What a week

It’s been a week of ups and downs.

Hubby has been gone all week on business trip and I’m so so glad he will be home tonight. I feel for all the single moms or moms whose husbands are gone all the time. Having all the responsibility of the kids all day and night day after day is a lot.

But we had fun. We were really sick of home after Monday’s snow day, so the rest of the week we stayed really busy. I had to get my car looked at (which took an hour that I endured in a small waiting room with three men and my two girls and I hope I never have to do that again), we had Ella’s ballet class, a trip to Target, a visit to Starbucks and some playtime at the library.

It’s funny how everytime I would start to think I’m a really together mom, Ella would spill her drink, or Eva would run behind the counter at the auto place, or I would lose my parking pass at the library. Oy …

But I survived. The chocolate and wine sure helped.

*Sidenote. I love the library.

Pajama day

Yesterday we stayed home all day.

Everyone has runny noses and coughs and is feeling a little blah.

A little candy helped cheer us up.

And staying in our pajamas all day didn’t hurt either.

We may never sit down again

Eva took her first steps last night! Yay! Of course I spent the entire day with her and Ella then went to my one hour long Zumba class and she did it while I was there, ugh. But she did it again for me when I got home. We haven’t convinced her to do it while we’re videoing her, but I’m thinking if she wants to take a little more time to get into this walking thing, that is fine with me. She is only 10 months old after all.

Now we really need to A. Locate our gates and B. install them again. And of course really baby-proof the entire house. I have a feeling our halfway babyproofing with Ella will not be good enough for this speedy, grabby, put-EVERYTHING-in-her-mouth baby.

So, if you don’t hear from me for awhile it’s because I’m probably either taking things out of Eva’s mouth or pulling her down from a table or some other similar activity. Wish us luck.

Grabby baby

Oh my goodness, we are into the do-not-look-away-for-a-second phase of babyland. She will grab and eat anything she sees. And she’s very fast. So if I appear as if I have not showered for a few days and my house is a mess, please know that I’m not lazy, I just don’t have that kind of time on my hands right now.