Thankfulness and Exhaustion

I'm remembering... these early weeks with a newborn... tiredness, grumpiness, cross-eyed in the wee hours of the morning... that's me we're talking about! I did this one other time. You would think I would remember these days, but I suppose Hannah would be an only child if I remembered these days too much.

Grace is doing what she is suppose to be doing. Eating, sleeping, filling diapers and these days she is beginning to be a little more alert. At night, she is a grunter... it makes it difficult to sleep, for me anyway. Daryl can sleep through it and thank goodness so can Hannah. I've heard she will out grow this. I sure hope so! She is a precious little girl and I am thankful God added her to our family.

On Tuesday we said a tearful goodbye to Nana and Poppi. Nana has been a lifesaver around here. I was able to focus on recovering from childbirth and nursing, while Nana pretty much covered the rest. From playing with Hannah to dishes, meals and cleaning, she was AMAZING!!! It will be quite awhile before my house gets the care it got from Nana.

Hannah adores her nana and loved having her around every day for over 2 weeks. She still asks about her and is looking forward to visiting her at Christmas. My dad (poppi) came fore the last weekend that my mom was here. Hannah was SO EXCITED to have his attention as well. She had so much fun with both of them.

We walked them to the train station on Tuesday. When the train pulled up, I started to cry. Hannah didn't seem to know exactly what was going on and I think the noise of the train was startling her. When she saw Nana and Poppi board the train, she wanted to go too. As we (Hannah, Grace and I) walked away from the platform (I was still crying a bit), Hannah suddenly got what was going on and started wailing. (This didn't help my own tears!) Through her tears she started saying... "Nana loves me; Poppi loves me; Mommy loves me; God loves me; Jesus loves me." Bless her precious heart. That's right, my darling, we all love you very much!

Potty Training ~ well, it was going much better when Nana was here. Even the couple days right after Nana left were good, but we are regressing a bit. Hannah is telling us that she has to go, but she is in the middle of going at the time. So, it isn't going to be as easy as it seemed like earlier this week!

Finally, some more Hannah sayings...

"Daddy, let's get a flag and celerate!"

While sitting on the potty... "Mommy loves me, daddy loves me, God loves me... Oh, I almost forgot someone else... Grandma loves me!"

 

 

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AHHHHH... sleep... it's a wonderful thing!

Jumping on the Potty Training Bandwagon

I have been avoiding this for several months now. Hannah has shown signs of willingness (followed by signs of non-willingness), but with a coming baby and my own lack of energy (as well as Daryl's), we just haven't started. This past week Nana (my mom) has been here and with her huge help, we have started and are showing signs of success!!!

We started a sticker chart with the goal of 10 stickers = Candyland! Hannah was SO EXCITED to see her prize waiting for her and asked every time she got off the potty if she could have it! It was a difficult concept for her to wait for the "big" prize, but she did it and yesterday afternoon she received her Candyland!

Today we went on an adventure to the park and she used the public restroom 2 times!!!! The first time we asked her if she needed to go and the second time she told us. It was very exciting for her to wash her hands in the big bathroom. Hey, whatever motivates:-). Today she woke up with a dry diaper both in the morning and after "rest" time. We are definitely moving in the right direction.

Grace is doing well also. Last night she woke up at 1 and 4 to eat, sleeping well in between. I need to figure out a way to ignore her sleeping grunts and just wake up for her hunger noises. Any tips are greatly appreciated.

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