It's about time.... Or sleeping - one of the two

I figure it's about time for my daily update [read: every-other-monthly] :-)

I've been exhausted being pregnant and was so grateful to finally have the blood-work to prove it! I try to tell the doctors that I've been super tired lately, and they just say 'pregnancy will do that to you!' Not the most helpful answer when at times I'm so weak I can't even make it up the stairs and several times a day I don't have enough energy to lift my hand to my mouth to feed myself (I'm not kidding here. I could make it to the table, barely, with help from Mark - but then I couldn't do anything more than stare at the plate - that is if I could even continue sitting up) This didn't happen all the time. Mostly I was fairly normal (just generally tired) but about 3-4 times a day I would 'crash' and couldn't do a thing. Sometimes sitting was too hard for me and I'd literally fall down to laying on the couch and couldn't do a thing to stop myself or even get comfortable. I'd just .. fall. These episodes would last for about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes and then I would be fine again... So, thankfully my blood-work showed that I was low on my thyroid dose and they upped it enough that now I'm just tired and I only 'crash' about 1-2 times a week instead of about 3-4 times a day! Much better!! And that's even getting better! I was also a bit anemic so I take an iron pill (along with my thyroid pill and my prenatal vitamin. All three have to be taken a few hours apart - I swear I don't think of myself as quite the old and decrepit person that I normally think of when I picture people taking tons of pills at various intervals during the day). Life is good now that I can function again!! So, back to updating (don't expect too much though - I'm still the lazy bum who's always been here, now I just have more energy to be lazy)

For a while now I've been wanting to do a 'Shelly's funny sleeping places' post, but she's decided to only sleep in one place now. She must have gone through every possible spot she could think of and found her favorite and now she's done experimenting. She would sleep on her bed, in the crib (before we moved Jason in there), on the window seat, on the floor, on the other side of the floor, on the chair and similar type places in the office where she would nap so we could have her and Jason nap in separate rooms (they sleep better during the day when they're apart, and better at night when they're together - strange...). Shelly settled on sleeping mostly on the chair at about the same time I realized I should be taking pictures of her asleep in all these funny places. Oh well. I did manage to get a few fun ones anyways.

In the famous chair

Yes, she's under the bed

Again in the chair

If you can't tell that's the floor - I'm not sure how to help you...

Ok, I know Shelly isn't the one asleep - but it's close enough. This is Mark's way of trying to put the kids down for a nap - by falling asleep (I know Jason looks asleep too, but he's not, he's just blinking)

Another victim of our 'Sleep Documentary'

Here's Jason's first night on a big bed - it happened on accident. I didn't think he's really fall asleep there! He's back to the crib again - this was a one time thing...

It is almost impossible to keep soft sleep-on-able things organized in that room! Blankets, pillows, clothes, stuffed animals... It's all fair game!

Reading by osmosis :-)

Jason with his feet through the bars and his belly on the pillow - not his head...

I just took this one a few minutes ago, but I had the computer on my lap and couldn't get a good angle. Yes, that's a sucker in her mouth - I'm a slacker of a Mom. I didn't even know she was asleep in here. Don't worry - Mark finished the project that banished us to the playroom and came upstairs and took the sucker out of her mouth - me? I was too busy trying to get this blog updated - I do have priorities!