I am so tired that I am letting my 3 year old eat potato chips from the bag and drink from my diet coke can.

What is your shining "too tired to care" moment?

I'm on OS instead of working...

Watching the 07 VMA's with an eight month old who WOULD NOT SLEEP and explaining how it's absolute crap that people called Britney fat, but the performance was still lackluster and sad to him. While eating Gerber sweet potato puffs.

Letting my 20 month old watch Sesame Street while I doze on the couch a few days ago.

Does almost a whole week count as a moment? Or is that more a lifestyle? Regardless, it's six straight nights (and counting) of Olympics, dinner in front of the TV, and way-too-late bedtimes.

I'll have to glom onto Danica's moment - been there, done that.

Hope you get some rest soon Wookie.

This week (I've been at home alone with El Destructo on vacation for a week) the following would possibly be included for this topic:

- Cookie before 10:30AM
- Painting yourself and part of the wall...and mom finishing her coffee at the breakfast table.
- DVR'd Sesame Street so I can shower. That's right unattended and watching TV. Suck it Dr Sears.
- Possibly has had french fries 5xs this week.
- Gotten a toy every time I've step foot into a store this week.

I'm sure there are hundreds more since it's my 'vacation' week... but I'll spare you.

Wookie - can you get the 3 yr old to watch the newborn so you can nap? :)

I finally caved in while we were in Ireland and let my 22 month old son try a chip (or in North America, a french fry). And I let him try a crisp (or a potato chip). It was impossible to avoid them. My shepherd's pie with the potato top came with chips! And there were other kids around of the same age and they were all eating them. I just got tired of it. Fortunately, himself displayed an obvious lack of interest and continued to gorge himself on Irish soda bread. Which I am going to learn to make because it was so incredibly yummy! Right now we are just so jet-lagged, I am trying to make sure that we are all eating right because it would just be so easy to go to McDonald's. We were up and at the grocery store before 9 am since we were all up and about. An 8 hour time change is not a lot of fun.

I'd like to add my personal best that happened tonight...

strawberry in the bath tub.

Thank you and good night!

Those days where we never get out of our PJs.

Those days where I eat leftover cold pizza for breakfast, but remember to save a slice for O.

Those days (like today) where I give Ebay an extra bottle after strapping her into the swing so she'll sleep and I can, too.

i'll probably get locked up for this, but we had KFC takeaway for dinner, i got DaD to bring it home with him when he was working late, i'd had enough of the day, we were all totally shattered. We sat on the floor, ate KFC watching tv, i can't even remember what, and Beenie ate some of the chips (fries) and a little chicken breast. She actually ate quite a lot. Afterwards i felt so guilty i went online to find if anyone else is feeding chips to a 9 month old, andapparently i'm not at all alone. In our favour, her usual diet is very organic and nutritious (as is ours), we don't even give her food from jars much, mostly she has a lumpy-puree version of what we have, or a soft finger food version. Which is how i knew she wouldn't choke in chips. :) We didn't give her pepsi though, I draw the line at sugar.

GG - I'm most likely out of the loop, but what is wrong with a strawberry in the bathtub (or is that a euphamism [sp?] for something else)?

"Suck it Dr Sears."

LOL... almost woke the Parasite laughing at this one. I can't even count the number of times I've said this over the last two months.

Mine? Sticking a two-month-old in her bouncy chair in front of one of those swirly music visualizer things so I could eat. Then I immediately googled "infants and television" and learned that I've now permanently rewired her brain and she'll grow up to be hyperactive, obese, or both.

Hey, she'll be in good company, atomic, because I just read the other day that the fatter the mom during pregnancy, the more likely the kid will be obese. And hey, for no clear medical reason, and completely against my will I gained 75 lbs!

Also, strawberries in baths at least hold their shape. Graham crackers are a total disaster. :)

Ah, shit, up at Hepburn Springs Spas, you pay EXTRA to have strawberries in your bath.

I was fat before i got pregnant, I ate constantly while pregnant, i didn't weigh myself once during the pregnancy, cos i didn't want to know; the OB/GYN never weighed me either. (Probably thought i'd break his scales. Ha!) But i know what I weighed before pregnancy, because i was trying to lose weight for the wedding.

After Beenie was born, about 6-8 weeks later, i was a reasonably 'normal' size again, and i have stayed that same weight up to now. Hasn't budged. So all in all, I've gained a total of 4 kilos. Which is about 8 or 9 pounds. Pretty small in the scheme of things... I think my PRE-pregnancy weight is what i need to lose, not the post-pregnancy. 4 kilos is nothing.

Seriously you guys are the BEST.

PBM - no for real he was done eating at the table it was time for a bath but he had the toddler death grip on the strawberry... I though eh, a bath and a little fruit.

Bol - may be I should open a toddler spa! :)

Atomic - ;) I say that about any parenting books... even though I have to read them all!