Cozy Time

The monster now likes to keep the cozy feeling a little longer in the mornings, and requires her favourite blanket to be brought out of her crib, and wrapped around her. Her morning starts waiting for porridge, Red River is the favourite, and since I need about 20 minutes to make the cereal, and change Rowan, Avery usually watches Sesame Street, and reads library books, in her cozy pink blanky.

The blanky pulls my heart strings because I was a blanky kid, too. It also reminds me of when my yoga teacher tells us to bring some of shavasna home with us, and it's like Avery takes a piece of her cozy time with her, too. Cute.

Walking with her book and blanky

The fuzzy side is ultra cozy

Solids

Well we've officially hit the 6 month mark with Rowan, and have brought out the sippy cup, bowls, and spoons. Back to making my own baby food, and freezing it. Sooo easy. I waited until Steve was home to give her her first cereal, as it's a photo opportunity. Enjoy!

Here comes the first bite

What is this?

Not bad, not bad

Hot Lemon Ginger

Pregnancy, nursing, tandem nursing, pregnancy, nursing: This has been the story of my life for 2.5 years now. I woke up today feeling the edge of a cold bug feeling. Achey, tired, sore throat, basically like my immune system is saying slow down again. Since I can't take anything that could transfer through my milk, besides Tylenol and Advil, which I'm on the fence about, I make myself a hot lemon ginger. It's pretty easy, but I thought I'd share how. :)

-1 lemon peeled
-1-2" of freshly grated ginger
-mug of water, the one you'll drink from, full
-2 tbsp honey

I put the peeled lemon in my magic bullet, with the ginger. You could use a blender or food processor. Once it's blended well, I put the puree in a pot on the stove, with my mug full of brita water. I actually pour the water in the bullet cup that had the puree, so I get all of the puree out. Bring the water and puree to a boil, stir in honey, strain into mug, and let it cool to good drinking temp.
Like I said, super easy, but effective natural remedy.

Axl Rose

Today on our drive home from Superstore, Avery kept yelling, "Woah-a-woah, woah-a-woah, woah-a-woah." We were listening to my all time favourite band, Guns 'n' Roses. That's right, I've got a mini Axl Rose on my hands.

Fred and Wilma

Here they are, our costumes from Saturday night. This is before we went to the party. It was super awesome, and fun to be alone with Steve. He did get way too drunk to drive, and I was really upset with him because he kept saying it was my night, on the way there. We got d.d's to drive our car home, and so it was alright. I guess. Daddy Dumb Dumb moment, but really everyone was pretty sauced. I just wish I'd have known before I cracked a third beer because I could have saved us $100. Yep. But I knew I couldn't drive the 45 minute drive home after that.

The next day was the longest day of my life, and I've come to decide that being hungover with babies is the worst thing ever. It's really not worth it. I'm just glad that Steve was here, and we were able to take shifts between parenting and sleeping.

Truthfully, I had a hard time missing Rowan. I knew Avery would be fine if she woke up to Jenna, but Rowan is just Mommy sucky all the way. She refused the bottles, and cried basically the whole time we were gone. I feel so bad about it, but I know Jenna is amazing with babies, and she says it was ok, but I can't help it. Sigh, I hope she gets better with time. She is definitely more challenging than Avery ever was.

C'est la vie.

Momma Machine

Today is a good day. So far I've baked about 40 cookies, I used margarine instead of butter, and doubled the batch, cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed, laundry, and found the time to sew the last piece of my Hallowe'en costume.

I am busting at the seams with excitement for tomorrow. After Avery's nap, we're taking the girls downtown to walk the main street where our local shops hand out candy. Not that they need the candy, I just want to take them out in their costumes. We'll also get dinner in town, so we can completely avoid a meltdown, and then bring them home. Once both girls are cozy, my good good friend, Jenna and her husband Andrew, are coming over to watch the girls while Steve and I go to a Hallowe'en house party all by ourselves!

We haven't gone out alone since our anniversary in August. Which is really sad. I feel like we need time to love each other with no babies. We have the coolest costumes, but you'll have to wait and see the pictures, when I post them because they're secret.

About being alone, I'm really feeling like I want to transition Rowan out of our bed earlier than Avery. Because it was harder to get Avery out, and I haven't slept alone with my husband since Avery was born, except our wedding night. And no, I don't want to get pregnant again. ;)

The plan is to get a crib for Rowan, and once she's asleep, put her in it. She'll be set up in our bedroom, and close by to nurse in the night. Once she's older, and sleeps through the night, then we'll move the crib to Avery's room, where they will share a bedroom. I just don't want to put her in there earlier because I'm afraid of disrupting Avery's sleep, and it's not fair to her.

I've been looking for a second hand crib for months now, and there just doesn't seem to be any, so I guess we have to buy brand new. I'd have bought a mattress brand new, but on the bright side, we'll know that it was smoke free, and didn't have any other baby pooh on it. Ha!

So, the sun is out, and after nap, we'll go out and play in the yard. Amazing what a little vitamin D can do for you! Oh, and Rowan is 6 months today. Yay! I'm waiting until tomorrow to give her her first cereal. Photo opportunity, and Daddy will want to be here.

One of Those Days

I haven't felt this way in a while. I know it's due to be woken up every hour last night, between both girls, and have been awake since 5:20 am. I was going to go to town this morning, and bring them to a park, but instead we've been home not doing much. Which is fine because Avery's not even her happy self, instead a super cranky toddler. Her bottom eye teeth are really bugging her as they come up.

I think Rowan woke up so much because she's started rolling from her tummy to back now. Yay! This means I can't leave her unseen, unless she's in a baby apparatus, like the excercauser. She's also trying really hard to get up on her knees. All getting closer to crawling.

I feel really bad that I'm being a lazy mom, and staying in so far, but I don't get a break ever, as I have NO family help around, and it's really getting to me today. It usually doesn't, so I think it's ok to feel poopy once in a while. Maybe I should go try to have a nap.

Sorry for sounding so bummy.