My mom has some more things to write:
September was the first month that I decided what ever happens I am not going in into Lorent's room any more overnight. I can't do it physically, mentally, I am just constantly exhausted. Keeping up with him during the day feels like being one of the extreme marathon runners (except I am missing any requirements for it), even an easy day is minimum a half a marathon.
So, we are in training....in sleep training. If you are reading this blog and have any suggestions how I could help him, please don't hold yourself back and let me know.
Our night time routine is always the same: he goes up on the staircase around 7:20-7:30 pm, bath with music, pj time, last bottle of milk with the same music and sound machine and by 7:45 pm he is sleeping. We did the sleep training with him when he was 4 and half month old, then he has learned how to fall asleep. It took him four month ( I am sure we were the tafest clients of Shelly) but he got it and there is no more cries, no fuss, just the super men move landing on the bed and going to sleep.
The second part of the problem, with the waking up in the middle of the night and way to early in the morning has never been resolved.
Here is this month in numbers:
15 nights -----he slept through until 7 am ( actually 5 of these nights were until 6:30 am but I am considering this into this group ) this is the great news
6 nights ------he woke up in the middle of night somewhere between 2:00- 5:00 am and was up for 2 hours to one time 3and 1/2 hours
9 nights ------he woke up to early, between 5:30 am and 5:45 am. My tactic in this case that I let him speak and party until 6:30 am , then I give him a bottle of warm milk, change and put him back to bed. Sometimes he falls back to sleep for an other hour , sometimes he doesn't and I take him out of the crib around 7:15 am.
What do you think?
I'm always happy to go to school. Look at me, happy and ready to go. :-)
Sunday was a clear but cold day here, specially after the sudden temperature drop. My friend, Peti and I had a date at the Hill Ridge Farm. That place is always fun, the ponies were back after taking a summer vacation so we rid them, all the animals were out, so we were able to feed them. One of my favorite is the train ride, and also enjoyed the hay ride. Now, we have stopped at a pumpkin patch to pick out our first pumpkin of the season. Thanks Peti, I had a great time!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my binkies. I am not attached to anything except my binkies and maybe I have a slight shoe fetish going on but that's it. No stuffed animals, no blanky, no lovey, none of that baby stuff. So, my parents are still allowing me to entertain and calm myself with the binkies, or cumi how mom calls them. Recently, we have started counting them and I already know "egy" which means one, the rest is called out by mom. They call me the Binky King, I agree.
This was my second pool season and I definately enjoyed every minute of it. The first part of the summer my mom took me a lot to swim and we had plenty of pool dates. The second part of the summer, when the temperature was around 100 F, my dad was taking me regularly for my last hour, before going to sleep, to the pool. That was my "happy hour", the only way to keep me decent! I have found myself a great activity that over the time I managed to do completly on my own, no supervision. I actually should have gotten some wages for it but oh well I will let it slide now. I started to check all the drainig around the pool. First I needed help to open up the covers but by the end of the season you can see it on the pictures I am a natural. I found many treasures by uncovering the drains, like zillion of the bugs, showels, balls, little toys. I am already thinking about the fall season and what I should be doing.
