I've lost control

It starts small- first you give up a room of your house to the baby. Then you give up your living room- no more adult items on the coffee table. Then there are toys everywhere in every room. You put them up and they are dragged back out. Even the bathroom- I can't remember the last time I took a bath in my own tub because the rubber ducks live there now. Stickers live on our clothes in the closet. All of the car magazines are strewn all over the house so Daniel and Daddy can look at them together.

I can't watch anything I want on tv- especially when Sesame Street is on. Sometimes I can sneak Oprah or a movie while Daniel is asleep. My last remaining adult venue was the car radio. I never ever have played kids music in our car because I didn't want Daniel to know it was an option. But we received a Praise Baby cd for Christmas, which is the music from Daniel's favorite dvd. I thought, this won't be so bad because we like this music. I forgot my rule and now I am paying. Daniel demands "praise babies" every time we are in the car and today Daniel was mad when I tried to listen to my "High School Musical" cd for a few minutes. I'm going to have to fight to gain back control of the radio for the next 16 years. My new plan might be to wear my ipod in the car, but I don't think that is too safe. But I did it this morning anyway because Wesley was up twice last night and I needed a certain song to help me wake up.

Tomorrow we are going to Vanderbilt for Daniel to be in a little educational study. I think he'll make a great lab rat. They are going to let him watch some videos and play with some toys I think. If it's anything groundbreaking, I'll let you know. Of course we'll be listening to "praise babies" all the way there and back. I just ordered another cd from the same series off Amazon so at least I have some variety...