I spoke too soon

My last post was about how things were getting easier.  At that point, I was getting sleep and I felt like a brand new person.  I felt like I could tackle the world.  Since then, Davin has become a monster at night and I'm about to snap.  I just need sleep (although, finally last night was a little bit better).

Mara, on the other hand, has slept through the night for four nights.  No bottles and no soother!!!!  If there was ever a favourite, it's Mara right now.

While Davin's going through this brutal stage, I kept saying to Derrick that we have great babies (who aren't really little babies anymore), well that meant that they had to prove me wrong the last few days.  Usually, during the day they are happy as can be, but the last few days, not so much.  Not nearly enough sleep, paired with fussy kids during the day = one grumpy mom.

At one point, Jayna peed her pants on the stairs on her way up to the bathroom and I snapped.  I proceeded to yell, "What did I ever do to deserve this?"  As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I felt horrible.  Derrick and I are so fortunate to have three healthy and pretty happy children.

I know that I'm in a bit of a "funk" right now and it will pass.  I haven't felt like doing anything around the house lately, which in turn just makes things worse because there's so much to do.  I haven't been overly nice to Derrick, but I keep telling him we'll get through this and things will get better.  We have survived the craziest six months of our lives, I know we can make it through anything.

Last week didn't help all this as Derrick was in the emergency room on father's day and we found out he has a Hiatus Hernia.  Everything's fine, it just means there are some follow up appointments, medication, and trying to figure out how to control it so that his throat doesn't swell up again.  We also found out that Davin needs surgery in December.  He has what's called Hypospadius.  This means that what should be the urethral opening is actually just a pit and he actually has another hole a little lower down, which is functional.  I once again felt like a great mother when I found out that he had another hole that we didn't know about.  It's very small, but now it's glaringly obvious.  It's a common procedure, but no mother likes to have their child have surgery.  We will tackle that in December.

On a happy note, another milestone has happened.....the babies are officially sitters!!!  Here are a couple of pictures of them sitting in restaurant high chairs for the first time yesterday

I'm feeling like today will be a better day and maybe it's the end of the funk.  Hopefully Davin allows me to sleep a bit more and that will help.  Right now, Mara and Davin are being super cute in their high chairs right now....looking all lovingly at each other and holding hands!