Lack of sleep

It's been about 2 weeks now since Siena decided that she was not going to go down for a nap or bed time with out throwing a huge fit and by fit I mean screaming "Mommy" or "daddy" or just crying for HOURS in her crib standing up.

Last night was the final straw.  She fell asleep on my lap on the couch (both kids did).  We got her to bed which was a miracle of it's own because she would normally wake up and start screaming as well.  Well at midnight last night Siena woke up.  For about 10 minutes I laid there hoping she would go back to sleep.  Didn't happen.  So I went in and checked her diaper, changed it because it was kind of wet, and told her it was still bed time and good night.  Well that back fired on me.  Siena was up until 3:30 screaming at us.  Mike went in there once and sat next to the crib and held her hand and she fell asleep for 20 minutes and then was up again screaming at us.  Cole came in to our room at 1am because as he said "mommy siena is screaming and I can't sleep".  Finally at 3:30 we gave up and Mike brought her in bed with us and she was silent.

We are both at our wits end with her and her lack of sleeping.


I have to make Cole's cake tonight for his party tomorrow.

Red food coloring galore.  I don't like red velvet cake mix.  Yuck!  But Cole wanted a cake that looked like blood.

It's going to take forever to frost this thing.

The bottle

She is addicted to the dang thing.  We have tried countless times to get rid of it and no such luck!  She chucks the sippy cups at us.

She still eats pens and crayons.

I am actually kind of bummed about this because I would love to be able to let her color. But she easts EVERYTHING. Every single little thing she can put in her mouth she does. It gets so old so fast.

Another bed time party

Siena has started to rebel at bed time.  It was around this age that Cole started head butting the crib.  At least Siena is just screaming.  For the past five nights Siena has not gone to bed before 10pm, even though she is in the crib well before 9pm.  The first night both kids were out of control.  At one point I found Cole in Siena's crib.  Later on when I went in the room, Cole was lying in his bed and he had Kermit B. Frog under his blanket.  He informed me that Kermit jumped off of the spinning fan blade and hurt his head.  He was keeping his blanket over Kermit's head which was a "cold" thing to make the owie better.  He was also keeping Kermit's hands away from the owie.  Funny kid.

Well the other night Cole was a little bit annoyed that he got put in bed at the same time as Siena.  It was just before 9pm.  I was heading home from work and I called home and Mike informed me that Siena was refusing to go to bed.  I told him to put both kids in the room and close the door.  Neither of us are interested in ending up where we did with Cole, with Siena.  I will not allow another kid to be unable to fall asleep in their bedroom and become dependent on mom and dad to fall asleep.  That took way to long with Cole to break the habit (3 years actually).  So not interested in going there.  Anyways, Siena continued right where she left off last night, hooting and hollaring.  Cole just ignored her and went to sleep.  Siena fought us until 10pm.  I even put her in Cole's bed (he was on a mattress on the floor).  She got up within 5 minutes and was banging on the door.  I put her back in the crib and she finally passed out from exhaustion about 5 minutes later.

Well here we are 5 days later.  It's 11:30 and both kids are still awake.  I thought moving the crib out of our room was going to get us some freedom and peace and quiet.  Boy was I wrong.  All it's done is cause Siena to not go to bed anymore and Cole is turing into a little brat about bed time.  It's no fun at the Fredy house right now at bed time.

The only one funny part about this entire things is that Siena actually lies awake in the room for 45 minutes waiting for Cole to come to bed.  She just lays there in the crib not moving and once the door closes she is chattering away!

bed time adventures

Putting two very wide awake kids to bed at the same time in the same room can only spell trouble.  We thought we would try and see what would happen......

on hour later here we are....

Obviously she was pretty proud of her self as was Cole who contributed the most to this situation.

This was the collection we pulled out of the bed the SECOND time around.

Siena has also not slept through the night for her entire life in her own crib,  except for 1 week in April, well two night's she stayed the night at Grandma Terri's with Cole and GUESS WHO SLEPT 9-5????  Yeah, what's that all about???  So do you think she slept though the night last night?  Nope!  up at 12:30 and 4:30.  This is bs if you ask me.

Siena's 2 month check up

Siena now weighs 9 pounds and 5 ounces which means she gained 2 pounds and 7 ounces over the last month!  She is 20 inches tall, so that's another 1 1/4 inches in a month.  Here's the funny part: she is in the 14% percentile for weight and the .49% for height.  Yes that's .49% as in a half of a percent, less than 1%!  But the best part is when you compare her weight to height ratio she is off the charts as in SUPER CHUNKY!!!  She has rolls and I love it!  So to sum up the visit she is chunky, has a head tilt, her head is NOT flat and she is doing great!

Now to sum up how well Cole behaved on my FIRST outing with two children...well let's just say I learned my lesson.  Why did I even think that it would go ok?  He was throwing his shoes across the waiting room, trying to hit me, yelling no to the receptionist when she so kindly put a movie on to calm him down.  It's wasn't a movie he wanted to watch.   The in front of the Dr. he basically gave me a big F.U. and was so disobedient that I was practically in tears.

I was so frustrated, pissed off and I really had to pee, so as soon as the Dr. left I packed everyone up, made sure I had everything since Cole unloaded the diaper bag in the toy basket and took off to the bathroom.  When I was finished I turned to walk out the the nurse stopped me as said "are we ready for shots?"  Holy crap!  Siena was getting shots today and we had just discussed not 10 minutes before how I was unsure about giving her shots today because it was my first day back at work and I didn't want her to be hurting and crying tonight when Mike was all alone with them.  We talked and decided that it was ok to give them since babies usually don't have reactions to the first set of vaccines.  

So back to the room we go and of course Cole begins right in again so to distract him I let him play with the faucet while I help with Siena.  Poor Siena.  Cole never cried much for vaccines and so I was not prepared for Siena to scream bloody murder and turn as red as a tomato.  So of course that set the tears off again.  

They both fell asleep on the car ride home and Cole is 1 1/2 hours into a his nap that doesn't usually start until noon.  I'm overwhelmed and of course going back to work doesn't help the emotions either.

Cole has his 2 year check up on Friday am I looking forward to seeing how much he has grown.

Vomit, goals & a weird toddler

Last night I spent 4 hours awake with Siena.  I went to bed at 7:15 last night hoping to get in a few hours of sleep before she woke up hungry.  In between the phone ringing and Cole sneaking in to our room I managed to get some sleep...until Siena woke up at 9:30.  She wanted to nurse, and nurse, and nurse.  This kid goes on nursing kicks each day at different times so trying to schedule around it is virtually impossible.  So she nursed until 10:30 when she then decided to vomit it all up.  And by vomit I mean projectile spraying of vomit on to me and the back of the couch, saving a little bit to spray out her nose.  After I freaked out for a minute,(this was my real first experience with a vomiting kid.  Cole has vomited once in his entire life and it was over a year and a half ago) Mike helped me clean it up.  Then the little princess was ready to eat again!  So I let her nurse thinking I would give her the benefit of the doubt that maybe she just spit up (umm ya nice denial there). So she nursed for another 45 minutes.  I am surprised there was any milk left at this point but there was because when I took her back to our bedroom to sleep she proceeded to spray vomit once again while laying down and it was directed at my face.  After cleaning that up I sat with her in bed hoping she would fall asleep, but no she wanted to nurse again.  I waited about 15 minutes still hoping she would give up and fall asleep but no such luck.  I let her nurse again and at 12:30 am she was finally asleep and so was I.  But 1:15 rolls around and guess who wants to eat again!  Seriously she is a maniac!  Luckily no more vomiting occurred however she did spike a small fever through out the night.

This morning I called the Dr's and they wanted me to bring her in since they don't like seeing any fevers in babies under 2 months of age.  She got a clean bill of health, looks like it was just a small flu virus running it's course.  She is also gaining weight well, another half pound, she weighs out at 6 pounds even.  The doctor also wants me to put alcohol on Siena's umbilical cord to dry it out and that makes me want to vomit.  I can't handle that at all!

I had my 2 week check up this morning.  I am allowed to drive again!  Yay for me!  Even though I have no plans of going anywhere it is still nice to have the option to leave if I wanted to.  I have lost 12 of the 32 pounds, so I have 20 more to go to meet my goal of losing 30 pounds by May.  We will see how it goes.  Losing the weight is hard for me because I am so used to eating what ever I want with no worry and that is not the case when you want to lose weight.  As soon as I can exercise again I plan on getting back to curves and maybe doing some at home videos also.

I am exhausted, not from the all nighter, but from Cole and his newest behavior.  He is throwing everything in sight.  It doesn't matter what it is, his food, his toys, his music table, the phone, the remote, our shoes, etc... it all gets tossed in any direction at any time.  I also spend all day keeping him from hurting Siena.  Sure he has his sweet moments of wanting to give her kisses and hugs, but the rest of the time I am shielding her head from him.  The only way to have her safe in the house is in the crib in our room, with the baby gate up so Cole can't get in the room.  If he does, he is throwing things in the crib.  I don't want to leaver her locked up all day in the crib, but at the same time it is hard to manage Cole and her together.

Cole is resisting time outs also.  It took us 15 minutes tonight to get Cole to stay in his time out for 1 minute.  It is seriously exhausting.  He thinks time outs are funny....  I can only guess that the little guy is frustrated with losing some of the attention and he does not know how to deal with it or explain it to us.

On the bright side, Cole woke up from his nap this afternoon asking for me to make him a salad.  He can be such a weirdo.

Welcome to our life

Pushing limits and pushing buttons

Cole's choice of activities tonight. I walked into his room both times to find him doing these things.  He has never done either of these before.  I think he is out to push my buttons tonight.

Yes, he is still not wearing clothes.  I managed to get some on this afternoon only because I wanted to go out side and so did he.  But after being back in doors for 5 minutes he asked to have them taken off.  Thank goodness the wood stove heats the house to about 85 degrees and holds strong all day.