Oct 7th, 2007
I don’t understand babies
Friday night Holden went to bed around 7:30. I went to bed about 11:30 and the next thing I knew it was 6:00 AM. Holden, and more importantly I, slept the whole night. It was great - felt like a million dollars on Saturday.
Saturday night I got into bed about 11:15 - and I swear my head hit the pillow and Holden started crying. I can’t think of many things more disheartening than being really tired, having your kids in bed, laying down and having one of them start crying. Well, the crying lasted - so I fed and changed him, we gave him the pacifier, we gave him Tylenol for his teeth, Chuck rocked him and eventually, 2 1/2 hours later we let him cry. He fell asleep about 10 minutes later. Ugh! If only we had let him cry at 11:30 instead of 2 AM.
What was different on Saturday? I have no idea - maybe the apples we gave him for dinner upset his stomach. Who knows. Holden ate 4 ices cubes of sweet potatoes and a bowl of oatmeal tonight - hopefully that will keep him full until 6 AM again.
I think Colin is trying to give up his nap. He can make it until about 5 if he doesn’t get one, but then he gets tired. Tonight he almost fell asleep at the dinner table so we all had to get up to play blocks in order to keep him up. If he does take a nap during the day he ends up not falling asleep until about 9:30 or 10 PM, which isn’t great for us. It is to bad for me because his afternoon nap is a nice little break during the day, but I guess he can’t take naps forever (although I would be happy to do that)
Again sorry for the lack of pictures. I have been so busy with the kids, preschool, moving, estimates, closing on the house, etc I haven’t had a chance to work on the blog and pictures very much. I will try to get them uploaded tomorrow!