The one where Henry feels better and I try on jeans
As it turns out, watching "Super Nanny" isn't the best way to wind down after spending the day wrangling and playing with your kid, it's just too stressful.
Dave and I were terrible parents yesterday evening. We put Henry down for his afternoon nap, and after a bit of fussing his exhaustion got the better of his runny nose and he fell asleep. We woke him up again an hour and a half later and it took him thirty minutes to fully wake up. He desparately wanted to go back to sleep. We were worried if we did put him back down, he'd be up all night. After two hours we'd guilted ourselves into feeling like we'd done a very bad thing, depriving a sick kid from well-needed rest, so we got him ready for bed a little earlier than usual. Of course by this point Henry was fully wound up and ready for action, having shaken off the need for sleep entirely. He cried while playing "Skin the Rabbit" (my grandpa used to play this game with me when I was getting ready for bed: he'd say "Skin the rabbit" and I'd throw my arms up in the air and he'd whip my shirt off. Hi, I'm from Louisiana. I've eaten squirrel.), he cried during his beloved bath, he stopped crying for his pre-bed book, then resumed crying during his good-night smooches. Then the battle between his runny nose and exhaustion began again. Exhaustion won out (again) eventually.
Today Henry was feeling much better. Not much of a runny nose, chipper disposition. We went to the mall today to get some last minute gift items, three to be exact. We struck out completely with one exception. Since we were there, I also tried on some jeans. My saggy post-pregnancy belly is still preventing me from buying anything smaller than a size 12, despite what the rest of me fits into. It's very discouraging. My newest pair of jeans fit great in the store then stretched out a lot after the first day of wearing them so now it looks like if the wind catches me right, the legs will billow out and I'll take flight. I don't feel very chic in them. Sooooooo...I finally sucked it up and bought me some Spanx. They'll smooth everything over, and maybe help me get back into my cute pre-pregnancy clothes. Fingers crossed.