A Tale of Two Mamas
Trying to keep someone IN timeout
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October 9, 2008 at 4:45 pm · Filed under Actual posts about being moms, PDB - PetriDish Baby
This morning when I was doing Skype with my mother Emmy flipped over for the first time completely!!
She started out on her back and moved her side and leg over then in no time she built up enough momentum to flip all the way over to her belly. I really couldn’t believe it and it was great that it happened when my mom could see it too.
During the skype conference call she almost did it another time too.
Then I put the girls in front of the television as I was cleaning the kitchen and came back to this:
A few minutes later I came in because I heard a screaming baby and this is what I found:
That’s right. It’s Emmy flipping out of her carseat and face down in her carseat! It’s a good thing that her carseat wasn’t on the tall kitchen counter where we typically put it!
Guess we’re going to have to strap her down from now on.
Life just got a little bit harder!
October 7, 2008 at 9:23 am · Filed under Actual posts about being moms
We’ve been in Philly since Thursday afternoon and I can honestly say…I WANNA GO HOME!!
It’s been a lot of fun here and we’ve enjoyed museums, historical sights, and amazing food. But I miss my house, my cloth diapers, our baby gear, and most of all … my bed.
We’re leaving this afternoon and heading to IKEA. We’re going to check out bunkbeds and hopefully we can find something for the girls. We were going to do it for Christmas but I’m not sure how we can load it in the car without Graem asking many questions!
We have some great photos and we’ll post them when we get home!
September 30, 2008 at 7:58 pm · Filed under Actual posts about being moms
Graem was watching the new film “Animalia” by Graeme Base today. Emmy seemed pretty interested too so I put them together on the floor.
What’s funny is that they were equally interested in the movie!
One last photo of Emmy dressed for a brisk fall walk!
September 29, 2008 at 11:40 am · Filed under Actual posts about being moms
We had a pretty good weekend … except it was too short!
Saturday morning I put the second coat of paint on in the living room. Margot watched the kids and Emmy cried the whole time!
Saturday afternoon we went to Apple Harvest Festival. It was so much fun and delicious too! We were able to eat yummy candy apples and ride the ferris wheel. The wait for the ferris wheel was about an hour long so by the time it was our turn Graem was tired and cranky! Of course when we were in the air she kept saying “I’m so glad we waited, Mama. This is so much fun!”
Here are some pictures from the weekend:
Now for some miscellaneous cuteness:
September 22, 2008 at 7:27 am · Filed under Actual posts about being moms
I’m so exhausted!
Last night we were sitting on our couch at 8pm. We had just started saying how nice it was that we could enjoy the evening with both kids sleeping bed.
Then all hell broke loose!
Emmy started crying and Graem woke up. All within one minute of each other.
Margot stayed upstairs with Graem and I worked on feeding Emmy and quieting her down. G finally went to bed but Emmy was a different story. She was awake at 10pm and when we were ready to go to bed she was still fussy.
Finally, I ended up bringing her back downstairs because she was screaming bloody murder and waking up Margot and Graem.
After singing various country and Christian music to her (don’t ask) she finally went to sleep on my chest - on the couch.
At 2am I had to pee so bad and knew if I moved she’d wake up too. So I just laid in bed. Thank God I heard Margot coming down the stairs to go to the bathroom. She took E and we worked our way upstairs.
Then this morning at 6am Margot’s alarm clock goes off so that she can get dressed and leave for her early meeting.
Of course, Graem realizes she’s not there and wakes up too! Then….you know who wakes up. Yes, Emmy.
So to say the least…we’re an exhausted family.
I’m starting to realize that this goes in waves and typically every third day is a rough one. I think by day three of the rotation we’re all exhausted and it’s the best night sleep ever.
*yawn* Off to get Graem ready for school pictures today!
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