Thankful Thursday

This morning I "awoke" (I had been up for a while, but had no desire to leave my bed) to Tommy crying for me in his room, so when I went in there and discovered he had wet through his diaper (that reminds me, I still need to change his bedding!), he asked his famous question, "Mommy, where are we going to go in just a minute?" Keep in mind it's almost 6:30 am at this point. I said "In a while, we're going to the bookstore with our friends Luke and Drew," to which he responded in tears with "No! I want to go to the bookstore right now!! I want to go there right now!!" and he kept repeating that. Not a great start to the morning.

So I decided that this should be a "Thankful Thursday" before I complain any more.



Here's some things I'm thankful for this morning:

- Coffee

- A programmable coffee maker that has a wonderful pot of coffee waiting for me and smelling so wonderful when I roll out of bed in the morning

- My amazing husband who can sense when I'm about to lose it and takes the boys so I can go lay down... no matter what's going on in the house

- All of my family who is so helpful and willing to take my children while I have some sort of a break. Even if they're both screaming (Tommy and Ty, not those who are watching them... although by the time they're done, they may be screaming too)

- The way Tommy is so sweet with Ty and says to me "Woot at his wittow face" (translation: "look at his little face")

- Ty's increasing attempts at talking... grunts and coos, and his great little smile that he's been working on

- Shaun the Sheep

- Mylecon gas drops for Ty

- My conversation with Tommy last night: "Mommy, am I your little shurder" (translate as "sugar")? "Yes you are, sweetie." "Mommy why don't you want anyone to take me, your little sunshine away?" (we'd been singing "You Are My Sunshine" that morning) So sweet!

Tonight's the Night

It's after 10:00 and Tommy's still awake. He's eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Paci Fairy, who is coming to collect his pacis and give him a toy. She's even throwing in a trip to the Tallahassee Zoo. We went around the house tonight and collected all the pacis we could find. Then we put them in a bowl and set them on our doorstep because Tommy decided at the last minute he didn't want the fairy to actually come inside our house. I put Tommy to bed around 8:30 and at 9:30 he was standing up in his bed looking out his window for any signs of the elusive paci fairy. I keep telling him that it's like Santa and the fairy won't come until and everyone else in the house goes to sleep. But Tommy's gonna wait this one out. He may never go to sleep tonight. He's still asking questions about when the fairy will come and does she live on a cloud. And if she does live on a cloud, which one is it?

This whole paci fairy thing seemed like a great idea but it may come back to bite us when he goes to bed after midnight and then wakes up at the crack of dawn to see what the paci fairy left him.

Out With The Old...

And in with the new!



The Inserras have a new ride- a 2005 Honda Pilot! It's officially my "mom mobile" since when I got in this morning and got the boys buckled in, the first thing I did was put in Tommy's CD and suddenly we were listening to "The Wheels on the Bus". RIP 1999 Mazda Protege. You served us well.

He's Growing So Fast!

Today Ty is 4 weeks old. Hard to believe it!



And here's a picture from 3 weeks. I'm already forgetting to post pictures (at least I took it at 3 weeks!)

Runs in the Family

My little guy loves a microphone. Guess he takes after his daddy (as if we didn't already know that!) Check out Matthew's blog here to see his entertaining antics. I promise you'll laugh.

Midweek Ramblings

I got my first four hour stretch of sleep last night and I feel GREAT (this was my longest stretch of continuous sleep since May 25). When Ty slept until 3 this morning, I couldn't believe it! Next step: sleeping through the night (not expecting that any time soon though).



Tommy got a big brother gift from Aunt Sue yesterday. We got this great big box in the mail and it turned out to be one of those huge tents that covers an entire twin bed. I'll admit, when I saw the measurements on the box I groaned a bit, but as soon as soon as Tommy realized what it was, he screamed "A tent! Now I can live happily ever after!!" and he ran around the house. At that point, I didn't care how big the thing was, it was just really fun to see him that excited. We set it up and he was pumped to sleep in it last night. Ty and I even crawled in to read him stories before bed (we'll have to get a new system for that).




The other night we went to Coosh's Bayou Rouge for dinner (kids eat free on Mondays... take note, all you Tallahasseeans). After we finished eating, a group of paramedics came in for dinner and sat at the table next to us. Being the gregarious child that Tommy is, he immediately went to their table and started talking to them. He told them about the booboo's on his knees, told them that he had a new baby, and finally he asked them what color their ambulance was. With that, they offered to show him. So while they waited for their food to come out, we all went to the parking lot to take a tour of the ambulance. They even turned on the lights for him and let him sit in the driver's seat (notice the look of slight alarm on his face... they had just revved the engine and he said "Mommy, I don't want to drive!")

The Best Part of Waking Up

For the past three weeks I've been running on a 24-hour schedule. And in the last week, Tommy and Ty have timed their wake-ups perfectly. Or maybe I should say imperfectly. When Ty's just finishing with his last feeding for the night (lately around 6 am), I lay back down in bed and within 30 minutes or so, Tommy's up and ready to start his day. And lately my wonderful percolator coffee maker has been acting up and making incredibly weak coffee, looking something like green tea. Gross. It's been enough to drive me nuts.

So yesterday I decided it was time for a new coffee maker. I've always had expensive ones and now I've downgraded and bought just a basic Mr. Coffee. But I'm really excited because I have it set to make me a delicious pot of coffee at precisely 6:45 tomorrow morning. Will I be happy about being up that early after waking up all through the night? No, but this will certainly make things easier!