4:50am: I don't even know if this is the correct time, all I remember is that I saw 4:something on the clock! Makenzie is up crying and this is very early for her. However, I feel like it is late enough that I shouldn't just let her cry it out in her crib, so I go get her to move to the swing. We frequently do this to buy ourselves a little more sleep/relaxation in the mornings. Well, she was NOT happy and wailed in the swing until a little after 5:30.
5:35am: Finally golden silence and back to sleep for everyone!
6:00am: Dustin's dang alarm is going off! He gets up to go shower, I roll over to get some more sleep.
6:30am: Makenzie is awake, so I get up and feed her a 6 oz bottle on the couch. I change her diaper and get her dressed.
7:00am: I get ready in the bathroom while Makenzie rests comfortably in her lounger and was giving me a bunch of coos and smiles.
7:20am: I hear Lachlan rustling about, so we go up to change his diaper and get him dressed. We come downstairs and he gets a sticker for getting dressed without a hassle. He gets some juice while I make up the bottles for the day.
7:45am: Out the door to daycare. Lachlan insists on getting into his carseat by himself. The funny thing was as soon as I quit taping him, he fell over and conked his head into makenzie's carseat and was quite the meltdown...all because he wanted a piece of paper from daycare!
7:55am: Get to daycare and Lachlan wants to help carry in the bag, but decides to get out a bottle to shake it...but he drops it and the lid goes flying off and the bottle rolls under the car with milk pouring out of it. I was able to quickly reach the bottle and save more milk coming out...however, can't find the lid anywhere. Very frustrated with Lachlan, but trying to keep a smile on my face because know he was just doing his best to "help." Finally find the lid behind a tire. Take Makenzie to her room, take Lachlan to cafeteria and make him a plate for breakfast.
8:15am: Arrive back home and head into the office to work. On calls from about 9:30-11:30.
11:30am: Run to Target to make a couple returns and do some grocery shopping.
12:30pm: Back to work. Also, have to call our pest control guy cause found this "friend."
5:05pm: Sign off of work and quickly chop up some veggies for dinner. Head to daycare to pick up the kiddos...only to find Lachlan super hyper chasing around his friend Hadley and discover he took no nap today which is very rare. Load kids into car.
5:40pm: Back home from daycare. Open Lachlan's car door and he doesn't move...uh oh, must be asleep behind those shades! Go inside with Makenzie to prep some things for dinner and leave him sawin' logs.
5:50pm: Dustin is home from work, so he plays with Makenzie while I grill and get everything complete for dinner. A little after 6 he wakes up Lachlan.
6:15pm: Eat our delicious, healthy dinner of fajitas! This is day #2 of eating healthier meals and watching our portions. We each are at some of our heaviest weight ever, so want to try to get back into shape. Lachlan wants more refried beans...probably 3-4 servings of them!
6:45pm: Head upstairs with the kids to play for a bit.
7:00pm: Put Makenzie in bathtub. She's happy and splish-splashing around!
7:15pm: I go give Makenzie her bottle in her rocking chair. Dustin puts
7:40pm: I lay Makenzie down to sleep in her crib. She is out like a light!
I go in the bathroom to find Dustin hasn't even started to wash Lachlan yet! I crab to him about what has he been doing this whole time and the point was to be doing Lachlan's bath and books while I put Makenzie down so we could go exercise now! He claimed he didn't realize how much time had passed and thought it was 7:20. Ummm...okay.
7:50pm: Force Lachlan out of the tub to dry off and he was not a happy camper about that!
7:55pm: I read Lachlan 2 books since it is very late considering he had virtually no nap. We read a book about Grover's animals and Giraffe's Can't Dance. He insists on being quizzed in each book on where the animals are.
8:05pm: He turns off the light and we both sing him You are My Sunshine and tuck him in. He happily tells us "Bye bye mommy daddy" about 5 times as we leave the room. Just melts my heart and I feel like I have to tear myself away from his room :(
8:10pm: Dustin claims it is late and he is too tired to exercise. I lay guilt trip on him saying he was the one saying that we have to do this every night and can't skimp! He gives in and we go to the media room for T25 Speed video. We barely make it through the video, but do most of it! Day 2 of T25 program is a success!
8:45pm: We each take a shower after cooling off a bit.
9:05pm: We go to the media room to watch a Walking Dead episode. I get all my calories and exercise logged in Myfitnesspal (great app by the way!).
10:00pm: We go to bed, but he lays in bed playing Clash of Clans for quite a while and I play Candy Crush, check emails, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest. I'm ready to call it a night, but he insists that I need to see something online called Photoshop Troll which I had never heard of. Well, we end up looking at this and laughing so unbelievably hard that we are crying. It is a site where people send in pictures and request something in it to be photoshopped and the site says they will do it for free. Well, it is just a joke and the guy running the site does really silly things to the photo...and the people requesting the change get all bent out of shape, etc.
11:00pm: All asleep...zzzzzzzzzzzz.
<<And just because the next night was a doozie, I'll keep going...>>
1:50am: Lachlan is up crying. I go up to his room (praying I don't step on any crunchy roach bug on the way up in the dark) and rub his back and sing to calm him down. I lay on the floor for a while and sneak off once he seems asleep.
????am: No clue what time this is but he is up crying AGAIN! Dustin gets him and brings him to our bed, which is rare this ever happens. He talks a little and tosses and turns/flips all over but finally goes to sleep.
5:10am: Makenzie is up and I move her to the swing and she cries her head off again. Lachlan wakes up and is concerned the baby is crying...great, now both kids are up at the crack of dawn! But they both end up going back to sleep and our day basically starts the same all over again!
These kids are exhausting, but wouldn't trade it for anything!
