So I figure I would share some stories with other Moms that might be thinking of having 2 under 2 or want 2 or 2 or have 2 under 2 or just want to laugh or cry.
Now my girls are 2 and 3 and not technically falling into the 2 under 2 spot anymore, but they are 18 months apart, which still makes things very interesting, especially for me.
I was trying to think of a story that kind of brought me into the whole 2 under 2 world. What broke the ice for me and made me realize I now had to juggle two. Then I remembered.
The day my oldest climbed out of the crib.
When her sister was only a week old and I couldn't even drive after my csection yet to get her a rail for her bed.
Seriously she climbed out of her crib at 18 months. Whose genes gave her those long legs to even attempt that? oh mine I guess, but they jumped over me and my sister and brother got them. I digress.
So that day. My Mom drove me to buy buy baby, with my newborn in the car, because of course I was in the neurotic noone knows how to care for my baby as well as I do stage. I ran into the store with my huge swollen legs and after csection stomach, totally running on no sleep at all and coffee. I must have been looking pretty desperate because I had so many people coming running to help me.
Makes me laugh now thinking about how I must have looked, because now I know this wasn't such a big deal that my daughter climbed out of her crib. However, at the time I was stressed out of my mind. How was I going to transition such a young child into a bed and take care of a newborn all night.
I went with the crib tent. No they are not sold anymore and yes it may or may not have been the best idea, but I got the one that went around the entire mattress of the crib so she wouldn't get stuck and I went for it. It worked out fine for us in the long run.
Now I look back and I can't believe how crazy I was. The woman looking at me like I was nuts as I breathlessly explained that my eighteen month old just climbed out of the crib and I have a one week old and I am so tired, and I don't know what I am going to do to transition my older daughter, and I am so worried and is this safe and what am I going to do. Oh lordy, Those are the days. These are the stories that stick out in my mind and made me a Mom, a Mom to 2 under 2.
Next is how neurotic I was about a double stroller, that I have barely used. I love being a Monday Morning Quaterback to all of these things. So funny. Life is amazing.
