I have checked out for the night. Off the clock. I am not getting up AT ALL. (yeah, all talk, I know.)
I have already put Ellie to bed and it's 6:46. Cooper was up there but will not stop crying. I actually threw his nook against the wall. Why is this child testing me so? There MUST be some reason.
We have just begun talking about having a 3rd at some point in the next 1.5-2 years. Do we want to or not? Greg would be ok with what we have. Or he'd take one more.
One minute I do, then Cooper reminds me again why I don't.
My blog has turned into a GIGANTIC whine fest lately and for that I am sorry, but this is my journal after all.
I can't handle another month of no sleep. Ellie was SO good. Such a good sleeper. She was also a good eater. Cooper will not eat anything. We were doing pretty well with rice cereal and a fruit or veggie for dinner. Then we started rice cereal for breakfast. Now we do neither. All he does is cry and fuss when we try to feed him solids. He throws his arms up and gets angry. He fusses. So we've gone back to full time bottles. He eats every 3-4 hours and he is almost 8 months old. UGH. Maybe this is normal... but I feel like he should go longer between 8 oz bottles. It is amazing how much you can forget about infants/parenting from one child to the next. Otherwise maybe I'm just a dimwit. Actually, with this lack of sleep I KNOW I am a dimwit.
Kids are wonderful little creatures aren't they?
Thank God I have some bud light in the fridge. Cheers! :)
p.s. Now Ellie is asking to have her ears pierced for her birthday... she is going to be 4. Should we do it at this age?? I just don't know. I have told her it will hurt. It will be like getting a flu shot in her ear lobe. That for days after wards they are going to be sore. That we will have to clean and take care of them. That they cannot come out. What to do? The bike was so much easier! But I'd love to get her ears pierced. She is such a girly girl and is always putting on her clip ons and her bracelets... dressing up. She always wants to wear a dress when we leave the house. Jeans just "aren't pretty" she has said. I don't even know where they pierce ears today... or how much it costs... anyone know?
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Just an idea about Cooper sleeping through the night since my 2nd child was the same way. She would eat 6-7 8 oz. bottles every hour, on the hour all night long and nothing during the day. And of course, never sleep then either. And she was huge! Anyway, the doctor suggested watering down the bottle just an ounce at a time (still offering 8 ounces of total liquid) until eventually, after a few weeks, it would be just water. The key is to not water down too much at first or they figure it out way too quick. Hope it helps.
I hope you get some darn sleep! K is 10 and does not want her ear pierced because like you I was honest and said it would hurt...I think if E knows it will hurt and still wants it-let her...special Bday present!
I'm trying to play catch up, but I suck at this blogging thing, or following at least.
Her ears you can get done. I don't think it is pricey. My 2 year old niece just got hers done. They made her wait to ask.
Walmart is WAAAY cheaper than Claire's to get your ear's pierced. My Ellie really wants to get hers pierced, too, and I am on the fence about it. My husband says N.O.
Also, sorry about the sleep thing...I know how crazy it can make you. Ellie didn't start sleeping through the night til 8 months. And now she is waking us up once a night because she is "scared." Kids.
my ears were pierced when i was about a month old. i liked it because i couldn't remember it. was much nicer then doing it when i was 16 and it hurting like a mother fucker. But yeah, I think she is for sure old enough
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