Some Silly Andrew Shots

Here are a couple of pictures of Andrew at nap time today.

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(I extracted his legs from the bars after I took the pictures)

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Then, when I went to check on him tonight, he had fallen asleep with his hand inside this plastic fish bowl in his book!

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Here are a couple more pictures of Andrew today:

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These are from before Christmas, but I didn't get them posted.

Silly Sleepers

I've gotten quite a few pictures of Andrew sleeping in some silly places/ways.


Today, I found him hanging off the front of the chair in the living room.

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This one shows how he was hanging better!

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Here, he climbed up onto Dan and fell asleep.

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On the dining room floor.

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Napping sideways (in August, hence the shorts only!)

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Hugging his stuffed dog with his legs! (also sideways in his crib)

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Here are some silly sleeper shots of the other kids:

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William was sleeping with some dolls. I'm not sure what the doll on the shelf next to him is doing! (Getting ready to dive into bed?)

Emily with her head off the bed.

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Emily sideways in her bed.

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Sarah sideways with her foot on her knee (it was dark, so I couldn't really see what I was getting and then she moved, so this is the only shot I got)

On Being Sleep Deprived

Scribbleprints is doing a giveaway for a 'Sleep Deprived Parent' button. I figured that pretty much sums up what I've been for the past 6 years!

It started while I was pregnant with Sarah since it is hard to sleep well those last few months of being pregnant. Then all 4 of our kids haven't slept through the night until they were close to a year old (although I'm really hoping that Andrew is faster, but he's already 8 months old, so he's probably going to follow in his siblings footsteps!) And since I've gotten pregnant with the next baby right around the time the previous child is a year old, then I was exhasted from being pregnant and the whole cycle started again! So I haven't been well rested in 6 years! I am looking forward to when Andrew is sleeping through the night as then I can start getting the sleep I need since he is our last kid.

I feel like my brain is a colander and most things just go straight through! (I guess it's a colander with really big holes!) I leave one room on my way to do something and by the time I get to the other room I've totally forgotten I was going to do something! Not just that I forgot what I was going to do, but totally forgot I was going to do anything and I start doing something else! I don't know how many times I've come back to the kitchen and the dishwasher is open and in the process of being unloaded or loaded, or I find a half written email on the computer from an hour before, or the dryer is open waiting for me to put the wet clothes in after I've walked off with the dry clothes, or the washer goes through its whole wash cycle empty because I went for the next basket of dirty clothes and forgot I was getting them! One time I went to nurse one of the kids in the night and thought, "But I need to put this baby down first", so I laid the 'baby' on the floor and when I got back to bed, my pillow was gone and I found it on the floor outside the nursery! Or another time, I got in to nurse baby and realized I didn't have my glasses on (which for me pretty much means I'm blind) so I went back in the bedroom for them and when I put them on, something wasn't quite right. Dan looked at me and asked what I was doing. Turns out, I was trying to wear his glasses! But I better go make sure that the washing machine is actually washing clothes right now and that I haven't left something out that needs to be in the refrigerator!