112 + 8 Weeks

Ughhhh, I'm still sick!  My sore throat is finally getting a little better today, but I still have a cold and I still have conjunctivitis :(  Somehow Arley has not gotten sick, which I am SO thankful for.  I still haven't had the kids together for a full day by myself yet, thanks to Carmie going to school, and to my parents.  Carmie has had a good week.  A couple of weeks ago she discovered lollipops, and now she wants one ALL THE TIME.  I have found 'healthy' ones from the health food store, so I don't mind her eating them, but I do mind the sticky globs I am finding all over the house from her setting them down.  She is accepting life with her brother much better now, and in general, she is usually very sweet.  She is learning her ABC's - she only misses a few letters, and this morning she pointed to a shape and said "parallelogram", and it actually was one!  We had a nice trip to the beach again this week-end, and on Saturday, Carmen was fantastic at swimming.  Arley is doing well.  He is huge, and sleeping very well at night, one night he even slept all the way through (7pm bottle to 6:25am bottle).  He is having a bit of a hard time settling for naps.  We swaddle him up really tightly, and he grunts and squirms, hating it, but then when he does get his arms out, he can't sleep.  I go in to his room and he's just waving his arms around like a fan at a U2 concert.  He can't sleep with his uncontrollable arms, but he hates the swaddle.  So it takes me giving him a big cuddle, over and over again, until he sleeps.  It's frustrating, but I've learned that everything is just a phase, and we'll get through it.

Here are a couple of videos from this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Na8dw1Wnk&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7yfcgrNoOI