It started with Tony picking Hannah up early from daycare for a date. They went to see "Shrek, the Final Chapter". Nicholas and I met them at the mall after work and we had dinner and walked around a little and then headed home.
In my last blog post, I mentioned that the bedtime trials with Nicholas had gone from bad to worse. Well, since that post, we hit rock bottom, so bad in fact that by last Thursday, he wouldn't even lay in his crib. Once again, that put Tony on the couch and Nicholas slept all night on Tony's side of the bed. I was so aggravated and thought I have to crack this baby code somehow! I wondered what it was about our bed that made this baby sleep….was it the sounds, the smells, the pillow-top mattress? So I figured I would spend the weekend trying to figure it out. I also read some tips and theories on "how to get your infant to sleep in their crib" stuff online. I was ready to try something until it worked. So my first attempt was to give Nicholas a pillow-top mattress. I put his comforter underneath his sheet. It gave it a little cushion, but not an unsafe level of fluff. So bedtime came and I nursed him to sleepiness and then laid him down while he was still awake, but sleepy. It didn't take him long, but he fell asleep around 9:00. I was so exhausted from the week, that I went to bed at 9:15. The next thing I remember was waking up around 1:00 and listening to the monitor – and hearing him sleeping peacefully!!! He woke up around 2 to eat. I fed him and put him right back to bed with no issue and he slept there until around 6:30!!! I was so excited, but didn't want to make too much of a deal over one good night. We did bring him back to our bed in the morning until around 8:30 and we all got up and had breakfast and then got ready to take Hannah to swimming lessons.
After swimming lessons, we took the kids over to my sister-in-law's. She was going to watch them while Tony and I went out for a lunchtime date to celebrate our 6th Anniversary! Oh, yeah, before that Tony gave me some very thoughtful gifts:
He said they were two of the three 6-year anniversary gifts of candy, wood and iron was the other one. He said he didn't know what to do for iron. I told him he could have gotten me a Rowenta iron – he said he thought about that, but was afraid to buy an appliance!! So anyway, the other two were nice – very thoughtful of him to look into this and find things that were appropriate – it was great! He sure has a sweet side when he wants to!!! The flowers were from my dad & Julia….thanks again, they were beautiful!
So anyway, Tony had lunch planned for us at Lucky's in Tremont. It was one of the places Guy went to from Diners, Drive-in's and Dives. They have a unique brunch menu and we had a great meal and a nice time together.
We went back to Dawn's to get the kids and then headed home and cleaned up a little and then got ready to go to my boss' daughter's wedding. Mom and Randy came to stay with the kids. We went to the wedding and had a nice time. It was nice to get to go out for our anniversary, even if it was for a wedding we may not have really wanted to go to – sort of obligated. But it was good and we danced and had a good time.
We fully expected Grandma to be holding Nicholas when we got home, but instead, we were pleasantly surprised to see him sleeping soundly in his bed again!!! He did wake up around midnight and since I was already in bed, Tony fed him a bottle. I found them both asleep on the couch around 3:00, so I put Nicholas to bed (with no problem) and he slept there again until almost 7:00. This meant I essentially got a full night sleep on this second successful night of sleeping in his crib!
We got up Sunday morning, ate breakfast and then got ready for church. Here are Hannah and Nicholas before we left – don't' they look so cute and summery?!?
I took both kids and they were so good. Church was packed as it was Confirmation Sunday. It was an inspiring service to hear 8th graders speaking of their life with Christ and professing their faith in front of the Congregation. I really enjoyed being there. I got home and really wanted to take a nap, but instead, I had to make a grocery list and get groceries. I got home in time to put groceries away and then get ready to take Hannah to the Princess Ball. The Rec Center held the Ball.
Hannah was so excited to go and see and dance with all the Princesses.
It was cute – lots of little girls (and a few boys) dressed up and dancing on the dancefloor of the ballroom with a DJ. They had pizza, pop and cookies. It was fun, but may have been a little better had there been some sort of other organized activities. Hannah danced a lot and hurt Tony's feelings a little because she really didn't want to dance with him! They did get one in right before we left. Hannah sort of hit a wall, so we headed home.
Both of the kids got baths and got ready for bed. Nicholas went down again around 9:30 again and slept soundly until around 2. I got up to feed him and he went right back down. Here he is still sleeping soundly at 7 Monday morning…..I think we have a sleeper!!!!!
So Hannah is on the verge of learning to read. It's really cool. She reads books with Tony a lot and they work on sounding out the words. She knows all the sounds to the letters but still has difficulty putting the sounds together to say the whole word by herself. She's really into spelling things though. We pick a few words on the way home from daycare in the car and I tell her how to spell them and then she puts it into her memory bank somewhere. So far today, she can spell rainbow, sun, star, moon, flag, school, kitty and tonight she learned pillow…yes, very random words, but it's so very cool that she can remember them all. She's been able to spell and write out all the names of the kids at daycare and her family for a while now with no help from me. She's so smart!
So tonight is now Wednesday night and Nicholas has slept every night since Friday all night long – no fussing, no waking except to eat, which has been between 2-3:30. He eats and goes right back to sleep within 15-20 minutes. I'm so very glad we seem to be over this hump. Now I just need to work on getting the nighttime feeding to go away and being able to sleep straight through the whole night….I guess one victory at a time!
So anyway, lots of good stuff this weekend. Celebrating 6 years of marriage with my husband – a lunchtime date to a new place and a night out together. A sleeping 3 month old adorable son. And a spelling Princess of an awesome 4-year old daughter! My life is so good!
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