The “child that never sleeps” has finally cut his top two teeth which is fantastic. However he is, as his name suggests, still NOT SLEEPING. Driving me a little bit crazy. And so, in the spirit of discontentment which is my life right now, I offer up some links about motherhood and how sometimes it is not fulfilling and how mommies are often not as cool as we want to be.
Feb
14
…like TWELVE AND A HALF hours of uninterrupted sleep at night!!! My son is a terrible napper but last night was awesome. Happy Valentine’s Day to me. 
Feb
13
Jan
6
Well yesterday was actually Day #2, but whatever. So Kieran fell asleep last night without being swaddled and without any crying WHATSOEVER and stayed asleep for five hours!!!! It was amazing.Â
Karma is totally going to kick my ass tonight. I just know it.
Jan
1
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Couldn’t you just die from the roly-poly babyness of him???
Sep
6
Yesterday Kieran laughed for the first time and it was such a nice surprise. He’s been “talking” and cooing a lot more in the last two weeks and he’s just learning to interact a lot more which is so awesome because he’s out of that newborn stage. But when your baby laughs it is so rewarding.
On another note, I think we have found some good tenants for the basement suite which is good. It will be nice to have that all taken care of. Yahoo!
Jun
12
I can’t believe this. Kieran has already cut a tooth. In fact, I think he was born with the tooth cut! Statistically this is very rare. Only something like 1 in 2000 babies is born with a tooth! It’s kind of sad in a way. I missed out on the whole process of the first tooth. And he even picked a weird one to do first. It’s one of his upper canines which don’t normally errupt until 16-22 months. This kid is full of surprises!
[Edit: Kieran did NOT actually have a tooth at birth. He had some kind of a cyst on his gum which looked EXACTLY like a newly cut tooth.]
Jun
11
Having a boy is a whole new experience. I have been peed and pooped on more in the past week than my daughter’s whole life!  Kieran seems to just wait for an opportunity to let it fly. It would be funny if we weren’t changing clothes so frequently and having to scrub poop stains out of everything. Just part of the fun of life with a baby. I just have to get used to it again.
I’m also trying to train myself not to be so edgy this time around. Whenever Avery cried or just started to fuss a tiny bit my adrenaline started pumping and my blood pressure started to rise and I had to try and do something to calm her. Of course part of this was that she was a pretty fussy and needy baby. But I know that it kind of became a bad habit and I became a miserable person, especially to my hubby. So I am trying to train myself not to get so worked up. I also was so sleep deprived because I would lie awake and just wait for the baby to start crying, my ears tuned to the slightest sound. Now I am determined to focus on different things and allow myself to rest. There are a lot of things you figure out the second time around. We’ll see how much success I have putting them into practise.
Jun
8
I know the people who read this all know that we had the baby but I figured it was only fair to acknowledge that the subject of all my whining in the past 9 months has made his appearance.
I sat at the computer at about 5am on June, 1, the day of my scheduled c-section and contemplated writing a blog entry because I was not sleeping. Why, you ask? Not because of my excitment at the impending birth. No, instead I was in labour. Yes, my son was so eager to arrive that I went into labour the night before at about midnight. It wasn’t too bad (especially compared to my previous labour which was induced and BRUTAL) but it was enough to keep me from sleeping. The end result was that we got to the hospital several hours early and they performed the surgery at 9:30, rather than the scheduled 12:30.
I was more nervous this time around but everything went smoothly and, as you have all read on my hubby’s blog or heard from us in person, Kieran Nicholas arrived at 10:26am weighing 10 pounds 12 ounces. He looks quite a bit like his sister did at birth, including at least one dimple!
We are so happy that he is here and we are very pleased (so far) with his sleepy and relatively easygoing personality. It may not continue this way as he “wakes up” more in the coming weeks. But so far he has been a relatively good sleeper and a calm baby.
I can’t express my feelings as I look at this new little person. I’ve been carrying him for the better part of a year and yet I am just getting to know him. He is beautiful and so precious and I am eager to see what kind of a boy he will be as he grows. I want to savour these early months more this time around. Right now I have little choice but to sit around and enjoy him because I am still recovering from the surgery.
Anyway, now that I’ve figured out how to post pictures you can expect to see many more shots here in the future.
May
31
So here I am once again in the middle of the night…awake.Â
But this time it’s more nerves and excitement that is keeping me awake. Just over 24 hours until our baby arrives! SQUEEE!!!!
I was just lying in bed going over and over all the details of what I need to do, what is going to happen on Thursday, the surgery, who I need to phone, how Avery will be, what kind of hospital room will we get, things I don’t want to forget to pack to take with me to the hospital, how will my recovery be, will my nurses be good, will my parents like the name we picked. My mind is racing. I’ve been trying to tell myself to just leave it alone and sleep as this is my second last night to do so uninterrupted for a while, but it’s just not happening. So I gave up and here I am.Â
It’s 3:30am and the sky is just starting to get light. The birds are chirping like crazy outside. The baby is fairly calm with just an occasional wiggle to remind me that he’s there. A bus just drove by outside. It’s actually a very peaceful time of day.  I’m really tired. I hope I’ll be able to settle back in to sleep soon. I’ll have to make the most of my nap tomorrow. I mean….today.