Update...the day did not get better

Unfortunately, the day did not get better today. I was hoping that by blogging about it I would be able to prevent the downward spiral. Guess not. I had forgotten that it was a full moon today. Maybe that's the reason.

During Trevor's "quiet time" today, I found (actually smelled) what he was doing in our bathroom. It was quite funny, except for the rather large and difficult to clean up mess in our bathroom. And by taking these pictures, I have ammo for future teenage blackmail. I am SO glad to be done with today!!!

I hate Tuesdays

You would think that Tuesday would be a good day. It is one of only two days of the week we don't have anything planned. Trevor knows I designate it "clean the basement" day. He and Gwen get to play with the toys in the basement while I organize papers and such. But it isn't such a big deal that I put it off another week if we have something else we need to do.

I figured we haven't been to the "jump jump" place (aka Edinborough park) in a while. However, I was not going to bring Trevor if he was not having a good listening day. And he couldn't even make it until 9 o'clock. I should have just went back to bed. It has gotten significantly cooler than the past few days, but I knew we needed to get out of the house. So we went on a walk. It is just so hard to get through the morning. Lots of fighting, screaming, crying...thankfully today none of it was from me. Then I put in the order for the darn photos. That was a big GULP. Just not a very good thing to have to do today.

And I know I need to look at it from the bright side, but I hate Tuesdays. And with that, I realize that my last two posts have been gripes. But my intentions are that I will post about the happiness that took place this weekend in the next post. That way, the gripes will be out of the way first.

Just when you think you day is going to turn out horrible

It doesn't. Last night was DREADFUL. Probably the worst since Gwen was born simply because it kind of came out of nowhere. Neither child is sick anymore, but Trevor was up after Gwen was up at midnight, so after Trevor was settled down, Gwen was up from 1-4 and although she drifted off to sleep, she couldn't stay asleep long enough to even be put down.

I'm guessing part of her deal was teething, or maybe just resetting her sleep schedule, but OUCH...when she was up for the morning at 7am, I thought I was doomed today. Trevor was barely up before 8am, so we had to get moving to get him to school by 9. I came back home where Gwen was waiting for me to put her down for her nap. She had her bottle and went down by 9:30. I went back to bed just hoping to catch an hour of sleep. She didn't get up until after 11! YIPPEE!!! So I got a few winks.

Then, today was just a wonderful spring day. I couldn't help but let Trevor take his trike up to the church parking lot and ride it around. Gwen was in the stroller. She lasted about 15 minutes and Trevor was happy just to get out of the house. So we came back home, had lunch and now Gwen is napping again.

SPRING IS COMING I'm telling you! And we all are looking forward to it here in our house! I'm sure last night was the worst of it...KNOCK ON EVERYTHING! I'm not expecting it to be perfect tonight, just hoping for a little improvement.

I have to complain

Because I can. Now I know I don't have it nearly as rough as some moms do. But I still get tired and stressed out when I don't get a good night's sleep.

I'm not sure if it was because she is getting a snotty cold in her nose, or because she is still adjusting to a good sleep schedule, or working on rolling over, but whatever the deal, she was up from 3-5:15, then up again at 6:15, then Trevor was up at 7. And there was no convincing her that she should be asleep at 3:30 or so. She was even quiet. But she could not go to sleep.

And there are things we could do to make it a little easier today, but with school being out, everything is going to be packed. And I don't have the heart to try to brave the crowds today. So we'll just have to muddle through and get whatever done that I can. Again, I know it's not as bad as it could be, but that doesn't exactly solve my tiredness issue.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, we are trying cereal with Gwen this past week. She's not too impressed, so I'm not sure if it will continue this week or not. I'm not remembering if she is not ready and not wanting to do it, or if she is just dealing with this new thing and not sure what to make of it. So we'll see how she does and then take it from there.

Is it spring yet?

We just came back from Basketball, but only after braving a quickly developing snowstorm. Actually, it was just a lot of blowing snow, and it is about to get very cold. But because of that, I'm really really looking forward to it getting warmer and finally it being spring. I know we are at least a month out, and it will probably be more snow before then too, but I think it's also getting a bit long for Trevor too. In a few weeks we'll be starting ECFE for Gwen which takes place on Mondays, so every day we will have something going on. With the exception of Sundays.

I'm also happy to report, after almost a full week of Gwen getting all messed up with her sleeping and eating, she had a great night last night and is sleeping right now. I knew it wouldn't be forever, but it is hard dealing with it at the time! She had gone back to needing a bottle in the middle of the night, and waking up a few times. So now we are back to letting her sleep in her bouncy chair. It is so weird to think that she just can sense when she isn't as upright as she is in her chair, and will wake up within 15 minutes if you put her in her crib. I thought maybe she was getting a cold, as Trevor has one, but so far so good.

So anyway, sounds like Gwen is waking up from her nap. Time to say hello!

I'm on a roll!

So....I have to gripe about something. And it's my blog so you have to read about it ;-)


I completely understand that at any "portrait studio", the photographer is completely hit-or-miss. You are lucky if you find a good one, and even luckier if you can find a way to get the same photographer each time you go to said "portrait studio". With Trevor, I got a really good photographer a few times at JCPenney. But I also tried Target a few times because I could use my rewards coupon, and it wasn't much different than anywhere else.


On Wednesday, I braved (with the help of my mom again) JCPenney mostly because they give you a good deal if you enroll in their portrait club that is for 2 years. With as many pictures as Gwen is going to have, it ends up being a good deal. Plus I have a framed photograph of Trevor that I plan on getting with Gwen when she is 6 months old.


Our appt was for 11am. I thought it was the first appt of the day, but I was wrong. They open at 10am. We survive the car ride with Miss Gwendolyn screaming most of the way there. I run to the nursing room to feed her before the appt. I guess at the time because I don't have a watch. I arrive almost exactly at 11am where Trevor and my mom are waiting. There is another appt in the photography studio with a girl 2 years old. There is another mom with her 4 year old boy looking at her photos. THANK GOODNESS they were showing Curious George the Movie on their TV because it kept Trevor's interest the entire time we were there. I was acknowledged when I arrived by filling out some paperwork, but otherwise that was it. Gwen was also asleep at this time. Another blessing. You could hear the mom in the studio begging her daughter to smile so they could get one good picture. She tried bringing her older daughter in to help. Didn't work. This went on for quite some time when I finally asked the cashier how much longer she was going to be. I was told that I would be next. (DUH)

Gwen woke up, had to be changed and I wanted to rush her right in there because I knew we only had a limited time before she would start wanting to eat again. So at 11:30 at the earliest, we were finally in the studio. And this photographer was HORRIBLE. I could not believe they even hired her. She had NO people skills whatsoever. And I could see a bit why the other mom was saying she wanted one smile out of her daughter. The photographer did nothing to make either of my kids smile. Luckily Gwen likes to smile at anything. But we didn't even get a good picture of her smiling. And Trevor's smiling pictures are his cheezy grin because unless you can get him to really laugh, it is very forced. So while he was at least happy, we didn't get a great smile of him either. But I picked out the pictures I liked, ordered enough for family, and plan on doing Christmas cards on my own, like I did last year.

Oh, and I did get to complain through an online survey so even if nothing gets done, at least I "said" my peace somewhere where someone might pay attention to it. I'll keep you updated with any other pictures soon....