last night and this weekend

Starting today our high temperatures for the next week or so is only going to be in the single digits. AYE! so cold. I can say for certain that me and the kids will be staying home. If I do get out in the afternoon, it will be when hubby is home so I can leave the kids here. The only thing nice about temperatures that low is that it rarely snows here when it is so cold.

Last night was a bit difficult in mi casa. The baby went to sleep fine as did the older kid. I should have known they had conspired against me. You see, my shoulder has been hurting so I decided to take 1/2 of a prescription pain killer before bed, 1/2 because the full one sometimes leaves me feeling worse in the morning than if I had never taken the pill. 1/2 is enough to numb the pain yet leave me coherent and able to function fully. I fell asleep almost immediately last night. At 1 am the older child woke up scared. She had a nightmare of some sort. I am still not sure what, she has no recollection this morning of screaming and scaring the daylights out of her mom, who was in the midst of a very peaceful, drug induced, relaxed sleep. So of course I had to go to the bathroom and check on the baby since I was already awake. I finally fell back asleep about 1:30. At 5:30 the baby woke me up. She was happy and just a cooing away in her crib. Daddy was awake but daddy is no help in the morning because he is slow as it is getting ready for work, the last thing he needs is to feed the baby. He gets out the door just in time every morning. So the baby gets fed and starts playing. Just as the baby starts to fall asleep, I curl up on the couch, hoping to catch a quick hour or so nap before the older child wakes up. No such luck this morning, K woke up 1 hour earlier than normal. So K is wide awake, the baby is sleeping and momma feels like lying on the couch and not moving for the whole day. Definitely not taking any painkillers until nap time. Today is going to be a nap day for momma as well as the kids.

sooo tired

My darling little baby woke up at 3:30 am and again at 5:45 am. This is one tired mama today. I could fall asleep as I type this. Within the last couple of days, O has discovered her voice. Her "voice" is more of this high pitched screeching and then a laugh afterward. That is what I woke up to at 5:45. At 3:30 I woke up to her normal "feed me" cry. I do not mind getting up to feed O at all but I really dislike getting up early because she wants to "talk". UGH. She is just sitting in her bouncy seat eyes wide open and just talking away. I NEED a nap...already.

new bedtime routine

We started a new bedtime routine for K. She is not tired anymore at 7:30 when her usual bedtime is so we started a new thing tonight. We put her in her room at 7:30. I read her a couple of her preschool golden books, and then she can play until 9 pm, if she doesn't fall asleep before then. It is going to work out really well, I think. She won't have to go to bed so early, but Rodney will still get his time to unwind. She gets few minutes of alone time with me. I get some quiet time too. I used to read books to her every night but after O was born, it got really hard to do. I tried to still do it but it got put on the backburner. She has over 300 little golden books. I started collecting for her right after she was born. I have not been collecting like I once was but I still browse the new ones when I see them.

I am spoiled

I realized last night that O's sleep has me spoiled. I went to bed at 8:30, she woke up at 2 am and I could barely function enough to get up and feed her. I have been so used to her sleeping through the night that when she doesn't it is hard!! She has the same cold as the rest of us so I have to clean out her nose and then wait about 3 minutes to feed her so she can breathe better. She was up for an hour and a half last night. UGH!! My butt is dragging this morning but at least she slept in until a little after 7.

I am pretty sure once I do my workout I will wake up. It is too cold to go anywhere today so we aren't even leaving the house. I will be able to get a bunch of housework done though.

I stretched out my shoulders before bed last night with an exercise band I got from WIC yesterday. If you can get on it, WIC is an excellent program. Not only do they provide us with milk, eggs, cheese, juice, peanut butter, formula for the baby and cereal, they also have really great things monthly that they give away. This month it was exercise bands. The first time we went they had recipe cards for healthy meals. They check the children for growth. They are really great about providing me with health advice as well. The ladies (at least in my county office) are really nice and really helpful. The exercise band really helped. My shoulder feels great this morning. I have been waking up sore every morning.

I love the morning

Both kids are quietly sleeping upstairs while I am downstairs enjoying the peace and quiet of my house in the early morning. You could hear a pin drop in the house right now. I know in the next half hour or so that calm and quietness will coming to a screeching halt, literally.

K usually wakes up by 8 am at the very latest. The baby naps off and on but when she wakes up she will be wide awake. She slept through the night from 9 pm until 6 am. She drank a full bottle at 6, so she may sleep until 9 but it won't be any later than 9.

I should go work out.....while I can.

Have a great day!

Awesome Night

O slept in her crib all night. ALL NIGHT FROM 9 PM UNTIL 5 AM. She only woke up at 5 because I came downstairs to check on her and to go to the bathroom and while stumbling around in the dark, I tripped and crashed the baby gate. She actually slept better downstairs last night than she does sleeping with me. If this continues I will feel like a whole new woman.

We got snow last night and it looks like a lot of it from my windows. I have not ventured out yet to shovel the sidewalk and driveway. I should but I am going to wait until hubby wakes up.

We decided last night that we are having our Christmas today. Since we can't go anywhere, it will be nice for K to have some new toys to play with. It will occupy her today and tommorrow. She gets quite antsy by the 3rd day of being in the house. Tommorrow will be day #3. So when hubby wakes up, we are opening our presents. He stayed up late playing Xbox online with his buddies so it may be an afternoon Christmas

done early again

We got done with work early again today. Only 3 more days left in the year. I am pretty excited to be done yet sad that I will be done.

Last night K slept in bed with me for part of the night. I love the cuddle time with her. She can be such a sweetheart. I went upstairs to go to bed and she was lying in her bed partially awake. She said "momma? I sleep with you?" So I picked her up and carried her to my bed. It was so nice to cuddle with her like that. It has been awhile since she has wanted to be a cuddle bug. She was kissing my nose and forehead and rubbing my arm and saying " I love you Momma". Those are the times that I wish she would stay little forever. She wrapped herself up in my arms and wiggle her back up against my belly and chest and let out this huge sigh and fell asleep.

O woke up about 1:30 so then I put K into bed and brought O upstairs to feed her. Then I cuddled with her. I love my babies sooooo much. Of course there are days when I get crabby and don't like being a mommy very much but those days thankfully are few and far between.

naps and other thoughts

The baby and I took a nap on the couch this morning. It was nice. I needed it very much. I woke up with a start this morning and was not able to fall back asleep. O slept through the night in her crib and I hadn't heard her all night. I woke up thinking something was wrong so I ran downstairs. She was fine. She just turned sideways in the crib. She was sleeping away so I got myself woke up, made her a bottle and fed her. We had 2 1/2 hours of time together this morning without anyone else awake. I love the sound of my house in the morning. The PEACE and QUIET. Very early morning is the only time this house is quiet.

When K woke up, I woke up hubby and made breakfast. We had eggs with mushrooms, onions, and green peppers in it and sausage on the side. A good hearty breakfast. K loves onions and green peppers. Odd for a 2 year old if you ask me.

So I did have some treatment effects after dinner last night. TMI WARNING~~~~~~~ I had a very soft stool. It felt wierd but honestly if that is my only treatment effect I can totally deal with it.

I stepped on the scale again and it said I was down another pound. I am pretty freaking impressed. I know it is not just the Alli. I know it also is due me watching what I put in my mouth. I watch everything that goes in me. I think about it before I eat. I used to do that but I also wrote down everything. I will probably start that again soon but for now I am doing really well without having to write everything down. I think that Alli is the boost that I needed. I am only going to update my ticker on my check in day. That way if I do gain or lose, I am not constantly updating it.

It is 11 weeks to the concert. I would love to be back in my favorite pair of prepregnancy jeans by then...Size 16. I was 220 when I wore them and they were a bit tight. I think if I can get down to 215 they would fit perfectly. I would LOVE to be able to wear them to the concert. Hell, I would love to be able to just wear more than 1/4 of the clothes in my closet. I would love to be in a size 12 by O's first birthday and that is the ultimate goal. Of course a 10 is even better but I do not want to get any smaller than a size 8. What am I crazy?!?! NOPE. I like a bit of curves. That is part of being a woman.

Once I lose the weight I want to take a picture of myself in my biggest pair of jeans as a reminder to what I have accomplished.

adjusting

We are working on having the baby sleep in her own room. It is an adjustment for all of us, because her room is the furthest away from the master bedroom and because she is used to co-sleeping. While I loved having her sleep with me, it is becoming more dangerous because she is starting to wiggle herself into other positions when she sleeps. Co-sleeping is not something that Doctors, etc. recommend. But I have found that from about 2 weeks until about 3 months the baby sleeps better and I also sleep better. After about 3 months, at least with my kids, then started to wiggle around at night, get themselves moved into different position, and wake up from my snoring. I am a light sleeper since having kids and I don't move around in my sleep. I take precautions with blankets and pillows and by 4 months (when K starting rolling from her back to her side), She was no longer sleeping in my bed. I am doing the same with O. Last night was the first night O was in her crib all night. She fell asleep at 9 and woke up at 5:30 AM. She had been sleeping like that in bed with me. A couple more days will show for sure if she is ready to sleep through the night. She has been sleeping in 6 hour stretches at night since about 4-5 weeks old.

A lot of other parents will get down on me for co-sleeping but I don't care. I don't function well without much sleep and I need to function to be a good mom to my kids.

You might ask what does hubby think of all this? Well he doesn't mind at all. He generally likes to sleep on the couch. He complains that our bed makes his back hurt. Since he gets up at 5:30 most mornings, it is fine with me that he likes to sleep on the couch. I get more sleep that way.