4 Miles

I got home from MOPS at 9:15, and James was finishing up some things, with the boys JUST falling asleep. (In the past, Alex was wide awake from 8-12 or 1 am. We’ve gotten it adjusted some, but 10 is the earliest he’s gone to sleep.)  James said he was going to bed as soon as he was done. We talked abit and he ended up going to bed early, about 9:45. I was torn. I knew I needed to go to bed, but wanted to watch my favorite TV show. (The Amazing Race …This season it’s on at 10 instead of 9, and that’s been hard!)  I decided to work and calm down from the evening out, while watching the show. About 10:15, Alex woke up for one more feeding. As I fed him, I was thinking how glad I was I didn’t go to bed. I would have JUST fallen asleep, and would have been so mad that he woke me up. So it’s a good thing I’m addicted to a silly TV show! (Or so I keep telling myself.)

Our snow came, in a smaller amount then predicted. Well, at the last minute they lowered their predictions. We still got 5 inches, and the roads looked slushy and bad enough this morning, I decided to not go to Bible Study. The idea of lugging both kids out in the still rapidly falling snow, with a wind chill of about 12° just did not appeal to me. (Call me a whimp. But it was really the idea of lugging the car seat with Alex in it, the wind blowing the blanked off over his head while trying to carry the diaper bag, Will’s bag, and holding Will’s hand as we walked through the parking lot to get up to the door…it’s quite a walk.  How do people with more then 2 kids do it?!?)  We also had a rough night last night. Will woke us up at 3 with a “bangâ€? and a cry. He’d fallen out of bed (that’s only happened once before).  Then he was upset and didn’t want to go back to sleep, he wanted one of us to stay with him. Then Alex woke up and after eating had trouble falling back asleep. (That’s my own fault, I’d been bragging about how well he’s been going right back to sleep after I feed him at night. When will I learn?!?) Between the two, we were up for awhile, and then Alex woke up again two hours later—that’s pretty unusual for him.  So we were all pretty tired this morning. We stayed in the warm house and I did laundry, played trains with Will, and cleaned up the house.  Will played, Alex slept, and then graced us with some big smiles. One of these days I’ll manage to get a picture of them!

Will loved looking at the snow and wanted to go out and shovel it. I first told him we’d to it after his nap, but then realized I didn’t know the best way to do that with the baby. Didn’t want to do it while Alex was sleeping…didn’t want to bundle him up and put him in the car seat while he was awake—he’s not a fan of the car seat right now, and he would most likely scream the entire time.  I told Will after his nap MAYBE Daddy would take him out when he got home, but he might be tired. James walked in the door and Will said “Daddy! I shovel driveway! Put boots on, go out side?â€? James did take him out, and they shoveled the entire driveway while I was getting ready to go to MOPS. They came in the house with Will crying because he wanted to shovel more. I asked him, “Can we remember this for when you’re bigger, when you don’t want to do this?â€?  He said “No!â€?  So, we won’t remember this.