I love my kids!! They both took great naps
today (can you tell?) and this afternoon we are going swimming!
Lex loves the water and I think I’m going to put Eve in too.
See what she thinks. She’ll look so cute in her red polka dot
bathing suit :) I’ll try and take pictures!
More importantly…HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!! Lots and lots
of love from all of us.
What a lovely day today. Eve slept through
the night again and woke up around 6am. I was up at 5am to pump
(she lasts longer than I do!), then back to bed, up again at
6am to nurse, then she fell asleep so we went back to bed again
at 6:30. I laid down figuring I’d be up again in a few minutes
with Lex, but he slept until 7:45 (!!!) and then Alan got up
with him, so I ended up getting up for the day at 9:15am!!
Amazing. Eve was still sleeping and Alan and Lex were outside,
so I got a nice shower (I can’t remember the last time I got up
and right into the shower) and got dressed before Eve woke up.
Alan and Lex were outside all morning. I nursed Eve, then
grabbed a blanket and the newspaper and spent awhile outside
reading the paper and watching the kids play. It was great!
Alan is off to work now, so I’m on my own this afternoon, but
man what a great way to start the day!
Jim & Julie came up to visit yesterday (sparing us a
trip to MA this weekend) and with them they brought wonderful
news — a baby due in December!! Yay! I’m so excited! I like
babies :) So send your happy, healthy baby thoughts their
way.
Pictures from the playground this
morning…
On a happier sleep note, Eve gave us her
first all nighter last night. She slept from 9pm to 6am. It was
great. She probably would have slept from 8pm on if we had put
her upstairs sooner. She typically sleeps on the couch until we
go to bed, but we were watching an action flick and she was
having trouble falling asleep. After a bit we figured out it
was the movie keeping her up, so we put her upstairs in the
cradle and she was out like a light. Believe it or not I
actually started this day fairly rested!
Deep breath… in… out… it’s been two
hours now and he’s still not taking a nap. He’s making a mess,
screaming, crying, throwing things, playing with toys, etc.,
but not sleeping. I’ve tried everything I can think of and it
doesn’t work. Sedating a toddler is off limits, right?? :) At
this point I don’t even want to get him up because he’s over
tired and will be a pain in the butt, but more so, I don’t want
him thinking that he just needs to outlast me to avoid taking
naps. Gah!! On the other hand, it’s getting pretty late for a
nap. If he does end up falling asleep I’m going to have to wake
him up shortly thereafter or let him sleep as long as he wants
and deal with this all over again at bedtime. I don’t think
he’s old enough to stop napping though. Kids are supposed to do
that until kindergarten at least, right? Certainly longer than
this anyway… The worst part is that I have so much to do
around here and I can’t even think when he’s like this. I feel
so drained just from dealing with him that it pretty much
shoots my afternoon.
Maybe I’ll just put
him in his room for an hour and let him do whatever the hell he
wants and then get him up if he’s not sleeping… will make for
some pretty crappy afternoons…
Blah! I
have so many happy, nice things I want to post, but now I just
have a headache, and I’m eating too much and I’m crabby.
Amazing how an overtired toddler can do this to a (usually)
rational adult. Maybe I’ll get some time and energy to post
some nice thoughts later.
Is that
enough whining for you? Thanks for reading!
I should be making a shopping list or
cleaning the kitchen or doing something equally productive, but
instead I’ll sit here and type for a few minutes. We had a
really nice day yesterday. The weekend was fun but crazy busy
(in-laws on Saturday and a balloon festival on Sunday) and we
were all exhausted by Monday. What’s new, huh? :) I had to stay
home on Monday to wait for the Sears guy (I love Sears service
repair!) I was a little annoyed, at first, but then realized
that it’s good to have forced down days sometimes. I got a lot
of cleaning done, Lex just chilled, and Eve slept. It was
really nice and low-key. Eve is approaching the age where she
can’t nurse and sleep just anywhere. Kind of a bummer because
it’s convenient when she can… but I knew the time would come.
She definitely nurses and sleeps better in quiet areas. Soon we
are going to be back in a morning nap routine and it will be
interesting to see how Lex and I handle that :) We typically
try to get out most mornings…
Lex is
awake and crying. More some other day…
The
poor kids were seriously overdressed. It was 55 when we left
and 70 when we got back, just 45 minutes later!
It hit me yesterday how much I miss my
one-on-one time with Lex sometimes. I miss our breakfast
routine and I miss going places with just him. Maybe I’ll have
to try and arrange an outing with just him soon. We went to the
farmers market yesterday. It was so nice. He played in the
fountain and at the little playground. Then we walked around
the booths and bought a cookie and some lemonade and sat down
to watch a guy playing the fiddle. It was really nice. Then Eve
woke up (as expected) and was hungry (also as expected) and
that was the end of our nice afternoon. I tried to get Lex to
stay in one place for awhile, explaining that Eve needed to eat
and it was dangerous for him to run away from me. The farmers
market is in a lovely little park which happens to be right in
the middle of a traffic circle – not the safest of places to
let a kid roam. Not surprisingly, he wouldn’t stay in one area
(we tried the fountain and the playground both and he kept
running away) so I ended up carrying him, kicking and crying,
back to the car and Eve cried on the way home because she was
still hungry. Kind of a crappy ending to a nice afternoon.
Nobody’s fault, of course, just life with two little ones, I
guess.
I had a nice evening with her later though. Lex
was long asleep and Eve was wide awake, talking and grinning. I
tried to get some on video, but she was fascinated and silenced
by the camera’s blinking light :) She cooed and gooed for me
while I folded laundry. It was nice.
But first, today we had a day of first.
One fun, one less fun. This morning, for the first time, Lex
got out of his bed and came into our room. I woke up to him
saying “good morning” :) Not so good, at the playgroup we went
to today, Lex very intentionally pushed a kid and made him cry
– several times! The first time I’ll call an accident. They
were in the bouncy tent and Lex fell against the kid and made
him cry. (for what it’s worth the kid was probably 3yrs and
definitely bigger than Lex.) But later they were in the tent
again and Lex went over and deliberately pushed the kid. The
boy started to cry and got out of the tent. Lex followed him
out and pushed him again, knocking him over! Needless to say he
was not allowed back in the tent. He has been in quite the mood
today. He spent most of the morning crying for no particular
reason, then was just rowdy and mean at the playgroup.
Definitely a first for him :/ There was some bad energy at the
playgroup anyway, so maybe that was part of the problem. He’s
napping now and hopefully will wake up a little happier.
Anyway, the point of this post is that life
(or me anyway) seems so up and down lately. I’m permanently
exhausted (why aren’t I napping now??) and can so easily go
from happier to cranky at the drop of a hat. Lex is the same
way. I’m not sure who’s feeding off of who here, but it kind of
sucks. He will be driving me crazy then turn suddenly sweet on
me… leaving me feeling guilty for being cranky. Or we’ll be
having a great day and suddenly, of the out blue, he whack me
across the face and dissolve into a crying fit. I know this is
the classic definition of “terrible twos”… two years old and
two kids two years apart. All normal, but man am I
tired!