Way to go, Nadia and Ian!

Ian slept from 6:30pm to 5:35am. WOOHOO! I thank Jenn for suggesting we move his bedtime up earlier and eliminate his 3rd nap. It didn't pay off yesterday morning, but it did today! I don't plan on having him go to bed this early on a regular basis, but it worked to help him break this 4am wakeup habit. I'm hoping that if Paul puts him down at 7pm tonight that he'll sleep until 6am tomorrow. This was the schedule he had been on until for some unknown reason he started waking up between 4:15-5:00am the past two weeks. Unfortunately my body has now been programmed to wake up at 4:15. I am sure I will quickly adjust back to 6am. He slept in the pack n play in the walk in closet in our bathroom last night. I'm going to do the same for another night or two just to make sure this morning wasn't a fluke. I didn't go to choir last night so that I could go to bed earlier. It's nice to know maybe I'll be able to go next week.

I am going to try to get him on a 9am and 1pm nap schedule. That's what worked for Nadia when she was on a 2 nap schedule. Her afternoon nap moved up to 12pm when she went from two naps to one nap. She now sleeps from 12-3. If she keeps sleeping for 3 hours I'll need to put her down a little earlier once I start taking them to Sarah's on my way to work. Nadia used to take 45 minute naps when she was on a 3 nap schedule, but she took longer naps when she was on a 2 nap schedule. Nadia never went through the 30 minute nap stage that Ian has been at for 9 months. Until he gets in a good pattern I'm going to have him take his morning nap in his crib (since Nadia is awake then) and put him in the pack n play in our closet for his afternoon nap. This morning his morning nap was only 25 minutes long (8:50-9:15).

Ian is making progress with spending time on his belly. He's scooting around a little now. I'm going to keep encouraging this so that hopefully in the next month or so he'll start crawling.

Ian is also making progress with eating solid foods. I put one Cheerio in his mouth this morning and although he still didn't like it, he didn't throw up! It's the first time this happened!!! His gag reflex seems to be calming down a little bit. He's also tolerating a little bit of rice cereal being mixed in his orange veggies. This week he's eating a mixture of squash and corn. Eating solid foods is still something he has NO interest in. It takes a great effort to get him to eat a few bites, but still at least a few bites are making it down his throat each day and not all coming back up. His appointment with the feeding team was rescheduled (they called me on Tuesday) so now I have even more hope that I'll be able to cancel because he's improved so much. This gives me a few more weeks to see if I can get him eating at least baby foods. The doctor said he should be eating table food by now, but I figure the first step is to get him eating baby food!

I also want to give kudos to Nadia. I needed to go to the grocery store this morning, and I didn't want to carry Ian or use the double stroller. I told her that she would be able to walk around the store if she kept one hand on the cart. I told her if she was a good girl that she would get a cookie or a lollipop when we got home. It worked! She was as good as gold. Ian sat in the front of the shopping cart and Nadia held on to the cart as we walked around the store. I was really proud of her! The only time she was tempted to run off was while we were waiting for some meat. I just picked her up and held her until the butcher had the meat ready. It's nice to know that we can shop at stores that don't have a cart that accomodates more than one child. My little girl is growing up!!