The one with all the meltdowns
So I'm driving home (hubby meets me at work with the kids, I take them home, he goes to work) and the 2.5 year old, JJ, falls asleep. He doesn't really nap anymore so this is a surprise that I welcome. I carry him in to couch and he stays asleep! Score! I bring in baby and her and I have a blast together, she's half a bottle down when JJ wakes up screaming like he's being stabbed so I put her quickly in crib and run to find a total shitsplosion. I mean, it's bad. It's on his hands, on the couch, and he's mortified and gagging. So am I. I'm cleaning everything up while he sobs uncontrollably and then I hear it.
The baby has cried so hard she's now thrown up all of the formula she just chugged. I feel myself tensing. I can't take much more. Jj is mostly clean, the couch is wiped down and a towel over it, and go to the baby whose still screaming in her vomit puddle. I get sheets and clothes from both kids in the wash and get the baby hosed off and hold her bouncing while the toddler snuggles up behind me and falls back asleep. It's 6 pm. Way too late for nap time but I'm so defeated I welcome the sleep.
Get baby back to sleep, and I'm sitting here in silence. She's on my lap and I don't have a clean sheet on crib yet and I don't care. We aren't moving until brother wakes up or daddy gets home because I am DONE!














