Re-did the laundry room...
Yeah, but still.....
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Overwhelmed with laundry...
Again - I sort of wish I had pictures of before.....but I would also like to leave it a distant memory....
Re-did the laundry room...
Re-did the laundry room...
Got Pregnant -
Redid the kids old room - to make the new hallway to the addition......And then building Harlee's room.
Had a baby......
Had a baby......
What a year -
My husband is back to work after a year off. Together. Wow! And what a year it has been. The next few posts are to sum up the past year. Isn't this what most people do in a year?
The Shed.
New Power Pole and Relocation
And a special picture for Ron:
The Shed.
New Power Pole and Relocation
And a special picture for Ron:
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Mother's Day and some Updates
Things have been going ghetto fabulous around here as always....
Baby toys are such a rip off. Which makes me mad because how do you know ahead of time if your kid will hate it or not? But one thing that makes me most irritated are those floor mats. Seriously? $60.00? I think not...
But because my husband is a plumber......
And I can interchange the toys with ones she already has and change the length.
Mike has been working his butt off around here trying to finish up some BS before he goes back to WORK! Yes, he got a job. he goes off disability on the 15th, and starts work on the 17th. How is that for timing? He will know mroe details about where he will be working this week but it is looking like UCLA. Nice way to get thrown back into a work commute. But we will take it!
Anyway, one of the things we have been trying to get done is hanging to TV on a wall to rearrange the living room. This would create more floor space across the room which we can use for all of H's crap....like her excersaucer and other HUGE toys that take up way to much room for someone as small as she is.
So, here is what we did with some paint and a few 2 x 6's. It serves the purpose, and all the cords and wires are hidden behind the wood in the wall. Once I get the rest of the room rearranged I will post some pictures of the whole space.
My plan for letting H cry it out has been working to fabulously. The first night, she woke up at 10:45pm first. What?!?!? She hasnt done that since she was about 1 month old!! But I ignored her (not hard), she cried for about 10 minutes, then fell to sleep not to be heard from again till 5am.
Night two, she woke up 3 separate times, each time screaming VERY loudly for abotu 5 minutes each, then falling asleep...up for good at 5am.
Night 3, woke up 2 times....
Night 4 Once
Now, I dont hear a peep at all. This has been about a week so....I have semi-high hopes.
B finally sat on the potty. In clothes. And for abotu 2 seconds. But at least he sat on it rather than screaming bloody murder and crying.....I don't think we are anywhere near potty training yet...but this was a huge milestone for him...so, as promised, Mike bought him an ice cream cone.
And of course because today is mother's day - Yesterday we took a trip to the OC Marketplace....Which was not relaxing. M is always on a mission regardless of where we are...so rather than wandering around. It was like lets go here. Now there. Okay, done. In and out in 2 hours. Since we were in OC and were planning on being at my mom's house for dinner that night, we decided to drive down PCH stopping to take the ferry across balboa bay. B's first boat ride.
Baking Mother's Day cookie bars - actually eating dough....
We ended up at mommy's house for a BBQ with my old neighbors who are soon moving up north...
Nothing much going on today - Mike isn't big on Mother's day. He thinks it is a Hallmark Holiday so he told me today I should put my feet up and relax and he will do everything around the house and take care of the kids for me....I am sure, if you know Mike, you can imagine how this is turning out......Regardless, the kids picked out some flowers for me and Mike did get me a little something - and none of the kids have gotten into a fight yet, so Happy Mother's day to me!
Baby toys are such a rip off. Which makes me mad because how do you know ahead of time if your kid will hate it or not? But one thing that makes me most irritated are those floor mats. Seriously? $60.00? I think not...
But because my husband is a plumber......
And I can interchange the toys with ones she already has and change the length.
Mike has been working his butt off around here trying to finish up some BS before he goes back to WORK! Yes, he got a job. he goes off disability on the 15th, and starts work on the 17th. How is that for timing? He will know mroe details about where he will be working this week but it is looking like UCLA. Nice way to get thrown back into a work commute. But we will take it!
Anyway, one of the things we have been trying to get done is hanging to TV on a wall to rearrange the living room. This would create more floor space across the room which we can use for all of H's crap....like her excersaucer and other HUGE toys that take up way to much room for someone as small as she is.
So, here is what we did with some paint and a few 2 x 6's. It serves the purpose, and all the cords and wires are hidden behind the wood in the wall. Once I get the rest of the room rearranged I will post some pictures of the whole space.
My plan for letting H cry it out has been working to fabulously. The first night, she woke up at 10:45pm first. What?!?!? She hasnt done that since she was about 1 month old!! But I ignored her (not hard), she cried for about 10 minutes, then fell to sleep not to be heard from again till 5am.
Night two, she woke up 3 separate times, each time screaming VERY loudly for abotu 5 minutes each, then falling asleep...up for good at 5am.
Night 3, woke up 2 times....
Night 4 Once
Now, I dont hear a peep at all. This has been about a week so....I have semi-high hopes.
B finally sat on the potty. In clothes. And for abotu 2 seconds. But at least he sat on it rather than screaming bloody murder and crying.....I don't think we are anywhere near potty training yet...but this was a huge milestone for him...so, as promised, Mike bought him an ice cream cone.
And of course because today is mother's day - Yesterday we took a trip to the OC Marketplace....Which was not relaxing. M is always on a mission regardless of where we are...so rather than wandering around. It was like lets go here. Now there. Okay, done. In and out in 2 hours. Since we were in OC and were planning on being at my mom's house for dinner that night, we decided to drive down PCH stopping to take the ferry across balboa bay. B's first boat ride.
Baking Mother's Day cookie bars - actually eating dough....
We ended up at mommy's house for a BBQ with my old neighbors who are soon moving up north...
Nothing much going on today - Mike isn't big on Mother's day. He thinks it is a Hallmark Holiday so he told me today I should put my feet up and relax and he will do everything around the house and take care of the kids for me....I am sure, if you know Mike, you can imagine how this is turning out......Regardless, the kids picked out some flowers for me and Mike did get me a little something - and none of the kids have gotten into a fight yet, so Happy Mother's day to me!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Totally Exhausted
This is it! H is 5 months 1 week old....and I am done messing around with this sleeping nonsense.
4 days in a row she has freaked out at various hours of the night....I have tried to feed her - she wants no part of it and falls asleep in my arms. I don't think so.
That habit is a nice try on her part, but I won't be playing any part of that.
So, on to plan 17...
1) We know she can fall asleep on her own because she does it initially every single night.
2) We know she does not need to eat from the hours of bedtime - 7:30pm until 5am
3) She has woken up for good consistently at 5am for the last week (Never mind the other times in between.......at this point 5am is great!)
So - tonight...I turn the monitor off, and set my alarm for 5am....and whatever goes on between when I sleep and 5am is all on her. She will be crying it out...the end.
I am not sure what else to do about it....she doesn't want anything she NEEDS to have...she wants her belly rubbed....she wants me to turn her music back on...she wants a pacifier...she wants me to hold her....But none of these are things she NEEDS nor things that are good for her in the middle of the night...
But seriously....at 5 months there is no reason for her to be up at 2, 3:30, 4:15 and 5am.....
This weekend was the big Cinco De Mayo soccer tournament in Riverside at some sports complex with 24 soccer fields.....HUGE!
The girls have a pretty decent team so we had reasonable hope....the first game the other team scored 4 goals in about 10 minutes.....score 4-0 other team. The second game the other team scored 2 goals in about 15 minutes and beat our team down - legally. I think all of our girls ended up being thrown on the ground at least twice.....and they were not fighting back! And since it was done legally, no penalties were called. Meanwhile one of our girls got a cleat in the eyelid (not on purpose), one got smacked in the head by a ball flying at her face from about 2 feet away, one got thrown on the ground and had to be pulled out because she had some sort of issue ending in pain. Amongst others.....Today's game was a better match...they only lost 1-0.
Ass you can imagine, Janee today was someone you really didn't want to be around....If only she used that kind of anger during the game....
So, we will see how this spring season shapes up. Here's to hoping it turns out better otherwise I am not sure anyone will want to be around Janee again. :)
4 days in a row she has freaked out at various hours of the night....I have tried to feed her - she wants no part of it and falls asleep in my arms. I don't think so.
That habit is a nice try on her part, but I won't be playing any part of that.
So, on to plan 17...
1) We know she can fall asleep on her own because she does it initially every single night.
2) We know she does not need to eat from the hours of bedtime - 7:30pm until 5am
3) She has woken up for good consistently at 5am for the last week (Never mind the other times in between.......at this point 5am is great!)
So - tonight...I turn the monitor off, and set my alarm for 5am....and whatever goes on between when I sleep and 5am is all on her. She will be crying it out...the end.
I am not sure what else to do about it....she doesn't want anything she NEEDS to have...she wants her belly rubbed....she wants me to turn her music back on...she wants a pacifier...she wants me to hold her....But none of these are things she NEEDS nor things that are good for her in the middle of the night...
But seriously....at 5 months there is no reason for her to be up at 2, 3:30, 4:15 and 5am.....
This weekend was the big Cinco De Mayo soccer tournament in Riverside at some sports complex with 24 soccer fields.....HUGE!
The girls have a pretty decent team so we had reasonable hope....the first game the other team scored 4 goals in about 10 minutes.....score 4-0 other team. The second game the other team scored 2 goals in about 15 minutes and beat our team down - legally. I think all of our girls ended up being thrown on the ground at least twice.....and they were not fighting back! And since it was done legally, no penalties were called. Meanwhile one of our girls got a cleat in the eyelid (not on purpose), one got smacked in the head by a ball flying at her face from about 2 feet away, one got thrown on the ground and had to be pulled out because she had some sort of issue ending in pain. Amongst others.....Today's game was a better match...they only lost 1-0.
Ass you can imagine, Janee today was someone you really didn't want to be around....If only she used that kind of anger during the game....
So, we will see how this spring season shapes up. Here's to hoping it turns out better otherwise I am not sure anyone will want to be around Janee again. :)
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