Feeling Fustrated

I just don't know what to do. I have an otherwise perfectly content baby during the day, and at night, all hell breaks loose. I honestly feel like I don't know what I am doing with Simon, and the screaming that he does...I just don't know if I can handle it any longer. I really feel like flying off the handle sometimes! At night, he has a quick little cat nap at around 6:30, and I give him a bath at around 7-7:15, give him a bottle around 7:30, and you would think that he would be sleepy and just go to sleep, right? No, he then proceeds to scream for about an hour to hour and a half later. I know he is tired, but c'mon, what do I do? He does the screaming thing during the day too, especially right when he needs to go to sleep. I don't feel like I have help most of the time either. I really feel like I am holding a screaming baby all the friggin time! I am just at a loss, and feel so incompetent as a mom. Let's see if I can upload some pics of the little devil.

Ok, we will try this again...

Let's see how long this last this time. :) This past year has flown by, I look at my baby, and she is just that in these photos, she has gotten so much bigger now. There doesn't seem to be a trace of baby in her anymore. That makes me a little sad. But, alas, I've got another one to watch over now. Simon Gabriel has come into our lives and has blessed us greatly. This little one is just perfect. He was born on Tuesday, August 26th at 12:58 pm. (Thank you simon, I was able to still order lunch from the cafeteria!) His birth was just about perfect....
Monday I had my 41 week appointment, and I knew nothing was going on, so I told the doc to just spare me the pain and don't worry about checking to see if I was dialated. So at about 1:30 in the morning on Tuesday, I started having some mild contractions. I started really noticing them around 3, and they started to be consistent. At about 4 I told Gregg not to worry about going in to work, and he just rolled over and went back to sleep. I went on ahead to take a shower, and get something to eat. Around 5:30, I went and called my brother to see if they can come down to watch Olivia, get this, he asked if he could wait till 6 to call his boss, he didn't want to call any earlier unless it was an emergency...whatever. I called mom to go on ahead and make the 3 hour drive up, I knew she would be up getting ready for work. Around 6:45 Mike and Melissa show up to watch Olivia, and about 7:15 we went on ahead to drive up to the hospital...we ended up having to drive up to St. Joseph because St. Lukes was full. At about 8, we were in our room (there was a bit of traffic), and after the most painful cervical check I had ever endured, I heard the nurse said to go on ahead and admit me, I was a 5!! At about 10:30 they administered the most wonderful epi, and after waiting around at about 12:45, we were ready to have a baby!! After about 5 pushes, literally 10 minutes later, Simon was here! I'll show pics later!!