"She's leaving on a jet plane, don't know when she'll be back again"

Sad sad day we had (although from the pictures it doesn't look like it). We did good though, didn't cry in public, (I know I saved that for home) we did tear up. The Trujillos have left the building folks! B's best friend and my best friend are heading to California for a better opportunity and earthquakes...just saying. As an earthquake survivor myself (early 90's) they are scary and hopefully willbring them back home to Colorado ;-) (only half joking). At least I got to see Robbie Roo walk! We will be skyping quite often and Mike and I will see them when we go to Napa in April. Before they left we went out to breakfast and then let the kids play at Monkey Business. Now I need to find someone new to hang with wed-fri. Most other people work or live too far away. It was really nice to be able to vent my fraustrations to another new mom, bounce our lack of parenting knowledge off each other and share in the excitment of our kids accomplishing new milestones.I enjoyed our trips out and loved watching our kids interact with eachother. I will truly miss hanging out with them. ok moving on before I start crying again.

B is really testing my patience lately. He is really really good at throwing a fit (he must have got that from me). The other day at the zoo was pretty embarassing. I had to literally wrestle him back into the stroller (yes- he is getting very strong) all while people looked at us. He screamed and cried for a good 15 min. Iremember when we finally approached the picnic area where we were going to eat, this other mom, having a peaceful lunch with her 2 yr old, looked over at me with this look that said "come on, we are trying to eat here." I just wanted to say to her "like your kid is perfect!" He did finally calme down and ate some lunch with that lady still there so she could see that maybe he was just hungry OK. After that my friend was like "I think I am going to head out now." I don't blame her. This is the 4th public tantrum in the 8 days I've been with him. God, I hope this is a phase.