Yawn!

And last night went something like this:

8:30 I fed her and rocked her
9:00 I put her down asleep
9:01 She cried, I put her nuk in her mouth, she cried, I rubbed her back, she cried, I picked her up
9:02 I rocked her back to sleep
9:20 I put her down asleep
9:21 She cried, I rubbed her back, she cried, I shhhhed her, she cried, I picked her up
9:22 I rocked her back to sleep
9:40 I put her down asleep
9:41 She cried, I rubbed her back, she cried and cried and cried, I picked her up
9:45 I rocked her back to sleep
11:30 I put her down asleep
11:31 She cried
11:32 Ron picked her up, rocked her back to sleep
12:00 Ron put her down asleep
3:30 She cried, I rubbed her back, she cried, I picked her up rocked her in the chair in her room.
4:00 I took her downstairs to rock her and try to sleep in the chair, she cried
4:30 I put her down in her crib crying
4:30 I almost cried
4:30 - 5:15 Ron and I listened to her cry
5:15 She fell asleep
8:00 She woke up

Random Thoughts...

Addie is 10 months old. It seems that this time with a baby around is going much faster than when Jackson was a baby.

Addie can crawl! She's been crawling two "steps" and then belly flopping and getting frustrated. Last night Addie crawled five or so "steps" multiple times! Where oh where do the babygates need to be?

A busy weekend in the kitchen again: Apple Salad with Yogurt Dressing, Candied Pecans, Spaghetti and Meatballs and Chocolate Marble Bread with Ganache.

I can't stop yawning. Jackson spoiled us with his sleeping habits, Addie is a different story. She is up multiple times a night, she did well for a while but now in the last few weeks, she's up all the time! We weaned her off of night feedings months ago, so she isn't waking in the hopes of getting fed. She wakes, doesn't know how to get herself back to sleep and cries. I suppose some would say that we should let her cry it out (CIO). If we do this though, she'll just wake up Jackson and we'll have two kids awake. I'm not sure CIO is the method I want to try. But I'm tired. Last night's schedule:

8:30 I fed her and rocked her
9:00 I put her down asleep
9:15 She cried, I put her nuk in her mouth
9:45 She cried, I rocked her back to sleep
10:45 She cried, Ron put her nuk back in her mouth
1:30 She cried, I put her nuk back in her mouth
1:45 She cried, I bounced her in her crib and she went back to sleep
5:00 - 6:00 Ron was up with her three times
6:30 She cried, I brought her to our bed and fed her

Bed head...

Jackson is really a great sleeper, we are very lucky. He falls asleep after a long routine of book reading and singing songs around 8:30 or 9 p.m. He sleeps through the night except for an occasional waking to go to the bathroom which he lets us know by whining and jumping in his bed. He sleeps until 8 a.m. and lays in bed awake singing and talking until we go in his bedroom and tell him he can get up. I hope Addie is as good when it comes to sleeping.


A particularly wild bed-head.

Rewards...

On Thursday we met with the owner of Jackson's childcare center. He's not been napping at school, which means for a crabby evening and falling asleep at the dinner table. We worked with Carol to find some new ways to encourage him to fall asleep. So if Jackson takes a nap, he gets to add a Diego piece to the spot under TV Show, and he can watch an episode of Diego before bed. No Nap = No Diego. If Jackson does not follow other directions throughout the day, he can have books taken away from him. We'll see if this helps!

Taking the frog home...

Jackson's first toy came home with us last night. We kept a stuffed frog on Jackson's carseat carrier from almost day one. On Jackson's first day at Playschool, his teacher told us that we could bring a mobile for Jackson's crib. I grabbed the frog from his car seat and attached it to his crib rail. (And then proceeded to cry like a little little baby.) Well Jackson has moved from a crib to a cot at school and someone else is sleeping in what used to be his crib. What a big boy.

We checked out Jackson's tooth progress while he brushed his teeth this morning and tooth number three has broken through! The picture is a little blurry, but I thought it was funny enough to share.