moody blues

Today has been beastly, one of those days where nothing goes right. I started off the day grouchy, the goose was fussy about eating, napped longer than normal in the morning, totally refused to sleep this afternoon, and was generally just miserable most of the day. We tried to go visit Santa today, but encountered several obstacles. First, the baby cried in the car all the way to the mall. Next, we couldn't find any parking. When we finally arrived, I realized that Graydon had fished a travel sized bottle of baby shampoo out of the diaper bag and had poured it all over himself, ruining his holiday outfit and covering himself in a thick coat of soapy slime. Arrgh. So I got him cleaned up, and we went from festive holiday clothes to a mismatched sweatsuit. But whatever, we could still visit Santa, right? WRONG. Turns out the mall website was wrong, and Santa was nowhere to be seen. And Gray was still super moody.

I ducked into a store and grabbed some shirts to try on so that I could get him into a changing room and see if he needed to eat, or a diaper change, or what. And so I unstrapped him from the stroller, put him on the floor, where he proceeded to take three steps and then fell over, hitting his head on the dressing room mirror. Aaargh. He was HOWLING. Two different store attendants came to see if we were ok- ie, can you please quiet it down in there. Great. And then he grabbed one of the shirts that I was going to "try on" and had hanging on the stroller, and he rubbed his face in it. So it was covered in tears and snot, and I felt morally obligated to purchase it. Then I lost the parking ticket so we had to pay the maximum. And then we came home and he refused to nap. So today has been extremely trying, to say the least.

To take my mind off the horror, I am drinking a glass of wine and watching videos of Gray's playdate with his girlfriend Casey earlier this week. Basically their time was spent hugging (Casey), following each other around (Graydon), and crying when they stole each other's toys (both). They were adorable and clearly enjoy hanging out with each other. Check it out.