Oh Monday, back to
the grind. Eliza is definitely not feeling well, and we had a pretty long night
as a result. Followed by a very chaotic morning…I slept right through my alarm,
for 30 minutes, so it was NOT a good start to the morning. Then, of course, as
we’re getting ready to walk out of the door, Eliza goes to the bathroom…we didn’t
want to chance it, so I took her out of her car seat and sure enough, it was
already too late…blow out. Ugh, it was just NOT good, not good at all. We all
finally got to where we were going and everybody’s day calmed down. Christian ended
up picking Eliza up from his parents’ house tonight, and going home to start
dinner. I picked the girls up from daycare…only to receive another bad report
for Olivia. Livid, I was LIVID. She tells me “Mom, I tried hard not to get in trouble”.
Really, you tried hard? It’s NOT hard to not get in trouble. Good Lord. Off to
soccer we went, and she got to sit right by my side the entire practice.
Meanwhile Amelia was barely participating in practice, and then spent the
entire night not listening to anything we had to say. Monday, for sure. The
girls were off to bed shortly after dinner. Christian cut the grass, I folded
laundry, and I’ve never been so exhausted in my life.
Tuesday morning was
pretty much a repeat…Eliza had another horrible night of sleep, I overslept
again. This chaos is just catching up to me, that’s for sure. The rest of the
day went much better though. Olivia and Amelia are both officially
transitioning to their new rooms this week, Amelia to Pre-K; Olivia to
schoolage, where they’ll be full time starting next week. So crazy!!! And, more
good news, daycare FINALLY found the croc…I posted a while back that we
realized that Amelia had two left purple crocs, and to my bewilderment, they
could not find the corresponding right crocs for anything. I could not
understand how after several weeks, the other family had not realized this
issue was happening. Well, all is right in the world again, and the shoes have
been re-matched up with their partners. HALLELUJAH! After work, the girls and I
were off to soccer, then home for dinner, baths and bed. The usual. Surprisingly,
Eliza has been pretty happy and content during the day, even with the lack of
sleep and the cold going on, so that has been a relief.
Today was National Dog Day - celebrating little Chuy!
It's official, transition time!
Wednesday was my
work from home day. Oh work from home day, how I love thee so. Christian was
off to work, the girls were off to daycare, and I settled in for a day of work.
It’s so quiet and peaceful and refreshing. After I finished my work day, I did
some quick cleaning up before picking the girls up and heading to Amelia’s
soccer. Tonight they had a scrimmage ahead of their first game next week…and
she would NOT participate, AT ALL. Oh My God, I’ve never been so frustrated in
my life. I kept my cool…I wasn’t yelling or getting upset, I just kept pleading
with her to PLEASE just go play. I finally just stopped talking to her about
it, and her coaches tried everything, to no avail. When the game first started,
she did take off after the ball, but I think she got really overwhelmed when
she realized that EVERYBODY was going after the ball. Since our team is so
small, they haven’t really been able to scrimmage or do anything like that, so
I think she was just really shocked by all of the action. One of the other kids
refused to do anything either, so we were down to 4 kids that would actually
participate. Man, I sure hope this won’t be how it is from now on! I don’t
think I can take it…just watching her walk around, refusing to do anything.
Needless to say, I couldn’t wait to get home and be done with it.
LOL, got their soccer jersey's this week - I think Amelia's is a little big...
I'm waiting for the day Rico ends up pushing the screen out of the window and falling out
Thursday was back
to a pretty typical day. Work for us, daycare for the girls. Christian was
actually selected to participate in a survey panel for Fieldworks…they do
random panels and study groups, but they’re very select on who they are looking
for to participate. Christian was finally selected, and scored $75 for participating,
yay for fair spending money!! So, while he did that this evening, I picked the
girls up and we headed to Olivia’s first scrimmage (and our LAST time having
soccer 4 days a week, THANK GOD!!!). She of course did much better and
participated just fine…she was a little rowdy and aggressive though, so
hopefully it was just first game excitement and she calms down. The weather
took a drastic turn today though, so it was COOOOOLD, and rainy, which was no
fun. We grabbed some dinner on our way home and settled in for the night. I
went to bed shortly after Eliza fell asleep…Christian’s study ran late, so he
wasn’t home yet. He’s going to be tired tomorrow!
My Throwback this week was to our first visit to Como Zoo with Olivia, next to our most recent visit. So crazy!
I love waking up with this in my face!
Olivia's shirt fits a little better...a little
Friday FINALLY came,
and not a moment too soon. Work was pretty standard, the girls finished off
their last week in Preschool/Pre-K (even though they were just in the summer curriculum,
so nothing too crazy), and Eliza had another pretty rough day with my mom. I’m
not sure why she’s still giving her such a hard time…but hopefully that doesn’t
last too much longer. I picked the girls up after work, and arrived home to
relieve her from baby duty. Shortly after, our friend Sara dropped Olivia’s
BFF, Bella, off so I could watch her for a few hours. Unfortunately for her,
the girls had talked my mom into taking them overnight, so they weren’t around
for her to play with. But, I think she kind of liked having the run of the
house and being able to play with whatever she wanted. Her dad ended up getting
off work quite a bit earlier than planned, so I wasn’t on duty for too long.
The rest of the night was pretty quiet…we all had to rest up for tomorrow,
STATE FAIR DAY!
Crazy, first day at KinderCare; Last day of Preschool/Pre-K
My beautiful necklace and my sweet baby's chunky hand, LOVE!
Eliza is making friends
Saturday was the
big day, a day we wait anxiously for all year long….State Fair Day. Man do I
love the fair. After waking up, having a light breakfast and getting ready, we
packed up and hit the road. Traffic around the fair was horrid, as usual, and
once we got in the gates, we realized that things were CRAZY, even more so than
usual. We later found out that an all-time attendance record was SHATTERED
today, and it was absolutely no surprise. I’m not sure about fairs in other
states, but our State Fair is HUGE…I mean, over the 12 days it’s open, they get
close to 2 million visitors a year. This is not your run of the mill fair. There
were areas that we literally could not pass through it was so crazy. The
weather was warm, but not horrible. We still ended up staying there for almost
8 hours, so we hung in there. We had our favorite foods, the girls went on a
few rides, they did their first “Spin Art” pieces, we hung out in the barns for
a while, we watched a little bit of the parade, and we stood in A LOT of lines.
A LOT. Thankfully little Eliza was pretty content being along for the ride
(man, we are so lucky!). We were all beyond exhausted when we got home though,
and one by one passed out for the night. Feet aching, bellies full and very
heavy eyes by the time we arrived home, that’s for sure.
Sunday started off
rough…I had the WORST, pounding headache. I’m sure very related to the fair
chaos and greasy food. I fed Eliza, put her in the living room in her swing, popped
some medicine, and made my way back to bed with an icepack for a while. Oh man,
rough start indeed. I finally peeled myself out of bed, had some breakfast, and
started on my weekly chores…laundry, dishes and cleaning, oh my! Christian cut
the grass and did some trimming, then had to make a run out to Mall of America…they
were running a special this summer that if you spent $250 throughout the mall,
you could get 2 free unlimited ride wristbands….so, when our friends were here
a few weeks ago, they gave us all of their receipts, and we combined them with
the clothes shopping we did for the girls, and JUST made the $250 mark. Today
was the last day to redeem them, so off he went. It was another busy, packed
weekend. I think we’ve decided we just need to suck it up and take a day off of
work next year so we can go to the fair during the week. It will still be
crazy, but not AS crazy.
They Had the Prime Location!
Until Next Week! XOXO
