Foggy Memories

In my previous life before kids I used to say "I'm tired." But now, saying I'm tired seems like such an understatement. When I think about how many naps I took in college I could smack myself. Why did I think getting up for 9am class and then hanging out with my friends was so exhausting!? These days I really feel more "foggy" than tired. I know that days, weeks, months, years from now these weeks will be a little hazy. Another reason I'm glad Traci convinced me to start this blog. So here are the events from the weekend I want to remember from my fog...

On Friday we ventured out to the Commons to play and just be out of the house for awhile. It started out as a great trip. Abi played a little and I bought us a cookie from Subway to share.

Then we had to go to the bathroom to change Madi's poopy diaper. Abi of course needs to supervise this and sits up on the counter next to the changing station.  During the 1.2 seconds I have Madi's diaper off she pees everywhere. How such a little person can hold so much pee I will never understand. Her clothes are soaked and shes laying in a puddle of pee. So I'm trying to hold her and get her clothes off in mid-air because now theres no pee-free place to lay her. Madi is screaming bloody murder which reminds Abi how good the acoustics are in the tiny bathroom. So she starts screaming at the top of her lungs for her own amusement. I hadn't packed Madi a change of clothes (see the above mentioned sleep fog) so now I'm "that mom" with a kid out in public wearing only a diaper. I turn around to put a still screaming Madi in the stroller and when I turn back around Abi is playing in the puddle of her sister's pee! I then proceed to wash my hands and arms, Abi's hands and arms and the changing pad as best I can. We left soon after.

Luckily, the rest of the day was much less eventful. We spent the afternoon playing Abi's new favorite game. She puts on her high heels, sunglasses and purse and pushes Pooh Bear in the stroller going to various pretend places such as the zoo, the playground, and my favorite, the reading store. Whatever that is! But now she wants me to go with her and I have to walk right behind her for what seems like hours while she does laps around the house visiting these various places.



"I go to da reading store!"

On Saturday, we went to the St. Mary's Parish Festival with Adam's family. They had some kiddie rides and Abi and Eli had a ball! I can't believe that these two are big enough to ride rides by themselves! I know I sound silly since they aren't even two yet. But it seems like they should still be babies. Watching them have so much fun I could have cried. Thank you, horomones. 

To finish off a fun weekend we got to see our friends' baby be baptised at church today and then celebrate at their house afterwards. Abi just loves "Baby Tai" and cried during mass when she couldn't go up front to see him while he was being blessed. I didn't get a picture of Tai (again...sleep fog) but snapped a couple at the party between chatting, eating and feeding Madelyn.

the girlies

chubby baby section

My brain may be foggy and I may be so tired I could cry. But I am loving (and sometimes hating) the stages of both girls right now. Abi is starting to have such an imagination and says the most hilarious things. And Madelyn is just a snuggle bug. I never ever get tired of holding a snuggly newborn.



two weeks old