Life as I know it...

I am encouraged and blah all at the same time.  I am encouraged because my bookshelves are done and beautiful, my house is pretty much clean, and I wrote a little box every other day on the calander to remind myself to vacuum (I just forget and then don't realize how long it has been since I did it...sense of time = TERRIBLE!!).  I am blah because I can't seem to get up the energy to deal with the desk again.  It got a little overrun this last week because we were so busy and then gone part of this weekend.  I've been trying to use my evenings to work out and do the daily house cleaning tasks and I had so many errands to do last week what with dentists, and doctors, and groceries, and who knows what else, that I got waaaay behind on the desk and now it is a mess.  It would probably only take me half an hour or so to sort through it all but I just don't want to.  Sad, I know.

In any case...Tirzah is doing really well.  She went down for what I thought would be a nap at 5:30 and is still asleep so...oops?  I guess I'll be up really early in the morning :)  She is now part of the Infants and Toddlers program in Idaho.  It basically helps track development for early or underweight babies, babies who were IUGR (which she was), etc. to make sure that they are on track and if they aren't to help them catch up.  She will have a basic assessment sometime in the next two weeks and then a monthly visit to keep an eye on her.  She seems to be on track with everything but this way if there is something to catch it will be caught early.  I'm glad to have someone else looking out for her development other than me all the time with everything I read.  I'm really funny actually.  I read all of these different things and I talk to Jacob all the time about what she is doing, what she'll be doing soon, what she should be doing, how she's ahead here and on track there (so far she isn't behind in anything).  It cracks me up...I know, I'm easily amused :)

I guess this is just a basic update blog.  Nothing really exciting to report.  Jacob is studying like a fiend as usual.  He spends pretty much 85-90 hours a week with his nose in a book or in class.  He takes breaks to spend time with the baby and have a conversation with me and that's about it.  Such is law school.  I'm super proud of him and how hard he's working and it's great to see how much he is really enjoying what he's learning.  I'm jealous sometimes :)  So...that's our life as we know it right now.  School, diapers, doctors, piled up mail, and the ever constant battle with laundry :)

*I wrote this post a few days ago and forgot to actually post it.  As an update, I went through the desk so that's good and Tirzah's bedtime is now between 5:30-6:30 every night and it's working really well for her.  She's much happier during her awake time.  She only wakes up to nurse twice at night, usually sometime around midnight and then sometime between 3 and 4.  When I was putting her down later she'd wake up between 2:30 and 3:30 every night to nurse but she was a lot grumpier during the day so I'm happy to get up twice (or once if I haven't gone to bed yet, which sadly is often the case) to have a happier baby during the day :)  She's also napping better...so yay!!  Now if only we could get her to take a bottle so mommy could have a break every now and then :)