August 30, 2006

• I think the main problem with me is lack of sleep.  I am a firm believer that one can handle just about anything if one is getting a proper nights sleep at least 5 nights a week.  Since the first week in August Rosie has been teething.  There has been no break since then.  She has cut four in so many weeks and still has two that look promising.  She has trouble settling down at night (usually by 11 or 12) and then wakes up every night about 3 hours after I put her down.  When she falls back asleep usually only after nursing for comfort (a bad habit but I am too tired to do anything else) she is too restless to go back to her own bed.  She will only sleep next to me.  I then am half awake the rest of the night because I there is a restless baby next to me.  Tylenol helps a bit and so does Humphreys 3 sometimes.  I look forward to a night when she will sleep all night by herself again. 

  
  

  In the mean time I am part of an overachieving Relief Society Presidency.  We already meet once a week for 2 hours and then do visits as well the same morning and evening.  All the activities and extra-curricular things that keep getting added seem a bit much, but what do I know?  One good thing we are doing is a 5K run the first Saturday in Oct.  We have a few ladies that are heading up some training for it and so I decided to participate.  It is easier to do something like this if someone is pushing me.  The training is either at 5:30am or 8:30pm.  5:30 is out of the question because of the lack of sleep I am already getting.  So 8:30pm is it.  I am pretty tired by then but it’s do-able.  I thought the first session was going to kill me, but I was pretty proud of myself for keeping up (sort-of).  Even when I was in the best shape of my life I have never been a runner. I never thought I would do anything even close to this.  I know it’s only 5K but I can’t even run a mile without dying so this should be good for me. 

  
  

  It seems that when I decided to do this that a ton of other things started creeping into my schedule making it difficult to keep up with all the training.  That is one of the reasons I was so bummed yesterday.  After sitting down with a calendar I started to eliminate things.  I talked to Mom for a while and she told me to just tell people I am NOT available.  So it looks like now I will only miss one practice and I can actually go to the 5:30 session that morning so I don’t miss it.

  
  

  We had been planning on going to Disneyland with the cousins in Sept. but we decided with everything else and with Brian so busy with work it would be easier next time.  We are putting it in stone.  The week after Thanksgiving we will spend 2-3 days there with the said cousins.  This way we get to experience the Magic Kingdom in all its holiday glory.  Something to look forward to. 

  
  

  Rosie had her 9 month check-up last week and she has slowed down just a bit.  She is still slightly off the charts in height, but is a chartable 90th percentile for weight.  All this cruising and crawling has thinned her down a bit.  She is quite the mover.  She is everywhere and into everything.  She has managed to climb the stairs and I need to remind Brian to move the gate down so we don’t get a bruised baby. 

  
  

  Serra is excitedly anticipating the start of pre-school next week.  She doesn’t take instruction well from me when it comes to school stuff so I thought it would be good to put her with some other teachers.  It will be good for her to be able to interact with some other kids her age as well.  She asks me every day if today is the day she gets to go.  We visited the school this week and it is in a lady’s home from our ward.  It looks like it will be a lot of fun for her and she just may learn something too.

  
  

  Today along with laundry I am rotating out the grown out of clothes and getting out a few new things for the girls.  They are growing so fast I can hardly keep up. 

  
  

  I told Mom I wasn’t going to share this story because if anyone is searching certain words on the Internet this site may crop up.  But it’s pretty funny so I’m going to take the chance.  Yesterday, I was playing with the girls and Serra tripped and hit her face on a small table.  It was a stunt scene right out of a movie.  The way her face looked when she was going down was classic.  She hit her eye pretty good and got a welt.  I told her about it and to go look at it in the mirror.  She did and told me she had a bump on her eye and “it looks like a nipple.”  Funny little boogus.

  
  

  Back to laundry:  pictures later/maybe

  
  

   

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