It's Getting Harder

So it's a MIRACLE that I actually have more than 1 minute to sit here and blog. Seriously. When we first brought Ian home, he seemed to sleep a lot. Not really the case any longer. Guess that is what happens as they become more and more alert. Right now I'm in that phase of "problem solving," constantly trying to discern what each cry means. Tricky, to say the least.

I'm also one blink away from getting rid of my dogs. Right now one of them is whining at me like he wants something but he has food and water--so ya got me. And I am done getting up out of this chair after the crazy day I have had. Anyways..

It seems Ian is fairly gassy from time to time. Those cries sound painful to me and his tummy will get all tight and hard. Plus he either eventually toots or poos (haha), so I get it. I just am not sure what's causing it, or if there is anything I can do to fix it. There's no rhyme or reason to it at all. ARgh. And who likes to hear their baby cry? Yeah, me either. So anyways, it's been a bit challenging. And today was tough. Reuben has some kind of crappy chest congestion/cough and felt terrible today. So starting like midnight last night, he basically set up "sick camp" in the basement so he wouldn't cough his germs on any of us. He slept MOST of the day today, too. We barely saw him! I hope the rest did him some good, bc both he and I have been functioning on probably 6 hours or less (per night) of broken sleep for the past 3 weeks. It starts to take its toll on a person. Work for him has also been pretty busy & stressful, so he'll come home at like 5pm, eat dinner, then disappear upstairs to do layouts till like 10 or 11pm. ARGH!!!! We both hate it. At least he has a job. I keep telling myself that.

Anyways, I'm getting sidetracked. So back to today--man, it was a long one. It seemed that no matter what time of the day it was either Jase needed me for something or Ian did. As soon as I'd feed the baby and put him down, I'd try to walk into the kitchen and he'd start crying. The kind of crying that basically won't stop until I either pick him up or feed him. So at one point I just gave up trying to clean ANYTHING (I should post a picture of what my house looks like right now--yikes) and just sat with him on the couch. Of course this is while Jase was getting into lots of naughty things. Climbing into the fridge, drawing on the table with a pen, pushing buttons on my laptop, throwing toys all over the house, sticking the toilet plunger into the toilet (eew), etc etc. He did have a few entertained moments throughout the day--I successfully got him to play with his playdoh and also his watercolors for a while...and I think he watched "The Incredibles" about 5 times. I have it memorized by now :)

Anyways, it's 10:35pm and I have never been MORE thankful for silence in my life. I just needed to vent a bit and have some "me" time. I'm glad everyday is not this challenging! Makes ya appreciate the good days!!!!! I was even able to FINALLY shower with Jase at about 9:30pm tonight. Poor Jase is completely on Ian's schedule now...he's up way too late and sleeps late in the morning. But I guess for now it'll have to do bc that is the only way I can catch an extra hour or two of sleep.

Well, I better log off. I need to feed the little eating machine and then get us both to bed ASAP. I need all the Z's I can get!