Early Bird

Oliver's normal wake-up time has been between 6:15-6:30 for a few months. Some mornings he would wake up at 5:45, and usually at least once a month he'll sleep until at least 7:00. For some unknown reason he woke up at 4:57 this morning. I will not get him prior to 6:00. I try not to get him before 6:15. Up until recently, if he woke up at 5:45 he would usually cry (or scream my name) for at the most five minutes and then he'd usually sleep for 45 more minutes. Over the past several days that hasn't been the case. He hasn't been going back to sleep. I really thought he would go back to sleep this morning since he woke up SO early and had only slept for nine hours. Nope. He would scream MOMMY for awhile (maybe 15 minutes) and then be quite for a little while and then go back to screaming my name. This went on for about 70 minutes until I finally went and got him. It was really bad timing to have a short night of sleep in light of the fact that Paul and I were exhausted from our time at Knoebels plus I figured I'd be staying up later than usual tonight to watch the Steelers on Monday Night Football. They looked really awful at the beginning of the game so I thought I'd be going to bed at half-time, but then they scored 21 points in the last two minutes of the first half. This meant I was staying up until the end of the game.

 Oliver again proved the adage "bad sleep follows bad sleep" true by waking up after only sleeping for 45 minutes during his afternoon nap. Since he had only slept 9 hours last night, there was no way I was going to accept at 45 minute nap. It started out the same as this morning in that he was screaming my name and then quiet and then screaming again, but this time he fell asleep after 30 minutes of that and slept another hour. The downside of him spending 2 1/4 hours in his crib during his nap was that he had an accident, and I needed to wash his bedding.

Oliver didn't have any accidents on Friday. It was his second "accident free" day this month. Saturday was a bad day with potty training. He had two accidents while he was awake and one while he was asleep in his car seat during Nadia's soccer game (all were #1 type accidents). Up until Saturday he had been averaging one accident a day. It's been almost a week since he told me that he needed to go #2, but I have caught him a few times in time (when I see him running away to another room I usually figure out he's about to go #2) so he has gone #2 on the potty most days. Yesterday went better than Saturday even though we were out and about most of the day (I brought the froggy potty to church and to Knoebels). Not counting the accident during his nap, he had two accidents today. I'm hoping that we can get back to no more than one accident a day and hopefully start to have more and more accident free days. I still haven't been able to get him to go #1 on the regular potty. Hopefully soon!