Jacelyn's Big Girl Bed

Jacelyn has been in her "big girl bed" for about 5 weeks now. She had a little trouble the first few nights. She would just scream and scream. We quickly realized that she was scared of the baby gate being at her doorway. She did good for a little while after that. Recently, she has started getting out of bed just moments after putting her down. She has also started with the excuses. The most common are "I pee pee hard" (translated to "I need to pee"), "My arm hurts", or "I hold you". Usually, she either doesn't need to pee or she's barely wet her diaper. In a normal day she doesn't give a dang whether her diaper is wet or not. I have no idea where the arm hurting excuse came from. When she says "I hold you" it means that she wants to hang out in the living room with me watching tv until I force her to get back in bed. Most of the time when I finally get her down, she stays put until morning.

This weekend was totally different. Saturday morning I woke up to her sleeping in the little sliver of space between my side of the bed and the wall. Seriously, this space is about a foot wide, just to fit my tiny side table. I have no idea how long she had been there. I woke up to her rolling over and hitting her head on the wall. I picked her up and put her in bed with us. She wanted to play and it was still very early so I turned on cartoons. She laid at the end of the bed for about 5 minutes before big sis Carlie decided to wake up. It was barely dawn.

Very late Saturday night she came walking into my room diaper less saying she went potty all by herself. Of course there was no pee pee in the potty when I checked it. Last night (Sunday night) it took me over 2 hours to get her to her bed and asleep. Sometime throughout the night, she must have made her way to my room yet again and climbed in bed with me. She was there passed out when I woke up around 2:34am. I just picked her up and put her back into her bed where she remained until morning. Who knows what tonight will bring.....I pray that it brings sleep for this deprived mommy!

Updating

I'm so sorry that I haven't been around in a while. I've had a lot going on. Thankfully, while other companies in my field are having to shorten days or close completely, we are booming. Also, both of my little sisters found out within a week of eachother that they were expecting. Sadly, they both also miscarried within days of eachother. My youngest sister had a blighted ovum and we are assuming that my second to youngest just had a typical miscarriage. They both took it pretty hard but seem to be dealing a little better now. My second to youngest sister is already planning on TTC again as soon as she gets the go ahead from the doctor.

On a good note. I got a new car! Yay me! This is big news for me because I've never had a *NEW* car. When I turned 16, I bought a used car that was one year old. Two weeks later I totalled it. Never even made a payment on it. When I was almost 18, my dad gave me his old car. It was about 4-5 years old. When I was 21, I officially BOUGHT and paid for my first car. It was 8 years old. I finally have a NEW CAR, smell and all! It's a 2008 Chevy Cobalt. It's a simple, cute little car. Nothing fancy, just what I need to cart two little monsters around. I still haven't taken pictures but I'll add them as soon as I do.

I guess I should update on the girls too. haha. Jacelyn is talking SO MUCH. She's saying detailed sentence now. I hit her on the top of the head with a balloon this weekend and she pointed her finger at me and told me "Mommy go time out, NO HIT!" She gave me a lashing for "hitting" her. It was so funny! I wish I could have gotten it on video. Carlie is FINALLY starting to learn that there are consequences to her actions and behavior. Just this morning she threw her play phone on the ground because the batteries were dead. She was so mad and started back talking and having an attitude. I explained to her that we don't throw things when we are mad and that her attitude wasn't acceptable. On the way to school, she said that she was very sorry for how she acted and that she loved me very much. Progress!!!

Ricks family has been in town the last few days. His great aunt from California that he's never met flew in for a visit. His grandmother and uncle also came in from Alabama to see her. She is a very sweet, cute little lady and I'm glad I got the chance to meet her.

I guess that's about it for updating right now. I will try to start posting more frequently as soon as things calm down a bit.