What a Morning

I have had one eventful morning…Let me just tell you the adventure Parker and I went on. Oh and I wish I would have taken pictures but I was afraid for my clothes! Alright, here goes.
 
It all started when Parker came wandering into the bathroom this morning. He had already had some toilet paper for breakfast and I was trying to block him from getting back to it again. I was in the process of putting on my eye shadow; you know…the brown eye shadow with the gold glittery flakes in it. Well as I’m sure you know, it comes in a little cup. Well in true Parker fashion, my nosey little one decided that he wanted to see what that was…He ran his hand along the counter peeking up to make sure he’d found what he was looking for. Before I could stop him he’d grabbed hold of the eye shadow digging his little fingers into the shiny powder. When I finally got it out of his grasp he had shiny golden brown hands and of course, after tasting it, he had a shiny golden brown face and mouth. I scrambled to get the eye shadow off of my hands and then while avoiding his hands so they wouldn’t ruin my khaki pants, I grabbed him up and held him up the sink to wash his hands as well. Of course he loved this…After getting his hands clean I did my best to get his face eye shadow free, this is not an easy task when your shiny toddler is squirming around and acting like you are torturing him. I got most of it but he went to school with a shiny eye shadow beard, Cayne will be oh so jealous. As I said before…no pictures L it would have been priceless and the thought crossed my mind before I decided to just get him clean in an act to save my clothes.
 
After our eye shadow fiasco, we traveled into the living room where I should have turned on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse…but I didn’t and I would have missed the story on Amber Portwood and her 3 felony domestic violence charges and the fact that her lawyer thinks she is “responsible” whatev! Ok back to my story! So I was in the kitchen making my coffee while Parker happily played with his toys…or so I thought. I turned around just as he was raising the green cup of Dr. Pepper that his Daddy had left on the end table the night before. I gasped and said “Nooo” before taking it away and in that second and a half; he managed to spill it on the floor. Thankfully none of the sticky old Dr. Pepper made it onto his clothes! I tore a paper towel off of the roll and when I looked over my shoulder at Parker, he was happily splashing in his soda puddle. Such a boy. I decided I should probably use a Clorox sheet on this mess after getting the liquid off of the floor and Parker’s hands. Once I’d cleaned his fun up, Parker decided I was a spoil sport and wandered back into the living room.
 
I continued to make my Gingerbread coffee (on my Keruig which is awesome…just wish it made cappuccino) and I guess it was my turn to make a mess because I spilled my coffee as I was pouring it into my travel tumbler. I cleaned my mess and went to put Parker’s jacket on. He was being a little difficult at first but we got the jacket on and zipped and headed out the door! Once in the car he decided he did not want to get in after all and stiffened his little body as straight as a board. I climbed into the backseat and lifted him up to tickle his belly hoping that this would make him curl and then I could plop him into his seat…wrong! So I did it the meany mom way and pushed his mid section down forcing him to sit in the seat and then wrangled the strap over his left shoulder and locked in place. This wasn’t to terrible but he was screaming like I was trying to kill him so I’m glad that there were no neighbors to witness this episode. I got the other strap on and locked and then pulled it tight with all of my strength, Graco car seats are surprisingly difficult!
 
After getting him all strapped in and safe I started the car and then went back inside to get the diaper bag, my coat and my coffee and as I was walking out the door I noticed something wet on my hand and arm…My damn travel tumbler was leaking! Oh hell to the no! I paid 15 bucks for this thing it better not leak! Apparently I had not screwed the cap on correctly and that’s why it was leaking. Fail. I pulled the wipes out of the diaper bag to clean myself and my cup off and then re screwed the top on the cup…it didn’t work, it was still leaking, what the crap! I decided that my car smelled enough like gingerbread coffee and that I could deal with the cup once I got to work. We were now, finally, on our way to daycare.
 
Parker was more than happy to be at school and walked to his classroom without a fuss, he walked over to his best bud Cayne to see why he was crying and I assume was telling him that he was ok and that they should go climb on the stair things. I walked over and took his jacket off while his teacher explained that he’d been bitten at some point yesterday but that he had not cried and therefore she didn’t know who had done it or when it had happened. I told her that it was not her fault and that it was alright, it was to be expected. I was sure it was probably done over a toy or something but to try and keep an eye out so they could find out which kiddo was doing the biting. Parker meandered over to his teacher and held his arms up so she would pick him up. He was loving on her when he decided he wanted me to take him, of course I said no because I had to leave and he was not pleased with me then. He squirmed out of his teacher’s arms and ran after me with his arms in the air. I had already made it out the gate by the time he got to it and he stood there crying for me. My heart was broken but I tried to distract him, telling him to show his teacher his new shoes…it didn’t work. He walked over to the soft stair things and threw himself down screaming and crying while his teacher tried to calm him down. I heard him crying all the way to the front door! I hate leaving him when he is crying like that but I had to get to work!
 
I am happy to say that once I was in the car and on the way to work everything was fine. I just hope my day goes better than my morning!