I had a lovely Mother’s Day. Two cards! One made by Ashlin:
Grapes!
She loves me bunches!
I also got a lovely magnetic watercolor note paper holder, painted by none other than Teagan!
It’s like a rainbow
There was also a lovely present, which, thanks to Teagan was twice as big as planned.
Stu asked Teagan: ”Which bag of chocolates should we give mommy? This one or this one?” Teagan: ”Two ones!”
She’s such a good girl! It was a good day.
Sister Giggles
The girls this morning were so sweet. Ashlin was laughing at Teagan, who was just being her silly self. You can see how much they love each other. Ashlin watches Teagan with pure love, it just oozes from her. Adoration. Teagan is so happy when she can make Ashlin laugh. She gets such a lift from it.
They are such good sisters. I love watching them.
I love them.
I love you too.
This little note was left on the fridge a few days ago…
He’s so sweet.
Today, Teagan buried her sister with toys in her exersaucer.
Then she ate a spider.
It was a toast spider that Stu made.
First, she pulled off each leg and ate it.
She didn’t like the eyes – Stu used Marmite for those. So he put brown sauce over them. That worked.
Then Stu made a star and a moon. She LOVED them too.
I think the spider somehow put her in a bad mood, maybe it was all the legs? She was a beat the rest of the day, even with two longish naps. She’d want to do something, then when you started doing it, she’d cry hysterically. So, we’d stop, and she’d cry hysterically.
She was not fun to be around today.
Ashlin, on the other hand, was a sweetheart.
This morning there was a surprise after my shower. A lovely steam message. Made my day.
Made one of the few days I have left, before going back to work, better.
It’s nice to have little reminders like this. I still feel a bit blah – haven’t lost all the baby weight yet. I’m getting there though! Down to the last 5-7 pounds, depending on the day. And although it’s getting lower and lower. it feels like it’s taking forever. I haven’t had the mental fortitude to try on my pre-pregnancy jeans. Not yet anyway.
So, it’s nice to get messages like this… or like this one, that he drew while playing with Teagan outside over the weekend. It was right outside the front door. Teagan made sure I saw it when I went out to see them after getting Ashlin to sleep.
Love the kids.
Also, I love him.
Happy Cake!
Teagan had happy cake today! I brought cupcakes to day care to celebrate her birthday.
Around 2:00, after nap time I went to the day care with cupcakes – happy cake – for all the toddlers, with extras for the instructors. Teagan was so happy when I showed up. ”My mommy!” she screamed happily, “Aclin, sista.” Every instructor needed to know that I was her mom and her little sister was there too! So cute.
After she showed us off, it was snack time. Three kids sat down, the fourth didn’t want to. Paper towels were put down as napkins and the cupcakes were handed out. Teagan wolfed down the first one, and asked, so nicely for a second. I let her have it. At the time, I thought “why not? It’s her birthday.” I ended up regretting it, as she melted down into a teary mess as I got ready to leave.
After a bit, Teagan needed a diaper change, and I took advantage of her being occupied, sneaking running out, apologizing to the instructor as I did. I always feel bad leaving her crying with the instructors. They’re probably used to it, and I’m sure Teagan stops quickly enough after we leave – out of sight out of mind. Still, I felt horrible. All I had wanted was to make the afternoon special, and she ended up crying and being unhappy.
Daddy-Lion
After Stu picked Teagan up from day care on his way home from work, we went for a walk. Our first walk all week, thanks to the rain. Teagan asked for flowers – daddy-lions raaarrrrrr – which we picked for her when they were by the sidewalk. She loves blowing the seeds.
I can’t believe she’s two. She’s so proud of being two – she told everyone at day care how old she was. But she’s growing too fast. I always joked with my friends that they needed to put their sweet little kiddos in a box so they wouldn’t grow, so they’d stay small and sweet. I want to put my beautiful princess in a box. But I also want to watch her grow up, experience new things, remind me of things I forgot.
Good Morning!
Yesterday, I tried to write a post . I failed. I did little more than upload the picture I wanted to use. A picture of Teagan. My big girl.
She looks so much bigger, is acting so much older than just even last week. A blink of an eye ago. I know that some if it is due to Ashlin being here, and being so small compared to Teagan. And Ashlin’s not really that small, though she’s not a big baby either.
Teagan’s been using much more complex sentences, thoughts, than she was before. She’s gone from “Titi’s milk” to “my milk” in what seems like days. She does still refer to herself as the baby, but she also refers to Ashlin as her baby sister. Her vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds. It seems as if shes picking up something like five new words every day. Her pronunciation is also improving. If you ask her to watch you say a word, she can almost imitate it. She still has issues with s’s and with th’s. It’s so cute that she’s still saying “beeze” and “tank tou.” She’ll even sing the Yo Gabba Gabba song. Sometimes she will change the words to “Mama, Dada.” Sometimes it’s mommy and not mama. It’s still very cute.
She loves singing, laughing, trying to make us laugh. She will ask you to eat her feet every morning and every evening. It’s never an old joke. It’s her job to turn out the lights at bedtime, and god forbid you do it for her. She doesn’t cry anymore (mostly!) when you brush or comb her hair. More mornings than not, she will demand you put a pony tail in her hair.
For you!
She loves going for walks, though she doesn’t like walking. She much prefers to be pushed, but I think it’s because of the snack tray. LOL.
She whispers “thank you,” but will shout “Love you!” If you use the sign “I love you,” she will whisper it back, until she shouts. Although she can’t get her fingers in the right formation, she will hold her hand up, palm to you as her way of signing it. She gives spontaneous hugs, even to her sister. She will also tell her sister to “be quiet,” and “no crying!” Shhhhh. She even told her sister that she loves her. Without any prompting. She will share her food and share her toys. Usually. Sometimes she needs reminding to play nice, but she generally does without the reminder.
She loves hats and her hop-hop shoes (bunny slippers). She will almost always wake up in the morning with a rats nest for hair, but also a song. I like listening to her sing in her crib while drinking coffee, hoping that she goes on and doesn’t start to cry.
She has had a few tantrums, especially if you forget her bubble in the car, but generally she’s a very happy girl. She’s terribly fun to tickle! And will ask for more!
This morning Teagan woke us up by running into our room and going “baby! Shhhhh! Hi baby! Sleep. Bubble!” LOL. She was cute. She went to LaLa and left us half dozing. Off to day care she went.
The rest of the morning was pretty calm. Ashlin was mellow, I got some coffee and put my feet up. There was a hint of ankles before the day started, so I’m not too concerned. The end is in sight.
Mom and dad went to pick up the glider. Stu worked from the dining room. I played with the baby and watched her sleep. She slept very well last night – she went 5 hours without stirring. I totally felt that this morning though. LOL!
The glider had a broken part, so dad only put the ottoman together before he and mom left. I’ll get a replacement part mailed early next week..
Once mom and dad left for their home, the house seemed too quiet. I guess I had gotten used to them being around. I know I’ll miss them – they were so helpful, even when they thought they were doing nothing. Mom made sure I was fed and had water to drink. She found me time to put my feet up. Made sure I walked a bit – at Target, Babies R Us, BJ’s… LOL.
The rest of the afternoon went well with just the three of us in the house. Stu went to get Teagan. Dinner with her went very well. I tucked Ashlin in the pack n play while we started dinner. Teagan ended up eating a ton of left-over manicotti and strawberries. She asked for two, three, no two cookies. LOL. I gave her a small handfull of animal crackers.
Ashlin started to stir just about the end of dinner. Teagan did the “ssshhhh” thing with her finger and said “no crying.” I asked her if she wanted me to get her sister to see if we could quiet her. Yes. She wanted to see her sister. Teagan watched as I got the baby, then noticed that Ashlin needed a change. We asked Stu to change the stinky diaper. Pewwww. Stinky! Teagan laughed.
As Teagan finshed the last of her cookies, we told her it was bedtime. Ok, no protest. I asked for a kiss goodnight while I was downstairs, as now it was time for mama to feed the baby. She gave me a nice, long, slobbery kiss. She gave her sister a kiss as well. A very sweet kiss.
The day ended well. I’m just about ready to sleep, like a sweet baby I know…
So, last night was not a fun night. I fell asleep on the sofa – yay, almost a nightly occurrence though – and moved up to bed around 11. I slept about 40 minutes, but woke up again, thanks to my back. Stupid SPD and torked hip are throbbing. I get up, get a pillow to put between my knees to see if that helps. It doesn’t really. I try a rolled towel. That doesn’t work either. Stretches, nope. Eventually Stu came up and suggested I see if I could take an Alieve. Nope. Can’t take them. I did take two Tylenol though, and was able to get back to sleep until about 2:30am.
So, I go downstairs to see if watching TV will distract me enough from my back pain to go back to sleep. I watched two Top Gear episodes. LOL. (Last time, it was Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares). Weekend late night TV sucks. Not having WTNH sucks.*
So, up this morning at 6am, and watch some news. Put Teagan’s blankie back on hoping she sleeps at least another hour. Try to fall asleep in bed as I’m upstairs. Nope. Doesn’t work. Get up just before the alarm and shower.
Stu gets himself up and goes down and makes me some coffee – sweetheart he is. I dash out to my Chiro appointment – I was late for it :( I called to let him know I’d be late. We go through all the adjustments – left hip, no crack. Right hip, crack. Midback - crack. Upper back – crack! Neck left – Crack! Neck right – Crack crack crack! Pubic symphysis - OUCH! I don’t think that cracked. Chiro has me go back to my right side so he can try to crack and straighten my left hip. Again, no luck. By then, I’m nearly in tears. I try to tell him it’s not him, just me, overtired, in pain, ready to be done with it all.
He asked if I could come back tomorrow. I said yes. I hope he can fix my hips.
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I spent quite a bit of tonight leaning against a heating pad. I really enjoyed having the heated seats this morning/early afternoon in the car. Stu hunted down the heating pad for me. Most of this afternoon I spent doing Cow/Cat stretches, tilts, open knees chest and then the crazy eight hip thing. Trying to prep my hip for being popped. I couldn’t sit once I got home from dropping off Stu at the car place, and our taxes off at the accountant. We had lunch at our favorite pizza place, where we haven’t eaten since we’ve moved. We can’t find good pizza at the new house.
I really want my back to feel better.
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* PS. It’s BACK!!! WTNH is back on Dish! Woo Woo!!!
Gotta love starting a post and then not getting back to it. LOL. There are some good things about the WP iPod app, and some bad.. So, I had started writing about how in the play room most of yesterday there were three songs that Teagan asked for “moar:”
She also got quite into Seven Nations and Hair of the Dog – stopping whatever play she was involved in to dance dance dance. My little Irish Princess.
As Stu was being a love and putting the desk together yesterday, Teagan and I played in the play room. At one time, I was crawling around on the floor (yes, doing a breech exercise, LOL!) picking up toys and putting them away. I ended up going into the open knees chest position. Teagan came up gave me a kiss, and then mimicked the position next to me.
She also copied Stu. On one excursion from the play room to the front, we passed Stu lying under the desk, tightening something up. She bolted into the den and gave him a kiss and then stole a screwdriver. I herded her back into the front, so we could get her (and me!) something to eat. The next time I left her, so I could have a bio-break, she went and lay down under the desk, with a screwdriver (backwards). She’s really a sweet kid, and quick too.
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