Surviving Sassy Pants and Sugar Booger: Cabin Fever

So since my last post at Christmas (yes, I'm that far behind), it has been unseasonably cold. Which means we have been inside...a lot. Too much.

I'm all for family time, but somewhere around the first week of January, I realized I had spent four or five complete days in a row at home...with the kids...not even leaving the house to go to the mailbox.
Clearly, the cold has affected my brain. Most of the family time was spent chillin' and enjoying Christmas presents. We've seen Grandmama and Grandaddy two weekends in a row, and that's always nice. The extra sets of hands and good food we shared were extra nice.

But things haven't been all rosy. We have all been healthy so far, thank goodness. But temper tantrums have reached a new height. We have been reading and talking a lot about changing our discipline tactics with Maddie. It's exhausting. We would so much rather play with her and be silly and happy instead of having a 30-minute debate about why she wants pink underwear instead of blue. Here is the face we see so much of these days.

Still, we had a great night tonight and when she is happy, it's the best feeling ever. She's growing up so fast!

Mason, on the other hand, was making major progress and sleeping a consistent five hours at a time for a few days. Now we are back to the every three hour schedule. So we stay very, very tired. He's doing really well at daycare, except for this week he seems to be pushing the bottle away. He's also "eyeballing" our food. And grabbing our food plates!! So we thought it was time to start him on rice cereal. He's not very interested, but we'll keep trying!

Mason saying, "pick me up, please!!"

Power to the people. And the giraffes. And the elephants.

Tonight was encouraging. The kids were both in bed by 8:20. Bottles were washed by 8:40. Frank is sitting here munching chips, drinking beer and reading a book. Now if I can just finish this post....