after staying up until midnight talking to doug about that sad situation with the austin guys, i think i fell asleep about 1. simon was up at 3 and then slept with me. sophie came in when penny started crying about 4:30. Simon was back up at 5:15 and i didn't have any space in our HUGE bed with all the kids so i slept terribly. then simon was up at 6:00 to be up. i think he was hot. at 6:30 Penny woke up soggy wet from a leaky diaper. and then we were ALL up. except Owen, of course.
i was so so tired that as soon as we got back from dropping off owen at school, i put Simon in his bed for a nap and went straight to my room. i put yo gabba on for penny and actually fell back asleep for about 30 minutes. I don't even remember hearing a major section of the show. oh it felt good.
i was supposed to go to the zoo with beth but i took the kids to ikea to wear them out while shopping for baskets for the girls room.
as luck (mainly the bad kind) would have it, penny fell asleep on the way home from Ikea and didn't transfer into her crib at all. i got her some milk and put her back down. then she was stinky so i changed her diaper and put her back down. then she cried and cried and cried {hard} for about 30 minutes until i finally decided that i was defeated and wasn't going get the nap i so desperately wanted.
We played and worked around the house until it was time to get owen. simon woke up at 1:30ish. perfect. enough time to feed him and get everyone ready to go to the store directly after owen's pick up.
and simon did nothing but cry in the car. very unconsolable. finally settled when owen came through the gate. when we got back to the car, both kids were dead asleep. do we really need groceries that bad? yeah we do . we gotta go. Sophie had something after school until 4 and then had bball and mutual after so this was the only time.
I wake up simon, put him in the baby bjorn -- go around the van, wake up penny and carry the two of them into the store with owen trailing behind me asking if he can have a friend over. over and over again. Penny is still shaky from sleep but i have to put her down in order to get the cart so i put her by owen and they both walk in. Then the carts are stuck together and i'm trying to do it one handed while keeping the binky in simon's mouth. I tried another. still stuck. the last one came out but at a wierd angle and it hit the wall. the automatic door closed and penny starts screaming cuz shes inside and i'm on the outside and Simon starts crying and owen is zoned out playing on my phone ignoring everything and everyone is wailing. i pry the cart free and FINALLY get it over to penny who is crying and holding her arms out to me, maneuvering around simon in the pouch and manage to get her in the seat of the cart. just then my phone rings. it's bart johnson. i tell owen that i can't talk right now cuz the babies are crazy, we'll call back later. he begs again. no owen, i yell over the cries.
the next thing i know he's saying, "hi bart....oh mom, it's baylen!" At that moment i completely lost it. i pinched his underarm so hard and yelled, "I said, NO!" and hung up the phone that he burst in to tears, sadder than i've ever seen him. So, now all 3 are crying and i quickly open a bag of food for penny to eat. she calms down. Simon had a blanket by his head {probably too hot.} and once i took that away, he calmed down and took the binky. Owen cried for much longer. He was so hurt. His feelings and his underarm skin. it was so sad, but i just snapped. I was tired, nobody was sleeping well or at the right times. everyone was hungry. doug has been out of town since early early yesterday. ugh.
So, i apologized and hugged Owen until he felt better. we went about the store, gathered our items. I let him call baylen back and they wanted him to come over. He was over the moon, and i let him go. the rest of the trip was uneventful, thankfully. we got home, then sophie got home and then after about 45 minutes, robin picked her up for bball practice. I gave penny food, nursed Simon, put them all back into the car and left to pick up sophie at about 6:15. Picked up sophie, picked up heather carpenter, picked up rachel trujillo with intermitten cries from simon. he was super unsettled. i had a little cap on his head that was making him way too hot and he was sweating so bad. i pulled that off and he finally fell asleep. I dropped off the girls and drove to baylens house to pick up owen. drove back to the church, got there by 7:30, had a half hour to kill. called grandma olson, kids got fidgety and begged to go inside after about 20 minutes. went up to the 3rd floor, found the girls, chatted with kristin udall, who was sewing bags for all the girls or helping them sew.} left around 8:30, dropped everyone off got home at 9pm. put crazy babies in the bath, yelled at kids to get homework done. nursed simon, put him down, put penny down. picked up simon, nursed him again, put him down again. Made brain food snacks for the kids to help them get through their homework without falling asleep. I started this entry and about 30 mintues later doug came home, both kids fast asleep in our bed. phew. PHEEW. and then i got a second wind when doug got home and so i cleaned up the room while we were doing the re-entry information exchange. Then he had to buy a plane ticket to ny so i went into the kitchen to clean up a bit while he was busy. came back, ate a snack. chatted with doug, worked on this entry and now it is 12:54, right on schedule to start all over and do it again tomorrow.
good night!
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