Different Kids

The intervening 3 years have dimmed many memories of Ethan's habits as an infant, but one remains clear: His need to be held while falling asleep.

Enter Edward. I've heard stories about how different your children's personalities are, and how you'll see that they're different right from infancy. But honestly, most of the eating, sleeping and pooping as been the same. Until now.

Now that Edward is weaned, he's actually been getting enough to eat. This has made a big difference in his attitude and routine. It's also started to show in his sleeping pattern. We've been putting Edward to bed in his Moses basket and longing for the day to get him into the crib. But he used to wake up too much in the evenings, require too much holding, and occasionally he would just scream for an hour or two. The difference that we are noticing now, is that he doesn't want to be held when he's tired.

Let me say that again, he doesn't want to be held while falling asleep. We put him down in his crib (while Ethan is out with Grandpa Gibson) and put a blanket over him where he can grab it and snuggle it. Even if he's still awake, he just lays there quietly and drifts off.

Mia and I are not fighting it. If that's how Edward wants to express his unique personality, we are not going to fight it.

Best. Purchase. Ever.

Mia just bought the best thing in the world from Ikea this week.

A clock.

Yep, a clock. A simple, digital clock with big red numbers. But, it's not really the clock that is so fantastic. It's the alarm.

While, I really just wanted an alarm, this one has the feature of allowing you to record your own voice as the alarm.

But, it gets better! Ethan had been coming into our room at about 6-6:30 every morning and it was just a little too early for me. So, when we got the clock, we told him that he had to stay in his room until 7:00AM when he heard his alarm.

AND IT WORKED! On the first day, he didn't come in until 7AM. Needless to say, it's the little things that make us happy these days.

Memories of sleep

I know that it's been a while and I apologize. Unfortunately, my schedule has been extremely erratic lately for a few factors.

1. Edward. He sometimes sleeps well at night and sometimes doesn't. It's kind of a craps shoot. Last night he was up at midnight until 2am. Then he woke up again at 4am :(

2. Laptop. The power cord on my laptop broke, right near where it connects to the computer. This has made getting online to update my blog (or anything) much more difficult. I can't sneak in a few minutes before bedtime and the office computer is slowly dying.

3. Sleep. I fell asleep at 8pm on Saturday. That's how tired I was. This is not an entirely uncommon occurrence for the last few weeks. Some days we'll stay up late anticipating a rough evening with Edward, some days we'll go to be early anticipating middle-of-the-night troubles. Sometimes we guess right and sometimes we don't.

So, those are my pathetic excuses. I'll be getting up and running again soon (should have a new power cord in tomorrow and only 2 more weeks till Edward should start sleeping better). We do have some cute stories, pictures, and videos of the kids to show, please be patient and I'll get them up.