Worry

It’s insane how much you can worry about someone so little.
Yesterday was rough with Jessie – she was stuffy, her nose was clogged because of the swelling, she had bloody drainage from her nose and her one eye….She was pretty out of it, so she went to bed about an hour earlier than usual and [...]

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Rainy Days and Mondays

Last night didn’t go as well as I originally expected.  Sometime before midnight, Sam woke up.  She’d cry, be quiet for a while, then cry again.  Pretty soon she was wide awake and hollering.  Eventually Matt got up and went into the guest room to try to calm her down.  Didn’t work, so he got [...]

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Twelve

The number of Jessie’s teeth.  Today while Matt was with Sam at the hospital, I was playing with Jessie and got her giggling.  Took a look into her mouth and realized why, other than that brief moment of giggling, she was so terribly cranky.
She’s getting in four molars.
What a mouthful of teeth that little kid [...]

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It would seem the cause of the problem was us,

not Sam.
We moved the spare crib from the dining room (what kind of idiots have a crib in their dining room anyway???) to the guest room.  We wanted to let Sam cry herself back to sleep, but didn’t want her to wake Jessie up doing it.
Yeah.
We probably worried a bit too much.
We didn’t want to [...]

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Can’t we all just get along?

We had our first knock-down, drag-out fight last night.
Jessie was looking at a book. Sam’s pretty certain that all the books are hers.  Whatever Jessie was looking at, Sam would take away.  Matt would hand Jessie another book, and then Sam would take that one.  Jessie would then take the first book back, and Sam [...]

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Jessie-10, Sam-2

Teeth.
Jessie’s got all 8 front teeth and we noticed last night and today that she’s getting a couple of molars.  She loves to eat and she’s not wasting any time growing some teeth to do it.
Sam, on the other hand, still only has her two front bottom teeth.  They look like they’re almost all the [...]

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Entertainment

You can buy them all the toys in the world…  they’ll still prefer the boxes. Or, in Jessie’s case, the basket of diapers under the changing table.

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Boot Camp for Babies

Sam had her first full day in the toddler room today.  Sounds like it didn’t go so well – she cried a lot and really fought taking a nap.
Can’t blame the kid. She’s not all that good lately with strangers.  One of the daycare workers in the baby room told us that when other parents [...]

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A certified geek lives here

The other night, following the Charlie Wants Blue Feet episode, I told Matt that I’d need to find something else to use the fabric paint on – it was too much fun.
Found something yesterday.
After the kids went to bed and I got the dishes done, I spent some time putting little fabric paint dots on [...]

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Crappy Parenting Ideas

I don’t know how many times I’ve read the advice over the years that at some point you should just let the baby cry themselves to sleep – that they have to learn to get back to sleep on their own.
What a load of …..
We tried that last night with Sam.
She woke up around midnight. [...]

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More Milestones

Jessie’s getting better at walking. She’s been taking a few steps on her own for a couple of weeks now.  This past weekend she really took off and can walk halfway across a room before she gets distracted and tips over.
They’re moving Sam up to the toddler room over the next week.  That’s a huge [...]

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Too Lazy to Walk

My bike is in the shop.  It desperately needed a new chain – it still has the original one it came with 15 years ago, and it was starting to skip really bad.  At first it was just when I was trying to get moving from a stop, but lately it’s been skipping almost every [...]

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One Blue Foot

The kids need to take blankets with them to daycare for naptime.  We’ve been sending odd blankets, usually sticking some masking tape on it with their name, or the nice folks at daycare stick the masking tape on for us.  As often as not, I think the person who owns the daycare takes the blankets [...]

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Party Pics

Sorry, I don’t have the really good pics with all the mess.  By the time they started really going at it, Jessie was rubbing chocolate cake and frosting into her eyes and I was more concerned with keeping her from realizing what she was doing (and preventing the subsequent screaming) than in taking pictures.

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Crazy busy!

Sorry. I’ve been meaning to post, but we’ve been pretty busy the past couple of weeks.  The kids are getting more and more mobile and are really interested in, well, just about everything.  We get them home, feed them, play until we’re all exhausted, give them another bottle and  plop them in bed.  Then we [...]

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