Grant me patience.....

Jerrod just might come home from work today to fine Julia tied up and locked in her room!! (Just joking by the way...)

Today is my first day all alone with the TWO kids. I might not survive the day!LOL

Julia was making messes and not listening this morning, which got her punished. I finally get both her and myself dressed about 9:30am, only to have her to have a pee accident in the middle of the kitchen floor a few minutes later. Strip her, clean up the mess and re-dress Julia in outfit #2. I get her to settle down enough while I nurse Jude.

Then all heck broke loose! I was in the middle of a diaper change on Jude and was cleaning his belly button stump with rubbing alcohol. Julia, of course, was right there trying to help. Next thing I know I see liquid all over the changing table. Upon closer look, I see Julia has (accidentally?) knocked over the ENTIRE bottle of rubbing alcohol in the wicker basket that sits on the changing table and holds odds and ends. This rubbing alcohol is now starting to drip all over the floor. I quickly grab a towel and throw it on the spreading mess. At this point Julia says she has to pee and runs off to the bathroom. I am trying to finish up Jude's diaper change, while trying to contain all the spreading rubbing alcohol. About this time I here a crash right outside Jude's door and look to see Julia rubbing her hands saying "I spilled it!". For some reason she was carrying her potty bowl full of pee to me. In the process she tripped, dropped the bowl and now I had pee splashed everywhere!! ACK!!!!

I slap a diaper on Jude and stick him in the crib half naked and crying. I wipe up Julia and plop her in a chair and tell her to STAY until I clean up BOTH messes! I take all the stuff out of the wicker basket and throw into the laundry what can be washed and wipe down the rest. I then stick the basket in the kitchen sink to be dealt with later. I wipe up the changing table. Then I move on to the pee mess. I wash out the bowl and wipe off the toys, walls, furniture, and floors that got covered in pee during the fall. This whole time Jude is crying in his crib and I have to tell Julia repeatedly to get back in the chair until I am done.

I finally finish dressing Jude and console him. Once he has calmed down, I stick him in the swing and re-dress Julia AGAIN! At this point she finally sits on the couch and settles down. I manage to wash out the wicker basket (which is lined, by the way). Although the entire house now smells like rubbing alcohol!

Since both Jude and Julia have finally calmed down, I take the moment to call Jerrod at work and tell him that he just might come home to find Julia tied up and locked in her room. (Which I would never do) I then proceeded to tell him all about my morning. You can tell he is trying hard not to laugh. The only response he could give was "WOW!".

Lunch went off well, mainly because I finally just put in one of Julia's favorite Elmo DVD's. But right after lunch, Julia says she has to use the restroom and runs to it. I hear her use the potty, but next thing I know she is coming out saying she is wiping it all up, as she wipes the floor with her paper towel. I ask her if she peed in her clothes and she tells me "yes". I go look and for some reason Julia decided to NOT pull down her clothes to pee, but to just pee THROUGH them into the potty!!! So there was pee in the potty, but she then also dripped all over the bathroom and hallway floor. Time to strip Julia AGAIN and clean up ANOTHER mess. This time I did not even bother putting clothes on her, I just put clean underwear on her and let her run around that way.

At this point I tell Julia that she has to take a nap. She had her choice of napping on the couch watching Elmo, or napping in her bed. She chose to nap on the couch, but decided that she needed pajamas on to do it! Whatever, at this point that is just fine.... We put on the pajamas, she lays down, I cover her up with her Blankies and go off to start the laundry of all the stinky, rubbing alcohol soaked stuff. Surprisingly, she actually fell asleep!!!! I just figured she would rest awhile (which was all I was really after).

So now she is asleep on the couch, Jude is asleep on my chest in one of my wrap carriers, and I can finally sit down and breathe!! So much for taking it easy and recovering!!!!LOL I think I deserve a relaxing bath tonight after Julia goes to bed!! Jerrod can watch Jude...