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@Pumuckl: Yay for crawling!!

@ALV91711: Congrats on your niece!!

@Silva: Whoohoo for walking! I also agree with pp about the blocks. I think they will be used for a very long time! I love that nova natural website you linked. They have so many awesome things!

Pete had horrible sleep this weekend. He was up at 4am on Saturday morning and then refused to go back to sleep. So it was a n early start to the day! Then, he was up from 2am-4am on Saturday night. Poor DH was so tired and sleep deprived that he fell down the stairs at 3am while going to get a bottle for him. His foot hit the railing and it's seriously bruised! He may have to go to doc tomorrow to see if it's broken.

@QueensBee: oh man, waldorf toys + me = potential for serious consumer debt. I hope your husband is alright, I feel like we are barely functioning at this point- a year of sleep deprivation will do terrible things to people.

@Silva: Yay for walking!

@QueensBee: Sounds like a stressful weekend. Hope your DH is okay, it sounds so painful.

@blackbird: Hope your DH's foot is also getting better.

@Smurfette: I hope she went down alright at night for you and slept a decent amount.

@blackbird: @Silva: @Smurfette: @Adira: @Pumuckl: Thanks for the well wishes! DH was off to work in the city today so hopefully he can hobble around Grand Central Station and Times Square without getting mowed over. I am encouraging him to go to a doc but right now he is refusing! So stubborn...

@Adira: I grab him out of the tub using the towel and then towel him off while he's in my arms. As soon as I put him down, he is off running around. If I'm lucky, I can quickly get a diaper on him. But most of the time, he runs off without a diaper and immediately pees on the floor! Then I have to chase him to put on the diaper and pajamas. He loves the chase and runs into all the different bedrooms, naked and squealing! It's probably one of my favorite parts of the day (aside from the pee on my floor!)
Good luck!

Pete slept 7pm to 6:30am last night! So amazing! We had a carbon monoxide detector go off in the middle of the night due to low battery, which he even slept though. Each night is a total crapshoot with him, never know what to expect....

@Smurfette: Oh gosh, I hope last night was better for you too. We don't have a ton in bloom in NY yet. I never thought about the pollen affecting sleep! How did she do last night?

@Smurfette: Glad to hear she slept ok and didn't go into the week with a sleep deficit. B woke up at 6:15am today and went he wouldn't calm down I went in his room and he was sitting in his bed screaming and looking desperately at his pacifiers which were all on the floor and out of reach... So I took him to my room and nursed him and luckily he went back to sleep till 7:30am.

@QueensBee: So glad Pete gave you the opportunity to catch up on some shut eye. Hope DH will listen to you! Otherwise he has revoked his right to complain about pain

@Adira: B will let me lay him down but then he doesn't walk yet. I have noticed though that (same with diaper changes) it works better when I tell him in advance what to expect. As in "I'm gonna lay you down now so we can put the diaper on and then after that we will put the sleep sack on..."

@Adira: We give Sadie nakey time after the bath. I just dry her off standing and let her run around her room naked for 10 minutes or so. Then we do diaper, PJ's, bed. She seems to burn off any last little bits of energy during nakey time!

@adira, I think it's important for things to air out a little bit down there

@Smurfette: Missed the first update - why are you moving R? Is everything ok?

@photojane: Where she goes now is by my work and since moving to one nap, most days is crappy due to 2 boys not wanting to nap, it is really hard to keep her up in the car ride home. Or happy. It 45 mins most days with traffic. Getting to hard for both of you. I would rather her be at school longer but playing and learning then in the car. Plus this way DH can do drop off and pick up on Friday's.
Plus I want another job once we have another LO and I don't want to drive R up and back 2 times a day when on maternity leave with another.

It looks like H has a new tooth except it was not one of the two molars I could tell were coming. Three teeth at once! No wonder she has been a cranky miss. She also took a few tumbles this morning and hit her head twice on the coffee table! One left a great big egg.

@Smurfette: I think you guys are doing the right thing!

@Adira: H loves doing her nudey run at bath time.

@Smurfette: Sounds like a good move to me! I know it must be so hard. These kids are so resilient though. I know she'll find her groove at the new place quickly & she'll love it!

@AprilFool: Yikes! I think we're in for lots of that at this stage! Sadie got her first black eye last night. She moved up to the next Sunday School class & I guess they are rough and tumble in there. She got a rug burn on her face & a black/swollen eye!

@Smurfette: @photojane: Our poor clumsy girls! I think H got it from mama... I am terrible. Can I wrap her in cotton wool?

@ALV91711: We are getting the molars out of order! But a top incisor popped through this morning.

@Smurfette: I think you're doing the right thing and once you're through the tough part I bet you'll be looking forward to the new school - it's still ok to grieve the old school/teachers though. I mean their only downside is that they are too far from home so there shouldn't really be any hard feelings on their part.

@AprilFool: haha, sometimes I wonder if wrapping him up in cotton would help but then they wouldn't learn so that'd be stupid too.

@ALV91711: Isn't it funny how sometimes they seem not to like changes? I'm dreading putting B back in the big tub. He went back into the small tub once he was able to sit but slowly is growing out of it again.

Oh my, we had a horrible bedtime yesterday. He was pretty happy at dinner so it kind of came out of the blue. But I had decided that it was finally time to wean him off of the right before bed feed and gave him a sippy/bottle with milk before I changed him into his sleep sack. He was crying a little but went to sleep. He slept for like 15min and then was screaming his head off and was inconsolable. So finally I gave in and nursed him which stopped the crying for about exactly the time he was attached to my boob he was back to screaming after that. Finally after trying to calm him for over an hour I resorted to painkillers. I still don’t know what actually hurt him so bad. It then took me another half hour until he was in his crib. He slept through the night with 2 or 3 short crying out episodes but he put himself back to sleep on those and he was more or less back to his happy self this morning though. Still poor baby…

@Adira: Thank you. Still not sure whether it was the weaning or just pain. Since he'd been peacefully sleeping through his nebulizer treatment and even once I had transferred him to his crib before he started screaming. Ahhhh I'm still looking for that manual even being a year in...

Since we're going out of town tomorrow (my first solo flight with B - wish me luck) I think I'll just stick to the nursing session for this week and try again next week. We get to go to a concert on Thursday evening and my parents are watching B and they'll have to do bedtime I really hope he'll do ok with just his WCM bottle. But usually he's such a laid back guy that I'm pretty sure it's going to work out.

@Adira: great!

Haha R's teacher told me this morning her new word is Mine!!