so not only is kathryn sick with a cold or sinus infection or who knows...with a thick runny nose just about all day long, but daniel is also now coming down with something the poor child...he sounds like he's gargling (you know the stuffy nose sound) every time he breathes, and what's worse is he doesn't know how to blow it out, and every time i try the booger sucker, he screams for like 5 mins straight. anyhow...i know that if i took them to the doctor all they would say is they have a cold, oh well that their snot is green, it's just cuz it's in the morning...and send me out with nothing...i mean this is becoming somewhat of an unfortunate tradition with kathryn...seems like every fall thru winter she has a chronic runny nose, that never goes away, and never seems to be a bacterial infection to get antibiotics for. i just hoped with me breast-feeding daniel, he would not follow the same path...guess not. anyhow, it's bad enough that they are sick...but so am i..it's bound to happen with me around my sick kids 24/7...but i am the cough and hack all that junk up sick...with a constant need to blow my nose. it sucks. but that is just the background info to my lovely night. i finally got my kids to bed by 10:30 which is WAYYY too late... i know, i was backed up with all my SAHM duties... and so i figured, if they are going to bed this late...that means they'll wake later than usual in the morning...yay. so before i go to bed, i decide to check my email, clean things up a bit more, etc. and find myself finally trying to get in bed by 11:30 or so...which is later than i like, but oh well. but low and behold...how dare i try to get sleep...daniel start wailing at 12:15am, so i go in there to get him, and when i bring him in the living room so he wouldn't wake up the other 2 i see his face...snot running down his nose, and smeared all over his face from him rubbing his face on his bed. yuck. so i figure he woke up cuz he was having a hard time breathing, so i cleaned out his nose and tried to feed him, but within 5 mins, he was whining again...so i try the other side, and within 2 mins he's whining. he usually feeds a good 10 mins on each side...so am i loosing my milk???? so i resort to the only thing left...formula...he downed 6 oz easy, burped, spit up, and then he was fine...but awake and alert...and 2 nights ago i learned my lesson with trying to lay him down when he is not the least bit tired...he screamed bloody murder! so i just let him play around on the pad on the floor and by about 1:30 he starts looking tired. i finally got back to sleep by 2 and then 5 am... someone isn't happy again... by the by, he has been sleeping through the night since he was 2 weeks old, and sleeping 10+ hours at night since he was almost a month old. so this is not normal at all. so i get him up, try to feed him, he wouldn't take it, so i have to get formula once again, and while i went to get that, he was really being loud, john held him to try and quiet him, and once i got in there with a bottle of formula, guess who appears at my side of the bed...kathryn dear. wonderful. everyone is up and it is 5 am. just what i had in mind. but kathryn was suprisingly decent, she got in bed and watched daddy feed daniel, and after daniel was done, and daddy burped him, daniel seemed fine...and so john but him back in bed, and asked kathryn if she was going to get back in her bed...and she lost it. she wanted to cuddle up next to me... i was so tired, i just didn't even care... john noticed it was 5:43am, and he says "wow, no point in me going back to bed, my alarm goes off in 2 mins!" so he proceeded to get ready for work, but kathryn kept crying for juice, so john got her some juice in a sippy cup...lovely. i'm so tired i don't even care that he filled it to the top with juice, i just want to get to sleep. and i turn over to block kathryn's cries out, and she starts kicking me in the back with her feet. and laying her legs over my back and apparently to her it is soothing to pick up her legs and the drop them...and thats what she kept doing on my back!!! aaarrrrgh. after pushing her away several times to escape her legs, and they kept coming back...i gave up, and somehow went back to sleep. midway through, i wake up due to kathryn's sippy cup leaking on me, so i take a shirt, put it under me, and fall back asleep. but at 8:30 am, daniel decides he's not sleeping anymore, and so i go get him, bring him in bed, and he finally nurses. then kathryn starts wacking him on the head...uuugh...toddlers. finally he finishes, and i've given up on sleep, so i go to get up... only to realize the wetness from kathryn's sippy cup leaking wasn't juice or milk, it was strawberry crystal light (red colored flavored water) and so red splotches are all over our white sheets...and since there is not mattress pad for a queen mattress, it probably got on the mattress too. wow. well, even that wouldn't be so bad...just get up and decide to have a better day...so that's what i decided. i have the car (YAY!) and i am going to get the errands done and visit some family and have a good day. who cares how my morning started... so i get on the computer only to notice that it is Sept 17...our anniversary. lol. what a great way to start out. oh well. i think it's funny. and i'm going to have a good day, and only hope that tonight i can get some sleep!
I LOVE YOU JOHNATHAN~! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
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i hope you had a lovely day after the morning...what a great attitude to have!
oh, and don't you just hate it when husbands give kids juice with NO WATER ADDED! argh. that drives me batty.
oh, and this is jessica...used to live in b.r. and go to b.r.2 with you.
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