Growing Boy!

 

July 9, 2010

Isn't it amazing how much babies grow in the 1st year, and he's only 6 months old (for 2 more days anyhow)!

Ian had a great night last night! I put him down at 7:35 and unlike most nights when he gets one more feeding before his long stretch, aside from a little whimpering around 11pm (according to Paul as I slept through it), he slept until 5:55am - almost 10.5 hours. YAY! I actually went and checked to make sure he was still breathing around 5:30. I had woken up about 4:45 and couldn't go back to sleep as my body was very ready to nurse Ian. It's kind of funny that the two nights he's slept through the night have both been Friday nights. Now I just would like it if he'd sleep through the night other nights of the week as well, lol. He only had 3 naps yesterday. I am trying to transition him to 3 naps as ideally in the next 2-3 months he'll transition to 2 (longer) naps. Nadia had a really hard time going to sleep last night, and it wasn't because she had sugar yesterday. It took her over 2 hours to fall asleep!

It's finally raining today. Boy did we need the rain! The upside of the heat wave and drought is that I don't need to mow the lawn. It's not been growing At All. It's brown. Hopefully it will turn green again.

Don't let these pictures from yesterday fool you, Ian generally hates to be on his belly. I thought his attitude would improve since he's been sleeping on his belly for a month. Nope. I am trying to get him to learn to sit independently, and I think he'll accomplish that in the next couple of weeks, but I have NO idea when this child will learn to crawl given how he can't stand to be on his belly. He much prefers to stand.