Remember how when you had your first baby, everyone told you “Now make sure you sleep when the baby sleeps?”
Yeah.
You don’t get to do that when you have a 2 year old that’s awake and demanding the Hokey Pokey.
Joseph hit a bit of a growth spurt last night. He nursed on and off for almost 7 hours. I am pretty tired today. He’d nurse, lay down for ten minutes and then be up again, rooting around and bawling for breakfast. He didn’t hardly sleep all night and so, neither did I. He finallly crashed at about 6:45 and at 6:52, I heard Anne calling “Mumma…I had a poo!”
Yesterday was my first day with the two of them. I managed pretty well until Joseph decided he didn’t need to sleep all night.
My parents had Anne for a sleepover on Tuesday night. I am hard-pressed to figure out who enjoys it more – them or Anne. She was full of tales when she got home about she had “cream” (ice cream) and “watched gockey” (watched hockey) with Papa, had a ‘baff in the tub” and so on. My folks and sister hung out until 3 and then Anne was up at 3:30. We horsed around and played for an hour together with all of her toys. Then Joseph was up and at’em. We gave him a bath together. Then got supper for Anne. Finished the last of the laundry. Then, because after a supper of pancakes (!), Anne looked like she’d taken a bath in syrup, we gave her a bath as well. She had regressed the past few days on potty training since Joseph arrived but yesterday she did wonderfully so that was busy as well. Brian was running late from work and so wasn’t home until about 6:30. But we three managed pretty well. As soon as Anne went to bed at 7:30, though, Joseph decided it was “belly up to the bar” time and we were on for the next 7 hours. He finally slept for an hour and a half in the middle of the night before falling asleep this morning, as I mentioned above.
Whew.
Another day begins! The good news is that Adam is coming over this morning to hang out with Anne. He’s going to pop her car seat into the car and bop around his errands this morning. She loves outings and so he’s being a tremendous blessing.
But when they’re this cute, you don’t really mind the sleepless nights, do you??
This is his “What the heck are you doing?” face….I anticipate seeing this face quite a bit in a few years, no doubt.
A big yawn!
