sleep deprived!

over the break it is my mission to alter brynna's sleep habits. she's driving me mento and we need to get it in check already. mostly it's our fault because we're so bad about keeping a good routine with her. caleb's routine is set, but hers, not so much.

last night she took a late nap (like around 8ish). i hate when she sleeps then cuz i know she'll wake up, want to play, and won't go down again until after 11. this is exactly what happened. at first i told dave if he puts her down, i'll feed her throughout the night. turns out, though, that she wanted to have screaming fits whenever dave would be carrying her, so i had to get up and tend to her. she kept falling asleep, i'd put her down, she'd fidget and start screaming her head off again. see, it's a good thing i drank a soda after dinner (which i usually don't do cuz it makes me not be able to sleep) so i wasn't totally delirious...pissed off, yes...delirious, no.

i ended up going to sleep after midnight after finally putting her down then reading some...of course, the book had to be just at the part where you gotta keep reading to figure out what's going to happen, so some of the sleep deprivation is cuz i had to continue reading.

anyways, she wakes up at 130...eats....wakes up at 330...screams...eats...wakes up again at 530...screams...eats. we put her on the bed with us a couple times but even that only helped a little bit. i dunno if she has sore stomach, is teething, or just wants to make life a little hellish, but something has to change with this sleeping pattern. i have that sore body feeling you get when you know you never sleep enough and my eyelids are hella heavy.

kay, gotta go bus' one lolo kid who dressed down when he wasn't supposed to. dang kid.

21 months and 7 months

i seriously have not been keeping up with blogging and in a way it makes me sad because i've chronicled so much of caleb's baby days, but posting about brynna's happenings is rare. i know that everybody says the first baby gets the most of everything and then baby number two seems to get the shaft...poor brynna cuz it's proving to be true.

anyways, here's some memories of 7 months and 21 months.

brynna is our smiley girl. she always laughs hysterically with daddy entertaining her and often laughs (though seemingly not as hard or loud) with baba (gramma) and me. she's so huggable and smooshable. she's super quick with her scooting around and when she sets her sights on something, she takes off to get it. her sleeping is pretty unpredictable (waking up three times one night, two times another...last night she finally did only one waking up, but we know that's probably just a fluke). she loves to stand and jump, and would rather be sitting up than lying down. she loves her brother and smiles happily whenever he's near her or giving her lovies. she's a cruiser...prime example of brynna is us going to costco today. she cruised in her stroller without making one sound for the entire shopping trip. no fussing, just chilling. she's eating more and more real food and has gone through peas, sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes with corn. tomorrow she starts carrots.

at 21 months caleb is starting to show his temper. okay, admittedly he's been showing his 'tude since his entrance into this world, but lately it's been manifesting itself in screeching, throwing his arms around, and even hitting us. when he doesn't get his way he starts to throw a fit. he has separation anxiety and will no longer happily go with his colmenares grandma and grandpa. he's becoming more verbal (thank GOD) and understands directions pretty well. he'll still eat pretty well, but is getting a little bit more picky now. he's not always mr cuddly, but he will sometimes come and give you a random hug and will give kisses before bed and when he's going "bye bye". a few nights ago he made us laugh (and made us irritated) because he didn't want to go to bed. he was in his room, but didn't want to stay in bed. he was up, pulled my mom's luggage out, and was playing contentedly with the zippers. later on, after putting him in bed again, i go to check him and he's lying not on his bed, but on my mom's. i walk into the room to move him back and see that not only is he on her bed, but he also has the tv on...watching roots cuz that's the dvd my mom had in. lol!

these two little ones keep me on my toes, keep me busy, and keep me tired...but also keep me smiling!!!

so damn tired

i am so damn tired. it's 9:21 and i have more papers to grade but i just inputted the revisions onto engrade and i just wanna go sleep. frick.

i was up and correcting papers last night and feeling pretty happy with what i got accomplished. went to bed about 12...and i should have known that no sooner would i fall asleep but brynna would be up and wanting to eat. she woke up again at 130...grrr. then again at 4...double grrr.

i think i'm going to sleep now. if i wake up early and correct papers, good for me. if i don't, too bad, so sad.

turds

i was so irraz tonight because i was trying to feed brynna nicely and ended up getting food all over her clothes. my mom said she ate all her food and didn't drop any at all when she fed her at lunch, so i was all aggros that i couldn't feed her nicely too.

then i went to bocha caleb and as i was washing my hair, i smelled something kinda funny. he was squatting down and i thought maybe he just made a fut cuz from my vantage point i couldn't see anything. lo and behold, i look behind him and what do i see??? a fat 4 inch long turd. sooooo gross. yelled to dave and my mom...dave got there first and had to pick it up. lol.

adventures of parenting, i suppose.

sleepless nights...grrr...

i know that waking up with brynna comes with the territory...she's six months old and waking up to feed her sucks, but it's understood...

caleb, on the other hand, i expect to sleep through the night. this past week there have been several nights where he wakes up crying and wants to drink water and have someone sleep with him. fine, whatever, separation anxiety phase, whatever. but last night....boy did i want to strangle the dang kid! he woke up at 3, BEFORE we had to wake up for brynna, who slept really well last night. i went to him, climbed in his bed, and thought that would be it. NOOOOO. he's fussing and whimpering and making the irritating fussy-ass sounds of his and grabbing my hand to take me out of the room. fine. we go out and he wants water. fine. go back to bed and he's still making his fussy-ass sounds. i swear, we were up until almost freakin' six before he passed out on me on the couch after wailing for a little bit. the shitty part was that he didn't want dave....so in order to keep a somewhat peaceful household in the wee hours of the morning, i had to stay with him. let me tell you, i know this isn't right, but he got some slaps on his ass because i was so pissed at his freakin' antics. and he has the nerve to give me the remote control and ask for oobi....yea right. in fact, he isn't watching any oobi today at all. if that's why he was up, cuz he wanted to watch oobi, then something's wrong and he needs to break that bad habit.

anyways, needless to say i was a big huge grouch and needed some extra sleep after dave, brynna and my mom were up. frick, i know i'm going to catch a major down sometime today. right now the three of them are napping but i don't feel like sleeping just yet.

at least i got vacuuming, laundry, and caleb's haircut out of the way...

long time no see

wow, i haven't written in forever and a day. these days, making it onto the computer for leisure happens rarely.

went to maui for the long weekend and spent time at grandpa's house. the kids were good on the plane, this being the first time on the plane without gramma. they didn't let us sit together (can't have two lap kids in the same row they said), so i had to sit in the middle of the three-peeps side. i was worried as heck but caleb actually was able to sit still for a longer time with strangers beside us. dave sat on the two-peeps side with brynna and of course she did well. being on the plane makes me anxious and i freakin lost my damn camera. oh well. at least we got there and back safe and sound so it's all good.

while we were there we slept with the kids....dave slept with one and i slept with the other in different rooms. sleeping with them sucks. i love cuddling them, but being kicked, rolled into, and smooshed into a little bitty space while they roll freely does not make for good sleeps. i much rather sleep with the dragon-snoring hubby than the space taking kids!!!!

took caleb to the maui ocean center. he enjoyed it thoroughly...for the first fifteen minutes. after that he was more concerned with getting milk and being carried. he was tired so we hurried through the rest and headed out. overall, it was a good experience, which i don't have pictures of except on my phone. oh well.

caleb is saying more words...i haven't written it down and counted, but i think he's past his 21 month goal of 20 words. i know i shouldn't compare him to other kids and that he'll be fine, but it's hard to not compare. oh well...he's happy and healthy and not missing any milestones so i guess it's all good. we say that he's french because he keeps saying words with "la" in front of it. or making up words and having "la" in front. for example, water is "la-ba-le". button is "la-butt". today he asked my mom for a bite of food and said "la-bite." don't ask me where this comes from.

brynna's first two teeth broke the gums! we were waiting and waiting because she was sooo drooly and gumming everything. she didn't seem fussy or nutts or anything so i'm hoping the rest of the teeth won't bother her too much either.