This has been a tough week. On Monday Juliette was pretty much inconsolable all day long and I had no idea what was wrong. She's been sleeping terribly at night and won't go down easily anymore - and it takes an hour to get her to go back down when she wakes up at night. I was in tears for a good part of the afternoon because I just can't hold her all day long when I have two other children that need care and attention too. Anyway I decided to take her to the doctor on Tuesday just to rule out an ear infection. Turns out, she has one! It's a small one but maybe it's contributing to the crankiness. It also might be teeth but I've been saying she's teething for months now and nothing new so who knows. I just hope that it's SOMETHING so that when whatever it is resolves itself, my happy little sleeping girl will come back. Ben was wonderful though and surprised me with a night out to get my hair and nails done (it had been about 8 months) and it was amazing.
I also brought Lily in to the doctor the following day for extreme fussiness. She has nothing wrong with her BUT when they took her weight (just a week shy of 20 months) she was 18 lbs, 2 oz with clothes on. This is amazing to me because at her 18 month well baby visit she was 16 lbs, 12 oz so that's more than a pound in under 2 months! We've noticed lately that she is eating extremely well and she doesn't tug at her shirt anymore when she's finished with her food. It's been gradual but I'd say the Prevacid we're giving her is doing absolute wonders. At the rate she's growing she'll catch up to Juliette in no time!
My cake class is going great. It's so much fun - last week we decorated cupcakes which I immediately smooshed on my way home and this week we'll decorate our final cake. I need to come to class with the cake already iced so I'm trying to plan my week's time accordingly. I also am making a strawberry pretzel salad and a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving this year so I have to fit that in somewhere too. I start my next cake class on Monday (2 days before my final other class ends) so it will be a busy week.
I didn't realize that it had been as long as it had since I wrote anything so this will probably be a long entry!
Halloween was really fun. The girls dressed up as bumblebees and loved wearing their outfits. We had a lazy morning then went to a nearby church after their nap to "trunk or treat". The kids had a lot of fun getting candy from people's cars! They had a big bouncy house there so Maia loved jumping in that. We went out trick or treating after that - my dear mom came over to hand out candy while we all went out. Maia had the most fun and I think we'll have leftover candy for months. I'd post a photo of the girls in their costumes but for some reason I can't upload anything right now - gotta figure it out.
Otherwise, things have been good. I started my cake class 2 weeks ago and I am having so much fun with it. We learned to ice a cake (boy do I need practice with that one) and are learning different icing techniques like stars, flowers, leaves, etc. I've already signed up for another class on flowers and cake design and I'm excited. I love getting out of the house one night a week and I don't feel bad about doing it since putting the kids down for bed alone isn't nearly as hard as it used to be.
We had such nice weather the beginning of the month so we tried to take advantage of it by going outside a good bit. We went for walks and to the park with Stacy and Finn last week. The girls learned how to go down the slides all by themselves - on their bellies! So funny.
We had our Early Intervention meeting this week. We wrote up their new plans for the year and for the first time their plans are different. Juliette has about 100 words now and Lily is at around 15-20 so they really want to work on verbalization with her. They also both will be working on proper play with toys and objects. Really though, we're hunting for things since they're both doing so great.
It snowed for the first time this year today - probably got about 6 inches. The girls loved waking up to the snow and we brought them outside this evening and they had a blast. It was quite an ordeal to get them all bundled up but we managed!
