Letter to Kimmy

And then there’s Jax.  He has really been struggling lately too so we decided to move him up to a big boy bed in Sadie’s room. The first two nights he slept the whole night through! Well, we aren’t sure how long they slept.  We found them at 6:30AM with the light on playing with their toys. Sadie said, “Jax was on the floor so we decided to play.”  Good idea, Sade! At least they weren’t waking us up 🙂 The second night they woke up and Sadie said, “Jax was jumping on my bed so I had to wake up.”  Then the last two nights Jax has woken up several times. But, usually Ben just walks him back in there, stays a few minutes, and gets back to sleep quickly. Thankfully Sadie is a very deep sleeper and loves having him in there.  She says at night now, “Come on Jax, it’s time for bed buddy.”  How cute, huh?

Sadly, last night Ben was up several times with Shadow, too. Here’s a condensed story of why: Jax threw a baby food jar yesterday morning while I was trying to get the kids ready for church. Well, I did a quick imperfect clean up job and then threw some paper towels in the trash can and still needed to finish later. Well, about 4PM yesterday shadow got into those paper towels and ate some of the glass. I found them with blood on them. He seemed fine last night but he was up all night throwing up and wanting to go out. I’m a little worried. We may need to take him to the vet. Great.

I gave a talk in church yesterday on forgiveness. Will you forgive me? I’m trying to be a very forgiving person now. If you want to offend me I won’t mind. Well, I almost missed giving the talk because we had a crazy morning. We had birthday party on Saturday for Katie Tickner’s little girl (Bailey – she has the same birthday as Sadie). Well, she called Sunday morning to tell us that one of the little girls at the party had a bad case of lice! So, she recommended that I put the kids in the shower and blow their hair dry because the heat would help to kill them if they jumped on our kids heads. (FYI – the kids never left Ben’s side because it was stimulation overload so they just starred wide-eyed at all the action).  So, I put them in the shower anyways and P.S. – that is a lot of work, and I ended up getting wet so I had to re-get-ready after I was FULLY ready already and Jax ended up peeing all over the place and then threw the glass jar and McKay cried the whole time because he’s been teething and running a fever for two days and wanted to be held and I was THIS CLOSE to saying – “FORGET IT! We’re staying home” which the kids would have loved if I said because they hate going to church.  Sadie especially lately cries the whole drive there and is refusing to go to primary and Jax won’t stay in nursery either.  Anyways, I’m side tracked. End of story – I made it to church *late* and the talk was just fine and we survived another Sunday, so that was good.  Oh, one more thing, Kristy Pickerol Cook was at church – so fun to see her.  Bishop called her up to give her testimony.  She may even come over for FHE tonight and Bishop’s family.  Not sure yet. Wouldn’t that be fun!

I’m desperately excited for Sadie’ birthday this week. We’re going to have a glow in the dark trampoline party. Should be fun. Sadie talks about it all the time. She’s say, “Who’s going to have a birthday this week? Is mommy going to have a birthday? NOOOOO. Is Daddy’s going to have a birthday? NOOOOOOOO. Is Jaxie going to have a birthday? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Is Sadie going to have a birthday. YYYYEEEESSSSSSS!” She can’t wait. We bought her a new bike and a some balls for the trampoline and puzzles and I can’t remember what else. I’ll be busy all day today getting the house cleaned up, cake made, presents wrapped, and decorations put up. Exciting!  Or I may end up taking McKay to the pediatrician and Shadow to the vet. Who knows how this day will go?

Anyways, pray for us to survive these sleepless nights.  I exaggerate not – I’m literally up every hour and a half on average.  It’s time to let him cry and we’re tried twice but Jax woke up and then poor Ben had to get up and McKay has been teething and it’s just not fair to let him cry when he doesn’t feel good.

P.S. I’m attaching pictures of my kids. It seems like all my recent ones are of McKay. I’m so painfully in love with that baby that all I do is stare at him all day long and take pictures of his stunning little face. My heart is no longer my own; it’s his to have forever. He is my everything. Beautiful, wouldn’t you say?