ava is napping. unbelievable. carter is too. unbelievable. i should be napping, but i just had a cup of tea stronger than any cup of coffee one could ever make, soooooo here i am with a lost opportunity! but i can read and i can write, always a luxury.

this also goes to show that though caffeine might make its way into breastmilk, it does not really interfere with their little sleepy-heads. not trying to be flippant about that, i do make an effort to go decaf as much as possible, but today is an exception since i thought this would be a first line of defense before i succumbed to the need for actual pharmacueticals. it really does not seem to have jacked either of them up. perhaps it is like the ritalin effect--where an adult stimulant is a pediatric downer?

here is my "we are at home today and are going to try not to watch tv" strategy: pull out EVERY toy from the bedroom and the toybox in the living room and under the guise of reoganizing them allow ava to go nuts. carter benefits too, as all of his little rattle type toys have been unearthed, and he is really into anything that he can shake and bang.