last stay at home mom day

This is such an frustrating, albeit exciting, time for Annie. Every day is filled with little disappointments that lead to not-so-little tantrums. I try not to use the word "no," but it is difficult when Annie is constantly wanting to do things that are either unsafe (like play on the stairs while mom is holding told) or just not ok (eat kudos bars ALL day). She has also learned to say "please," but when not given was she "pweeses" she screams and screams. I know this is just a stage, and is part of her figuring out who she is and what her boundaries are. It is hard, though, to remember that when listening to her yell all day.

stay at home mom day 21-ish?

Annie was enjoying dancing to this clip this morning... look familiar to anyone? Emily?

project sahm day 7+8

my friend bianca got married in rehoboth, de last weekend and I traveled, alone, to meet my friends for the festivities. unfortunately, sometime in the last two years I became O-L-D. 2 am is very, very late. Thus, monday was a recovery day. Unfortunately, recovery is hard with two babies. I still feel tired!

project sahm day 5+6

last friday i was all set to write about how smoothly things were finally going when this happened: oh no, poor annie! annie has been so great about going down the stairs, so now I usually let her "sit and scootch" all the way down, while I walk right next to her. of course this was all well and good until she decided to somersault down the bottom two front steps. poor baby, she tumbled down the concrete step and landed face up, bawling. of course, i have matilda in the sling, so i can barely grab her to see if she's ok. luckily, she suffered surface damage only. annie promptly forgot about the whole thing, while i blamed myself over and over again all day *** day 6... finally, i can write that we had a day that went smoothly. both babies napped nicely this morning and we went to have lunch with joe in the mall. this was my first time out with both babies and it went really well. i wore mattie in the ergo and pushed annie around in the maclaren. it wasn't nearly as bad as i thought!!

project sahm day 4

yeah! annie's feeling better. maybe we will get some sleep? no such luck... she was still up twice last night. alas, no good night's sleep for the birthday girl.

project sahm day 3

worst weekend ever. annie's teeething has reached a fever pitch...literally. Her mild friday fever escalated to 103 on saturday. maybe not a teething fever after all? she was miserable all weekend, which means everyone was miserable. today she woke up with a rash so we head to the pediatrician for the fourth time in a week. boo hoo. on a brighter note, mattie napped for 2 hours this morning!! hopefully its not because she's sick. lets all keep our fingers crossed!

project sahm day 2

annie has horrific diaper rash. just awful. the kind of diaper rash that looks like third degree burns crossed with poison ivy combined with road rash. in an effort to cure this i let her run around the backyard with no pants on this afternoon. we've done this before. but of course, for the first time, annie pooped without her diaper on today. very difficult to clean poop, hold newborn, and hose down toddler all at same time. *** because of said diaper rash, annie quivered, shook, and screamed at every change today. very sad. brings tears to my eyes. hopefully this will get better tomorrow. *** nothing new with mattie. today she seemed to hate the moby, but her love for the kkafp is going strong. rock on sister, the more time you spend in a carrier the better for everyone. *** i did manage to sew a little today. mattie was asleep in the kkafp and I stood up next to the sewing machine and put the pedal to the metal. got a whole 1/2 hr of fun in before annie woke up.

project sahm day 1

for the most part both babies were fed, changed, and happy most of the day. success. *** spent much of the day telling annie not to hit the dogs with rocks. she mostly listened. zoe did get smacked in the hindquarters with a nice size stone. sorry zoe. *** matilda slept in the moby wrap in the afternoon. all was well until i leaned over annie's crib to pick her up after her nap. tilda's head fell back and practically fell off. whoops. on thursday i will try to remember that she has no head control. *** only one two babies crying moment. matilda was yelling her head off when i put annie down for her afternoon nap. i came back down and there were little tiny tears streaming down her little face. so sad.