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.

Eczema and preschool day 2

Oh how I hate eczema! All 3 of my kiddos have suffered from it. Vivian had the least severe case. Isabel has some persistent patches behind her knees and on her feet. We have to use hydrocortisone cream every single day to keep it from really flaring up. I'll be glad when this crazy heat is over and the weather turns cooler. It should help things. Logan hasn't escaped the wrath of eczema, although I'm hoping what appears to be eczema is really just a case of 'cradle cap' on his cheeks. We've started aquaphoring him up at night. He's a greasy little butterball after his baths like his sisters.

Logan has also started waking up again around 1-2am. Boo. It must have been because I posted about how good of a sleeper he is. So now I'm waking up at 1am and 4:45am to feed him in order to get to the gym by 5:15am. Awesome. He's taking little catnaps throughout the day as well, so it makes it extremely difficult to get things done.

Isabel had her 2nd day of preschool yesterday. I didn't see any tears when I left. I didn't try to sneak out, but I'm not sure she really knew I was leaving. Of course Logan was crying, so I couldn't stay. When I picked her up she was excited to see me. As usual Logan was crying. that boy HATES his carseat and riding in the car. I would love to have those kids that fall asleep in the car, but no, all of my kids hate riding in the car and would cry for a long long time before falling asleep. It's irritating to hear people say 'oh, we had to ride him/her around in the car to get them to fall asleep.' That sounds awesome to me. You get to go for a ride and have some quiet time to yourself?! What are you complaining about?! I guess if I had to take a car ride every time I wanted my kid to sleep it could get old. Anyway, preschool was good. Her report said she was 'happy and playful the entire time.' :) She only took a 1.5 hour nap and was miserable the rest of the afternoon. I hate that. She was SO overtired, but wouldn't go back to sleep. I went in her room, rocked her, sang to her and gave her milk but she just wouldn't stop whining and crying. I put her back down in her crib and rubbed her back. She was just about to fall asleep when Logan started crying. I picked him up and was trying to juggle holding him with rubbing her back. After I got a cramp in my leg and my arm became numb I had to stop. I left and let her whine for about 20 minutes, but she just wouldn't go back to sleep. I put in a SOS call to Brian and he skipped the gym to get home earlier. Unfortunately with traffic he only got home about 15 minutes early. On the up side Brian has learned how to make the perfect martini! OMG. Amazing! When we got the kids to bed I had a two martini night and then crashed at 9:30pm.

Preschool and Toes!

Isabel started preschool yesterday. It's a bit early as she's only 16 months, but when I had Brian go at 5am and stand in line for a spot when I was about 7 months pregnant and very very sick with food poisoning I thought it was a great idea. Now that Logan is here I still think it's a good idea, but it's hard to be away from her for so long! The program is 5 hours long 2 days per week. We had orientation Monday night and met her teachers. They were both super nice. Her room was smaller than I anticipated, but I think they go outside, for walks and into the playroom lots throughout the day. When I dropped her off I tried to sneak out while she was playing. Most of the other kiddos were crying and it was chaos. I thought if I could avoid a freak-out and give the teachers space to do their thing it would be better. I think they appreciated that I didn't stick around and hover, but as I was walking out I heard Izzy start to cry. :-( Since Logan was crying I had to get moving, but once I was in the car the big crocodile tears came. After a pep talk from Brian things were fine until I realized that I had to go back home, get her info sheet, and head back to school. I can't believe I forgot it. Important things like the fact that she needs 2 pacis to sleep are on it! I pulled back into the parking lot and saw the kids outside playing. I didn't see Iz because I think she was in the little mushroom house, but it looked like everyone was happy. I snuck around back and dropped her paper off before she caught me. When I came to pick her up she saw me, smiled and then had a meltdown. I didn't let it bother me too much because I knew she was super tired and hadn't napped. I also remember Donna telling us that if they cry when they see you it means they trust you and can let their guard down. She was back to normal when we made it back home. After a 3 hour nap she told Daddy all about her first day. He was impressed with the little hand prints she made on construction paper.

Logan is doing great. We thought about taking out the dream feed at 10 or 11pm and he slept until 5am the other day! That's 7:30pm to 5am without nursing! Two nights ago he was up a couple of times, but we managed to get him back to sleep with a little patting and paci placement. Last night he was up at 1:30am and went back to sleep, but he was up at 3:30am and needed to eat. Still not sure if I should add back in the dream feed or not. If I do I'm pretty sure he'll be able to sleep until 5 or 6am, but I leave for the gym at 5am and would need to wake him up to eat. I really hate doing that since we're trying to get him to sleep through the night.

Logan has also found his feet! It's so cute to watch him grab both feet and pull on his toes with both hands. He's super smiley and giggles when you make funny faces or tickle him. Last night at dinner Izzy was holding his hand and he was smiling at her. So cute!

Potty?

I hate to even post this, but Isabel has gone potty on the big girl potty 3 times! Two pees and a poop. I just sit her on and she does her stuff and gives me a look like "what, isn't this what you're supposed to do?" Of course this means that if I actually want her potty trained I have to actually potty train her. I've read that if you do it too early the kiddos usually revert back to diapers and rebel, so I'm not sure I should. Besides that, when you go hard core you usually have to stay home all.the.time until they get it. Humm....not sure what to do.