tumblrcrossover2year: today = epic fail.. if I am going to share the good.. I have to share the bad..

July 07th, 2011

wow.. I am thankful that it is 5:00 and the daddy will be home in 3 hours.. my first born is napping off a crap day.. and my second is snuggling with me to my right.. aka.. refusing to go down for sleep.. thankfully I am slowly getting out of my need to have a nap.. so I am not slumped over praying she closes her eyes..

I woke up really motivated.. I had a ladies night last night.. a margarita.. and had a sense of being a woman.. not just a mother.. I came home and my babies were even sweeter! (probably because it was after 11pm and they were blissfully sleeping)..

I decided that this afternoon I was going to attempt the water park.. me and the girls (not that I really had an option of anyone else ;) I made the mistake of telling Olive we were going to the water.. so when I pulled in to the jam packed parking lot at the spray park.. I couldn’t turn around.. Olive was pumped.. we trekked all the way to the park and tried to find a spot.. I am not joking when I say there were probably 300 kids there! it was WILD.. literally school buses in the parking lots.. we found a little spot close to the edge of the water park.. because I knew I would be leaving brixton a few feet away while Olive played.. we sat down on our allotted towel square.. and right away this woman starts squawking to herself that she was saving this spot for someone.. I am sorry.. what?! I never saw anything indicating a “saved spot” (ps.. why are mothers sometimes worse then the children?) I looked at her waiting to make eye contact.. and she wouldn’t look my way.. ok then.. me.. my two year old and my newborn will take this little patch.. right away she started laying out these blankets and towels around us.. so close that if I moved the stroller an inch.. it would have been on her blanket..

gulp..

of course the water is too cold and olive is having none of it.. and I am slightly grateful because its just me there.. and the whole time I am wondering if someone is going to run off with my ~~purse~~ baby.. I remembered a park we passed on the way there.. and thought.. lets try that place.. so we trek all the way back to the car after a whole 10 minutes at the water park.. load us back in and head to the park..

you couldn’t really see the park from the road.. but it looked beautiful.. unload us all again.. ( I would like to remind everyone that I still have no ab muscles ).. first glance = big kid park.. uh oh.. and no swings like I had promised.. we try it anyways.. we parked brixton on a blanket.. and I started to play with Olive.. I had no choice.. the top of this play set was 12 feet high!!

my “air” sign..

this park had something I had never seen before..these black tarry like bark mulch chips?! the heat that radiated off was insane.. Olive kept yelling

its hot mama.. its hot!!

I caved.. I was done.. I didn’t want to be at the park.. I wanted to be near water.. so I bribed an ice cream treat.. she was game until she realized we had to leave the park to get it.. and that’s when it happened..

OLIVES FIRST TANTRUM..

it was epic.. I had no idea it was possible.. my sweet little redhead in her cute pink bikini lost her shit.. there is no other word to describe it.. the worst part was the ladies smirking and the children staring at us as I started to walk to the car while she screeched and screamed and threw her body to the ground.. then b got in on the crying action.. and I started to lose it.. we loaded the car up again while she hyperventilated in her car seat..

the next ten minutes are being censored.. because it was ugly.. and not one of my finest moments..

the ten minute drive back to town gave me time to cool off.. and I decided to head to rite aid (Canadian london drugs) and buy a pool.. in that moment.. I realized that we were probably going to be living the summer at our house.. until Brixton was older and I had more strength to lift in and out of cars.. I didn’t care how much things cost.. I was loading up.. pools.. chairs.. sprinklers.. toys.. mosquito candles.. I was going to buy it all.. my first thought when we walked in was how quiet and peaceful it was.. until i heard the raging ladies and customers who were claiming there was no debit.. aka.. the power was out.. it was peaceful because it was just the generator lights and no music on..

ok.. no rite aid.. I would walk to Albertsons at the other end of the parking lot.. again.. no lights on.. everything that was refrigerated was no longer there.. they did have debit.. but no pools..

I surrendered.. we left and walked back across the blazing parking lot.. got in the car.. and called Dust.. I just cried.. we were hot.. we were irritable.. we had no food or water.. and we were done! we came home and realized our hose was still at work.. dust drove it over.. and we chilled in the front yard while I sprayed her with the mist.. it was a sight for sore eyes.. aka.. budget..