Lexi had her first nap in the big girl bed yesterday and it went really well. She slept for about an hour and a half before I woke her up. And she was not happy about being woken!
Last night went not too bad. The girls took awhile to get to sleep, which isn't unusual. Really, I think the biggest struggle with Lexi in the toddler bed is going to be keeping Addy out of it. I realize now that it would have been a much better idea to have 2 of the same beds, because Addy really wants to be in the new bed. But Lexi also really wants to be in her own bed, so that caused some issues.
Before we went to bed, Jamie went in once, and I went in twice. They were also up in the night, which is very, very unusual for them. At that point, Addy had gotten back into Lexi's bed and Lexi was being pushed out of the bed. So I just moved a very sleepy and annoyed Lexi into Addy's bed and they slept in until about 9am. That's pretty early for them, but I'm sure that once the novelty of the bed wears off, they will go back to their regular sleep schedule. When I did go in this morning, I was greeted to a lovely mess. Someone had emptied out Lexi's dresser of most of her clothes. When I asked who did it, Addy replied "Addy did" but I think she may have had some help from her sister. And there was also a nice pile of throw-up on the carpet waiting for me to clean it up.
Lexi is now back in bed for her nap. She went down super easy and I think was just happy to get to be in her bed and not having to share it. She is really tickled with the bed and you can tell she is proud to be in a Big Girl Bed.
So all in all, things have gone much more smoothly than I had anticipated they would. Nothing I didn't expect, other than the aforementioned throw-up on the carpet.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Out Of Control
Lately I have been feeling like everything in my life is out of control. I'm fighting with my hubby alot over stupid little things (just to gain some control, I guess). I feel like my kids walk all over me and I'm just giving in because I'm so overwhelmed with everything else I'm dealing with. My house is a disaster. I am struggling to keep up with my housework...My laundry is totally out of hand. It will take me a long time to get caught up on that.
But probably the thing that is bugging me most, though, is my eating. I'm not being awful, and I am maintaining my weight, but it is a weight that I am not happy at. I weigh more now than I did when I got pregnant with Lexi (by about 23 pounds) and am only 5 pounds shy of where I was when I got pregnant with Addy. I am really stuggling to gain control and get and stay motivated. And honestly, I cannot even remember the last time I got any exercise intentionally (meaning other than chasing after kids, walking to the store, etc). I worked so hard after Addy was born and all that work has basically gone down the drain because I am pretty much where I started from. And now I don't have the breastfeeding to help me along the way.
Jamie and I really want to have another baby in the near future, but at this point, it's just not feasible. I feel like I need to get caught up around here and regain my control before I can add being pregnant and having another baby to the mix. And with my history of high blood pressure during my pregnancies, it is really important to me that I lose some weight before getting pregnant so that I can set myself up to have the healthiest pregnancy possible. Losing that 25-30 pounds after Addy was born made a huge difference in how I felt in my first pregnancy compared to my second.
So I have some goals, and not just in nutrition and fitness. I need to buckle down and get my work done. I am always distracted by the computer, and now my blackberry. I want to be able to get all my work done in a day, or at least enough that when I get into bed at the end of the day that I'm not stressing out and losing sleep over all the stuff I didn't get done.
I want to utilize my time better so that I can get that work done, but also spend some quality time with my girls. I realized last night how long it has been since I have had any really significant one-on-one time with each of them. And I feel like part of the reason they are acting out so much lately is because I am always so stressed and busy that they aren't getting the attention that they need.
I just feel like a chicken with its head cut off. I am running around and doing all this work, but I never seem to get one thing finished and nothing really gets accomplished. When someone walks into my house I don't want to be saying "Excuse the mess, it's hard to keep up with 2 toddlers," I want them to be saying "How do you have 2 toddlers and still keep up?" And I am definitely not there.
I am also sleeping really badly again. I'm up late because I'm stressing about everything, and then I sleep in too late and waste a bunch of time. It's lunchtime by the time the girls and I are dressed and ready for the day. My kids sleep in until 10-11am, I should be falling asleep at a decent hour, getting up early and getting 2-3 hours of work done before they wake up.
So if I am making an actual list of goals, I guess these are them:
1. Utilize my time better. Make it a priority to get my chores done and to keep caught up with it.
2. Catch up on my laundry and stay on top of it once I get there.
3. Make time each day to spend quality time with the girls, including one-on-one time as often as possible.
4. Get and stay motivated to eat healthy. Utilize spark people to track my food/water intake. Find the time to exercise even if all I do is put the kids in the stroller and go for a walk (aim for at least 3 times a week) and track that too. And drink lots of water!
5. Set and achieve small weight loss goals until I get to a point where I feel I am ready for pregnancy.
6. Create healthy sleep habits.
If anyone has any pointers to help me out, or just words of encouragement, I could use all the help I can get! LOL
But probably the thing that is bugging me most, though, is my eating. I'm not being awful, and I am maintaining my weight, but it is a weight that I am not happy at. I weigh more now than I did when I got pregnant with Lexi (by about 23 pounds) and am only 5 pounds shy of where I was when I got pregnant with Addy. I am really stuggling to gain control and get and stay motivated. And honestly, I cannot even remember the last time I got any exercise intentionally (meaning other than chasing after kids, walking to the store, etc). I worked so hard after Addy was born and all that work has basically gone down the drain because I am pretty much where I started from. And now I don't have the breastfeeding to help me along the way.
Jamie and I really want to have another baby in the near future, but at this point, it's just not feasible. I feel like I need to get caught up around here and regain my control before I can add being pregnant and having another baby to the mix. And with my history of high blood pressure during my pregnancies, it is really important to me that I lose some weight before getting pregnant so that I can set myself up to have the healthiest pregnancy possible. Losing that 25-30 pounds after Addy was born made a huge difference in how I felt in my first pregnancy compared to my second.
So I have some goals, and not just in nutrition and fitness. I need to buckle down and get my work done. I am always distracted by the computer, and now my blackberry. I want to be able to get all my work done in a day, or at least enough that when I get into bed at the end of the day that I'm not stressing out and losing sleep over all the stuff I didn't get done.
I want to utilize my time better so that I can get that work done, but also spend some quality time with my girls. I realized last night how long it has been since I have had any really significant one-on-one time with each of them. And I feel like part of the reason they are acting out so much lately is because I am always so stressed and busy that they aren't getting the attention that they need.
I just feel like a chicken with its head cut off. I am running around and doing all this work, but I never seem to get one thing finished and nothing really gets accomplished. When someone walks into my house I don't want to be saying "Excuse the mess, it's hard to keep up with 2 toddlers," I want them to be saying "How do you have 2 toddlers and still keep up?" And I am definitely not there.
I am also sleeping really badly again. I'm up late because I'm stressing about everything, and then I sleep in too late and waste a bunch of time. It's lunchtime by the time the girls and I are dressed and ready for the day. My kids sleep in until 10-11am, I should be falling asleep at a decent hour, getting up early and getting 2-3 hours of work done before they wake up.
So if I am making an actual list of goals, I guess these are them:
1. Utilize my time better. Make it a priority to get my chores done and to keep caught up with it.
2. Catch up on my laundry and stay on top of it once I get there.
3. Make time each day to spend quality time with the girls, including one-on-one time as often as possible.
4. Get and stay motivated to eat healthy. Utilize spark people to track my food/water intake. Find the time to exercise even if all I do is put the kids in the stroller and go for a walk (aim for at least 3 times a week) and track that too. And drink lots of water!
5. Set and achieve small weight loss goals until I get to a point where I feel I am ready for pregnancy.
6. Create healthy sleep habits.
If anyone has any pointers to help me out, or just words of encouragement, I could use all the help I can get! LOL
Monday, July 6, 2009
A Fresh Start
I thought seeing as I don't really post much in my old blog, that I would start a new one and make an effort to post on it frequently. I really want to document the little things so that I have those memories and can look back at them and remember all the things my kids did.
Things around here have been really busy now that it is summer. There just seems to always be so much to get done and we're always on the go. And the girls seem to get busier and more mischievious every day.
This past weekend we went camping at Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park up at Lac La Biche. It's really nice up there. Nice campground and a great beach, a combination that seems next to impossible to find around here. My only complaint was that the one outhouse closest to out campsite smelled awful. Worse than normal for an outhouse, and I'm one of those people who would rather squat behind the outhouse than actually use it, so I wasn't too impressed with the situation.
My mom and Charlie and Nicole (Charlie's girlfriend) joined us. Charlie pulled his boat with his new-to-him truck. He ended up having both the truck and the boat out of commission so him and Jamie spent most of Saturday getting them fixed and then we left early Sunday so it was kind of a bust. But we still had a good time.
We have another camping trip planned for the August long weekend at the same place. It's going to be a bit of a family reunion by the sounds of it because we have alot of family members coming. But it should be a good time.
And now, speaking of those memories I want to document and remember...
This morning the girls and I slept in pretty late because we were tired from the weekend. When I got up, as I walked past Addy and Lexi's bedroom I hear Addy say "Lexi Lou, get back in bed!" So I knew something was up right away because Lexi's bed is a crib and she shouldn't be able to get out of it.
I let the dogs out and go back to their room. I slowly open the door and hit who I thought was Addy on the bum with it. So I stick my head in and see Addy in the crib. Now I am really confused because not only should Lexi not be able to get out of the crib, Addy should not be able to get into it.
Lexi moves out of the way and I open the door.
I notice 2 things at once. First, one of the crib slats is missing from one end of the crib. Second, Addy is holding onto this slat. So it makes sense. That particular slat was always a little wobbly in its spot, so I assume that Lexi must have pulled on it until it came out. I assume this because it is in the crib, and even a 2-year-old would probably find it tricky to climb in the opening while holding this long peice of wood, so it would have had to have been Lexi yanking on it and pulling it into the crib when it came loose.
So, my afternoon consisted of me trying to assemble the Disney princess toddler bed I bought Lexi back around February. It was a major pain in the ass. It would have been difficult under normal circumstances, but because we slept in, I was doing this right after lunch...Also known as Nap Time in our house. So I had 2 very whiney, crabby kids hanging off of me and the bed pieces while I was trying to build this stupid bed, obviously designed by someone who takes great joy in making other people miserable.
I finally get the bed together and am excited about the prospect of getting the girls down for a nap (and if I'm being honest, I was also comtemplating downing the half a bottle of tequila in my pantry due to my super high stress level ). I go and make the girls their bottles and tell them to get into bed, only to discover that Addy thinks that the new pink princess bed should belong to her. Which, theoretically would be okay, but Lexi is not willing to give it up.
I figured there wouldn't be much harm in letting them sleep together, but after a few minutes of fighting, it becomes clear to me that I need to move one of them. I went in and moved Lexi onto Addy's bed, but then Addy informs me that she "Pooped in ma pulled-up!" She doesn't usually nap anyways, so I figured I would just take her out and let Lexi have a little sleep (it was already after 3:00pm by this point).
After about a half an hour I decide to check in on her and see if she is actually sleeping or just into something. I peek in the door and this is what I see...
Things around here have been really busy now that it is summer. There just seems to always be so much to get done and we're always on the go. And the girls seem to get busier and more mischievious every day.
This past weekend we went camping at Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park up at Lac La Biche. It's really nice up there. Nice campground and a great beach, a combination that seems next to impossible to find around here. My only complaint was that the one outhouse closest to out campsite smelled awful. Worse than normal for an outhouse, and I'm one of those people who would rather squat behind the outhouse than actually use it, so I wasn't too impressed with the situation.
My mom and Charlie and Nicole (Charlie's girlfriend) joined us. Charlie pulled his boat with his new-to-him truck. He ended up having both the truck and the boat out of commission so him and Jamie spent most of Saturday getting them fixed and then we left early Sunday so it was kind of a bust. But we still had a good time.
We have another camping trip planned for the August long weekend at the same place. It's going to be a bit of a family reunion by the sounds of it because we have alot of family members coming. But it should be a good time.
And now, speaking of those memories I want to document and remember...
This morning the girls and I slept in pretty late because we were tired from the weekend. When I got up, as I walked past Addy and Lexi's bedroom I hear Addy say "Lexi Lou, get back in bed!" So I knew something was up right away because Lexi's bed is a crib and she shouldn't be able to get out of it.
I let the dogs out and go back to their room. I slowly open the door and hit who I thought was Addy on the bum with it. So I stick my head in and see Addy in the crib. Now I am really confused because not only should Lexi not be able to get out of the crib, Addy should not be able to get into it.
Lexi moves out of the way and I open the door.
I notice 2 things at once. First, one of the crib slats is missing from one end of the crib. Second, Addy is holding onto this slat. So it makes sense. That particular slat was always a little wobbly in its spot, so I assume that Lexi must have pulled on it until it came out. I assume this because it is in the crib, and even a 2-year-old would probably find it tricky to climb in the opening while holding this long peice of wood, so it would have had to have been Lexi yanking on it and pulling it into the crib when it came loose.
So, my afternoon consisted of me trying to assemble the Disney princess toddler bed I bought Lexi back around February. It was a major pain in the ass. It would have been difficult under normal circumstances, but because we slept in, I was doing this right after lunch...Also known as Nap Time in our house. So I had 2 very whiney, crabby kids hanging off of me and the bed pieces while I was trying to build this stupid bed, obviously designed by someone who takes great joy in making other people miserable.
I finally get the bed together and am excited about the prospect of getting the girls down for a nap (and if I'm being honest, I was also comtemplating downing the half a bottle of tequila in my pantry due to my super high stress level ). I go and make the girls their bottles and tell them to get into bed, only to discover that Addy thinks that the new pink princess bed should belong to her. Which, theoretically would be okay, but Lexi is not willing to give it up.
I figured there wouldn't be much harm in letting them sleep together, but after a few minutes of fighting, it becomes clear to me that I need to move one of them. I went in and moved Lexi onto Addy's bed, but then Addy informs me that she "Pooped in ma pulled-up!" She doesn't usually nap anyways, so I figured I would just take her out and let Lexi have a little sleep (it was already after 3:00pm by this point).
After about a half an hour I decide to check in on her and see if she is actually sleeping or just into something. I peek in the door and this is what I see...
She climbed out of Addy's bed and went and got into her new bed and fell asleep. She's just so friggin' cute I want to squeeze her!
And, as we speak, Addy is in the pantry feeding the dogs crackers, so I guess that's my cue...
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