Catching up

Another week gone by and I haven’t posted much.  Don’t know if I’ve blogged about it but Keren has been waking up at 5:00 am every morning and the kids have been taking her out and taking her downstairs to watch tv.  I didn’t realize just how early she was waking up until I heard them either Thursday or Friday morning.  I came down and asked them what time they had been up from and they didn’t know.  I asked them if it was still dark out and they said yes!!  So we have a new rule now that the kids have to come get me if they hear her first and I’ll take her into my bed with me and they have to go back to sleep.  I kind of told them that if it’s still dark it’s still the middle of the night and they must go back to sleep!!  On top of that she’s been napping for a whole wopping 40 minutes a day. I don’t know why she hasn’t been a complete disaster.  She should be but she’s still delicious!

So let me go on to Shabbat b/c I have no idea what we did last week.  Who can remember that far back.  I know Eric left and then it was just us but I can’t remember what happened.  I guess nothing of interest.  Usual day-to-day stuff.

Friday morning, after a sleepless morning, I was dead and Keren was pretty tired too.  We fell asleep on the couch together watching The Wiggles.  I woke up and quickly fed her and put her into her crib and watched the season finale of American Idol. 

The kids came home and they were in great moods b/c we were going to my grandparents’ house for Shabbat.  I was a nervous wreck thinking that Keren was going to be up at 5 and who knew if she was going to sleep at all, etc.  So the kids were really happy to be going and just in great moods. We packed up and they took baths and we left a little before 4.  Usually, Friday is a really long day if we don’t go to the pool or anything but the kids were so happy to be going that they were happy to just hang out and get ready.  Keren, from 8 am on told me “I’m Ready!”  I asked her what she was ready for and she told me “to go to Savta’s house!”  I had to hold her off all day long.  So cute.

Anyway, we got there and the kids watched tv and then ate dinner and then watched more tv.  We lit candles and they walked my grandfather downstairs to shul with my grandmother and then I put them all to sleep.  It took some time to settle Talia and Ben in.  There was some fighting and just the usual coming out of bed to get a book stuff, etc.  My grandmother pushed 2 beds together and put huge pillows that she has for her couch between the 2 beds to kind of make it like a little crib kind of effect. Keren loved it and she got into bed and went to sleep without coming out once!!  I was in shock.  Now, more than ever, I really think that she is ready to go into a bed.  She won’t do it at home.  I think we might just do it this summer when we are away.  We’ll see.

Oh, this is a good one, as I was getting into bed and about to close the door a huge juke ran behind the bed!!  My grandmother came in to tell me something and I told her so she ran and got the spray and it came out of it’s hiding place but then ran into a closet and then just when I thought I would forget about it, my grandmother came in and told me that she had one in her room running to her closet and she killed it.  She was convinced it was the same one. I was not so sure.  I didn’t see it again, though.

The rest of Shabbat was great.  In the morning the kids ran up and down to and from the little shul that’s across the street from my grandparents’ house.  Keren stayed with me until I let Talia take her down just before shul was over.  We played a bit and then ate lunch and then Keren and I took a nap while Ben and Talia played at my Aunt Suzie’s house.

In the evening we gave them dinner and then met my cousins at the park.  We didn’t come home until Shabbat was close to over.  The kids fell asleep in the car on the way home after about 10 minutes.  They were so exhausted. 

This morning Keren was up at 4:55 but I grabbed her before anyone else could be woken up.   I brought her into my bed and, as I expected, she went right back to sleep.  Of course it wasn’t the most comfortable 2 hours for me b/c she insists on sleeping on me or at least touching me in some way.  Then, of course, she winds up sideways and I am smushed into the crack of the bed.  It is no use going into Eric’s bed b/c she would follow me.  It happens to be delicious but at the same time I just want to sleep without my arm or leg going numb.

I wasn’t feeling so great today.  I little dizzy and kind of sluggish.  In the morning Keren and I hung out at home for a while and then I took her to the park in the hopes of meeting up with her little friends that we’ve been seeing there lately.  It turned out that they weren’t there but there was another playgroup there with 4 other kids.  So she was happy enough to join in while I schmoozed with the mom of one of the kids.

Keren surprised me and took a 1.5 hour nap today!!!  I have a theory.  I think it’s because she slept better in the morning that she slept better in the afternoon.  We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

When the kids came home from school today I let them relax and watch some tv while I finished the 1000 piece puzzle that Lois bought us for Chanukah.  We went to the park a little later on after it cooled off a bit.  I took them to a smaller park where I wouldn’t have to run around.  It was great!!  They had friends there to play with (by chance) and everyone was happy!!

At 5:30 we came home and ate  a quick dinner and then I took the kids over to the doctor to look at a funny thing that Ben has had under his eye for quite some time now.  We thought it was a sty but it’s not going away.  So next we go to an eye doctor to look at it since the doctor didn’t know what it was.

When we came home the kids had a second dinner since their first one was kind of rushed and then they took showers and went to sleep.

SO, it isn’t quite the holiday weekend that Eric is having in Florida but we are having some fun here too!