friends with kids.

it's not even ten thirty yet and already i've been in bed for around two hours. and it's felt soooo good! i snuggled my little one to sleep and dozed off for a bit myself. what's even nicer is that daddy was going to play xbox and fell asleep on the couch instead so when i woke up i got to watch house on bravo AND blog surf without someone complaining that i'm unable to do both at once. whatev. as a woman, i am TOTALLY able to do both... easily. but i do want to point out that i believe this momma multi-tasking thing us girls are capable of is both a blessing AND a curse. you know what i mean. sure, we CAN do it all, but do we want to? heck no. but of course there are mornings like this morning when we've got somewhere to be and i literally have to nag zachary out of bed as jude is climbing over him in a desperate attempt to flee from its confines himself, and then i have to get up and think of everything to pack, pack it, think of more things i forgot, make jude breakfast, change jude's diaper, dress jude, pack even more things i forgot, etc... all while balancing a 24-lb baby (who really just wants down on the floor so he can get into everything i've packed) on my hip. i'm exhausted even remembering it. but thus goes our saturday mornings before kindermusik. which usually results in a fight en route to kindermusik about how i did everything while zachary took a nice, hot shower and brushed his teeth. but then sometime during kindermusik while watching zach hop and dance around the room with jude, i remember that he works hard all week so that i can stay home and i realize i am ok with taking care of his offspring. it's so hard to stay mad at him now that there is a little half-him, half-me crawling around on the floor between us... oh, parenthood.

and this morning was particularly exciting at kindermusik, so i had no time to be mad anyway. zach's friends (and now mine!) matt and emily

brought their 22 month old son, grayson to class. having someone there that we knew on a more personal level made class twice as fun, even though the instructor's four year old daughter was being an absolute nightmare. but i think (i hope!) grayson had a good time.









after class, we decided to take the kids to the park (omg i can't believe i can say things like that now). jude was totally whipped, so he napped on the way...


at the park...












and then we had mellow mushroom pizza... grayson watched a riveting episode of cartoons on his dvd player and jude pouted because he had to sit in the stroller for more than one minute...



and then he KO-ed on the way home...


what a GREAT GREAT GREAT day. i'm so thankful for the sunburn on my cheeks as well as new, interesting friends (with kids!!!)