Here's some cute for ya
I am so sick of posting negative themed posts. I'm sure the blog has become a drag. I actually try to tuck away the interesting, funny, cute moments of the day so I have something nice to write about, but by the time I get to sit down at the computer, I can't remember them.
Here's a few cute things:
Jack pretends to talk on Keith's old cell phone, saying "hello" which sounds like "Allo" and then says a few words, usually about mommy and daddy and then says "bye" and puts the phone down.
We are in the very early stages of potty training. When Jack goes number 2, we walk to the bathroom and put the stuff in the toilet (I guess this is to get him to associate the toilet with poop). Anyway, this causes manic excitement and clapping (on his part, not mine).
Jack has learned to kiss and hug, mostly taught that by Aunt Sunny.
Whenever we do something to jack that he doesn't like (clip his nails, wash his hair, try to get wax out of his ears), he says "I sorry" because that's what we've always said to him when doing anything he didn't like.
Vroom, vroom...
Can I just tell you all how much I hate cars with loud mufflers AND the people that drive them? Honestly, it's always been a source of major annoyance for me, but it's way worse now that I have a tempermental, light sleeper of a toddler at home. And just who exactly thinks those cars are cool, anyway? The people that buy Fast and the Furious on DVD? God. Ridiculous. I swear, if that guy's car (my neighbor) wakes Jack up, I will march over to him as he revs his engine in his driveway and yell at him.
OK, deep breath.
In other news, emotionally, I am doing better. Jack is doing well, and he slept through the night, so I'm better rested, which I finds helps my mental state a lot. I hope all of you are doing well. I hope none of you with sleeping babies have to worry about jerks in Honda Civics waking your kid up. Grrrr...
I think I'm just going to be feeling sad for a while.
I'm feeling... sad. It's been a rough month with everything that has been going on. Jack being sick, tax stress, insane work stress (still ongoing to some degree), Jack still not sleeping consistently through the night (this includes twenty minute inconsolable screaming fits in the middle of the night), family health issues... and those are just my own problems.
Then there's the VA Tech thing. Technically, it doesn't have much of a direct effect on me. I know no one that lives in VA (I think). I don't want to take on this tragedy and make it my own or anything, but God, I just can't help but feel extremely sad.
I had Jack outside with me as much as possible this morning. Here, it's a beautiful day and I figured the sun would do us good. I'm sure I"m not the only one feeling down today. Hope all of you are doing ok. More later...
Jack is spoiled.
well, Jack is doing so so so much better... except for the sleeping. I guess while he was sick he got into the habit of waking up in the middle of the night. We both got up with him, gave him a little milk, changed him, and put him back to bed. Not such a big deal when he's sick.
But now, he's well. And it's still happening.
He could very well be rightfully thirsty. He drinks the milk and seems happy with it. Almost every night, he's gone straight to sleep after the milk.
It also could be sep. anxiety... or just that he's in a bad habit.
We have two choices: either keep getting up with him... forever. Or let him cry it out one night and hopefully he won't do it again.
Honestly, I'd rather get up with him than put all of us through an hour or hours long scream fest that would create in the middle of the night. I'm just not up for that.
Suebaby turns 30
Well, if any of you have read Keith's blog recently, you have an idea of what things have been like here lately. The day of my last post, Jack got really sick after waking up from that early nap and stayed sick for about a week. During that time, we worried about our son, we missed a lot of work, fired our pediatrician, and I turned thirty.
Well, Jack is finally doing better, which to us, means the entire world is better. Despite the stress and lack of sleep from Jack and his illness, I still had a great birthday. Keith made it very fun and special. We got to go out for the night on Saturday, which was great and then yesterday, I came home and Keith had turned the bathroom into "Keith and Jack's Spa of Earthly Delights". I got some great bath and body works stuff and some GODIVA chocolate (I just ate two pieces and feel a little crazy). Keith also made my favorite dinner and got me a birthday pie from Village Inn. Jack made the night fantastic by sleeping all the way until 7:30am!!!
Stef and Jay also sent me tulips (my favorite) and I got lots of cards, email, and calls. Kelly even dedicated a whole post to me on her blog (if you want to read it and see the embarrassing pictures it's at
http://stegfamilyoffive.blogspot.com.)
I'm very lucky to have so many great friends and family members. I love you and thanks for thinking of me.
A quick hello
Jack is in the stage of "I'm going to wake up from my nap any second"... so there's not much time. This morning we cleaned while a grumpy Jack threw temper tantrums. He fell asleep early and will hopefully wake up in a better mood. I am tired and overwhelmed with the work problems.
This coming weekend is my unofficial birthday weekend, where Keith and I will be spending Saturday night... somewhere, but I don't know where. Unfortunately, there's not been any free time to sit and wonder what kind of fun this weekend holds. I know that I'm looking forward to it, whatever it may be.
