current happenings

I feel like I need to update for some reason...not really for others, but for myself.

Here goes.

AK started making bedtime a nightmare for everyone involved with her screaming and yelling and taking up camp at her bedroom door. We worked and worked for a few days to stop her protest-like actions but nothing was working. I eventually called on my last resort, the pack-n-play, and that did wonders! For four or five days she didn't scream, yell or protest. It was wonderful. THEN, she got sick!

On Thursday night/Friday morning at 3 AM she started crying. We went in for what seemed would be a routine check and then we saw it...puke...everywhere. NOT COOL! I felt SOOO bad for her! I was trying to remember what she had eaten last, where we'd been and what could be causing this. First, I'll say that trying to remember all of this at 3 AM is hard ESPECIALLY when one hasn't even been to sleep yet! Yeah, bad move on my part. My hubby was off and we were looking at this funny website online. When he's off my whole schedule gets messed up. ANYWAYS, yeah, we had just been in Waco for two days when all this happened and my mom keeps kids in her home so I figured she probably caught some thing from there. So thus begins a night full of vomit.

AK puked about every 30 minutes until around 8 in the morning. It was terrible! AND I hadn't gotten ANY sleep. Finally, after the last round of puking at 8 we fell asleep until like 11. Then she was ready to rumble. I guess she was feeling better because she got a little sleep and hadn't vomited in a few hours so she wanted be awake and I wanted to be asleep. She didn't eat for a good two days and that first morning after being up all night she watched the Cars movie THREE times! No joke, the girl loves that movie.

The next night I slept in her room JUST to make sure she wasn't going to throw up anymore. She always makes this noise before she pukes and she gets really hot and sweaty so I know when it's about to hit...which totally saves on changing the sheets every time. This was my reasoning for bunking ONE more night with her.

So you can just guess, all the work and success we made at bedtime went out the window after mommy slumbered with her for two nights in a row.

THEN, mommy got sick. Mine started at about 6:45 in the morning on Sunday I think. Mine started at the other end though. No need for a description there. Then around 8 I started throwing up. I threw up about 4-5 times that day and visited the potty for reasons other than that. It was a looooong few days for us around here. I was pretty much sleep deprived, my kid wanted mommy in bed with her and my poor hubby was trying to figure out how he was going to be fed in the midst of all the madness.

Thank God for a new week! We are all feeling better and we are about back to normal on the whole bedtime thing. She goes down fine but usually anywhere between 30 minutes and an hour and a half later she starts crying. All I do is sit in there for a few minutes beside her bed and she goes back to sleep fairly easily. Hopefully this won't last much longer. Mommy likes her evenings to herself when Daddy's at work.

THIS WEEKEND though, there is this big fall/winter sale in Waco through Just Between Friends and I've been planning on having a nice collection of bows for sale. I've been quite busy trying to get everything in order for it all. It's not as simple as just signing up and taking what you want to sale. First, I've been making bows for two days now and entering them online. Then, I have to print the tags and apply them to the appropriate bow. THEN, I have to have them all there by Thursday at noon. You wanna know all I've gotten done so far??? About 65 bows, tags entered but NONE printed or applied, stuff is a mess and I still have to plan a trip to Waco for Thursday and then turn around and go back on Saturday. I'm just a little overwhelmed at the moment. THEN, there's all the what-ifs. What if no one likes them? What if they're over priced? What if this was all a huge waste of time and energy? Oh Lord, let this be good for my etsy site!

Okay, so, apart from that, all is good. I'm just trying not to freak out. I did watch The Biggest Loser Premiere tonight and enjoyed some chocolate donuts WHILE watching it. HAHA! Hey, I'm pregnant. Whatever.

I hope YOU have a good week!................oh, and one more thing, only 6 more days until we find out boy or girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!