A Daily Post

For several weeks (months actually) I’ve been trying to get back into blogging.Trouble is: I’m a perfectionist and at this stage of life, I really don’t have time for perfectionist posting.

Since one of the main goals of this blog is to journal our family life, I’ve decided I need to start writing a quick post each day, and just hit a few highlights even if it’s a little “stream-of-consciousness” and I don’t have time to go back through and proof it or add (or edit) pictures beforehand.
So if my posts seem a little sloppier, well, they may be! 🙂 And for Facebook friends, my Daily Post might seem like all my status updates strung together. (That might be the best I can do some days!)

I’m telling my perfectionist alter-ego that ultimately I would rather have some memories of “life with littles”–even if there are a few misspellings and only pictures once a week–than no memories at all.

Here’s the latest for today:

We have all been sick. Micah is mostly recovered; Mara seems to be recovering but still low energy; my throat doesn’t hurt whenever I swallow now (1st time since Wed/Thurs); Carissa still has 101-fever; she is coughing in bed right now; and Daniel & David seem to have successfully avoided catching the bug! It has been a challenging week for me. With a sore throat and almost no voice, I’ve wanted to say nothing all day. But my kids don’t respond well to charades, so I have had to use words, which kills. Today finally things are looking up!

Carissa has been very conscious of her diapers lately. She will say “Poop! Poop!” before she goes in her diaper, and she will tell me “Diaper! Diaper!” when she needs to be changed. Sometimes she will say “go potty,” and I have sat her on the potty a couple of times with no result. Well, today she was very very insistent saying “Go potty! Go potty!” and when I said, “I’ll change your diaper,” she shook her head and gave a frustrated little growl as if I wasn’t understanding her. So I set her on the potty and went to nurse David. Next thing I knew she walked over to me, and when I looked in the potty, I saw she had definitely needed to go! And I was especially proud of her for keeping it IN the potty! YAY! She got lots of hugs and a special treat for that! This was her first real potty-success! and, no, I’m not “potty training” her–but hey, if she knows she needs to go and insists that, I’m okay with it!

Funny of the day:

I told the kids I didn’t like one song on Starfall.com (kids’ edu site).
Mara: “Why don’t you like it, Mommy?”
Me: “It just sounds like you’re smoking something.” In hindsight I wouldn’t recommend saying that to preschoolers.
Now when Mara is doing Starfall, she says, “Mommy, we’re smoking something!” and then whispers to Mic, “C’mon, Micah! Let’s smoke something again.”

David had a check-up on Saturday. Technically it was his one-month check-up, but he will be 7 weeks old on Tuesday. He weighed 12 lbs., 4 ozs. He has gained 4 lbs, 2 ozs., in 6-1/2 weeks! It is so nice to have such a healthy boy! I call him my “big boy,” since Micah was about 1/2 his size.

I haven’t yet forced myself to get rid of his newborn clothes, but with a consignment sale around the corner, maybe that will motivate me! I need to at least get them out of his drawer because he’s already fitting in some 3-6 month! His pregnancy felt like eternity but wow, his first few weeks have just flown by!

And for the sentimental-milestone moment of the day:

Tonight our “baby” moved out of our bedroom and into the room that he and Micah will share for years to come. . . Next thing you know, he’ll be graduating from kindergarten . . . and then the empty nest. . . . I told Daniel, “The baby stage is over!” Of course Daniel said ‘when he’s out of diapers and feeding himself, then we’ll say the baby stage is over.’

I guess I was thinking the “newborn stage” is over. . .

. . . which is what made me think I’d better start blogging again so I can remember it.