8 Months Old

Wow 8 months already...

-  C.S. figured out moving forward last Thursday, the same day her big sister started Kindergarten. She is sliding on her belly full speed now so nothing on the floor is safe. She has some kind of radar for electrical cords so I've been busy trying to distract her from all the cords that can't be moved.

- The top teeth are on the way in. C.S. has been sleeping extra horribly for the last week and has been extra clingy. I couldn't figure out why, then I saw 2 little holes in her gums yesterday morning. They haven't broken through yet, but they are coming, fast I hope. Not that I'm looking forward to being bitten with those teeth, I just want my happy baby back.


- I am a mommy zombie. Knowing the reason for the lack of sleep helps a little, but it still hurts. I keep doing things that don't make sense but then I can't even remember what happened. In the latest incident I registered D and C.S. for swimming lessons 3 weeks ago, but either I didn't remember which day D's lessons were or I registered for the wrong day. I have no idea which it is, but when D.G. took D for what I thought was her lesson on Saturday, she wasn't registered in the class. Oops. I guess I should be using D's time at school for naps, but there's just some much to get done around the house (and so much blogging to do.)

I tried to get our monthly picture, but someone had other ideas...

"C., sweetie, smile for Mama"

What's this?

 

 What's D doing over there?

 Ooh, what's back there?

Hey, I can put my feet over here!

Is there something else back there now?

 So we gave up and had supper. Apparently blowing shepherds pie out her nose makes her much happier than posing for pictures. 

Kindergarten gets its own post

I just got home from taking D to her first official day of Kindergarten. I can believe that my first baby is 5, but in school, no way. She had her orientation day Thursday last week and it went just fine. The only thing that she was worried about was leaving her inside shoes at school over the weekend. I was way more worried about the orientation day than today because there was no one she knew in her group (they split the class into thirds for orientation) and she has said things like she doesn't want to make new friends to me in the past. However on our walk to school today she informed me that she had already made new friends last week so I guess I don't have to worry about that.

Today we got there and as soon as she found her shoes and found a place to put her snack, she was ready for class. No tears from my big girl or her mommy. I'm so proud of her and I can't wait to find out what she learned today.


Here are the traditional first day of school pictures:

Last Thursday, in front of the maple trees we planted in honor of Reid.

And today, on the way out the gate. 

(She is tired of posing for pictures after the last few days.)

And she came home and was thrilled to see me and C.S., I haven't felt that loved in ages. It might be the best part of having a Kindergartner.

09.03.12

Is 34 too old for skinny jeans? The labels says "modern straight" but they look like skinny jeans to me.

Where, you ask, did I find time to shop for jeans if things are as bad as you said in the last post? I was at Cos.tco grocery shopping and spotted some jeans and dug through the piles for my size despite the protests of D. Yes, I bought jeans at Cos.tco becuase that's the closest I get to clothes shopping with 2 girls in tow.(and I can use samples as bribes to get D cooperate.)

Anyways back to my question... Am I too old for skinny jeans? I am not brave enough to post pictures of me in these jeans, a la Angela but I am totally lusting after her brown boots. (which ones did you end up buying/keeping?). If I find a pair of brown boots to love, I will then post a picture of me in the skinny jeans and boots (In hopes that the boots will prevent anyone from actually looking at my butt.)


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I use a notebook to plan all our meals. I need to plan things in advance to avoid daily trips to the grocery store and D.G. and I both hate eating sandwiches for lunch more than once a week so having enough leftovers is a priority. When I was working, I had to plan meals or we would have never eaten a healthy meal. Today I was looking back through it to try to find some ideas for meals we haven't had for a while and managed to land on the page with the meals we were supposed to be eating the weekend Reid was born. Of course, this led to a totally unanticipated meltdown. Why do such random things happen now and end in tears? Two years ago EVERYTHING upset me. Now I can handle going out in public and D singing songs about how she loves her sister and her brother and walking through boys' clothing sections but a meal list makes me bawl.

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(I'm going to have to just name posts by the date, there's no way to tie the stuff here together. And it's my bedtime so I am giving up. Of course it would have to be the 3rd today.)

Exhaustion = blog neglect

Seriously, I have wanted to post something for the last three weeks but when there is only 1 hour between the girls' bedtimes and my bedtime it doesn't leave much time for writing or organizing my thoughts. I just wanted to put this up here to say, I'm still here and still want write but getting more rest has to be my priority now that I am the only adult at home with the girls during the day. D starts kindergarten later this week so maybe once we are into the new routine, I can sneak some naps or blogging in during the day if I can convince C.S. to sleep while D is at school in the afternoons.

Okay now I have to fold three loads of laundry and collapse into bed.

7 months old

 How cute is this kid?

Too bad the cuteness doesn't equal sleeping well. I can't add sleeping through the night to the list of milestones C.S. has reached at 7 months. I'd settle for 3 hours straight right now.

I can't add crawling to the list of milestones either, and that's a good thing. She can slide backwards and spin in circles but no forward movement. This means that I have so far been able to prevent her from eating any of D's dozens of my.lit.tle.po.ny's.

C.S. does love eating though. We are doing Baby-led solids (thanks to B for her FB posts) and wish we would have done it 4.5 years ago with D. It's so much fun to watch her gnawing on a big strip of steak or a big hunk of watermelon. Here are some more cute baby eating pictures for everyone to enjoy.

 Enjoying avocado ....

... and a serving of stroller harness for dessert.

Five

D turned 5 today. Sometimes she makes me so crazy but today I tried to focus on how great she is. She is funny and creative and loving. She is so grown up already, I can't believe that my first baby is 5 years old.