Those Little Gifts from God....WHATEVER!

This is a cruel joke...When looking at this pic of Gwyn you might say..."Oh, what a little angel," or as one lady here at work said, "What a little gift from God." Well let me tell you what this gift from God did last night and see if you agree.

It really became a joke around 2:30 am...Gwyn went to bed at 8pm and proceeded to wake up at 9:30, 11, 12:20, 1:05, 2:10, 2:30 (am mind you!), 2:45, 3:22, 4:20, and after that I lost count b/c Bryan took over and took her into the den to sleep on the floor. Our house has turned into a regular party at night with various sundry family members joining us in our bed at various times in the night. I will wake up with one or two kids in bed with me...put them back in their own beds and wake up an hour later to attend to a screaming baby and find that Heath is wedged in between Bryan and I. Heath has a tendency to dig his feet into your side or legs while he is sleeping which doesn't bother me at all (because I do/did it too) but makes Bryan crazy. I digress.

Anyway...its really getting out of hand. We have blamed it on teeth, or illness which we have had our fair share of...but now its just getting down right ridiculous. So, what do we do? Resort to drugs of course! A nurse suggested we give them Benedryl and that might help them sleep...whatever, it makes my children crack babies that are climbing the walls. Another nurse suggested Robotussin DM which Gwyn got a dose of last night and from the above discussion, you see what happened.

One of the (many) problems with having 3 children is not being willing to let someone "cry it out" until they fall asleep b/c that wakes everyone else up. We had to do this with Heath a few times and it really worked but was sort of hard to do. Now we are down to two options...duct tape or earplugs. Will let you know which one we go with.

On another note...Heath gave his Mommy the best Christmas present EVER...no more diapers! We potty trained him over the 4 day weekend and he has done amazingly well...That's not just a Mom talking, either, his teachers are really impressed. I could take credit for it but he really made the decision he wasn't wearing diapers anymore and we just facilitated that decision with asking him if he had to go potty every 5 minutes for 4 days until he got the picture.

Also, Gwyn started crawling a couple of days before Christmas. She is on the move and like a new puppy is hot on our heals if we leave the room. She will not be left alone if she has to learn to crawl to prevent it from happening! So much for buying a nice big house to "have more room in" Gwyn would have been happy in a studio apartment where she can see us at all times!

Cooper is...well Cooper. He hasn't offered to crawl, loves to eat, has had a cold, usually in good spirits and has a new found love for rough housing with Daddy and big brother Heath. Its amazing how happy little boys can be rolling around on the floor with their Dad.

On the house front we have found out we will probably have to move into an extended stay place for a week for them to finish. Its a long story that I don't want to go into here, but they want to go ahead and tear out the old kitchen so they can put up sheet rock and put in and refinish the hard wood floor in there and redo the adjoining hardwoods so they will somewhat match. At this point I just want it over with. Cabinets are to arrive the week of Jan 19th so if there is a patron saint of cabinents here is my little offering of prayer that they come early!

Lastly, Bryan moved up a step with his businesses and got some office space. He has been working out of our home and toying with this idea since we had the twins. He got an offer of space that he couldn't refuse and learned he could expense it (key point in the choice to do this if any of you know how cheap Bryan is!) so there you have it. The projection of part time working for me is June. It was going to be last June but lets not go there either. The goal is to make Bob Jones tuition for the children so they have a place to go during the day if we need it, but they will hang out with me a lot more. Will let you know how that is going.

Well that is enough for now...I am bordering on boring right now. Hope all is well and Happy 2006!