Jenna and Sarah

People have told me that 3 is worse than 2. I hope what I am seeing is not an indicator that these people are right.

Good gracious, I often wonder why I bother even keeping this blog. I am supposed to be working right now, but Sarah is screaming like someone is pulling out her toenails, and I really can’t concentrate through that. Poor Jay. I’ll blog till the screaming stops.

Anyway, I have been busy with work. Not busy compared to when I was working full-time of course, but busy when I’m cramming it on top of the 2 kids and everything that comes with that. But those girls change a lot and I have been bad about recording the details of their lives. BAD mama.

Jenna cracks me up lately, while simultaneously making me want to run from the house screaming. That girl never stops. I honestly don’t think she is capable of sitting still, being quiet, or listening unless she’s really tired or really motivated. How can such a little person make so much noise? She is constantly talking or singing. Constantly. No, I mean constantly. She doesn’t even know what she’s saying half the time.
“Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!”
” What?”
“Um, I um, my fingernail polish is coming off.”

Whatever she can think of to say, that’s what she’ll say. But someday she won’t want to talk to me at all, so I should be enjoying this. But ALL.DAY.LONG. Uggh. Sometimes she does say really funny things. The other day we were at a friend’s house and she had her finger in her nose.
Me: Do you need a tissue?
Jenna: No, I just pushing the boogers back in.

Her latest phrase is “Are you kidding me?” She says that anytime she thinks something is wrong. It’s really hard not to laugh at it when we come home and see something Maggie the dog has destroyed and Jenna says “Are you kidding me? Look at this mess.”Ahhh, toddlers. She will be 3 in 2 weeks and she is very excited about her little birthday party. I wish I was as excited about it.

Jenna loves to do everything by herself. EVERYTHING. Unless, of course, she wants attention. A week or 2 after she got potty trained, she started having accidents all the time. Only they weren’t accidents. They were an attempt to get our attention, and get our attention they did. But I started to not give her attention at all. She would say “Mommy, I went pee pee in my pants.” And I would say “Well, you better clean it up” without any inflection. I guess eventually she decided she wasn’t going to get the attention she wanted, so she doesn’t do that anymore. Well, at least not for the past week or so. She has had a couple of genuine accidents where she didn’t quite make it to the potty in time, but I don’t think she’s doing the on purpose thing anymore. As far as everything else–I can’t do anything in front of her without her saying “I WANT TO DO IT!” Good for her independence…bad for my sanity. Even opening a door. If I open it before she insists she wants to do it, a tantrum usually follows. Good times.

Sarah is growing, growing, growing. I thought she had gotten better about the evening crying until this evening. I guess she’s just having more good nights than she used to. She is rocking the nighttime sleeping, though! She sleeps 8-9 hours most nights. Amazing. We lucked out with that. If she doesn’t sleep enough during the day, she is especially fussy at night. Overtired, I guess. She smiles a lot now. It’s getting to the point where I feel like I should be getting her on a schedule or doing something with her other than what I’m doing. I don’t remember what we did with Jenna. Should have been more detailed in the blog! Maybe I was–I haven’t even looked at it. But we just started laying her on her back more and putting her in the jumperoo. Up until about a week ago, she was either being held, or in her swing. She is not such a fan of being put down. Probably my fault. I know she’s our last, so I hold her as much as I can. Hard to do when I have a toddler to take care of, so that’s where the swing comes in. Soon she’ll start taking an interest in toys, and even sitting up!

Jenna loves Sarah. I am blessed in that way also. She is jealous of the attention I give Sarah, but she doesn’t try to stop me from doing it. When Sarah cries, Jenna says “Mommy, Sarah is hungry. You need to feed her.” It’s very sweet.

I haven’t been taking enough pictures, but I’ve been taking some. It just takes too long to upload them and post them!

The crying seems to have stopped…hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go.