Get real

I'm tired.  That's just reality.  Devyn is not a great baby.  She has terrible gas and is crabby quite often.  I'm trying to cut dairy out of my diet and that seems to be helping a bit.  I feel bad for her because she's uncomfortable so often.  Oddly enough nights tend to be better than days.  She might go 3-4 hours between feedings the first time around at night..although it depends on the night..and then it's back to every 2 hours.  It's still way better than being up with 3 little baby boys at night! :)  I took her to the dr. on Monday because she has a rash all over her body that started on her face.  We had to see the partner dr. because ours is on vacation.  He said it's just really bad excema and that she has extremely sensitive skin.  He said to be sure I don't keep her to warm and to bathe her every day.  Yuck.   I hate giving baths.  But I don't want her to be miserable, so I do it.  I asked about the constant discomfort and he says it's normal.  We're not buying it.  I'll talk to the pediatrician more Monday when I take the boys for their 2 year check-up and the allergist Tuesday when I take Noah for his check-up there.  Maybe they'll have some ideas of what could be going on. 

The boys has an AWESOME 2nd birthday!  The weekend of their birthday we took them to a restaurant with trains for breakfast (I can't remember if I posted about that..again, tired).  Last weekend we had their party, which was great, and then took them to a splash pad by our house on Sunday after church.  They loved it!  It was a lot of fun!  I really wanted to write a post entitled, "Your kid is a jerk.".  There was a really mean older kid who was being mean to the boys and rude to me.  I think being tired made it worse.  I decided against writing an entire post about it.  Parent your kids people or they'll turn out to be jerks as adults.  Sorry, rant over.  I'm learning how to protect my boys and how to let them deal with mean people.  It's a hard balance.  I want to knock over every kid that's mean to them, but I know it's not helpful.  Ok, I'm really done now.

I've been thinking about lots of different posts, which I still hope to get to, such as:  hidden blessings (remembering that when my boys are naughty and plotting together that this is normal development and I should be grateful for that), why I won't be mother of the year (because some days I just stink at my job of being a mom-that's real life!), and things not to say to parents of multiples (I hope you're done!-yes we've heard that MANY times!).   Hopefully I get around to writing all these at some point.