Today's adventure began at 3:19 a.m. when my husband woke me up with a quick but firm tap on my shoulder. I was on "Chase" duty last night and accidentally fell asleep with him after reading All The Thinks You Can Think I think three times. I was snuggling with him in his bottom bunk when I felt that tap. Chase had just woke up not 10 minutes before to see if I was there, I assured him I was and rubbed his back...So, after following Scott and Colby, Colby who was wide-awake in his arms, to our room, he informed me that he had been up with Colby every hour since 11ish... and it was my turn. Luckily, I was not that tired and had had about 6 hours of sleep booked for the night and I gladly took my sweet baby boy into my arms. Scott ventured upstairs to continue the snuggle fest with Chase...Oh, how I love snuggling...both my boys seem to love it! It will be a sad day when they grow out of that and don't want to snuggle anymore. :(
Well, Colby and I had quite an early morning together...He wouldn't take a bottle and barely took is binky. His bottom two teeth are in so it's time for the tops to come through, so I'm fairly sure all the restless, fussy behavior is teething... I'm just glad he hasn't been getting a fever and ear infection every time a tooth comes in like Chase did!!! Knock on wood!!!
So, I debated on whether to just face the fact that he was up and alert and not going to go to sleep, officially get up and start a pot of coffee or do I resist and begin the rocking, standing bouncing, rocking, standing bouncing routine that may put him to sleep...After rocking for a minute or two, he started to rub his eyes -- yes! He just might go back to sleep!! And, he did!!! He and I snuggled for about an hour, until 4:30ish and he woke again, we went through the routine again but this time he had about 4 oz. and fell asleep the second time a little easier... We officially rose out of bed around 5:45 a.m. ready to face the world, and our sleepy daddy and brother who actually slept in until about 6:30 a.m. -- lucky ducks!!
I knew I was in for it when I was fairly energetic so early in the morning, I was bound to hit the wall, around noonish and need a nap/break/shower, some sort of respite from these two little monsters (I say lovingly :). We had a fun morning, watched a little PBS, George, Sesame Street, Super Y, then the request to "watch a movie". We have appleTV and Chase has his favorite queue of movies all lined up that he loves to watch, Garfield Superforce, Batman (yes, we do let him watch a few of those), Open Season, Kipper, Martha, Free Willy, and a couple others... my deal is that he has to help me do a little cleaning, we get the laundry started, pick up our toys, rooms, and he helps with drying some of the dishes that don't go into the dishwasher, then he can watch... Then, after he watches, it's time to either play outside, or do something creative inside (we've been inside a lot with the awful weather). Most of the time we play with play-doh. Today, however, we didn't we decided to put on superhero capes and fly. Which really means, mommy carrying Chase all around the house while he pretends to fly--oh my aching back!!!
Meanwhile, Colby has been pivoting, scooting, crawling, backwards that is and keeping me on my toes as well, all day... since 3:30 a.m. this morning really... but he's so close to crawling... honestly, I wish he would just get those knees moving because he gets a little frustrated and he makes me a little nervous because he doesn't always seem steady on all fours, knees or feet! He's trying so hard, though... He really just wants to get moving so he can play with his big brother... the way he watches everything Chase does and giggles at whatever Chase does or says, is sooo super cute, brings tears to my eyes because I hope they are buds and get along when their older.... I know Colby will just admire his big brother and want to be just like him, I can already tell. Chase told me last night right before we dozed off that he likes his daddy, and mommy, and loves Colby, oh yeah, and he loves his bear and baby, too! (Two of his stuffed animals he sleeps with :)
Here are a couple of photos of Colby today... he's definitely getting around even if he's not technically crawling yet!
This morning Colby maneuvered himself under the rocking chair, most likely crawling backwards!
Colby loves his piggy from Aunt JJ!
So, I actually hit the wall around 1 p.m. when Chase was so close to napping, I had Colby down, too, but just as Chase finished his afternoon baba and his eyes started to get a little droopy, Colby started to cry and nap time was officially over. It is such a challenge to get Chase down for a nap if Colby is awake. So, if Colby wakes up from his nap before I get Chase completely asleep, it's just not gonna happen! So, it didn't today. There are days I do get lucky and after today's Wacky day, I hope next week's Wednesday will be one of those days. As much as I LOVE being home with the boys and I don't have to focus much on work at all, just keep things moving and monitor emails/voicemails, I do crave a little down time however unrealistic and nutty that may seem, I do hope for that hour or two where both boys are napping peacefully!!!
We did make it outside finally, I thought we may have missed our window after the sunny day turned to rain, clouds and hail but the storm passed through and the clouds parted, and the sun came out again... so right when things started to get a little nuts, I knew I had to get the boys outside... so we played on the swings, did a little digging and raking with our new shovel & rake (Chase's new favorite activity outside! I've gotta get a little garden going for him soon!). And then, Daddy came home -- very early!!! At around 3:30!! I'm not sure but my call to him around 2 p.m. before I took the boys outside asking him when he'd be home (as if I didn't know) gave him a little hint that I just might need reinforcements before his usual time of coming on around 5:30... I also imagine he might feel just a tad guilty for waking me up at 3:30 but we do that a lot, tag team when one of the boys just isn't having a good night... So, anyway, my awesome husband saved the day and is now out with the boys running errands... I think we needed coffee -- coffee is a must have at our house! And, while they were out, I got my second wind and was able to keep my date with Jillian Michaels and do my 30 Shred today!
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