It’s funny (funny BOO-HOO, not funny HA-HA) how you can go into a night thinking that it’s going to be a good one and you’ll get lots of sleep and then it turns out that night is just one of the worst, most ‘off’ nights your family has had as yet.
8:30 – kids in bed
10:30 – Jason and I in bed
1:15 – I hear Lily screaming through Cameron’s monitor that is on my night stand. I shoot up and notice Jason isn’t in bed. I run to the hallway in time to see him and Lily fly past me and reach the bathroom just in time for Lily to throw up into the sink.
1:18 – Cameron starts making a little noise in his room
1:20 – Jason goes to Cameron. I take Lily to our bathroom to get her calmed down. Through her tears she tells me that she wants to wake up. I tell her it’s not time to wake up yet. She looks at our bed and tells me that she wants to go in that big bed. I offer to sleep in her bed with her but she declines and ask again to sleep in our bed. I tell her that’s fine and she asks for her Sleeping Beauty friend.
1:40 – Lily and I are laying down in bed. She has a low fever but seems more tired than anything.
1:50 – Jason is back in bed
2:15 – Cameron starts crying. I go nurse him.
2:40 – I’m back in bed
2:45 – Lily wants a drink and is burping so Jason takes her into the bathroom thinking that she’s going to be sick again. She’s fine but gets upset again.
2:50 – All back in bed
4:00 – Cam cries again. Jason goes to him.
4:30 – Jason is back in bed.
5:00 – Cam cries again. I go nurse him and then sleep with him in the recliner
6:00 – Alarm goes off
6:30 – We’re all up
Ick. My brain is tired today.
Lily’s spirits improved 100% between 7:15 and 7:30 this morning. The kids are home with Grandma and Grandpa today and so far seem to be doing great. Lily has finally eaten some breakfast and I could hear her chattering in the background when I called earlier.
Yeah…so, that year just flew by!
Right now I’m watching Cam almost RUN around the living room waving his card that sings the Mickey Mouse Club song and I’m wondering how is it even possible that it was a whole year ago that he was born! For the past two days I’ve been thinking “One year ago today I was headed to the hospital, or Lily was meeting Cam, or we were thinking of going home” and so on.
It’s been so much fun to watch Cameron grow from a baby to a toddler who loves music and dancing, Mickey Mouse and his big sister. He is growing more interested in toys and prefers balls and trucks though he won’t hesitate to love on a baby doll. Even though he’s becoming more and more independent he still loves his mama and often comes to be just for a quick cuddle before heading off again. Just in the last couple of weeks he has started to rest his little blonde head on my shoulder when I’m holding him. Sweetest thing ever!
Cameron and I are also celebrating another big milestone today of nursing for a full year! Hooray for us!
Our little baby is now full of personality and spirit. I expect him to keep us on our toes during the next year!
1. We have started letting Lily get out of bed on her own when she wakes up. Mind you, we had never told her that she had to stay in bed until we got her but she assumed that and we just kind of went with it. When we first told her this a couple of weeks ago she laid down for about 30 minutes at nap time and then decided it was time to get up. Um, no. We remedied this by telling her that she could get up all by herself after nap but if she hadn’t been asleep long enough we would put her in bed. Problem solved. Her real thrill is getting up all by herself in the mornings. A couple of things… we don’t really want her roaming around the upstairs if she wakes up in the middle of the night. We have dogs and while I don’t think anything bad would happen with them I don’t really want to find out if the dogs would flip out if Lily came into our room in the middle of the night and tripped over one of the sleeping dogs. Also, I’m quite certain it would scare the CRAP out of me if I woke up to find Lily standing at the side of my bed. It’s bad enough when she gets up by herself after nap in the middle of the day and sidles up behind me all stealth-like. So, the rule is that if she wakes up and the stairway light is on she’s allowed to get up. Otherwise she needs to call for us on the monitor if she needs something. Lily is downright GIDDY about this new found freedom! Jason and I are adjusting.
2. Cameron has been talking up a storm lately. One of his favorite things is to walk into a room and just say, “Hi!” On Wednesday night he was holding a ball and walked right up to our friend and pointed at the ball and said, “Ball.” He was totally matter-of-fact about it! I didn’t even know that he knew ‘ball’.
3. We experienced the first signs of separation anxiety with Cameron this morning. It was the suck.
4. Lily has been getting really good a putting together puzzles. It’s like something has flipped in her brain over the past couple of weeks and now she gets it.
5. Tired…oh so tired. Cameron has actually been sleeping OK this week but I just can’t seem to get rested. My body aches and there are times when I think I could just fall asleep on the drive to work. Must take a nap soon.
The parents are booted from the room during Lily’s dance class which is definitely a good idea. It would be way too crowded in there and kids would be splitting attention between the teacher and their parents and the whole scene would be chaotic. However, when I peeked in through the window last night and saw tears running down Lily’s face I had to really resist the urge to go busting through the door to find out what was wrong. I knew that if things got bad the teacher would come and get me. Three minutes later she did just that.
I have never seen Lily so upset. It was heartbreaking. The teacher said that she was just having a little anxiety and invited me to sit on the bench with her while the rest of the class did their sashays and cartwheels. Lily was just full on sobbing and only calmed down a little after I had her take some deep breaths with me. She finally stopped crying but when I asked her what was wrong it all started up again. In between her sobs she choked out that she was crying because she wanted her mommy. Did you hear that? That sound was my heart breaking. More deep breaths and she calmed down again. We watched the other girls do somersaults and I asked if she wanted to give one a try. More tears followed by more deep breaths.
I noticed that one of the little girls sitting in front of me had on Lily’s ballet shoes. I looked at Lily’s feet and saw that she was wearing shoes that were too big and pretty beat up. I commented to her that those weren’t her shoes and she got upset again so I asked if that’s why she was crying. She said it was. Whether or not it really was we’ll never know since she may have just been agreeing with me but I suspect that is what made her upset. The kids start the class in their tap shoes and then about half way through they switch to their ballet slippers. The teacher came over to see if Lily wanted to join the class again and I told her about the mix up with the shoes.After class I asked the teacher when she started to get upset and she said that it did happen at about the time they switched shoes.
We got the right shoes on the right girl and Lily started to feel a little better but definitely wasn’t ready to join the class yet. So, we watched for a few more minutes. Eventually she let me go over and sit on the floor with her next to the other girls. At the end they all took turns bouncing across the floor on a ball and she did take a turn with that. She was still sensitive at the end of the class but she was being so big and brave as they all lined up to leave. I could see in her face that she wanted to be strong and was trying to calm down but just had a little bit of trouble. I hope that she’s still excited for dance class next week. Guess we’ll find out on Monday!
Our little man battled his first fever over the weekend. It started on Saturday evening creeping up to just over 100. Tylenol and sleep helped him get some rest but we were up with him for a couple of hours early Sunday morning when the temp went up to 101. Other than the fever that came in waves he seemed to feel fine for most of Sunday morning. By Sunday afternoon though he was not a happy boy. He woke up from his afternoon nap with a fever of 102 and was just generally unhappy. After another dose of meds and sleeping it off in my arms he woke up cool and pretty happy. By 10:00 last night he was sporting a temp of 102.5 and was inconsolable. Jason and I both felt so badly for him. He was just wailing and it was obvious that he didn’t know whether or not he even wanted us to touch him. After a couple of hours of this we finally got him to sleep cradled in my arms in the middle of our bed. It was the strangest thing since he had been wailing and moaning one minute and then almost instantly stopped and went into a somewhat peaceful sleep…as long as I didn’t move. His body was instantly cooler and it was obvious that he was more comfortable. He slept through most of the rest of the night and seems to be feeling pretty good this morning. No meds since 10:00 last night and he definitely wasn’t feverish this morning. I don’t think there is anything worse than watching your baby/child feel sick.
I am SO excited to get the pictures back from the family photo session we had on Saturday morning! This was the best portrait experience we’ve ever had by far! The photographer is a teacher and just does her photo business on the side. She met us on campus and took a lot of pictures in various poses in several different places for about 90 minutes. I think she would have gone longer but the kids were pretty much over it by then. We did many family shots as well as the kids together and alone and some with Jason and the kids and then me and the kids. She also did some candid shots. The kids loved her and she was very easy to work with. It was such a different experience than the Sears Studio that we’ve visited in the past. I’m actually really, really excited to get our pictures back! The best part is that she charges a flat sitting fee of $100 and then just sends us a CD with the pictures for us to print on our own! AMAZING! We should have the CD within a couple of weeks!
