Good day

We've been dealing with some major behavior issues lately, so I can really appreciate a good day here and there. This evening when I got home from work, the kids were both happy happy. Nate had a dum dum and had been sharing with Georgia--gross, but seeing as he usually wants nothing to do with her, there's no way we were going to stop him. I held Georgia's hands as she chased her big brother around the kitchen, with everyone laughing hysterically. Nate even played with Georgia later and made her laugh.

I made a yummy dinner that Nate ate all by himself, including the mashed potatoes. He helped me make brownies, which is a first--normally when he "helps" that just means helping to eat them! He was standing on a stool helping me pour in the ingredients and stir, and Georgia was sitting on a booster seat on a chair next to us. As soon as we had poured the brownie batter into the pan, I was putting the bowl in the sink when Georgia reached over and knocked the pan in the floor! Miraculously it landed right side up ... shattering Maggie's food bowl into a thousand pieces. But the brownies were fine! Phew! Nate and I would have been all kinds of upset!

After Georgia fell asleep, Nate and I drummed with socks--Hey, if you can't beat em, join em. Then we snuggled and talked about the day he was born and his upcoming birthday. He climbed in my chair with me and gave me kisses and said, "I will love you everyday." Awwwww. I took him upstairs to bed, and that woke Georgia up, but she just snuggled with me--something she NEVER does--while Nate and I sang songs. Ahhh, such a lovely evening.

Then ... things started going downhill fast. Nate was all ready for bed, and I went to turn on his "new music class CD." (Backstory: Every session of music class, we get a new CD with different songs to learn. Since we got our latest one last week, he only wants to hear the "new" one. He had been going to bed great for quite awhile listening to his music class CD, then one day his CD player broke, and then every night was awful. But a couple nights ago, I got him a new CD player and set it up with the new music class CD, and all was right with the world again. Okay, back to the story.) I pushed play ... and nothing happened. Hmm. Is there something wrong with the CD player? It's plugged in ... I opened it up ... oh nooooooo! The CD was gone! So I told Nate that daddy must have taken the CD out this morning and I would go find it, but first I needed to put sleepy Georgia to bed. He promised to not scream or cry. I put Georgia to bed and came downstairs and frantically called Blake.

Me: Where's the new music class CD?!!!!
Blake: ... Oh. I'm really sorry. I have it in the truck.
Me: You have totally sabotaged bedtime!
Blake: I'll be home in 20 minutes.

You don't mess with bedtime and the new music class CD! So, sure enough, over the next 20 minutes, Nate woke Georgia up 4 times with his screaming about various things like losing the socks from his hands (finally had to pry them out of his hands), wanting his red blanket instead of the blue one, then wanting the blue blanket instead of the red one, and on and on.

Now Blake is home eating my yummy dinner, Georgia is wide awake begging for bites off his plate, Nate is happily listening to his new music class CD in bed, and Blake just asked me what happened to Maggie's food bowl....