A typical night

7:00pm: Mike leaves for scouts, I put the girls in a bath.

7:30: Two clean girls leave the bath, Bailey is coloring in her room, I am putting Avery down.

7:45: Bailey tells me she has peed in her panties. Of course, I didn't put her in her training panties because she has not had an accident in weeks.

7:50: I lay Avery down, and go to deal with Bailey, who has peed all over the bathroom floor right next to the toilet. I tell her she has to clean in up. She falls in the puddle and gets covered in her own pee. Nice.

7:55: While she is in the shower, I clean up the big mess, and then clean her up.

8:05: Bailey and Avery are both in bed. Yeah. Time to relax.

8:05-8:50: Bailey gets up about four times having to go to the potty. Mike comes home and tells her no more potty, and no more getting up.

9:00: Avery wakes up. I refuse to feed her- it's only been an hour. She cries for a few minutes and goes back to sleep.

9:40: Avery wakes up again. I decide maybe she really is hungry and try to feed her.

9:45: While I am feeding Avery, Bailey is yelling in her room, "DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!" I am worried that she is going to really wake up Avery, who is almost asleep. Mike goes back and wraps up Bailey's baby.

9:50: Avery is in her crib again. Finally.

10:30: We are getting ready for bed. Bailey is still awake.

10:45: I am seriously exhausted. We turn out the lights, and Avery wakes up again.

11:00: After feeding Avery, she is back in her own bed. I think that Bailey is asleep.

1:00: Avery wakes up and kind of eats, again.

4:30: Avery wakes up and kind of eats.

5:30: Avery wakes up again. I refuse to feed her. She fuses for a few minutes and goes back to sleep. Mike has to be up in a half an hour but doesn't go back to sleep.

6:00: Mike gets up, Avery fusses a little, but I still don't get her up.

6:30: Mike leaves. Maybe now I can go back to sleep.

6:50: Bailey wakes up, I tell her it's too early and that she needs to go back to bed. She at least stays in her bed.

7:00: Avery wakes up for the day and eats. Bailey hears us up and gets up as well.

I am ready for a good night's sleep! And a vacation by myself. Maybe Mike can come if he promises to just let me sleep...

Tutu Cute

Here are a few pictures of the girls in their new favorite p.j.'s. I can never get a picture with both of them smiling...

Doesn't Avery's hair look pretty blond? This week I had someone comment about her blond hair. She has some dark spots, so I'm betting it comes in brown. We'll see when she gets more hair- hopefully soon.

Ear Conundrum

It has been a while since my last post, but I have a good reason. Our lives have been consumed with one thing for the last month- Avery and her endless ear infections.

Since the end of April, when we started letting Avery cry in out in a desperate attempt to get more sleep, she has had constant ear infections. Of course, when I realized this, I felt terrible. Here I was, letting her cry for two hours in the middle of the night, and she was in pain. I am pretty sure that I cannot do that again.

Over that last month, Avery's system has been flooded with antibiotics. She started out taking amoxicillin, which did nothing. Then, she took Omnicef, which worked for three rounds, but did nothing the fourth. She then got a shot of rocephin. And then another. All was well for a few days, but a week later she got a third rocephin shot and a round of zithromax. Despite that, a few days later, she had yet another infection and a fourth rocephin shot.

I obviously felt bad for out little baby, but this has seriously worn me out. She was up for two to three hours almost every night. I have worked hard on not being the naturally clumsy me, but the exhaustion has brought it back out. One night I set a cookbook on fire because I turned on the wrong burner. That was pretty exciting.

Avery got her tubes put in last Monday. Finally! I was hoping for instant relief, but I was not that lucky. The first night she was up for two hours. The next night, similar. However, last night, she slept for five hours straight, got up and ate, and then slept for another five hours. All I can say is hallelujah. Hopefully my cookbooks, and more importantly my children, are safe from my sleep deprived accidents.