That was easy!

With Rick out of town, I am full time mom & dad & breakfast/lunch/dinner-maker & daycare dropper-offer & daycare picker-upper & the “parent” in the pool for Mallory’s Parent-Tot swim class & the put-to-bedder at night & & &. I think you get the picture.

This is exhausting when I’m not 35+ weeks pregnant, so it’s killing me right now. Mallory was pretty good over the weekend but today was fabulous, and it makes having to wear all of those hats a little easier.

Here is how our day went:

• I got up and showered. Then I woke Mallory up and got her in the shower. This is a treat for her; she usually gets in with me on the weekends but today she got to do it all by herself (so that I could get ready all by myself…see, I’m not so dumb at 5:30a!). She did need some sort of bath or shower and plus I love how curly her hair gets after it’s freshly washed. :-) Anyway, she was TICKLED to be in the “gower” all by herself.
• Got her dressed and to school with no major control-issues. Yahoo. Only demand from the backseat was “I want ding-ding-dong, Mommy”. Her new favorite song to listen to in the car is “Frère Jacques”.
• Picked her up after school. She was a DELIGHT in the car the whole way home. No fight over who was going to buckle her carseat, no fight over “go dis way, Mommy” while I want to go the right way home, no meltdown because we weren’t stopping at the “drocery store”, etc. But the best part about the ride home is the new song she started to sing for me: “Fire fwuck, fire fwuck, I wanna wide (ride) on a fi-re FWUCK!”. I know I should help her say truck instead of fwuck, but not until I get this song on video.
• Got home and we played beauty shop in the living room for about 30 minutes. She combed my hair, pretended to put it in ponytails and then combed it some more and some more (all the while telling me “it’s FINE!”…that has to come from daycare when they are doing the kids hair?). Then she grabbed the nose sucker thing and said “I get your nose” and shoved the sucker up my nose. Then she got a kleenex and told me to sneeze. And then I got the nose sucker up the nose a bunch more times.
• I needed Cooper to go outside so she tried to get him to go potty – she opened the door to let him out but then stood there yelling at him through the storm door “GO PEEPEE TOOPER!”. I told her to just shut the door and let him do his thing. So she started to shut the door but not before she yelled at him “DO YOUR THING, TOOPER!!”
• I made us dinner and she ate it all without question. This isn’t usually a problem though.
• She let me go upstairs to get changed for swim class without freaking out that she needed to come with me. If only I can get the dog to finally stop following me around EVERY WHERE.
• Drove to swim class without any whining or tears because I put her in the carseat or I didn’t get the right song on the CD player at the right time.
• Had a great time at open swim swim class and she didn’t even dunk me.
• She took a shower after swim class and didn’t whine when I told her it was time to go.
• Didn’t whine the whole way home.
• We started to have the discussion that being allowed to sleep in mom & dad’s bed is a special treat with dad being out of town. And that when dad gets back, she’ll have to sleep in her own bed.
• We got home at 7p and called Rick to report in about swim class. She told him “when you home, I sleep in my bed, right?”
• After talking to Rick, I told her to go upstairs and I’d be up in a minute to check on her. I sort of figured that since it was early-ish still (especially since she took a 2.5 hour nap at school!) that she wouldn’t go to bed very easily. But she yelled down to me twice “SPECIAL TWEAT? SPECIAL TWEAT, MOMMY?” – so I think she gets that it’s a special treat that she’s in my bed.
• I came upstairs about 10 minutes later (~7.15p) and she was PASSED OUT in the middle of the bed, curled up with her bear and with the covers pulled up over her and everything. I took a picture but don’t have the camera cord handy to upload so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

Man, if every day could be this easy!