Week in the Life: Friday

Friday, you get my glorious middle finger. I had high hopes for you but you decided it’d be much more fun to deprive me of a sweaty workout. And make me forget the most important thing I went to Babies R Us for. If that weren’t enough, you added to list-of-crappy-stuff-that-happened-today the thrill of rushing out of the library while simultaneously hoisting a screaming preschooler on my hip and pushing a stroller. You also made sure Daddy Roo had to work until after 6 so I would endure Friday that much longer. So much longer that I said “screw healthy” and we hit the Zaxby’s drive-thru.

Whew, that felt GOOD to get off my shoulder.

After looking through my pictures for today though, I realized there were some good moments tucked into the folds of this insane day. And the evening was mostly glorious. Little Roo let out his biggest giggles yet and we all took turns trying to be the one to make him do it again and again. Then as I put Big Roo to bed, I “nibbled his ears” like grandma does as he burst into a fit of giggles.

I guess that’s what parenthood is all about. Ups and downs… nearly crying from frustration to giggle fits that light your soul.

Here’s the best parts of Friday:

A picture to mark the fact that I’ve had a camera in my hand all week.

What do you do when one child needs a bath but the other is awake? Why lay them on the bathroom floor, of course! (we usually use the bouncer but I was too lazy to drag it upstairs)

Enjoying our Chobani yogurts for mid-morning snack. Big Roo then traded his blueberry for my strawberry saying “yummmm, that’s pink!”

I introduced Big Roo to the song about his favorite food. Peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly peanut butter jelly peanut butter jelly and a baseball bat! He proceeded to sing it the rest of my day. (Come ON, I know you’ve heard that before)

Guess what kind of sandwich I’m making for the big guy? Sometimes strapping a baby to your chest is the only way to get things done.

Quiet time was the ultimate #fail. It was more like come-out-of-the-room-fifty-times-then-destroy-the-room-then-still-not-sleep-and-interrupt-moms-workout.

Mom’s workout… trying to practice since I’ll be teaching kickboxing again soon. But then Big Roo peeked around the wall upstairs and asked what I was doing. I said exercising. He said “exercising is good for you!” Why yes it is… if you ever have time for it.

Big Roo decided to give it a try and I was just laughing and snapping pictures. I conceded that maybe I should just workout with him there and make it fun… and then the baby woke up crying. (insert sound of deflating balloon)

A little outdoor time at the Cars car wash on our deck before I decided it was too freakin hot for Little Roo. That’s when I got the library idea which I thought was a super duper idea.

Most of the chosen books were Clifford and Thomas the Train. As we were leaving, he started running around and standing on the couches. I warned him that if he didn’t come to me, I’d put a book back (we had JUST checked them out). He started laughing and climbed on a table. I gave him one more warning and he came near me with a grin and stance that said he was about to run. I grabbed his arm as he tried to take off. And so I picked him up, dropped a book in the return slot and carried him out the door. He cried the whole way home. Sheesh, three year olds.

We can usually hear the garage door when Daddy comes home. I love their anticipation.

Haha- and here we are at the Zaxby’s drive-thru.

The Kid Interview:

I thought it’d be a great idea to “interview” Big Roo… what his favorite color is, what toys does he like, etc. It’s a fun way to document all his favorites at the time while getting a sense for his personality… and apparently his booger picking.

My thoughts about the process:

• I took hundreds of pictures in the beginning of the week. Now I’m taking less (50-100 before weeding bad ones out) but still getting just as meaningful shots. Quality over quantity.
• I really love the interview. I think it’d be a good thing to do more often than the Week in the Life project just because it’s so easy and quick to do.

Hells to the ya for the weekend… no more tripod and self-remote!

Tagged as: day from hell, Friday, giggles, week in the life