Easter Miracle

We woke up last Sunday morning at about 6 feeling a little confused.  Did we get up last night?  We have been putting Sam to sleep at around 8 or 9 and then giving Emily a snack at 10 or 10:30 and then waking up at 4ish to feed.  There have been a couple of nights where the nighttime feeding felt like a dream BUT neither one of us thought we had gotten up.  We finally got both kids to sleep for over 6 hours!  They've been sleeping from about 10:30- 6 am for the past week.

Well I should be more clear... There have been a couple of night were one of them woke up at nearly 5 and we've I've taken them to bed and they've gone back to sleep until 6 am.  We haven't done anything different to get them to sleep longer, I just think that they were finally ready.

The rest of Easter was pretty quiet.  We stayed around the house and did our normal Sunday thing, except for taking 1st Easter pictures. Aren't they cute:

Wordless Wednesday

The Sky is Falling

I had finally made it to bed at about 11:15 last night.  I made the mistake of reading about all the things you shouldn't do when your baby is sleeping (on their back, without blankets, keep cool...).  So I was lying their with a feeling of dread, not falling asleep WHEN I heard a crashing, clanging noise.  I soon realized that it was the ceiling fan.  Some how in my in between sleep brain I thought the whole fan was surely going to crash onto us.  (It is mostly above our bed.)  So what do you do when you think you're about to be under and ceiling fan?  Why you hide under the covers saying loudly, "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!"  This woke up Paul who had been asleep for awhile and he, like a good husband, laid on top of me to protect me from the danger.  Then he thought more clearly and got up and turned off the fan.  After turning on the light we assessed the damage.  Our fan had lost one of the blades.  I flew off hit the wall on my side of the room, leaving a two inch gash and then hit the perpendicular wall and landed in a tub of pants.All is well, no one was hurt, thank goodness no babies were in our room, they would have been inches away from where the blade landed. The dog also escaped unharmed.  It is also good that the blade didn't fall off and fly in the opposite direction because we are fairly certain it would have ended with a broken window.

Thoughts on Going Back to Work

.... I don't want to go.

Grabby Hands

This is the reason I no longer wear necklaces and my hair is cut short.  Sam always seems to have something in his hands.  Emily's hands move to much to keep anything in them.

Not very many words Wednesday

Starting to smile more!!  Papa is hilarious.

Momjuries

I was reading a blog that I follow where she was talking about her mom injuries and I thought, "I have a couple more to add."  So here you go:

-Burper's back:  A sore back from the slight arch you make to hold the burping baby just right.  It helps to have the right kind of chair.  I had this really bad in the NICU where, for some reason, the chairs were rather uncomfortable.

- I don't have a clever name but sore shoulders.  It isn't a good idea to try to hold a baby for long periods of time without an arm rest.  You end up with very sore shoulders, or at least I have.

- The too short changing table hunch: Changing table is too short and it causes the changer to hunch... this has caused my lovely husband to fall to the floor in pain, or he is just trying to get out of changing diapers.

That's all I can think of for now.  Anyone else out there have other momjuries?