The week in perspective...

Its Day Five of being alone with two kids and I suppose its time for a report.

For the first two weeks I was home from the hospital, I couldn't drive or pick up Helen (thanks to that second c-section). So thank goodness we had Aunt Meg, or Me-Me (pronounced May-May), as she is known around here, taking care of all three of us. And in the evenings taking care of all four of us!

So, since Monday, its been just me and the kiddos. That's right I'm outnumbered. By a whole other human. And its a close race on which one is best taking advantage of this power play situation. I can't lie, it hasn't been too bad. Well, not as bad as I thought, at least. Okay, well to be really, really fair, I haven't been by myself all that much. We saw Me-Me on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. But thinking back to my life as a one-child parent, I saw Me-Me almost everyday then too.

On Thursday I decided to brave my first outing with the two little ones. I thought to myself...what adventurous place should we go? Its our first outing...let's make it someplace good. So, we went to Babies 'R' Us to buy diapers. My life is exciting. So exciting in fact, that I almost stole some bottles. Let me paint you a picture...Two babies, one cart. Helen earned a spot riding in the "seated section" of the cart, so Patrick, in his carrier, just rode in the "cargo section." This arrangement left little to no room for purchases. But all I really needed was diapers, formula, and bottles. So I stacked things on the bottom and around Patrick's carrier. We got to the check-out where I unloaded all my stuff, paid for it, and started to walk out, when the clerk pointed at my cart and said "did you want to get those bottles too?" You know, the bottles, I had stuck in Patrick's carrer...oh well, luckily I was able to pay for them and avoid committing a crime on outing number one. Just a note, I can't lie that should I have actually stolen the bottles, I would have been hard-pressed to rectify the situation. I imagine I would have discovered my thievery only upon putting the kids in the car. It would have taken all my will-power to load them back into that cart to go back in the store and pay for the bottles.

All in all, its been a good five days. But upon reflection, I do wonder how long it will take them to team up on me. They are only getting bigger and smarter...pretty soon they will probably form some type of NATO-like organization, ready to com to one another's aide, and attack the common enemy...