What a Cute Boy!

Maybe it's just because I'm his mother, but Max is the cutest baby I have ever seen! His little blue eyes and his sweet little dimples just make me melt. He had a lot of hair when he was born, but it all fell out last month. Now I'm beginning to see some fresh little sprouts of hair on his little head and his hair line is a little more pronounced. Max is 5 months now and growing like a weed. He's rolling a little bit, but he's mostly content to just to turn from side to side. He's also starting to sit, but still quite wobbly. He loves to watch Ethan be crazy and it just cracks him up. I just love it when he laughs! Seriously, what a cute boy!

A Little Help...

That's what I desperately needed yesterday. All the lack of sleep got the best of me yesterday and I was a wreck! It's amazing that even amidst my minor crisis, the spirit touches others to spring into action. I just want to thank my friends and family for coming to the rescue yesterday and today. I really really needed it! I have some of the greatest friends. Seriously, above and beyond! I especially have to thank my hubby for making my day and taking a huge burden off my plate. Thanks!

Marshmallow Cream

Doesn't that sound like a lovely title? No, I wasn't cooking something today...something else happened. Well, tonight was a normal Wednesday night. Ry was gone to Young Men's, I was bathing Max in the baby tub in the kitchen, and E was up to no good. Now let me rewind a week or two ago and relate some of E's antics as of late. Well, right now he's really into getting things with out asking...i.e. food, candy, luggage keys, or anything interesting to him.

One morning at 6:00am, I came out to the kitchen to find E enjoying an entire 4 pack of chocolate pudding. He stood up on my mixer and grabbed it and a spoon and had at it. Luckily I got to him before he could open and eat the 4th one. What a way to start your day? A sugar buzzed 3 year old!

Another morning, I came out and found him surrounded by many Christmas colored Hershey kiss foils all over the floor and the Hershey kisses were hidden under his pillow. When he saw me come out, he jumped onto his pillow and told me, "there's nothing to see here." Needless to say, I am not one of those lucky moms that can just teach their child to turn on the TV and get some breakfast while they go back to bed.

A couple days ago he found a pair of luggage keys in a basket somewhere and proceeded to stick one of the luggage keys in the electrical socket. Yes, he got shocked. Yes, I had to pull the key out with a pot holder so I wouldn't get shocked.

Now fast forward to tonight. I'm bathing Max so I guess E thinks it's a great time to get something without asking since I'm "occupied" at the moment. Well, out of the pantry I hear a thud and a crunch. The jar of marshmallow cream got knocked off the shelf onto the tile floor while E was trying to sneak the bag of mini marshmallows. I immediately sent E to his room. Obviously I couldn't clean up the mess right away since I had Max in the tub and while I was finishing up with Max, I was just picturing the goo oozing slowly out of the jar and all over my floor. Well, I got Max all done and dressed and stuck him in his seat and I went to attack the mess on my floor. How in the heck do you clean up a broken jar of marshmallow cream? A broom would be unusable after that, my mop is used on wood floors so any glass in there would scratch my floor, and rags can't be rinsed in the sink or else glass would get in the disposal. Luckily my parents got me one of those cool squigy/broom things that you can use on wet or dry surfaces. I first tried to get the major chunk into the trash, but the glass sharded goo sliced my finger. Bad idea. I just had to squigy it all into my dust pan and then plop it in the trash. I probably used a whole roll of paper towels after that too. Now my special broom and dust pan are soaking in a bucket to get all the goo off and then I have to strain all the water and put the rest of the glass shards in the trash. A typical night, right?

New Week

It's been a week and a half since I last blogged. Where have I been? Who knows. Staying busy of course. Max is doing much better and hasn't really had too much of a cough since things cleared up. I'm counting my blessings. He's also been waking up only 2-3 times a night which is a HUGE improvement. He's only done done it 3 nights so I'm not getting my hopes up too much, but we have to count every victory that we can.

E started basketball class last Saturday and he's been really enjoying that. I have pictures that I need to upload of him and my dad getting ready to go. My dad took him to his very first class since Ry was gone to a meeting that morning. E's learning how to dribble, pass, and shoot which is quite a job for a little 3 year old, but he loves it.

As for me, even though I'm not sleeping I've decided to haul myself back to boot camp. I'm up at 4:45 anyway so I might as well be working out, right? We'll see if this is such a good idea in 4 weeks. I start tomorrow so wish me luck. I hope when we have our "arms days" that I be able to hold Max. There were days when I did boot camp before that it hurt just to shampoo my hair...what have I gotten myself into?

1 Hour

That is the amount of sleep I got last night. I haven't slept well in months. I am up constantly with the baby. I decided to calculate the amount of sleep that I have gotten since Max was born and how much sleep I should have gotten. Basically up to today, if I got the recommended 8 hours of sleep a day I should have slept 1088 hours. On average I get about 2-4 hours of interrupted sleep a night so when you calculate it all out I've only had 408 hours of sleep since he was born (a little over 4 months). That means I have missed out on 680 hours of sleep. If I wanted to catch up it would take me 28 days of consecutive sleep to even come close! I am seriously a babbling, forgetful zombie around here. How are moms suppose to function like this? Really, I want to know.

RSV Update

This weekend was full of breathing treatments, suctioning, and being up in the night but we made with through without having to go to the hospital. Max had a follow up visit with the pedi yesterday and things are alright, so far. His breathing is in the 70s which isn't good but his O2 sats are fine and he doesn't seem like his breathing isn't too labored. She told me to just continue to do what I'm doing and that we're probably in the thick of it right now through Friday. I think things will start settling down by Monday (I hope). He's contagious for 7-10 days and we're on Day 6 right now so a little bit longer. She told me he'll have a congested cough for about a month just because it will take awhile to get it all out. She also said it is very important that once he is well that he DOES NOT get the flu. I guess the flu is going around like crazy and if ends up with the flu after RSV, it's not good at all. It's important to keep him in until flu season is over. I just about lost it at that point. I feel like I've been cooped up forever and it feels like it will never end. It's so hard for E to be cooped up too and that just leads to never ending battles. Thankfully my mother-in-law took E for me all day yesterday to get him out and about. He had so much fun and he really really needed that. So overall, things are good for now. No hospital at the moment, just keep on doing what I'm doing.