I was just starting to feel a little stressed that I haven't posted anything in a week...like, is my life so very dull that NOTHING is note-worthy? Kind of, actually, yes. But I'm taking a valiant stab at coming up with SOMEthing this morning.
I've been reading tons and tons lately, in my free time (which, if I have a book handy, can actually be found - a few minutes here and there add up). Sometimes when my kids see me reading, they'll bring books over and we'll have snuggle reading time, so that's pretty sweet.
Speaking of "sweet," the greatest is when little Layla busts out too-big words, like "ah-sum!" or "too!" ("cool"). It catches me off-guard, and I usually end up laughing at her, which makes her say them even more. The fun part is that Carson's old enough to "get" why I'm laughing, too, and he'll join in.
For some random reason, my kids haven't been sleeping very well at nights. Both of them seem to wake up several times during the night - Carson to go potty or get a drink or to ask help in finding his doll, Layla just to scream and to be laid down in her crib again with her teddy and dolly. Blugh. I think they got in some bad habits while they were sick (which I don't mind helping them through - last week I spent many middle-of-the-night hours rocking Layla, making a bed on the floor for a sick Carson and, at his heart-breaking insistence, sleeping down there with him...which I'm getting FAR too old for, by the way..., and getting up and out of bed to help them with whatever else they could find to need at 3 a.m.), so since they're feeling better, Paul and I are trying, lovingly, to get them both back in the swing of things. a.k.a. sleeping an 8-hour stint straight through. Last night was better, so things are looking up.
I went to IKEA with my MIL and two SILs last Saturday. We came home with a truckload of stuff. That store is enormous. It was a fun, albeit expensive, trip.
Welp, Layla's just woken up, so I'm going to get her her breakfast. By the way (this probably deserves its own post, after all the time we've spent getting here), Carson's 100% in undies now. That was one glorious thing about his being sick - he pretty much just decided overnight that he'd use the potty. After over a year of on-and-off potty use. Note to self: Save the stress and wait until the KID decides next time.
Sigh. Live and learn. And laugh while jumping, many times, with your kids into a heaping pile of leaves in the fall. Life is good.
5 comments:
Best post of the day. Cheers to undies and jumping in leaves!
indeed! cheers on carson being in undies--and on the fall leaf jumping! I have fond memories of doing that myself :) Good times.
Isn't a potty-trained kid the greatest! I'm sorry you've had so much sickness at your house. Hopefully this will boost their immune system so they won't get sick again this year. I love Layla's new words. So cute!
that's a lot of "nothing much!" good update though. the little things make or break our days, no?
I just stumbled onto a blog that was a daily update on a four year old little girls fight with cancer. Makes you grateful for those weeks with "nothing much" to write doesn't it?
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