Wife with Two- Under Two...

Mamma's Girl! #theramones #chucktaylors

...I'm pretty sure that if you were in ACTIVE labour, you wouldn't be updating your own tumblr. Maybe have someone else do it for you- but if you can still talk and hold your phone still long enough to type, you are not in active labour.

No worries! Always love finding other Mammas out there! :D

Woah! Was that really me??

My perfect little mammals... Love them so much!

Thank you so much! That is so sweet of you to say! xo

Ava: Hey Liddy, I know I’m usually good for the early shift but I really feel like a sleep in tomorrow. Can you cover this one? Liddy: Yeah, no worries. I’ll just wake up at 6:30 and make mum comfort nurse me for a few hours. Ava: Ok, but are you sure that will keep her awake? Won’t you both just fall asleep? Liddy: Nah, I’ll wake up and scream every time she pulls me off her. And if she falls asleep and I start slipping off- I’ll just bite her! Ava: Ok, cool! That sounds annoying enough. I guess I’ll see you in the morning at about 9 when I wake up? Liddy: Nah, I’ll be back asleep by then…

Then there's this... This photo was taken from the table Hubby & I were seated at in a restaurant. That's Ava, enclosed in a playground, watching Spongebob on my iPad. We just so badly wanted to eat a dinner peacefully!

Last night a friend of mine and her partner offered to watch the girls so Andrew & I could go on a date. We were thinking about bowling, seeing a movie, maybe mini-golfing- but settled on a banquet at our favourite local Chinese restaurant with a bottle of wine & simply enjoying each other's company. This was the first time Andrew & I had gone out just the two of us since before Liddy's birth so it was lovely to sit opposite each other, share some food and reconnect. We've eaten there many times in the past & usually order the same banquet so I forgot this time to specify that I have a seafood allergy... Yeah, you know where this is going. So we've eaten, drank the whole bottle of wine and are giggling as we're walking home and all of a sudden I'm burning with this itchiness. It's my scalp, my face, my chest, my back, my thighs- just this crazy itch! Step into the light of my front porch and Andrew gasps- I'm covered in hives! Thank goodness for my beautiful friend who jumped straight in her car to the 24 hour pharmacy to buy anti-histamines (of course I didn't have any after spending the last 3 odd years pregnant!). How ironic that the one night out we have together ends up with me having an allergic reaction! So basically, moral of the story being: Mummy & Daddy cannot have any romance without consequences. Worth it.

...is probably one of the most heartbreaking thing to do as a parent. Ava was such a breeze as a little baby, and still is. She has always just put herself to sleep and will now put herself to bed when she's ready. But Liddy has gotten out of control needing to either be nursed or rocked to sleep. I have to start back at work in a month so I had no choice but to start this new routine. It's not exactly "crying it out", but there's still a lot of crying involved thus far (because my "No-Cry Sleep Solution" hasn't arrived!) It's so hard... The 15 minutes of crying before she settled was gut wrenching and, frankly, exhausting. Someone please assure me I'm not doing the wrong thing? That she still knows I love her and want so badly for her to be content?