Back To The Kids

Here are the highlights of my week, and as you can see by "highlights" I mean eventful happenings, some are not so high.

Monday: I wake up at 5:15. Declan is in my bed. Rich is gone. Wyatt wants to nurse. While nursing Wyatt in bed, Declan, mad that he's not included, starts pushing on my breast. "Hont, hont, beep beep beep, hont!" I am still half asleep. Later, after coffee and breakfast, I hurry into my room to get dressed. Wyatt starts screaming. Declan runs in: "Mommy, I bammed Wyatt and now he's crying" (pronounced cwyin) I find Wyatt with purple bruises already forming above his eyebrow and a huge black eye. WTF happened in the 10 seconds I was in my room? I will never know. Poor Wywy.

Tuesday: I don't really remember Tuesday. I'm sure things happened.

Wednesday: Wywy is 8 months old today! Wyatt is fussy all day and wants me to hold him. This is a difficult task because then Declan also wants me to hold him so, in short, both of my boys are attached to me all day long. This makes preparing meals and pretty much everything else extremely difficult. Every time I put down one of the boys, he cries.

Thursday: Wyatt's bruises are fading. Rich takes the early flight home (Win!) and then his plane gets a flat tire and he's three hours delayed (fail).

Friday: Declan comes into my bed at 4:00 a.m.. I spend the rest of the night contorted and wake up with a half stiff neck. At breakfast, I need coffee. This will take some maneuvering. I put in the waffles and start cutting up fruit. Then I start to clean out the coffee filter. Wyatt cries. Declan wants milk. Wyatt gets cheerios, Dec gets milk. I go back to making coffee. This pattern repeats 32 times. An hour later, the boys have eaten and I finally get to my bagel and coffee. Then Dec calls from upstairs. I look up and see him standing naked. He tells me he has poop and pee on himself. GREAT. Rich is gone all day doing community service in KC. I hate community service for the day. I understand this displays extreme selfishness. I'm too selfish to care.