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I’ve thought for about a month now that I had thrush.

I wasn’t sure since Oliver’s latch was so damn bad starting out that I just assumed the pain was due to that.  Oliver’s mouth was decently clear, so when my pain went away I had every reason to continue with the idea that the pain had been due to poor latch - the pain had never been as bad as I had read.

Cara’s two year old doctor’s appointment is tomorrow and I wasn’t too sure if she was going to have to get any shots.

She screams like a banshee every time we go to the pediatrician’s office even though she’s never had a bad experience there.

Whatever.  She’s just weird.

Anyway, I don’t like being surprised when I go to the doctor’s office and I really don’t like being surprised when it comes to my kids.

So, I do my research.  I read actual journal articles and don’t just rely on the almighty interweb for my answers.

At 7:59 this morning, Cara officially turned two.

Oliver wasn’t impressed.

My dad actually showed up and came bearing a tricycle.  Not the tricycle that I wrote about previously [and that he knew about] but whatever.  It just annoys me that he knew the specific tricycle that we were going to get her and he had told me that he was NOT getting it for her because it was too expensive.  Then, instead of just getting her something else [or nothing at all cause I told him he didn't have to get anything], he still shows up with a tricycle…just not the one we wanted to get her.

Even though it’s not even Halloween, I’m already thinking about Christmas.

This is the first Christmas that Cara’s going to remember.  I want it to be special.  I’ve found the tree that we’re going to get and I’m in the process of looking for a few special ornaments.

When we first moved back to Arkansas, Cara fell IN LOVE with the tricycle in the picture above.  She would scream bloody murder when we would leave the outdoor/bike shop.  Cara would hollar “ME!!!  MINE!!!” if any other child dared to come within ten feet of the bike.

Oliver’s sleep sucked a big one last night so that meant that my sleep sucked as well.

We’ve moved Cara’s crib into our room and I’ve been trying to have Ollie in his bed for at least part of the night to give me and Tucker more room in the bed.  [It's VERY nice to be able to stretch out again.]

For some reason, Oliver would stay asleep for about ten minutes [just enough time for me to get under the covers and all toasty] and then wake up fussing.  I swear that I was functioning in an alternate universe last night as the midnight hour seemed to last about five hours.

I really don’t have anything negative to say about Magnet Street baby announcements.  PBN asked me to review these announcements and since they were gonna give me 25 for free, [and I'm a cheap skate] I couldn’t turn them down.

My initial thought on a magnetic baby announcement was that they were going to look cheap.

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When Cara was about a month old, she started crying a lot.

That’s saying something since she cried pretty much all of the time anyway.

From 5pm till around 1am, Cara would scream and cry and fuss and not even a boob in her mouth would calm her down.  We had The Happiest Baby on the Block and swore by the thing.  [Swaddling was our friend.]

Eventually, Cara’s crying and carrying on got to the point where swaddling didn’t help.  Walking didn’t help.  Nursing didn’t help.  NOTHING helped.

Tucker doesn’t like infants; he finds them “uninteresting”.

When he first said that to me during the wonderful period of postpartum hormone craziness, I automatically assumed that what he really meant was that he hated Oliver and wished that he hadn’t been born.

I was wrong.  Imagine that.

Tucker completely meant what he had said.  To him, infants are small lumps of wobbly necks that he can’t feed and that usually prefer me to him during the early months. Because of this, I let Tucker deal with Cara while I deal with Oliver.