I'm not sure I can catch up! Life is going so fast and I don't seem to have a chance to sit down and reflect on it all. :) Christmas, as expected, was pretty crazy. What we didn't expect was to all be sick. After Levi started getting better the rest of us started getting sick. Christmas Day we spent most of the day at home as a family, and the boys had fun opening their presents. That evening we went to my parent's to hang out for a bit. The next day in the morning was my niece's birthday party - fun to have a breakfast party! Just Levi and I went to the extended Steenwyk party that evening. Thursday evening, against our better judgement, we all went to the extended Krol party, but made a quick exit after supper. Friday night we rallied and all made it to my family's party at my parent's house. We weren't feeling great, but were starting to get better enough to enjoy it. Other members of my family were getting sick as well, but thankfully we just went ahead with the party and were all able to be there (we considered rescheduling a couple days out, but by then other people were sick, so it wouldn't have been any better!). Saturday we made it to Mike's family's party. Phew! That was it for "official" Christmas parties, but since both Mike and I had siblings in from out of town we did extra stuff to spend time with them. Sunday we went for dinner to my parents, Monday morning Mike played ping pong with his brothers, and Monday night we got together with my family again. It was definitely a challenge handling the kids at these parties, but not TERRIBLE (until Monday night that is...). We struggled with some bad attitudes and the like here and there, and Levi still needs an evening nap but doesn't do well napping different places, but otherwise it all went okay. Monday night, though, is when we hit our limit. We had a few discipline issues and then ended up leaving my parent's with Caleb and Logan in full meltdown mode. Pleasant! A big chunk of the day yesterday was like that, too. But, today things are getting back to normal!
Levi has a top tooth coming in that I think is also messing things up. Overall he's doing fine, just seems a little off. Right now he's not napping as long as I'd like... :) Caleb and Logan ARE napping, so we'll see what happens at bedtime tonight! They haven't been doing as well at bedtime lately - staying in their beds, thank goodness, but just getting too rowdy and staying up late. I'm remembering what bedtime was like last year over the holidays, though, and they are doing SOOOO good compared to that! It's actually kinda hard to believe that we can put them to bed in big boy beds and they'll actually stay in them. :) We got them a new clock for Christmas that I'm pretty excited about. We're still working on it with them, though. The clock has a light that turns on when it's okay for them to get out of bed in the morning. I've explained to them several times that when they see the green light they may get out of bed on their own and come downstairs (and, of course, now that they're potty trained they can get up if they need to use the bathroom - this privilege hasn't been abused yet....). Every morning I still hear, "Mommy! The light turned green! Can I get up?" And I'll explain again that, yes, if the light is on they may get up and don't have to ask. :) We'll get there!
Levi is definitely scooting around now. And the spitting up hasn't lessened. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I guess if he didn't spit up he would just be too perfect, and we can't have that! :)
Stinker's not going back to sleep. Gotta run.
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