A day (or two or three) in the life of...

Last night did not completely suck. It wasn't great but it was a lot smoother than the night before. We decided we'd try to set the stage for a much more relaxing evening so I had a Relaxation and Meditation album playing on the iPod (Thanks for the link, Jems!) once we got home from the daycare and I brought out the colored rice sensory bin so there was some toddler meditation going on for a good solid hour or so and the combination of that plus a full nap yesterday made for less whining/screaming/protesting/crying and more smiles, quiet play and peace. One.Day.At.A.Time. There was some building block play w/Papa after the rice sensory bin and no screaming for me. Hurrah! Izzy's been so very attached to me lately that when she sees me leave the room or even think about leaving the room, the whining starts. I need her to become a Daddy's girl, just for a bit so that I can catch a bit of a break. Sometimes I just like to watch her play and happily interacting with othe...

This weekend really tested my ability to not lose my mind. Ability failed. I lost my mind. Multiple times. Cowboy was out for the count. Izzy was more sick than I'd ever seen her. She had a fever which spiked at close to 105 (Not sure of the exact temperature because all five thermometers that I was using were giving me different readings!) and she broke out in hives all over her poor little body (picture at left is her recovery pic), Then scratched herself so hard that she was bruised and had scabs all over. Joaquin Was mostly great but he's still finishing off his four month sleep regression phase so sleep was really not had. At all. That was probably the factor that finished breaking me. So now everyone's better in our home. Joaquin slept through the night. I slept. But now I have a feeling we're entering the real terrible twos. There is some serious pushing of the envelope and it's taking all of the energy and patience that I have left to try to keep on wi...

Our little Baby J slept so well last night! He went down for sleep at about 7:15 last night. He slept through the night (mostly, some fussing but we're letting him work through that instead of sprinting to his side to put the paci back in and it's working!). Then we woke up to soothe a little bit at about five. He slept a bit longer and then finally had his morning bottle at 6:30 this morning! Hurrah! So could this be our new norm or was this just a fluke? Who cares? It happened right before the weekend. hurrah!!! Izzy is loving this adorable smock that Guncle Ronnie (Jemmy's Boo) made for her. I was going to put her coat on this morning before going to school and she protested "no. Este!" because she wanted to have her smock on first. So she's wearing it to school today. Her teacher side eyed me when I took her coat off and she saw her smock on. I didn't feel like sitting there and explaining why my child had skulls all over her little outfit. ((Shr...

I can't seem to get myself to relax lately. My mind spins around in circles and I feel like I'm forgetting things left and right. Wait, it's not feelings, it's a fact. I am forgetting things left and right. I forgot to get Valentines for Izzy's classmates at daycare. ((forehead slap)) I forgot to mail out baby stuff to our dear friends who just had their baby premature 2 days ago. I forgot to close the loop on our daycare switch, so now we're going to switch them to ANOTHER daycare altogether. I forgot what else I forgot but there's more. much more. For Valentines, I get to get obscenely groped by my OB. It's my annual checkup time. Probe and grope me, please. Thank you! Cowboy asked what we're doing tonight and I shrugged it off and basically responded with 'whatever'. I didn't reach out for a baby sitter and am feeling so unmotivated to do anything out of the norm. I look forward to wanting to do Holiday related stuff again. It al...

I miss it. I've had exactly one night of real uninterrupted sleep in 4 months and even that night contained anxiety because u knew the carriage was turning right back into a pumpkin so I probably sapped too much out if that miracle night. I'm tired. I zone out a lot and feel like sleep will never really happen again, which is huge for this sleep lover. Yeah, yeah, I know that this is usually what happens when you have babies. Joaquin doesn't really feel like sleeping so I turned on his lil sleepy sea horse. Maybe it'll work. It's cute though. So, there's that.

She looks like she's up to no good. He looks very hesitant. I eat my hand when I'm hesitant too. :)

Of my lack of Blog posts... Cheeks! Disapproving Baby! Fine, I'll post. I'll post.

I was sleepy when trying to put a distracted Izzy's hair in pigtails. Result...

Ok, going to try to get back in the saddle here. If nothing else, to be able to document stuff along the way so that I remember these times and can look back on. Izzy and I ran a race yesterday w/some fabulous Chickies! (LawRah, wish you were there!) It was my first post-Joaquin race and I did not do so great, but I did it so, there's that. Lisi was super patient w/my slower pace and helped me a ton w/pushing the double stroller up hills and when I just couldn't do it. Thank goodness, else it could have been much much worse. Izzy was incredibly somber the whole morning until the race was finally over. She was not amused by being awaken earlier and strapped into the stroller for a cold morning run. She was, however, amused by sitting at a brunch table with all her adoring fans for pancakes and laughs. Good times. Joaquin is getting so big and so charming. He is kind of a popular little man with the ladies. He gets loved on and smirks his way into everyone's heart. I...