Lilah turned 4 on Monday! Happy birthday to my awesome 4 year old. For her birthday we went to soft play and ate this tiny cake at home. It was great. She got so many presents (we threw a party for her nursery class, and I did not quite realize how much unicorn one could get from 25 nursery friends). We are still opening presents slowly. Lilah is almost as tall as Isaac was at 4.5 years old. She is wearing size 5 and tells us long stories about being ravenous and sneak thieves (hint - sneak thieves steal things but are apparently easily thwarted by darkness, gates, latches, and signs saying "no sneak thieves")
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Isaac started school again on Wednesday. He's in year 1 now. It seems to be going fine, from what we hear. I have lots of concerns (as most parents do, all the time) but I have been reminded that boy development is different than girl development. Boys do weird things. I don't expect him to be a girl, but I only know my own childhood and he is not me. I will cross my fingers that the things he struggles with get easier for him. And maybe the things I struggled with wont be things at all for him.
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Lilah started her new nursery this week. She also started on Wednesday and within an hour was home with a 39.5/103 degree fever. She laid in bed all day until right before dinner, when she threw up on our sofa and floor. Want to know a thing that is hard? Getting two babies away from a vomiting four year old, while covered in sick yourself. It was all very tricky and very sad. Luckily she is already getting better
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Our nanny started doing 3 days a week this week. Childcare is a rocky and complicated road. Babies are getting better but I kind of want to fast forward this bit and just be in the bit where they are super happy again. This transition is so... transition.
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We are moving bedrooms around. I've lost of my office, which is going to become Isaac & Lilah's room. I now have a desk in Andy's office, temporarily. We are waiting for the blackout blind to arrive so we can move Isaac & Lilah upstairs. Then we need to get their old room painted, and then move the twins into that room, and then Andy can move into the twins room, and then I can have his office. In the interim, things are very messy, and also Andy and I enjoy sharing a house and a bed and a life and kids and food, but we really don't like sharing an office.
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After some comments on my last post about pillows I decided to just ty and wash mine! They spent a long time in the direr but I think it helped. My pillows on the right, after being washed:
The vomit + babies doesn't sound super fun! However I bet once you move all of the room around you will be happier, and definitely once the nanny settles in, it will get better!!
ReplyDeleteI am transitioning daily from.onw place to another and that sometimes is challenging as I often don't want to figure out what I am doing for the next day, where I am staying, how I will get food, what route I will take etc. The amount of choices is freeing but also sometimes overwhelming to a certain degree.
It's true, your life is a daily transition! It must feel a bit repetitive as well as exciting. I remember when I was backpacking I would sometimes think "oh I have to sort out a bus and figure out where to go ugg" and then I would think "but at least I'm in Thailand and everything is beautiful and delicious!" and I remember sometimes I would stay longer in nice places just to get a break from planning things.
DeleteI am hoping it gets better too... no one has vomited today so it must be better already :-)
Hurray for no vomit!! A no vomit day is a good day!
DeleteYou have so much going on, Rachel! We are in the middle of back-to-school transitions and they've been a bit rough this year because our teen is separated from ALMOST ALL HER FRIENDS. Argh. It has been a bitter pill to swallow at that age, but we're hosting a big back-to-school party next weekend that hopefully will ease the pain a bit. (Hopefully all her friends don't spend the time bragging about being in the same class together.)
ReplyDeleteOther than that, the transition back to a routine will take a while as activities don't start in earnest until mid-September. I'll admit I'm dreading that, but once we get into it, I'll get used to the faster pace.
Both my kids got sick their first day of preschool. Why does that always happen? Sigh. But I'm glad she's already getting better. Vomit is just the worst, though. The worst.
Happy birthday to Lilah. Lots of transitions right now.
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