Crazy Days At Home
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
It has been a while since I posted on this blog, so I figured I'd give you an update. Things have been nuts around here. It seems like we are running wide open all day and all night but we never get anything done. But, we are still enjoying our little snuggle bug.
Little Marin is doing fine except that his face is really broken out. We've called the doctor and he said it is normal and that we should just leave it alone and not bother it. He has such pretty skin and it makes me sad to see his little face looking like that. He scratches at it (it must itch or bother him) so we have to make sure he wears his shirts with mitts attached to them. He's too smart for the stand-alone mitts. He knows how to take them off, so they are useless.
Matthew (bless his heart) is a walking zombie. He pulls the night shift pretty much every night. I don't know how he does it. I am so thankful to him for all the hard work he puts in around here. I keep asking him if he wants me to take the night shift and he always says no. Granted I don't argue with him too much for fear that he'll take me up on my offer. So last night I got to sleep from 1 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. That is more sleep than Matthew has gotten in weeks, so I count myself lucky.
I did have a little slip up yesterday (literally). I fell down the stairs. Thankfully, I wasn't carrying Marin. The only thing upstairs is our bonus room (which is Lexi's domain) so there is no reason to take Marin up there. I was coming back from feeding Lexi and was carrying her empty bowl in my right hand and was holding onto the hand rail with my left hand. I got into the good habit of holding onto the railing when I was pregnant and that is the only thing that saved me from a really, really bad fall. I had no sooner than put my foot down on the top step when I landed right on my butt. You know when little kids sit down on the stairs and scoot/bump their way down them on their rear end? Well, I went down hard and did that for 4 or 5 stairs before my arm caught on the hand rail and I stopped myself. I nearly tore my arm out of socket because I didn't let go. If I had let go, I'd have went down the entire set of stairs. Oddly enough, I didn't' drop Lexi's bowl out of my right hand. My right elbow hit every stair on the way down leaving a nasty bruise. Not half as impressive as the bruising on my tail though, but we won't go there. Matthew was asleep and missed the whole thing. Well, he was asleep till I went into our room balling my eyes out and nearly scared him half to death. But, I was hurt (both my butt and my pride) and needed a hug.
Lexi is doing remarkably well through this whole ordeal. It was 11:30 today and I figured out that I hadn't let Lexi out yet. Poor girl. She was still sound asleep in her crate though and barely stirred when I went upstairs so I guess she didn't realize I had forgotten her. Since she's up half the night anyway, I guess she is tired too. After a good meal and a bathroom break, she was none the wiser of my parental neglect.
Many people have asked me how we find the time to write with a newborn in the house. Simple for me, Marin sleeps all day long. He only gets up to eat or get a diaper change. Not so simple for Matthew, who has to type while holding Marin because Marin stays up all night. We've gotten lots of advice from people who say we need to get Marin "on a schedule" and "switch his days and nights". From what we've read and been told by our pediatrician, a 2 week old is too new to get on a real schedule. No matter how much you try to keep them up, if they are sleepy, they will sleep. He said we should just count our blessings that Marin sleeps at all (even if it is during the day) because that means he will eventually switch his own days and nights to match ours. Babies are in total darkness for 9 months so they don't know that there is a proper time to sleep and a proper time to wake up. When he was in my belly, he was always up kicking all night and sleeping all day. I've been told this is our fault because we always stayed up late when I was pregnant. But, again, according to the doctor it isn't our fault. During the day, babies are lulled to sleep by their mothers walking around when they are pregnant. At night, the mom is still and the baby wakes up to see what is going on. That is why when they are born they usually do have their days and nights mixed up. It is just what they are used to in the womb. Apparently Marin should fix his own schedule sometime around the 6 week mark. I guess we will see.
Little Marin is doing fine except that his face is really broken out. We've called the doctor and he said it is normal and that we should just leave it alone and not bother it. He has such pretty skin and it makes me sad to see his little face looking like that. He scratches at it (it must itch or bother him) so we have to make sure he wears his shirts with mitts attached to them. He's too smart for the stand-alone mitts. He knows how to take them off, so they are useless.
Matthew (bless his heart) is a walking zombie. He pulls the night shift pretty much every night. I don't know how he does it. I am so thankful to him for all the hard work he puts in around here. I keep asking him if he wants me to take the night shift and he always says no. Granted I don't argue with him too much for fear that he'll take me up on my offer. So last night I got to sleep from 1 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. That is more sleep than Matthew has gotten in weeks, so I count myself lucky.
I did have a little slip up yesterday (literally). I fell down the stairs. Thankfully, I wasn't carrying Marin. The only thing upstairs is our bonus room (which is Lexi's domain) so there is no reason to take Marin up there. I was coming back from feeding Lexi and was carrying her empty bowl in my right hand and was holding onto the hand rail with my left hand. I got into the good habit of holding onto the railing when I was pregnant and that is the only thing that saved me from a really, really bad fall. I had no sooner than put my foot down on the top step when I landed right on my butt. You know when little kids sit down on the stairs and scoot/bump their way down them on their rear end? Well, I went down hard and did that for 4 or 5 stairs before my arm caught on the hand rail and I stopped myself. I nearly tore my arm out of socket because I didn't let go. If I had let go, I'd have went down the entire set of stairs. Oddly enough, I didn't' drop Lexi's bowl out of my right hand. My right elbow hit every stair on the way down leaving a nasty bruise. Not half as impressive as the bruising on my tail though, but we won't go there. Matthew was asleep and missed the whole thing. Well, he was asleep till I went into our room balling my eyes out and nearly scared him half to death. But, I was hurt (both my butt and my pride) and needed a hug.
Lexi is doing remarkably well through this whole ordeal. It was 11:30 today and I figured out that I hadn't let Lexi out yet. Poor girl. She was still sound asleep in her crate though and barely stirred when I went upstairs so I guess she didn't realize I had forgotten her. Since she's up half the night anyway, I guess she is tired too. After a good meal and a bathroom break, she was none the wiser of my parental neglect.
Many people have asked me how we find the time to write with a newborn in the house. Simple for me, Marin sleeps all day long. He only gets up to eat or get a diaper change. Not so simple for Matthew, who has to type while holding Marin because Marin stays up all night. We've gotten lots of advice from people who say we need to get Marin "on a schedule" and "switch his days and nights". From what we've read and been told by our pediatrician, a 2 week old is too new to get on a real schedule. No matter how much you try to keep them up, if they are sleepy, they will sleep. He said we should just count our blessings that Marin sleeps at all (even if it is during the day) because that means he will eventually switch his own days and nights to match ours. Babies are in total darkness for 9 months so they don't know that there is a proper time to sleep and a proper time to wake up. When he was in my belly, he was always up kicking all night and sleeping all day. I've been told this is our fault because we always stayed up late when I was pregnant. But, again, according to the doctor it isn't our fault. During the day, babies are lulled to sleep by their mothers walking around when they are pregnant. At night, the mom is still and the baby wakes up to see what is going on. That is why when they are born they usually do have their days and nights mixed up. It is just what they are used to in the womb. Apparently Marin should fix his own schedule sometime around the 6 week mark. I guess we will see.
