Good Things Come to an End

I love pecan pie as well as apple crumb pie. I ate some pie every day the past four days. Today I'm going to give the last couple of slices to the neighbor when she comes over to babysit the kids. It's been very tasty, but I surely don't want to weigh myself today. I also need to figure out a way to add some exercise into my schedule now that we're not walking to the park. I miss that! My days of eating sweet potatoes aren't over quite yet. I still have some left overs of that. I think I made 4 lbs. There is also still some turkey for Paul to enjoy.

The vacation also has come to an end. It was nice having Paul home the last four days, and it was great that I had six days off. He went back to school this morning, and I'll be going back this evening. I only have ten more trips to make in 2010!

Nadia's days of sucking her thumb are also going to come to an end. I'm planning on buying two thumb guards. Anyone have a good recommendation? Also, I am wondering whether I should just tackle the daytime hours first or completely have her go cold turkey and wear them at night as well? I wish it could be as simple as it was for my nephew, Adam. My sister said something to him (he was about 3 1/2 years old I think at the time), and he immediately stopped without any reminders or incentives. Amazing.

Lastly, her days of sleeping in a crib are numbered. In January (after we get back from our cruise) I'm planning on transitioning her to a big girl bed. I'm also planning on putting a digital clock in her room and using it to teach her not to get up before 7am. My sister, Wendy, did that with Susie and Adam when they were each two years old. I've been planning to do the same with my children.

Green Giant

My Sunday School class has been doing a series titled "Slaying the giants in your life" by David Jeremiah. Not that I haven't struggled at times with some of the other 11 "giants"(ex. loneliness, worry, etc.), but of all 12 lessons, today's definitely hit closest to home - jealousy. Many might struggle with jealousy over material possessions (car, house, etc.) or someone else's promotion at work. I can only think of one time I have struggled with contentment regarding a material possession. I have been jealous at times over those who seem to be able to eat everything in sight and still stay very thin. That's probably a more typical thing to be jealous about. However when he said, "we are to rejoice with those who rejoice, but the jealous person does the opposite. He weeps when others rejoice," I immediately thought of my struggles with infertility and how someone's happy pregnancy announcement could bring about tears on my part. I would have said that I was happy for the other person but that this announcement rekindled the grief in my heart. The truth is that was jealousy.

Although it was more difficult when I was childless, I still struggle with jealousy at times either because someone can get pregnant without ivf or because they have more than two children. When I was single, I struggled with jealousy over engagement announcements and weddings. Although to a lesser degree, I think I also have been jealous at times over those who are able exclusively nurse their babies for a year (no formula involved) and those who can give birth with having a c-section and their child spending time in the NICU. In other words, I felt really convicted by the end of the lesson. He suggested praying for that person and counting our own blessings because when we are jealous it's as if we're saying that God hasn't been as good to us as we think He should have been. I want to make this one of my New Year's resolutions, and I want to get a jump start on it now. I actually was trying that approach when I felt myself choking up while sorting through the boxes of baby/toddler clothing. If I started to feel sad that I won't have another baby, I tried to instead just remember the times Ian or Nadia wore that particular outfit and what a blessing they've been.

I intended to add a thankful list to every post last week. I didn't yesterday; so I'll make today my last Thanksgiving week list to make up for yesterday.

1. I was in bed for 10 hours last night. I didn't sleep the whole time because Ian was crying several times (once for a very long time), but I still felt MUCH better today. I got him at 5:30am. I'm hoping he doesn't cry as much tonight.


2. I made a lot of progress on grading the language arts units today. I'm getting close to being half-way done with them!


3. I loved getting the kids dressed this morning. Sunday clothes are my favorite! I especially love Christmas dresses. Nadia has quite a collection for this year due to ones I got at yard sales and on clearance racks. I think she can wear a different one every Sunday for the next few weeks, lol.

4. I'm very grateful for my digital camera. Sometimes I still wish for a better camera, but I'm ever so grateful that we've moved beyond the age of 35mm cameras. I can take far more pictures this way!

5. Nadia cracks me up so many times a day. Unforunately lately she's been saying "I can't" a lot. I would like to erradicate that from her vocabulary, but some times it's hysterical because we'll ask her to repeat a word, and she'll say "I can't say xyz." She says the word that she supposedly can't say. LOL!!!!

6. This morning in between Sunday School and church I asked Nadia's Sunday School teacher, Saranda, if Nadia was well behaved today. Saranda look surprised and said "always!" Ah, that was music to my ears!

7. We made a lot of progress in our basement the last several days. I sorted through all the boxes of baby/toddler clothing on Wednesday and Thursday. My dad assembled two more shelving units on Friday, and on Saturday my dad and Paul attached a lattice to the stairwell so the kids wouldn't be able to fall through the side of it. If we end up living in this house long term, I'd like to finish the basement, but until that point we've made our unfinished basement a lot safer for the kids.

Bad timing!

Ian has been sleeping through the night for several weeks. He hadn't been getting up any earlier than 5:50am. Yesterday he was up from 2:50-3:30am. This morning he woke up at 4:25 and would sleep in my arms but not in his crib. I thought if I had to get up that early I might as well get some work done while holding him, but he would wake up when I'd try to grade projects via the computer. It was very frustrating to #1 not be able to sleep at 4:30am as I had stayed up a little past 10pm (late for me) or #2 at least get some work done. The reason I say it was bad timing was because my parents and brother were here. I felt badly for them both mornings as even Ian's usual wake time of 6am is very early in my parents and brother's opinions. It also led to less sleep for me because if guests hadn't been here, I would have let Ian cry, but I was hoping to minimize their sleep interruption as much as possible. If Ian wakes up prior to 6am tomorrow, I'm just letting him cry as I don't want him to get back in the habit of getting up during the night. Friday morning I gave him a little milk, but this morning I only rocked him as I thought feeding him that early would train his body to expect that. Hopefully he'll sleep through the night tonight as he had been the last several weeks as I don't like letting him cry.

You'd think he'd have taken a nice nap or two today since his day started so early. Yesterday his first nap was 1 hour long and his second was 30 minutes. Today both of his naps were at the most 30 minutes, and this resulted in wanting VERY badly to sleep around 4-5:30pm. He kept falling asleep (practically standing up), but we kept waking him up. We're not going back to 3 naps a day, Ian!

In light of his sleep troubles and how cold and windy it was today, we didn't go to Hershey Park. I was really disappointed as our plans also fell through the last 2 years, but I know we did the right thing by staying home. Being in the car for 3.5 hours (RT) wouldn't have helped his sleep problems. I think sleeping in the car yesterday was part of the problem. I'm planning to go to bed around 7pm tonight (after I put Ian down but before Nadia goes down) so that even if he gets up early I'll get a decent amount of sleep.

I used to give students until the last week of the semester to complete a large project in the language arts class. Lately I've made it due the week before Thanksgiving so I have more than a week to grade it. That has worked in the past, but not this time. Each paper is usually between 25-40 pages long. I haven't made much progress on grading them yet. I'm hoping to finish them by Thursday. That goal seems impossible at the moment, but I'll keep striving toward it anyway. At this time I'm really glad I'm not working next semester.

O Christmas Tree!

Today we had another turkey dinner. I made this one. Nadia still loves cranberry sauce, lol. In the past I've used canned yams for making a sweet potato dish, but this year I made them from scratch. They were delicious! My parents brought up two pies last night - an apple caramel crumb pie (with pecans) and a pecan pie. They were both very yummy!

We did some work in the basement today. My dad assembled two more of the shelving units, and my parents and Paul went to Lowe's to buy some lattice to make the stairway going into the basement safer for the kids.  After dinner we put up and decorated our Christmas tree. Nadia was actually scared when we plugged in the lights. She had a lot of fun putting ornaments on the tree! We put the non-fragile ones on the bottom in case she decides to redecorate it in the coming days.

Today I'm thankful for...

1. the chance to spend time with my parents and my brother today.

2. the chance to spend time with Paul's grandmother, parents, brother, nephew, and sister-in-law yesterday.

3. the fact that my insomnia is mostly a thing of the past. On Wednesday I woke up at 5:10 and couldn't get back to sleep. Ian got up at 6:10, and Nadia got up at 6:55 that morning. At first I was frustrated, but then I reminded myself to be very grateful that this is now the exception rather than the rule. The same happened this morning. Ian woke up at 2:50 and didn't go back down until 3:30. He had been sleeping through the night for a couple of months. It took me until 4:30 to fall back asleep. Hopefully last night was a fluke and he'll sleep through the night tonight.

Ian's First Thanksgiving

Nadia's 2nd Thanksgiving (2009)

If Ian were normal when it came to eating, then he could actually enjoy some of the food today such as the mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Maybe by Christmas he'll be eating some table food? I did give him green veggies (baby food) for the first time yesterday, and it went about as well as everything else I've tried to feed him thus far. I wish we didn't have to wait until he was almost 13 months old for him to see the feeding team.

Last Thanksgiving I wasn't able to fully enjoy the meal due to having gestational diabetes. I am glad that I can eat some pecan pie tomorrow without any concerns about my blood sugar. I am very grateful that the diabetes was temporary. Unless  it's because I'm pregnant again, I hope I never have diabetes again!

This morning I made some yeast bread. I'm bringing a loaf to Al & Millie's house today, and the other loaf will be for the turkey dinner I'm going to serve my parents and brother tomorrow. I tried a new recipe (cream cheese bread), and it didn't turn out well in terms of appearance, but it tastes okay. I won't be using that recipe again!

We had our first snow today! Yes, we had a white Thanksgiving, lol. I immediately realized that although I have snow boots for Nadia, I don't have snowsuits or mittens for either child, and I don't have boots for Ian. OOPS! I think my mom will remedy that. She LOVES snow (having grown up in Detroit).

Nadia's first Thanksgiving (2008)

Today I'm thankful for...

1. the Lord Jesus Christ - my Savior, Redeemer, and Friend.

2. Nadia, my sweet girl. At Thanksgiving 2007 I was so thankful to finally be pregnant. Today was Nadia's 3rd Thanksgiving. She ate more food last Thanksgiving. She's gotten pickier unfortunately. Her favorite food today was definitely the cranberry sauce. She takes after her Mommy as Daddy doesn't eat that, and I love it. :-)

3. Ian, my sweet boy. I had no idea last Thanksgiving that I'd be giving birth in about two weeks (since he wasn't due until January 20). I am also grateful that my desire to nurse him for one year looks like it will come true, albeit I've only been nursing him once a day the past three months.

4. our families. It's always wonderful to spend time with our parents, siblings, their spouses, nieces, and nephews. I'm grateful we only live about an hour from Paul's family, and I'm glad that my parents are close enough to be able to come up for special events.



Now that Uncle Al and Aunt Millie are Grandparents there are lots of toys for Ian and Nadia at their house!



29 Months Old!

Can you believe in one month Nadia will be 2 1/2 years old? At least she's not already 4 years old like she says she is if you ask her how old she is. Actually she's getting better and sometimes does answer that question correctly, but it just so happens that four has been her favorite number the past 5 months. If you ask her how many pretzels she wants, she'll also say four.  As I found out on Sunday that yet another size 2T dress is now too short on her, I guess my girl is growing up and moving into size 3T.

Although Nadia often has to be reminded to say "please" when she's requesting something, she does a great job at remembering to say "bank you." In fact of her own initiative she usually is very specific in saying "thank you for xyz". It's rather comical at times how she ends that phrase. For example as we were leaving the grocery store a few days ago she said to the cashier "thank you for paying." Cracked me up! Technically I was the one who did the paying, but still I thought it was sweet (and cute). She says many other polite greetings to people (on her own initiative) such as "have a nice weekend." She makes me laugh so many times a day. For example this evening when I was telling her (by name) who we would be eating with tomorrow (Paul's family), she said "Oh my goodness that's a lot of people."

Some of her current favorite books include: We're going on a bear hunt, any Clifford book, The velveteen rabbit, The mitten, Have you got my purr?, Are you my mother?, The little engine that could, and The story of Thomas Jefferson. I knew she had a few books memorized. It turns out she has a LOT of books memorized. I can stop at any point, and she'll say the next few words. I haven't counted, but I'd say this is true for at least 30 books. She has a very strong auditory memory! Similarly, she can usually tell me what song is next on a CD before the next song starts. In January I'm going to start having her memorize a Bible verse each week.

Today I'm thankful that...

1. Nadia can go such long periods without going to the bathroom. I never went through the phase of needing to know where all toilets are (in stores), and she's never asked us to stop when we've been on a road trip. I'm very grateful she's potty trained!

2. I'm done planning for our vacation. Today I finalized our plans for the day we're at Cozumel and booked our hotel for New Orleans. I used the "name your price" feature on Priceline and got a really good deal!

3. Paul came home early today (4pm), and he'll be home the next four days. YAHOO! I'm also thankful that today he finished assembling a shelving unit for me in the basement. I bought three with some of my Amazon credit.

4. music is such a blessing in my life. I love singing in my church choir, listening to the radio, and singing with Nadia. Yesterday I bawled my eyes out while listening to this video. The "Hallelujah Chorus" often brings me to tears, and I was really touched to see it sung by so many in a public place. I am sure not everyone who was singing actually believed the words they were saying, but nonetheless it was such a great reminder of the freedoms we enjoy in this country and a wonderful way to bring glory to the Lord.

Go to the Doctor

For the past month Nadia has often told me that she needs to go to the doctor. I honestly have no idea where she got this from because I think it's been over a year since she had a sick visit to the doctor. Thankfully both children have almost exclusively (with the exception of Ian's urological birth defect) gone to the doctor for well visits. It started almost exactly a month ago when we were in Maryland. She definitely was sick then - the thermometer confirmed it. Since then she often will make some random complaint (such as my bellybutton hurts) and then say either "I need medicine" or "I need to go to the doctor." I guess I should be glad that she has no aversion to going to the doctor's office even though most of the times that she's gone she's received one or more injections.

Today after she had finished her lunch she told me she needed to go to the doctor because something was stuck in her teeth. That was a new one. I told her she could drink some milk, and we could go brush her teeth and that should solve the problem. I was in the middle of emptying the dishwasher so I didn't rush over to get her out of her highchair as I didn't think there was an urgent problem. I was wrong. She had eaten a ham and cheese Hot Pocket for lunch as well as some fruit snacks. Evidently one of the fruit snacks must have been stuck in her mouth somewhere in such a way that it got her gag reflex going. She's usually very good about running to the bathroom and throwing up in the potty, but she was trapped in her high chair. I won't give you all the gory details, but suffice it to say I had a gargantuan mess to clean up and needed to do a load of laundry. The next time she tells me something is stuck in her teeth, I will be running to her aid. I also am not inclined to give her any fruit snacks to eat in the near future.

Today I'm thankful that....

1. most nights both children now sleep 10-11 hours straight. Neither one slept through the night last night, but thankfully the norm is for Ian to sleep from about 7pm to 6am and Nadia to sleep from about 8pm to 6am.

2. the kids are starting to play together more. They have a lot to learn in terms of sharing and such, but I love it when they enjoy each other's company. For whatever reason Nadia has been calling him "little boy" today instead of Ian. She actually woke up before him this morning (it's usually the other way around), and so she went with me to get him from his crib and said "Hi, little boy" which cracked me up!

3. I reduced the size of my friends list on Facebook. I'm glad I didn't need to give it up altogether, and I'm grateful that now it's not consuming as much of my time each day.

4. I have a cell phone, which enables me to talk to my mom and mother-in-law on an almost daily basis.

5. we're going on our first cruise in January! I'm really looking forward to the trip, especially since a highlight of our vacations the past 9+ years has been having lots of time with Paul, and that didn't happen in Florida in May because Paul was studying most of the time for his comprehensive exams. This trip should be a true vacation for all 6 of us. YAHOO!

6. I can communicate with people via the Internet. In a typical week there are three people (not including Nadia and Ian) whom I talk with - Paul, his mom, and my mom (the next on that list would be my dad and Paul's dad). Because I don't have friends to chat with or much of a social life aside from a monthly date with my hubby, the comments I get on my blog and through Facebook mean a lot to me.

Ironic

Here are four things that have struck me as ironic lately...

As I had mentioned earlier, I went through the basement on Thursday and filled several bags and boxes of items to donate at a thrift store yesterday - mostly the kids' clothing. Yesterday morning I had a panic attack about giving away those clothes. My plan had been to go through the clothes in the basement one more time to see if there was more we'd take to donate, but instead I brought all the bags and boxes in from the garage and went back through everything and ended up taking some of the clothes back down to the basement. The reason I find this ironic is that I am by nature absolutely not a packrat. Paul has for more than 10 years called me "the chucker" (although that's been Ian's nickname over the past 11 months) because I am far more inclined to throw away, give away, or sell stuff than he is. I will sell some stuff (eBay, Craigslist, and probably a yard sale next summer), but I'm afraid my inclination is going to be to keep far too much of it. Holding all that newborn clothing was hard for me. I am not going to sort through the clothes again for awhile as it intensified my desire to do ivf again.

Ian normally doesn't nap well. For example yesterday his first nap was 20 minutes long and his second nap was 25 minutes long. For about 2 years Nadia's naps have totalled 2-3 hours a day (this was true both when she had 2 naps a day and also since she's been on a 1 nap a day schedule). Even though Nadia was the better napper, I didn't have so much trouble with her sleeping too much at church. The last two Sundays I kept Ian up until we left for church, and both days he fell asleep on the way to church and then slept on me during Sunday School. Both Sundays when I took him to the nursery for the church service I told the nursery workers that he had JUST woken up from a nap and to please keep him awake during church (which lasts about 90 minutes). I feel like I must be speaking in some foreign language when I talk to nursery volunteers because they always let him sleep. When I came to pick him up at 11:45 he was asleep in someone's arms. I asked how he did and was told, he did great - he ate and slept the whole time. Sigh. This means my little boy will need to stay awake from 11:45am-7:15pm (his usual bedtime although last night he was up until 8pm). If I thought he'd be quiet during church, I'd keep him with me, but he'd babble too much. It's just ironic to me that my boy who usually doesn't nap very much naps too much at church - mostly because he likes to sleep in someone's arms.

I've mentioned that Paul has never had a child with him in the bathroom while he was doing anything - showering, brushing his teeth, etc. I rarely do anything in the bathroom by myself. This morning after I got both kids dressed for church, Paul watched Ian while I got a shower. Nadia was playing in our bedroom. She likes to do things like try on my shoes. While I was brushing my teeth, Paul came in and said, "Do you want to change Ian's diaper?" I didn't respond, but I did go change Ian's messy diaper - not because I wanted to but because it doesn't bother me to do so like it does Paul. What I wanted to do was finish brushing my teeth and blowdrying my hair because stopping what I was doing to change Ian's diaper was part of the reason I was 5 minutes late for Sunday School this morning. I guess there is a double standard when it comes to childcare responsibilities while one is trying to accomplish personal hygeine tasks.

Yesterday Paul assembled a bookshelf for me. When I was single the first piece of good furniture I bought (aka not something made of particle board) was a nice tall bookshelf. That held my books while I was single and the first few years we were married. In 2005 we bought Paul four large bookcases. His books had been stored in boxes prior to that. These new bookcases plus my bookshelf housed both of our books plus some games. When we moved in 2008 I filled the bookshelf that had been mine with children's books, and Paul filled the four bookcases with his books and notebooks. My books have been stored in a closet, on top of toilets, etc. I haven't had a bookshelf the past 2 years. As I started bringing books from my office home, I asked Paul if I could use one shelf on one of his four bookcases for my books. I admit I was a bit miffed when Paul said no because I thought I wasn't asking very much, but he suggested I buy another bookcase. I am glad he suggested that because it does feel nice to have a bookshelf just for my books. I bought a very small one for our bedroom. The reason I find this ironic is I ordered it on Amazon and used some of my credit from sending them books. It just cracked me up a bit that I used money from selling books to buy a shelf to store books.

Since this week is when we will celebrate Thanksgiving, I have decided to end every post this week with a brief list of some things I am grateful for.

1. We had dinner at Jenn, Dave, Holly, and Henry's house last night. Henry is 5, and Holly is 1. We had a really nice time visiting with them.

2. I'm really thankful that Paul took the day off of school last Tuesday to go with me to Ian's appointmemt.

3. Ian didn't wake up until 6:30 today. It's an extremely rare treat for me to be in bed past 6am.

4. It was a treat to have Ian take a nap on me during Sunday School. There's nothing quite like that.

Sorting and Schedules

Organizing the basement has been on my to do list for a few months. Thursday I sorted through the kids' clothing for the first time. It was a major project as thus far I hadn't sold or donated any of their clothing (about 3.5 years worth of clothing if you combine their ages). Although we're taking quite a bit to the thrift store today (en route to getting Paul's picture taken to renew his driver's license and having dinner with friends), there are still many boxes of their clothing in our basement. It's hard for me to part with their clothing. I kept reminding myself that I have lots of pictures of them in these outfits. I found it easiest to part with their pajamas and play clothing although I did keep some play clothing, particularly those made of denim. I probably could have continued storing what I set aside to donate and sold it at a yard sale instead. I've never had a yard sale before, but I should probably have one next summer. I also could have taken them to a consignment shop, but I opted to just donate them. It seemed like too much hassle, and I know this thrift store is a worthwhile charity. I'll have to do another sort, as I have saved far too much, but it was emotionally hard for me to part with any of their clothing so I view this is a baby step in the right direction (away from babies ironically). I do plan to sell some items on eBay, and I also plan on keeping some things either for Nadia to use for dressing her dolls OR for our future grandchildren to wear some day. I'd like to pass on some baby clothing to Nadia and/or Ian if they become parents some day 20+ years from now. I have to say while I was sorting through their clothing I was wishing I only wanted two children. I can't change my desire for another baby, but I can keep reminding myself to be very grateful for the two I do have. I may not have four like I dreamed of having for more than 2 decades, but two is far better than none. Speaking of having more babies, I found out this week that my sister, Yvonne, is pregnant with her fifth. In a few months my parents will have ten grandchildren under the age of nine! I'm not sure when we'll all get together again (they live in Turkey), but when we do I pity the poor photographer who tries to get 10 children to smile at the same time for a family photo, lol. There were 8 children in our last family photo, as I was pregnant with Ian at the time.

This week I've also been working on our spring schedule as well as planning our excursions for our cruise. In terms of our spring schedule I've decided that on Tuesday mornings we'll go to ladies Bible study at my former church. I figure Ian can nap on the way there. Wednesday mornings I'll take the kids to Lewisburg's preschool library time at 10:00 and gymnastics at 10:45, and Friday mornings I'll take the kids to our town's preshool library time. Lewisburg's program is technically for ages 3-5, but their toddler program is on Tuesdays when we'll be in Danville. If it doesn't work out, we'll just do gymanstics on Wednesdays. I explored many options such as Mommy & Me dance class before deciding to do another session of gymnastics. There are going to be many more options for Nadia once she turns three. I definitely am going to have her do a session of Baby Ballet once she turns 3. I figure while she's young I'll have her try a variety of things and then when she's older she can stick with the one she enjoys the most. Others I plan on having her try at some point are swimming lessons and Little Grapplers (a martial arts program for ages 3-5). I'm also planning on having her join an AWANA club next fall to do the Cubbies program. Our church has that, but there's another church about a mile from our house that has it also so I'll probably have her go there on Wednesday nights instead of doing it on Tuesday nights at our church. My girl is a social butterfly so I want to give her lots of opportunities to be with other kids, especially since I am planning on homeschooling her.

As for planning our vacation, usually I put a LOT of time into researching and planning for our vacations. I actually enjoy the planning almost as much as actually going. This time around I am finding it impossible to be as thorough in my research as I was with our previous trips. I should mention that I didn't need to do much planning for our trip to Florida this year since we were visiting my Aunt Janet. A few days ago I booked our excursion for Roatan, Hondurus. I picked a tour that included snorkeling (from a catamaran) as well as a trip to Gumbalimba Park, which has monkeys, parrots, etc. I thought Paul and I would enjoy the snorkeling, and the kids would enjoy seeing the animals. Last night I selected a tour to Chacchoben (Mayan ruins) for our Costa Maya stop. The Roatan tour I booked through the cruise, but the Chacchoben tour I booked through another site that had high reviews and was much cheaper. This weekend I'm planning on booking our Belize tour through Norwegian and finding a cheaper snorkeling tour for Cozumel. Our luggage tags came in the mail this week from Norwegian!

Dr. Canning

Ian's appointment with Dr. Canning has been set for January 4. Dr. Canning is a professor and only sees patients 3 days a month. We were going to see him in King of Prussia, but he only goes there one Saturday a month, and the Saturday he'll be there in January is during our cruise. Instead of waiting until February, I opted to go to the main hospital (in Philadelphia) so we could keep on schedule. Since the visit will again be very short, I'm thinking we'll do something fun like visit the Please Touch Museum or Philadelphia Zoo to make our 6+ hour road trip (RT) seem more worthwile.

 Ian woke up about 5:55am the last two days. Way to go, Ian! Yesterday he also did better with his naps as his morning nap was 1 hour long and his afternoon nap was 50 minutes long. Today didn't go as well in the nap department as his morning nap was 40 minutes and his afternoon nap was 20 minutes long. He was really fussy this afternoon due to the really short nap.