6 months, dragons, and parking brakes.
I am on my 2nd cup of green tea today (and that's after my full cup of coffee) and I am just now sort of making this Monday happen. Okay, can I just say, that just after writing that first sentence, I got up three times. Once to pat Norah's back in the crib, since she is having a hard time falling asleep by herself, once to get K some milk and then again to find K's Elmo ball. I finally ended up rocking Norah and I can't help imagining that Norah is like a sleeping dragon and K is like the knight in shining armor who thinks he's gonna save the day and K's room is like the castle and I am like the innocent peasant just trying to keep the sleeping dragon asleep. And I literally have seconds before the knight in shining armor (K) will burst into the castle and wake the sleeping dragon and the peasant will have to ward off the crying, overtired dragon.
Okay, yes I agree that it may be a little extreme comparing Norah to a sleeping dragon
(since she would probably be the happiest little dragon anyone has ever met, and really is nothing like a dragon in her personality at all!), but that is the only imagery I can think of as I rock Norah back to sleep.
So anyways, just as she is about to fall asleep, K comes in the room with his newly found Elmo ball, throws the tray to Norah's swing on the floor with a loud crash, throws his Elmo ball into his basketball hoop (Norah's swing) and yells, "YES!!! Touch down niners!" And at the point a startled dragon is once again awake. He rides out of the castle on his horse (tricycle) with a victorious smile.
But I digress, because I was explaining why I am on my third cup of caffeine today (well that story was part of it, I guess). After a fun morning of playing at the Indoor Park with my two babes and the extra one I babysit 3 days a week, I hastily loaded up the jeep in the rain, heading to an appointment and started up the car. I started to pull out of my parking spot when all of the sudden the jeep lurches to a very sudden stop in the middle of the road and refused to go forward. There was also a very loud, the entire engine just fell out of our car, noise and I freaked out. I reversed back into my parking spot, so I wasn't blocking traffic and called Jason. I told him for sure something had just fell out of the car onto the pavement. He drove to come meet me as I dreaded the thought of being down to one car again. Somewhere between Jason leaving our house and Jason arriving at my location, I figured out that the emergency parking brake was indeed on and as I lowered the lever to release it, the car drove just fine the rest of the way home.
I cannot make this stuff up! Seriously.
Originally when I sat down to blog, I was wanting to tell you all that my dear little Norah Jane is now 6 months! I took these pictures of her Sunday morning before church. She is growing up! Waaaaaaahhhh! She now weighs about 14 lbs, 3-6 month clothes are getting tight on her, she is still sleeping through the night, and nursing about 4 oz every 3ish hours with the SNS. We are using the SNS full time now (no bottles) since I just started (once again) taking medicine to lactate. I am very excited! I decided that I wanted to re-lactate for several reasons: Norah may want more milk in the long run and the SNS only goes up to 5 oz. Breast milk has great health benefits, she is doing so well with the SNS that I would only have to pump very minimally in order to produce milk, and finally i want to nurse Norah long term and I think re-lactating would be the best option for us long term. It would be such a miracle if we could say good-bye to the SNS once and for all, but if we don't I am fine with that too. I am really excited to be working with a specializing doctor who knows what is best for both Norah and me. I am just figuring that I won't know if it works unless I try!
Norah just got TWO teeth last month and she had to work very hard for them! Poor girl was a bit miserable last month. She was refusing to eat at times and also fighting off some sickness as well, so last month wasn't the best time for her, but she still pushed through as happy as can be!
I know I say it all the time, but I am so grateful for this little jewel in our life. She is the happiest, little doll baby and sooo sweet. She literally lights up our day. Her and K get along great. If she is fussy at all, K will always tell me, "mom cheer her up!" If she cries in the car, he will tell her, "Nowah, you fine! Cheer up!" I love them together. I cannot wait to see what the future will hold for both of them.
In other news, we sent in some final paperwork for K's adoption today and if all goes smoothly he will be officially ours by the end of this month! I know some of you are probably thinking, "WHAT?? His adoption is not finalized??" Well neither is Norah's. It doesn't honestly surprise me anymore. I have learned that these things take time. A LOT of time. But we are just learning to be patient and enjoy the process. We have learned a lot these last few years. And we are definitely enjoying the journey. But hopefully we won't have any more parking brake mishaps along the way (wink wink!).
Monday's almost over and we are gonna end our night at the library reading some favorite books. What does your Monday hold?
Okay, yes I agree that it may be a little extreme comparing Norah to a sleeping dragon
(since she would probably be the happiest little dragon anyone has ever met, and really is nothing like a dragon in her personality at all!), but that is the only imagery I can think of as I rock Norah back to sleep.
So anyways, just as she is about to fall asleep, K comes in the room with his newly found Elmo ball, throws the tray to Norah's swing on the floor with a loud crash, throws his Elmo ball into his basketball hoop (Norah's swing) and yells, "YES!!! Touch down niners!" And at the point a startled dragon is once again awake. He rides out of the castle on his horse (tricycle) with a victorious smile.
But I digress, because I was explaining why I am on my third cup of caffeine today (well that story was part of it, I guess). After a fun morning of playing at the Indoor Park with my two babes and the extra one I babysit 3 days a week, I hastily loaded up the jeep in the rain, heading to an appointment and started up the car. I started to pull out of my parking spot when all of the sudden the jeep lurches to a very sudden stop in the middle of the road and refused to go forward. There was also a very loud, the entire engine just fell out of our car, noise and I freaked out. I reversed back into my parking spot, so I wasn't blocking traffic and called Jason. I told him for sure something had just fell out of the car onto the pavement. He drove to come meet me as I dreaded the thought of being down to one car again. Somewhere between Jason leaving our house and Jason arriving at my location, I figured out that the emergency parking brake was indeed on and as I lowered the lever to release it, the car drove just fine the rest of the way home.
I cannot make this stuff up! Seriously.
Originally when I sat down to blog, I was wanting to tell you all that my dear little Norah Jane is now 6 months! I took these pictures of her Sunday morning before church. She is growing up! Waaaaaaahhhh! She now weighs about 14 lbs, 3-6 month clothes are getting tight on her, she is still sleeping through the night, and nursing about 4 oz every 3ish hours with the SNS. We are using the SNS full time now (no bottles) since I just started (once again) taking medicine to lactate. I am very excited! I decided that I wanted to re-lactate for several reasons: Norah may want more milk in the long run and the SNS only goes up to 5 oz. Breast milk has great health benefits, she is doing so well with the SNS that I would only have to pump very minimally in order to produce milk, and finally i want to nurse Norah long term and I think re-lactating would be the best option for us long term. It would be such a miracle if we could say good-bye to the SNS once and for all, but if we don't I am fine with that too. I am really excited to be working with a specializing doctor who knows what is best for both Norah and me. I am just figuring that I won't know if it works unless I try!
Norah just got TWO teeth last month and she had to work very hard for them! Poor girl was a bit miserable last month. She was refusing to eat at times and also fighting off some sickness as well, so last month wasn't the best time for her, but she still pushed through as happy as can be!
I know I say it all the time, but I am so grateful for this little jewel in our life. She is the happiest, little doll baby and sooo sweet. She literally lights up our day. Her and K get along great. If she is fussy at all, K will always tell me, "mom cheer her up!" If she cries in the car, he will tell her, "Nowah, you fine! Cheer up!" I love them together. I cannot wait to see what the future will hold for both of them.
In other news, we sent in some final paperwork for K's adoption today and if all goes smoothly he will be officially ours by the end of this month! I know some of you are probably thinking, "WHAT?? His adoption is not finalized??" Well neither is Norah's. It doesn't honestly surprise me anymore. I have learned that these things take time. A LOT of time. But we are just learning to be patient and enjoy the process. We have learned a lot these last few years. And we are definitely enjoying the journey. But hopefully we won't have any more parking brake mishaps along the way (wink wink!).
Monday's almost over and we are gonna end our night at the library reading some favorite books. What does your Monday hold?
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Glad your cute kids are well!
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