I want to preface this post by saying I love my son. He is sweet, loving and inquisitive... but.... I could have used a break from him today, specifically this afternoon from 1:45 to 3:30.
I didn't have enough sanity minutes today. Minutes that are so valuable for an 8 month pregnant lady; minutes that could be used for extra sleep, cleaning up after a tornado (aka a 2 year old boy) or finishing up the last half of "A Fault in Our Stars" on HBO. My sanity minutes were limited to 45 today, 15 of which were driving home from Happy Hollow. Thirty minutes after we got home, I had made a salad, half a loaf of sourdough garlic bread and turned on my HBO flick and then it happened: the shrill cry of my over tired, snot nosed 2 year old. When D wakes up from a nap its so hard to get him back to sleep. He hates sleep but yet needs it. When he was younger, he would do these 25 minute naps and always woke up screaming his little head off. 25 minutes of sanity for mom, not enough time to even close my eyes for a power nap. But he's gotten much better since he started walking at 13 months and for the most part sleeps between 2 to 2.5 hours every day.
But when he doesn't, those sanity minutes slip away and part of me dies... okay, not really, but it makes me so sad :( I need to re-energize, I need to get stuff done around the house and sometimes I need to finish a sappy movie! I need my minutes! And soon those minutes will dwindle down to seconds once J arrives and I won't be getting minutes again for another 2 years.
But the moments of insanity can be rewarding. The moments when your 2 year old tells you that his bed is Santa's sleigh, or when he holds your hands and asks for mommy to stay in his room when he's going to bed, or when he asks to see mommy's belly to say hi to baby J and then asks if he can eat his baby brother, or when baby J moves around like an octopus while I'm reading to D... those moments make up for lost sanity minutes and maybe that is what I need to focus on these days.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Friday, April 3, 2015
And Seven Months Later
Ha! Of course it's been 7 months since I started this thing. 7 months full of joyful moments, laughter, a few tears, and oh yeah, another baby on the way. The night of my last post I found out that I was pregnant with baby #2. D is going to be a big brother. My husband had quite the hilarious reaction when he came home from his guys trip: shock, awe, shock and happiness. It took us 5 months to get pregnant with D and for this new little guy (yup I'm going to be officially forever out numbered in less than 7 weeks!) it happened right away. Little J (McBaby #2) will hopefully, fingers crossed, get here on May 21st.
We've had lots of transitions in the last 7 months, the biggest ones dealing with D's sleeping. In December, during my Christmas break from work, we said goodbye to his pacifiers. For the most part it wasn't terrible, a few nights of crying followed by a couple of weeks of taking forever to fall asleep. Then in February, we moved him out of a crib and into a double bed. The crib was moved into J's nursery and D got some awesome Mickey Mouse Clubhouse bed sheets and I got a bed to lay in next to D while he fell asleep. For a while we were sitting on the ground reading books, laying in the dark, telling stories and singing songs; but the larger I got, the more painful it was to get him back into the crib. We're still working on nighttime routines as he is having some separation anxiety, but overall he enjoys the new bed.
The next 7 weeks will be a few more transitions. I'll be all done with work on May 1st (a difficult decision to make, as I am not going back to teach in the fall) and it will be D's last day at this current daycare/preschool. He'll be going to a preschool two days a week that is less than 10 minutes from our house, which will be so convenient once J gets here. Also, D is learning to use the potty. We've tried a few different things, but he hasn't loved using it yet, but we know it will be a slow transition.
So there it is, a recap of life in the last seven months and hopefully more posts to come :)
We've had lots of transitions in the last 7 months, the biggest ones dealing with D's sleeping. In December, during my Christmas break from work, we said goodbye to his pacifiers. For the most part it wasn't terrible, a few nights of crying followed by a couple of weeks of taking forever to fall asleep. Then in February, we moved him out of a crib and into a double bed. The crib was moved into J's nursery and D got some awesome Mickey Mouse Clubhouse bed sheets and I got a bed to lay in next to D while he fell asleep. For a while we were sitting on the ground reading books, laying in the dark, telling stories and singing songs; but the larger I got, the more painful it was to get him back into the crib. We're still working on nighttime routines as he is having some separation anxiety, but overall he enjoys the new bed.
The next 7 weeks will be a few more transitions. I'll be all done with work on May 1st (a difficult decision to make, as I am not going back to teach in the fall) and it will be D's last day at this current daycare/preschool. He'll be going to a preschool two days a week that is less than 10 minutes from our house, which will be so convenient once J gets here. Also, D is learning to use the potty. We've tried a few different things, but he hasn't loved using it yet, but we know it will be a slow transition.
So there it is, a recap of life in the last seven months and hopefully more posts to come :)
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