No really my little peanut I SUCH a big girl. She rocks!
Today while she went to Nannette's I put her toddler rail on her bed. I made it nice and pretty and told her all about on our way home. We went straight upstairs, since Patrick was still sleeping, and played in her room ad sat on her new big girl bed.
We went on with our afternoon and enjoyed coloring outside, eating Mac & cheese, and bath time where I searched for "nickels" in her ears (my mom's trick to cleaning out ears- I remover her doing it to me as a child, too). Well talk about belly laugh, deep in our guts, both of us couldn't stop hysterically laughing. Claire started checking Ariel's ears for nickels too and she couldn't get enough of it! So darn funny!!!
Fast forward to bed time. We sat in bed together and I covered her up with three b-lankets! She had 3 pacis in hand, well one in mouth, and we read 5 books: Goodnight Moon, Animals, Bathtime, Olivia (her pronunciation of this is adorable), and Summer (twice). She then read to Daddy and I by herself. I so wish I taped that because she would say the things she knew like and elaborate with nonsense words! So darn cute!!!
I then needed to calm Patrick down so Tim was on charge. I watched on the monitor as he read one more story and she said she didn't want to go down. Well he picked her up, laid her down, covered her and said goodnight. She cried a bit, stood up, sat back down, cried a little, and eventually laid down slowly falling asleep.
Then I get a phone call from my mom on Tim's phone; odd.
Tornado watch meaning one was spotted near us. We had to make a decision wake Claire up for nothing or don't wake her up and something happen. We went to the basement for about 10 minutes. She played with my phone then I took her back up. She went right down! How sweet! Now she's sound asleep- I wonder if she'll call for us when she wakes. I hope so!!
She is such a big girl- she did have her first "beer" last night too! No really it was just apple juice! :)
I decided to try and put her down without a diaper and in her big girl undies for bedtime. We were off on another snow day so I knew I was in for less sleep than normal, but that was okay. She woke at 12:50ish and I rushed her to the potty. Completely DRY, go Claire! No pee, but I put her back down and she woke again at 4:45 am, complete dry. GO CLAIRE. I tried to put her on the potty again and nothing. She even drank some water and milk in the middle of the night because she was so thirsty. As I woke up at 6 am to get in the shower, I was changing Patrick's diaper and Claire was watching Frozen songs on my iPhone. She was standing on the baby potty and the trickle, well waterfall started. I rushed her to the toilet and she continued for a good while, right through Minnie & Daisy. We praised the peeing on the potty and I, moderately disappointed, reminded Claire how Minnie & Daisy do not want to get wet and that's yucky to do that in our undies. So day two begins...
In other news, Patrick is our big almost NINE month old BABY! We love him to pieces. He is the calm in our life and reminds us all to live easy, breathe and laugh. He giggles at Claire; everything is funny to him. He's a mover nowadays. Army crawling sitting to crawling, crawling to sitting, crawling to downward dog. He's really, really good at downward dog. Maybe that's the yoga sense of his "live easy and breathe" personality. It's taken him a little longer to do things Claire was doing, but now he talks (dadada, bababba, yayayya, sometimes a maaamaaa), he sits in the tub or swims on his belly, he laughs hysterical if I pour water on him, or if Claire in the tub with him. He quietly goes to bed on his own with his paci and one hand stroking his head. He still nurses, but loves to eat a real dinner too. Last night he ate broccoli, corn, and shredded pork.
We are just so thankful and blessed for a little Brady Bunch.
<3
Patrick John graced us with his presence at 10:15 am after exactly one hour of pushing. He started to let us know he was coming at 9:00 am, Thursday morning with contractions that were caused due to an extremely boring work meeting. Daddy and I decided to leave work a bit early to see if the contractions would subside or were the real deal. They did get closer and more intense throughout the day so we headed into the hospital to see if I had progressed since Tuesday cervical check. No such luck and Dr. J sent us home telling me to stay home from work Friday and if he hasn't arrived I could go to the Hebron - MR game I so desperately was trying to make. Turns out around 9:30 pm contractions were more intense and I just had a feeling if we didn't go in we'd be calling Dr. J around 3 am. And of course I feel funny waking anyone up in the middle of the morning even if it's because I'm in labor.
We called Mimi up to sleep over with Sweet C and headed to the hospital. After an hour of walking I had dilated from 1-2 cm to 3-4 cm. Progress, YAY! So we were admitted and knew little man would arrive on April 26th. After two tries with the space for the epidural, which happened to take about 45 minutes (Tim was worried), I felt no more contractions and was in heaven. I dozed off and on for 2 hours, while Tim was able to manage almost 4 hours of sleep. When we woke, Dr. J arrived and checked me at 8:30 am. He was pleasantly surprised I was 10 cm and baby's head was real low. He asked where Tim had gone (he ran out to the car) and said to call him soon because I was probably about to push any moment. At 9:15 he left me start pushing. After several different types of pushing PJB arrived quietly and fairly smoothly into the world at 10:15 am. He weighed 8 lbs 13.8 oz and measured 19 1/4 inches long. He received an 8/9 on his Apgar tests and initially was taken off my chest to make him scream some more since he didn't seem to have the lungs his big sister had/has. He's been super content and was able to nurse immediately following delivery.
The following hours he spit up a good bit of mucus which probably explains why he didn't come out scream, instead her swallowed some amniotic fluid. He finally starting nursing like a champ at 10:15 that night and has been super ever since.
Claire Beth came to visit her "baby" and loves the new baby. Although she is not thrilled that he eats with mommy and she cannot sit on my lap too. Looks like Mommy is going to figure out a way to keep her content during nursing sessions all spring and summer long.
