25 and all grown up

Yesterday was my 25th birthday and I am excited to be 25. I have felt for a while that I am much older than my actual age. Married, two kids, a mortgage, and a dog just makes you feel like a grown up whether your age tells it or not. Although Josh has been teasing both of us (his birthday is the 27th) that we are going to be half way to 50, I prefer to take the glass-half-full approach.

I'll go ahead and warn you now this post is going to be very long because for once Delores is asleep, Lydia has been fed and is asleep in her swing and I have a little free time while the internet is actually working. We switched to AT&T and the internet has been on the fritz off and on for about a week.

This week went pretty well. I made it most all week by myself without help with the babies and I didn't freak out. My mom came yesterday for a few hours. There was one day that I shut down and by the time Josh got home I was ready to run out the door. He knows when I'm like this to take Delores off my hands and let me chill for a little while without talking to me. Otherwise he takes a chance of getting his head bitten off. After about 20 minutes I calm down and can be civil again. I am pretty proud of myself. While I was pregnant it was hard for me to be in mommy mode, but now that Lydia is here it has kicked in again and I actually wake up wanting to take care of my kids. It's been 10 months since I felt that way.

Delores has still been doing very well with sleeping through the night. Her days have kind of been thrown off for some reason. I don't know if it's because the time is about to change or what but she has been waking up later and later and going to bed later and later. Also she has been weaning out her second nap. When I can get her to take it sometimes it isn't until 4:00 or 4:30, which I don't like doing. I would just let it slide, but her first nap isn't changing. I figured when she would switch to one nap that she would be up longer in the morning and sleep longer during her nap, but she isn't. She is taking a nap 3 hours after she wakes up and only sleeping for an hour. We will see what happens after we switch our clocks but I'm thinking we will probably have to just cut out the second nap and move bedtime back up to compensate for the second nap.

Lydia is good I guess. She's a newborn and doesn't do much so I can't say much for her. The only thing consistent with her is that she eats every 3 hours during the day and fights sleep fiercely when she gets tired. That will change I hope. I don't need two bad sleepers on my hands. She is a good eater, which I am thankful for. Delores is a difficult eater and always has been. She spit up every time she ate until she was almost 9 months old and was underweight and behind by about 3 months on the growth chart. She still is. That is something that just doesn't change when you go that long with hardly keeping anything in your stomach. Lydia has spit up maybe once when my milk first came in because she just ate too much. Other than that she is terrific when it comes to eating. I think she may weigh about 10 pounds now. She is already in 0-3 month clothes which is a big difference from Delores who was in newborn clothes until she was 1 month old.

I am doing good. Beside actually wanting to be a mom again, I am just overall pleased with my life and myself. I have several things I am looking forward to and several things I am proud of. I'm excited about getting Lydia's nursery together. We have all the furniture, the room has been painted, the curtains are up, and it's coming together. I still have to go shopping for all the extra stuff and put the furniture together, but we are getting there. I also am going to start sewing diapers next week for Lydia and Delores. I am just waiting for the rest of my supplies to arrive. I'm anxious to get Lydia in cloth. I'm hoping that by the time she is one month old she will be wearing only cloth diapers and I can forget about sposies. I am also stoked that freezer stash of breast milk is growing quickly. Josh and I figured out last night that right now I have over a gallon of breast milk frozen and she's only 3 weeks old. By tomorrow morning I should have 300 oz stashed in the freezer. My baby will be on breast milk as long as I can possibly keep it going. The other thing i'm proud about is that I am about 9 pounds away from my pre-pregnancy weight. I'm not doing anything special. I'm just breastfeeding and the pounds are coming right off. Just like it did last time, only this time it is happening a whole lot faster. Mainly because I didn't gain that much in the first place.

So today I am going to try to work on my projects. Go shopping and clean a little. Josh's mom is coming to get Delores today so it will be just me and Lydia for a while. If she takes good naps and doesn't fight for an hour and a half like she has been then maybe I'll be able to get a good bit of stuff done.

So have a good Saturday everyone!

Oh and I would like to say congratulations to my friends Leigh and Ben on their engagement and to Katy on the birth of her daughter, Charlea.