Last week of Maternity Leave

2/8/2010, today is the last day of my maternity leave and I have to say that it has gone by way to fast. I am dreading the fact that I have to go back to work tomorrow. I must say though that the last 5 days or so have been crazy. Thursday I had a date day with The Tader, we went to the Children's Museum in Iowa City and then out for Pizza (for the 3rd day in a row). That night we decided to put him in his big boy bed and he did AWESOME. Stayed in his bed the entire night. On Saturday he took a nap in his big boy bed for the first time and that was a little more rough than the previous nights. After 30 minutes of him playing I went in and told him to go to bed, 5 minutes later he was screaming because his "socky" fell off.....Fell off, yeah right! Once the infamous "socky" was back on he started screaming "it's broken, it's broken...Mommy, it's broken". When I entered his room I noticed that his curtains and rods were laying on his floor. I told him that he did not have to go to bed and that he could read books on his bed but that he could NOT GET OFF THE BIG BOY BED!! 10 minutes later I heard "books fell off the big boy bed, books fell of the big boy bed". Yes, his dragon book fell off and he wanted Tom to pick it up. At least the kid listened and did not get out of his bed!








The entire weekend was just as crazy. Slade seemed to have rolled all his terrible two's up into a weekend affair. He was completely clingy to me and wouldn't listen to either me or Tom. He had about 300 time outs and shed a lot of tears. Poor Chase sat there the whole time, silent and perfect as can be. I think that she was wondering what we were doing to her brother and thought.."if I just be quiet they won't beat me too". She was a little neglected because we had to spend so much time tending to Mr. Whiny Pants. At times I think she thought we forgot she was there. Poor girl was probably wanted to say "Hey guys, pooped my pants over here...Hello!" But she was too scared to cry. I know that she was starving half the time but thought "I can hold out a little longer, I'm chubby, I will just wait until Mom is done pulling out her hair".

Finally, today was my last day of maternity leave and I was going to take the two kids to day care and have a nice relaxing day. Yeah, right! I got in a car accident first thing in the morning. I was taking the kids to day care and slide on the ice right into another car. It was just a fender bender but I am sure will cost us some money!