Keep your mouth shut!

Have you ever asked a woman if she was pregnant only to find out she wasn't expecting?! Can you say awkward! Well unfortunately I was on the receiving end of that last night.... someone asked me when I was due. I almost died of embarrassment, for me and for them. However to make matters worse was they didn't even apologize or seem to feel bad which only added to my humiliation. (like they were justified in asking) So now I am feeling sorry for myself and quite grumpy.  I am just putting this out there, but unless a woman is in the hospital with a baby between her legs, maybe you should just keep your mouth shut?!

I have to laugh.....

2 things brightened my day today....

Joel has started to teach Mika to use the potty. Not really potty training, because she is still in a diaper all day, but if we notice the signs or she tells us she has to go, then we will put her on her potty and encourage her to use it.  He has had more success than I have with 2 successes today. 

Today she told him she had to go and he put her on her potty.  He sat on the toilet like she requested.  If you know Mika, you know she is a little OCD.  Everything has it's place and things belong where they belong. (she is her mother's daughter!)  While she sat on the potty she noticed the bath mat's corner had flipped so she got up to fix it.  (clearly a priority over needing to pee)  While she did this however, she peed all over the floor!  We would have had another successful attempt if it wasn't for that corner.... oh well!

Day 3:
J: "Honey, I don't know how you do it everyday. I'm exhausted!"
Me: "Baby, you don't even have it that bad. You haven't had to go grocery shopping or get anything with both of them plus you aren't the one feeding Maddy in between playing with Mika."

This makes me laugh for a lot of reasons, but mostly because this was said on day 3. (I do this 28 days in a row.) I think he is starting to understand why I look forward to those 2 weeks when he is home so much!

He's home!

J is home and we had a great night! He surprised me by coming home in the afternoon, only to find out I wasn't here!  Oops!  Oh well, we came home while he showered and he spent the night with his girls. I was even able to go out grocery shopping alone.... like completely alone! After shopping, I came home and made supper for us and peanut while J gave baths. We had a great night, with peanut only waking once around 11pm, then once at 5:15, but going back to sleep until.... get this.... 8:15am!!!  Bug went to bed around 11:15pm, slept until 5:15, ate, and went back to bed until 10am.  Great night!! I already feel rested and it's only been one day!

J is busy this morning working on landscaping the backyard. Our yard sloped towards the house so J wanted to correct it before we put it up for sale. He will build a deck next, but for now he is busy hauling dirt.  I'm excited for this all to be finished as we will be one step closer to not having any more projects!

I'm off to relax while my girls sleep!

Motivation

So in the heat I often lose motivation.... for really everything. For taking Mika outside or to the park, for cooking, for cleaning, etc. How do you stay motivated in the heat?

One week + 1 day

Yep, that's it! 1 week plus a day and monkey will be home! I couldn't be more excited to see him and for him to see his girls. He has big plans for his time at home including camping in our backyard with peanut, taking peanut swimming and to gymnastics and landscaping the backyard, but we'll see what actually gets done. He's hoping to have an extra week off so he would be home for 3 weeks. 

Otherwise life on our end is good. Full of eating, sleeping, swimming, changing diapers, baths and playing downstairs.

Just a short update....

A day in the life.....

Well it has been just 5 days since Joel returned to work. It was like judgement day for me. I was fearing the worst. Worrying myself on how I would possibly manage 2 children, a house, getting to and from anywhere, etc. But I am happy to say things are (knock on wood here) going extremely well!  Mika has been sleeping better at night, waking only 2-3 times. (For many this would seem outrageous, but at this point in the game it is a HUGE victory for us) Maddy is also waking 2-3 times, eats and goes right back to bed (in her crib in her own room) which is wonderful.  Since I am so used to getting up multiple times throughout the night this hasn't been an adjustment, it just feels like it did before. 

Maddy has changed a lot already, being up for greater periods of time and being more alert. We have a midwife appointment on Thursday to check her weight, but on Saturday (at birth) she was 8lbs. 1oz, the next day she was 7lbs. 14 oz., Tuesday she was down to 7lbs. 13 oz., and by Thursday she was..... 8lbs 8oz! What a little piggy. She was cluster feeding in the evening but she has stopped that. She is feeding more often, but she is not glued to me like she was for the first week.  Breastfeeding is going extremely well. With only one nurse trying to "correct" my technique (I humored her, but went back to doing it my way as soon as she left the room), Maddy has learned to feed from me. 

Joel's parents took Mika the Saturday after Joel left which allowed me to get many errands done. I had some grocery shopping to do, I wanted to look for a sling, get stamps to mail Maddy's birth certificate papers, etc. I got everything I could done and headed home for a nap. I woke later than I wanted to, but then headed to Martin and Barb's for dinner. We spent that night at home then woke up and headed to Lilac. I packed to stay a few days as I figured it was easier to bring clean clothes home then need clothes. Although the night went better then I expected, by the end of it, we were all sleeping in the bed together! We enjoyed the day out there, went into Steinbach for lunch and then decided to head home. Which actually ended up being to my mom's since they came in too and she invited us for dinner. I skyped with Joel from my parents and showed him his 2 girls.  Mika was all about giving daddy kisses and waving to him. We got home and I wondered if the night away or seeing daddy would completely ruin our nighttime routine. Turns out it didn't, my girls slept well! 

We had a quiet day yesterday where I spent most of the day playing and cuddling Mika while Maddy slept, then cuddling Maddy while Mika slept. I got a few things done around the house and set up a little pool for Mika for today.

We have made it outside once already and I hope to get Mika out once more after her nap. I can't wait to have a deck where Mika can play instead of the mud pit that is our backyard.  I don't mind her getting dirty, but I swept and mopped today so keeping the floor clean for at least a day would be great! Maddy was sleeping so I just set up the monitor as it is too warm for her anyways.

So life is going well, I have managed to shower everyday, keep the house clean, do the laundry and even eat supper! I think this is really going to work. Now to go feed bug before peanut wakes up.......