My New Normal v 1.2

I haven't been posting my New Normal lately because I have been way busy with everything else going on and trying to post pictures from birthday parties and such. So anyway, here is a conglomeration of the past two days of "normalness" -

8am - Joseline wakes up (it varies between 8-9am)

get Vince breakfast, nurse Joseline

get myself breakfast, nurse Joseline again

around 10am - Joseline goes down for a nap!

while Joseline is napping, I usually find time to get myself ready for the day, do a few chores, and some days (like today) blog a little bit

12am - lunch for Vince, feed Joseline when she wakes up from her nap (morning nap is usually only about an hour long)

1pm - get Joseline down for afternoon nap

after Joseline is down, get Vincente down for afternoon nap (read my post about getting Vincente to go down for a nap - it's getting sooo much better)

while the babies nap - take a little 30min-1hr nap, do some chores, blog, read a book (thanks to the library I have some pretty good reading material now!)

after nap - feed Joseline, play with Vince, hang out around the house

5:30pm - start dinner (I've realized that I have to start making dinner a little earlier than I used to so I can take a break to nurse Joseline if needed)

6:30pm - dinner

7:30pm - start Vincente's bedtime routine

8:00pm - Vincente bedtime

get Joseline down (around 9-11, although if we don't go to bed with her, guarenteed she'll wake up - she'll sleep fine out in the living room while we watch a movie, but will not for the life of her sleep in her bassinet alone. Sometimes at night she won't even sleep in her bassinet - she wants to be on the bed between the two of us - I've even tried putting a piece of my (worn) clothing in her bed with her, so she can smell me, but that didn't even work)

Last night, Joseline went to sleep at about 8:45pm. We put her down in her bed, and around 9:15 she woke up. We were watching Die Hard 4, so Russ went and got her, I nursed her for a little bit, and around 10pm, she fell asleep in her bouncy chair while we finished the movie. We put her in her bed around 11pm, and she mostly stayed asleep until 4am (by mostly stayed asleep I mean she made some noises in her sleep around 11:15, and we thought she was waking up, but she didn't wake up). I nursed her at 4am, but she wouldn't go back to sleep. Russ rocked her for a little bit and sang to her, but she still wouldn't go back to sleep. Finally around 5am, I nursed her a little more (laying down) and I guess she went back to sleep because I didn't wake up again until 8:45am when Vincente showed up climbing into my bed (Joseline happened to be awake, too!). So all in all, I'd say I got a pretty good amount of sleep last night.

I feel like I'm getting used to how things are. I'm starting to get a little more solid sleep most nights, I'm mostly able to work out the nursing with doing other things during the day (grocery shopping, going to the insurance office to get a new car insurance policy, visiting friends, park day, going to the Farmer's market, etc). It's nice not to feel so trapped at home becuase I can't get myself and two kids ready and nurse Joseline enough to get out of the house. Now I can and it feels amazing. If I plan it just right, we can do anything, and enjoy it, too. Yesterday I was able to get both kids their naps, go out to the insurance office, and in the evening go to the Farmers' market - our family and another family from the ward. It was awesome. Then Vincente went right to bed, and Joseline slept all night. I couldn't have asked for a better day.

And I'm starting to get used to the fact that for some reason, Joseline has a really hard time staying asleep at night. If I put her down for a nap, she's out like a light and stays out for her whole nap (about 1 hour for the morning nap, about 2-3 hours for afternoon nap, and about 2 hours for an evening nap around 4pm). But when she's ready to go to bed at night, she can usually fall alseep, but won't stay asleep. Really not sure what to do about that. Maybe it will just work itself out as she gets older (that's what the sleep books say).