Jodi’s World of Motherhood

Here are a few of the highlights:

• 1 Mommy + 2 Kids + 4 hour car ride = Thank you “Horton Hears a Who” and Mommy’s laptop
• Attempted to go through a cave, discovered there was a 2 1/2 hour wait so we went on a miniature hike instead
• During said hike, Mikey does a small poop in his pants. I see him grabbing his rear-end and think he has a wedgie, so I try to help him, sticking my hands in there to examine the situation. I realize it’s a poop and he proceeds to show me the finger that HE had already stuck down there …
• Immediately head back to the car which happens to be UPHILL. Conversation the whole way up: “Mommy I’m tired, will you carry me?” “NOOOO” “But WHY?” “Because you pooped your pants and I don’t want it to touch me!” “That’s not FAIR”.
• Insert cute moment here - While we were waiting for some people outside the cave, Mikey started hand-feeding some chipmunks. They would come right up to him and grab his finger with their hands and he’d shove the cracker in their mouths. It was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen and of course I didn’t have a camera.
• Get home, get Mikey cleaned up and put on a show for him. Not 15 minutes into the show he decided it would be a good idea to pee his pants right on the futon, after having just gone to the bathroom before the show started. You would think an almost 4 year old would figure this out by now!
• Later that night, Lexi is in her bed and kind of fussing. I figure she will go to sleep soon and head downstairs to do some clean-up. About an hour later she was still crying hysterically so my mom decides to rescue her. It ended up literally being a rescue. Her crib had collapsed and she was stuck curled up in a little ball in one corner. The mattress was slanted at a horrible angle. She was TRAUMATIZED and wouldn’t stop crying for an hour.
• After a day and night like that you would think the kids would sleep in … 6:30 am wake-up call for Mommy
• Decided to attempt the cave again. This time I made Mikey go potty TWICE before we went in, and explained that there is no potty and we’d have to leave if he needed to go in the cave. Apparently this didn’t sink in and he cried for the first 30 minutes of the tour complaining that he needed to pee. Everyone around us could hear him and he would not give it up. I kept telling him he just had to wet his pants because there was nothing else I could do, but he REALLY didn’t want to. Finally he gave in but then he complained the rest of the time because he was so cold in his wet pants. What I don’t understand is why he was so willing to wet his pants the night before, but when we are in front of 30 strangers he has to make a huge stink out of it …
• To top off the trip, 10 minutes after we got home I had to drive Mike to the airport for his 4 day stint in Houston. He stayed home from the reunion to work on our sprinklers. We still haven’t decided who got the bum end of that deal

Are your family reunions any better than that???