Rolling over!

Logan rolled over unassisted back to tummy yesterday! Unfortunately he was trying to get a better look at the TV. Sesame Street was on and I guess he likes Elmo! He's been super smiley lately and has been sleeping a bit better. He still needs assistance at night 3-4 times, but he's only nursing once. Nice break for Mommy.

I bought these Extra Protection Pampers diapers because I had a coupon for them to use on Izzy. She needs 'night' or 'extra protection' at night. I had been using Huggies with good success and only getting leaks 2-3 times a month. Well, Pampers suck. They leaked each of the 4 nights I tried them. Not only did they leak, but a couple of times they exploded getting this white gel crap all over Izzy. It was so gross. I was having to give her baths in the morning. We actually had this problem with other Pampers regular diapers before and stopped using them. The Pampers Swaddlers for newborns are great though. Anyway, I emailed the company and they're sending me a $19.79 refund check! How great is that? It actually makes me want to buy other products from them. See what good customer service will get you?! I guess diaper and formula companies are huge on customer loyalty and will do anything to get you to start using their products. Formula companies practically beg you to get hooked on their stuff.

Ok, I deleted my breastfeeding vent because I sounded like a lacto-nazi. Here's a picture of Logan after he rolled over (and after I turned him back over).

Sleep Logan, Sleep!

Logan has been having lovely sleep regressions lately. It started with his naps and has moved into his night time sleep. Usually he's pretty good about sleeping at night and only waking up once to eat. It's been getting slowly worse and last night he was up almost every hour. Boo. Brian can swaddle him so that his arms stay in, but he's been really fighting the swaddle. I must not have the technique down because he always gets out of my swaddles. His 'naps' consist of several 15-40 minute sleeps during the day with lots of paci replacing. He must be exhausted, but just won't sleep for long stretches. We have our first baby playgroup today, so maybe I'll get some advice from other moms with new babies.

Isabel is doing great. She picked up 'uh oh' at school and says it all the time now. It's pretty cute. Her teachers stopped me this morning and asked me if there was a trick to getting her to go to sleep. Her progress reports are always good, but the last one said she "rubbed her friends back while he was taking a nap!" It was followed by "she's so sweet!" Hopefully she's not interfering with other nappers.

Seeing Aunt Jenn off

We were lucky enough to get a few house guests for a few days. Jenn and Adam came to visit before Jenn left for Togo via Philadelphia on 9/15/10. While they were in town I came down with a severe respiratory infection. Luckily I went to the doctor last Friday and got on steroids and an antibiotic so that I was feeling almost back to normal on Sunday. Unfortunately being sick Friday night meant that I missed date night at Fion. Brian, Jenn and Adam were troopers and took care of the gift certificate we had for me. Wouldn't want $40 of food and drink to go to waste, would we?

Saturday night Jenn, Adam, me, Brian and grandpa went to Mr. Sinus theater "The Matrix" while Grandma babysat. Since it was a 10pm showing we were able to get everyone in bed before we left. Monday night Adam and Jenn babysat for us while we met up with some old work friends for happy hour. I left very detailed instructions on how to care for each kiddo. When we got back we had an equally detailed report on how each baby did.



Nice.

This was taken from Isabel's daily report at preschool. Isabel has always had good reports and they usually say how helpful she was and how she holds the other kids' hands who are upset. It also always says that she ate all of her lunch. :-)




Wow, I need to learn how to format this blog. Sorry about the ghettoness of this post.

Sickies

That didn't take long! After a week at preschool Isabel brought home a nice cold. She started with a high fever and no other symptoms Friday night. That's always scary for us, so we didn't get much sleep and were constantly checking on her. She was acting pretty normal Saturday and her fever had gone down to just about normal so I thought we were ok. Sunday night she was snotty face. Ugh. Today Logan has been congested and has a bit of a runny nose. Time to pull out the old snot syringe! I'm sure Logan will be fine pretty soon. I think I had a bit of the cold, so I'm sure I've been passing on antibodies to him. Isabel is getting better too and decided that she needs to breastfeed too since she's sick. I got up at 4:45am to hit the gym, came home, showered, and took an hour and a half nap until everyone woke up. It was so nice to sort of sleep in on a rainy day.

We've been soaked with rain all day today and it's still raining! I HAD to go to the grocery store today, so it was fun trying to get Logan in the Ergo and Isabel in the cart while battling tropical storm Hermine. I love rainy days, but I really hope it's not raining tomorrow morning for drop off at school.