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I have not blogged all year!

Posted on January 2, 2008 11:02 pm by TheAngelForever

Man, I am having withdrawal symptoms and have lots of things to blog, but I am just too tired tonight. We have been away for the last four days visiting JL’s parents. The boys had a great time seeing Bubbe and Grandpa.

While we were away we missed two lovely snow storms here – and had to try to deal with them long distance. Nothing like getting 12 inches of snow at home (from storm one mind you) and trying to find someone to make your house look lived in. Thank goodness our neighbor and JL’s boss helped us out. Plus my parents watched things – thanks mom and Dad :)

On that note I am going to take the photos off my camera and go sleep in MY bed! Tomorrow is going to be filled with laundry, organizing, snow removing, picking up my monkey from school, and caring for a little guy who has two teeth that FINALLY cut today!

Happy New Year everyone!!!

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Is there a “right” way to sleep?

Posted on December 29, 2007 11:56 pm by TheAngelForever

If there is a "right" way to sleep my 4 year old seriously does not understand it.

Exhibit A – The way I found NHL yesterday night when I went in to check on the boys.

Please note that the blue body pillow (MINE – which he now believes to be his) is on the wall the long way. The planet pillow is actually at the top of his bed where he SHOULD be sleeping.

Exhibit B – NHL all twisted up. A closer view of how he has his body positioned on the bed. Also notice why we MUST put him in a PJ sleeper since blankets do not stay on the child.

Exhibit C – Even Curious George is not curious enough to sleep like his friend NHL and is at the correct part of the bed. OK – sure he is not on the pillow right, but at least he is closer to the so called "normal" way of doing things.

Tonight he was sleeping on the side bar of the bed. Thank goodness that was there. Hopefully he will not fall out of bed at Bubbe and Grandpa’s house the next few nights.

Sweet dreams! I am off to pack and sleep. We are off to visit JL’s parents tomorrow and have a long trip ahead. I shall try to post from there, but no promises.

*sigh*

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An introduction to fruity goodness & more toofers

Posted on December 29, 2007 9:52 pm by TheAngelForever

At 7 1/2 months old JSL is anxious to dive into anything that he sees that is edible. Unfortunately for him, we have been slow introducing things to him. We wanted to make sure he got tastes of all things veggie before going on to fruits. Last night this changed. Finally it was time to enter into the land of fruits.

Here is JL feeding JSL his first bite of banana.

He was quite anxious to put it into his mouth and seemed to like it rather quickly. After chomping on it for a few seconds he wanted to get a better look at what it was that he put into his mouth.

Next came the touch test. Little did he know . . . this sucker was slippery!

He was successful and got the slick banana piece to his mouth.

Thanks to copious amounts of saliva (teething ya know) the banana quickly turned to mushy goo and was not suitable for JSL to hold anymore. He got quite upset when I took it away to mash up into some oatmeal. He kept "barking" at me to bring it back. He was happy once he saw that I had some very yummy cereal for him to gobble up.

He was a VERY happy camper. In fact he slept through the night again. Then this morning when I looked into his mouth I saw white at the tip of his gum. I did not feel it cut through yet, but man it is close. From the cranky nature of things tonight during a tub and getting dressed, my guess is they may be here Sunday morning.

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Sleep . . . the final frontier!

Posted on December 28, 2007 11:54 pm by TheAngelForever

We all had sleep last night. . . . WAHOO BABY!

Yes, you read that correctly. Even the teething baby slept through the night. He actually fell asleep on JL early. He went into his crib and only fussed twice early on. Both times a binky and tucking his blanket buddy under his arm to snuggle did the trick. So he basically slept from 7:30 to almost 7:00. Not too shabby.

When the boys woke up they came into our cloudy warm wonderland of fun flannel sheets.

NHL petting JSL’s hand:

And now a kiss:

A certain 7 1/2 month old was VERY serious. We have been worried since he just has not been his smiling/laughing self. Teething is just evil I tell you. Here is Mr. Serious:

Meanwhile Daddy is making funny faces and saying silly things. JSL thinks about smiling:

Yes Houston. . . we finally have a smile:

It was so nice to see that sweet little smile after the last few miserable days without it. Meanwhile a certain little person was devising his own plan.

Seconds later he went for a sneak tickle attack on his little brother. NHL knows that JSL is super ticklish on his neck if he kisses it. So that is exactly what he did.

I love my boys . . . all three of them!

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Not a lot of sleep. . . for mommy & daddy

Posted on December 27, 2007 9:26 am by TheAngelForever

Sleep . . . . what is that again? I seriously do not think that JL and I have a clue these days. It has been WAY too long since we have been able to sleep more than 6 hours a night. For me I think it was likely before I was pregnant with NHL (think November 2002), aside from when I am sick.

The last three nights have been VERY rough. JSL is getting at least his top two front teeth and he is a mess. His gums are so swollen, he is clingy, he keeps throwing up, and he whimpers when going to sleep. In addition to this, he wakes up when resting all the time. Naps only last 20-30 minutes unless I am holding his for the entire nap (like yesterday – thanks Mom). Last night he cried through our entire dinner. We were keeping my mother company and had brought things for JSL to eat. He wanted nothing to do with the green beans, rice cereal, or puffs. He just wanted to be held, nursed or cry. Not the happy, smiling baby we are used to. We dosed him up with some Tylenol since he was clearly in pain.

When we got home JSL only wanted to nursed. He fell asleep at that point and we moved him into his crib. He woke up several times and quickly drifted back with a quick binky application. Before we went to sleep I went to check on the boys. Here is how I found NHL:

This really dose prove he could sleep anywhere! The night time camera setting did make him stir a little. Here he is seconds later:

Meanwhile the little teething machine was snoring away in his crib. He was all cozy and happy thanks to the milk and Tylenol.

And another view of the sleep that did not last long.

As hinted at this sleep did not last long. At 2:00 JSL was up and crying again. He came into our bed and was ready to party from not wanting to sleep. JL was able to get him to curl up and get back to sleep with us after 30+ minutes. Then at 6:30 NHL woke us up and it was time to get Daddy out to work.

*sigh*

Now I have a little teething monkey asleep on me as I type. He was crying again, so I gave him more Tylenol (it had been well over 12 hours) and he is catching up on sleep. I am off to see if I can convince another little boy to rest so I can as well. I feel bad for JL since I know his boss will not allow him to curl up and nap under his desk.