Better for now

Only 3 little amoxicillan's later and my head is (so far) doing much better! I'm still stuffy but I can handle that.

These are a few more pics of Maclaren. One day last week I heard her smacking-she often does that when she removes her Nuk and decides to go for her hands instead. This time, however she was sucking on the side of her foot! She's ended up without socks on a lot lately because she takes them off-soaking wet! Guess they hinder her ability to use her new-found pacifiers!

The house is pretty quiet right now-except for the sound of Andy fixing his vat of cereal! Maclaren did better last night. She was fully asleep by 11pm and woke up at 6:01am. Definitely better than 1am-3am-then whatever else it was! I just hope that she does good again tonight. I figure Jackson will be up at any minute now. He didn't utilize quiet time for the sake of a nap yesterday. (I tell him he doesn't have to go to sleep just stay in his room on his bed-and no TV) 9 times out of 10 he goes to sleep anyway, but yesterday was day 10! When his hour was up he was down the stairs and ready to go! Needless to say he got in trouble with his dad last night and Andy sent him to his room. Andy went up there and he had fell out-took less than 8 minutes! It was after 7pm so we decided to let him sleep. Most of you know Jackson is horrible when you wake him when he's not ready to get up!

Well my in-laws got us James Dobson's "The New Strong Willed Child". They would be happy to hear that I'm actually READING it! I'm glad to read that there are people out there who have more defiant children! But, that doesn't make my struggle with Jackson any better. Hopefully I will get to the part that gives the recipe for a compliant child. Kidding. Maybe I should just pray that Maclaren be compliant. I don't know if I can handle another Jackson! After reading just a bit I realized what I guess I already knew. I (believe) that I was a very compliant child. I hated disappointing my parents, so to have a child that could not care less about disappointing me-well it's hard to swallow sometimes. When he's Mr. Attitude I just keep playing back in my head all the "Mom, I love you"'s. That's what gets me through! Well my morning blogging is messing up Andy's morning ritual of checking out all his usual sites! More later!