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That’s me lately. I believe it has something to do with allergies and the like. It happens once or twice a year, but it’s never very pleasant. This time around it’s been hanging on for several days. Blah! I don’t like feeling dizzy and off balanced, but it also sometimes makes my stomach feel ill too… I’ve always been motion sensitive. Ah well… if I’d remember to take my clariton every day I’d probably be better off.
So, what’s been going on round here? Well, the usual, LAUNDRY, DISHES, POOP. But other than that not much. The sleep project hasn’t been working as well as planned. Oh our day time schedule is going along swimmingly well, but at night Myles STILL wakes up between 1-2am, and he’ll talk to himself and lie there fine most of the time, but it can take him up to an hour to go back to sleep. Guess who is also awake listening to his every murmur? That’s right, Mommy! So even if I don’t get up to feed him, I’m still NOT sleeping, so it kind of defeats the purpose. *sigh* I think it might be back to the drawing board for us as far as that goes. Perhaps it’s time to move him out of our room, but I’m not sure Qade is ready for a roommate either. Oh dear!
On a happy side note, Myles’ best friend, Benton, was born on Thursday!!! We have been anxiously awaiting his arrival so we could see what this little man looked like. He is a sweet little doll baby!! So cute! Stu and I agree that he favors his Momma in the face, but it looks as though he’ll have his Daddy’s dark eyes. We can’t wait to meet him this summer!
Yesterday I started jogging. Blah! I have to say that I just do not like to run at all!! But I’ve kind of been ‘stuck’ with my weight loss goals for a couple weeks now, so need to do something to jump start it. I’ve got a “program” in my head for this week that I think will help. Part of that is to take advantage of our 65* weather and take the boys for a walk in the stroller. If I add a solo jog/walk to that as well I’ll be doing 4 miles a day, and I’m sure that will make a difference. Also I have my exercise ball that I’m working my “core” on, AND the elliptical that I have to do at least 15 min a day. I’ll let you know by Friday if any of it helped. Oh yeah, I almost forgot the jumping program that Stu and I are doing. That’s 3 days this week too. Lots more activity and fewer cinnamon rolls, and I believe I’ll see some good results.

That’s what I was thinking last night. I had this “gut feeling” that things wouldn’t be going as smoothly with Myles when he was alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic at 10pm when I was trying to feed him that last time. Normally he’s sound asleep and will maybe blink his eyes when I give him the bottle, but not last night. And true to my “instincts” he woke up 4 times between midnight and 3:30 when I figured it was finally okay to feed him. That didn’t last long however, and he was awake again in an hour. Oh well, tonight is a new night with no mistakes in it yet.
I was tired and dragging this morning, but I did manage to get some stuff done today. Mopping, laundry, kid clothes organizing, kitchen counter de-cluttering, utility room straightening, and then Qade helped me to finish putting the last pictures in his baby book. That was fun! So anyway, I felt like something got done today and the house was spick ‘n span when Stu got home from work, and that’s important to me!
Today I started “room time” with Qade, and he was NOT at all pleased with it. I planned to stay in his room with him, because I knew he wouldn’t be thrilled at first, but even though I was there, as soon as the gate went up he started wailing at the top of his lungs. Eventually he calmed down, of course, but it’s going to take awhile to set the routine, I think. It’s weird though because right now he’s playing in his room by himself just fine, but there’s no gate. Ha ha! Oh and another strange thing going on with my very close to 2 yr old, is that he has given up milk. I mean, he just won’t drink the stuff any more even if I put “strawberry” flavoring in it. Have any of your munckins done this? I’ve just decided to stop offering it all together and then maybe try it again in a little while. Weird!
Well, I must needs go make some “sky-high” biscuits for our biscuits and gravy dinner. Hope you are all having a swell Tuesday… it is Tuesday right? Toodles.

That’s what time it was when Myles woke last night. I was so thrilled!! He’s doing so well, and actually by that time I was READY for him to wake up. Our other son didn’t do so well though. Qade went to bed at his usual time, but I heard him talking to himself for awhile after which usually does not happen at bed time. He eventually fell asleep, but at around 2am we heard shreaking over the monitor. I don’t know if he had a bad dream or what happened. My sweet husband got up with him though. I’m so thankful for the man I get to be married to, and partner in parenting with! Stu got him calmed down, but apparently he had several such episodes. Hmmmm…. I wonder what that was all about. Well, every night can’t be a perfect night, I suppose. Still I am encouraged with Myles’ progress! Today is “recovery” day, and boy do I need to recover the house from the weekend! It’s a MESS!! But that’s okay, because we all had a great weekend together, and there’s always Monday for cleaning it up. Last evening we watched Wall-E again. I think that’s Qade’s favorite movie! He makes all the beeps and whistles of the robots along with their words, it’s hysterical to watch him watching it!
Well, I’ve got laundry that needs folding, more needs washing, and clutter to pick up, so I’m off to the races! Hope you all are having a marvelous Monday!