Single Parenting... sorta...

For the next two weeks Tom and I are trading off on single parenting. Interesting adventure and a little lonely at the same time. I work from 7, 7:30am-ish-5pm(ish)... then Tom brings up the kids and we switch. I take the kids home and he heads to work from 5:30pm-10:00pm. On the plus side, no childcare issues because we are able to trade off, down side... We really see very little of each other.

Thankfully it's just for a few more weeks.

I went in for an ultrasound on Monday and our newest little guy is measuring right around 4 pounds and is in the 30th percentile. I have one more ultrasound next week because I'm part of a research study with him (yay free ultrasound!)

(Awww!)

The sleeping is still quite frustrating, we are averaging 1.5-2.5 hours a night just sitting in their room and putting them to bed. I can hardly stand it sometimes because that eats up at least half of the night that I'm home. Not to mention it's still a lot of up down up down up down... and I'm already exhausted at that point. I wish we could eliminate naps but the girls have started falling asleep on the way home from work, so don't think thats an option (and it certainly doesn't help bedtime)

(Kara)

Guess we'll keep trying and I'll try to find more to do online when I have to sit in there. Hurray...

The girls are now all sleeping in the same room together. I wish that we could let them have their own rooms but we are officially out of space. Abby is sleeping on the top bunk and Kiley and Kara take turns sleeping either in her old bed or on the bottom bunk. They haven't decided which one they want to sleep in yet so seem to switch. And this of course means I've started (or Tom has) in preparing the nursery for when boy comes. I wanted a space that I could put him in the swing and have him be safe. I just didn't want to have to worry about the girls harassing him all the time. It is kinda fun to see the crib go up again... and exciting that it is getting closer.

Phew Abby is stinky (sorry for the side note!)

Miss Abby has been waking up every morning around 3 am SCREAMING. She seems to have nightmares about me being gone. She also tends to wake up at 6-6:30am and wake up the twins so that they watch cartoons together (which means they come to find us) Of course this is when I try to get ready for work... makes that a little hard!

Abby has a pajama party at preschool tomorrow... and they are going to wear pajamas and eat popcorn with their pillows. Tom and I met with her teacher the other day and it went really well. The teacher appreciated us filling her in about how to best help Abby and so far it is helping quite a bit. They are working on giving her more time to transition, working with her on over stimulating times and now are writing how her days go in her special notebook. This really helps us at home... because thats usually when we deal most with it. Glad we found a teacher that is so willing to step in and help Abby learn! She is really picking up things fast :o)

Looking forward to a quieter weekend coming up...