Midnight Mambo

As my husband and I were about to go to sleep last night at about 11:30, all 3 kids decided that they would wake up and surprise us with a lovely little melody…

The toddler has the most high-pitched voice, but since he’s not too loud and mostly reaches out to his daddy, I can usually block out his tune…

The newborn is not as enthusiastic as the other 2 children about the performance yet, its more of a little squeak from him, which kind of takes him out of the running…

Now the preschooler…he takes the prize! He’s loud, he can keep on going for a long time without breaks, his pitch goes high and low, and he likes to repeat the same notes over and over!!

If anyone wants to rent some kids for the weekend, please let me know…they give GREAT performances!!

At least they are all asleep right now (including daddy)…

No Juice for You!

I gave my second son some juice in a sippy cup and he was drinking it on the couch…I was sitting right next to him…after about a minute I felt his head against my lap…

Although he does know how to use a sippy cup, today he decided that he would try out a new technique…apparently he shook the sippy cup and spilled juice all over the couch and then proceeded to suck it out!! Ok, you may be wondering how I didn’t notice him, or if you have toddlers…you may know exactly how that happens!

It was a good day though…which is largely based on the fact that they ate well… I don’t know about other moms, but I feel like if my kids eat well then I at least accomplished something during the day!

Now he’s sucking my blanket…I decided to look the other way…

Middle Child Syndrome

Its 7AM on a saturday…do you know where your children are??

Well, my ‘almost’ 2 year old is walking around the room looking for different things he can pull apart, break, put in his mouth, throw on the other side of the room…and worst of all…the different noises he can make by banging objects together!

Is it because he is the middle child, or is it because he is in his ‘terrible twos’ as they say…whatever it is…I WOULD LIKE IT TO STOP!

Maybe if he was quiet about it I wouldn’t mind, but he has to sing for us and he even laughs out loud at his own jokes! He’s really adorable but just wish that he would sleep a bit more…

This morning he opens his brother’s wardrobe door…well, even though the 3 year old was covered up on our bed with our blanket…he got out to scream at his brother…”DON’T EVER, DON’T EVER AGAIN”, and slams the doors shut. Now he’s back in our bed, lying on my pillow, my husband hugging him…so maybe in 10 years that can be me again…good thing time goes by so fast huh?! And where is the baby?

Right…the baby fell asleep while feeding and since we had 2 other children in the bed, I didn’t bother to wake him up to finish feeding…just dropped him back in the crib…

At least the baby (and his daddy) are still asleep!

One room please…

Since my second son was born, we’ve had a co-sleeping arrangement…well, they have their own beds…but they’re in our room. The room is fairly big, so we have our bed, 2 kids bed, and the crib…makes for very interesting nights.

I was feeding the baby at 4am and my 3 year old son says to me “mummy, I want you to go to sleep! Close your eyes, and GO TO SLEEP!!” hmmmmm, sounds familiar?!? I just had to laugh.

While the eldest one likes to sleeps now, the “almost” 2 year old is another story…he is the last to go to sleep and the first to wake up. At 6AM he is in our bed trying to wake us up…actually trying to wake his dad up (which is fine with me!) He usually does not succeed, so next he tries me…that usually doesn’t work either, so he moves on to his brother’s bed…who gets irritated and tries to push him away…usually by this time I have to get up and intervene…but some mornings he even tries to wake up the baby!! So I open my eyes and there he is poking the baby’s feet and singing his name!!

This morning I put on the tv for them, hoping to keep them from running around the room…it worked…they were very quiet, especially the ‘almost’ 2 year old…until he came to the bed with his face shiny and said “mummy?” Shiny face?!? hmmm were is the Vaseline?? oh right, all over his face!!

Well, at least my husband is getting some sleep!

The Crying Game

If you have, or ever had a toddler, you’ve experienced the joy of a tantrum, the crying and screaming can make anyone want to jump off a bridge! Well, maybe just “think” about jumping off a bridge…

Newborns crying can sometimes give you a headache, but you think to yourself…it’s a small, helpless little baby, and they are usually pacified by just being held…(although I know that at 3AM you may be pondering the bridge thing) But a toddler crying is a whole different ball game…now they now how to talk…so now it goes something like this…”muuuuuuuummmy, daddddddddddyyyy, muuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmy, dadddddddddddyyyyyyyy” It feels like they are physically in your head…pounding on your skull…shaking up your brains…well, you get the picture.

Sanity check?

As long as they are some place safe, like a high chair, or a crib, where they cannot get into trouble, you can go into a different room and just let them cry for a bit…not only is crying good for the lungs, but it can also act as a natural sedative!! Ever notice after a nice long cry…they are usually so pacified, you can get the opportunity to hold them…(which is rare after they learn how to walk)

At least the baby is still asleep!