Monday, September 27, 2010


Do these photos remind you of anything?





Whatever Jason is totally cuter than Tom!

But I think he might be a messier eater


At least he is enjoying it!


I didn't put him up to this at all!  He found the tiara I wore at my wedding and begged for me to put it on

He may have even worn it better than I did!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Jason has something to share


Have you guessed it yet?
He is pretty excited!


Jason is so big! That...

He's going to be a Big Brother at the end of March 2011!
He might not share his bananas
Ok we will work on the sharing thing

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Everybody poops

Yup, I'm going to do it.  I'm going to write about my son's bowel movements, but don't worry there won't be pictures.  That is unless I can catch one of him pushing into his diaper.  That cracks me up everytime.  Jeff says I'm mean.

My sweet boy has been showering with me for a while.  As soon as he could pull himself up he did not want to be left out of a shower.  He loves the running water so we decided to abort bath time and just have him shower with me every morning since two washings a day are too many for his sensitive skin.  Normally when we are done I turn off the water and get out to dry off while he continues to play with his toys.  About three days ago I noticed him grunting after I got out and discovered he had left me a little present.  I cleaned it up and thought well at least then I don't have to waste a new diaper on that.  Aparently my son likes to be regular because yesterday he blessed me with the same gift.  This morning there was a little change, instead of waiting until I was out and dry he decided that this action needed to take place while we were still showering and I was halfway through shaving.  So I yelled at Jason not to touch the yucky and dashed out to grab handfuls of toilet paper.  After the offending poop was all cleaned up I scrubbed both of us and the floor of the shower very well.  I really hope that we can find another pooping time for Jason and I can enjoy our showers in relative peace.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Sleep trouble

Jason was not a particularly good sleeper when he was an infant. Eventually we weaned him from night feedings and did the Ferber method to help him sleep through the night. He did wonderfully! Eventually we got into a great cycle of going to bed well at 7:30pm with just a story and hugs and kisses from Mom and Dad then waking up between 6 and 7am. He was taking a nice 2 hour nap around 11am. Even changing him to a big boy bed a couple of weeks ago did nothing to change this great sleep cycle.


You may have noticed a general past tense sense to all this information. Recently Jason has been refusing naps. He doesn't want anything to do with them at all! Even saying the word nap will incite vigorous head shaking. We lay him down and he screams and screams until we come back in and get him. Since Ferber had at one point worked very well for us we tried it again. This entailed letting Jason cry for 3 mins then checking on him, laying down and waiting 5 mins, then extending the waiting 7 mins and eventually 10 mins. It was suggested in the book that if he wasn't sleeping after a half an hour to get him up and maybe try again later. Our stubborn child wasn't going to give up easily so after a half hour of crying I did get him and he completely passed out on my shoulder within 3 minutes.

The next day we thought maybe he didn't need to nap as early so I put him down later in the day. There was a little bit of fussing, but it went much better than the day before. Normally I don't check on him for naps in case I wake him, but today I wanted to be sure he wasn't asleep on the floor or anything. I peaked in and he wasn't in his bed. Instead he had climbed out of his bed, over his diaper champ, and onto his changing table where he had passed out. I tried to take a picture to prove this oddness, but he woke up before I got my camera. So I got him settled back in his bed and back to sleep.

So maybe the issue was that he was getting too much sleep during the night and didn't want to sleep during the day. I mean most days he was sleeping 11 hours at night. So I nudged his bedtime back to 8pm instead. Great idea, but it didn't work out as planned. It was now dark outside as Jason was falling asleep and he didn't like his room that dark. There is a nightlight on his side of the monitor, but it has a timer function and Jason was unhappy when it went off. He woke up and fussed around midnight then completely woke up for the day at 5:30am! GRRR! Well that was this morning so hopefully he will nap great this afternoon. Keep your fingers crossed for us!