big girls room update

It’s been 4 nights for the Big Girl Room and everything is going pretty darn well with it. C has been fighting sleep very badly lately. Guess just a phase she is going through. It’s making us put them to bed earlier though since we know they both will be up with C’s nonsense. Plus after we leave and turn the lights off they talk/play/act silly for at least 15 minutes which is soooo cute but we want to make sure that time does not take away from Av’s sleep time, so early bedtime it is right now. They were in their room before 8 last night. We think though that Av is able to go to sleep with C still fighting sleep. Last night we heard C up there until about 8:40 but we didn’t hear Av at all for most of that. We also heard C saying, “wake up Avery!” hehehe kind of funny. It does not seem to bother Av so that is the good news. I guess when she is tired she is tired and she is going to sleep! She is a good girl. C has not taken a nap in 3 days. She is sooooooo tired but just will not sleep. I hope she gets over this phase soon.

Bear-homework

Av had a small bit of homework this week. It was really cute. They have a classroom bear that they all take turns bringing home and taking care of for a few days. At the end of the few days they are supposed to document in a journal their time with bear. That’s his name. Bear. That’s what the class decided to name him. Anyway we all sat down last night and talked about what we did with Bear and how she should decorate his journal. We decided on coloring a picture of bear and then Av told daddy what to write in his journal. It was really cute. Av talked about how she took Bear to speech, to the park, how he slept in her new big girl bed with her and all her friends and how when Bear rode in the car with us she would strap him into the seatbelt in the back row of the van. It was very sweet and cute. We took a pic of the finished picture that Av drew all by herself and how she wrote her name and the word Bear ALL BY HERSELF!!!!!!!!!!! This picture is done 100% all by Av. Look how great her letters are coming along. She has been totally writing her name for a few weeks now but Bear is the first word she has written. Look at her name at the top. Notice how all the letters are the same size, inside the lines she was working with and pretty darn perfect (yes I'm a proud parent). She is just doing so great!!!

crazy baby

Wow, I have been at work for exactly 1 hour and 17 minutes and I think baby E has moved every second of that. He is just going. He has slowed down a little in the past few days and I have been missing him. He is making it a little hard to work at the moment. Oh well, I love it.

7 years

7 years ago yesterday I married my best friend. It was one of the best days of my life and I am so thankful and lucky to have him. Not sure how I got so lucky but I hit the jackpot!!!! He texted me all day to let me know he was thinking of me and surprised me with a babysitter and a nice peaceful dinner. He told me he had a small gift for me and it was a cute State hat for baby E. Then on the way to dinner he really surprised me by telling me he had one more gift for me and it was somewhere in the car. I do not do well with waiting and I could not wait. I found it kind of quick. It is a blue ring that almost perfectly matches the pink one he got me when I had Av. So beautiful and sweet of him. It will be hard to decide to wear pink or blue everyday. Heheheh We went to a really fun restaurant that I had never been too. It had neat and different food on the menu like very normal food all fancied up. Like a grilled cheese that was made on sourdough bread with goat cheese and other fancy cheeses. It also had everything all mixed up on the menu. The apps, entrees and dessert were all over the place. I had mussels and a BLT&A. It was simply delis in my prego state. I got him a U of L package. Tickets, babysitter, date with me and a tailgate party with for Nov. 13th! I am as excited about it as he is.

music class

Both girls are now in music classes. Av’s is Monday at 1:15 and C’s is Friday at 9:20. The times and days are perfect. On Monday I pick Av up from school at noon, we eat lunch in the park and then head to music. On Friday we drop Av at school and head to C’s class. It works out perfectly. Av was so excited bc now that she’s a big girl mommy does not go to class with her. Not really sure yet what all they do but she was very excited when she was done. It is an introduction to playing music so by the end of the semester they will get keyboards out and start to get used to them. It’s pretty exciting. She is getting too big too fast. Jackson and Caroline are in the class with her but also when we got there she knew 2 other kids in the class so that was a fun surprise.

big girls room!

Av and I were at a bday party on Saturday and John and Camille were supposed to be at home moving her bed into Av’s room or the big girls room now as we are calling it. In the middle of the party I get a text from John that says Camille said, “NO!!!” to her bed being moved. So they went to the park instead. UGH I am glad they had fun but it had to be done. So that night when I got home we talked it up all night. It will be the room for the big girls and you get to sleep in the same room as Avery!!!! Doesn’t that sound fun?? She came around and they both were very excited. So Sunday we did it. We put Camille’s crib in Av’s room. We have been putting this off for 2 years (the plan was always for them to share a room that’s why we never did a room for Camille and left her crib in a room with all the guest furniture) and now it’s finally done. Sunday night was their first night together. They did great!!!!!!! They had little flashlights and played with those and talked for a bit and then C did her usual “I’m going to fight sleep routine.” John went up there to tell her to be quiet and Av was fast asleep so that was good. For the first time in months Av woke up in the middle of the night with growing pains and she did wake C up but after a little leg rubbing and meds they both went right back to sleep. C slept till 7:45 so that means Av got to too! Last night Av was so tired so we tried to put her to bed first and then a little bit later C. Which usually when we put C to bed later she does go straight to sleep so it should have worked but last night C was not going to do it. She woke Av up and they played for a while. It was pretty cute to listen to. We were torn between intervening or letting them go. Av needs her sleep esp and since she does not nap and C does they are just on different sleep schedules. Finally we did tell them to go to sleep. Av did but C continued to talk and play for close to an hour but she didn’t cry and there were no peeps from Av so we were pretty sure she was sleeping. C woke them up about 7:25 today. My only concern is Av getting enough sleep at night. Sleep is so important for her at her age and with all the learning she is doing at school. We will just keep working on it until we get it right. Once all the changes die down we should be able to fall into a great routine too and that will help.

perfect weekend

Everything about this weekend was perfect including the nice fall weather!! Friday I had my girl’s night and my girls had a great time with their daddy. On Saturday we worked around the house again for a while. Then Av and I went off to the bday party while C and J went to the park. Afterwards we have a family dinner and then family movie night!!! The girls were so excited to get in their pj’s, make popcorn, sit in their chairs and watch Snow White. It was really fun. Sunday we worked some more, ran errands, enjoyed the perfect weather and grilled out. One of J’s friends and his two girls came over for dinner. It was nice esp for me bc I got to relax while they all played and grilled. The house is really coming along. Nesting has really taken over in the last few weeks and we have worked hard to get things in better shape. So much junk is gone and we have so much more room. We can finally see how the 5 of us will fit pretty okay in our house. John is doing a great job on our bathroom and it should be done soon.