Mommy's Girl

Its been a LONG couple of weeks for Mommy! Not only has Lydia cut another molar (bottom, right - more on that later!), but she's also been sick since her birthday. She's had so much snot that even if she can go to sleep, she doesn't stay that way. If I leave her to cry, then she just gets even more snotty, so I've just been letting her sleep propped up with me. Thankfully, once she's settled more upright, she's been sleeping through the night. She's even been making it until wake-up (7am) without wanting to eat. Up until now she's been wanting milk around 5 am and then going back to sleep. She's a Mommy's Girl to begin with, but add teething pain, over-tiredness, and illness and she pretty much wants to be physically attached to me at all times.

When she isn't insisting to be within half an inch of my face, she's been finding other fun things to do, such as getting her hands on Jacob's sucker...

And pulling all the Kleenexes out of their box and taking a humidifier apart while I was dealing with a poop-tastrophe (thanks, Jacob) in the bathroom.

She had her 12 month well-baby check 2 Thursdays ago. The good news is she got a great health report. The bad news is she had a bad reaction to the flu vaccine, which was very scary. She woke up during the night shaking uncontrollably. It lasted for the longest 10 minutes ever. Our peditrician checked with the Vaccine Registry, and learned that that shaking has been a commonly reported side effect with this year's vaccine. I'm not sure we'll take her to get the booster next month.

I have been desperate to get out of the house and have some adult company, so a couple of Fridays ago we went out to eat with Meme and Daddy. Jacob didn't nap that afternoon and fell asleep on the way home. I can probably count on one hand the number of times he's fallen asleep in the car, so I had to document it! :)

And to finish out last week, I finally tackled a HUGE project I've been thinking about doing for a while now. The kids have so many toys! In some ways they've taken over our house, so I decided to do a huge purge/organization overhaul of every toy and book in our house.

First I gathered all the toys and books in the living room. I went through each item and decided whether or not to toss it, donate it, or keep it.

Then I took all the "keeps" and organized them by likeness. After that was done, I sorted the toys into 4 separate bins. Each bin has a few items from each category.

The plan is to pull one bin out at a time. So the kids still have all the toys and books they love, but they're just not in every crevice of our house now. The idea is that getting a new bin out will be exciting and fun, because there will be "new" toys to play with and books to read. Right now it seems like so many of their books and toys get overlooked because there's just too much out at once. We'll see how it goes! Of course some things like the play kitchen, train table, and Legos will stay out all the time. I'm sure we'll have to adjust some things as we go, but I'm so excited about having less toy clutter covering the floors! I'm also looking forward to a faster clean up at the end of each day!

So yay for actually completing a project!