Actually, it’s just two hours.
I’ve wanted to document something like this before, and lately a couple of my friends have done a day in the life and they inspired me to try it for real.
Like I said, all I got was two hours worth. Here goes:
3:15 – Wake Brookston and Everett up from their nap. (Roz is napping, Nick is at work)
3:16 – Change Everett’s diaper while he attempts to unload the diapers from their container. I prevent him from doing this by giving him some hand sanitizer from the pump. He loves it – spreads it on his hands, and then rubs it on his cheeks. DOn’t worry folks, his face nice and sanitary.
3:20 – Change Brookston’s diaper while he makes faces in the mirror.
3:25 – Reheat some mac’ and cheese for lunch. Most of it ends up in their mouths. They go for seconds and thirds.
3:38 – Chase them both down with a washcloth.
3:40 – Try to convince boys to throw squishy blocks into a box. It doesn’t work – they want nothing to do with me.
3:45 – Give up and decide to sweep the kitchen floor instead. Now I’m popular.
3:36 – Everett tries to commandeer the broom. I attempt to continue to sweep. He thinks this is hilarious.
3:48 – Leave the broom to stop B from unloading all the books off the bookshelf. End up reading the beginning of Stop Train, Stop with him until he decides to read another book on the couch.
3:50 – E is sweeping the kitchen floor himself now. Thanks, bud.
3:54 – Break up a fight over the broom.
3:57 – Pretend to cook with the boys. I try to cook up a squishy block stew. Now the boys want to throw the squishy blocks.
4:00 – Attempt to take a picture to add to this account. I find it impossible to get both in the shot because they both want to look in the viewer.
4: 05 – Try to get some dishes done while they’re happy.
4:06 – Fight breaks out – the boys have found one of their forbidden cars. I take it away and the world ends. The screams are so loud it wakes up Roz from her nap.
4:12 – I can’t get Rosalyn back to sleep. The boys are still crying and fighting over something or another.
4:21 – I break down and yell at the boys to stop fighting and throwing noodles across the room. This seems to work, they smile (? huh wha?) and then settle down a bit for the next few minutes.
4:22 – Roz stays sitting up on her own for a moment for the first time!
4:23 – Whilst sitting happily, Roz blows out of her diaper like crazy. It’s on the blanket, me, her. I run to the bathroom with her.
4:26 – I leave Roz in the bathroom to break up another smash down fight between the boys. I separate them into different rooms so I can focus.
4:29 – I’m back to Roz, and it takes a while.
4:33 – I put some clothes on again.
4:35 – I put on the movie UP to distract B&E so I can nurse Roz.
5:15 – My friend arrives, and we hang out, and I stop recording.
There you have it – two hours.
5 comments:
I took a photo of a recent Gigi blowout at the dinner table, but for obvious reasons blowouts look so much worse when the kiddo is eating solids (she had a week of poopy problems - I don't know how to spell the "d" word...), and I don't think my photo will ever make a debut on my blog. Better that way because it's nasty.
Wow, your days are exciting.
Fantastic. It's amazing (and yet not) that people can ask us (meaning moms) what it is we do all day.
wow, I can see why you only gave us two hours.
I love the cute white lace apron on one of your boys and the look Roz is giving the camera when you take the blow-out photo.
It is good that you document days (or hours) like this so that when your kids get older and you read these posts you will realize how amazing you really are and you can marvel at all you have accomplished.
You rock, mom.
yipe-a-do.
Goodness gracious.
I miss you.
A gourmet dish they are cooking! Soon they will have their own aprons to wear because I'm bringing them one from Africa!! How did I know they'd need one?
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