Holy Crap

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.

I 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.

At least it feels like we're getting somewhere.

Speaking of which, I need to drink two more coffees before going to the gym. Oh yeah, I'm healthy.

Blah

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*

Grouchy

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

Man am I going through chocolate today. If someone would drop off a chocolate cheesecake I'd be much obliged. :P It's definitely gym day. I think the biggest frustration is that I don't know what to do to help Madi. And then there's a big pile of cat barf on the floor. BG peed somewhere in the study, Lily massacred my soap and made a mess in the shower. I'm kind of a one crisis at a time kind of person so this all just has me on edge today. Add to the fact that it's going to be close to 100 F all week and my eye drop prescription is $60. :P GAH

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.

Seriously people, it's been rough.

For cranky-pants

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

Okay, Madi's on the floor; banished after pulling a pile of bills over. I swear. Today is a day where I'm really battling the urge to move to Timbuktu. By myself.

I 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

I need a drink.


And you want to know why it's annoying, PEdro? Besides Madi's nose, I have to wait 30 secons or more wevedry time I want tup load a pic. On facebokk OI fchoosdes all my pics at one time. So :P

What Pedro misses because he's not on Facebook

Camera Fight

My girls

We had a good weekend at g-ma and g-pa's house. Madi had her first birthday party. I feel like I'm writing a "Run Spot Run" book but I'm exhausted. I know. You'd think I'd be used to it already. Madi loved the pool. Took to it right away. Lily's played in a few pools already so she doesn't count. :)

I'm trying to think of what else we did. Yes, I'm that tired. Oh yeah, opened presents, ate some cake, had a yummy dinner. Wow, I'm halfway to zombification. We're filling out passport applications and we had to measure the girls. Lily is about 44 inches and Madi is 29"!! She is a tall baby. And she's trying to walk, but bouncing and goose stepping at the same time, doesn't seem to be the way to do it.

Our mermaid:

Rough Day

Madi's been trying to kill me with sleep deprivation again. Either that or her two top teeth REALLY hurt as they grow in. I give her medicine but... Anyhoo, after a very long rough day I'm finally relaxing to some chicken and pasta with a glass of Niagara wine.

Just heard a loud clunk against the wall. Let me go and check on Lily and I'll post pics later.

Okay, I meant Daddy-pants

What can I say? I'm tired most of the time. The dark pictures are from Luray Caverns. I definitely need a new camera this year. Mine's afraid of the dark. :P

For Daddy-pats

Trying

I'm trying to get organized. The fridge is not working right, the defrost heater is a solid block of frost/ice. Bad. Most of the dairy products have already gone off so I'll need to get rid of everything.

Easy, right?

Well, the repair guy can't get here until tomorrow SO I can't buy anything new until the fridge is working. Hopefully by tomorrow afternoon it will be working. I'm trying to picture the worst case scenario and go with that. So far, that sucks.

I'm trying to eat as much refridgerated stuff as I can but some of it has already gone bad. All that lunch meat *sob*

That's life, right?

Life stinks sometimes.

How

am I supposed to know that "topato" means tomato and not potato?

Oh yeah

Reason #412 that Lily is awesome:

I made chocolate chip pancakes this morning for the first time. Lily "helped". She took her breakfast to her desk in the study, where Pedro was and asked him:

"Are you jealous?"

LOL!!!!

My girls

Happy Days

No, no Fonz here. Okay, I'm weird. Anyway, we had a pretty good time for Memorial Day. Pedro finished putting in the study ceiling fan with considerably less swearing than the night before. Then we were off to the Luray Zoo and Luray Caverns. The zoo is almost all rescue animals. They had a hawk who'd been hit by a car and had a wing amputated, etc.

They also had one of the east coast's biggest collections of venomous snakes. Seriously. These were mostly pets that people couldn't take care of anymore. I started to get nervous. Even though there's the plexiglass window.... It's not a big lush exhibit like some zoos where you can't even see the snakes. These guys are inches away from you and will get pissed off. Lily ran into one room and startled the rattler. I could hear his tail. He didn't like Pedro either. :)

I really liked the zoo because the staff seemed to be genuinely enthusiastic about being there. It was small, and the people were "local" so everyone was polite and having fun. There were maybe two dozen of us there. :) Anyhoo, I recommend it. Not every day you get to see alligators fed and pet a yak. They have a tiger too but I didn't feel like watching it be fed. I'll save that for another trip. :)

Oh, and most of us had hats on because I found a tick on Lily Friday night. *faint* We don't go out that much but she does run around when I zip outside to do some gardening while Madi naps. Do they sell Deet showers?

And Lily wanted me to take this picture for Dada.