Apr 11
I don't know about this getting up with Eli business....I know I need to get back into the habit of it, but man...my body and everything else is telling me I should have stayed in bed a bit longer.
Martyn really cracks me up though. He protests getting up so early, only for a few minutes, then he's just happy and super bright eyed. What a cutie! He makes it worth it....I imagine next week when I'm suffering at work, and totally engorged because I haven't been able to nurse my baby every couple hours, and have to pump on my lunch break (or more) and super tired just from dealing with work stuff again, that I'll think about my boy and realize it's all worth it because I'm doing it for him.
I didn't last very long this morning. Martyn was ready for a nap about 7:30 or 8 maybe, and I just let him fall asleep on my chest, and laid the recliner back and took a nap with him until 11:30. I felt much better after that. Well, much better is a relative term. Much better in that I got more sleep, but not much better over all..still had a huge snot bubble head. I hate that feeling. It's like a medicine high, with out the helpful part. Just all fuzzy and spacey. Poor Martyn is still all stuffed up too....it doesn't seem to be bothering him that much though, he just sounds terrible once in a while.
We got in the mail today, this nifty little play mat for Martyn. It has a little pillow that he can lay on his back or on his tummy. If on his tummy, in front of him has several fun things to look at and touch. The whole thing also has a measuring ruler on it. It was from Auntie Barb.
I put him on it right away on his tummy, and he liked it ok for a bit. As usual, he got frustrated and started fussing, so I turned him over on his back and he just smiled and laughed (not quite a giggle yet, but it's coming) and kicked his little legs while I talked to him. I grabbed one leg and stretched him out to see how long he is, and according to that thing, he's 24 inches long! Such a big boy, two whole feet already! I had fun with that...that was the best part of the day.
I didn't do a whole lot today. I got the dishes done and the towels folded and made tacos for dinner. I had texted Eli to get some stuff for tacos on the way home from work but he didn't get the text until he got home. So he went back out to the store for me, what a wonderful husband! Even though he was super tired. I sure do love him. When he got back, I was feeling bad for not having taken the dog out for a walk when the weather was good during the day. I just didn't have the energy to pack the kid up in the stroller and take them both out. But I decided to take Sheba up to the park, if Eli would take care of Martyn, whom I had just fed so he wouldn't be needing that.
So Sheba and I went up to the park, but there were a lot of people and a couple people with dogs so I was only able to let her off the leash for a few minutes. She has lost her good recall, mostly because we haven't been working with her for a while like we should have been. So when I got attention and she came to me, I put her back on the leash before she noticed the other dogs and ran over to them.
I decided we would go up the street and back, I wasn't feeling like going very far. I let her off the leash on the way back and she did great until we got to our next door neighbor's house, and then she bolted off into his back yard (he doesn't have a fence) and wouldn't come to me. She just wanted to play, and every time I approached her, she would run away. I was getting really frustrated, especially when I was standing to the side of our house, near our bedroom window and I could hear Martyn screaming his head off. Finally, I just got fed up and went in the house, took the baby from Eli, and sent him out to get her.
He said Martyn started in on his screaming right after I left with the dog and he spent the whole time (about a half hour) trying to calm him down, and he just calmed right before I walked in the door.
It took Eli about another 15 to 20 min to corral Sheba...by then he was pretty frustrated too. We decided we have to start over with her since we've slacked so much in the last few months...she just can't be off the leash any more until her recall is back up to where it used to be, or better. At the dog park, and in the woods (Forrest Park) are the only places she can be off the leash now....which is lame, but it's what we have to do. Also, we HAVE to get back into the habit of talking her for at least a 30 min walk every day. Poor girl, I feel so bad about the way we've kind of neglected her. She's such a good dog.
Martyn was pretty much toast after that, and just ready for bed. So I put him in these nifty little pj's that Grammie gave him....they are closed on the bottom, so they keep him extra warm and he can rub his little feet together, which is good for him. He calmed right down in that little baby night gown. He went to sleep pretty easily too....it only took me about 15 minutes, as opposed to the normal 30 to 45 minutes it sometimes takes to get him to go to sleep.
I decided once he was asleep to do a steam pot because I was just super stuffed up and feeling awful. I like how when you hold your head over the steam pot with a towel over it, that it makes your lips sweat and you can almost feel the steam fill your mouth up when you breath in. I think it helped. At the very least it relaxed me a whole lot.
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