Play-by-play

Jamie's away at school this week....
Here's a little play-by-play of our first night alone:
11:40pm- go to sleep.
1:30am- jump out of bed to hear Isabella screaming...faintly (the monitor was off)
Isabella is scared of the sharks (again)
Ask Isabella if she wants to sleep with me. A mistake?
She says "yes".
Put her in the middle of the bed with her pillow, titi (blankie), baby, blanket.
Put a pillow next to her on edge of bed.
30 minutes later, both of us fall asleep.
4:30am- loud THUMP-crying.
Isabella rolled over the pillow, off the bed and is now on the floor.
Eyes wide, jump out of bed, scoop her up, head to living room so Eliana doesn't wake up too.
Comfort Isabella.
4:40am- build Fort Knox at edge of bed with back of rocking chair, pillows, bench to keep in place.
5:15am- adrenaline finally leaves, able to fall asleep.
5:45am- Eliana wakes up, hungry.
Bring her into bed, on the other side of me, feed her.
No pillow needed, she doesn't roll over yet.
Sleep as though I'm in a straight-jacket, either girl right next to me, can't move.
6:30am- Eliana starts to stir, quickly give her "nono" again, don't want to wake Isabella.
7:30am- Isabella awake, starts jumping on bed.
Where's the gun, I'm ready to shoot myself!
Jamie...it's time to come home.

A tribute to my husband....

One for the books.

Today was a first; a memory to write in baby books and journals... and on a blog. Isabella played "this little piggy" with Eliana's toes. They both loved it!

A lesson learned

The other morning, I let Isabella watch Finding Nemo, she's watched it in the past and has always enjoyed it. Sometime into the movie she ran into the kitchen and said, "mommy, it's scary!" So I went in with her and decided it was time to turn it off. No problems there. The next night, it started. She was in bed falling asleep when she started crying and calling for me and saying, "no mommy, the sharks can't get me!" What??? This happened twice that evening. Then it hit me...Finding Nemo! She has come into the era of being very impressionable by such things. I'm so thankful kids are forgiving of their parents, at least when they're two. And a lesson we have indeed learned!