I’m alive
Yea, I know. Its been a long time since I updated. One thing after another and then I got out of the habit. So here I am.
Jim is gone for training. My first trial of having him totally gone with two kids. He’s been away training a lot but not REALLY gone, just 18-20 hour days gone. We’re on Day 5 and doing pretty good.
Elizabeth woke up vomitting last night. She threw up a couple times and then slept for five hours. I thought she was better this morning but, a couple hours after she woke up, she started again. Sick as in just lying on the couch sick. My child NEVER just sits still. So when she does, its bad. She’s sound asleep right now. And to make matters worse, I had to tell her that we couldn’t go across the street to the food court playground today. We go over there most days now. Its close and there are usually other mamas there with husbands deployed/away. So its adult conversation. Some days I wish it was outside but now that its pretty warm, I’m glad it isn’t!!
Guess how her sleep is going….a week ago Friday, she slept THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!! (Of course, Ben made up for it and was up WAY more than usual.) She hasn’t done it since but I now have HOPE. She’s been asking to fall asleep on her own too! We let her have a toy in her bed with the lights out and she’s usually out in about 20 minutes. Six months ago it could easily take 2-3 hours to get her asleep. From the moment we go upstairs until I can hear her snoring is almost always under 45 minutes now and usually under 30 minutes!
Ben is four months tomorrow. And I think he’s teething. Elizabeth was such a crier that I never really had any idea if she was crying b/c of teething pain or crying b/c she was a crier. But the last few days Ben has cried and cried so much, especially as he’s trying to go to sleep. He keeps putting his hand in his mouth as he’s crying, which is what makes me suspect teething. I thought he was doing it in a “trying to such his hand” way but now I’m not so sure. Whatever is making him cry, he is definitely MAD about it!! He is so NOT a crier, its almost harder to hear him scream than it was with Elizabeth.
I’ve been doing more to get involved on base. Unfortunately, everything is now on summer break! We’ve had something to do most days and it has been SO nice. Its reminded me how much better I do when we consistently have plans. So I want to work on finding more to do this summer while I wait for things to start back up. We have a women’s evening Bible study that just started at my church and that takes me through July, I believe. Its a Beth Moore study and I know it’ll be great. (I need to go work on it while the kids are asleep, actually!)
On that note, I think I’ll go work on the study while I can.