Carolyn

I must say it is sure helpful having my Mom around. Yesterday Mark and I went grocery shopping ALONE. I constantly felt like I had left BB on the roof of the car or something. I also made naniamo bars and gingerbread dough. I ran out of time and steam to roll, cut and bake them. Today I'm hoping to either bake them or make my rumballs or turtles. I have no idea how I would do any of this without a BB sitter. I haven't bothered on the weekends because Mark and I always seem to be busy. We also visited a lot while BB took his Gma up the stairs and along the mantle. 

Mom and Ken have told me the house is cold (hence the coat) maybe I'll turn up the heat one of these days...

This morning I'm going to get a trim because if you've ever had short hair you know a clean up trim is needed pretty early on so you don't have long bangs and hair growing down your neck. HOT. We're also throwing in a dinner with my "Aunt and Uncle" tonight who live down the road. Too bad BB was up in the night again. I'll have to go put the coffee on.

BB is examining his first car that GreatGma sent. 

Carolyn

There is a lot going on right now. We're waiting to see what's going to happen with our government. It's times like this where my political science class would be handy if I remembered anything. What I do know is that I don't like what's happening and I don't see how the coalition will work. How will they all agree?

We are also waiting to see what is happening with the olympic tickets lottery. We put our name in for two different packages and of course the gold medal men's hockey game. You have to pick one of three tiers of seats and the better the seats, the more chances you have to get the tickets. It's sort of hard to explain. Anyways, if we do get the best tickets, I think we'll have to sell them because I can't see us paying $775 each to go. We're hoping to get the cheaper seats, but we're waiting to see if we got ANY of the tickets we asked for. 140,000 requests were made and there are only around 9000 available for the one event. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. They say we'll find out sometime next week. By the way, who wants to baby sit in February 2010?

Lastly we are awaiting a visit from my Mom tomorrow morning. Unless of course there is another blizzard and then who knows. We found out tonight so it's a good surprise.

BB had a bad night last night again. He was only up for an hour and a half this time so I guess that's better even though he was still very upset. Tonight he has already gotten up to cry and he'd only been asleep for a couple of hours. Not a good sign. Hopefully tonight will be better. I am slowly starting to get that this behavior is not normal. At least it doesn't happen with the rest of my friend's children. I'm glad that we're going to his 9 month check up next week and we can get another opinion on what may be bothering lil' man. He's just so good during the day that you sort of think something really has to be bothering him at night. 

I'm going to order my next baby from where Kait got hers. She sleeps until 9:30 in the morning and only wakes up in the night when something is wrong every now and then. Now THAT is something I could get used to. Yes Kait, I'm going to PUSH the reflux thing.

**I don't write about BB to worry anyone (especially Grandmas), so please don't worry. It's just an FYI thing so you can understand why I'm spending my days napping instead of calling, cleaning, laundering, cooking, showering... **

Carolyn

The picture was ready early so here it is! I also found my first picture with Santa. I would have been almost the same age as BB since our birthdays are only just over a week apart. Lorie, does Mark have a picture with Santa? There were other pictures where BB was smiling more but this is the one they chose. I still think it's perfect, what a little angel. 

I'm the one with the bulls eye in case you forgot. 

Carolyn

After reading Lisa's blog I remembered I needed to go and have a visit with Santa. I know it's only December 1st, but it's only going to get busier and the roads will get more slippery. BB had a decent nap and after I fed him I knew there was a brief window in which to get a happy picture. Luckily we were the only ones there so it took hardly any time at all. BB smiled like he always does and didn't mind the bearded man at all. I must say I was impressed with this Santa. He was a real live older gentleman that looked like he could live at the North Pole and may have recently eaten a bunch of cookies. The photographer was also great and seemed to know what she was doing. She must have done this for a while because she knew that she needed to back the baby into Santa in case it was scary. It was weird for me to have to step back so that BB wouldn't be looking at me in all the pictures instead of the camera. Mark will pick up the picture either today or tomorrow and I can't wait to see it.  

Carolyn

I guess I need to talk briefly about yesterday to explain what happened last night. We went to church and I quickly snuck BB into the nursery to claim one of the two cribs. Unfortunately another lady brought her daughter who didn't want to nap either to the adjacent crib. They both screamed and I gave up before the other Mom. BB was SO TIRED but just couldn't do it. The lovely man in the nursery (South African named Otto) offered to cuddle BB in the hopes he'd fall asleep on him. He falls asleep on the female workers but I could see that he wasn't too thrilled that Otto was there. I went to the service and was anxious the whole time because of the look BB gave me as I left. I should have stayed in hindsight. Not even halfway through the service my number came up and BB was in a fit. He didn't calm down for quite some time and he and I both gave up on sleep.

We drove straight home after the service, fed BB and put him straight to bed. He had been up 6 hours straight. Not good. He slept 2.5 hours and then was pretty pleasant. He refused his last nap so I had a feeling he was still overtired from the day's events. After shoveling more beef and veg into him it was early to bath and bed. Mark and I carried on as usual and went to bed at a reasonable hour. 

12:45 hit and BB was up and crying. I was completely disoriented because I naively thought it was morning. I shoved Mark out to try and coax him to bed because I am a stimulus for lil' mister. This plan didn't work because BB got his INSANE scream on right away. It was so bad I didn't think twice and gave him tylenol and nursed him without debating the consequences of ruining our new night time routine. He nursed a really long time, longer than I could have been useful for so I knew he just needed soothing. I tried to put him back and he instantly did the intense freak out scream. The head of our bed shares the wall with BB's room and it felt like he was screaming RIGHT next to my head. After more trips in and out, singing, gum rubbing, homeopathic drugs (yeah polypharmacy blah blah) and finally more nursing  he was ready to go back to sleep at 03:00. I would imagine this is another teething thing, but even so it was bad. Nothing we did made it any better. It's one of my least favorite parts of parenting to be doing everything I can and still have him wail in my face like I'm not trying at all. 

He was up and peachy this morning so hopefully whatever it was has passed, at least for the day.