She slept through the night!

I almost forgot how much I like sleeping through the night.  I thought that I wouldn't have to start not sleeping all night once the new baby came in December but Yana decided to remind me over the last week or so.  She wouldn't take naps and then at night we would have to put her back in bed multiple times before she fell asleep and then she would get up at least once sometimes three times each night.  WHY?  I couldn't figure it out.  It didn't make sense.  She wasn't afraid of anything.  She seemed wide awake.  She has been cranky during the day for the last week or so because of the lack of sleep.

Well last night I decided to try giving her some children's aspirin.  Now before you think I just drugged her to get her to sleep let me explain.  She has one tooth that just broke the skin, one just about to brake the skin and two more moving up.  She doesn't act like they bother her during the day but I can imagine that lying there at night with nothing to keep her occupied might have her noticing that it hurts.  So I gave her the recommended dose and put her down.  She got up once before I even made it downstairs but then slept all night.  I think I found the reason for the not very restful nights.

So needless to say "She slept through the night!"

Fun at the park!

 This morning after practicing for school to see how long it would take we went for a bike ride/run to the park.  We took the long way around the subdivision.  Sarah is getting so much better at going up and down driveways and curbs.  I took the camera today because I wished I had the last time we went.  It was fun.  Sarah loves to pose for pictures.  Yana used to but lately she would rather not hold still that long.

 She was looking at me but got distracted at the last second.

 She loves to swing but lately I can hardly convince her to swing in the toddler swings.

 She is turning into such a little monkey.  She climbs everything at the park including the stuff she shouldn't.

Sarah struggled climbing up this slide for a long time but Yana doesn't seem to struggle as much.  Maybe because Sarah helps her whether she wants the help or not.  The problem is that once she is on the top I have to go get her because she wont sit down and go down the slide.  I think it is a game to her.  Well

Going for a hike

For starts this first picture is of my girls.  Yana loves to sit in Sarah's doll stroller and Sarah pushes her around the house.  It was just too cute to pass up a picture opportunity.

 Ok on to today's activities.  This morning after breakfast we drove to Tulsa's Oxley Nature Center and went hiking.  I didn't know if I could take a stroller so I took our child back pack for Yana.

 Here is Yana in the back pack on one of the trials.

 I realize that you can't see what she is pointed at but there is a caterpillar right there.  That plant is covered caterpillars.

 A caterpillar

 We took this picture going up the ramp to the observation building.  Isn't it pretty.

 We had just started on our hike coming out the other end of the observation building.

 This is my first attempt at a picture of Yana

Out walking around.  We walked probably less than a mile today but it was fun to be in the "woods"  There were tracks of different animals in the muddy part of the paths.  Sarah even got to feed some of the turtles and fish before we left.  It was a lot of fun and we will definitely be going back again and a again.  It is pretty and enjoyable.

Such a big girl

My children are continually amazing me.  My husband and I just finished making another bed so Yana who is now 15 months old would have a bed to move into.  We turned them into bunk beds.  Sarah loves her bed.  She loves the ladder she gets to climb every day and the fact that she is just on the top bunk is just too cool.

Yana even loves being on the top bunk.  Scary enough she can actually climb the ladder.  She doesn't, however, know how to get back down.  She runs back and forth trying to give us a heart attack.

Well, we decided two nights ago to see if we could get her to sleep in her new bed on the bottom bunk.  Sarah was 18 months old when we trained her in one weekend in a hotel because we got tired of not sleeping because she was sharing a bed with us.  My husband lay down with her until she feel asleep and then left the room.  It took about a half an hour.   She was still in her bed at 8 in the morning when I went in to get them up.  It was awesome.

So yesterday I tried to get her to take her nap in the bed.  Ya, not so good.  She kept climbing off the bed and crying so I just put her in her crib.  She slept good.  Last night was a different story.  I lay down with her and an hour later she is still wide awake and has started trying to play.  I lost my patience and left the room.  She started crying and my husband came in to see what was going on.  He told me to go ahead and go for my run and he would lay down with her.  So I did exactly that.  When I got back he was downstairs but he didn't stay til she fell asleep either.  When we checked on them later she was asleep at the foot of the bed but still on the bed.

Now, for the amazing and hopefully not a fluke announcement.....I put her on her bed today for her nap and left the room and she cried a little, crawled around a little, but fell asleep on her bed.  Not at the foot but in the middle, with her bum in the air.  So cute and so awesome.  She is still asleep and I'm loving it.  I hope she is in that bed for good.  Right before we go on vacation.  This will either help us or vacation will hurt her big girl bed training.  We shall see.

Have a great day.

Playing catch up

I was thinking back and realized that I haven't been sharing pictures for a while so I'm playing catch up while I take a break from the days activities.

 Yana loves her big sister's rocking chair.  Well she loves everything Sarah plays with.  She has gotten big enough to climb in the chair and actually tries to rock it.  Big sister wasn't very happy.  This was in the old house.

 Our new house has stairs which have been the cause of nervousness - wondering if Yana was going to end up rolling down them, as well as fun for the girls.  This is another use for the sleeping cushions.  We take them to the top floor and she holds on and slides down them.  She loves this.

 Here is my sewing room after we got all moved in.  Thankfully it doesn't look like this anymore.  It is somewhat organized. 

I still have several things I want to get hung on the walls but for now I'm just glad it doesn't look like this anymore.

I hope you are all having a great day.  I guess I better get back to work if I'm going to get everything done today.

Monday!!!

Hello, everyone.  Man can you believe that the year is almost over?  Yana will turn 1 on Thursday.  Christmas is on Sunday.  We have lived here the longest we have lived anywhere.  1.5 years.  I can hardly believe it.

Well this weekend was really good.  Friday night we had a birthday party for Yana.  We invited a few friends over and had some cake.  I'll be completely honest with you.  I didn't like the look of this cake.  It tasted wonderfully but I wish I would have thought about it ahead of time and spent some time decorating it rather than just throwing it together an hour before the party.

 I was originally going to put rose buds on it but I just couldn't get them to look nice for me so I had to change plans midstream.  I'm sure you noticed that there are 2 names on this cake.  The Sarah on the cake is not my daughter but a friend and her birthday is the same day as Yana's.  I wanted her to know that we didn't forget about her birthday. It was a funfetti cake.

 My husband started out feeding her off of his plate and then we decided that it was only right for her to try on her own.  This was how happy she was.  She is a little poser by the way.

 It is getting more and more messy.  She i showing us her messy hands.  Isn't that nice of her.

Ok well off came the messy shirt....look at that mess.  She was so funny.

It was a lot of fun.  Yana didn't open them.  She had no interest in opening them.  So we let the kids take turns opening them for her.  She liked the stuff she got just didn't want to open them.

Well Saturday was good and busy trying to get gifts for Christmas finished.  Sunday was Sunday.  Sarah had a belly ache most of Saturday and Sunday but this morning seems to be feeling better. 

I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend and are almost ready for Christmas.

Crawling monster!!!!

Yana crawls, she climbs, she grabs, she cries.  She is now 7 months old and into everything already.  It is cute and it hasn't been too bad but I can see trouble coming.

 Isn't she cute.

 Always so happy.

She loves to crawl so much that she doesn't like to spend much time in her bouncer anymore.  Guess it is time to put it up.

Things are going good.  She is growing like a weed.  Just getting over a cold she picked up on vacation.

Have a great day.