but this two kid thing is not as hard as I thought it would be. Maybe I'm just lucky that I have been blessed with two easy kids, or maybe I'm just really laid back and don't let things bother me. Everything is going great. Camryn is a champion eater and sleeper and I guess that makes everything that much easier. Carter is still doing well with her. He now calls her "CC" which I believe means 'sissy'. He is sorta helpful too. He will try to stick her binky back in her mouth when it falls out, but if she doesn't take it right away he gets mad at her hehe. He also wants to hold her all the time...for about 30 seconds at a time. That always turns out to be more work then it is worth, but I do try to let him hold her a few times a day. She is sleeping pretty good at night 4-5 hour stretches, which means only having to get up 1-2 times a night. Sometimes she has a little trouble going back to sleep, so that requires some extra effort on my end, but I'm doing good. I don't feel sleep deprived yet. Carter still sleeps 12 hours at night, so that is a MAJOR help. he goes to bed between 8 & 9 and gets up between 8 & 9 in the morning. He usually comes and gets in our bed at that time, and then I feed Camryn while he watches tv. She'll go back to sleep and him and I will get up and go eat breakfast. Camryn sleeps for a couple more hours so that gives me a chance to spend time with carter in the morning and get stuff around the house done. If clayton is home in the mornings he will get up with carter and get him breakfast and let me sleep some more if I want to.
I took both kids grocery shopping today. It wasn't too bad. The hardest part is the darn shopping carts just aren't big enough to put both of them and all the groceries in there. Carter is really good about staying with me if he's walking, but he still wonders a little. So if I'm trying to look at something I have to have one eye on him and one eye on whatever I'm looking at ;). We went to Aldi's and the first thing we see when we walk through the door is a carton of strawberries. Carter LOVES strawberries, so he puts them in the cart. Then he decides that he wants in the cart too. so I set him in the basket part. Camryn is in her car seat in the top part of the cart. I can't really see carter in the basket because the car seat is in the way. When I do look at him I notice that he has gotten the carton of strawberries opened and has already ate 3 of them! OMG. I hope those things don't have too many pesticides on them. Of course, taking them away from him at this point is not an option if I want to avoid a minor melt down in the middle of Aldi's. So i just let him go to town. He ate the whole carton before we were done in there. AND, I don't know what the cashier did with the carton, because I put it on the belt to pay for it, but it wasn't in the bags when I got home. I don't know if we got a free carton or what happened..lol Oh, and I also got the pleasure of cleaning about 20 strawberry stems out of the shopping cart so the lady behind me didn't have to have her groceries set on top of them. Next time, I will hide the strawberries before they go in the cart. or I will find a less messy snack for grocery shopping..hehe.
