I was a crazy woman and took Grumble and Auge to the Diaper Days showing of Bolt.  I wanted to get out of the house and let Grumble see a movie that he would like. He was so good when I took him to see WALL-E that I thought he would be able to sit still during this movie.

I tried to be prepared and get to the theater early to feed him lunch and get the handicapped seats so I could spread a blanket on the floor and have him sit there.  I also made sure that my friend Sarah was going with her two kids so we could tag-team the kids.  I fed Grumble grapes and popcorn hoping that I could bribe him to behave and sit still.  Unfortunately, it didn’t work.  He stood still through the trailers and maybe 10 minutes of the movie happily eating the food but after that he was all over the place.

I think the movie was ok but I really wasn’t paying attention to it.  I was too busy trying to get Grumble to stop rolling around on the theater floor and chasing other kids.  I know that he was just being a 2 year old and that I shouldn’t expect him to sit still through the whole thing, but it would have been nice.  Thank god for Sarah.  She did her best to keep him in line and even held him on her lap for awhile but he wasn’t having any of it.  On the bright side, at least he didn’t have a complete meltdown like some other kids there.

I think the picnic blanket on the floor an inspired idea but it would have been better if Grumble actuallly sat on it.  Instead Sarah’s daughter sat on it and so did another kid who was sitting a row behind us.  He saw the popcorn and he climbed down onto our blanket and started eating the popcorn.  It was a little weird but I let it pass as long as the kid’s mom was ok with it.  Then it got crazy when the boy started dumping popcorn into his mouth from the tupperware container I put it in.  I can’t believe his mom didn’t stop him.  Of course, as her kid was doing that my son was running around and yelling, “Space ranger!  Space rangers!” to the screen.

So my lesson of the day is that no movie theaters for Grumble until he’s 3 or until he can watch at least half a movie at home sitting still.

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I’m squeezing this post in before it hits midnight and I miss a day!

Today I contemplated heavily medicating with liquor and valium and I wasn’t going to medicate myself.  Grumble’s routine was shot to hell today and he didn’t take a proper nap.  He just had a little catnap in the car and ran around like a crazy man the rest of the day until he went to bed.  Of course, he might have been a little wired from the bottle of diet Snapple Ice tea that I let him have.  Yes, yes, bad decision but there are some things that I will do just to get a little peace.

Grumble’s cousin came over to the house today and he was so excited to play with him.  The cousin is 5 and Grumble adores him.  He’ll run after and do pretty much anything with him except share toys.  They get along pretty well and Grumble was devastated with his cousin left.  He just broke down crying and wouldn’t stop until I gave him a Christmas present that came in the mail today.  That calmed him down for a little while but he was a terror at dinner and refused to eat anything except corn on the cob and watermelon.

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Grumble stalking Baby Auggie in his crib.

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I had a few things in mind to write about today, but I totally forgot them so I’ll write about some random shit.  I think it’s the lack of sleep getting to me.  My lovely daughter has been waking around 3:30am each morning and staying up to talk.  She just coos and and looks around the dark bedroom and pushes her legs off my chest until I get up and walk around with her.  She ends up talking to me and making me move around with her for an hour.  It’s very cute but really tiring because I will then only have three hours or so until Grumble wakes up and wants me to go downstairs to get him breakfast and turn on the tv.

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Breastfeeding Auggie has gotten better but my left boob has really forcefull letdown.  I end up with soaked burpclothes and her crying because she doesn’t want to latch on.  So what is up with that?  The breastfeeding resource sites I’ve looked at say that I should do block feeding to reduce the supply and that hasn’t worked.  They also say that it should subside after a few months.  Well, she’s almost 3 months so somebody get the message to my boobs because they aren’t listening to me.

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This is the first year that we’ll be celebrating Christmas at our house with the kids.  We have always gone to Virginia to spend the holidays with my husbands family.  So, I am going crazy thinking of all the things I need to get/do/make to have a great Christmas.

We have no Christmas decorations so I need to get on that.  I wanted to knit stockings but there’s no way I’m going to make four stockings in time for Christmas.  I also wanted to make and advent calendar out of mittens and hats like the one I saw on Garnet Hill but again, I have no time.  Where did my knitting time go?  How do other moms of small children actually knit anything?  I have a homunculous that won’t let me do anything!  It’s such a whiner.

Anyway, both kids are asleep in their own beds right now so I’m going to use this opportunity to sew buttons on a sweater then I’ll have accomplished something other than the laundry today.  I’ll post pictures of it tomorrow.

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Usually, our mornings at home are pretty boring and lazy unless we have someplace to be.  I’ve been known to plop Grumble in front of the tv with bowl of Cheerios and raisins and a sippy cup of water while I feed Auggie and/or browse the internets. This morning we had a little excitement.  A photographer was coming into our house and setting up a mini-studio to take pictures of the kids.  We’re so posh!  But really it was just the company, Our 365 Portraits, that took the hospital portrait of Auggie coming over to take new pictures since I didn’t like the first ones.

The photographer set up a backdrop and lights and was pretty great in general.  He didn’t get mad when Grumble kept asking him what he was doing or touching his camera equipment.  I give him a gold star for being so nice to my son.

I got to dress Auggie up in two different outfits and take some pictures of her in just a diaper.  Grumble also got to take photos with Auggie and in two different outfits.  The kids were really well behaved and there was no crying at all.  I did feel that there wasn’t enough variety in the poses for Audrey but I guess you can’t really do much with an almost 3 month old.  Though I must say that Auggie and Grumble are very photogenic and maybe one of those pictures can be a decent head shot and I’ll get them into commericals and print ads and then they can be the breadwinners and I’ll be an overbearing stage mom or trying to live vicariously through them a la Dina Lohan.

It was really very nice to take pictures in the house and not in a crowded storefront in the mall.  I can’t help but feel a little panicked at the mall with the crush of people and the ticking time bomb, aka Grumble.  He has a really low tolerance for the mall now.  Though I wish I had taken more time choosing blankets and toys to put in the pictures with the kids.  One of the poses involved putting a blanket over Auggie’s head which I don’t really understand, but I wish I had picked solid color blanket instead of a distracting print.  Next time they come I’ll be more prepared and will ask them to do different poses and see if they have different colored backgrounds.

I was too busy changing the kids and holding Auggie up to take pictures of the proceeding so you’ll just have to settle for an old picture.

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