A rough weekend. Monday - September 15, 2008

My summary of a rough weekend:

* Matteo cut his third tooth, one of the uppers.

* Rocco came down with an ear infection – diagnosed today, meaning…

* 2 sleepless nights for mommy & daddy. Not good.

* Kathleen & I ran 16 miles in 2 hours and 20 minutes first thing Saturday morning. No, it wasn’t a race. It was actually our own personal torture session. Seriously. Yes, we’re insane idiots. No, it was not really our favorite sort of fun... that would have most likely involved cocktails in-hand. We’re some of the freaks training for the San Francisco Nike Marathon (October 19th). Go us! Back in March… I thought it would be a great idea to sign-up for a local marathon as a motivator to get back into my running routine and help shed the baby weight. Clearly, it should not be legal for women with two month old twins to sign up for marathons. At that point, you are still legally hormone-insane and making very, very bad personal-motivation decisions. Clearly.

* 1 quiet, Sunday morning (6am’ish) argument between two overtired parents who both got under 4 hours sleep Saturday night. Never want to freak out the kids with a loud argument… OR the au pair for that matter. Good lord knows the kids won’t leave us… but the au pair could! ;-) And, that would just be BAD. Not sure we could or would even want to imagine life without Julia right now!

* 1 attempted trip to the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday. But, half-way there, Rocco threw-up in his car seat... which ended up being my second hunch that he was battling an ear infection. Rocco screamed the entire car ride... so when we got home, everyone was wiped and near-deaf.

* I come down with a nasty cold… probably from two sleepless nights. Sneezing, stuffy sinuses and a froat (froat = sore throat in Gabby-land).

* Started my Monday at 5:10am today. Monday’s are my least favorite day of the week. Starting it in the 5 o’clock hour doesn’t help one bit.

* Matteo started crawling! UGH! See below post…

* Me getting around via crutches on Monday because the plantar fasciitis in my right foot decided to act up… equaling another appointment with my foot MD.

Silver lining:
I truly do have the world’s greatest husband. I have three healthy, beautiful children. We are so lucky to have one fabulous au pair, who we really enjoy and does a great job with the kids. And… even though we had a rough weekend, we did have a lot of great moments over the weekend. We laugh hard in the Martino house.

For instance… it is SO FUNNY to watch Dan and the boys “baby wrestle”:


And, Gabby is always singing… this was recorded a few weekends ago when we had neighbors over for dinner: