The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

On this blog, I try to portray all aspects of being a Momma.  Being a mom is so so so amazing.  Being a mom is also so so so hard.  While I do like to focus on the more positive moments of mommyhood, I think I would be remiss to leave out the *other* stuff too.  Because someday, when my kids are grown, I am going to look back at this post and wish to have more of those days filled with *other* stuff. 

Eddie was out of town this weekend, so it was me and my boys holding down the fort.  Here is the breakdown of the good, the bad, and the ugly....

The Good:

CalBoy is doing REALLY well potty training.  Hardly any accidents (very rare!), he's in big boy underpants during the day (pull up at "nap" time and a diaper overnight), and he has started pooping on the potty! 
Cal has also decided that he looooooves to snuggle with momma.  On Saturday, he came over to me and scooted about as close as he could get and then put his arm around my neck and said, "momma, I wanna snuggle." My heart melted. 

notice the car in his hand

This morning, he climbed up on my bed after we got dressed for the day and again asked to snuggle.

  I got out my camera to attempt another picture and he grabbed my face for a kiss.  I might frame this one... I mean..... come on....

Another "good" is how well the boys are starting to play together.  Cal still takes things from Andy (on purpose) and Andy still screams when he does it, but they seriously have so much fun together.  Here Cal was showing Andy how the trains work. 

The Bad:

With the good comes the bad.  Saturday night, we were eating dinner and Cal was Facetiming with Eddie's sister, Tricia. They were having a great time talking until Cal got really quiet and then got a HUGE smile on his face and said, "Shosh! I peepeed in my pants!!!"  Seriously?  He has been accident free for a while now and he choose right then to relieve himself?  So, I stripped down his bottom half until I was done feeding Andy.

Fireman Barebottom

The Ugly:

This sweet moment above was captured about 4 minutes before Andy took the biggest dump of his life.  In the tub.  And he was sitting, so instead of it floating up so I could scoop it up, it was mashed into the tub.  Did I mention Eddie was out of town? 

Silhouettes

I love the classic look of a silhouette.  There is just something so sweet and innocent (and CLEAN-- you can't see how messy their clothes are!). 

Anyway, The Children's Store had a silhouette artist in this weekend so I made an appointment to take the boys.  Not knowing what to expect, I was blown away by the process.  The artist takes a piece of black paper and then free-style cuts out your kids silhouette.  And let's be honest, my munchkins were not sitting perfectly still... in fact, Cal was pretending the chair was a horse and "riding" it.  Andy was crawling over to a display rack to take it apart while I was reigning in Cal's "horse (you like that pun?).  It was chaos, but so easy and quick!  I really like they way they turned out...  I scanned them into the computer and they don't look too good scanned, but you can get an idea of them:

Pretty sweet little nuggets, huh?  And you can't even see the stains....