Sleeping....

Sleep is a issue in my house. David works at nights and goes to school during the day. He doesn't get home usually until around 1 a.m. and that is about the only time I get to see him. Which if I didn't have 2 morning gals wouldn't be a problem. They get it from their dad. I really don't understand morning people. They annoy me. So what do I do?? I marry one!! Since David is a morning person he looks (and feels) like he never gets enough sleep. Makes sense because he doesn't. I am a night owl. It is very hard for me to go to sleep before 1 a.m. Even when I have had very little sleep the night before. Dylan is my little buddy. Me and him have always got along great on the sleep front. And just to be extra special he was sleeping through the night at like 2 months! Dylan and I both prefer the stay up late and sleep in life-style. Paige loves to get up in the morning. She always comes marching out of her room with a big smile on her face ready to greet the world! She is not fully night trained so every other night I am changing her cloths and bed at 3 a.m. The best sleep issue is being saved for last. 3 guesses who I'm talking about.... Yep that sleepy one in the picture above. She is 6 months old and.... is in training to sleep through the night. She still wakes up every 3 hours thinking something needs to be done. My whole family (except for Joy, she still gets naps!!) is extremely sleep deprived!! Yea! I would nap when the kids do... except Joy is the only one I can put down for a nap. Dylan and Paige both quit the nap thing at 2 years old. If I gave them naps they would stay up late. Paige was never quite as bad as Dylan. Her idea of staying up late was 10 or 11 o'clock at night. I could kinda deal with that, but Dylan would be up 'till 2 or 3 o'clock. That would drive me nuts!! Moma needs a break from the babies some time!!

Exercise!

Ok... So I have know for a while that I could do with a 10 lb. weight loss. (Don't think I'm fat, just want to get closer to my recomended BMI.) Anyway. I have been trying to find a way to go on a daily walk that works with having a 4yr old and 6 mo. old still at home. Paige, Joy, and I have been going on morning walks but it's hard to walk with them. (Joy not so much she's in a stroller, but Paige is on the loose.) The loop I walk should only take me about 30 min. but with the stop and go of a 4yr old it takes me about an hour. And not a real consistent work- out. So I'm still looking for a good walk. I think I found it. All you need is a little white dog that is half chuwawa half alaskan american named: Snowball. I forget how much energy that little dog has!! I just went on a 30 min walk around my neighborhood and she gave me a good work- out. Nice speed and pretty motivating. She was ready to go wherever I went. I'm going to give it a go again tomorrow and see if I will be able to do this with some consistency. Wish me luck!!

Crazy Rules for School

For the last month I have been on a mission to get Paige into the public schools preschool speech program. What an adventure in patience. Paige has been having a hard time telling us what she wants or needs. I took her to testing a month ago and she failed. So they scheduled us to come back a week later. Came back and it was just to fill out paperwork. Scheduled us to come back in another week. They called and rescheduled for a few days later. Went to that testing and she failed one test and passed the other. Now here is where to me it gets really stupid. The speech lady tells me Paige needs speech, but according to the rules she has to fail both tests to get in. So based off the tests taken she can't get in. So she is going to pull another test and see if Paige fails it. If she does she gets in. I don't understand why they have these rules. If a kid needs speech a kid needs speech. I pay my taxes, heck I pay the taxes for the house we live in and we don't even own it. We also participate in all the fundraisers for public schools. I do my part so the schools should be doing theirs. So for now I have to keep trying to decipher and translate Paige's crazy words and hope I get it right the first couple of times I make her repeat herself so we don't have any melt downs. I don't think I have ever prayed for one of my kids to ever FAIL a test, but in this case it needs to happen!! Wish us luck!!