Long story short

As to why I haven't been posting very often: 

Last week I worked 49 hours, this week I'm scheduled for 47, next week for 48. So I probably won't be around much until my stay-cation in September. 

Loki vs Toddler Bed

So far the bed is losing the battle. But I have some funny and cute pictures from it of odd positions I've found my daughter asleep in. 

This was during nap time. Found her in front of the closet. 

 She's not allowed to leave her room, so she sleeps in the doorway a lot. 

 One of the few times she was near her bed to sleep. 

 I laughed at this one, reminds me of the witch from "Wizard of Oz"

Blanket from Mawma, it's one of her favorites. 

 She's a blanket horder

 This would have gotten her in trouble if she wasn't asleep. (too far out of her room.) I think she just moved in her sleep though. 

 This is last night, she fell asleep coloring. 

Big Girl Bed Day 2 * Updated *

So over the next week I'm going to catalog our progress through pictures and posts here on the MommyLogue about how our little Loki is doing with transitioning to her very own big girl bed.

Day 2 Nap time:
We started out like this:

And somehow ended up like this:

She didn't really try to escape, but she did get a warning with she got a little loud, only for me to find out she needed a diaper change, so she didn't really get in trouble for that.

Day 2 Bed time:
She kept wanting to be wrapped up cocoon like for bed, which is adorable. That blanket is actually Husband's made for him by Mawma when he was little.

It took a while for her to fall asleep this time, i caught her quite a few times almost outside her room in the blanket, but she never left, which made me quite proud. 

When she finally did fall asleep I found her like this:

I know it's hard to see, but she's curled up on her bed! Only the second night too! Lets see if it keeps up.

*** Update***
Well it did not keep up, Loki woke up around 4am, (after one of the many times Odin was up last night) and it took a while to get her to stay in her room and quiet before she would fall back asleep, and to be honest I expected to be woken up by little hands scaring the daylights out of me of her coming into our room. But thankfully that didn't happen. (kind of dreading that also, although I'm sure with how bad me waking up screaming scares her it won't happen too often) But right now Loki is asleep in her doorway, I'd take a picture but I"m afraid it would wake her up. 

Big Girl Bed Day 1

So now she has no choice, Loki only has the option of her toddler bed or the floor.

If you couldn't guess the floor won, and we had quite the fight to get her to stay. (Which I talked about last post)

When she finally really fell asleep she was in this position. 

Achievement Unlocked

Today Husband and Suv took Loki's crib out of her room, leaving only the toddler bed. 

So far we've had lots of tears, a few arguments and a few fits before we reached an agreement:

If she stays in her room and isn't too loud, her bedroom door will stay open. If she gets noisy or leaves, the door will be shut (still letting in light, but not as much as she likes) 

Since the agreement has been reached the crying is calmed and she has not come out of her room. 

Let us see how the rest of the night goes...

***UPDATE***

Loki is asleep, but refuses to use the bed.

Instead she's sleeping on the rug with the blanket MawMa made her

Changes

In case you hadn't noticed, we now have a new title, "MommyLogue" You can thank Husband for this one, he's the one who came up with the term while babbling to Odin about how he wasn't paying attention to mommy monologuing to herself. (He was supposed to be listening to me, and was doing a very poor job of it!)
The change comes mostly due to the cleverness of my husband, and also I think that I just need the change, especially since this is mostly about my kids at this point, so why not change things around to reflect that?

Also, on a little bit more of a serious subject:

Dear readers,

In the next few weeks (I hope) you will be seeing some new blog posts, about things I have wished to comment on in my life but haven't for fear of upsetting someone, or making people angry. I have come to the conclusion that I started this blog for myself, to get my ideas 'on paper' as it were. And for fear of upsetting people I have been censoring myself, well no more!
That being said I'm not going to be going out of my way to be abrasive, but I'm not going to shy away from topics like I have been lately. Which is a minor reason as to why I haven't been updating as much as I would like to, well that and not having a whole lot of time to myself.
So yeah, I'm not going to go out of my way to offend people, but I'm not going to be treading as lightly as I have been with my writing.



Hope you enjoy the new design (still working on changing colors and the background) and look for more posts soon!

Justified Reasons for Mariticide*

I love Husband very much, and I feel that fact is well known and easily seen by our friends, however I find myself contemplating (as I was washing the numerous bottles and breast pumping apparatus) his untimely demise. You may be asking yourself  'what in the world would bring a loving wife to want to kill her husband?' I'll tell you, in one word: books.

In many words: 

Husband has a habit of picking up whatever book I'm reading and either starting from the beginning (not normally a problem) or just turning to a random passage and starting to read. His latest transgression was picking up my book while I was doing the washing and starting to read. He -thankfully- started at the beginning, but this is the second book in the series! Even after I offered to get him the first book he kept reading! Now if nothing else he deserves punishment for that, but what he did next got my blood boiling. He put the book down, and said he was done, and he didn't even finish it!  Nor will he be reading the first in the series! 

And this is not his first transgression, nor the worst. That would be Husband's dealings with the Harry Potter Series. 

He watched:

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

then he READ:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Then he watched:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

I almost killed him. 

*Now this being said, I am not condoning murder, that is quite a naughty thing to do. However, I am just telling my side of the story if Husband was to ever have an unfortunate accident. (He'd have it coming, especially if he was found with a book anywhere near him, as it probably was being read out of order)