And YES, raise your hand if you think the 2′s are a walk on a sandy beach compared to the crazy mood swings of a 3 year old. Oy!!

Save me!!

it always MAKES ME TWITCH when i hear a mother of more than one baby say, “oh! having 2 is easy… cause you already know what to do!”.

that’s such a crock!

nursing my second was like learning how to walk again.

coordinating nap time, leaving the house with a diaper bag prepared for TWO, mealtime for a baby and a toddler, bedtime for both (STILL the most challenging feat of all), quality time for BOTH… it’s like a BIG DEAL to do it all with grace.

i heard someone say once, “if motherhood is easy for you, you’re probably missing something really important”.

great post, daphne!
be well,
eileen.

You’ll get that first chunk of four hours of sleep and you’ll think you’ve slept for three days straight.

Babies are cute and difficult, in that you can’t leave them alone for long, but at least they stay where you put them.

But babies also grow up to be kids, and at least the baby stage, there’s no back talk. I’ve got a three year old and christ on a cracker, I this age. No one tells you that three sucks. Two is like having magic fairies.

Deb

But ya know how the docs & your friends & your mom all say, “Sleep when the baby sleeps!” ? Well…the opposite doesn’t have to be true. Just b/c your baby is awake…doesn’t mean YOU have to be! Obviously if leaving the kid in the crib is causing a screaming fit that keeps you up…you may have to work something out. BUT…if your kid is okay in the crib or the bassinet…Leave them! By God when those kids are quiet don’t start fiddling with them!!!

Just b/c you hear whimpering at 3 am (and assuming it ISN’T time to eat or be changed)…then just let them whimper…cuz they’ll get bored. Their attention spans aren’t very long. They’ll forget what they’re even doing awake and go back to sleep.

If you’ve fed them, changed, them, and are preparing to put them back down but they’re still awake…put them down! Its not going to kill them to lay in the dark.

The same holds true once they’re toddlers and are fighting naptime. Put them in their rooms…and leave them! They’ll play quietly, or they’ll actually fall asleep. Either way…you got your naptime break!

I’m having a break right now while my 2 yr old “naps”. We call it “quiet time” in our house. Good luck, mommas!

or maybe it’ll appear in 2 seconds?

tough to tell!

haven’t gotten more than 5 hours of sleep a nite in 3 months. (and five hours is a GOOD NITE).

this video is so unbelievably dead-on. one of my absolute favs you’ve done.

“what have i done what have i done?”

love it.

the other nite, i was watched tv with my husband and there was some commercial for chase bank on. a girl was frolicking around on it:

me: “LOOK AT HER WITH THE HAIR AND THE DRINKS AND SMILES!” *sob sob sob*

husband: *scared silence*

missed your site – haven’t been here since feb! but slowly my fog is clearing and hope to be baaaaack

i haven’t been around lately because i finally had my lil babe and…

did i mention

YEYS YEYEYSYeyeyeyeysys???

i honestly have no idea how i’m alive right now … 3 months in and i still only get ~4 hours of sleep a nite. and that’s an improvement! i’m constructing voodoo dolls right now of all the peeps who say their babe sleeps thru the nite at 3 months. they = DEAD TO ME.

of course i love my lil lady and there are many great moments, but man. there’s just no knowing how insane/chaotic it is until you’re IN IT.

this is my fav video you’ve done. it’s so effing dead on and true and hilarious. lurve you.

Oye, colic, yes, Viv had that for awhile. So much better to brace yourself for the worst.

And my second.. not much easier. In some ways, yes but in other ways hell to the NO!

I can’t think of much else that wasn’t told to me by dozens of female coworkers but geez.. it still hit me like a ton of bricks anyway. Thanks for keeping it all real.

Mother of God. Thank you.

Oh, I think you are a riot. You probably didn’t get that from all the rambling. Sorry.