Some type of normal

The weekend was crazy...lots of visitors, lots of noise, and lots of extra hands to help.

We live with my mother-in-law, for those who don't know, so she is around at times but she teaches college courses at two different schools so her schedule is pretty hectic a lot of days. She kept her schedule quite clear this weekend and was available to help a lot, including a night shift the day after I got out of the hospital (the second time.) since Zach was also running on empty up all night worrying about the brand new baby discharged from the NICU and his wife off at the ER. He is a worrier by nature, so I'm sure he was even more of a mess than was showing (which was enough!).

Today, it is much quieter. Riley is at school, MIL at work, Zach was gone most of the morning (until just a few minutes ago actually) at hand therapy. Archer was super fussy- he couldn't make up his mind what he wanted, I don't think he even knew! At first he was basking in the sunlight like a little kitten, purring on my shoulder. A few minutes later he was pissed off that the sun was shining on him and tried to eject himself from my arms (he did not succeed.) Declan played quietly all morning and we caught up on some of our favorite cartoons (currently we are into The Cat in the Hat, Clifford, still Caillou, Bubble Guppies...) and was actually quite pleasant. He was such a grouch yesterday, so that was a relief. I love Riley to death, but I swear Dec gets much more vinegary when he spends the whole day with Ry. The whining, backtalk and stubbornness is airborne, apparently.

What else is going on this week? Wednesday, Archer has his newborn photo shoot @ Jeni's (feel free to post a shameless link to your site if you are reading this, Jeni!) so it will be interesting to see how that goes! He is normally a good baby, so it should be fine. I just have to watch anyway and feed him and change him- she will have the much tougher job!