with this little boy and sort of following him around. I would guess he was maybe 4. Then all of a sudden the kid ran across the room.....then ran back and shoved Jack on his way by. I was like ok.....I'll be keeping an eye on that kid from now on. Then a bit later I see the kid throwing books way up in the air. Mind you, there's babies crawling around this area too. Where's this kid's mom? Nowhere to be found. One of the books lands in this little area that you have to climb through a hole to get in. It was like a big square panel with a circle cut out and kids would climb through the circle hole. Jack's peering in to see where the book landed.....and the bottom of the circle is probably at his hips.....that kid comes up behind him and starts trying to push him through the hole!!! By the time I get over there....he's successfully pushed Jack through this hole and Jack is bawling. I grabbed the kid by the arm and said "HEY! You DO NOT push!! That is NOT ok!!!!" He looked a bit startled and ran off. Little prick. His mom was nowhere to be found and didn't see it. Nice. So it took me a bit to calm Jack down but then he was off having fun again.

He discovered this other sort of big tunnel that I kinda think shouldn't have been in the 3 and under area. If he were to have gone all the way in and then decided he hated it.....It woulda been a pretty lame time for me to crawl in after him. Fortunately he didn't get too far in before he decided he hated it. But at this point....6 big kids (we're talking like over 7 years old) push past me and pile into the tunnel barreling past Jack. This really helps the situation. Then they decided they don't like the tunnel either (hard to believe.....it's in the 3 and under section ya tools) and barrel back out. Finally I'm able to get him out. More calming down. He's pretty clingy at this point and losing interest in playing at this place anymore and occasionally asking to go "bu-byes".

Then he's sitting in this fire truck sort of box thing that you can sit in and read books. It's near the window and all along the windows are a carpeted shelf. The truck had 2 seats in it and Jack kept climbing up on the seat to sit on the edge of the truck with his feet on the seat. I was about to make him sit down on the seat and he fell :/ Wedged himself in half .....sandwich syle....in between the truck and the carpeted shelf thing ...... getting carpet burn on the back of his neck. Good grief. So then we decided to pack it up and go out to the snack area where there's tables and have some carrots and crackers. Poor kid. Not exactly the day we had planned.

I was a bit annoyed with how many big kids kept coming into the 3 and under area. Jack was in the ball pit for a bit and was kind of ok with it. I was about to take a pic and realized my battery was dead. I went over to my purse and swapped it with a charged battery and by the time I get back a couple of big kids had piled into the ball pit and Jack was not happy. He had no interest in going back in there after that. Even when it was just Brooke in there. I did get one pic of him in this Little Tikes tree house thing that was pretty cool:

That's the only picture I got! Hard to believe, I know.

I have Rosemary today and then Lizzie and Charlotte this afternoon. Looks like we're gonna be stuck inside today. I might let Jack and Rosemary watch Jack's Curious George movie.

I vacuumed the living room and swept and mopped last night after dinner so all I have to do today is laundry.....and maybe wipe down the bathroom. We'll see how I feel. I feel kind of sore. I did some cutting for my mom yesterday morning for about 2 hours. My knee has been kind of hurting ever since. It better snap out of it before the 7.5K tomorrow!

We watched Survivor last night. Holy blindsides!! We also watched Grey's Anatomy. Why is George living with Meredith's sister????
We also watched The Real Housewives of NYC reunion. I hate Ramona. Ugh. She acts like a child. And she's dilusional. And Alex and Simon.......good grief.....they're dilusional too. Yea right they were misrepresented! They're totally all about social climbing! Weirdos. Why was he even on there???? He's not a housewife!

Edit:  We do have some of those safety door knob cover child-proof things. I just wasn't thinking we'd need to pull them out yet :P