So are ya’ll tired of my week in detail yet? Would talking about pee again make things better or worse?
(If it’s your first time here this week, you may wanna read this first.)
Pee has been a constant theme so far this week, right? Pee pee tantrums galore! Well, pee became the star of the show again today… at the wee hour of 4:00 in the morning (wee- get it? HA). After nearly two weeks of diaper-less bedtimes and NO accidents, we had our first one last night. Thirty minutes later, we’ve got a clean bed, new sheets, new PJs and mama goes back to sleep. Blarghh.
Enough of the potty talk, let’s move onto Wednesdays. It’s the only day where the kids both go to the babysitter’s house all day and I work, work, work. Our hump days go a little something like this:
When Big Roo comes downstairs, the baby is usually awake. Big Roo likes to hop on the bed with him and give him hugs. I like how their hair is touching in this pic.
Since I take both kids on Wednesday, I have to load my car with my purse (by PURSE I mean diaper bag), Big Roo’s backpack with his lunch and cars in it and Little Roo’s bag full of extra clothes, bibs and bottles.
At lunch, I ran to the store to fill in some groceries that we didn’t buy this past weekend. Fudge Rounds were NOT on my list but since I went before I ate lunch, they mysteriously made it in my cart (insert innocent whistling here).
(I’m skipping more pictures of me working because that’s SO boring. So real, but so so boring.)
I stopped working at 5:10 today and browned the ground beef for enchiladas. Then I headed to pick the kids up.
On the way home to finish dinner (and yes I was stopped when I took this thankyouverymuch). Daddy Roo had to work a little late tonight so it was all me (see my minute-by-minute dinner-making extravaganza below).
I held Little Roo off and on while I was prepping dinner. I had to get a picture of this because he kept trying to eat the enchilada sauce. Notice his open mouth going after the can. Haha.
As we sat down for dinner, Big Roo carefully laid out all his cars on the table. He was more of a train guy last week but this week is ALL car.
After dinner, we played for a little while racing cars. Big Roo informed me that I must race Leak Less and Chick Hicks with TWO hands, not one.
This picture is from yesterday, but it pretty much sums up most of our weeknights. We watch a movie we rented on Netflix and work on our computers. Daddy Roo usually surfs or works (he can usually leave work at 5:30 but sometimes has to work at home). I blog, work on some marketing stuff for friends or scrapbook. Tonight I’m working on this post and doing stuff for the local MS Society’s marketing committee.
Finally, can I go all Martha Stewart on you? Well, Daddy Roo did 90% of the work. We made this tonight:
It’s a blackberry crostata and it looks delish. We didn’t make it for the hell of it or to impress you guys. We just got the blackberries on sales this weekend and they would have gone bad by the weekend. Daddy Roo loves to make crostatas for whatever reason and so there ya go.
A re-cap of preparing dinner:
I got a bug in my you-know-what to write down IN DETAIL what preparing dinner was like. It was intense and fun at the same time. Here ya go, in all it’s glory:
6:28- starting dinner (ground beef already cooked)
6:29- realize we don’t have enough corn tortillas so I sub the rest with flour
6:36- simultaneously looking for Spanish seasoning for rice while making Little Roo smile with peek-a-boo
6:38- text from Daddy Roo “omw” (on my way for those who don’t speak acronym)
6:44- rice is started, enchiladas half-way rolled, picking fussy baby up
6:47- Big Roo comes in the kitchen, crawling on the floor zooming cars and asks “What you makin?”
6:50- got enchiladas in the over (baby’s in the bouncer)
6:57- feed baby (second time since I got home)
7:00- Daddy home (an hour later than usual but at least I got warning). He takes over dinner patrol.
7:13- Daddy Roo fixes dinner plates while I try to get Big Roo to potty. Big Roo smacks baby’s foot and is off to a time out (“the blue chair”)
7:19- potty!
7:22- sitting down to eat
7:24- forgot to get Big Roo milk so get it and sit back down
— EAT EAT EAT—
7:33- pick up baby and eat one-handed.
7:34- Big Roo says “I gotta poo poo!” and then runs off to the bathroom
And there you have it.
Please PLEASE tell me your dinner time goes something like this? It’s been this crazy since Little Roo made his debut and I wonder when it gets less hectic!
My notes about the process:
- I spent more time documenting the day today than taking pictures. I think some days will be like that.
- It helps to have a hubby who is willing to take pictures of you. To get him used to the idea, I gave him fair warning at the beginning of the week.
- I’m spending LOTS of time preparing these posts in the evening, which is taking away from what I typically do at night. To compensate, I plan to write a little about what I usually do in the evenings besides blog.
Over halfway there!
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Twitter: pretty_swell
July 14, 2010 at 11:42 pm
I’m addicted to these posts!! And, I realize for the third night in a row I am up entirely TOO late.
LOVE your dinner-making play-by-play. Hilarious! I’m just impressed that you guys all eat together. We can’t seem to pull that off yet, with just one kid.
We didn’t eat together for a while with Big Roo. But we have since about 15-18 months or so. He eats what we eat though so he has to wait for the food to be done!
Twitter: goexplorenature
July 15, 2010 at 12:19 am
Yes, this does sound somewhat like our dinner routines, although now that the little explorer is 2 (read: terrible two), things are a bit less hectic. The big explorer does not have pee/poo issues, which is helpful. I often pre-cook meals or parts of meals to avoid some of the chaos. But I always feel so much better once dinner is over.
It can be the worst part of the day, can’t it? We pre-cook sometimes, or freeze a portion of a larger meal and save it for a week or two later. We honestly need to do more of that since we’ve gotten away from it lately.
Twitter: Meandertail
July 15, 2010 at 6:52 am
The only way I can get dinner done and everyone fed by 6:30-6:45 (when we start getting the 3 year old ready for bed) is to start it before everyone gets home – I work at home, daddy does daycare duty. I leave my “office” at 5 and go straight to the kitchen. It’s much harder with 2. It doesnt help that the baby barely sleeps at daycare and thus is ready for bec as soon as she gets home – aka a wreck. I usually end up nursing her WHILE frantically shoving food down my gullet and she falls asleep on my lap.
What I really haven’t figured out is when to bathe the poor baby. At what time in that 45 minutes that she is home and we’re all trying to eat before she completely loses her mind from exhaustion am I supposed to whip out the baby bathtub?? She only gets a bath on the weekend until I can figure that out.
Gee- I hear ya! Little Roo just started cereal but we’ve been erratic at it because I just can’t seem to find the time. I found bathing him in the morning before Big Roo is up is the best time. I can’t wait until they can bathe together- more multi-tasking!
Twitter: AndreaUpdyke
July 15, 2010 at 8:33 am
I usually start dinner around 4 or 4:30 to make sure we are all eating when Daddy gets home. Some days it takes forever! Other days I employ the crock pot
Love these posts!
aaah- we keep forgetting about our Crockpot. We end up using it on weekends sometimes aka when we don’t work. Thanks for the reminder!
What a clever idea to document your days like this. Certainly something that you’ll enjoy/appreciate in the future a ton. I wish my husband would work on his laptop while I worked on mine while he was home. Instead he likes me to actually get OFF the computer.
Glad you like it! Yep, we’re computer geeks together. In fact at this moment we’re watching a movie, I’m on the computer and he’s on the iPhone. Ah technology. Sometimes he SHOULD force me off though- I probably need it!
Twitter: myorgchaos
July 15, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Finally…I’ve had a moment to catch up!! This is way to fun!! Dinner is always that hectic for us, infact I’ve come to believe dinner is best cold ~ well not really, but that is what I tell my self to make myself feel better!
So funny you say that because I actually popped mine in the microwave for a second that day! Yes, let’s keep telling ourselves that!
I really like the idea of doing this! The more I read from your week and see all the pictures I really want to do this too! Maybe, I can try just one day and see how that goes. BTW I love the first picture, it is too cute!
I am totally inspired by this! Although mine would be so boring since I work 8 to 5:30 every day, but I guess I could snap a few shots here and there.
This is GREAT! Thanks for sharing.
Glad you’re liking it! It’s been lots of work but worth it! Since you work you could always document a typical morning one day, then a typical evening another day. The hubs and Big Roo used to wave at me when I left for work and I’m kicking myself for not getting pictures of it!
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