What’s Going On

Here’s a quick update on what’s going on with our little fam.

1. Jack is finally over his cold (Woo Hoo!). Overall, the first cold was not all that bad. He was surprisingly cheerful and goofy amist all of the snot and slobber. Which made it ohh soo much easier for me. The cutest was when he’d wake up in the middle of the night screaming like there were snakes in his crib and I’d come in and suck all of the snot out of his nose and rock him and he’d giggle and gently stroke my face. None of that smacking and hair pulling, either. Soo adorable. Since we’re on the subject of waking in the middle of the night…
2. We’ve finally gotten a handle on the odd night time wakings. So weird. We went from him sleeping 12 hour nights for months and months and months to all of a sudden needing desperately to eat at 2am. What the heck? Along with the night time waking came a new fit throwing routine at bedtime. Which was totally nuts because he’s always been really good about going down at night. Well, at first we babied him quite a bit because of the cold. Then, at one point, we found ourselves with him in our bed at 10 pm watching TV because he just wouldn’t go to bed. The stinker was living it up and it was at this point that we realized we were a couple of SUCKERS!! So we started re-implimenting The Drill the following night. Two times and he was out for the count. And he slept through the night. He’s been sleeping through the night for several nights now, with the exception of last night (he woke up and started talking and playing in his crib… I decided to ignore him until he got a tiny bit cranky and went in there to find that his diaper had leaked – changed him and he was back to sleep right away).
3. The kid can get around! He is rolling, scooting, and army crawling to whatever his destination may be. It is only a matter of days (possibly weeks?) before his will be full on crawling. And I have to admit… I’m a little scared. I have it soooo easy right now. I can watch the Today show and drink my coffee on the couch. And he’s right there. Well, sort of. He doesn’t realize that he could probably make it into the next room with a little more effort, at this point. It’s only a matter of time before I’m counting the minutes until naptime (for both of us)!
4. Ok, off the subject of JZ… Who is as sick of the whole Donald Trump/Rosie thing as I am?? I’m so over this. I realize Rosie started it… but Donald had it coming. Then instead of taking the high road, he just made an ass of himself and continues to do so on a regular basis. Some of the stuff that comes out of his mouth… he should have it washed out with soap. What a nasty bastard and a horrible example to all human beings. Calling someone a fat slob. He makes me sick. And now I’m getting the sneaking suspision (and so is everyone else) that he is using this situation as publicity for his stupid show starting this week!!! What a jerk. NBC needs to get rid of this big-mouthed, bone-headed, jerk. Ok, enough about that.
5. I’m fired up about the New Year… shows are back on, spring clothes are coming out… and unlike my family up in the tundra, we’ll be getting spring in a few short weeks (well, fall allergies will transition to spring allergies – considering that it appears that we will only have three days of winter), the sun is out and we have lots of fun stuff coming up (a visit from Toots, possibly!… a trip to Hot-lanta possibly… ).
6. So I’ve heard through the blog grape-line… if there is such a thing, that this month is National De-Lurker Month (or something like that). So if you’re lurking, feel free to say Hi or “hey, I think you’re awesome,” or “you’re a freak.” Whatever… comment away! Or continue to lurk, you crazy stalker. Just kidding. I commented on a blog last month for the first time that I had been lurking on a regular basis since Jack was six weeks old!