Lonely Days!

This has been a rather difficult week for me.  Taegan has been visiting in South Carolina without Steve and me!  We met Brenda and Wesley on their way to Mississippi because they wanted to get Taegan for what I thought was going to be a week.  I didn't realize until we met them and Cracker Barrel that they wanted to keep him for at least two. (Which is fine, it just kind of caught me off guard) I knew it was going to be hard being away from him, but I didn't know I would miss him so much so soon!  As soon as we were in the car leaving to come back home, I had tears in my eyes!  In my defense though, for the last 8 1/2 months I have been with him every single day. (minus the 3 or 4 days he went to SC in March) Yes, I still have Jocelyn with me, but now that she has her own little routine, I have no idea what to do with myself!  With Taegan, he kept me busy from 6 am until 9:30 pm without naps most days!  He wakes up every morning as soon as he sees that it's even the tiniest bit light outside.  He runs to our room and says "Mommy, it's light outside!"  He may or may not get in bed with me and watch Toodles, (Mickey Mouse Club House) it just all depends on how hungry he is!  Some mornings he doesn't mention it, but most he will say "Mommy, I'm real real hungry"  I'll ask what he wants and he will come down stairs look through our cabinets then open the fridge to look (he really is contemplating really hard on what he wants).  He will go back and forth until he finds exactly what he wants!  (or so I think)  I will get it for him, set it on his table, and 10 minutes later he's back in the kitchen getting something else!  This goes on literally ALL DAY!  By the end of the day I will have gotten him 2 bowls of Cocoa Pebbles, Cheese Puffs, 5 packs of Gummies, 10 dum-dums, Raviolis (UNCOOKED, he will not eat them if I heat them up), Popcorn, an apple, an orange, the food he takes from me because he thinks it's his, a nutrigrain bar, ice cream from the ice cream truck, a cup of chocolate milk, kool-aid, Juice, water (which he usually plays with, and we find his fish from the Let's go Fishing game in it because "it was thirsty").  This does not include the 5 pieces of balogna, 3 pieces of cheese, 2 lunchables, crackers, grapes, strawberries, and carrots he can get and open ALL BY HIMSELF!  You think I'm kidding when I say this is one day's worth of food, but ask anyone who has spent a day with him, they will tell you real quick that this is an everyday occurrence!

 From 6am until 2pm my TV is locked on Disney Channel.......No, he does not watch TV all day, he will glance at it as he plays, but mostly he is occupied with all his 10,000 toys spread across my house on a daily basis! However, if I even think about changing the channel, it doesn't matter if he is upstairs in his room playing, he will run down here and scold me and make me change it back!  When I say scold, he will say "Mommy, no sir, (because that what we tell him when he's doing something wrong) turn it back to Toodles!  One, Two......I'm going to pop you!"  (Notice he didn't say three.......that's because I never get to three when he's getting in trouble.  haha)  Or sometimes instead of him saying "I'm going to pop you" he will say "Go to timeout right now mommy!"  So inevitably, the channel changes back to Disney while he doesn't watch it and continues to play with his toys! 

When Barkley comes in in the afternoons to cool off, that's when Taegan ever so generously give him all of his uneaten food and when the real fun starts!!  I'm pretty sure those two share a brain when they are together!  When Taegan is getting into something (such as a tube of tooth paste) Barkley is right there beside him helping him!  Taegan will get on his little toy truck he scoots around on and tortures that poor dog by running him down!  Then he will get on his scooter skateboard and chase him for an hour straight and Barkley just plays right along!  They both love it and I love watching them......i just have to zone out the screaming portion of it all!  (oh, this is all while poor little Jocelyn is trying to take her naps, and if she's not taking a nap, she is just sitting there starring and them like they are insane!)

For the rest of the afternoon and evening there are various comments about things being "redicious"  (ridiculous), a lot of "no sirs" (to me and from me), tons of books he gets me to read to him, toys flying through the house, Taegan "flying" through the house on his toys, bunches of kisses and "she's a cute girl, mommy!" comments for sissy, and play time with daddy when he gets home from work!

Bath time - it's either a good things or an absolute horror story depending on if we wash his hair or not!  (seriously) Bubble baths are always his favorite, and he has loads of toys to play with.  He will spend an hour at least in the tub playing, but on the days we have to wash his hair, I'm almost positive we get a bath too!  Lots of kicking and screaming, and he will tell us to give him towel ever 2 seconds because he knows that water is in his eyes........even when his face is completely dry!  It's interesting to say the least!

Bed Time - He is so funny, he now will not go to bed until it is completely dark outside.  No matter how tired he is, he will watch the window until he can not see light anymore and say "it's dark now!"  Then and only then will he get into his bed!  We read him a story out of his Bible, he will say his prayers, and there will be a lot of "I love you's," "goodnights," "see you tomorrows," "sleep goods," and "see you laters!" (can you tell he's trying to stall?)  10 minutes later you will hear him yell for one of us to come up there.  When we get in there he says "I'm so thirsty"  our response "Taegan you just drank a whole cup of water" he then says "I'm so hungry".......how can you say no to that???  Thirty is one thing, but hungry???  So we now have a nightly routine where he gets a pack of crackers to eat in bed!  He thinks this is the most amazing thing ever, he loves have a bedtime snack IN BED!  (and by morning, the crackers are IN BED with him)  So funny!

I love my days with Taegan, he keeps me going everyday, so now you can see why I have been so lost and not knowing what to do with myself since he's been gone.  I'm so happy he is having so much fun with our family, and I wont cut his vacation short just because I miss him so much, but I can't wait to get him back!!