A day in the life of Nicole

Well, my day started out like this.....feeding Sienna at 1:00am. She loves to eat. She takes a LONG time. I think it seems longer when it's the middle of the night. Not only does she take a long time, but she won't go back to sleep after. So about 2:00am I am completely exhausted and little baby still won't sleep. She screams everytime I lay her down. My wonderful husband says "Go back to sleep, I'll take the baby" So I take him up on that offer (even though he spend an hour trying to get her back to sleep the last time (which happens to be a few hours ago) and I go to sleep. I wake up and look over to see Dusky completely passed out on his side of the bed and Sienna wrapped up in his arms sleeping like a little angel.

Right about the time I get into a good sleep again I wake up to Kaia screaming her head off. She wants to get out of bed and play. It's a little too early for that so I get her and put her in bed with us. Thank goodness for our king size bed, because I don't think our little family of 4 would have fit so nicely in our queen.

A while later, after feeding Sienna again, I wake up to Kaia crawling over my head saying "BABY!" I realize what is about to happen but it's too late. Kaia's finger goes right into Sienna's eyeball and she yells "EYE" I tell her not to poke little sister in the eye, so she grabs Sienna's binkie, slides off the bed, and runs from me as fast as she can. Now it's time to get out of bed.

Kaia throws a lot of fits today. Sienna screams everytime I put her down. Thank goodness for baby backpacks. They allow me to strap Sienna to myself and still have two free hands. If not for them I wouldn't get anything done.

As I'm bathing Sienna, Kaia proceeds to take everything out of the garbage can and throw it into the tub-Yes, even the poopy diapers. I keep saying "Kaia, don't play in the garbage, that's yucky!" as she grabs another poopy diaper and throws it into the tub. Kaia finally runs out of the room and by the time I get Sienna out of the tub and dressed I realize that she has drawn all over the wall with pencil, drawn on her leg and face with pen, got into the pan cupboard and pulled out all of the pans, and has every single card from the game Taboo spread across the living room floor. But I don't have time to clean my house because Sienna wants to be fed again. By the way-she's 3 weeks old and she now weighs 10 pounds. Kaia didn't weigh 10 pounds until she was a few months old.

The day continues like this. By nighttime I'm about ready to pass out. Dusky tells me to go to bed, he'll get Sienna to sleep and bring her in. By the way, did I mention that I love my husband. He rocks the world. This night is about the same as every other night.

I wake up the next morning and go into the living room where Dusky is "watching" Kaia. He's asleep on the couch and Kaia is covered from head to toe in oatmeal. (No exaggeration) It's in her hair, her face, her shirt, her pants, the rug, the pillow and smashed into the carpet.

Dusky and I looked at each other and busted up laughing.....Here we go again!

I love my kids! Kaia is so funny! I wouldn't trade my life for anything.