So, I'm officially a stay at home dad... for the next 5 days at least. :) Britney and her sister Ashlee abandoned their husbands and their kids for a pilgrimage to Forks, WA (Yeah, the place where the Twilight Novels take place... woooo hooooo) for 5 days, meaning that I'm learning what it's like to be a single dad. Ummmm yeah, okay so it's only been 1 day and... BRITNEY PLEASE COME HOME SOON!!! LEAVE EDWARD AND BELLA BEHIND AND SAVE YOUR HUSBAND!!! :) Actually, it's been pretty fun for the most part, here's a breakdown of day 1:
4:00 am ish (I have no idea what time it was) Britney woke up to get ready to go catch her flight.
4:00 am ish (again, I still have no comprehension of what time it was) I believe I fell back asleep
5:00 am ish (again... yeah, you get the point) I tell Britney to not get bitten by a vampire. A dead wife is definitely a marriage show stopper for me.
8:00 am I wake up for a rigorous workout involving Wii Tennis
9:00 am I have both kids dressed and eating breakfast. I'm off to a great start!
9:30 am - 11:30 am Brooklyn and I clean the house, she's a great helper.
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm We go to Burger King to get lunch. While we were in the parking lot Brooklyn dropped trow, and I had my hands full with Carson and a diaper bag. I looked at her and saw that her pants were down and asked her "What are you doing!?!" Her response: "I had a weggie that I need to fix." Of course while I'm getting Carson back in his car seat to help my daughter get "decent" 4 women walk out of BK and ask me what I was doing with a pant less daughter in the parking lot. I try to explain and they continue to give me condescending looks like I'm the worst father alive while they get into their car. Other than that though, lunch was fun.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm We make a trip to Walmart where I end up forgetting half the list because I spend the majority of the time waiting for Brooklyn to walk. (She got her cast off last week and is still limping around).
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Carson takes a nap (hip hip hooray) while Brooklyn helps me balance the check book.
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm dinner is served.
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm we do a Family Movie Night. I pulled all of the cushions off of the couch and made a huge bed. We ate popcorn, fishy crackers and watched Wall-E
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Get both kids into bed.
8:16 pm Carson starts screaming because he doesn't want to go to bed.
8:17 pm - 8:30 pm I make a stand and refuse to get him out of bed because I know he just wants to stay up.
8:31 pm I try to get some work done using my Work at Home station but have computer problems.
8:35 pm I call our Helpdesk and start a conference call with them to solve the computer issues. All the while Carson is still crying.
8:41 pm Still on conference call when I hear Brooklyn start screaming bloody murder.
8:42 pm I hang up on our Helpdesk guys and run upstairs to find Brooklyn screaming in front of her door saying that there's a huge spider on her teddy bear. All the while, Carson is still crying.
8:45 pm I find the HUGE FREAKING GODZILLA SPIDER and immediately start tearing Brooklyn's bed apart to kill it.
8:51 pm Spider's dead, Brooklyn and Carson are both crying, Brooklyn's bed is torn apart and I don't know which kid to turn to.
8:53 pm I check on Carson who's still screaming and lift him out of bed. The screaming doesn't stop which is really weird for him, so I start to worry. All the while, Brooklyn is still crying.
9:00 pm Brooklyn, Carson and I are all sitting in the living room not sure what to do.
9:15 pm I've given Carson half of a Pepto and some Ibuprofen, he's either having teething pain or a stomach ache, so hopefully the combo will help him out.
9:20 pm Brooklyn, Carson and I put Brooklyn's bed back together and thoroughly check her room for spiders.
9:30 pm Both kids are back in bed, Carson is still screaming.
9:45 pm Carson stops screaming (knock on wood), I finally get to call Helpdesk back, and now I get to go back to work.
Tomorrow's going to be a better day!
Britney, I love you.
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