The kids woke up with a vengeance maybe around 8:00. They played loudly for a little bit before Dekker climbed back up onto his megabed and they both went back to sleep. No word of a lie. No one got sad first or anything. They just went back to bed until shortly before 11:00!!! It was pretty insane, actually. To celebrate, Brady made us a delicious brunch of pancakes and bacon, and the kids were thrilled.
Because of the ridiculously long night, we knew they wouldn’t nap well, if at all, and we had come to terms with that. But at or around their normal nap time, Laela was rubbing her eyes and Dekker was picking fights. So they both were tucked away for some quiet time. Laela slept, and Dekker rested quietly for about an hour before they were both up again. It was fine though. Better than we had expected.
We didn’t do much else today. I know we’re a couple of years late, but we finally finished up the dvd series of The Office. It was a really good ending, and we were both really happy at the end 🙂 Lame to be excited about a tv show maybe, but its been a long time coming. So that was a significant highlight from the day.
Also today, we dug through our tub of baby boy clothes to see what we could reuse from Dekker for the new baby. I know its still a little early, but since Dekker was born mid-August and Jim will be born in March, the seasons are pretty opposite, and I wanted to have an idea of what we have that we can use, and what gaps we sort of need to fill. We’ve already bought a few sleepers, since you can never have too many, and a couple of other tiny little things, but from the tub, we got five sleepers, one pair of dressy pants, a sweater, two hoodies, six long sleeved shirts, and two tshirts. It sounds like a lot as I type it out here, but it actually isn’t much, considering how much our children barf. I know every kid is different, but we have rocked two barfers so far and I won’t be surprised if we have a third. That being said, we threw away quite a bit of clothing that we had saved to reuse, that turned out to be incredibly stained. Like, yellow aaaaall down the front and aaaaall the way around the neck. Pretty nasty. But it was fun to dig back into it all and reminisce a little bit, while anticipating the future. Five more weeks until I have my third baby in my arms. Its finally starting to feel like its coming up soon, and not months away. Its pretty much just month away 😉
AND! This next month is really big for us! For us, February is our anniversary (7th), Valentines Day (14th), and this year, we add the one year anniversary of Dekker’s eye surgery!!! Hopefully, among all the celebrating, we’ll find time to paint our house, and potentially get things organized-ish in the way of listing/moving/building/who knows. Its both an exciting and chaotic time, and I’m looking forward to getting the ball rolling!