Winter Day in the Life 2013

Thursday 1/17/13

Jack - 5 years old
Finn - 3 years old
Leo - 6 months old

You will have to bear with me, somehow my photos from 6 AM - 10 AM have somehow vanished. I'm thinking a certain 3 year old around here deleted them? I could be wrong though....


2:30 AM - I hear crying. Who is it this time I think to myself. Please don't be Finn, please don't be Finn. Oh good - it's just Leo. Peel myself out of our brand new king sized bed with the most amazing sheets in the world and go into Leo's room and pop his nuk back in his mouth. Seems to do the trick. Back to bed.

5:45 AM - I hear coughing and the crack of the door opening. Then I see Jack enter our room. Mom, Finn is coughing. Ok thanks Jack, go back to bed. Mom, Finn wants you. So I go in there, swoop him up and bring him into our bed. Two seconds later I hear Jack "will somebody please scratch my back?" Tom - you're up, go scratch Jack's back. Meanwhile, Finn is being all cute and cuddly in bed, not his typical constant whining. Tom ends up bringing Jack into our bed too. Praise the Lord for King sized beds. Seriously. Ok boys, please be quiet and do not wake Leo up.

6:00 AM - I turn the tv on in our room in hopes that the boys will be quiet.

6:05 AM - Leo is coughing and making noise. Finn instantly perks up. Can I go see Leo? Leo is up. Please. Please? Sure Finn, go in there. But do NOT sit on your brother. Jack gets up too - but he goes into his room and gets himself dressed.

6:25 AM - Ok Tom, please will you get up with Leo and feed him a bottle? Hooray! I can lounge a tad longer. Tom feeds Leo, gets breakfast started for the boys. Is he amazing or what? Jack insists on making our coffee in the morning. We have a Keurig, and I'm totally serious. ha! It's awesome.

Around 7:30 - Leo needs to eat some baby food. Tom informs me that he can take the older boys to preschool today! Wahhhoooo! This makes me so happy. I get Finn dressed while Tom takes a shower. Leo lounges in his high chair and then moves to the jumper.

8:30 - Tom, Jack and Finn are out the door, off to preschool. Leo goes down for a nap. I hop in the shower. Then I get ready. Clean the kitchen. Throw some laundry in, and fold the laundry that I didn't get around to folding yesterday.

9:50 AM - I hear Leo getting up from his nap. Perfect timing. I can feed him and then head out to Target before I need to pick the older two up from school.

The Mothership

11:00 AM - I am done with my shopping a little early. I sit in the warm car and text some of my girlfriends who are also stay at home moms. Then I remember I have some phone calls to make, I just drive around a little bit while on the phone.

11:30 AM - I arrive at school to pick up the boys.

12:00 PM - We are back home and have lunch. Peanut butter sandwich, yogurt and crackers for Jack. Peanut butter and jelly, yogurt, and crackers for Finn. Leftover lemon chicken with a side salad for me. Oh and mixed veggies for Leo with some puffs on the side! We just tried puffs for the first time today. HUGE HIT!

12:30 PM - I come downstairs after cleaning up the kitchen to find this:

12:45 PM - I quick put together a "new home" basket for my brother in law and sister in law's new house. I got most of this stuff from my Target run earlier. We can't help them move this weekend, so I thought of the next best thing:

Mom, you might want to think about baby proofing these toys now that I'm getting around

1:00 PM - It is REST TIME! Finn has decided to not nap since we took his nuk away the day after his third birthday. I was sick of fighting him every single day and having our 7 PM bedtime turn into 8:30. So I've implemented rest/quiet time. This involves both older boys sitting on the couch being quiet. Either reading books, playing their leap pads, or watching a movie. If they get off the couch, they have to go up to their beds.

1:30 PM - I change Leo's diaper and put him in his crib. He doesn't seem all that tired. I let him finish his bottle from earlier. Then remember he really hasn't slept since 10 AM, so it's fine to let him whimper a while. Sure enough after 10 minutes, he is sleeping. ahhhhh. Silence really is golden. Go into the kitchen and make a drink. I wish this drink included alcohol, but it doesn't. ha.

How I'm kicking my pop addiction. It's SO yummy. 

1:45 PM - I come downstairs to start typing up this post and notice this:

Love him.

2:15 PM - Leo is not sleeping. I go upstairs and am quickly disturbed by the person I see in the mirror. I still am not used to being a brunette!!

 I quickly admire the new hallway frames that I made/added to the wall. Our door bell really adds character, don't you think?

Then I pop in and grab mr. I won't nap right now

2:30 PM - I feed Leo a bottle and text with Tom. I realize since this upcoming weekend is Pond Hockey weekend, I will basically be a single parent all weekend long. I realize I haven't left the house at night alone for over a week. I need to escape. Tom agrees and he says I am free to leave when he gets home around 5 PM. HOORAY! This means I don't have to do dinner or bedtime tonight! Whatever will I do....

3:00 PM - Leo finally goes down for his much needed afternoon nap. The boys are done with quiet time, Finn wakes up and now it's time for some art per their suggestion not mine. I'm not a huge art person. First we turn on some tunes. Usually I'm all for Justin Bieber or something to get me pumped up, ha! But I attempted the disney pandora station today and it didn't let me down.

Someone was messing with my water bottle

3:15 PM - I am bored, so I start looking around on Pinterest and texting my friends.

3:45 PM - Time to wash the bottles. One major downfall to bottle feeding

4:45 PM - I print off a prayer word art my girlfriend made. Quick framed it and hung it up. Then Leo was up!

Don't look so thrilled, Finn.

Gotta love the MN chapped cheeks.

5:15 PM - Tom is home. I am outta here! Kisses and hugs all around. Where am I headed you ask? Well to the casino! ha. Why not on a Thursday night, right? HA! My mom and my brother were already pretty close to it and when I called my mom to see if she wanted to grab dinner or something she suggested since they would be so close to the casino I should just make the drive and meet her and my brother. I decided, what the hay. So I made the journey down there. And it paid off.  I actually ended up winning about $116 on the machines but only walked away with $10 at the end of the night. I'm SUCH a tight wad that winning anything is success. I only played with $40, so don't judge me too much. haha. My big win below actually ended up being 5500, but I didn't want to risk not catching the cool picture. haha. I must have looked like SUCH a loser taking a picture of my slot machine that was winning $50 when all these other people around me are cashing in their social security checks betting like $50 a spin.

I left the casino around 8 PM and got home a little before 9. Tom taped the Lance Armstrong interview, so we watched that before bed. I'm not even going to go into my thoughts about this interview.

10:15 PM - Time for bed. Brush my teeth, wash my face. Goodnight. Let's hope for a full night's sleep! Ha, yeah right.