January 4, 2011

New Year Recap

The first day of the New Year was actually pretty great. Despite the fact that I woke up with the same headache I went to bed with the night before, I managed to swallow some 12-hour Sudafed (magical stuff right there) and gulped half a glass of Pepsi. Gradually I felt much better.

I spent the morning watching Dawson play his new Lego Star Wars game on the Wii. My mom gave it to him for Christmas and since that day he barely remembers our names because he is glued to the TV. I know that sounds terrible, but I really wanted him to enjoy his Christmas vacation so I totally bent this past week. Today was his first day back at school so we are falling into the old routine once again.

While Dawson attacked the Clones on his video game, Owen and I played with all his new toys. His favorite is a race car that makes music and spins it’s wheels. I love watching Owen dance to the songs it plays when he pushes the buttons.

My baby is not a baby anymore. He’s always on the move. Running is his transportation method of choice, and lately he’s become quite good at climbing on the furniture — especially the coffee table which gives me a heart attack every time I see him do it. I am constantly picking him up off of things because he is determined to become the next Evel Knievel. I swear he thinks it’s funny when I freak out.

Part of me thinks I should stop him from climbing at all, but I also think he needs to learn and explore. I don’t want to always say no and inhibit him, but I also want him to be safe. And so he climbs up and I take him down and we repeat this all day long.

When Doug arrived home from work early in the afternoon we all got dressed and went to our friends’ house to watch the Badgers play TCU in the Rose Bowl. Sadly, the Badgers lost and it was kind of heartbreaking, but they played the best they could.

Our friends have have three kids close in age to Dawson and they love playing together. I love that Dawson has playmates that he gets along with. Owen is still little and there are five years between them so he’s not the easiest toddler to play with it. He pretty much throws toys all over the room and Dawson just sighs and rolls his eyes. It’s actually kind of cute.

We went home shortly after the game ended because I was feeling mighty tired and I could tell the boys were getting crabby, too. We all fell asleep before ten.

Sunday was a pretty laid back day. I went to church while Doug and the boys stayed home. It was super cold outside and they were overtired from the day before. I just didn’t feel like dragging them out only to deal meltdowns during Mass.

Later I hit the grocery store for a few ingredients, and Doug made a delicious taco casserole for supper. We stayed home to watch the Packers win over the Chicago Bears. We’re in the playoffs, baby! This makes the Badgers’ loss so much easier to bear.

I was so anxious during the game. I get so emotionally invested in my sports games. I know that’s crazy, but I just can’t help it. I love my teams. The thing that I hate is that I can’t control what happens and so I watch closely and the adrenaline just courses through my veins. I’m totally a diehard fan.

Monday morning at work was the pits. Dawson woke up with pink eye; his eye was goopy and red. I freaked out. Pink eye is highly contageous and I was nervous that the whole house would get it. Thankfully my parents agreed to watch the boys. Dawson still had one day left on his holiday break, and he couldn’t go to daycare with pink eye. I scheduled an appointment for that afternoon and my parents met me at the doctor’s office so we could get this taken care of. Dawson looks much better this morning, so I sent him off to school.

I’m hoping this is the only “illness” he has this year. I resolve to make this a healthy year instead of one full of colds and coughs and sniffles.

How did your New Year begin?

Posted by Dana @ 7:39 AM • The Mommy Files