Dear Sprout:
I'm sooooo ready to meet you!!!
And your big brother is too. I think it's finally sinking in that you are real and you're going to come live with us. He talks about things he will and will not share with you. Mostly it's food he says he won't share, which is a good thing, I'd hate to be worried about him popping a goldfish or fruit snack in your mouth while I'm not looking.
Last weekend I went up in the attic and got down the bin of newborn to 3 month clothes, the baby bath and the infant carseat. Daddy didn't think it was necessary to get down the swing, bouncer or pack and play yet. So I went through the clothes to see what I could get washed that was either neutral colored or plain white onesies and socks or whatever. Apparently after 2 years in storage, stains that I didn't know existed come to surface. So there are some nice outfits that Teagan only wore a handful of times that are ruined. It made me mad.
Then this past weekend I took the carseat apart and got that all washed up, which again, there was some weird drool/spitup/whatever stain down the middle of it that I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed with Oxyclean that just wouldn't come out. Oh well, it's going to expire in two years anyway so you'll be the last one to use it. And I soaked the baby bath tub in Clorox for the day and then scrubbed that all up. It looks brand new!!
I opened a package of newborn diapers and oh my goodness they are soooo little!!
I can't even believe your butt is going to fit into them!! I compared them to Teagan's and it would take 3 of your newborn diapers to be the size of his!
I also got the whole changing table all cleaned up. It was a bit dusty and the bins were pretty disorganized, so I got those somewhat organized now. I had bought a few lotions and soaps when they were on sale and I had some different butt creams left over from Teagan that were still good. I'm still in need of more lotions and I really want an Exergen Temporal Themometer.
I feel like I'm not going to have enough time to do things! I pretty much don't get anything done on week nights aside from making/eating/cleaning up dinner and then getting Teagan ready for bed and my stuff ready for the following day. And then this weekend Saturday is completely filled up, so that leaves Sunday only to do stuff. Then the next weekend, Friday night & Saturday afternoon is booked up, so again, that leaves me with Sunday only. Then finally the weekend of November 3-4 we have completely free (so far) and then following weekend, which is the last weekend before you're due, I have a party Friday night and I feel like something else was going on as well that weekend, but I can't think. But regardless, that leaves me about 4-6 days to get everything done.
Which at this point isn't even really a lot. Just set up the pack and play to make sure we have all the parts we need and same with the swing. And I need to clean them both of course. Oh and I need to sterilize all my pump parts and bottles and fun stuff like that.
Okay, now time to get going home. Finally. It's been such a long day!
Keep on cooking in there. And drop down a bit would ya? You've been giving me heartburn all day today!!!
I love you to the moon and back babykins!
Love,
Mommy
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
Adventures in Sickness, Medicine Taking & Trains!
Dear Teagan:
You got sick again. Started out a running nose and 2 days later you were waking up in the middle of the night with the scary, croupy cough and gasping for air. I too was sick with lots of sinus pressure and was so tired. We were up from 1 til 3 in the living room with the couch and love seat pushed together watching the same 4 (10 minute) episodes of Thomas & Friends over and over. Then finally I couldn't do it anymore. So we headed to my bed and I turned on Nemo for you. I tried to doze off, but as soon as I did you were saying you wanted to get down. I was so tired and felt like crap and lost it. I started crying. I just wanted to sleep! So despite your cries for mommy, daddy got up watched more Thomas with you in the living room.
Finally you fell asleep for a few hours. Then off to the drs we went. Bronchitis and an ear infection. :-( They put you on augmentin...the thick, white, chalky kind.
The first dose went over just fine. The second, third, fourth and so on didn't. You would spit it out, cry, flail around, kick, try to hit, etc. It ended up a mess...for both of us, as well as the couch. I tried putting it in a little bit of strawberry milk, but as you drank it the first night you said "I dont like my medicine." And I told you you didnt have to take medicine, but then you kept bringing it up. And then the same thing happened the next morning. So finally we brought your medicine to Jenn's so you could take it with Haylee & Hannah at breakfast. They take their allergy medicine every morning and it's white so I figured maybe if you thought they were taking the same thing you'd take it. It worked! You took it with not too much complaining. Then that night daddy was about to take Nyquil with you when you took yours but I told him to put milk in his cup instead. You guys both sat there and kind of have a race to see who could drink theirs the fastest, while taking breaks to discuss how nasty it tasted. Daddy kept losing. After that you were really good about taking your medicine without a fight.
A friend of mine at work gave me a bunch of his kid's Thomas the Train toys. I assumed he'd give us like a grocery bag full or something. Oh no, we got 2 large tote bins filled with 3 different type tracks, about 30 trains and probably 20 or train carts/extenders. Our house has been train madness ever since. That's all you want to do. Watch Thomas, eat Thomas fruit snacks and play trains. For the first few days daddy was rearranging the track and making it super cool. But that got old and I was sick of trying to vacuum around it. We sent one kind of track and about 10 trains to Jenn's for everyone to play with and we kept the other 20 at home. You know all of their names and know when one is missing. You have started to build your own tracks now which is nice. The problem with these trains is they are loud and you like to just let them crash and fall off the track and keep running. So there will be about 12 trains crashed either on their side, into a wall, under the couch, etc. and you playing with probably 2 on the track. It starts to get a bit painful bending over all the time to turn them all off, especially when I try to do it without you noticing. You've had a few taken away here and there for sending them under the couch. I don't know why you think that's so cool. It drives us bonkers!
I don't even know if you sleep at night. It's a hassle to get you to understand it's time to put the trains down and go to bed and then the first thing out of your mouth when you wake up is "I want to play trains mommy." And off you go to play trains. It's crazy! I'm kicking myself for not saving them until the new baby came so you'd have a cool new thing to play with while I was occupied with the baby. :-/ Oh well, I didn't think about it until after the fact of course. Hopefully the trains are just as exciting to you in another 6 weeks or so.
Time to get back to work so I can get out of here and home to you at a good time!
I love you to the moon and back, my sweet big boy.
Love,
Mommy
You got sick again. Started out a running nose and 2 days later you were waking up in the middle of the night with the scary, croupy cough and gasping for air. I too was sick with lots of sinus pressure and was so tired. We were up from 1 til 3 in the living room with the couch and love seat pushed together watching the same 4 (10 minute) episodes of Thomas & Friends over and over. Then finally I couldn't do it anymore. So we headed to my bed and I turned on Nemo for you. I tried to doze off, but as soon as I did you were saying you wanted to get down. I was so tired and felt like crap and lost it. I started crying. I just wanted to sleep! So despite your cries for mommy, daddy got up watched more Thomas with you in the living room.
Finally you fell asleep for a few hours. Then off to the drs we went. Bronchitis and an ear infection. :-( They put you on augmentin...the thick, white, chalky kind.
The first dose went over just fine. The second, third, fourth and so on didn't. You would spit it out, cry, flail around, kick, try to hit, etc. It ended up a mess...for both of us, as well as the couch. I tried putting it in a little bit of strawberry milk, but as you drank it the first night you said "I dont like my medicine." And I told you you didnt have to take medicine, but then you kept bringing it up. And then the same thing happened the next morning. So finally we brought your medicine to Jenn's so you could take it with Haylee & Hannah at breakfast. They take their allergy medicine every morning and it's white so I figured maybe if you thought they were taking the same thing you'd take it. It worked! You took it with not too much complaining. Then that night daddy was about to take Nyquil with you when you took yours but I told him to put milk in his cup instead. You guys both sat there and kind of have a race to see who could drink theirs the fastest, while taking breaks to discuss how nasty it tasted. Daddy kept losing. After that you were really good about taking your medicine without a fight.
A friend of mine at work gave me a bunch of his kid's Thomas the Train toys. I assumed he'd give us like a grocery bag full or something. Oh no, we got 2 large tote bins filled with 3 different type tracks, about 30 trains and probably 20 or train carts/extenders. Our house has been train madness ever since. That's all you want to do. Watch Thomas, eat Thomas fruit snacks and play trains. For the first few days daddy was rearranging the track and making it super cool. But that got old and I was sick of trying to vacuum around it. We sent one kind of track and about 10 trains to Jenn's for everyone to play with and we kept the other 20 at home. You know all of their names and know when one is missing. You have started to build your own tracks now which is nice. The problem with these trains is they are loud and you like to just let them crash and fall off the track and keep running. So there will be about 12 trains crashed either on their side, into a wall, under the couch, etc. and you playing with probably 2 on the track. It starts to get a bit painful bending over all the time to turn them all off, especially when I try to do it without you noticing. You've had a few taken away here and there for sending them under the couch. I don't know why you think that's so cool. It drives us bonkers!
I don't even know if you sleep at night. It's a hassle to get you to understand it's time to put the trains down and go to bed and then the first thing out of your mouth when you wake up is "I want to play trains mommy." And off you go to play trains. It's crazy! I'm kicking myself for not saving them until the new baby came so you'd have a cool new thing to play with while I was occupied with the baby. :-/ Oh well, I didn't think about it until after the fact of course. Hopefully the trains are just as exciting to you in another 6 weeks or so.
Time to get back to work so I can get out of here and home to you at a good time!
I love you to the moon and back, my sweet big boy.
Love,
Mommy
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