Teddy, Pumpkin Pie, and Toodlebug!
Such wonderful blessings!
God is teaching me so much as a parent! Today's lesson: learn to be content in serving and parenting my kids in God's strength, instead of feeling accomplishment in what I physically "got done today." My wonderful husband came home tonight and heard about my day and lesson of the day. In summation, I told him "Today, I took care of the boys, and almost got finished folding the laundry from yesterday!" Here was a portion of the morning:
~Quick call to Peter to let him know plans for the weekend
~While on the phone, Jonah wakes up crying, needing to be fed. David is in the bathroom saying "Mama! Mama!"
~Say "gotta go, see you tonight, love you" to Peter
~Hear, "I pooped on the floor" while walking to bathroom
~Cleaned up said poop while Jonah is getting louder in the background
~Tell David to come read a book in my room while I feed Jonah; just get situated with Jonah nursing
~David says, "I pooped in my pants"; I tell him to go sit on the potty, which he doesn't obey, so then I sin and yell at him in my anger, making him cry
~Jonah crying while I look David over and cannot find the poop he was talking about, comfort him, apologize to him, dry his tears
~Settle in nursing Jonah again, chatting with David, keep smelling poop, keep asking David if it is him, he says "no"
~Get halfway done feeding Jonah; David lies down on his tummy to read his book and starts crying because "there's poop in my pants"
~Finally figure out the poop is down around his ankle, stuck in the leg part because the pants have elastic around the ankles (don't ask me how it got there, because I have no idea!)
~Put Jonah down again, and he commences crying while I am cleaning up and comforting David
~Finish feeding Jonah, then need to go change clothes myself for post-birth reasons that other moms will understand!
Phew! But that whole thing is pretty hilarious! And, yes, I do still want more kids;) And I'm so thankful for the blessing that their sweet lives are to us; and that God picked those two specific boys to be raised by Peter and me specifically. Praise Him for His blessings and for everything-happen-at-once situations that teach us to serve more and be selfish less...and to know that there is no way in heck we can succeed at parenting well without His strength!
2 comments:
Oh man...sounds very hectic! I can only imagine what your days are like with taking care of two! I'm sure there will be lots more stories like this one--the poop ones are terrible when happening, but definitely funny later (not that I've dealt with toddler poop yet)! Those two boys are sure lucky to have such a great mama!!
OH I have so been there... There are reasons I haven't even commenced potty training with Abs,and juggling three is one of them. But I am hoping he will be toilet trained sometime before the teen years :)
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