Sleep Update

The last few nights have been better for me with getting enough sleep. I decided what I needed to do is wear myself out more during the day, and then at night I'm so tired, I am able to go to bed at a better time. Last night, I went to bed about 11:00 or so, and Lena woke me up at 6:45, and I got right up and wasn't tired. In fact, I have so much energy, I don't know what to do with it. Of course, this is the day that Lena is more tired than usual, so I don't have her to wear me out as much. Maybe I need to work out. I need to figure out how to manage my time better so that I can squeeze in time for working out. I would love to lose some weight. Only 24 lbs to lose to get back down to prepregnancy weight! Anyways, I was derailing from the subject of sleep.....
I think I've figured out how to get more sleep. This summer I plan to take Lena to the library, the zoo, the park, playgroups, etc. Since I won't have preschool, I'll have some time flexibility for those things, and they should help wear me out.

Cooling off

Daddy got Lena a new water mist hose for the
yard. Lena and Daddy enjoyed cooling off with it.

Frustrated

Lena loves her playscape, but is a little frustrated
that she can't stand up in underside of it. Maybe
we'll get her a playhouse at some point.

Lena just got a new watering can and
wanted to help Daddy in the yard today.

Lena loves to swing

Sleep

I have decided that I'm not getting enough sleep. I wake up most mornings really tired. Of course, Lena has decided to reset her internal clock for earlier, so there is a reason I don't get enough. Also, I think it's my inability, or fear (whatever you want to call it) of sleeping alone. So I wait till James is done with whatever he does, and then go to bed. At that point, it could be 1:00 in the morning. Then I really don't get sleep, because of the late hour, and Lena waking up earlier. I know I need to break this cycle, (and my not wanting to sleep alone), I just don't know how. I guess I'll figure it out at some point.

They smell so pretty mommy!

Here is the belly button picture. For
some reason it wouldn't show up before.

Typical Lena

This is so typical of Lena. She has just
discovered her belly button lately. She
was running around in the bluebonnets
and then stopped to make sure her
belly button was still there. Funny girl.

This was taken last week. We missed
Easter Sunday since we were sick, so
I got Lena all dolled up and took her
to a field of bluebonnets for pictures.

It's about time

Well, several of our friends had blogs, and my family has a blog, so we thought, "It's about time to have a blog of our own. We call it Triple C, because we are the Cogburns and there are 3 of us. Now that we have joined the world of blogdom, I thought I would start by posting some pictures of Lena.