Hornibrook Stories: My Productive Week

I have had a super productive week, and I think it is all thanks to Eric. He gave me a great start!

Tuesday night was heaven! Eric let me lay down around 12 while he stayed up with Aaron. They came in around 2:30 because Aaron needed to be changed. This was apparently an adventure because Aaron decided to shoot a stream of pee straight into the air coating the bed and walls. I woke to Aaron crying and when I heard the story I congratulated Aaron on working on his distance – this comment earned me a very strange look from poor Eric who had experienced Aaron “working on his distance.” Eric fed him a bottle and then Aaron slept in his own bed till almost 8 in the morning. That is 8 hours of sleep that were virtually uninterrupted!!!

So Wednesday I decided it was time to find a crib… There are several reasons for this: 1. I often feed Aaron in my bed and fall asleep burping him which gives him the luxury of sleeping on my chest but gives me a terrible night’s rest – with a crib I can feed him in the rocking chair that is in the same room as the crib and then dump him back in bed. 2. When Aaron is in the same room with me I jump up at every noise – when he is further away I let him sort more things out on his own. 3. Though Tuesday night may have been a fluke, it was amazing so I think he’ll do fine in a crib. :D

I went on KSL and found a beautiful crib. I was in luck, the lady who owned it was headed to Orem that day and offered to drop it off to me. Amazing! A beautiful crib at a great price that was delivered right to my door!!!

So, once Aaron had finally fallen asleep and I had been sneaky enough to be able to lay him down (he wakes up and freaks out if he realizes you’re putting him down because he much prefers being held) I decided to rearrange the furniture to fit the crib.

I had to move the entertainment center a bit which made the TV look terribly offset. So I decided to turn the entertainment center around… I figured I could paint the unfinished edges and who would know the difference, right?

On Thursday, Aaron and I went to the store to find paint. When we got home, he didn’t want to nap but was content to just be close by… so he helped me paint! What child doesn’t like painting?

I am SO excited to have my changing table back (Thanks Amanda!). Atop the table used to sit the bassinet (also from Amanda) so we would change Aaron on the bed. This would cause problems when he would decide to ERUPT because then we would have to wash all of the bedding…

Now I just need to outfit my crib. I was planning when Aaron did nap on Thursday to sew a bumper pad and crib skirt out of old sheets that I have that are a similar color to his crib sheets… but my sewing machine decided to blow up. That’s right, blow up… The bobbin thread decided to bunch up and get caught in everything and sew absolutely nothing. Usually when this happens I simply take out the bobbin, rethread the machine and everything is good. But not on Thursday… so I still don’t have a bumper or crib skirt which may be a good thing because I don’t actually know what I’m doing. o_O I am fine for now without the crib skirt, but the bumper would be nice. Aaron is already trying to play Houdini and escape from the crib. I find him with his little arms and legs stuck through the poles trying to get out as he waits for me to get him and feed him. I don’t place him near the edge, by the way… he scoots over there all by himself. I will get a picture of this someday… but right now I find him like this in the middle of the night when he wants food so I have other things on my mind.

Our internet went out on Wednesday/Thursday because we are in transition between companies so Aaron and I have been trying to find means to entertain ourselves. We have been very good and have done LOTS of cleaning. We’ve even done some weeding.!

Today we went outside to read a book. It was a nice, cool 94 degrees. (well, cool for Utah… blech) But even that nice cool weather was too hot so we didn’t stay outside long. Besides, we planned to go to the pool later for my family birthday party!!!