Stealing a moment

Eesh...that title sounded like some sort of candy or creamer commercial. But, that's what I'm doing. LM is upstairs "talking" to himself to fall asleep for his afternoon nap...and by talking I mean intermittently making his "nom nom" noise to his paci, crying and babbling. TH is out with some friends playing garage darts and helping with a house project. So, I'm uncharacteristically "alone".

I could clean....goodness knows that the sunshine peeking through the window shows me how desperately I need to dust. I could clean up some toys (and by clean, I mean shove them off to the side). I could start some laundry....which I may actually do as it appears to be piling up and I don't want to spend my entire spring break doing laundry and trying to get strawberry stains out of ALL of LM's clothes. What I most likely do is dig through my pile of book--you know, the ones I bought when I was sure LM was never coming. I've made little in-roads on them in the past year (the Kindle has just been easier).

I've got big plans to open up the bedroom windows, crack the blinds (just enough for the breeze but not enough for lots of light) and read until I decide to take a nap. Even though I am now officially 12 weeks, the exhaustion is not yet fading and I feel entitled to nap if I want to :-) Maybe I'll get lucky and LM will sleep a long time (oh yes, even though it's nearly 4pm, I plan on letting him sleep as late as he wants...bedtime be damned....well...unless I can't fall asleep!) or TH will come home and tell me that he'll get him up when he wakes up and I can sleep. Well....a girl can dream.

There's really no point to this post (as I'm sure you've figured out). But, I had the opportunity to do it...which is so rare these days. And, my first thought upon seeing an infomercial for this was that the BeBe and Bella band people appear to have some competition on their hands and who else should I share this info with...you! Perhaps I need to find something better to watch on tv. 

The only other thought rolling around in my head is about bottles. We're down to 3 6oz bottles a day (before am nap, before pm nap--at daycare, later in the day at home and bedtime). He's now FINALLY drinking about 10oz of whole milk a day, plus lots of cheese/fruits/veggies etc. He loves loves loves his "babas" and I don't know what to do next...we cut out a mid-afternoon bottle already and have been dropping ounces to get where we are. I'm just not sure where to go from here....he's not getting as much milk as I'd like but we've hit a wall with about how much we can get in him a day. Since I don't know anything really (wish I had time to research) about 1 year old serving sizes/food pyramids and fluids intake....I'd appreciate any thoughts you have.

The noises have finally stopped and so bloggy friends, I'm out :-) Enjoy your Sunday.

WWYD?

Let me preface this by saying that I really like our daycare lady. She is super sweet, is excited to see LM and he lights up when he sees her.

When we signed up with her last fall, she had two twin 3 year olds (the person who referred us). She told us that she could take up to 5 full time children. All was well and good.

Fast-forward to now---she's added two part time 10 month olds. They're there a few days a week, for part of the day. So it's the twins, LM and the 2 others. I've been feeling a little odd about it all. It seems like a LOT to me. I wouldn't be able to do that all day and I'm a teacher! It seems like LM is getting plenty of attention. But--really, there's no way to know. I know that there's no way to give all of them the amount of attention that I think I'd really want LM to have...but that's a relative thing because he's used to full time mommy and daddy attention (especially after the summer).

I'm trying to be tolerant of it all because it's all new. We just started Monday with him arriving at the normal time and I know that it takes awhile to establish a routine. Oh, and I'm the one bringing the baby who spits up everywhere (multiple outfit changes) and refuses to nap unless held for more than 20 minutes (for her, us, anyone...please be a phase, please be a phase).

But today when TH picked LM up, she told him about a 3 month old that will be starting in a few weeks--the fourth full time child. I already feel like she's overwhelmed and taking on a lot. Another little one...littler than my little one...it just seems like a lot.

We don't feel 100% comfortable with that many but not so much that we're ready to walk (it was really hard to find someone we liked!). I don't know how to express to her how we're feeling. I don't even know if it's my place. I tend to not make waves but maybe we should be.

I want what's best for LM...but I don't want to overreact (or under-react). I've not seen anything that makes me think he's not being taken care of properly. Do I wish she'd hold him more? Yes of course I do...but I'd hold him all day if I could! Do I think some of the spitting up issue could be helped if he sat on her lap instead of a bouncy chair or boppy after he's done eating? Probably. But I don't know what's reasonable.

I basically just need to know what you think about it all and what you'd do. I'm too tired to think deeply...please share your brains with me :-)