Parenting Fails

I feel like LJ and I have been doing a semi decent job at this whole parenting deal. So far our child is a relatively amazing, all around human being. She rolls, laughs, and doesn’t really cry that much, so I say we get an A for effort.

Although some days, not so much. Here are some of our parenting fails over the last 4 months.

I left for work without shoes on my feet. How does that even happen?? I realized I was homeless about halfway out of the neighborhood. It was also a Monday so that could have played a part too.

Stroller fails. This could be a blog post on its own. The thing is a death trap.  This all happened in the same week. I was rushing out of the house to meet Leigh Ann and boom the stroller busted my face so hard I thought I knocked out my tooth. It bled the whole way to the mall. The bruise on leg, was from when I tried to close the stroller and the dumb lock on it scrapped my thigh. This picture is after 1 week so imagine how awful it was earlier!

Sorry for the Lez-Be-Honest picture...
I had to hold my lip up somehow

Ever gotten really engrossed in your work only to not take a break for pumping at your normal time and then realize you forgot your pump parts and bottles?? Yeahhhh. Sorry Aubin, you cant eat anymore because my chest has exploded due to my idiotness.

I felt really bad about this one…Poor tiny was screaming for quite a long time during a storm because I turned the monitor on mute accidentally. Once I realized what was going on, I raced into her room and scooped her up and she was red from yelling, and so sweaty L All her little duck tail hairs were matted on her head.  I crieeeeddd, oh I cried.

Obviously NOT from that same day,
but a picture of my burrito babydoll

Levi didn't check her diaper before school and noticed when he took her out of the car seat that she had a blowout at home. It got on the Bumbo, car seat and on his arm---which he didn’t realize until he was driving to work.

Little miss rollie-pollie, rolled right off my legs as I was sitting on the couch and almost ate it hard on the floor. Good thing I had just enough time to grab her and not spill hot shells and cheese on her pretty face.

I know there will be many many more parenting fails along the way :) Hopefully, we dont screw our kid up too badly!!

Do Great Things

Linds

Organization and Planning with a Tiny Person

First three weeks back to work have been rather uneventful. We are starting to get in somewhat of a morning routine. We get up, get ourselves ready, pray to God she doesn’t wake up early, make breakfast and then get her ready for the day at 6:30. If all goes well, we are out the door by 7:06. I will tell you one thing, having to coordinate all the nonsense in the morning has taught me how to be the queen of organization and planning. 

It all starts on Sundays-our meal prep days. I make our breakfasts for the week (eggs, turkey sausage, cottage cheese, and spinach) and put them in little Tupperware so they are ready to throw in the pan  and cook on their own as I let the dog out/make sure he is fed and put work bags in my car. This alone has save us about 10 minutes every morning. My lunch is always ready the night before as well. When I don’t make it ahead, then I just end up saying Eff it and going to eat crappy food somewhere and then im pissed at the calories and the money that I spent.  Lose-Lose I tell ya. All of my clothes for work and my workouts are laid out the night before. If I don’t do this, I am rummaging through the dirty laundry searching for the least nasty sports bra. No one wants that. Empty bottles and pump parts are set out to be thrown in their cooler and all my pills are laid out so I don’t forget. Lord help us if I forget those!!!!

Breakfasts for the week, partial lunches, and Aubs bottles for a day.

I also make her bottles as soon as I come home from work. They are in her lunch box and are ready to grab as we are heading out the door. All of her clothes and headbands are ready to roll once she gets her sleepy face up. She has to be a snazzy babydoll always!!

Good Morning Smootches

Once we get to daycare all my worries actually go away. The first few days were hard. Yes, I cried outside of the daycare, and yes Levi laughed at me. Now its almost a race to see how fast you can drop her off. I figure if I am paying them a mortgage payment, they should watch my kid and I shouldn’t feel guilty. And now I don’t. Her teachers freaking love her. Every time we bring her in, they sing “This girl is on fiiirrreeee” to her because she is always so fancy, and they argue over who gets to love on her first. I will say that picking her has to be the best every because she just lights up when you come into the room!! Hi babydoll!! Mama is here!!

Our lives have become controlled chaos for sure. I definitely would not change it for the world! And of course, you cant leave the house unless you have a little puke on your shoulder!!

Do Great things

Linds