Week Wrap-Up

Before Bobby left last weekend, he met us at the park on Friday during his lunch break to enjoy the nice weather.

Something weird that Aubrey did last week was on Thursday, I had to pick the girls up early from daycare because Aubrey decided to throw up her lunch which was a packe of pear, kiwi, and spinach. She has had that before and wasn't running a fever, so Sara (from daycare) and I thought possibly it was the kiwi since she doesn't have it often. Then, on Friday, I fed her peas and spinach and guess what...yep...she threw that up and still no fever. I looked up spinach allergies and couldn't find a whole lot other than it's not common. Either she had a little but that never developed a fever or she's allergic or has an intolerance to spinach even though she's had it multiple times. I'm not planning on introducing spinach anytime soon, that's for sure!

This past week Bobby was out of town from Sunday until late Friday night. So, I was a single-mom for the week. Other than being mentally draining, I have to admit, it really wasn't much different than a regular week. I'm the one that gets them up and around in the morning, drops off/picks up from daycare,  and I make dinner/meals (almost always). The only mentally difficult part was bedtime; however, the girls were actually better than normal. Natalie's typical 10 times in/out of bed before finally falling asleep was probably only down to about 3 times on average and Aubrey slept through the night on average from 9p-7a, which was nice. Also, I wasn't able to go to my Pulse fitness class and had to take them to small group by myself. On top of being a single-mom, I was super busy at work so really no downtime at all.

The weather was nice so we were able to take a couple walks and play at the playground which was nice!

 

It was also crazy hair day on Tuesday...Aubrey didn't participate.

 

On Friday, I was planning to take the girls to the free childcare offered by our old church and have a girls' night, but it got cancelled so Alison and I took the girls to Chili's then shopping at TJMaxx. I really wanted a break, but we made a night of it anyway.

When, Bobby got home later that night, once Natalie realized he was home, she ran up to him like she usually does and said "Miss you" without even being prompted. She was too cute!  Aubrey was excited too. However, ever since Bobby has been home, the girls have each woken up at least 1 time a night (different times). Guess who gets up with them...yep...me. I did nudge Bobby Saturday morning to get Aubrey since I had already gotten up 2 or 3 different times. I enjoyed the empty bed and sleepy girls while he was gone!

I still didn't get a break once Bobby was home though because on Saturday he started a major outside project of digging for pop-up drains in the front and backyard. So...no break for this mommy! Saturday, I took the girls by myself to a dairy farm with a large group of young families from our church. I heard that they had 60 people (including kids) total. Natalie got to pet a baby cow, but was more interested in jumping in a hay pile. It was really stroller friendly, so I had Aubrey on my hip all day, so pictures were very scarce and bad.  My arm definitely hurt from holding Aubrey for an hour straight!

                                      

Aubrey was more interested in the rocks on the ground.

Standing where the cows get milked

  We did get to take a little time for a date on Saturday night with a couple from our small group from church offering to watch the girls. We will watch their kids on Monday night so they can have a date. We went to the new Italian restaurant in town...Piloni's. It was really good. Then, we ended up playing putt-putt on a very sad-looking course (I won), then played a video game in the arcade, then walked around the mall. It was definitely an interesting night. Supposedly Bobby was going to take me to the jewelry store to pick out something since he didn't get me anything in Las Vegas...not even a thank you for being with the girls alone all week (however Bobby will tell a different story that he did tell me thank you). The girls got souvenirs, but not me. I didn't even get my Valentine's gift fulfilled yet (a housecleaner for a 1x deal).  Ugh!  

Sunday I went to church with the girls, then drove up to Indy for Gavin's 2nd birthday. Natalie had a blast on the trampoline and bounce house. I stopped at Target while we were Indy and good thing I bought Aubrey an outfit because she had a MAJOR blowout that I didn't realize until we got out to the car. Talk about gross! We met Matt and Amanda for dinner, then headed home. Both girls slept the whole way home, but bedtime was a little difficult even though Natalie was exhausted, she fought going to bed like normal!

She ate the frosting first.

 

Having fun in the grass 

This ball was a big hit!  As Gavin would say "my ball"  You have to love the mine stage in 2 year olds :) (Natalie says everything is hers lately)

 

 

Easy toy for Aubrey :) 

Birthday boy

I definitely give single moms a big pat on the back because it is definitely not easy...doable but not easy!  Everything you try to do takes a ton of extra time and effort and patience. When do I get my weeklong break away from kids, husband, etc?!