We recently received three bins of girl clothing hand-me-downs from Chris' brother's family and I'm having so much fun dressing up Mary! (Thanks, Holly!)
Here Mary is not pushing away John, she's having fun grabbing at his face. When she is in my lap, she likes to concentrate and grab my nose, then burst into peals of laughter.
John loves to give Mary kisses now. (No babies were hurt in the taking of these photographs. John was laying very gently without squishing her and I was sitting right with them.)Both my little ones are asleep right now. I am five-and-a-half months into motherhood-of-two and a development of the last few weeks is that, more days than not, I get both kids down for the mid-day nap simultaneously. It's bliss! Mary still falls asleep for an early morning nap, often while I'm getting ready to leave for errands. I'll pop her into my sling where she'll fall asleep while I'm getting ready (with no work on my part), then I'll transfer her into the car seat asleep so we can go on errands, then transfer her back onto my person to go into the store, transfer her back to the car seat to drive home . . . . In all of John's life, he was successfully transferred asleep once. That is one time. I still remember it clearly, how I'd come home from the grocery store, I carried him upstairs, and he kept napping. I've done nothing different with how I've handled Mary's sleeping, she's just much more easy about it.
So, Mary takes her early morning nap, then she and John are both falling asleep around 11:30 or noon. I usually have to get him to sleep first because she has trouble falling asleep while he's awake and being chaotic around her. I just hold Mary in my lap while doing nap time routine with John and he doesn't seem to mind if she's squeaking or cooing. Then I go lay down with Mary and get her to sleep: she's so tired by then, it tends to take very few minutes (five?).
Then I get my positively blissful mid-day break when I can do chores productively without wearing an infant and chasing a toddler simultaneously.
Cute overalls!
ReplyDeleteRemembering back to your post about how often you wake up to tend to them during the night...maybe you should be napping when they're both napping? Are you able to nap during the day, Katherine?
Frances: No, I prefer to be exhausted all the time. ;) Seriously, I can't actually sleep during the day, but I could lay and rest. I should lay and rest more often than I do. Maybe one day I'll finally listen to more experienced moms (and my husband) and just rest. It's so hard when I have such trouble being productive with the kids to lose the only time I can be productive without them.
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful thing when they all nap at once. I used to refuse to work during that time and use it for me instead. Exercise, sew, watch TV...
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