Thursday, January 15, 2009

An e-mail to my husband...Sound familiar?

I sent this email to my husband this morning and thought my parent friends might appreciate it as well...

Recap of the morning....

Played with baby for awhile after you left. Later called you. Watched baby climb onto couch to retrieve phone. Unplugged phone so baby could punch numbers for awhile. Fixed baby lunch. Took phone away from baby to give her lunch. Listened to 20 minute meltdown for daring to take away baby's precious phone. Gave baby bottle. Took sleepy baby to her room to put her down for nap. Not so, says baby. Baby spends next hour, yes hour, pulling herself up on the side rail. Mom does her best to keep her down. To no avail, mom walks out to see if baby will try to go to sleep on her own. No such luck. Baby cries because she has a big old mound of poo in her diaper. Funny how mother nature likes to screw with you. Baby tries sister's Miss Delay Tactic tricks by trying to play peekaboo with mom. Mom does her best to ignore such mindgames. Mom gives baby bear blankie then walks out of room. Mom listens to 10 more minutes of baby making noise: bleh, bleh, bleh. Then peace and quiet. Ahhhhhh. . .

Mom is going to find pillow, blankie and curl up on the couch and cry herself to sleep (jk). Feel for me.

P.S. Baby did not listen to dad's request to be nice to mom.