So I was trying to find a way to share what the kids have been up to lately. A blog that I stalk regularly started a blog caravel called Snapshot Sunday, just click on the link to Stephine's adventures, she just came back from China with her 8th child (yes 8th) and you thought I was nuts!!
So first up I thoughtI would share about Princess Pinky.
Before Pinky I told everyone who would listen that I was done, done done with newborns. We were on the DO NOT call with a newborn list. Now Computer Geek said that we were done period, but that's his story not mine. I hoped we would adopt an older girl (think toddler) in a few years. But I was done with newborns, they stink. Up all hours of the night and less face it while they are cute, they tend to cry allot and you do not always know what the problem is.
So first up I thoughtI would share about Princess Pinky.
Before Pinky I told everyone who would listen that I was done, done done with newborns. We were on the DO NOT call with a newborn list. Now Computer Geek said that we were done period, but that's his story not mine. I hoped we would adopt an older girl (think toddler) in a few years. But I was done with newborns, they stink. Up all hours of the night and less face it while they are cute, they tend to cry allot and you do not always know what the problem is.
I was so thrilled to receive Chunk-A at 11 months old, because I figured he would be sleeping though the night, and he was and does (best sleeper in the house). With Little Stray it was so hard to function, sometimes on as little as four hours sleep (do not even ask about the adventure of T-Monster as an infant). I tend to have a hard time falling asleep and if I have to get up more than once the next day would be very hard. I am a sleeper and do not function well (or nicely) on less than 6 hours of solid sleep. While Computer Geek would help on the weekends, I was on my own during the week, his job was just to stressful for him to be up for a couple of hours every night. Plus, I was better at getting the babies back down, than he was/is. So, I had two other YOUNG boys to take care of and a house and husband, it was hard. Not to mention the part time teaching job I took when Little Stray was 5 months old, and not yet sleeping though the night. Then just as he was getting old enough (18 months) for me to really relax and say "hey that was hard, but this is beginning to be fun". They called about Pinky.
Pinky breaks all the norms I thought newborns were. I told my work that there was no way I would be able to work and have a newborn again, along with three young boys, two of whom are three and under. But at one month old she was inconsistently sleeping though the night. I mean from 10pm to 5 am, 6/7 hours as at a time. She took three hour naps, never at the same time as the younger two boys, but hey. When my work was having a hard time replacing me, I said do not worry about it I would stick it out. Sure enough at 2 months old she consistently sleeps though the night 9/10 pm to 7/8 am. She is the one I usually have to wake up to get going in the mornings.
Pinky breaks all the norms I thought newborns were. I told my work that there was no way I would be able to work and have a newborn again, along with three young boys, two of whom are three and under. But at one month old she was inconsistently sleeping though the night. I mean from 10pm to 5 am, 6/7 hours as at a time. She took three hour naps, never at the same time as the younger two boys, but hey. When my work was having a hard time replacing me, I said do not worry about it I would stick it out. Sure enough at 2 months old she consistently sleeps though the night 9/10 pm to 7/8 am. She is the one I usually have to wake up to get going in the mornings.
She has gotten herself on the eat, play, sleep schedule and I was not even trying. The boys (T-Monster and Little Stray) NEVER got on that schedule, even with me trying HARD to keep them to it. She is a great eater, eats mostly at one sitting and occasionally wants a sip to fall asleep but not much. She actually screams if she is tired and you try offering her a bottle, funny. She HATES the passy, much to Little Strays disappointment, since he is always trying to give her one (he just does not get how one does not LOVE the passy as much as him). Sometimes she just wants to be swaddled and put in her bed, love a sleeper. She is such a (dare I say it) Easy baby, always happy with a ready smile, especially for her brothers. She has already had her first belly laugh, and can be sound asleep, but if she hears her daddy she will wake right up. We have a family joke that she sleeps better at two months old than all the boys at their current ages, especially the five year old, LOL.
I am sure God did some serious laughing every time I spouted out about being done with newborns. He sure does like to prove me wrong, but that's OK. His plan is always going to be better than mine. If all my newborns acted like her, I might have planed some more. But now we are officially DONE DONE DONE, with newborns (and if she is adopted, by us, all children, our hands are full), right GOD?
I am sure God did some serious laughing every time I spouted out about being done with newborns. He sure does like to prove me wrong, but that's OK. His plan is always going to be better than mine. If all my newborns acted like her, I might have planed some more. But now we are officially DONE DONE DONE, with newborns (and if she is adopted, by us, all children, our hands are full), right GOD?
