time changing baby bonkers

Kids have gone bonkers since the time change. They eat at a different time, sleep at wacky hours. They are knackered when they get up. Very odd.  Not complaining about the later start to the day tho. Hell no.

Pip has changed again. He is not as unfathomable. He laughs and interacts much more. He is still my cuddle bug but likes to play with Mimi as much as possible. I am less worried by the day to be honest. He's just a passionate little guy, thats all.

We are starting to pack for the UK. I am very excited about taking these guys on a trip. If we can get the plane thing licked you won't see us for dust!!

OK. Crap day ahead so I am going to meditate with my (forbidden) Star$ for a moment longer before all hell breaks out.

Hi y'all, what's going with you??

time changes

I think its time to quit breastfeeding. They usually get shot in the morning and one at night. Yet lately I've not been into it, always finding a reason to dump. Mostly good reasons - sleeping pills, cold medication etc.

There seems to be globs of guilt about this decision. Will my kids get cold after cold, ear infections etc? What about my pledge to keep going for one year.

Part of the reasoning is work. I have about 20 flights in 10 days. Even if I did pump we wouldn't be in the same time zone! When home I have to give it a few days coz of the 'what day/city/time is it?'  sleeping pills.

I guess with work ramping up, the kids learning to be more animated and more active and the crappy body issues currently occupying my time I seem to be overwhelmed. Pip still worries me although I am relieved to report that between the nanny and I we have got the little chap to take weight on his legs.  His behavior is still odd. Maybe not for a baby?! He makes really loud screeching/yelling noises occasionally. Tell me to chill out and stop being so stupid.

Thank you to those folks that posted - it was really helpful.


Oh and on the amazing but true side: on Friday I had a the beginnings of a really heavy cold. I took Zica.m as directed, a ton of vit C and some night medication and woke up on Saturday symptom free!! Seriously - that stuff is like magic.

Dare I ask the question...?

Got in at 2am last night from San Francisco. I woke up sneezing and now I have a full fledged cold thanks to  American 'we are a petri dish' Airlines. I actually didn't realize at first because we were watching the awful aftermath of the earth quake. Orders of magnitude and all that.

Oh how lovely to see my little ones again. To hold and cuddle them. To feed and bathe them. To be their mom.  I really hope they don't get sick from me but I just couldn't help swooping them up at every opportunity.  I am so grateful to our nanny for being such a terrific care taker. I just couldn't have managed today without her.

I have a question for you all. Just writing this question seems really hard. I can't help notice how different the kids are from each other. Mimi I understand. She is a baby with baby responses. Pip is much more demanding, emotional and physically jerky. His feet are in second position still and he refuses to stand, or at least brace. OK I am clearly freaking out. Any ideas out there. I'm not (just) looking for the good news, if you know what I mean.

Now I am going to bed with some cold medicine.

Today travel

New York to Dallas
3 hour meeting
Dallas to LA

Pooped and I miss my kids.
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It'll make you pee your pants

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Saturday folks. HOT DAMN I love this day. DH is off work. We get the kids all day together which is lovely. And today I have a sectional rehearsal with the extremely talented choral director. He is amazing but being in such a small group is a bit nerve racking!!

I never endorse products (except Puj Tub) but I have to mentioned Baby Einstein. The guys have loved Beethoven since they were 4 months old but this morning they were like - ah seen it (a few hundred times) so I put on the first moves DVD. They love it. I love it. They are literally laughing up a storm!!
Our routine looks like this
5am - medicine
5.15 feeding (milk)
5.30 Baby Einstein
6.30 food (mush)
6.45 Exersaucers
(7am clean up puke on Exersaucers)
7.15 bath and nap.

How else could I possibly want to spend my morning :)

And finally - laughs for all. I defy you to try and not laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hooid1LJ9Kc

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Well, how is my anxiety. Not good. And good. Money money money worries. However, lots of travel coming up which is always... wait I hate business travel. Mind you, ice cream in bed.
OK, here is good thing:  vacation coming up. Going to the UK in April. Green rolling hills, real tea, family, mum's curry's.

Yeah, swings and round abouts.

Trying to get my DH another job before he gets fired.
Trying to get to the gym before I become a reality tv show star.
Trying to work out how to afford to ... live!
Trying to win the freakin' lottery.

And to top it off I lost a follower. Booohooo. I love seeing the follower list grow, not diminish. Please, make my day, sign up. 

anxiety and bad mojo

I got the above, anxiety and what I can only describe as bad mojo feeling. I have had to spend way to much time with evil bitch at work and her cronies of hell and I am just totally icked out. At least I escape to one of my favorite cities in the US - Washington DC.


I keep dreaming of winning the lottery and all the things we could do. I would still start the play group/ nursery (thinking of calling it Little Berries and all the classes would be a fruit ... still makes me laugh) but it would be a meritocracy not based on financial ability and we'd hire really imaginative caretakers to run them.

Then I would start a nursery school called Love Lane Primary Education  (that was the name of my first school and I can't think of a better name). LLPE (see, its already an acronym) would be an arts school but that concentrates on different cultures to promote peaceful global citizenship. You know what, lets make that a k-12 school (Love Lane Educational Institute) . And while we are at it we can write a couple of undergrad courses on peace through the arts for universities.

Yeah.

Sounds good.