12/17/10 – Schedule, What Schedule?

So, at least when I’m home, I’ve had the girls on a pretty decent schedule for a while now. Usually Olivia gets up before Amelia, we hang out and eat, and then Amelia joins us for a while. Then, they both take a nice long nap at the same time and I can actually get some stuff done. That does NOT seem to be the case any longer. Amelia has decided she needs to wake up for the day nice and early now too. And, then refuses to take a REAL nap. I’m hoping this is just a phase…maybe the 4 month sleep regression hitting a little late mixed with the swaddle weaning. I liked having a schedule…

So, not much was accomplished today. I managed to wash the dishes and clean up the kitchen while the girls played. Amelia has to be in her jumper or in her chair now if left unattended because she rolls herself all over the place.

Once Christian got home, he quickly showered and got ready because we went out tonight! YAY. Tonight was our friend Skaar’s 30th birthday celebration (rescheduled from last weeks thanks to the blizzard of the century). My mom came over to watch the girls, our other friend Gini kindly chauffeured us to the casino and we had a blast. Unfortunately, my mom had a pretty rough start to the evening. Amelia wouldn’t stop crying when we left, Olivia was acting a fool, like usual, hit her face on the table and gave herself a nice cut, swollen and very black and blue eye, and the dog escaped from the house. CHAOS…our house is CHAOS. Well, everything finally calmed down for her, thank goodness. It does bum me out to think that all of Olivia’s Christmas and birthday pictures are going to have this big black eye in them though…BUT, it could have been much worse I’m sure, so I’ll just be grateful for that!

Here's a picture of me, Skaar and Gini...I miss hanging out with these girls!