mommy to an amazing 1 year old, Kaiden Xavier (born Nov 29, 2011)
Just when I think I have Kaiden figured out, he goes and changes everything ...and I love every minute of it! :D
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Don’t get me wrong, there are tons of great experiences and days with the kids, I just don’t really write about them. Lol
I love the kiddos and I will truly miss them when I close. I know I will see two of them because I’m friends with their moms, but the other two…I probably won’t see. I absolutely love being home with Kaiden every day. I know he is getting the best care, and that he is being loved and all his specialties (aka not sitting to eat a meal and instead grazing, loving puzzles and colouring, loving singing and going for walks, etc) are being met.
It’s just exhausting.
Earliest two get dropped off between 7:15-7:30, I have those two for breakfast, and the other two are dropped off at 8:30 and 9:30. I give them a morning and afternoon snack, and lunch. 3 of them (and Kaiden) nap for 1-2.5 hours in the afternoon, and now W naps for half hour if I’m lucky…he won’t sleep in a playpen, won’t sleep on a mat, I buckle him into his chair again and I’m lucky if I get half hour to myself now. They get picked up from 4-5:45. It doesn’t help that Kaiden doesn’t sleep through the night, and has started to sleep in our bed for part of the night.
I know that leaving Kaiden from 8-4 every day will be unbelievably hard, for both he and I. I have to try to wean him during the day, and get him to nap without me nursing him. It just kills me.
You might have a much better experience than I have…I have just realized it isn’t for me. My stove is dented now, my walls are banged up, my floor is never ever clean (heck there was poop on it this morning…and it wasn’t Kaiden’s lol),
If you have any questions about it feel free to ask. I have a pretty intense 6 page contract, info sheets, permission forms, daily tracking sheets etc.
I really miss teaching.
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Is it September yet?!?
I’ve honestly never wished away summer…but I can’t wait to close the daycare. I would close it earlier but I wouldn’t have any income for the summer, and I did last summer and it sucked.
Remember the time I had a clean floor for longer than a day? Nope I don’t anymore either….
Not looking forward to putting Kaiden into daycare, but I would probably let kill someone if I had to do this another year. I want my house back.
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May 21
Not even 9am and I’ve been up for almost 4 hours already. Kaiden went down at 8pm super easy, I was in bed by 9:30, he woke up at 11:30 and then 12:45, then 1:40ish so I brought him into our bed. He normally passes out in our bed and sleeps so soundly (and we get sleep too). But not last night. Kaiden was tossing and turning the whole time and refused to go back to his room. Then around 5 he woke up, nursed and decided he wanted down. I got books for him to read in our bed, then hubby got a basket of toys and we shut our door incase we fell back asleep so Kaiden wouldn’t leave our room. I’m so tired I don’t even know if this made sense.
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Ugh
Of course I can’t get to sleep tonight….I plan on getting up pretty early (as soon as Kaiden wakes up) and driving to this town near my hometown for a big ass town garage sale. I never have trouble sleeping. Ever. But I’ve been in bed for 2 hours now. And of course Kaiden hasn’t woken up yet…guaranteed he will wake up within half hour of me finally falling asleep.
On a good note…we weighed Kaiden tonight and he was 20.6lbs. Naked. He’s over 20lbs. Just hoping it stays that way.
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May 18 - the good and the bad
Yesterday Kaiden sat on his potty twice with no diaper/pants on. In one day. We haven’t been pushing anything, he seems to tell us after he’s peed in his diaper, so we ask if he wants to sit on his potty. Sometimes it’s “please” and sometimes it’s “no”. And most of the times he wants to sit on the potty it’s with a diaper/clothes on.
He’s so stinkin cute when he sits on it. Adorable.
On less happy news, last night sucked. Kaiden was up a bunch, didnt want to sleep in his crib, and after being awake for way too long he woke up like 5 min after I finally got him back to his crib. So he came to our bed. I don’t know if he’s having night terrors or what, but even in our bed he was waking up more frequently and crying out. Oh, and he’s decided that between 5:30-6 is wake up time. Ugh!!!!! I’m a super tired mama today, but it’s my day to wake up with him. Thank goodness it’s a long weekend…
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I needed to see this right now. My poor hip flexors.
My hips need help on a regular basis…maybe I should give this a try.
Source: fitnessloveaffair
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May 15 - Dandelions and Bruises
At one point today I had all 4 kids picking/deadheading dandelions. It’s not child labour if they do it without me asking right? Lol I wish I could have gotten a picture, it was pretty cute.
Also, today I bumped a drying cookie sheet off the counter, and tried to slow down its fall with my foot. The outside part of my foot is now bruised. I also have a huge bruise on the same leg from yesterday….don’t know what happened….but I must have hit it hard.
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Ok guys….what do you do when a one an a half year old climbs out of a playpen every time you put him in it? One of my daycare kids started yesterday and he’s climbed out 3 times in the past half hour. What do I do for naps now???
I have uploaded some of them, I was looking at them last night to make sure I had the ones I was deleting off my phone. I couldn’t find the date, but I will look under properties when I get another chance.
I guess I was just used to my blackberry and it showed the date in the “title” of the picture.
Thanks ladies :)
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Of course Kaiden starts having a tantrum and wants to go to bed as soon as the hockey game starts. UGH!!!!
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Just realized the iPhone doesn’t keep the dates the photos were taken. So any of those times I took a photo to remember the event/moment/milestone, I have no idea when they were :(
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TGIF is an understatement!
It’s pouring rain
Kaiden is super whiney/throwing temper tantrums/crying today
The other kids are being equally annoying
I have a pounding headache
AF just started
The kids won’t eat anything I put on their plates today.
I’m going to go crazy!!
I’m definitely over this whole daycare thing…September I will be closed regardless if I have a FT job or not.
Time to start the search for a nanny or daycare for Kaiden.
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May 9
Kaiden is on the mend yet again. Starting last Thursday (may 2) he had a low fever on and off through Sunday. Sunday night (may 5) at midnight he woke up crying, I went into his room and he was drenched in sweat, as I picked him up he threw up all over me twice. We took his temperature and it said 104.1. We stripped him down to just a diaper and gave him Motrin, brought him to our bed adter nursing him, he curled up and fell asleep between us. He woke up at 4:30 drenched in sweat again, nursed and fell asleep on me.
When my alarm went off a bit before 7, he was passed out on me still. I stayed in bed as long as I could, and then attempted to move him. He didn’t go back to sleep, and as I was holding him he started to shake/shiver. We thought it was possibly chills because he was still in just a diaper (although he did have a light blanket on), but after getting dressed, it didn’t stop. Two of my daycare kids had already been dropped off and Kaiden was shaking like a 90 year old man trying to drink some water. He drank a sippy cup and a half of water. Hubby decided to stay home from work, he watched the kids while I took Kaiden to the ER.
The shaking stopped before we saw a dr so we are assuming it was from dehydration because he had sweat so much. With his temp being as high as it was, they put us in an isolated room and wore masks. The dr sent us for another chest X-ray (4th one) because Kaiden had laboured breathing. The X-ray showed some cloudiness in his lungs so we were given a prescription for an antibiotic and sent home. Monday was a long day because Kaiden did not want to be put down. My arms were killing me by the end of the day.
Kaiden’s slowly getting a bit of an appetite back, and is definitely much more himself. He’s still got 6 more days of the medicine, but hopefully whatever was trying to take over his body (dramatic I know), will be gone. And hopefully we won’t have any more chest X-rays…they’re absolutely heart breaking :(
Winner….
Only I would have a dream about Channing Tatum and in it we are getting pictures with him. That’s all. Well that was as far as it got until Kaiden woke me up…but seriously….only me.
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Good workout for your bum/thighs
Pulling 4-5 one year olds in a wagon, or approximately 100lbs. We walked for 45 min yesterday and another 30 today (we played at the park). My butt is sore. I’m so out of shape.
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