"Video, Please!"

This story is too long to post as a facebook status but it's too cute not to be shared so here goes. This morning I figured out the best way to workout: get Karys to do it with me. :) I moved the furniture around in the living room to get myself set up to do a Biggest Loser workout video and told Karys we were going to do this together. I even pulled out my 2-lb. weights for her and told her those were her weights. As the video went on, she stood next to me and tried to do what they were doing. After awhile she got tired of that and sat on the couch watching me for the rest of the time.

After her nap and all evening she'd periodically ask me, "Video, please?" I didn't even realize she knew what the word "video" meant since I usually call them "movies" but I kept telling her she could watch a video after she ate dinner. After dinner, she enthusiastically asked, "Video, please?" I asked her what video she wanted to watch and she went to our entertainment center and pointed to one of the doors that holds DVDs. I opened it and saw that her VeggieTales SweetPea video was in there so I held it up and asked if she wanted to watch it. She told me no. I looked down in the cabinet again and saw the cover for the Biggest Loser video we did this morning. I held it up and asked if that was what she was talking about and she told me, "Yay, video!" :) I told her she didn't really want to watch that. :)

Second cute story: The last few nights Karys has been difficult getting to bed at night. I don't understand what it is because she's not taking naps that are very long but she lays in bed for the longest time and doesn't fall asleep until after 10! She's also been crying when I leave the room and telling me, "Rock." Now keep in mind I sit in her room and rock her for a good 10 minutes or so before putting her in her bed. A few times I've fallen for the tears and rocked her a second time, but tonight I told her that I was going to rock her and whenever I put her in bed she wasn't going to cry. It didn't really work...but I didn't cave and rock her a second time! She cried at the door for a few minutes, saying, "Rock!" and we'd periodically hear a few tears. One time Ryan went in to tell her to quit kicking the wall and she told him, "Rock!" So about 45 minutes after this all began I went back into her room to put Zane in his bed. When I walked in, I heard her say, "Rock!" I looked over at her bed expecting to see her laying there but then I caught her silhouette sitting in the rocking chair rocking herself! :) I just died laughing!! It's like she was thinking, "Fine. If you won't rock me, I'll just do it myself."

To Sleep or Not To Sleep... :)

That's the question I'm asking these days!! I'm starting to wonder if Zane will ever be a good sleeper. :) Poor guy...he just gets so hungry!! This kid is an eating MACHINE!! It's so interesting to see how different he is from his sister. Just today I fixed him a 5-ounce bottle because he consistently doesn't make it 3 hours from one feeding to another. 5 ounces!! He's only 6 weeks old!! :) Oh well, he seemed to be happy with it! It will be interesting to see how that translates tonight...will we get more sleep at once, or won't we? I remembered that at this point Karys was sleeping so well--almost through the night. I went back and found this post that proves what I remembered. Zane still gets up twice in the night. For example, last night he ate at 10:00 and then woke up to eat at 2:15 and then again at 5:45. It's starting to get exhausting!! :) However, with all that said, I'm so thankful for this sweet baby boy and I'm trying to slow down with him more than I did with Karys and really cherish every day, every stage, all of it. He's such a sweet boy. :)

BUT the hard part is that with our house being as small as it is, I don't really have a good place for him to be where I can let him cry a little bit to see if he's actually hungry or just waking up out of habit. If I leave him in his and Karys's room he'll wake her up, but even if I just leave him in the living room we're all in such close proximity to each other that he'll bother everyone!! Oh well, everyone sleeps through the night eventually, right?? ;)

Just a couple of cute pics:

The other day he woke up early from his nap SCREAMING so I finished out his naptime cuddling with him. I guess it could be worse. ;)

Karys loves her baby brother. She's never really asked to hold him, but she does love kissing on him and giving him toys of hers to play with. But on this day I offered to let her hold him and she decided she wanted to. :)