Sleeping Beauties

Rainbow

This was after a huge storm we had. The kids stayed up a little later because of the thunder and lightening. We finally put them to bed and Daddy left only to call back and tell me that there was a huge rainbow out there. I ran upstairs to show the kids and not meaning to I woke them both up!! But they got to see it and loved it!

Nights

Well we've now had two nights here at the new house! The kids have done great. I thought for sure the first night would be bad. New place, new sounds, stressed, & new bed for Aby it all just spells bad night!! But nope, first night they both slept through the night. I chalked it up to being so worn out. Last night they were in bed early and still stayed in bed through the night!
Abygail got up at 6:30a and I told her it wasn't 7 yet and she needed to go back to bed. Off she went, back to bed until I got her when I got up a bit after 7a!! I really do hope this keeps up, Mommy needs some sleep!

False Alarm

You know that feeling when you wake up and realize your alarm didn't go off?? That was us this morning. Daddy woke up and realized it was right about the time he should have been leaving for work(7:30)!

And of all mornings, this is the morning where I had to be out of the house by 8. YEAH..... Mad dash. Daddy in the shower, me flying through the house picking out clothes for the kids and myself. Getting them up and understanding that we have to move NOW!!! They actually did pretty well. I get them dressing and I come down to put some cereal in baggies for breakfast on the go. I set the baggies on the stove and look up and realize the clock says its only 7:00.... Huh? Turn around, look at the microwave clock, only 7:00.... Double huh??

Whew... Its only 7:00! I go up and tell Daddy who's running around trying to get his stuff together! A big sigh of relief all around. We look at the clock in our room and sure enough it says its 30 minutes later then it is. We don't know how it got that way, but it did and it got us movin' this morning!!

Happy Hump Day!!

Growth Spurt??

It's 9:25am (10:25 old time)... Why is this significant?? Because Jaycob is still sleeping!!!! I don't know what it is with him lately! I think in the last two weeks he's gotten up before 8am only twice! For him that is just crazy!
He's also been eating like there is no tomorrow! He'll clear a plate and ask for more without a problem!

Why Again??

Why again is it my children don't sleep in their beds? And why must the youngest sleep so close to her brother? He goes to bed a good hour or more before she does, so this is her preferred sleeping spot this night! Oh and if only he knew she was sleeping on his pillow!!!

Why Oh Why?

Why oh why won't my children fall asleep in their beds? Abygail falls asleep right outside her bedroom door. Jaycob falls asleep just inside his doorway! When we go to bed we move both of them to their beds. Abygail gets up appx 3am and moves back to the floor at the foot of Older Sister's bed. Jaycob has been staying in his bed the last 3 nights, but before that you'd find him on his floor come morning too! What do they have against their beds??

Sick Kids

My poor kids are sick again. It started with sore throats, took them to urgent care, did strep test and they came back negative. They sent us home telling us we were crazy and there was nothing wrong with them, probably just a virus! The whole time the kids are crying about sore throats and both have high temps. Yeah its a virus all right... Uhhggg! The hand, foot, and mouth disease virus!!! I don't blame the urgent care staff for not diagnosing since all they had at the time were sore throats. But the big ol' blisters all throughout my kids mouths should have been a beginning clue. Like I said I know they can't do anything with just blisters, but... I guess I just felt like they didn't care much! At least we got free doses of Motrin for both the kids out of them!

Anyway... We came home from the urgent care, treated the sore throats and fevers, and sent them to bed! Next day while Daddy went to get Older Brother and Older Sister. Jaycob fell asleep here on the couch and as he was sleeping I looked down and noticed he had rashes all over his feet... No big deal, he does sometimes get random rashes when he has a high fever. Yeah, by the time he woke up when Daddy got home the rashes were all over his hands too... So between the rash on his hands and feet and the sores in his mouth... Self diagnosed hands, foot, and mouth disease! Looked on the internet, called a few people with experience just to confirm... So of course my next calls were to people we had exposed or may have exposed us! Those are always the fun calls to make!

Several days in and we're still treating throats and fevers. They seem to be feeling better! Yesterday I'm trying to get Abygail to eat something since we're on day 3 of NO eating from her. She's standing in the kitchen and she tells me she can't eat. I ask her why and she tells me this... "Can't eat. Throat hurts. Take throat out and put it down here." all the while motioning taking her throat out of her mouth and setting it on the floor!!! Awwwww.... Like I didn't feel bad enough as it is!

Anyway... Seems as of today that we're in the clear, no fevers. Abygail has slowly eaten since yesterday, though she still has minor complaints once and a while. And Jaycob only has a few spots left on his hands and feet! I can tell you they sure are fighting like normal!

While the Cats away....

The mice will play!

Or is that the kids and daddy?!? I left for the night for a much needed mommy break. When I came back I took my stuff upstairs and noticed Daddy's pillows weren't on our bed. I immediately started feeling bad that he most likely ended up spending the night in one of the kids beds. As I continued to pick up and put stuff where it belonged I realized the kids pillows weren't on their beds either.... Of course I thought of the worse. "Great, Daddy had a rough night and had to do pee-pee laundry on top of it!" So I go to ask him what happened and if his night was really as bad as it seemed. Nope! I head down the stairs and there is a full size 4 person tent set up in the playroom!! Yeah! It really did surprise me!

I guess I know where all the pillows went! After talking to Daddy I found out that soon after I left they had dinner, put up the tent, and got ready for bed. Daddy told them that after they fell asleep he would move them into the tent and they could sleep there! So they happily went off to bed and Daddy did just what he said he would do. And they all slept in the tent last night!

Isn't he the coolest Daddy ever!

Dreams, Nightmares, & Night Terrors

Jaycob has all of thee above and each is talked about differently.

Night Terrors: Well, obviously in true night terror fashion Jaycob doesn't remember them at all. He does have them a couple times a month. We'll have two in one week, none the next, two the following week, and none the last week. This seems to be the pattern we deal with. His night terrors consist of plenty of screaming, crying, standing up in bed and the likes. We usually just try to get him to calm down. We know 'they' say that you're not supposed to interfere and we really try not to, but when you see your baby in that state its really hard sometimes. When its done and over with he's usually back to peacefully snoring before his head ever reaches the pillow.

Dreams: He usually wakes up and just tells us this off the wall story that we're really not sure if he just made it up or if it was actually a dream.

Nightmares: Like last night... In the middle of the night we get the screaming and terrified look, kinda like the Night terrors but he's aware. Last night he was afraid of something (something eating and or biting him) and neither one of us could pin it down. I eventually just sat with him until he calmed down/ passed back out. Fast froward to this morning and I get this story...

"A snake was eating me. He went like this with his tongue (he sticks out his tongue). And he eats me all up!" "There a frog and he goes like this with his tongue (again the tongue sticking out), but he didn't eat me! Frog eats bugs! (As he's rubbing his belly) Turtle was dreaming too. He didn't eat me (vigorous head shaking no). He out of his shell like this. (Severe neck stretching) He eats grass. Snake eat me all up!! (dramatic chomp chomp hands)"

Somewhere in there I had asked him if this was his dream last night. And his answer was, "Yeah, I scared. The snake eat me all up!" and the story continued!

I hate to say that I actually enjoy his nightmares, because I don't at all. What I enjoy is the actual conversation and insight into his mind the next morning.

Golden Ring

And Jaycob pretending he's sleeping!

Sleeping Son

He passed right out!

To Bed I Go!

Abygail asked to go to bed a good hour before normal nap time. I told her to go expecting her to be back down in a few minutes. About 20 minutes later I thought it was mighty quiet up there. This is what I found!!

Note: She's done this a few times since. From what my in-laws have said Daddy used to do this all the time too!

Flying In

So... Daddy is gone to the airport... We're waiting for Grandma Cyndi, Aunt A, and Cousins E and S to show up! Jaycob is so excited I don't think he can see straight!! I choose not to tell Abygail so she would nap. But she'll be quite surprised when she gets up!
We have so much stuff planned, this trip should be fun with all the kids!!

No More Cribs...

Yep, she did it today. In much the same way her brother did to us a year and some change ago! Abygail has never tried climbing out of her crib, but she did it today twice! Actually three times, but....

The first time... She was put down for a nap and about 30 minutes later there was a scream from up there. Daddy went up thinking just a foot was stuck or something. Nope! She was standing there in the middle of the room!!!!

The second time... I had laid her back down for her nap after the first escape. She had only been down for 30 minutes before so I was momentarily ignoring that she climbed out. She needed a nap! She slept. I heard her wake up so I sent Jaycob up to say hi and entertain her for a minute, as I often do. Next thing I knew I heard two sets of feet running around up there! UHHHHGGG!

The third time... I then took her and put her back in the crib. I wanted to see how she was doing it. There's one of those round pop-up hampers next to her crib so I wanted to see if maybe she was using that as a step. If so then it would be an easy fix, move the hamper! But nope she wasn't using it.

So we ended up taking the front of her crib off today. I'm kinda sad. I don't have any more fully assembled cribs in my home. A lot of crib pieces, but no whole cribs! The only thing we have left is diapers and school... :-(

How did she go to bed in her new big girl bed you ask??? Well, at first we walked in her room and she started saying, "No bed, crib now" "Crib now, where's crib?". But after a little talking she laid down and fell asleep pretty quickly! Never heard another peep from her. But we'll see how she does all night! I'm betting there will be a little one trying to climb in bed before morning!

UPDATE 2/25: Well, good thing I'm not much of a betting person. We did not end up with a little girl in our bed. She actually slept in her bed all night. This morning she actually slept in until 8am, which is sleeping in for her lately! I'm sitting here and I hear her little squishy butt coming down the stairs. No whining or crying up in her bed. And coming down the stairs she looked so proud of herself!! I've got a big girl on my hands here, watch out!!

Fast Asleep

Just found this one and had to add it!

Christmas Eve. Jammies

What's better then new jammies on Christmas Eve.? The kids helped put presents under the tree all day. So, boy were they excited when they came down from baths to find a present in each of their 'spots'. Jaycob kept asking if he could open it, wondering why he could open this one now when we had been telling them they couldn't open presents all day!

Here's the two of them in their new Santa jammies! Thanks Aunt M. we LOVE our new jammies!

Carb Overload

Jaycob fell asleep at the table again. Older Brother couldn't help but snap a picture with his cell phone!

Sunrise

Yep, it was my turn to get up with Jaycob, our little early riser!! And for that I got rewarded with this beautiful sunrise when I let Oreo out... Guess the picture really doesn't do it justice, but I thought I would share it anyhow!

Behind Curtain #1???

I built Jaycob and Abygail their very first bunk bed fort this afternoon. Lets just say I think I started something!

They ended up loving it and leaving me alone for over an hour!! Jaycob even requested that I put back up the "cave" for bedtime. I did and in doing so just hoping 1) He'll sleep in in the morning and 2) He won't wake up scared in the middle of the night screaming!