Wyatt is going through a stage. A phase rather. The "I don't want to sleep by myself" phase. This began about 2 months ago. Most nights, one of us will give him a bath, then we read books, and then it is lights out. This worked for years. Then, he started thinking that he could NOT go to sleep by himself. He wants one of us to lay down with him. Well, he really wants one of us to sleep with him but that is not happening.
I remember being the same way when I was little, so I have been laying down with him until he falls asleep and then leaving. But this has turned into him going to bed even later because he also has the gift of gab. It is non-stop "Mama, Mama" followed by random questions and phrases. So a 15 minute bed time routine has turned into an hour.
I began dreading putting him to bed because I knew it would take forever and I have not been feeling so good at night. I was definitely losing my patience with all of this so Jeremy decided it was time for tough love. So we went bath, books, lights out, and us listening to him cry, usually for me, for about 10 to 15 minutes. Oh, that is the worst. But Jeremy would go to his room about every 5 minutes, tell him to stop crying, and go to sleep. And eventually, he does.
The typical sob is "I can't go to sleep by myself, I can't go to sleep by myself - MAMA!!! MAMA!!!" Cry, cry, cry...
After a couple nights of that, he realized that crying for me wasn't getting him anywhere. So we were sitting there the other night and preparing ourselves to listen to the montage and out of the blue, we hear...
"SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!!"
We started dying laughing at that one. Who in the world is this child crying for? Has he become so desperate that a random stranger walking by is better than sleeping alone?
It did crack me up but then I was like "JEREMY! Go in there and calm him down!" That was just too much. It is bad enough listening to him cry for me, but feeling like he knows he can't depend on us and is willing to call out for SOMEBODY! was just too much trauma for me.
Hoping we are nearing the end of this phase before the County CPS gets called out to the Simple Life to investigate a report of neglect!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Park and Papa
A couple of Fridays ago, my friend Sarah and her little girl Addison met up with us to visit the infamous Safari Park. No big recap this time but I will give a warning out - don't visit the walk thru part where the turtles are. They came towards us HISSING and as we retreated with scared toddlers, the MONKEY that was being kept in a pen of chicken wire, CHARGED us and slammed up against his wall. We screamed, possibly MAY have let out an expletive or two, grabbed our firstborn, and hightailed it to the car both laughing and freaking out all at once.
As far as the drive thru part goes, the camel was a no-show. I guarantee you an unfortunate incident occurred with that one as he would put his entire head inside the cars - no boundaries there at all. And poor Addison was more than a little terrified at times - she is only 20 months and those big animals sticking their snouts and beaks up against the window pane was definitely intimidating.
Here is a sweet pic that Sarah took on our way to lunch after we vowed to never return to the Safari Park.
Wy remembered that there were railroad tracks coming up and that it was very bumpy so he wanted to hold Addison's hand so "she won't be scared." And they say chivalry is dead.
After lunch, we went to my parents house to visit with them as they had just returned from a week long vacation. Papa went out to work in his flower beds and Wyatt tagged along.
I thought they looked too cute in their matching shirts and hats.
As far as the drive thru part goes, the camel was a no-show. I guarantee you an unfortunate incident occurred with that one as he would put his entire head inside the cars - no boundaries there at all. And poor Addison was more than a little terrified at times - she is only 20 months and those big animals sticking their snouts and beaks up against the window pane was definitely intimidating.
Here is a sweet pic that Sarah took on our way to lunch after we vowed to never return to the Safari Park.
Wy remembered that there were railroad tracks coming up and that it was very bumpy so he wanted to hold Addison's hand so "she won't be scared." And they say chivalry is dead.
After lunch, we went to my parents house to visit with them as they had just returned from a week long vacation. Papa went out to work in his flower beds and Wyatt tagged along.
I thought they looked too cute in their matching shirts and hats.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Change of Scenery - STAT!!!
I have to give Jeremy props for recognizing that look in my eyes. That look that says "living the Simple Life is starting to get to me and if I don't get out of here, even just for one night, I may go running and screaming into the hills, never to be seen again." Well, that might be a slight exaggeration but not by much.
So Jeremy suggested we all go away for the night - somewhere close: Nashville, Birmingham, Chattanooga. I think I will be visiting all 3 but this week, we went with Chattanooga as there are all sorts of fun kid things to do there. More credit for J - he bought a Tom Tom so we actually didn't argue one time about directions which is a standard part of any road trip we take. The nice little lady told him where to go and I just sat back and was amazed that she was so smart!
We left Tuesday late afternoon and headed to the hotel we chose - the Chattanooga Choo Choo. They have old train cars on site and they even have train cars that you can stay in. We decided that Wyatt would be thrilled to get to stay in a train car so we chose a room with a queen bed that also had a day bed in it for him.
Do you think he looks excited?
We ate dinner on site at the Station House that featured Singing Servers.
It was fun to listen to the band and the see the waitresses go from serving drinks to singing "Let's Hear it for the Boy" which was my personal favorite of the night. Wy is already embarrassed of me as he kept telling me "Shhh" as I sang along.
Wy and I didn't eat much as he was too excited and I was feeling crummy, so we went for after dinner ice cream.
Here he is showing me that he got some on his shirt.
After playing all the games in the arcade and then some, we convinced him to go to sleep.
The next morning we headed over to an Amusement Park called Lake Winnepasauka - argument free again thanks to Tom Tom. Mom of the Year here 1) can't find her Mommy Camera aka Nikon that I have had for years so 2) grabbed her small digital camera without realizing that the battery wasn't charged. I did manage to get a few shots when we first got there, but didn't get as many as I wanted.
Lake Winnie was lots of fun. It was not crowded at all. Jeremy and Wyatt got unlimited ride passes and never had to wait more than 5 minutes. Sometimes they just stayed on and rode again. The good little Mommy to be didn't ride anything that would endanger the unborn but did do the Sky Lift with Wyatt. I was terrified the entire time that he would wiggle loose and slide out so I kept a death grip on him the whole time. While we were up there, we saw the boat chute ride which I assumed he wasn't tall enough to ride. You know the one - large boat that goes straight down at the end and water splashes everywhere. But I saw kids smaller than him on there so when we returned to the Sky Lift drop off, we headed over there. Wyatt is a definite dare devil. He is not scared to ride anything. He LOVED it. I drank bottles of water sitting in the shade while they rode, got in line, rode again, etc.
It was all kinds of HOT - don't know why we picked the middle of July to visit an amusement park in GA - so I looked for anything that included shade or indoors. They had a haunted castle ride that you rode through in the dark which meant it was cool for 2 minutes. I went on that with Wy and was seriously scared. It turned out to be a big NOTHING but the suspense of not knowing made it scarier. Wy had his "gun" ready to shoot any ghost he saw. I screamed like 3 times - pathetic. I think the Boat Chute took top prize followed by the Haunted Castle.
Here are a few pictures from the day before my camera flashed 'Battery Exhausted' and shut off.
The first thing we had to ride was the trolley:
Motorcycles that had an annoying buzzer that the kids would push the entire ride
Another kiddie ride
Can't wait to do another get away trip with the boys soon - like, next Tuesday would be great.
So Jeremy suggested we all go away for the night - somewhere close: Nashville, Birmingham, Chattanooga. I think I will be visiting all 3 but this week, we went with Chattanooga as there are all sorts of fun kid things to do there. More credit for J - he bought a Tom Tom so we actually didn't argue one time about directions which is a standard part of any road trip we take. The nice little lady told him where to go and I just sat back and was amazed that she was so smart!
We left Tuesday late afternoon and headed to the hotel we chose - the Chattanooga Choo Choo. They have old train cars on site and they even have train cars that you can stay in. We decided that Wyatt would be thrilled to get to stay in a train car so we chose a room with a queen bed that also had a day bed in it for him.
Do you think he looks excited?
We ate dinner on site at the Station House that featured Singing Servers.
It was fun to listen to the band and the see the waitresses go from serving drinks to singing "Let's Hear it for the Boy" which was my personal favorite of the night. Wy is already embarrassed of me as he kept telling me "Shhh" as I sang along.
Wy and I didn't eat much as he was too excited and I was feeling crummy, so we went for after dinner ice cream.
Here he is showing me that he got some on his shirt.
After playing all the games in the arcade and then some, we convinced him to go to sleep.
The next morning we headed over to an Amusement Park called Lake Winnepasauka - argument free again thanks to Tom Tom. Mom of the Year here 1) can't find her Mommy Camera aka Nikon that I have had for years so 2) grabbed her small digital camera without realizing that the battery wasn't charged. I did manage to get a few shots when we first got there, but didn't get as many as I wanted.
Lake Winnie was lots of fun. It was not crowded at all. Jeremy and Wyatt got unlimited ride passes and never had to wait more than 5 minutes. Sometimes they just stayed on and rode again. The good little Mommy to be didn't ride anything that would endanger the unborn but did do the Sky Lift with Wyatt. I was terrified the entire time that he would wiggle loose and slide out so I kept a death grip on him the whole time. While we were up there, we saw the boat chute ride which I assumed he wasn't tall enough to ride. You know the one - large boat that goes straight down at the end and water splashes everywhere. But I saw kids smaller than him on there so when we returned to the Sky Lift drop off, we headed over there. Wyatt is a definite dare devil. He is not scared to ride anything. He LOVED it. I drank bottles of water sitting in the shade while they rode, got in line, rode again, etc.
It was all kinds of HOT - don't know why we picked the middle of July to visit an amusement park in GA - so I looked for anything that included shade or indoors. They had a haunted castle ride that you rode through in the dark which meant it was cool for 2 minutes. I went on that with Wy and was seriously scared. It turned out to be a big NOTHING but the suspense of not knowing made it scarier. Wy had his "gun" ready to shoot any ghost he saw. I screamed like 3 times - pathetic. I think the Boat Chute took top prize followed by the Haunted Castle.
Here are a few pictures from the day before my camera flashed 'Battery Exhausted' and shut off.
The first thing we had to ride was the trolley:
Motorcycles that had an annoying buzzer that the kids would push the entire ride
Another kiddie ride
Can't wait to do another get away trip with the boys soon - like, next Tuesday would be great.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Ultrasound and a Night Out with Thomas and Friends
Everything went great at the doctor's office on Tuesday. It was weird to be back there again almost 4 years to the day that I went for Wyatt's first ultrasound. This one went much better. I remember that the printer was broken that day and I didn't get the little print out of the grainy little bean baby and I was so disappointed.
This time the ultrasound was done in the same room where I went for my 20 week and 4-D with Wyatt. Halfway through it, she flipped it over to 4-D and it was amazing to see the baby in that early stage of development in such detail. I could see the little arm and leg "buds" and the head. Also got a good view of the placenta and everything looked great. The heart rate was 174 and we got to hear it for a few seconds. It was a huge relief to know that the baby is fine and everything checked out.
The baby is officially due February 15th. The ultrasound tech gave me 2 regular grainy pics and also 2 4-D pics that I will post as soon as I have the chance to scan them in at J's office.
We headed back to town that night with Wyatt as we had tickets for the Thomas and Friends show. I bought the tickets way before I knew I would be expecting a baby and I was determined to suck it up and go. He was excited about going but thought he was going to get to go for a ride on them. It was a good show - not too long and they knew to bring out the trains often enough to keep the kids excited. Kinda heavy on the song and dance but then a train would come out and all the kids would go wild. Here are a few pics from the show.
Wy waiting in line with his ticket
Woo-hoo - Mama came thru with the light up toy
Wy waiting for show to start with customary over priced light up toy
A glimpse of the show
They sat like this almost the whole show :)
This time the ultrasound was done in the same room where I went for my 20 week and 4-D with Wyatt. Halfway through it, she flipped it over to 4-D and it was amazing to see the baby in that early stage of development in such detail. I could see the little arm and leg "buds" and the head. Also got a good view of the placenta and everything looked great. The heart rate was 174 and we got to hear it for a few seconds. It was a huge relief to know that the baby is fine and everything checked out.
The baby is officially due February 15th. The ultrasound tech gave me 2 regular grainy pics and also 2 4-D pics that I will post as soon as I have the chance to scan them in at J's office.
We headed back to town that night with Wyatt as we had tickets for the Thomas and Friends show. I bought the tickets way before I knew I would be expecting a baby and I was determined to suck it up and go. He was excited about going but thought he was going to get to go for a ride on them. It was a good show - not too long and they knew to bring out the trains often enough to keep the kids excited. Kinda heavy on the song and dance but then a train would come out and all the kids would go wild. Here are a few pics from the show.
Wy waiting in line with his ticket
Woo-hoo - Mama came thru with the light up toy
Wy waiting for show to start with customary over priced light up toy
A glimpse of the show
They sat like this almost the whole show :)
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Since I made the big announcement, I have gotten several of the same questions so I thought I would put the questions here along with my answers to catch everyone up.
1. How far along are you?
I will be 8 weeks tomorrow and have my first doctor's appointment on Tuesday. The online due date calculator has my due date as February 15th but I will go with what Dr. Callison calculates on Tuesday.
2. Are you as sick as you were with Wyatt?
I am a HOT MESS. If you knew me during my first pregnancy, you know that I had a bad case of "morning" sickness that lasted all day long until about week 14. So far, I am following the same pattern. Smells are the worst and send me running to a garbage can, sink, toilet - whatever I can get to first. The other morning I only made it to the sink. Wy was watching me and said "Move over Mama, I need to spit too." I am sleeping fine b/c I take a Phenergan and hit the bed early. So that is a positive. I am trying to focus on all positives b/c I am terrified if I think about how many more weeks of this I have to go. It does help to have Wyatt because he is a good distraction and I don't really have the option of dwelling on how I feel. Just got to get up and go with it.
3. What does Jeremy think? Didn't he just want one?
Jeremy and I had agreed that we would give it a try but that we would both be OK if we just had Wyatt. We weren't gonna stress about it and go to the ends of the earth to conceive. We decided to just keep it to ourselves in case it never happened. It took a better part of a year to conceive Wyatt so we figured it would take about a year this time, especially since I am "older." I had actually discussed it with Dr. Callison in March and she said she guessed it would take somewhere between 6 months to a year. So we were shocked when it happened the FIRST month. Ah, hello? We are kinda in the middle of building a house and living the Simple Life right now. Not exactly the timing I was going for but I definitely am not going to question it. I am just so surprised. Surprised but thrilled. Must be this love shack we are living in - bahahahahahahahahaha.
4. What does Wyatt think?
Well, he is 3 so most days I don't think he even remembers that I am going to have a baby. Every once in a while, something happens that jogs his memory and he will say something about it. Of course he comes up with some interesting questions like the morning we told him he was going to be a big brother.
Wy: Mama, what color is the baby going to be?
J: BLACK!
Me: Jeremy! Stop! Honey, the baby is going to be the same color as you.
I don't really know where he was going with that other than he might have thought we were going to have a YouYou?
Later I was trying to explain to him that it was going to take some time before the baby got here. He looked at Jeremy and in a very serious tone like he has all the experience in the world, he says "Dada, this is gonna take some time. It is gonna take some time before the baby gets here." Jeremy just looked at him and said "I know son. This isn't my first rodeo."
5. Any cravings so far?
Lots of fresh fruit especially strawberries and pineapple; nacho cheese doritos which I have NEVER liked before now; KFC mashed potatoes with gravy. Not into any kind of meat whatsoever.
So I will know more after my appointment on Tuesday. Thanks so much for all the comments and excitement over our news. I can't wait to feel better so I can get back to my normal routine.
1. How far along are you?
I will be 8 weeks tomorrow and have my first doctor's appointment on Tuesday. The online due date calculator has my due date as February 15th but I will go with what Dr. Callison calculates on Tuesday.
2. Are you as sick as you were with Wyatt?
I am a HOT MESS. If you knew me during my first pregnancy, you know that I had a bad case of "morning" sickness that lasted all day long until about week 14. So far, I am following the same pattern. Smells are the worst and send me running to a garbage can, sink, toilet - whatever I can get to first. The other morning I only made it to the sink. Wy was watching me and said "Move over Mama, I need to spit too." I am sleeping fine b/c I take a Phenergan and hit the bed early. So that is a positive. I am trying to focus on all positives b/c I am terrified if I think about how many more weeks of this I have to go. It does help to have Wyatt because he is a good distraction and I don't really have the option of dwelling on how I feel. Just got to get up and go with it.
3. What does Jeremy think? Didn't he just want one?
Jeremy and I had agreed that we would give it a try but that we would both be OK if we just had Wyatt. We weren't gonna stress about it and go to the ends of the earth to conceive. We decided to just keep it to ourselves in case it never happened. It took a better part of a year to conceive Wyatt so we figured it would take about a year this time, especially since I am "older." I had actually discussed it with Dr. Callison in March and she said she guessed it would take somewhere between 6 months to a year. So we were shocked when it happened the FIRST month. Ah, hello? We are kinda in the middle of building a house and living the Simple Life right now. Not exactly the timing I was going for but I definitely am not going to question it. I am just so surprised. Surprised but thrilled. Must be this love shack we are living in - bahahahahahahahahaha.
4. What does Wyatt think?
Well, he is 3 so most days I don't think he even remembers that I am going to have a baby. Every once in a while, something happens that jogs his memory and he will say something about it. Of course he comes up with some interesting questions like the morning we told him he was going to be a big brother.
Wy: Mama, what color is the baby going to be?
J: BLACK!
Me: Jeremy! Stop! Honey, the baby is going to be the same color as you.
I don't really know where he was going with that other than he might have thought we were going to have a YouYou?
Later I was trying to explain to him that it was going to take some time before the baby got here. He looked at Jeremy and in a very serious tone like he has all the experience in the world, he says "Dada, this is gonna take some time. It is gonna take some time before the baby gets here." Jeremy just looked at him and said "I know son. This isn't my first rodeo."
5. Any cravings so far?
Lots of fresh fruit especially strawberries and pineapple; nacho cheese doritos which I have NEVER liked before now; KFC mashed potatoes with gravy. Not into any kind of meat whatsoever.
So I will know more after my appointment on Tuesday. Thanks so much for all the comments and excitement over our news. I can't wait to feel better so I can get back to my normal routine.
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