Valentine's Day

Oh Greyson, I hope today is not an indicator of future Valentine's Days to come.  Today was certainly one of those rough days to say the least.  It had it's ups and downs for sure.  Stephen and I have never been ones to buy expensive gifts for anniversaries or valentines day but rather prefer to spend the money to do something together.  This year, we didn't even get that far.  The morning started well though, Stephen gave me 2 cards that were so sweet it made me cry... everything seems to make me cry these days.  One from him and one from Greyson.  I feel so blessed to have these two guys in my life, they're really all I could ask for especially on a day that's meant to be with and celebrate the ones you love.

While the day held great plans, it turned into one of those that left both Greyson and I crying and exhausted.  He had a tummy ache and gas from something I ate (we still have to figure out what!) which led to a day full of crying, eating, burping, and crying some more.  About 2:00 after nothing seemed to work I decided to put him in the moby wrap and go on a walk - something that always puts him to sleep.  However, as I was putting him in the wrap, he slipped right through, traumatizing both of us severely!  I caught him but the damage was done, we were both crying hysterically and I called Stephen who came home to rescue us.  I was so thankful for the break at that point, I took a shower, ate lunch, and crawled in bed.  It was really the best Valentine's present I could ever ask for!!!  But a very emotional day.  He's still fussy and working out some gas so we're rocking in the nursery so Stephen can get some rest.

Our emotions today can be explained in about 5 minutes during a nap

On a more positive note, last night during my middle of the night blog reading I came across this recipe for Chocolate Turtle Cookies.  Stephen loves turtles so I decided to make these for him for Valentine's Day.  I didn't think it would happen as the day went on but this evening Greyson was knocked out for a few hours and Stephen had a visit to do so I was able to make them.  They were absolutely delicious.  I know I can always trust cookie recipes to be excellent from Two Peas and Their Pod and these were no exception.  I added some sea salt to the top which was an excellent touch as well.

I also ordered some small cloth diapers this week to go ahead and get started.  I'm amazed at how many diapers we've already used and we've only been home a week.  The cloth diapers I already have are too big and I had originally planned to just wait and use disposable until he fit them but I ordered some inexpensive prefolds to start using at least part of the time.  Anyway, I'm praying tonight and tomorrow are better days, we're tentatively planning on a trip to church this weekend for a short time but we'll have to see.