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Busy, busy, busy as usual so I’m using my 10 minute pumping break to do a brain dump as well.

The last few days have been nothing short of chaos in my house. Every day this week has seen me later and later to work, not only because my new haircut takes longer to fix in the mornings, but also because my kids and the Universe just don’t want me to get there on time.

This morning I fully intended to get up earlier so that I could get out the door on time. Then Evie woke up wanting to nurse right when I needed to get up. By the time she finished up I was 20 minutes late. Then I showered and got dressed only to discover that my favorite belt that I wear nearly every day was missing. I’m not sure if it sprouted legs and ran away or what, but was definitely missing. After a ten minute search I gave up thinking that I would just go without. Ten minutes later and I was back in my room searching because my pants were falling down. Finally found a substitute and started looking for shoes. Oh yeah, my favorite brown sandals busted while wearing them on Monday. Had to find substitute shoes too.

Once I was finally dressed, it was time to get the kids dressed. Guess what? The shirt I wanted Evie to wear? No where to be found. Finally, after digging through three laundry baskets I found it and got her dressed. Then I turn around and Zach (who was supposed to be getting dressed) is laying on the floor buck naked.

Get Zach dressed, take dogs outside, grab bottles, diaper bag, etc., and finally get in car at 8:34. Um, 8:00 is our goal leave time.

This has been our week. Every little thing seems to take way longer than it should.

That is why I’m kind of pondering how stable my mind was when I agreed to take the two kids BY MYSELF to the lake this weekend. Okay, so I won’t truly be by myself as my Dad, his wife, and my sister’s whole family will be there as well but not having Hubby’s extra two hands there to help is going to be difficult. It is amazing how much I rely on him these days.

I’m already kind of sad about leaving him behind. Not only because I’ll miss his help with the kids but because I’ll miss him. Well, that and I’m insanely jealous that he gets to stay home for three whole days without any kids. Do you know what I could accomplish with three whole days* to myself? A whole hellava lot, that’s what.

But I get three days at the lake to (sorta) relax with my beautiful kiddos and my family. Let’s just hope I’m a little more sane when I return.

*Yeah, right. Like I could actually leave my kids for 3 days? Not likely. I would die of sadness.

Crappy cell phone pictures aside, I kinda like it. It just feels better, ya know?

I have no idea who stole the last week from me, but if you know where it went could you kindly bring it back? Everything has been a bit of a blur. It is almost the weekend again (wishful thinking) and I still haven’t had a chance to write about things that happened the weekend before last so guess what? The bullets are coming.

See? I gave you a cute picture first so you would stick around. Read to the end and you just might get another one.

Here are the highlights from the last week and a half of so:

• Zachary turned three and decided that he no longer needs to go to bed when we tell him to. He actually sat up until 2:30 a.m. one night just because he is so stubborn. I’m sure that trait comes from his dad and not his mom.

• Since his party was the weekend before, we celebrated Zach’s birthday by taking him to his favorite Mexican restaurant. He got a little freaked out when they put the sombrero on him and sang, but it was definitely fun to watch.
• I ate like a pig all week last week and only managed to lose 1/2 of a pound. I’m trying to do better this week.
• I finally posted my photos from Country in the Woods up on Flickr. We had a lot of fun and the kids loved the music. It was actually a much better concert than I expected and I’m so glad we went.
• I broke down and got my hair cut. This post-pregnancy hair loss thing drives me absolutely nuts. I didn’t chop it all off like I did last time, but I lost several inches. I’m not totally convinced I like the cut yet, but it is much better than it was. I imagine there will be some pictures of it after this weekend but I haven’t had a chance to take any yet.
• Hubby managed to find a Wii Fit in stock finally and grabbed it up for me. So far? I love it! I’m hoping that I can keep up with a quick Wii Fit workout each day to help aid the weight loss process.
• We took Zach to see WALL-E over the weekend. It was actually much better than I expected. I wasn’t sure that Zach would really understand it, but he did seem to get the emotional part of it. Regardless, he really enjoyed the movie even though parts of it were a bit scary for him.
• Evie actually put herself to sleep last night in her own bed. She woke up just after I nursed her and decided she didn’t want to go back to sleep so I just put her in her bed to see what she would do. I never heard a peep out of her after that. When I went to check on her a few minutes later, she was sound asleep.

And finally, the biggest news:

• Evie rolled over from her back to her stomach last night. She’s been trying for a while but never could quite make it. I put her in the floor last night while I was helping Zach with his bath and when I came back in the room Hubby told me to watch her because she almost had it. A couple of minutes later she made it all the way over. Then she looked at me like I was crazy when I got all excited. Hey, the first time only happens once!

Six weeks went by in a flash. Today I dropped Evie off at her new day care and I think I left my heart there with her when I walked out the door. I am happy with the choice I made for a day care provider, but it is so very hard to leave my tiny baby with someone else.

After dropping Evie off I took Zach to school only to find out that it was picture day. Somehow I managed to miss the announcement about pictures. Zach was dressed in sweatpants and a Cars t-shirt. He had toothpaste on his mouth and I didn’t even bother to comb his hair. It is so hard to get him up and dressed in the morning that I didn’t bother even trying to make him look nice. I was just happy he had clothes on.

From there it was time to go to work. Going to work wasn’t really the bad part of the day. I don’t really mind my job. It is just that I would much rather be at home with my kids. It also helped that I knew I was only working for a few hours because Evie had a doctor’s appointment. It took a few minutes to get myself situated in my office and before I knew it, it was time to pump some milk for Evie and head out.

I would have been very excited to be picking Evie up early, except that I knew where we were headed and was a little nervous. At her one-month check up, the doctor detected a slight heart murmur and suggested that we take her to a pediatric cardiologist for further testing so that’s where we had to go today. As it turned out, there wasn’t much to worry about. She slept through most of the testing and the cardiologist didn’t see any significant problems.

So now we’re home and snuggling on the couch.  I’m trying my hardest not to fall asleep.  Considering I only got about four hours of sleep last night, staying awake is quite a feat.  I was up late trying to get everything packed and ready for Evie to go to day care and me to go to work today.  On top of that, I was a bit on edge after I realized there were police helicopters searching our neighborhood with spotlights.  I was even more on edge after I spotted the cop right outside my window with a dog and flashlight.  I’m still not sure what that was all about and may never know I suppose.

I’m hoping tonight will be relaxing so I can get to bed at a decent time.  6:00 comes awfully early and I have to work an entire day tomorrow.