Miles's First Birthday Party (9.9.17)

I had a busy week getting ready but knew the prep in advance would help. It did.

Miles woke up at a time I didn't want because of when his nap would be.

While we were setting up, Ella said we needed flowers at the center of the table to make it super pretty. I told her I didn't have flowers but she could try to find some pretend flowers or lego flowers. She went and looked. About 10 minutes later, she interrupted me in Miles's room asking me to put on her socks. Then she came back with shoes. I asked why. She said she had to go outside and pick flowers. She said she was going for a walk. I made sure to tell her she was not allowed to go outside alone.  Then I came downstairs after failing to get Miles to nap and I saw flowers in a vase on the dining room table!  My dad went outside with her and they picked flowers from the back yard. The flowers looked nice too. Ella is too much sometimes.

The party started at 11. My parents were early to help and the the next people showed up a little after 11.   Then 11:30 and then 1:15.

Miles was very good. He was walking and playing and fine while I was getting food ready.   I took him up to nap right at 12 . He would have normally napped at 11 and he did so well going late.  I tried to get him to nap at 10:15 and that had failed.

Then he napped 1.5 hours. He missed actual eating and woke up and we did cake.  He just chilled there and ate his cupcake. Then ate another cupcake. He was so pleasant. My dad tried to feed him some real food next but he just ate a couple bites.


He played even more. He had fun. He warmed up to everyone. He wasn't stressed. He didn't get his stress hives.  He didn't cry.  He held onto various people's fingers to walk around. He wanted to say bye to people. He'd reach for them.   Besides my parents the last relatives left near 5 PM. I was so glad people stayed long.

I was about to put Miles down for a 2nd nap but then he was still pretty pleasant so we played more.   My parents left after 7 PM.  Some of us had more dinner and some had more cake.

Overall I was shocked how well everything went.  Miles was excellent. Ella did get in trouble a few times. She was demanding while eating. She also liked to hang out with everyone and had fun.

Sarah brought her violin and played that. Miles liked it and so did Ella.  Actually everyone liked it but I really liked that the kids liked it.

My dad helped clean up a lot but after I got Miles to sleep for the night, I spent more time doing all the dishes so they are at least done! Miles was so tired from his busy birthday that clanging dishes didn't even wake him up!

We said no gifts for the party but some people still brought gifts. We didn't open them while everyone was here.  Ella opened Miles's one gift while we were saying bye to people and commented about the money he got.

Here's the buffet of food after almost everyone went through the line.

 I told everyone no gifts. We still got a few. Ella helped Miles open some. Miles found one but was more into the post-it note on it than opening it.

 Miles was tired and went to sleep!

Then I did a lot of dishes!

6.15.17

Miles woke up a little after 5:20.  When I heard him through the baby monitor, I got annoyed Dave's laptop was touching me. Then I realized it was my laptop that I fell asleep with. It was closed because I fell asleep before I even opened it to use it. I was so tired that I slept all night without even noticing.

Miles ate, slept, cried, and repeat a few times until my alarm went off at 7:33 then I realized I better get out of there and get dressed and prepare for the cleaners.

They arrived at 8. I cleaned the entire time they cleaned.  Miles slept until a little after 9. I was in shock!

I can't believe they got the high chair clean!  They spent over 2 hours in the kitchen.

Miles and I woke Ella up at 11.

 Miles was teething bad and there was a lot of crying.

I gave him Tylenol and nursed him to nap. It took a bit to get him to go down.

He didn't nap long.  Well he was asleep on me 10 minutes and then the crib transfer failed.  Then I noticed his door open and closed it later and that woke him up.
I got him back to sleep.
He napped 4 hours total. He napped an hour and then 3 hours.  He was pleasant when he woke up.

Getting ready for the party!

My parents were here.   Ella went on her 2nd sleep over with them.

We ate dinner and relaxed a bit. I got Miles to sleep.  I then loaded pictures onto my computer from the road trip.

I lied in bed to blog but kept reading facebook.

 I got some updates during Ella's sleepover.

Ella Starts Preschool (9.6.17)

We finally found a preschool and got off a wait list so Ella was able to start preschool.

She started today!  Yesterday we had a 2 hour orientation. It was mainly just what today would be like. Ella was glued to me and extremely shy. She started to warm up.   Today she didn't want us to leave again.  I'm sure it's going well now though.

When I started to get Ella to play it was with junk bin.  It had so many little toys from shows or movies that she recognized.

Then we played in the music area.

Then Ella played with princesses and castles.

Ella really liked music time.