Nailed It!

Pinterest is full of photos of perfectly made crafts and foods, most of which are supposedly simple to make. I think the women who make them have DNA made of ribbon and crafting glue. I love the posts made by people who attempted to copy something off Pinterest and totally messed it up. Usually those pictures are sarcastically captioned with "nailed it!" For example ~

Anyway, I try and get Laura and Eva to take naps at the same time each morning so I can nap too, especially as Laura has colic, which almost always hits around midnight and lasts for an hour or two. I always go into naptime with a Norman Rockwall attitude, picturing both girls drifting off to sleep happily, curled up against me. Unfortunately, the girls do not usually share my idea of a perfect naptime.

Today was a bit more challenging than normal. Laura was asleep, but when I tried putting her down next to me so I could cuddle with Eva too, she woke up and decided she was starving. Eva was exhausted and started drifting off to sleep, then Laura needed to be burped and that woke Eva up. As her tummy was now full, Laura was tired again, but random pokes and kicks by a tired and grumpy Eva woke Laura up. An hour after we first lay down, I was lying in bed with Laura squirming around next to me and Eva next to her (she usually wants to sleep next to Laura as Laura is her favorite person in the whole world), lying on her back waving her feet in the air chanting "bee-da-boo, bee-da-bay". It was not the nap I had hoped for. Eva rolled over and started trying to play with my hair and face and discovered that if she plinked my lips with her fingers, it made a very interesting (to her, not to me) sound.

At that point the picture I posted above popped into my head and I envisioned an image of the three of us sweetly napping, followed by an image of the current situation. Nailed it! Thinking that made me laugh, which did not help things. I love my little girls! I love that I get to spend so much time with them and get to cuddle them and laugh with them :)

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Tonight Jack earned the opportunity to go with me to Walmart to pick up the stuff we needed to make our Halloween costumes for this year (he finished his meatloaf first - the three girls were busy taking apart their green beans and eating each bean inside individually, which takes a while). He behaved really well at the store, so after we were done we stopped at Sonic to get a treat. Jack loves maraschino cherries and whipped cream, so he asked for a drink topped with those. I asked the guy taking our order which drinks were topped with whipped cream and ended up ordering Jack a cherry creamslush. I asked if they could please make sure to put a cherry on top. They must have heard Jack in the background, because when our server brought our order, Jack's little drink was topped with seven (!) cherries! :)

Jack's nonchalant response when I handed him his drink was "Mommy, I think that girl has a crush on me. Yeah, she in lub wid (love with) me." Classic Jack :) We're in big trouble when he gets old enough to date!