Is it possible to get too much sleep? Sweet Pea was up about an hour sometime after 3am to sometime after 4am. Just to play. I went in her room to stop the crying and she just wanted up. So I tried everything I could think of to get her back to sleep and finally just got in the bed and she wandered around the room playing and talking for while. After some time, she crawled up on the stool and patted my arm, I hauled her up into the bed and she settled to sleep again.
I figured I would have trouble getting her up at 7:15 and to the babysitter's, but when I woke her up at regular time and she was a happy baby, not cranky and tired. Not real sure how I should be handling this new wrinkle in her sleep schedule...just trying to go with it and survive the day.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
cake
I made another pound cake. This time I made it exactly like the recipe, and it was wonderful. It calls for 1 cup coconut that I omitted when I made the duck. I took this one to work and got many compliments. It takes a long time to make a pound cake, but I think I might be getting good at this recipe!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Pain, Pain go away
TEETH strike again. We are battling the next level of teeth. Those big molars in the back. Bottom left is almost broken through and the other 3 are knocking on the door. Sweet Pea is on antibiotics for the ear infection that the teeth caused (just like when we got the big front teeth)
The sad thing is she is waking from nighttime sleep and naptime sleep crying with pain and chewing on the binky wildly. So I try to get some meds down her and we rock back to sleep.
We still have the baby monitor going(Honey Bun protests still using it) but I stagger into the bedroom to the crying baby. This week I have been tired and truly have been staggering into her room. TGIF
The sad thing is she is waking from nighttime sleep and naptime sleep crying with pain and chewing on the binky wildly. So I try to get some meds down her and we rock back to sleep.
We still have the baby monitor going(Honey Bun protests still using it) but I stagger into the bedroom to the crying baby. This week I have been tired and truly have been staggering into her room. TGIF
Friday, August 8, 2008
update
Thought you might like an update on my project list.
1. painting...I got the family room done and I LOVE the paint color. New carpet was put down on Wednesday and it looks great in there. Also got a new shelf for toys with my new passion...baskets. Sorted the toys and took all the baby toys out of the piles and put the books on a shelf so they are more visible, and that is working wonderfully. Sweet Pea can find and is reading her own books and not mine AND she can see her toys that she wants. Working out great!
2. cleaning...hired a high school girl to help with this task. She came last night and worked for almost 3 hours and the place is as sparkling as a fixer-upper is ever going to be. Now I have to decide if I want her to come back in a few weeks to maintain the sparkle. While she was here, I kept thinking that I could do all the stuff she was doing...but finally decided that I don't have 3 hours to give to cleaning exclusively and I was playing with Sweet Pea and she was just cleaning, so there is that to consider. Also I picked up the clutter and that could possibly be more trouble than the other cleaning jobs combined(or at least that is what I tell myself) So I guess I am saying that she had the easy part?
3. Thank you notes...I got some of them made...not mailed just made. One task at a time, right?
This weekend Sweet Pea and I are going to visit Best Friend and Little Miss. Should be fun, we are going to a hotel that has a children's play pool and we are hoping that the girls play in the water and we can visit then we will be out to eat, stay the night and come home in the morning. Sweet Pea loves the water, not sure about Little Miss...but hope the weekend goes well with us 4 girls on our own. That or we will have 2 screaming children in a hotel room. It could go either way.
1. painting...I got the family room done and I LOVE the paint color. New carpet was put down on Wednesday and it looks great in there. Also got a new shelf for toys with my new passion...baskets. Sorted the toys and took all the baby toys out of the piles and put the books on a shelf so they are more visible, and that is working wonderfully. Sweet Pea can find and is reading her own books and not mine AND she can see her toys that she wants. Working out great!
2. cleaning...hired a high school girl to help with this task. She came last night and worked for almost 3 hours and the place is as sparkling as a fixer-upper is ever going to be. Now I have to decide if I want her to come back in a few weeks to maintain the sparkle. While she was here, I kept thinking that I could do all the stuff she was doing...but finally decided that I don't have 3 hours to give to cleaning exclusively and I was playing with Sweet Pea and she was just cleaning, so there is that to consider. Also I picked up the clutter and that could possibly be more trouble than the other cleaning jobs combined(or at least that is what I tell myself) So I guess I am saying that she had the easy part?
3. Thank you notes...I got some of them made...not mailed just made. One task at a time, right?
This weekend Sweet Pea and I are going to visit Best Friend and Little Miss. Should be fun, we are going to a hotel that has a children's play pool and we are hoping that the girls play in the water and we can visit then we will be out to eat, stay the night and come home in the morning. Sweet Pea loves the water, not sure about Little Miss...but hope the weekend goes well with us 4 girls on our own. That or we will have 2 screaming children in a hotel room. It could go either way.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Too many projects
Art lady visited last week and her comment fits my situation perfectly. She said how many projects do you have going right now? I am not sure exactly how many projects I have going, but I will try to list a few for you.
1. Painting the family room. We are getting new carpet in the family room because I really despise the carpet in there. And since Honey Bun replaced the sliding glass door this summer(and did a wonderful job on that project) that room is almost done. New carpet will look wonderful and it perfectly matches the paint that I chose and I have approximately a third of the paint applied.
2. Painting the kitchen. Ever since the kitchen remodel (in Dec) this job has been pushed off and shoved off until I can't possibly wait any longer because I have bought tile for the backsplash area and hired the worker bees. So I painted the wall that touches the area that will be tiled. And I totally love the color.
3. Grapes. When we moved here, Honey Bun brought 4 "patio" grapes (kinda like patio tomatoes only grapes) Well the grape project expanded to permanent when he planted them in the yard and last year they froze off early and we didn't get any grapes. Which brings us to this year and the grapes were really set on and huge bunches. We picked them last night and I made 12 cups of juice with the hopes of making jelly when my mother dear is able to help me.
4. House cleaning. I am a horrible house keeper and have now decided to hire someone to help me with the task. I figure if I can have some help with the floors, dusting and bathrooms I can manage the rest. Basically I spent all of Saturday picking up stuff and putting it away. The place looked great and then Sweet Pea woke up!
5. Thank you notes. I have got to get thank you notes written for Sweet Pea's birthday. We had a great time and I need to upload photos when time allows.
6. Visiting. Summer is almost over and I am trying to squeeze in all my visiting. I have a few more people to see and also need to visit my folks.
7. Team dinner. The girls will be back in town and we always host them for the first night they are in town. It is so hot for a cookout and standing around outside with 15 college kids who don't know each other, so I am making taco stuff and they can build their own tacos. I have 5lbs of hamburger in the fridge that needs to be browned and frozen. Then when it is time for the dinner I will just put it in the crock pot.
I think that is about it for now. Have a good monday!
1. Painting the family room. We are getting new carpet in the family room because I really despise the carpet in there. And since Honey Bun replaced the sliding glass door this summer(and did a wonderful job on that project) that room is almost done. New carpet will look wonderful and it perfectly matches the paint that I chose and I have approximately a third of the paint applied.
2. Painting the kitchen. Ever since the kitchen remodel (in Dec) this job has been pushed off and shoved off until I can't possibly wait any longer because I have bought tile for the backsplash area and hired the worker bees. So I painted the wall that touches the area that will be tiled. And I totally love the color.
3. Grapes. When we moved here, Honey Bun brought 4 "patio" grapes (kinda like patio tomatoes only grapes) Well the grape project expanded to permanent when he planted them in the yard and last year they froze off early and we didn't get any grapes. Which brings us to this year and the grapes were really set on and huge bunches. We picked them last night and I made 12 cups of juice with the hopes of making jelly when my mother dear is able to help me.
4. House cleaning. I am a horrible house keeper and have now decided to hire someone to help me with the task. I figure if I can have some help with the floors, dusting and bathrooms I can manage the rest. Basically I spent all of Saturday picking up stuff and putting it away. The place looked great and then Sweet Pea woke up!
5. Thank you notes. I have got to get thank you notes written for Sweet Pea's birthday. We had a great time and I need to upload photos when time allows.
6. Visiting. Summer is almost over and I am trying to squeeze in all my visiting. I have a few more people to see and also need to visit my folks.
7. Team dinner. The girls will be back in town and we always host them for the first night they are in town. It is so hot for a cookout and standing around outside with 15 college kids who don't know each other, so I am making taco stuff and they can build their own tacos. I have 5lbs of hamburger in the fridge that needs to be browned and frozen. Then when it is time for the dinner I will just put it in the crock pot.
I think that is about it for now. Have a good monday!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
best part
The best part about having a birthday! Getting the beater.
I just am having a hard time believing it is time for her first birthday. Doesn't seem possible.
I just am having a hard time believing it is time for her first birthday. Doesn't seem possible.
somehow I thought it would be you
That is what I said to Honey Bun a few nights back, because somehow I thought it would be him to give Sweet Pea the Heimlich...but when the child was choking...it was me that jerked the tray off the high chair, grabbed her and dislodged the chunk of chicken. Actually Honey Bun (who is the certified first aide and CPR instructor in the family) was startled when I threw the tray and he could not figure out what was going on till it was over and Sweet Pea was crying and I had to tell him that she was choking. Kinda scary, but I had him teach me all the correct moves for an infant and child when she was a brand new baby...and it all came back to me.
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