Sometimes I'm Clueless

Help please. My baby, who always went to sleep well, is starting to fight it with all his might. Is it developmental? He's starting to stand and try to walk. Is it becoming a toddler? Is it wanting to play? Is it wanting to spend more time with Mommy and Daddy? Is it a growth spurt? Teething? How have you responded to this? He even went back to sleeping with me a few nights!

Addendum: Hub just walked him in, and put him in the crib. There was some angry yelling for a few minutes, but nothing like when I first put him in and nothing like it's been the past week. WTH??

And Happy New Year's Eve

How crazy is it that I need E to sleep well, and yet I miss him bunches when he does?

Sent from my iPod

Recap of the Awesomeness

Oh my goodness the joy in this house. One of E's grandfathers visited for the first time just before Christmas, and it was lovely. Even lovelier was the fact that I got to be off work on Christmas Eve. I didn't manage to eke out Christmas day (11 hrs at work), but at least I had part of the festivities for my baby's first!

We had lunch at Chili's, which may seem a little lame, but for the first time this year, we have no relatives to visit. I was bummed about that. (Although I have to say there are certain blessings in having our own Christmas.) I do have an Aunt on the west coast, but she's quite a ways away with her own major obligations. Maybe next year. After we came home I started dinner. We feasted on a very non-traditional but delicious meal of garnet yams (MUCH better than plain ole sweet potatoes), savory green beans and chicken for me and E and roast for Hub (pre-cooked by the grocery store.) Then came the presents.

E had the time of his life. He didn't really care about the paper or opening the presents, but he sure liked them once they were available. He got just the right amount too. It wasn't so much that it overwhelmed him. It was so wonderful to see him push around his trucks, adore his books, love on his stuffed animals and lovingly stroke the satin ribbons.

Cute side story: Since we put the tree up, there has been one ornament I would hang low and take off to show E. It has been the ONLY ornament he pulls off. It's one that is not dangerous in any way for him to have, so we don't care if he does. The adorable thing is, he crawls around with it and loves on it for a while. Then he crawls back to the spot on the tree where he got it and tries to hang it back up: every.single.time. Does everyone think their baby is a genius angel? Probably.

OK, back to business. E got Daddy a photo book of the two of them, and Daddy liked it so much. I got an iPod touch, and I adore it. I use it a lot for quick photos and video of the baby and to organize things via email/FB on the fly. It's perfect for a busy Mom. I just don't like my phone and media systems to mix, so a touch it was. I want my phone to call people and maybe have a calendar and alarm. That's all. Call me traditional. I don't even text. Yes - I am hopeless and tight fisted. The lovely thing about this present from Hub was that he set up my account for me, charged the iPod and downloaded a Christmas album I wanted very badly that only came in mp3 format. It's called This Good Night is Still Everywhere by Dustin Kensrue. Check it out. It's lovely. I'm particularly partial to his O Come O Come Emmanuel.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I'm enjoying being filled up with all this love.

End Scene

Aaaand the most fabulous Christmas of my life. Work tomorrow. Love to all.

With Help...

• I was going to blog tonight and finish some online Christmas cards, but somebody decided to get up randomly and not go back to sleep.
• Baby now wants to type with Mommy. This should be iNTEARESTING.
  
• sEE WHAT I mean?
• He's feeling better. Dr> CHECK UP TOmorrow. YCT &F^BN
• Much like Elizabeth, E is a very good helper baby.
• Remind me to tell you about his penchant for pleasing people and trying to do the "right" thing. It's freakin adorable, but as a pleaser myself, I feel for the kid.
• We got a new couch. I will blog about that when all this is not going on. It was our first big new furniture purchase ever.
• We are pathetic.
• CHRISTMAS IS COMING!
  

We Aren't Dead - Yet

So we've been all excited for this Christmas season and would love to get the ball rolling except that we are having issues. The car broke down again. E is sick, and we are on our second wave of visitors (3 more to go). He has RSV and a double ear infection. He's on nebulizer treatments, steroids, antibiotics and ear drops. We like to throw in a good few doses of Tylenol and ibuprofen here and there just to say we've covered all our drugged up baby bases.

As a result, the tree is up but most of the ornaments are scattered on the floor; abandoned the night we rushed him to urgent care. There is so much filth and so few clean clothes to wear that soon we will qualify as a Survivor set. And all those Christmas cards and gifts to be sent? Half finished thank you. Merry first Christmas E! Let's hope we get it done better in the next week or so. Dr. F. says you should be more on the mend in another week. I wouldn't mind if the fever went away though...

Little Note

I found it interesting (and thought you might too) that 2 months after ceasing all breast feeding, I still have just a little milk. It's so persistent time wise. Why couldn't it have been more copious when I was feeding?

Busy

I think I can safely say that most of us have begun that busiest season of the year hmm? I know we have. There will be little from me in the next month or so, but oh life is good.

And a belated Happy Birthday Elizabeth.