Remember my post a couple weeks ago titled ‘The Good Days and the…Not so Good Days’? Well, it’s been another one of those weeks!
Brandon is switching to a new Community Pulte is opening called the Boulders. When he moves to the new community his days off will be switching back to Mondays and Tuesdays like they used to be. Since his days off are switching and he is in the process of moving his old office over to the new office and preparing for a huge Grand Opening this weekend he has to work all week with no days off, which means I am working all week with no days off. He has been going in early and staying late just about every day so I have been basically on my own all week with both kids. Both cranky kids that is. That basically means the kids are sick of me, my patience is running very thin and by 9 O’clock Brandon and I are both mentally and physically exhausted. 3 more days and this will all be over! I know I sound like a big complainer but venting to my dear blog makes me feel a sigh of relief.
Anyway it has been another busy week around here. I think mainly because I am trying to stay continuously busy so I can’t sit and think of how ridiculously tired I am. There have been many evenings & afternoons spent at the park, shopping, play days, dinner, laundry, cleaning, sewing, Dr. Appointments, visiting the Easter Bunny and the list goes on and on. Did I mention both of my kids have been acting terrible this week? Ugh. Okay okay, enough complaining and onto some fun pictures.
Since I knew Brandon was having a very busy week at work I decided to make him a really yummy dinner to come home to on Monday night to start his week off good. I found this recipe on Pinterest and it was AMAZING. Maple Pork Chops with Apples & Carrots with a side of Spinach Mashed Potatoes. Wow. There was pure silence at the dinner table. Yeah, that good! Did I mention the Mashed Potatoes are healthy? You make them with Greek Yogurt instead of butter and add in fresh chopped spinach. My kids LOVED them.
The meal was delicious but required quite a bit of time to make. I’d like to say my kids played quietly while I was busy cooking but that just wasn’t the case. They were fighting, crying and just plain driving me nuts. In my desperate attempts to get dinner made I drug in the slide from outback to try and keep them occupied….
Worked for a bit until they started going through the kitchen cabinets to find stuff to push down the slide….
Well, the good new is that Brandon did in fact come home to a really awesome meal; the bad news is that the house was a wreck! Can’t have everything. Haha.
So what else happened this week?
The kids both got some new flip flops for the summer. Too cute right? I can never find any small enough for Autumn’s poor tiny feet. She picked them out and LOVES them!
I completed Autumn’s Easter skirt. A Pinterest find of course. I made this out of an Easter dish towel from Target. I love it! It took about 30 minutes from start to finish to complete. Even better!
Abigail came over on Wednesdays as usual.
Unfortunately all 3 kids were in pretty crabby moods that day. Once they all woke up from their naps they were all continuously whining and driving me crazy, so I decided we could all use some fresh air.
First was a nice walk around the neighborhood. It was a really good idea in my head, but when I realized that I was pushing about 75+ pounds up a hill it wasn’t such a good idea anymore so we headed home and played out back.
If you can’t make it out…Owen wrote Abi with a heart next to it. So cute!
Love them to pieces!
Yesterday was a buy one. It started with a mall play day with Kaitlyn and Olivia while Owen was at school,
So precious. Olivia pushed Autumn in her stroller the entire time we were walking around the mall. She is so sweet.
After naps we headed to Autumn’s Appointment with the ENT (Ear Nose & Throat) Doctor.
It went about as well as I anticipated. We have been through this whole process 2.5 years ago with Owen so we already knew what to expect. They have to do a whole hearing test before they do her Ear Tube Surgery because they want to make sure they don’t puncture or damage her ear drums during the procedure. Well the hearing test and screening takes awhile and you have to sit very still and very quiet. Still and quiet are two words that Autumn is unfamiliar with so you can imagine how well that went. Plus we had Owen with us since we didn’t have a sitter for him so we were also trying to keep him quiet and entertained. Thanks so much for the iPad. Phew! Here is a little summary of the appointment:
They found lots of fluid build up in both her ears which means she has, yet again, ANOTER ear infection. This puts her at 6 in the past 6 months. Poor kid, right?!?! Needless to say the doctor handed her surgery paperwork to his assistant and asked her to put this on his Urgent Surgery list. The assistant is supposed to call me sometime today to schedule her Surgery for next Thursday or the following Thursday. Until then she has to take antibiotics everyday until the surgery since she is in so much pain & very off balance due to all the fluid in her ears. The poor girl is getting 4 teeth on top of it all so that explains why she has been so so so whiny and clingy this past week. I feel so bad for her and wish I could take it all away. As much as I hate the thought of putting her to sleep and having to go through a little surgery, I am very much anticipating the procedure so she is no longer in pain. It was the best decision we made when we had it done for Owen so I have no apprehensions about the decision to have it done for Autumn too!
So after the very long & draining 2 hour appointment, we headed home, ate a super quick dinner and headed off to the mall. We were meeting one of my Best Friends Melissa and her Family there so we could take all the kids to visit the Easter Bunny.
(Here they are practicing their smiles before heading out.) Haha
Since Autumn screamed when we visit Santa a couple months back I had a pretty good idea of how it was going to go. Since I figured she was going to freak out I let Melissa’s kids go first so Autumn’s screaming didn’t freak little Aubryn out.
Averie, Aubryn & Aiden. Bryn did really good. She was pretty curious and kept turning to check him out but she never shed a tear. What a beautiful family!
And here is how our session went…
She immediately squirmed out of the Bunny’s arms. Not sure if I like Autumn’s face or the way Owen is looking at her more. We repositioned her on the Bunny’s lap and snapped a quick picture. So here is the official 2012 Easter Bunny Picture…
Hahaha. I know this sound a bit mean but I LOVE IT! When I look back 10 years from now this will bring back such fun memories of who Autumn was at 20 months. Owen looks quite handsome if I must say. He is getting to be so grown up.
Once all the traumatizing was over, we all headed upstairs for a treat from Dairy Queen.
Ice Cream always makes EVERYTHING better!
And here we are today. Day 7 of no days off with 3 more to go and pure exhaustion all around. So what did we do this morning? We headed to Hoot’s to meet some friends (Jess, Abby & Isaac) of course. On the way there I knew it probably wasn’t the best idea since the kids were both super grumpy but I thought it would be good to get us all out of the house for a bit.
Owen was so excited when I told him where we were going. We haven’t been to Hoot’s in a really long time. Probably like 10+ months.
So I didn’t take my camera because I figured I was going to be busy helping Autumn play on all the equipment so I wouldn’t have a free arm to take pictures. Well, as usual, Autumn’s determination got the best of her. She had to prove she could do everything all by herself! So of course I had to pull out my phone to snap a few pictures!
Not sure why it surprised me. She is such a stubborn & determined little girl. She had a BLAST going down this Giant Slide!
Sweet little Isaac was a little more timid than Autumn in the beginning but by the end he was running around having a blast.
Well, as suspected, my kids started melting down about 40 minutes after arriving. In my head I knew this was going to happen so I wasn’t too shocked. After fighting with them for about 20 minutes trying to see if we could get past the tantrums, we had to head home. Owen was doing fairly well, but poor Autumn is in so much pain and discomfort that she was one big melt down after melt down. O well, it was a blast while it lasted.
So here I am in a quiet house with the kids napping finding my self exhausted and typing away instead of dealing with the sticky dirty floors that need to be moped and the dirty dishes piled by the sink that really need to be cleaned. What can I say, I’m beat and need to vent. So thanks blog for listening to my very insignificant pity party I am having, you are always there when I need you.
Have a Great Weekend!
