The Moores: A Typical Day

It's been a while since I've posted. I've wanted to update, but I didn't want to complain. Then I was thinking that this last while will be a time I always look back on. I'll look back and wonder if it was really as hard as I remember or not. So I wanted to write the details of what a full day is like right now. I usually post thinking about my kids as the audience that I'm writing for, but this one will be for me.

A typical day at our house has been starting early. I'm not sure if it's night or day. For the last couple of months it's been really hard to keep the girls up after they're last nap. By 6:00 they're exhausted and want to sleep. So I do what I can to keep them up until 7:00. I lay them down and then we put Asher down. So from about 8-10 is the time I either relax, or get things done.

Then Matt and I usually go to bed around 10:30. I'll either feed the girls then or just go to bed and wait for them to wake up and eat. The feedings usually start anywhere from mid-night to about 2 am, I'll either feed them at the same time or get up at different times to feed them. Then I'm usually down until about 5 am or so. Sometimes I'm up quite a bit more. Every night's different from the one before.

This is the part of the morning that just kills me. The girls are in a light sleep between 5:30-6:30, and just wake each other up. So a lot of times I'm up and down with the girls until 6:30, a lot of times it'll be about 5 times, then I give up on me and them sleeping. Piper's cry is really loud and it will wake up Asher too. So he'll get up and ask if it's morning. Then I'm trying to get him down without waking up the girls then I'll go in the girls room and try to get them back to sleep without letting Asher know that we're awake and up. Asher usually sleeps through the night but has a lot of nightmares so he'll wake up yelling. He prefers me to go in, sometimes I do, sometimes Matt does.

Needless to say I'm way tired in the mornings. So when Matt leaves for work I have been having him turn on the TV for Asher then he'll go downstairs quietly and let me sleep if the girls are still asleep. But as soon as a show ends he turns off the TV and starts yelling asking for another show. Then I have to hurry downstairs and get him quiet. This has really turned into a bad habit. Asher used to get up at around 7:30 but as of last week he has been getting up between 5:45 and 6:15. I hate to have him get in the habit of getting up that early so I try to lay with him or reason with him. Usually he doesn't go back to sleep then goes downstairs and watches a show until I come downstairs.

This is a typical morning. So then once we're up we either play with the kids, eat breakfast, clean or whatever. The girls go back down at around 9:30 or 10. Then I usually have a hair appointment or I just try to clean up. They wake up about and hour and fifteen minutes later. They're up for about 2 hours then another nap. This part of the day is about as bad as the early morning for me lately.

So I lay the girls down, Piper has been in so much pain with her 3 months of continuous ear infections that I end up having to hold her back to sleep. Now it's time to lay Asher down. He doesn't eat very well so I beg him to eat, then go upstairs and take a nap. It's about 1 or 2 by now and since he got up so early he has a hard time holding it together. But, he won't lay down. He just pops back up and wants to read books or bother me. I've been getting really grouchy at this time of the day, I'm sure due to the lack of sleep. So then Asher comes out of his room a thousand times having to go to the bathroom, is hungry, or needs to tell me something. It's just all I can do not to lose it, because I'm either working now or just desperately needing a break at this point. So I fight with him over taking a nap from 1-3 and then he just cries over everything and is SO tired from 4-7.

Matt gets home from work around 4 so the girls wake up around 3 and we try to do something then put the girls down and do it all over again. The solutions to a lot of the problems don't work because they usually disrupt a different kid. Like I can't lock Asher in his room for his naps because he gets scared and just screams and kicks the door or walls and that would wake up the girls. And I can't let Piper cry herself to sleep because I know she's in pain and she just ends up waking everybody up and if she does cry herself to sleep she's awake again only minutes later.

I think the only reason I can write about this right now is because first thing in the morning Piper is getting tubes in her ears. I'm hoping she'll start sleeping through the night and if she does Averi will too. Then if the days get hard it's OK because I will have had some sleep.
I have a picture of Asher with his arms like this at this same age.

Piper and Averi love Asher so much. There is nothing better to me than watching and listening to them play and laugh together. He's so sweet to them and really cares about them.

This is during one of Piper's bad infections, she doesn't look good to me. I can tell she's breathing out of her mouth and I think she does that more when her ears hurt.

I still love her little face! She just looks so tired...

Right before she threw up all over.

So cute! Her arms just pop up! I feel like Averi's bones are hollow. I've never felt a baby that feels like her. Floppy is the only way to describe her. You'll just have to pick her up one day.

I love her big eyes.

She loves her gums. She made this face for a week straight. I haven't seen it for a couple of days though.

I just set them on this chair while I do things. Then they just play with toys. Those days are over though. Piper is moving around a little more and fell off the other day. Oops