"Why don't you update the blog?" That's about all I ever hear from Pedro. Well because it's on the other side of the internet. *snort* Also, blogging is so one sided. When I put things up on Facebook, I hear back almost right away from people. And we have a little chat, etc. But here it's like I say "Marco...." And I never hear Polo. Did that make sense? Haven't finished coffee #2 yet.
I'm trying to get stuff ready for the trip but there always seems to be so much to think about. I know that we can order food on the plane and buy water/juice after security but it's damned expensive so I'm trying to figure out my own snacks, etc. I'm also trying to worry too much or that will overshadow the fun stuff. SIGH
I never know exactly where my time goes. It seems like the day is poking along and all of a sudden it's time to make dinner or get the girls in the bath for bed. I mean, they don't sleep in the bath. Lily's sweet smile? She thought that she was getting a cookie. Madi and I had just eaten the last few. whoops!
Madi has been standing more and more even just from the evaluating sessions. I mean, the therapists gave me some ideas to try with her, behavioral and physical and it seems to have made such a big difference. She stood for over a minute today and tried to pull herself. She would not, however, relinquish her blocks so she never managed to pull up. lol You can see that she still has trouble with that one foot.
She did stand on that foot for a little while but it doesn't seem comfy.
whew The evaluators came back today. Thankfully, they had a cancellation so they came by this morning. Better than two days before vacation. :/ The big guns came out: an occupational therapist and a speech therapist. Madi is lagging behind developmentally but instead of telling me what I already know I learned that there's at least one good reason for it.
Wow. What a day. Various parties in the house barfed. The last one was a good one -Madilyn covered us both in her vomit. She's fine. But she's like Lily in that if she has to cough, she may as well bring everything up! That and I was committed to cleaning up the house today. We've had a busy last couple of weeks and they're only going to get busier so... I did pretty well, all things considered.
Lily and her daddy and g-pa went to the airshow on Saturday. Reviews are mixed. Pedro would probably have had a better time if he'd gone without Lily. She's little and they were out for almost 12 hours. I think she did the best that she could. Gosh, I had something else to write about but those old brain cells aren't working...
Some more pics of the orchard. The carpets are all done and it feels so nice to be in a house where the floor no longer squeaks and we don't have to dodge the nails that the cats exposed with their scratching. I feel like a grown up!
Well, we're not off to a good start with the carpeting. Apparently, the boss had a shredded tire on the way to work so the guys went out to help him. I think they were supposed to be here at 9 but it's almost 10 so.... I know they'll get the work done today because we're having the work done in two days so that we can manage moving all the furniture.
So much going on. We're getting new carpets in a couple of weeks. Working with a contractor to have a garage built. I'm researching new windows to have installed. Plus I'm working on ironing out the details of our trip to Canada.
We'll survive. It's made harder by Miss Madi-cakes not sleeping through the night still. Last night she wouldn't fall asleep until 1! ACK! And then woke me up just before 5. I let her work on falling asleep by herself. LOL I just didn't have the energy. I'm finding that a lot more lately - not having the energy. I looked at the dishes in the sink, last night, that I was going to have to move to wash a pot to cook and I thought, no way. Sigh.
Anyway, I have a taker for the crib so we'll be able to get some things out of the house before the carpets are done. THAT is causing me so much stress. After eleven years in some place, a lot of stuff accumulates. I'm trying to weed some of the garbage out but it's not easy. I feel like we're down to the minimum! So just thinking of moving everything out of the rooms.... We're going to do it in two stages: All the bedrooms, then the living room. That way we'll have the space to put all the furniture.
Holy smokes it is hot out there. But I was jonesing for some pizza and the lemon curd cupcake sounded too good to pass up so out we went. Pedro ate Lily's piece of pizza. Who does that??? I only had one slice of chicken parm - which was good because I've already had 2 cupcakes. :) We went to the place that you like to go to g-pa.
Note to Lily: you don't have to grow up THAT fast. She's rocking some red velvet cupcake around her mouth. She was shocked when I told her and ran to a mirror to fix herself AND her lipgloss. Sigh.
Madi is still keeping me awake at night. Not for as long but she has trouble falling asleep on her own. I usually have to grab her and snuggle her so that she can fall asleep. She seems to sleep best between 6 and 9:30 and so I'm very glad that Pedro lets us sleep in now. :)
I was trying to think of a cool title and you can see that I failed. I try to post but it's been really hard here lately. I don't get a lot of sleep (still) and now that Madi is crawling, I have to keep after her. Boy, she is a pistol. I can't put her in her crib anymore because she cries (thinking of just taking it apart) and so we put her on the floor while we go about our business. She doesn't like being left behind so she yells and stomps down the hall after us. She's followed Pedro right into the shower. :)
Madi still wakes me up at night. She's used to falling asleep in her high chair or on me, so it's hard for her to fall asleep anywhere else. But I try very hard to keep up a bedtime routine so at least she knows what's coming once she's had a bath and a story. It took me two hours to get her to sleep the other night. Only one hour last night. It's hard, y'all. I don't have a lot of time for me and it's making me grouchy!
I know this time will pass but I'm quite sure that I won't be missing this in 20 years time. I feel lucky in that way. :) Oh and it was funny this week when I went to the gym. Madilyn had chased her daddy into the shower again and was crying away. I thought, I'm not going to make it 5 minutes at the gym. But she took a look at the toys and the kids and I was chopped liver. Which was in direct contrast to Lily who cried the first half dozen times that we went there. Sigh.
Anyhoo, it's already quite late on a Saturday morning and I need to get some things done. This is a pic that I took a few minutes ago of Madi. The mess around her mouth? Peanut butter. :) Her hair? A mess from butting me in the back all night. She is getting better about getting back to sleep on her own so small steps.... or head butts.
Am I tired. Madi kept me up from 3:45 til 5 something. GAH I didn't give her any medicine before going to bed so I think that's why she was harder to get back to sleep. Ever since she started crawling she doesn't flop around on the bed so much, so THAT's good. Oh and the little poop woke up at 8, all bright eyed. So I got up to feed her and, of course, 30 minutes later she was falling asleep. Well, I've poked and prodded her to keep her awake. I have this family rule: if I'm awake You're awake. Since the opposite of that goes on so much.
don't really know why Madi decided to crawl yesterday. She was sitting on the floor "playing" with another baby. (They were both chewing on the same thing). Then she saw a little activity area and I guess it looked interesting because she just crawled on over. I put her down to sleep on it. Last night, she kept up the crawling. We were watching 2012, kind of cheesy but entertaining, so I had to remind myself to go and check on her. Oh, she stayed in the study, but disappeared under the high chair to pull out books, or went under Lily's desk to chew on wires. Good times. 
Well, last night was better than the night before. Madi woke me up at 3 (as per usual) then woke me up about every hour after that. Granted she only woke me up for a short period so that was way better than Tuesday night. I'm still tired, of course. Waiting for the day that she'll sleep through the night....
I've started letting Madi take baths by herself. I'm sitting right beside the tub, however. And she reminded me why we bought a shower caddy when she went straight for the shampoos. She's still not walking or crawling but if I hold her up she moves her legs like she's ready to take off across the floor. So that's good, right?
And on top of all this merriment, I feel like I'm rocking another sinus infection. Sometimes I sleep with a blanket on my head since we're low on pillows. Sigh. Lily has been a pretty good girl these days. Yesterday I broke down crying (I was REALLY tired) and told her that I wanted to be a good mom. She said "You are a good mom. You brought me cherries and played pony". *sniff*
As you can probably tell by my previous post, I'm grouchy. Madi didn't wake me up as much but she was flopping all over the place and crying. You try to sleep while being body slammed by a 1 year old. It took an hour, at least, to get her to nap. I mean, she was asleep and even after I told Lily to be quiet, she yelled for me and woke up Madi.
I'm so tired and frustrated. I think it's one thing to have the baby waking me up at night and another to have her inconsolable during the day. I just get nothing done. Like right now: I'd like to clean up but I daren't go into the bedroom where she's sleeping. You know? Another front tooth is coming in and the upper sure seem more painful than the bottom. Sigh. I think I'm just going to be grumpy for a while more. It's so weird that it seems like two weeks ago, she just changed. She cries more, has trouble falling asleep, etc. Is it something I did? Is it something she's going through? etc. galg
I still believe that with time, Madi will learn to soothe herself and communicate what she needs. She also looks like she's going through a growth spurt. Oh and in the good news department, she's started drinking from a sippy cup again.
Pedro is always complaining about how I don't update the blog. Well, as I"m sitting here with Madi's nose an inch from the keyboard, maybe he'd understnad thar i'5'w no qall that easy
was going to put cute captions by the pictures but I'm too cranky now. And no, I did not get a lot of sleep last night. Tooth #4 is making it's move and Madi is extremely uncomfortable. Yes, I give her painkillers, etc. I think she also just needs to learn how to crawl or walk because her flopping around the bed all night is making me worry about her giving herself shaken baby syndrome.
GAH
