Taking the Scenic Route

  AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGG!

I didn’t post a lot this week because Zane was keeping very, very busy.  I had our apartment clean, OCD clean, on Monday of this week.  By Thursday I was in tears because I had seriously lost the battle despite my best efforts.  Zane was determined to get into everything.  He discovered the joy of top shelves this week.  He unstrung all of my embroidery threads, stung yarn around, rubbed handfuls of body lotion in his hair (although he did smell flowery for a while), destroyed bars of soap, scattered flour, made fruit salad in the carpet, got a few handfuls of bisquick thrown (caught him doing that before he dumped the entire Sam’s size box), drug all the clean laundry out of his drawers, scattered shoes, unmade beds,…oh, there was so much more, but my brain is trying not to remember right now. 

Here is an example of his handiwork.  This is our storage closet for things we don’t use very often, like my make-up.    (oh yeah, he also tried to put powder on and was working on the foundation bottle when I discovered that adventure).  On the top shelf of the closet was this –>

It is a hand print kit from Grandma and includes two packages of powder to be mixed with water.  Thank goodness I found him before he had opened them because both would have been a true disaster.  He has been obsessed with this thing.

He got to it by creating the tower you see to the left.  A dining room chair (that had to be drug over a bed and down a hall to get to this position without detection), a overturned laundry basket (which is where all the clothes come from) and the crate that holds the mega blocks (you can guess where they went).  Although I admire the ingenuity….  

I can only guess that he was bored, since he got most of his toys taken away from throwing them after a warning that the toys would go bye-bye if he threw them again.  What a freakin’ week.  I am tired.  I was glad to have the playgroup to go to yesterday because I was at the end of my rope. I was also tired of hearing Zach bitch about his behavior every moment he was home.  Do your flippin’ homework in your office at school if you are so irritated…you are just compounding my world when you do something irritating every time Zane does something irritating.  Husbands! Grrrrrrrr.

In one of my efforts to distract him from swinging the paintings on the wall and destroying the blinds, I grabbed the camera and got a few cute shots of the little stinker.

see how innocent he looks

mid-air, jumping (hence the hair flying out)

I did have a bright spot this week.  Fluffy mail!   My XXL Fuzibunz I ordered from Lil’ Bunz came.  I got shockingly fast service.  I ordered them over the weekend, she mailed them on Monday and I got them on Tuesday.  I also got 3 white XXl FBs from the Cloth Corner at a great price.  Those came in a timely manner too…Wednesday I think.  I know they aren’t particularly exciting diapers, but I was very happy to get them  We went ahead and got XXL since they aren’t going to make them anymore and I don’t want to run into this problem again.  He is at the bottom of the size range for them, so they are somewhat big, but you can’t find diapers this size elsewhere. 

My diapers and freebee wipe

for a reference, here is the new orange XXL FB next to a red XL FB I have

The only down side is that I was getting ready to order some infant prefolds to stuff them with and then our electricity bill came.  So, I have been knitting some inserts out of scraps of cotton yarn.  It seems to work pretty well.  A bit labor intensive, but I can use something I have without having to rip up clothes, so that is good.

Hopefully this next week will be a little better.  I am going to try and get him out to a park or something like that for a while every day, and we restored his toy collection.  Of course, despite that, he is standing on his head against a wall and singing loudly in the living room right now.  *sigh*  gotta go.