I must admit I'm running on fumes. Thank God for coffee. Leif has been keeping us up this week with kicking and fussing about in bed...and yes, he's still in bed with us. He goes to sleep fine in his crib, but middle of the night he comes with us because he's still feeding at night. What's nice is that on my mama network through Facebook, I am not alone and I find a lot of breastfeeding mamas co-sleep for a while because it works for their families. If Leif didn't kick hubs in the face/below the belt, it wouldn't be so bad. I've started letting him cry it out on his initial bedtime, and that's working fine, but it's the middle of the night that's not. Last night after hours of trying to move Leif from putting his feet in hubs face, a 4am wakeup call with Leif sleeping across my face/head (I wish you could have seen this, I was so tired I didn't move him), I asked hubs to put him in his crib. Of course he woke up and of course he started screaming bloody murder. After 10 minutes, I went in to try and soothe him and planned on not picking him up. He wasn't having it. So then I picked him up to feed him in the rocking chair...he wouldn't stop. I tried putting him back in and he screamed so loudly that I couldn't take it and brought him back to bed. He was so stressed out that he wouldn't stop feeding. I didn't go back to bed until 5am. I think I got a total of three to four hours of good sleep. Sigh.
I talked to our daycare lady about it, and she suggested trying to just give him a bottle to see if that helps, but I can't produce a lot of milk at night to pump enough. Maybe. She asked about weaning him off, and I asked her to try to mix in whole milk with the breast milk (which I asked her a week ago to do but she didn't)...but she said she's going to do that today. We might invest in a King Size bed this weekend. We're going to have a date night tomorrow and drop Leif off at daycare. I have a feeling date night may equal nap time for us.
Sorry for the rant. Please enjoy my weekly update of photos (mostly of Leif)...
Wednesday, February 4
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| Fun with hats-Leif got this Viking hat from Christmas, still doesn't fit quite well. |
Thursday, February 5
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| His ears from Nana & Pop Pop fit now! |
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| So while giving him his bath, I noticed I could pull Leif's hair into a pony tail. It kind of threw me over the edge and I decided to cut his hair. Trying to cut a toddler's hair in the bath is like trying to wrestle a bull. I didn't do too bad in the back, but alas, his front is crooked-you can't see from this photo, but you'll notice in the next photos... |
Friday, February 6
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| So on Thursday, I kept seeing all these posts from moms that their daughters are currently selling girl scout cookies, and I complained that I never see them-probably because I shop at Trader Joe's all the time and not other grocery stores. Well, the next morning these were on my desk! Turns out one of my former Department Assistants (now friend)'s mom dropped them off for me. How sweet, right? And yes, they are already gone. :/ |
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| In the evening as I prepared Leif's dinner, him and hubs played dice together. It was super cute watching him sit still and play with his daddy. |
Sunday, February 8
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| Post Office delivers on Sundays for Amazon, and hubs received his birthday present from the folks-a nice, new tripod for his camera. Leif was very intrigued! |
Tuesday, February 10
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| These were from daycare but they had been in my car the whole time. He actually sat still while I took a photo of him when I picked him up from daycare. |
Wednesday, February 11
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| We had fun with stickers that evening! He kept taking them off his body/face, and I'd put them back on in different places. Somehow he managed to get a sticker on me and I didn't find it until the next morning... |
Thursday, February 12
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| This little guy managed to get all of his clothes dirty at dinner, so I just threw a T-shirt on him until bath time. He was so mobile and talkative that I did a "Hangout" (google's version of Skype) with the folks and he was definitely intrigued. Nana, we'll hangout with you soon! |
Friday, February 13
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| And we're caught up to today! I made these last night while I prepared dinner, and brought them into the office. So far only three are gone-what's with people? Don't they like cupcakes?! :) |
Hope everyone has a lovely Valentine's Day-I'll let you all know how our weekend goes. Let's hope it has more sleep involved for the whole family...
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