Someone broke my baby
My wonderful, easy, sleep through the night baby has been up the last 3 nights, now, I’m less than impressed. We have a number of possible culprits 1) Constipation. The kid didn’t go at all Sunday and had some small pellets today so we haven’t given him any solids and he’s just on the boob juice. If it’s still an issue tomorrow I’m going to buy some prunes or maybe pear juice. He seems grunty and squirmy when he wakes up, but he grunts a lot in general when playing with voice tones, to it’s hard to tell 2) The cold, though after tonight I’m not as sure of that one. The weather took a turn and his hands and cheeks have been cold when he wakes all angry-like, but tonight he woke at 10:30, only 4 hours after going down, and wasn’t cold 3) He has a cold. It isn’t bad, but when we get him he is kind of snotty and snorty through the initial cry fest, but is able to take a paci or nurse and his breathing seems pretty clear after that. Maybe nursing somehow clears the snot out? 4) I’ll add teeth, because until a kid has them all it’s the easiest thing to blame lol. Days that Riley is being a jerk I blame her teeth. A whole month later her molars are only half cut AND she has 2 more after these ones, aye yi yi.
Work was fantabulous this past weekend THE WEB BLOCKER WAS DOWN. I clicked on a Pinterest link in my email forgetting it wouldn’t open….but then it did. There was about 30 seconds of disbelief as we all stared at the screen and didn’t dare to touch anything, then a flurry of activity as everyone rushed to sign on lol. At first we thought maybe they were being nice and unblocked it, but then it became apparent we could get on Facebook, YouTube, Pandora – basically everything. I guess it has been that way since whatever power shorts and outages they had during Sandy last week, I can’t believe IT hasn’t noticed or done anything about it. I work only weekend evenings and it is deader than dead 9 times out of 10, I couldn’t believe how fast those shifts went by just having FB and Pinterest back. AND I scored a free exersaucer :: woot woot:: I’ve been lusting after the rainforest one since Riley was born, but never pulled the trigger on it so when it popped up for $40 on the Facebook yard sale page I was like eh, why not. It was a friend of mine selling it and she messaged me to say we could just have it, she’s dropping it off Wednesday. WOHOO. If I hadn’t been on at work it would have sold and I never would have had the chance.
Halloween was a good time. The Saturday before we went to the kid trick or treat at a nearby farm. Riley absolutely loved it, we went with one of her best friends and met up with my sister in law and nephew while we were there. She was nervous about the people dressed up handing out candy at first, but watching her friends do it gave her the courage – peer pressure starts at a young age lol. In addition to admission to the farm we got unlimited pony rides (her fav), a hayride to a hay maze, then a train ride to a corn maze, plus the candy and a free pumpkin. It was really cute. Our Halloween playdate Wednesday was canceled due to there being no power at the girl’s house, but our city still had trick or treat that night (a lot got rescheduled) and I took R since I missed it last year. She was soooooo into it. I thought we’d just go down our road, but she made it all the way around the block. I skipped a lot of houses since she was walking sooooo sloooooow but she ended up with a good haul and had a blast.
We were lucky with Sandy, we hardly got anything. We were on the outskirts to begin with, but with all the flipping trees in this state it doesn’t take much to cause state-wide power outages. We didn’t lose it at all this time, probably because I actually prepared. When we were out for those 2 days last year I cut and ran to my parents’ in the next state lol. I even found babysitters for my freezer stash this time around should something happen (ie: people with chest freezers and generators).
This weekend I’m going to visit my old roommate and college BFF and I’m both TERRIBLY EXCITED and TERRIBLY NERVOUS. I don’t remember the last time I went away without my husband, let alone without him AND the kids. Seriously, though, she has lived less than 2 hours away for almost a year now after going to grad school in Pittsburg and I haven’t even seen her place. Now she has friends and a *gasp* boyfriend and really wants me to meet them all. So me and my pump are going and I’m trying not to stress about how long it’s going to take me to pump with a single hand pump and how my supply might be affected by skipping the 4 (and probably 7) AM feeding. Because let’s face it, I’m going to SLEEP while I can, even if it is on a pullout couch.
I’m making pretzel bread tomorrow and I’m way excited about this. The first time I ever had it was on our honeymoon cruise and it’s kind of amazing. The blogger who I got the recipe from used it to make grilled cheese with sharp cheddar, onions, and honey mustard – that is my ultimate goal. The end of this week I’m making turkey pumpkin chili with cranberry cornbread and I’m actually pretty super psyched for that one too. Phil keeps telling me I need a hobby and doesn’t seem to understand cooking and baking ARE my hobbies, when I have spare time that’s what I choose to do. He seems to think it needs to be a social thing in order to be a hobby? Either that or he doesn’t realize average people don’t go around making their own sauces, dressings, breads, etc. It’s my favorite!
Oh I have more I want to talk about and a metric ton of pictures to post, but it’s after midnight and I should sleep. I took a nap with the kids today because this weekend was bad for sleep, but then I’m always up late the days I nap! Saturday I was late getting home from work (I work evenings) and by the time I did my little housekeeping things and sat for a few minutes Sam was awake at 2 AM. I sat up with him until 4, so yeah, I went to bed at 4 AM. Then Sunday I got to bed around 1 (my norm the nights I work) and he was up 3-5. Maybe I can use wishful thinking and hope the 10 PM wake up tonight will be the only one?? At least my mom and sis come to visit tomorrow so I can phone in the parenting thing 😛 Riley wants nothing to do with me when they’re here anyway!