This n' that

Here's a pic of all of the wonderful Mother's Day cards that I got this year! I call our mantle the "celebration mantle" when we put cards up there. It's a fun place to showcase birthday cards and what not.

I took the boys to the pool at our gym today. I usually put Theo in childcare and take only Jack but I've been having mommy guilt about leaving Theo out. My main concern is that Theo has tubes in his ears and no plugs as of yet (going Thursday to have some made). Well, I gave it my best shot today and will probably not do that again any time soon. Theo hated the pool, probably b/c he has had very limited exposure (all of it being last summer when he was too young to recall going), and ended up swinging the whole time there. Jack is self sufficient in the pool and is a fish, so he's always easy to manage. The hard part came when it was time to change out of wet swimsuits...... changing swim diapers just plain sucks. Jack is too old to change in front of people at the packed pool but too young to get out of wet clothes all by himself. There was a lot of me going back and forth between the bathroom by the pool and putting Theo back down on the bench outside of the bathroom. Life would be so much easier on me if I had a clone!!!