Wait what? It's not Monday? Well it should be!! I've had a horrible case of the Mondays today! Bear with me as I relieve some stress by putting my day into words.
*sigh*
It started at just after 12 am this morning and again at a little after two, just before 4, around 5:30 and about 6:45. This was the 5th night in a row that Jamesen woke up multiple times due to his teeth despite his teething necklace/pain killers right before bed. It takes me between 5-10 minutes to calm him down and another 10-15 to get him back to sleep enough that he's not flopping around. 20 minutes is enough to mean that I'm really awake and not going back to sleep easily. It usually takes me about 40 minutes on top of that 20 to get back to sleep. Do the math... not fun!
So we got up for good at around 9 [so glad they both slept in for once!] but Jamie was super cranky regardless. We were watching Ponyo and he was fussing and I was ignoring him. Next thing I know, Marcus reaches out and grabs him around the neck and knocks them both over and I see this:
I'm glad they let me reach over and grab my camera before stopping the cuteness.
Despite the moment of happiness, Jamie went back to being super cranky, and since I woke up exhausted, cranky baby meant that I was super cranky. Poor Sabe. When I'm cranky, I nit pick at everything he does. I've been trying to be better but it takes me a minute to realize it's ME being the cranky one, not Sabe doing things just to piss me off. In an attempt to cheer me up, we decided to go get smoothies and Sabe suggested that we put the boys in the new shirts we got them yesterday.
Don't let that last pic fool you. It's photoshopped. No amount of candy, face making or silly noise making was going to get the boys to look or look happy at the same time. Jamesen is the worst. He doesn't sit still long enough to take a picture. I got a lot of blurry, right up at the lens pics of him. Uncooperative kids always make me cranky so since I was already super cranky I was excessively super cranky.
Anyways so we went to Cafe Rio for lunch to try and cheer me up and then got smoothies and headed up to the Living Planet Aquarium because they just added a new penguin exhibit in there and what better to cheer me up than penguins?? We got there and I tried to put Jamesen into the stroller with my smoothie but the straw was too long for him to suck it through and he was getting PISSED [he had just woken up so it was meltdown city anyways]. I asked Sabe to run out and grab my wrap so I could wear him and turned to find him dumping some smoothie all down his front.
Baby in wrap, toddler on daddy's shoulders, camera around mommy's neck.. maybe the day won't be so bad after all....
It was after this picture that everything went back down hill. I had Marcus and Sabe had Jamie. Marcus was staring at the penguins, laughing his head off at them swimming. I was taking pics while listening to his laugh. I looked at him and soaked in his grin for a bit and then took that pic above. I pulled the camera away from my face to look at him again and he was gone.
Now this has happened before but I've always been able to find him amongst the heads of the little people in a matter of a few seconds but as I scanned the heads about 3 times it sunk in that he wasn't there and panic set in. I turned to Sabe and he wasn't there either. Sabe saw the look on my face and knew immediately. I turned to the person who worked there and said "My son is gone!" Sabe handed me Jamie and they both left. I had a split second of hope when someone said "is that him?" but it wasn't. I walked around the hallways of the this place with horrible things going through my head. I wondered if I'd ever see him again. I had person after person ask if I'd found him yet. I kept saying to myself "he's wearing a dark shirt that says 'Big Brother' on it, has a buz cut hair cut and green eyes". I went through the entire place 3 times before the guy who worked there that I had initially gone to said they found him. I turned the corner and there he was in Sabe's arms. I started bawling and tried to hold him but he pushed me away. I'm so glad we found him. I think he thought he was going to be in trouble which is why he didn't want me to hold him. I don't care though. As long as he's safe.
So after we were all calmed down, I saw this sign and asked Sabe to take a pic of me with it. He said, "Make that face you do when you see something penguin."
We left pretty soon after that. We packed up the car, smoothies in hand and went to pull out of the parking lot. There was a ton of construction so the traffic was bad. Someone was nice enough to let us in. We pulled forward and Sabe accidentally popped the lid off his smoothie when the light turned green. He was trying to get it back on so I told him it was green and went to grab the smoothie. I don't really know what happened, but he pushed the gas and we were coming out of the parking lot at a weird angle so the wheels were already really turned to the right. I think he forgot or lost control of the steering wheel or something, but when he pushed the gas it kinda shot us onto the sidewalk a bit and the smoothie was knocked out of my hand by his frantic attempt to get a hold of the steering wheel. Yeah, Sabe and the car were covered in smoothie [mainly Sabe].
We cleaned it up and he was pretty pissed of course. Jamesen was pissed too and started crying and cried the entire way home.
I'm sitting in our bed with Marcus who is sleeping and Sabe's up stairs asleep with Jamesen. I'm hoping that the bad case of the Mondays is over because I'm not sure how much more we can take!
