Mash-up

Posted By: Karen B. 1 Comments

Has a month really gone by so quickly? I guess so. Time tends to do that to you when you don't get much sleep.

First of all, I just want to preface all I say here with, I really love my children and my husband. My life would be far drearier without them and they each bring me certain joys that I would never be able to have without them.

Okay, now that that's said... Can I have some sleep please? Finn's the colicy one. I get frustrated because to me it's obviously colic, but people always want to find a fix for it. I want a fix for it, too, but there is no cure for colic besides time. No, I don't enjoy listening to a child scream for several hours a day. Finally I am starting to be able to close my ears to it since I can't do anything about it. I could shove a nipple in his mouth, but feeding a baby 24x7 is not a great idea and making him sleep in the day just because I don't want to listen to crying does no one any favors at night.

Finn is eating a lot and growing a lot. He's in 0-3 month clothes now instead of newborn, which is cool.

Ingrid is doing so well with Finn, but she's really started in on the terrible two's. Everything is NO NO NO NO! It was really making me mad until I read that that's a child's first response, but if you give them time to think they often are more amenable. I've been very zen about it the last 2 days.

I have been fighting off, or not fighting off as the case may be, sick after sick. First I got a UTI. Then, my dad came at the end of February and we all got sick for a few days and it made a wave through the household. last week I had an intestinal bug that knocked me completely down for a day, to the point that I didn't take Ingrid to pre-school because I couldn't get up and get her ready to go. So Easter brings on another UTI which I caught early enough that I could go to the walk-in clinic instead of to the ER at 3am. Last night with the no sleep my throat started to hurt and has continued into today. Today starts the period resuming.

I have not been pregnant for less than 2 months and it's back?  Really, come on now. Gimme a break, body! :(

I do not recommend having 2 children within 2.5 years of each other, but I wouldn't trade my kids for the world, either.